Completely updated in a new edition, this valuable resource concentrates on the practical application of nutrition for the production of effective, high-producing commercial livestock. It presents the required nutrients, nutrient utilization, a variety of feedstuffs and diets and their appropriate usage. Readers will also discover how to save money on feed costs and still raise larger, faster gaining, more productive, healthier animals and increase the return investment on livestock. The book details all aspects of livestock feeding, including the gastrointestinal tract and nutrient utilization, feeds for livestock, feed laws and labeling, preparation and processing, feeding livestock species including swine, poultry, dairy cows, dairy calves and replacement heifers and beef cow herd, and feeding domesticated species such as horses, sheep, goats, dogs and cats and rabbits.

Livestock Feeds and Feeding

Engineering & Transportation

Kellems, Richard

Church, David

Engineering

Pearson

This valuable resource concentrates on the pratical application of nutrition for the production of effective, high-producing commercial livestock. It presents the requires nutrients, nutrient utilization, a variety of feedstuffs and diets and their appropriate usage. Users will also discover how to save money on feed costs and still raise larger, faster gaining, more productive, healthier animals--and thereby increase the return on investment in livestock.

Science & Math

Agricultural Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

Mortal Kombat: Games of Death (Landmark Video Games)

About the Author\nDavid Church is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University.\nUpon its premiere in 1992, Midway’s Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent “fatality” moves performed by photorealistic characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide rating system for video games and became a referendum on the wide popularity of 16-bit home consoles. Along the way, it became one of the world’s most iconic fighting games, and formed a transmedia franchise that continues to this day.\nThis book traces Mortal Kombat’s history as an American product inspired by both Japanese video games and Chinese martial-arts cinema, its successes and struggles in adapting to new market trends, and the ongoing influence of its secret-strewn narrative world. After outlining the specific elements of gameplay that differentiated Mortal Kombat from its competitors in the coin-op market, David Church examines the various martial-arts films that inspired its Orientalist imagery, helping explain its stereotypical uses of race and gender. He also posits the games as a cultural landmark from a moment when public policy attempted to intervene in both the remediation of cinematic aesthetics within interactive digital games and in the transition of public gaming spaces into the domestic sphere. Finally, the book explores how the franchise attempted to conquer other forms of media in the 1990s, lost ground to a new generation of 3D games in the 2000s, and has successfully rebooted itself in the 2010s to reclaim its legacy.

Computers & Technology

Games & Strategy Guides

University of Michigan Press

Review\n“The book captures the excitement and dynamism of actually playing Mortal Kombat while describing the game, its appeal for players, and the reasons why the establishment (parents, cultural critics, US senators) found it objectionable. Church places Mortal Kombat squarely in its sociopolitical context to introduce the game to the general reader.” 
—Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware -- Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware\nUpon its premiere in 1992, Midway’s Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent “fatality” moves performed by photorealistic characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide rating system for video games and became a referendum on the wide popularity of 16-bit home consoles. Along the way, it became one of the world’s most iconic fighting games, and formed a transmedia franchise that continues to this day.\nThis book traces Mortal Kombat’s history as an American product inspired by both Japanese video games and Chinese martial-arts cinema, its successes and struggles in adapting to new market trends, and the ongoing influence of its secret-strewn narrative world. After outlining the specific elements of gameplay that differentiated Mortal Kombat from its competitors in the coin-op market, David Church examines the various martial-arts films that inspired its Orientalist imagery, helping explain its stereotypical uses of race and gender. He also posits the games as a cultural landmark from a moment when public policy attempted to intervene in both the remediation of cinematic aesthetics within interactive digital games and in the transition of public gaming spaces into the domestic sphere. Finally, the book explores how the franchise attempted to conquer other forms of media in the 1990s, lost ground to a new generation of 3D games in the 2000s, and has successfully rebooted itself in the 2010s to reclaim its legacy.

