Pathologies of Modern Space: Empty Space, Urban Anxiety, and the Recovery of the Public Self

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Pathologies of Modern Space traces the rise of agoraphobia in modern life and ties its astonishing growth to the emergence of urban modernity. The fear of stepping into the anonymity of modern cities and the anxiety that modern urban settings generate is in fact a central feature of modernity, and has been addressed by Georg Simmel and Richard Sennett. While agoraphobia is now generally treated by the psychiatric profession as a disorder unrelated to anything but the patient's psychology, Kathryn Milun shows that in the modern era its rise is closely related to the emergence of "empty urban space": homogenous space stripped of memory and tactile features (i.e., large plazas, sprawling freeways, shopping malls, and glass and steel office towers). When agoraphobia was first identified in the 1870s, psychologists connected it to features of modern urban life but, in subsequent eras, psychiatrists treated it as separate from the urban social context. While agoraphobia has exploded as a condition, the psychiatric profession has continued to ignore the social dimensions of the condition. The vast majority of sufferers are women, a fact that Milun uses to address gender differences in the way that humans experience the modern city. Pathologies of Modern Space covers a key mental health and social issue while also examining the increasing influence of a health profession that looks less to the social and more to the individual.

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Color Photography

The joys of photograyphy

Color Photography: A Working Manual (Color Photography)
Henry Horenstein , Russell Hart , and Tom Briggs
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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Binding: Paperback

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Good manual for processing films.......2007-04-21

Good introductory book on color film photography. Great chapters on processing films and making prints.

Contains nothing about digital photography. Coverage on color theory is very concise.

excellent.......2007-03-11

Book came within 3 days, very fast. Great condition, and I think I am going to order some more wrestling stuff from Amazon. THE BEST!

Good Information.......2007-02-15

This book contains a lot of great information, great for amateurs! I'm definitely glad I bought it.

Color Photography.......2007-01-10

A great book who like printing color photographs the old fashioned way (not digital). Hard to beat this book and the price.

The joys of photograyphy.......2006-02-24

I found the book to be very helpful undersanding color theory, how to shoot and make prints, and many other elements of photography of which I was previously unaware.

Colour films: The technique of working with colour materials, (The manuals of photo-technique)

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Colour films: The technique of working with colour materials, (The manuals of photo-technique)
C. Leslie Thomson
Manufacturer: Focal Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Color Photography: A Working Manual
Henry Horenstein
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T)
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Binding: Paperback
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Color Photography: A Working Manual (Color Photography)

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Color Photography: A Working Manual (Color Photography)
Henry; Hart, Russell; Briggs, Tom Horenstein
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenge of turning international commitments and policy promises into action. Using examples and cases from around the U.S. and around the world, it examines the successful and failed efforts designed to address the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development. Based on broad research that started before the Earth Summit, Implementing Sustainable Development offers a practical and useful approach to identifying and addressing policy implementation challenges.

Book review: Implementing sustainable development: from global policy to local action [A book review from: International Journal of Educational Development]

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Book review: Implementing sustainable development: from global policy to local action [A book review from: International Journal of Educational Development]
S.P. Heyneman
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000RR2OS2

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This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Educational Development, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Phillip J. Cooper & Claudia Maria Vargas, Implementing Sustainable Development: From Global Policy to Local Action.(Book review): An article from: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

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Phillip J. Cooper & Claudia Maria Vargas, Implementing Sustainable Development: From Global Policy to Local Action.(Book review): An article from: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy
Pamela Stricker
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1244 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Phillip J. Cooper & Claudia Maria Vargas, Implementing Sustainable Development: From Global Policy to Local Action.(Book review)
Author: Pamela Stricker
Publication: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 9 Issue: 3 Page: 289(3)

Article Type: Book review

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`One of the most exciting developments in economics in recent decades has been the emergence of a coherent framework for understanding why organisations have different structures and attributes. There is no better way of learning about this fascinating literature on incomplete information and transaction costs than Martin Ricketts's accessible and authoritative book. Very highly recommended.'

- J.H. Pencavel, Stanford University

`Martin Ricketts has succeeded in updating his book with the addition of a completely new section on the burning issue of privatisation policy in East and West, along with a very readable exposition of the new micro-foundation of property rights theory. It is a brilliantly lucid introduction into modern institutional economics, exemplified by the theory of the firm - the best book of its kind on the market.'

