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Statistical Ecology: A PRIMER ON METHODS AND COMPUTING
LUDWIG Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0471832359 |
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An accessible introduction to quantitative methods in community ecology, with related software. Provides a thoughtful overview on the nature of data collection, followed by detailed explanations of the major statistical techniques applied to problems in population dynamics. Presents important conclusions about the use (and abuse) of specific techniques. Examples include communities of both flora and fauna, prey-predator relations, the effects of food supply on populations, and species abundance and overlap models. Software includes several BASIC microcomputer programs which can be used with the examples provided or with other data sets.Customer Reviews:
Statistical Ecology, Tremendous Text, Poor Software.......1999-01-15
The book comes with a disk containing BASIC programs. This is of little help for individuals having win 95/98. The BASIC interpreter, mentioned in the primer, was terminated when Windows 95 replaced MSDOS as the OS for PCs.
So if you have win95/98 you are BASICally hosed.
I would suggest the authors correct the compatibility problem, or just not offer BASIC programs.
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Atlas of Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
Mauro Cresti , Stephen Blackmore , and Jacobus L. van Went Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3540549048 |
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Comprising about one hundred plates this atlas documents and describes the processes concerning the sexual reproduction in higher plants. It is dividedinto three parts: - Anther Development - Pistil Development - Progamic Phase and Fertilization. The scanning, transmission electron and light micrographs are all of immaculate quality and - for the viewer's orientation - almost each plate is complemented by a scheme showing a larger area of the plant indicating the site of the section. Together with instructive texts, the often striking images provide a valuable introduction into plant reproductive cell structures for researchers and advanced students of genetics, plantbreeding and cell biology.
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Visitor's Guide: Southern Spain & Costa Del Sol (Regional Traveller)
Barbara Mandell Manufacturer: Hunter Pub Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0861905369 |
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Visitor's Guide to Southern Spain and Costa Del Sol
Hunter Publishing Manufacturer: Hunter Pub Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 155650313X |
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INSET Teacher's Packs: Food and Farming (Timespan)
Phil Suggitt Manufacturer: Elm Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Ring-bound ASIN: 1854500783 |
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Choices: Sex in the Age of Stds
Jeffrey S. Nevid , and Fern Gotfried Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0205172040 |
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Most people know that HIV, the AIDS virus, is a killer, but how familiar are they with other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)? About one in every 6 people in the US is infected with an STD and nearly one half of those infected are under 25. AIDS is only part of the STD epidemic. In this highly-readable question and answer book, readers will find the information they need to understand and guard against the transmission of AIDS and other STDs. The book is forthright, direct, and non-judgmental in its approach. New coverage to this edition includes updated information on AIDS and HIV/AIDS treatments and new important chapters on prevention. P Everyone concerned about his or her health in regards to sexual activity and prevention of STDs.
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Choices: Sex in the Age of Stds
Fern Gotfried Jeffrey S. Nevid Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OOLB7S |
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Synthetic Polymers : Building the Giant Molecule
Fred W. Billmeyer Jr Manufacturer: Doubleday & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000IOPPGC |
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Synthetic Polymers: Building the Giant Molecule
Fred W. Billmeyer Manufacturer: DoubleDay ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 038506148X |
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Synthetic Polymers: Building the Giant Molecule
Manufacturer: Anchor Books/ Doubleday ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000FMNGVI |
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Quantitative Approximation Theory
R. Devore Manufacturer: Academic Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0122136500 |
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Quantitative Approximations
George Anastassiou Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1584882212 |
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Quantitative approximation methods apply in many diverse fields of research-neural networks, wavelets, partial differential equations, probability and statistics, functional analysis, and classical analysis to name just a few. For the first time in book form, Quantitative Approximations provides a thorough account of all of the significant developments in the area of contemporary quantitative mathematics. It offers readers the unique opportunity of approaching the field under the guidance of an expert. Among the book's outstanding features is the inclusion of the introductory chapter that summarizes the primary and most useful results. This section serves not only as a more detailed table of contents for those new to an area of application, but also as a quick reference for more seasoned researchers. The author describes all of the pertinent mathematical entities precisely and concretely. His approach and proofs are straightforward and constructive, making Quantitative Approximations accessible and valuable to researchers and graduate students alike.
