Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.While the courts have agreed that chimpanzees share emotional, behavioural, and cognitive similarities with humans, they have denied that chimpanzees are persons on superficial and so...

Comprehensive review of key topics in root science, including root architecture, root growth regulators, root anatomy and nutrient acquisitionCoverage of root response to both biotic and abiotic variablesDiscusses the range of techniques to optimize root function, from phenotyping to identify desirable root traits and exploiting the genetics of root traits to the use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM)

Presidential campaigns are our national conversations – the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas. Political communication specialists break down the 2012 presidential campaign and go beyond the quantitative facts, electoral counts, and poll results of the election, to make sense of the “political bits” of communication that comprise our voting choices. The contributors look at the early campaign period, the nomination process and conventions,...

Contemporary Cowboys: Reimagining an American Archetype in Popular Culture expands and develops an understanding of recent cultural shifts in representations of the American cowboy and “the West” as vital components of American identity and values. The chapters in this book examine they ways in which twenty-first century representations have updated the figure of the cowboy, considering not only traditionally analyzed sources, such as television, film, and literature, but also less studied...

New Frontiers in International Communication Theory offers a wide-ranging assessment of the present state of the field of international communication and charts new directions for theory and research. It brings together renowned and emerging scholars who challenge the field to move beyond the limits of existing formulations, approaches, and trajectories, providing an alternative and a supplement to traditional approaches in analysis and study. In rethinking the central problematics of the ...

This very strange, bizarre (More like Weird) story begins in the Dade County area of Miami Florida U.S.A. The Corlene Mafia Family Cartel (CMFC) a branch of the Cosa Nostra from Palermo, Sicily owns and operates three Beautiful very popular Hotel and Casino Complex’s. One is located in Dade County Florida, U.S.A. One is located in Hamilton, Bermuda and one is located in Guayama, Puerto Rico. To bring these three complexes closer together business wise this CMFC has purchased four new Cruis...

I am at a loss on how to express this extraordinary story other than fantastic and bizarre. You tell me? This story like so many others is a World War Two Scenario that was saved, reported and like so many others did not just fade away. It begins on the Island of Oahu in Hawaii where a young boy John Murphy Jr. a.k.a. Little John whose love of airplanes and flying becomes lost on a solo flight early one morning. A miracle saves his young life as he finds and lands on a Japanese Aircraft Ca...

This series of books will continue to introduce man in person with his maker, God Almighty. God will meet and work with representatives from the Planet Ares (PA) to seek help in finding peace throughout his entire universe. God uses these meetings as a method to allow man to seek peace on his own terms. The primary setting for this continuing secret peace corps story is the United States of America (USA) in the state of Virginia on the Eastern Shore. Secret Peace Corps (SPC) agent John Jam...

When Saturn moves into Aquarius, you will be sensitive to different conditions as you usually are and your attitude does nothing for you. With Virgo being an Earth sign, you are honest and forgiving, but you must take the reins and control the situations you have faced before, especially when your emotions threaten to overwhelm. Do not be a doormat. Virgo's welcome change and when your disappointment comes you will be in a stronger position. Drop your heavy weight, and the man with the mus...

This Unusual Crime Story begins on March 31, 1950 in the small fishing village of Seaford, Virginia. Howard Rice a.k.a. Pintail is a well known resident and lives there in an old restored farm house on Purgold Road. Pintail owns and operates a Consulting Business out of his home and uses it as a front for his Elimination Business which is a Murder for Hire “Hit Man”. His fee for one Elimination “Hit” is $50 K cash.Read this exciting story and follow Pintail’s daily life as he uses ...

This very Strange Historical World War Two Story will strike your very heart and soul as many of the related facts presented are true: especially if you were raised doing this World War Two timeframe. The early stages of this story speak to a young boy (John Albert Bran) that has a lifelong dream to become a Counterspy as inspired by one of his early Grammar School teachers, (Mr. Allen Amott). The story centers around Two Weapons of Mass Destruction almost developed and manufactured by “NA...

What would you do if the person you loved betrayed you in the worst way possible?Domini Parrino's life is fantastic. She has a loving husband, son, and lifelong best friend. And her business is booming. Life couldn't be better.However, her perfect world is about to come crashing down around her. She has a viper in the nest—her cheating husband.Now his terrible secret is out. He's betrayed her in the worst way possible. And now he’s going to pay the ...