- Rudolf Richter, University of Saarland, Germany

To own or not to own? To make or to buy? To franchise or to manage? To contract long or to contract short? To trust or not to trust? To license or not to license? These and other questions are the subject matter of this excellent introduction to the theory of economic organization. This fully updated edition of Martin Ricketts's 1987 book includes:

• New developments in the property rights theory of the firm
• Further extended treatment of cooperative and mutual forms of enterprise
• Entirely new sections on transaction cost economics and public policy
• New chapters on the economics of privatization and the regulation of `natural monopoly'.

In addition, transaction cost, property rights and agency approaches are contrasted, and Austrian and evolutionary criticisms of standard theory are explored. The author applies these theories to a wide range of questions from the choice of piece rates or time rates in contracting to the debate on Anglo-American versus other `varieties of capitalism'. Public policy in the fields of regulation and privatization is also considered using the same framework.

Non-specialists will find this book to be an accessible introduction to the main theoretical approaches to economic organization. Students and researchers specializing in the fields of economics and business will find that this third, updated edition of The Economics of Business Enterprise continues to provide stimulating insights suggestive of further research.

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This collection of papers marks the development of empirical application of the search approach to labor economics--an approach which arose as a theoretical development of the 1960s and led to numerous insights in the 1970s. The search approach naturally incorporates uncertainty in the economic model, making up some of the early work in what is now called "the economics of information." Included are econometric issues such as estimation and specification of search models for wages and unemployment duration, continuous time models of turnover, and identification of structural parameters. Applications to policy questions including Unemployment Insurance and wage subsidy programs are given, and data collection issues are discussed within the search framework.

Unemployment in Open Economies: A Search Theoretic Analysis (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

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Unemployment in Open Economies: A Search Theoretic Analysis (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)
Pia Weiß
Manufacturer: Springer
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Unemployment in Open Economies studies how domestic labour markets are influenced by a changing international environment. It combines the recently developed search and matching models with standard models of international trade. By this method, the reader gains new insights in the ongoing debate on how globalisation can affect unemployment.
The author develops a collection of models showing that globalisation can be one reason for long-known and well-documented phenomenons on the labour market. She puts emphasis on country differences by studying the role of individual risk behavior and the wage setting on the unemployment level.

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The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America spanning the five hundred years between the late fifteenth century and the present. Latin America: Economy and Society since 1930 brings together chapters from Parts 1 and 2 of Volume VI of The Cambridge History to provide a complete survey of the Latin American economies since 1930. This will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history and of contemporary Latin America.

Latin America: Economy and Society since 1930

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Latin America: Economy and Society since 1930
Leslie Bethell
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ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NP0Z66

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Making the Decision provides a practical approach to understanding the different aspects of clinical trials, from the patient's perspective. The author describes the current treatment modalities available, recent drug developments, and the various types, phases, and business of clinical trials and research. Armed with this new knowledge, cancer patients can make informed decisions about their treatment.

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My Jihad is the personal story about the biggest threat to world peace and stability in our generation, as told by an insider.

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A fun read, but so are comics.......2007-06-10

My perspective is probably biased by my many years of military service, but here goes. The book reads like a good adventure novel and perhaps gives some insight into the loosely and even chaotically organized management style of many jihadists and their tendency to degenerate from religious warriors into common gangsters. However, it is hard to take the collection of stories seriously, sometimes they read like comics with Collins as a jihadist version of Captain America, minus the cool uniform. The nice thing about comics is that they have distinctive artwork and are not presented as having historical, political and religious significance and the writers are not self righteous.

At any rate, if any of these stories were being spun at the local tavern, the storyteller would definitely earn some free drinks.

