Insects Associated with Wild Plants in Europe and the Middle East

by Robert W. Pemberton

1980

This publication lists 351 species of European insects that were collected or reared from 71 weeds of European origin. The insects species--specimens of which are in the USDA's Biological Control of Weeds Laboratory--Europe insect collection in Rome, Italy--are listed taxonomically and by host plant. The host plant listing includes data on rearing, feeding, and other insect-plant associations.

The Politics of Authenticating

by Richard Ekins, Robert Porter

2023 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The Politics of Authenticating: Revisiting New Orleans Jazz sets forth an entirely new approach to the study of authenticity, based not upon a search for finding the ‘true’ meaning of the concept or ‘unmasking’ its claims. Rather, it details a grounded theory of ‘authenticating’ as a basic socio-political process, important in understanding the origins, development and consequences of competing knowledge claims in diverse areas of human experience and activity over time and place. The book is part jazz historiography, part autoethnography, and part memoir. It details Richard Ekins revisiting of the quest for authenticity in the social worlds of international New Orleans revivalist jazz from the early 1960s onwards, from his standpoint as a social constructionist social scientist and cultural theorist. The book grew out of a series of long, detailed conversations between Ekins and his interlocutor (Robert Porter) and captures the energy and dynamism of these exchanges in the writing of the text, providing what the authors call a ‘riff methodology’ that might be drawn on by other scholars concerned to write books that revisit aspects of their personal and professional lives.

Researching and Understanding Educational Networks

by Robert McCormick, Alison Fox, Patrick Carmichael, Richard Procter

2010 · Routledge

Discussing educational networks, this book presents analyses of the problems with the theories of teacher learning, and explores what network theories can be brought to the problem of how teachers and schools create and share knowledge about practice