A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world. Regeneration describes how an inclusive movement can engage the majority of humanity to save the world from the threat of global warming, with climate solutions that directly serve our children, the poor, and the excluded. This means we must address current human needs, not future existential threats, real as they are, with initiatives that include but go well beyond solar, electric vehicles, and tree planting to include such solutions as the fifteen-minute city, bioregions, azolla fern, food localization, fire ecology, decommodification, forests as farms, and the number one solution for the world: electrifying everything. Paul Hawken and the nonprofit Regeneration Organization are launching a series of initiatives to accompany the book, including a streaming video series, curriculum, podcasts, teaching videos, and climate action software. Regeneration is the inspiring and necessary guide to inform the rapidly spreading climate movement.

“Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and Fitzgerald...Some of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern English fiction.”—The Boston Globe The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy—a Booker Prize nominee and one of Entertainment Weekly’s 100 All-Time Greatest Novels. In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon’s “sanity” and sending him back to the trenches. This novel tells what happened as only a novel can. It is a war saga in which not a shot is fired. It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the reader can decide who is the victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim. One of the most amazing feats of fiction of our time, Regeneration has been hailed by critics across the globe. More than one hundred years since World War I, this book is as timely and relevant as ever.

In tissue engineering, the ultimate goal is to engineer an entire functioning organ that requires building complex structures of different tissue types. A three-dimensional scaffold seeded with desired cell types. In order to resemble the natural formations of the organs, cells have to be correctly located in relation to one another. It has been shown in cocultures that cells have the capability of spontaneous tissue-like organization when seeded into the scaffold. The ideal scaffolds should have an interconnected porous structure, well-designed pore size and adequate porosity to allow cell attachment, proliferation and differentiation. Moreover, effective bioactive agents and nutrient exchange are crucial during new tissue development. Thus the individual organ cell is a specific mechanism for the construction or regeneration of the cells. Artificial scaffolds have been applied and used as supporting structures for cell cultures as well as for the domination of cell growth in the repair of impaired tissues or organs. During the cell regeneration, the scaffold temporarily helps in cell regeneration and gradually biodegrade either in the course of the healing process or after, and a new tissue with a desired shape and properties is produced. The challenge of tissue engineering is to mimic what happens in nature. Attempts are being made to engineer in vitro practically every tissue and organ in the body. Work is proceeding in creating tissue-engineered liver, nerve, kidney, intestine, pancreas, and even heart muscle and valves. In the area of connective tissues, work has been ongoing worldwide for many years in the engineering of tendon, ligament, bone, and cartilage. Recently, the number of reports was succeeded in skin, bladder, airway, and bone, where tissue-engineered constructs have been used successfully in patients. This Research Topic is the collection of body organ regeneration materials and their cell adhesion and migration for the development and regeneration of tissues. Biomimetic materials promise to advance in current understanding of organ regeneration and repair by providing tools to recapitulate and monitor relevant properties of cellular - microenvironment interactions. Although cell adhesion, migration, and development aspects of tissues have shown success in the clinic, better, more intricate models are needed to understand drivers of tissue repair and regeneration fully. Tissue engineering bears tremendous potential toward gaining a complete understanding of the underlying biological and physical mechanisms advancing the treatment of damaged organs. The following Research Topic “Bio-mimetic materials for tissue regenerations” discusses examples of progress toward this objective. • Bio-mimicking scaffold materials for tissue regeneration • Cell adhesion to scaffold materials • Role of materials for the migration of cells • Mechanisms of cell growth for organ development

Principles of Regeneration focuses on the principles, methodologies, and changes involved in the process of regeneration. The book first underscores the nature of the nucleus in Acetabularia, enzyme effects, role of ribonucleic acid in morphogenesis, and functions of the stentor. The text then takes a look at the turnover in hydroids and flatworms and regeneration blastema. Discussions focus on regeneration in hydra, interstitial cells, colonial hydroids, neoblasts, and morphogenetic fields. The publication surveys segmental addition in annelids and molting, metamorphosis, and regeneration in arthropods. The termination of regeneration, importance of nerves, morphogenesis, histogenesis of the regenerate, and role of the nerves are discussed. The manuscript also examines regeneration in fishes, amphibian limb, horns and antlers, and heads and tails. The manuscript is a dependable source of data for students of developmental biology, anatomy, and evolution, as well as teachers and researchers in biology and medicine.

Several years have now passed since the big-budget return of Doctor Who starring Paul McGann was announced. In that time, the telemovie has been produced and shown round the world. This book explains how the film was made, and why.

This book gives guidance as to the types of building stock offering greatest potential for conversion, that are likely to be viable and sustainable. Chapters are contributed by key experts in the field.