Couldn't put it down.......2007-06-01

You will not be able to put this book down! He nearly gets killed in several instances, finds himself in the home of enemy combatants, gets caught crossing the border where he's rescued by a mobster, takes a few bullets to his legs, and still decides to return to the front lines! Whatever your feelings about Collins, he is clearly a hero: Most people wouldn't consider dying for their own country, yet this guy goes off to a foreign land to defend its people against the powerful Russian army. The book will also help readers understand what Jihad really is. You'll come to find that the current "jihadist movement" is in fact un-islamic, founded by groups of corrupt people, some of whom Collins describes as not being remotely religious. The book is a bit out of order: Section 2 should have come first. The book also ends on an incomplete note. Nevertheless, you'll get a first-hand account of a war that seems very distant. You'll also come to understand and appreciate the Mujahideen who dropped everything in their own lives to defend people in a foreign land when nobody, including their government, came to their rescue. After reading this book, I couldn't stop thinking about the atrocities that were committed. If anything, we need to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Uses religion as a justification for criminal activity.......2006-10-25

After reading this book, I am left with the impression that Collins was nothing more than yet another troubled youth that attempted to use a loophole in a religious ideology to justify his blatant criminal behavior. It also leaves me to wonder that had the scenario been a few years different, if he would not be over there right now in Iraq or Afghanistan trying to kill Americans instead of Russians?
I am skeptical with the title of this book, "An amazing journey from Usama Bin Laden's training camps to counter terrorism with the FBI and CIA." True it does tell of the author's travels from custody in the California Youth Authority, to training camps in Afghanistan and culminating with the siege of Grozny in Chechnya, but that is about it, a story and not a very amazing one at that. Collins never goes into detail about why he decided to convert to Islam, he just starts out one day while walking the streets of San Diego, enters a Mosque and decides to convert.
However, in part two of the book, he gives some insight as to why he may have decided to "convert," but never mentions if this is the actual reason or not. He comes from a broken home where his father eventually rejects him at the insistence of a drug addicted step mom and his biological mother is murdered over a drug deal gone bad. He winds up like most troubled youth living on the street and started out with committing petty crimes. He then progresses to armed robbery and an ensuing "shootout." When the police come to arrest him he proudly boasts about the 13 police cars outside and states to the arresting officers "all this just for me?" It seems to me this is the typical ranting of a juvenile delinquent, not a holy warrior. My interpretation is that he uses the religion of Islam and his distorted interpretation of it, to rationalize and justify his delinquent behavior.
He uses the concept of Jihad to further rationalize his desire to pursue his inherent criminal behavior by wanting to fight the Russians who are occupying Chechnya. My belief is that the same situation could have played out in any part of the world, he just wants to fight, wherever that may take him. When he finally gets to go out on an operation, "the others" have it all wrong, only he sees the impending ambush and he single handedly saves the others by attacking first and winds up getting shot in the leg. Then to top it all off, he becomes a pedophile by having sex with a sixteen year old at the hospital where he is recovering.
Again, without much of an explanation, he decides that he wants to work as an informant for the FBI against the same individuals he had just recently been fighting with. My assumption on this is that he had become disenchanted with his situation after being shot and he uses it as a ploy to have the government pay for his trip back to the United States. He returns to his wife and daughter back home, but never mentions whether his wife in the States knew anything about his illegitimate "child bride" and subsequent daughter in Chechnya.
He then continues his boasting about how he is intimately familiar with and easily associates himself with the Jihadist elements in the States and how although he is informing on them, at the same time, he works as their "muscle" on the side for some extra money. Again, he falls on back on what he knows, being a criminal. Lastly, and there is probably some element of truth about having to deal with government bureaucracy, but he never mentions how any of his work with the FBI or the CIA lead to anything productive or any meaningful outcome, just how much money he was making off the taxpayers. Oh, and he does get his troublesome leg amputated, also on the taxpayer dime. It concludes with him having a falling out with the CIA, who he then accuses of trying to have him killed during his last trip to Chechnya.
He concludes with a smattering of truth that on his final trip into Grozny, as he is actually faced with a true combat situation, he admits to being scared out of his mind. He attempts to save face by telling the reader that he was ordered to return to the States by his commander to obtain "critical" medical supplies. When he returns, his stateside wife leaves him and he is faced with the harsh reality of raising a son and daughter on his own. His illegitimate wife and daughter, whom he left in Chechnya, are never mentioned again.

A sad state of affairs.......2006-09-15

Firstly, I'd like to state that I loved this book. It was humorous, well written and thoroughly exciting book. The pacing was fast, the language is strong, and peppered with both American slang and Islamic references. For nothing else, it is a fun read.
I noticed though that many of the other reviewers called Aukai a "terrorist" or a "criminal" in their reviews though. This is not only incorrect, but also shows how jaded these people are. The fact that Aukai, irregardless of religious convictions, was willing to sacrifice his life in numerous countries to simply protect people that he had never met should be indication enough of the bravery and selfless nature of this man.
Is Aukai a flawless man? Hardly. But this does not make him a terrorist, or a criminal. Being that warfare still exists (Shockingly enough!), Aukai's killing of Russian soldiers is not a crime (At least not any more of a crime that any other soldier has ever commited during a war). I know that it may be a revelation to some of you, but a Moslem can be a fighter without being a terrorist too.

A somewhat misleading title.......2006-09-04

This book was recommended to me by my boyfriend, who has a vested interest in all things military (or even paramilitary), being in the Irish army. Having read the synopsis on the back, it certainly seemed like an interesting read, so in I dove.

The first thing any prospective reader of this book should know is that Aukai Collins has never once in his life been in contact with Osama Bin Laden, nor has he ever attended one of his training camps. Rather I think that aspect of the book was wilfully overstated in order to increase sales. Call me a cynic, but if you've read the book, you'll know what I mean. The second thing potential readers should be aware of is that Collins is an unabashed egotist - and it gets very tired early on in the novel.

The novel, in my opinion, is laid out rather back-to-front, in that it begins with his attempts to make jihad in various trouble-spots around the world, and we are only given any insight into his youth and why he converted to Islam in the second part of the book. And even this section, such as it is, is pitifully lacking. We are treated to a few short chapters on his childhood, but given no real insights into why he chose to convert to Islam. One rather gets the impression that it came about simply because he was bored in prison, and also because it gave him an excuse to indulge his inherently violent personality.

For all his posturing, Collins actually sees very little real "action". He seems to spend more time trying to get into the countries where he wishes to fight, and playing war games with his mujahideen friends in various camps. Even the manner in which he purportedly loses his leg is misleading - we are told he "left it behind" in Chechnya, when in reality he suffered an injury to it there, and later had it voluntarily amputated in America.

Depsite his supposedly altruistic side (he did, after all, want to help the FBI fight terrorists), Collins is a very hard person to like. He leaves a pregnant wife in America, then proceeds to marry a 16 year old girl in Chechnya. He then leaves her (also pregnant) to return to the States, where he impregnantes the first wife again. This third child is a son, and this is the only one of his children that Collins seems to care a whit about. I find it very hard to empathise with a man with such seeming disregard for his female children.

While parts of this book do undoubtedly give some insights into the world of the mujahideen, the one overwhelming feeling you are left with on finishing the book is "Why?".

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Antipolitics: An Essay
George Konrad
Manufacturer: Harcourt
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Antipolitics An Essay
George (Richard E. Allen, Translator) Konrad
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Antipolitics - An Essay
George Konrád
Manufacturer: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
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Antipolitics: An essay
Gyrgy Konrd
Manufacturer: Quarter Books
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Bird flight has always intrigued mankind. This book provides an up to date account of our existing knowledge on the subject, as well as offering new insights and challenging some established views.

A brief history of the science of flight introduces the basic physical principles governing aerial locomotion. A treatment of flight-related functional morphology concentrates on the difference in shape of the arm and hand part of the wings, on the structure and function of tails, and on the shape
of the body. The anatomy and mechanical properties of feathers receive special attention. Aerodynamic principles used by birds are explained in theory by simply applying Newton's laws, and in practice by showing the direction and velocity of the attached flow around an arm wing cross section and of
the leading edge vortex flow above a hand wing. The Archaeopteryx fossils remain crucial in our understanding of the evolution of bird flight despite the recent discovery of a range of well-preserved ancient birds.

A novel insight into the interactions between wings and air challenges established theories relating to the origin of bird flight. Take-off, flapping flight, gliding and landing are the basic ingredients of bird flight, and birds use a variety of flight styles from hovering to soaring. Flight
muscles consisting of mosaics of specialized fibers are the engines that generate the force required to keep the wings and tail in the gliding configuration and perform work during flapping motion. The energy required to fly can be estimated or measured directly, and a comparison of empirical
results provides insights into the trend in metabolic costs of flight of birds varying in shape and mass from hummingbirds to albatrosses.