The untold saga of Thomas Edison’s greatest invention - a machine designed to penetrate the barrier between life and death. Edison is accompanied on his metaphysical quest by John Dawkins, his heroic, young assistant with a tragic past; Emily Auburn, a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl, and her wise-cracking rehearsal pianist, the teenage George Gershwin. Destiny propels them from the mind-boggling marvels of Edison’s secret laboratory, to the Captiva Island compound of the Seminole Indians, to the frontlines of the Great War. Their journey climaxes in a dual finale; a go-for-broke aerial mission to foil the Germans’ surprise attack on American forces, and a decisive struggle for the soul of mankind in the dark heart of the dead zone. 
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As an innovator and author who admires and has written about the iconic Edison, I can’t think of a more creative treatment of his genius. This brilliantly-crafted book will keep you turning the pages until the final twist. Enjoy the ride!” 
Lorraine Marchand, General Manager, IBM Watson Health and author of The Innovation Mindset (Columbia University Press) 
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Hang onto your history books! Only David Church could make Thomas Edison an action hero and populate his adventures with rich characters and brilliant plot twists rooted in actual events. It’s the most cinematic and satisfying read I’ve devoured in years.\nLarry Dean Harris 
Artistic Director, Strong Words

THOMAS EDISON AND THE PURGATORY EQUATION

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Ferrisville Publications

This practical, clinically oriented reference provides the veterinarian with all the relevant clinical pharmacology information needed when selecting drug regimes for pets. It compiles easy-to-find data on dosages, routes of administration, formulation, metabolism, side effects, interactions, special considerations, and more, all in one convenient volume. Information on each drug class is presented in a consistent format, making it easy to locate key information. Chapters on all the main drug classes are complemented by additional chapters on key body systems, as well as introductory chapters on pharmacokinetics and pharmacological principles.
<li>All authors are experienced clinicians, giving practical clinical perspective to the text</li>
<li>Organised by drug class - all drug classes are covered in detail</li>
<li>Key organ systems also discussed</li>
<li>Information organised consistently throughout the book for quick easy location of material</li>
<li>Many tables of drug doses, routes of administration etc.</li>
<li>Full coverage of drug interactions, special considerations and much more</li>
<li>Key information for each drug class is highlighted in summary boxes</li>

Small Animal Clinical Pharmacology

Page, Stephen

Maddison BVSc DipVetClinStud PhD FACVSc MRCVS, Jill E.

Page BSc(Vet) BVSc DipVetClinStud MVetClinStud MAppSci(EnvTox) MACVSc, Stephen W

Church BVSc PhD MACVSc ILTM MRCVS, David B

Bailliere Tindall

Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom

Too often dismissed as nothing more than 'trash cinema', exploitation films have become both earnestly appreciated cult objects and home video items that are more accessible than ever. In this wide-ranging new study, David Church explores how the history of drive-in theatres and urban grind houses has descended to the home video formats that keep these lurid movies fondly alive today.Arguing for the importance of cultural memory in contemporary fan practices, Church focuses on both the re-release of archival exploitation films on DVD and the recent cycle of 'retrosploitation' films like Grindhouse, Machete, Viva, The Devil's Rejects and Black Dynamite. At a time when older ideas of subcultural belonging have become increasingly subject to nostalgia, Grindhouse Nostalgia presents an indispensable study of exploitation cinema's continuing allure, and is a bold contribution to our understanding of fandom, taste politics, film distribution and home video.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Edinburgh University Press

God's final offer has been a part of every King James version of the Bible since it was translated into the English language! Whether it's been information Bible scholars and teachers have chosen to never talk about with the Christian community or it was God's intent to keep it hidden in plain sight is a matter of choice of those who will now see it. But this message is more important than any debate over who or why! Because it's an offer of hope to those who will find themselves being told there is no hope: surely it's a message every Christian should want them to have.

God's Final Offer: A Bible Study

Religion & Spirituality

Publishamerica Inc

Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation

Horror's longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed 'elevated horror' and 'post-horror,' films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, It Comes at Night, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, Midsommar, A Ghost Story, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.

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Books by Church, David

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Livestock Feeds and Feeding

Livestock Feeds and Feeding

Mortal Kombat: Games of Death (Landmark Video Games)

Mortal Kombat: Games of Death (Landmark Video Games)

THOMAS EDISON AND THE PURGATORY EQUATION

Small Animal Clinical Pharmacology

Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom

God's Final Offer: A Bible Study

Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom

Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation