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Seventh edition of the classic reference for dermatologists treating various manifestations of contact dermatitis. Comprehensive volume includes detailed survey of major groups of allergens and their sources, including medications and medical devices; metals; plant allergens; rubber and other elastomers; industrial oils and solvents; plastics and adhesives; cosmetics and toiletries; fragrances; food additives; and more. Exhaustive overview of specific conditions, such as hand eczema; contact stomatitis and cheilitis; occupational dermatitis; and photocontactdermatitis, among others, to help clinicians in search of a differential diagnosis. In-depth review of the pathogenesis of allergic contact dermatitis, with a discussion of the benefits and limitations of predictive testing. New chapter on the treatment of contact dermatitis with emphasis on using web-based tools to optimize allergen-avoidance strategies. Twenty-two chapters. Color figures embedded in chapters. Restructured conceptual index.

Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative standards that normalize urban life and render rural life as something unusual, exotic, or deviant. This includes exploring the role of the media as agenda setting agent, informing people what and how to think about rural life. Further it includes scrutinizing the institution of formal education that promotes a homogenous urban-oriented curriculum, while in the process, marginalizing the unique characteristics of local rural communities. These contributions are some of the only studies of their kind, investigating popular cultural representations of rural life, while providing powerful evidence and unique challenges for an urban society to rethink and reimagine rural life, while confronting the many stereotypes and myths that exist.

Stories of Love and Inspiration, as seen and told by young men and women whose daily challenges we could never understand.

Habitat loss and degradation are leading causes of biodiversity declines, therefore assessing the capacity of created mitigation wetlands to replace habitat for wildlife has become a management priority. We used single season occupancy models to compare occurrence of larvae of four species of pond-breeding amphibians in wetlands created for mitigation, wetlands impacted by road construction, and unimpacted reference wetlands along a highway corridor in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, U.S.A. Created wetlands were shallow and had less aquatic vegetation and surface area than impacted and reference wetlands. Occupancy of barred tiger salamander (Ambystoma mavortium) and boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata) larvae was similar across wetland types, whereas boreal toads (Anaxyrus boreas) occurred more often in created wetlands than reference and impacted wetlands. However, the majority of created wetlands (> 80%) dried partially or completely before amphibian metamorphosis occurred in both years of our study, resulting in heavy mortality of larvae and, we suspect, little to no recruitment. Columbia spotted frogs (Rana luteiventris), which require emergent vegetation that is not common in newlycreated wetlands, occurred commonly in impacted and reference wetlands but were found in only one created wetland. Our results show that shallow created wetlands with little aquatic vegetation may be attractive breeding areas for some amphibians, but may result in high mortality and little recruitment if they fail to hold water for the entire larval period.

There is growing recognition that the dominant agricultural system is not working for people or for the environment and that there is an urgent need for transformation. This dissertation explores one aspect of what that transformation could look like and how to make it happen. The first two chapters focus on the effects of diversified agroecological landscapes as an alternative to large-scale monocultures. Chapter 1 focuses on the impact of increasing flower availability in crop field edges, a common strategy for supporting wild bee conservation and crop pollination. In one of the two years of the study, we found positive effects of increasing flower availability in crop field edges independent of the amount of natural area in surrounding landscapes. We also found that leaving existing flowers (i.e., not removing them via herbicide or mowing) may matter more than planting flowers for increasing local wild bee abundance, richness, and crop pollination. Adding additional flowers was found to improve the nesting success of stem-nesting bees. Chapter 2 details an R package we built to quantify the impact of landscape-scale variables on local responses. This package was developed to evaluate the impact of non-crop habitat on wild bees in Chapter 1, but it can also be used to understand the impact of other landscape-scale variables on a range of responses. The third chapter addresses bigger-picture questions of how to alter socio-political structures in ways that enable transformational change toward diversified agricultural systems (such as those explored in Chapter 1) and empower farmers, communities, and the environment. To explore these questions, we conducted 127 interviews and 3 participatory workshops with farmers and other members of the agricultural community in the Midwestern United States and evaluated what is needed to make such change in the Midwest region. Based on the interviews and workshops, we found that if the goal is to achieve transformational change, more effort within the Midwest sustainable agriculture movement should shift toward providing social supports for farmers and farmworkers, addressing land and capital consolidation, and altering social norms around the type of agriculture that is valued. Through researching questions aimed at helping farmers establish agroecological management practices and understanding the changes to socio-political structures needed to support them, this dissertation illuminates some of the elements necessary to make transformational change.

Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Mystery Perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken trilogy. After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project—including its members’ dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried—and some monsters are only too ready to awaken. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CONTAGION: “Gripping, thrilling and terrifying in equal measures, Contagion is the perfect intersection of science fiction and horror—I couldn’t look away.”—Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of Illuminae and Unearthed “Few understand the true horror that lies in the empty unknown of space, but Erin Bowman nails it in Contagion. Read this one with the lights on!”—Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author of the Across the Universe series and Star Wars: Rebel Rising “Erin Bowman’s Contagion is everything I want in my science fiction: a cast of smart characters on a desperate rescue mission forced to confront an elusive and unstoppable enemy. I absolutely loved this layered and thrilling adventure and can’t wait to dive back into this world again.”—Veronica Rossi, New York Times bestselling author of the Under the Never Sky series