Audubon marathon ready to take flight.(Animals)(Birders to high-tail it for annual avian audit) : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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Audubon marathon ready to take flight.(Animals)(Birders to high-tail it for annual avian audit) : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000E5KSBC
Release Date: 2006-01-09

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on December 27, 2005. The length of the article is 1310 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Audubon marathon ready to take flight.(Animals)(Birders to high-tail it for annual avian audit)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: December 27, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Avian flight: An entry from Thomson Gale's
<i>Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia</i>

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Avian flight: An entry from Thomson Gale's Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Colin, PhD, FRS Pennycuick
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000M59R16

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Gale proudly presents the completely revised and updated version of the acclaimed â€œGrzimek's Animal Life Encyclopediaâ€ set. Hailed by many as the best reference work on animals ever published, a legacy left to us by famed zoologist and animal lover Bernhard Grzimek, this set is renowned for its scientific reporting and coverage, and serves as a major point of reference for researchers, students, and those hoping to satisfy their curiosity about the animal kingdom. Information can be found on life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology and much more. Staying true to the original scientific pedigree, Gale enlisted prominent advisors and contributors from the international scientific community to incorporate recent developments in our knowledge of the animal world.

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Avian migration and navigation: An entry from Thomson Gale's Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Kenneth Paul, PhD Able
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Bird flu worries not taking flight.: An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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Bird flu worries not taking flight.: An article from: San Diego Business Journal
Katie Weeks
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by Thomson Gale on October 31, 2005. The length of the article is 1748 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bird flu worries not taking flight.
Author: Katie Weeks
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 31, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 26 Issue: 44 Page: 1(2)

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A comparison of North American avian conservation priority ranking systems [An article from: Biological Conservation]

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A comparison of North American avian conservation priority ranking systems [An article from: Biological Conservation]
D.W. Mehlman , K.V. Rosenberg , J.V. Wells , and Robertso
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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The need to prioritize species based on their perceived endangerment has led to the development of systems for categorizing and assessing their degree of vulnerability. Systems with divergent biological and geographical scopes can result in conflicting lists of high-priority species, potentially confusing conservationists and hampering the efficient allocation of resources. To assess conservation priorities for North American birds, we compare three priority-setting systems; those of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), NatureServe, and Partners in Flight (PIF). We found highest correspondence among the three systems in the highest and lowest categories of the respective systems with lower levels of correspondence in intermediate categories. We suggest that this is because the systems, while using different formulations of criteria, are based on the major factors known to be correlated with extinction risk. The few examples of species listed as a high conservation priority by one group but not one or both of the others appear to be the result of differences in availability or interpretation of data. Better communication and collaboration among those responsible for compiling the priority lists for each system is needed. A primary difference among the systems was the total number of species identified as conservation priorities. IUCN identified the fewest species (47) and PIF the most (157). This difference is the result of differences in geographic and taxonomic scope of each system. However, when considered as the percent of the total number of taxa evaluated by each system, all systems identified approximately 20% of species as of conservation concern. To reconcile disparate lists, we urge that conservationists use a hierarchical approach that first considers species that meet thresholds for endangerment under global systems, followed by species considered most vulnerable relative to all continental biota.

Preventing fear from taking flight: what hardware retailers need to know about bird flu.(TREND REPORT) : An article from: Do-It-Yourself Retailing

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Preventing fear from taking flight: what hardware retailers need to know about bird flu.(TREND REPORT) : An article from: Do-It-Yourself Retailing
Heather Kauffman
Manufacturer: National Retail Hardware Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000EBEDYY
Release Date: 2006-01-25

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This digital document is an article from Do-It-Yourself Retailing, published by National Retail Hardware Association on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1328 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Preventing fear from taking flight: what hardware retailers need to know about bird flu.(TREND REPORT)
Author: Heather Kauffman
Publication: Do-It-Yourself Retailing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: National Retail Hardware Association
Volume: 190 Issue: 1 Page: 46(3)

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Avian Flight
John J. Videler
Manufacturer: OXFORD UNIV + PRESS
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N67S2E

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Avian Flight
John J. Videler
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Avian Flight
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