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Approximations for quantitative feedback theory designs (SuDoc NAS 1.26:207116)
D. K. Henderson Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Information Service, distributor ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B000111F20 |
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Quantitative results for linear approximation operators (Haifa)
Erga Censor Manufacturer: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Dept. of Math ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007B1H0Y |
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A spatial and quantitative estimate of the water pollution generating potential of the Soviet Union: A first approximation (Ohio. State University, Columbus. Dept. of Geography. Discussion paper)
Craig ZumBrunnen Manufacturer: Dept. of Geography, Ohio State University] ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007AGDKY |
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The use of approximation analysis to test for separability and the existence of consistent aggregates (Working paper - Institute for the Quantitative Analysis ... and Economic Policy, University of Toronto)
M Denny Manufacturer: Institute for the Quantitative Analysis of Social and Economic Policy, University of Toronto ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007AO0BI |
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Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections with Illustrations on the Moral Sense
Francis Hutcheson Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 076616831X |
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1742. Although the main practical principles, which are repeated in this treatise, have this prejudice in their favor, that they have been taught and propagated by the best of men in all ages, yet there is reason to fear that renewed treatises upon subjects so often well managed may be looked upon as superfluous. In this essay, the proofs and illustrations of this point that we have a moral sense, and a sense of honor by which we discern an immediate good in virtue and honor, are not much insisted on since they have been laid down in previous treatises. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Old English text.Customer Reviews:
Above Wrong.......2006-08-14
a ponderous style of discourse.......2006-06-16
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Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections (History of psychology series)
Francis Hutcheson Manufacturer: Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0820110582 |
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Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. With Illustrations of the Moral Sense
Francis Hutcheson Manufacturer: Crampton & Benson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000IFZPEI |
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AN ESSAY ON THE NATURE AND CONDUCT OF THE PASSIONS AND AFFECTIONS: WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ON THE MORAL SENSE (THIRD EDITION, 1742)
Manufacturer: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints Gainesville, FL ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I9U6DY |
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The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
Julia Hill Manufacturer: HarperOne ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0062516590 Release Date: 2001-04-03 |
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A young woman named Julia Butterfly Hill climbed a 200-foot redwood in December 1997. She didn't come down for 738 days. The tree, dubbed Luna, grows in the coastal hills of Northern California, on land owned by the Maxxam Corporation. In 1985 Maxxam acquired the previous landlord, Pacific Lumber, then proceeded to "liquidate its assets" to pay off the debt--in other words, clear-cut the old-growth redwood forest. Environmentalists charged the company with harvesting timber at a nonsustainable level. Earth First! in particular devised tree sit-ins to protest the logging. When Hill arrived on the scene after traveling cross-country on a whim, loggers were preparing to clear-cut the hillside where Luna had been growing for 1,000 years. The Legacy of Luna, part diary, part treatise, and part New Age spiritual journey, is the story of Julia Butterfly Hill's two-year arboreal odyssey.The daughter of an itinerant preacher, Hill writes of her chance meeting with California logging protesters, the blur of events leading to her ascent of the redwood, and the daily privations of living in the tallest treehouse on earth. She weathers everything from El Niño rainstorms to shock-jock media storms. More frightening are her interactions with the loggers below, who escalate the game of chicken by cutting dangerously close to Luna (eventually succeeding at killing another activist with such tactics). "'You'd better get ready for a bad hair day!'" one logger shouts up, grimly anticipating the illegal helicopter hazing she would soon get. Celebrity environmentalists like Joan Baez and Woody Harrelson stop by, too. The notoriety has, on balance, been good to Hill and her cause. George magazine named her one of the "Ten Most Fascinating People in Politics," Good Housekeeping readers nominated her one of the "Most Admired Women" in 1998, and she was featured in People's "Most Intriguing People of the Year" issue. As a result, more Americans know about controversial forestry practices; it remains to be seen, however, whether public outrage is enough to save California's unprotected and ever-shrinking groves of redwoods. While an agreement allowed Hill to descend from her aerie and Luna to escape the saw, most of the surrounding old-growth forest in the region has been felled or will fall shortly. Still, Hill is optimistic: "Luna is only one tree. We will save her, but we will lose others. The more we stand up and demand change, though, the more things will improve." --Langdon Cook
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On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California.
Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain on December 10, 1997, for what she thought would be a two- to three-week-long "tree-sit." The action was intended to stop Pacific Lumber, a division of the Maxxam Corporation, from the environmentally destructive process of clear-cutting the ancient redwood and the trees around it. The area immediately next to Luna had already been stripped and, because, as many believed, nothing was left to hold the soil to the mountain, a huge part of the hill had slid into the town of Stafford, wiping out many homes.
Over the course of what turned into an historic civil action, Hill endured El Nino storms, helicopter harassment, a ten-day siege by company security guards, and the tremendous sorrow brought about by an old-growth forest's destruction. This story--written while she lived on a tiny platform eighteen stories off the ground--is one that only she can tell.
Twenty-five-year-old Julia Butterfly Hill never planned to become what some have called her--the Rosa Parks of the environmental movement. Shenever expected to be honored as one of Good Housekeeping's "Most Admired Women of 1998" and George magazine's "20 Most Interesting Women in Politics," to be featured in People magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People of the Year" issue, or to receive hundreds of letters weekly from young people around the world. Indeed, when she first climbed into Luna, she had no way of knowing the harrowing weather conditions and the attacks on her and her cause. She had no idea of the loneliness she would face or that her feet wouldn't touch ground for more than two years. She couldn't predict the pain of being an eyewitness to the attempted destruction of one of the last ancient redwood forests in the world, nor could she anticipate the immeasurable strength she would gain or the life lessons she would learn from Luna. Although her brave vigil and indomitable spirit have made her a heroine in the eyes of many, Julia's story is a simple, heartening tale of love, conviction, and the profound courage she has summoned to fight for our earth's legacy.
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A Book That Inspired Me to Do My part to Help the Environment.......2006-12-20
Interesting Read.......2006-08-21
Saving our environment.......2006-03-04
Julia Butterfly Hill: A Woman Literally Up a Tree.......2005-12-16
Good book - Inspiring - Short on details.......2005-05-01
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The Legacy Of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
Julia Butterfly Hill Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF3EKE |
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The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
Julia Butterfly Hill Manufacturer: Harper San Francisco ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NY67FU |
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L'Epoppee Napoleonienne: The Napoleonic Epic
Francois Guy Hourtoulle Manufacturer: Histoire & Collections ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 2908182696 |
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Excellent Detail,Evocative water colour paintings.......2001-07-07
Necessary, Not Perfect.......2000-06-24
Paintings Are Worthwhile.......2000-01-13
Collect the plate series instead........1999-04-05
Alas, the reproductions are poor. The washed out and fuzzy colors reproduced in this volume bear little resemblance to the marvelous vibrant originals which were hand finished by Girbal & Cie. Additionally, and mercifully, the series is not reproduced in its entirety which totalled 89 plates.
Save your money for wiser purchase.
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The Death Of Free Speech: How Our Broken National Dialogue Has Killed The Truth And Divided America
John Ziegler Manufacturer: Cumberland House Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1581824416 Release Date: 2005-07-01 |
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In THE DEATH OF FREE SPEECH, radio talk-show host and TV commentator John Ziegler examines how the news media has created arbitrary, biased, and illogical rules for determining what can and cannot be said in the public arena. He details how in almost every major case of "speech and punishment" in modern America, the guilty verdict was wrong and unjust.From incidents involving Jimmy "the Greek," Trent Lott, and Fuzzy Zoeller to Rush Limbaugh, John Rocker, and Jocelyn Elders, he blows apart the conventional wisdom that led to these public figures being unfairly penalized for expressing their constitutionally protected opinions and explains why others have been spared despite making similar statements. Through his own experiences of being fired for things he has said on-air, as well as never-before-revealed intereactions with others who found themselves the target of the self-appointed "thought police" in the news media, Ziegler takes an in-depth look at the issues that surround these controversies. Ziegler also looks at the increasing corporate conflicts and legal restrictions being imposed on free speech, particularly when it comes to political speech, which came to the forefront of the 2004 election campaign in the battle over the candidates' Vietnam War records. He scathingly obliterates the news media's pathetic handling of that issue and describes how it affected the election itself. An he exposes how restrictions on free speech have created a media matrix that makes it impossible for the truth to ever be known by most Americans.
THE DEATH OF FREE SPEECH is an objective, credible, provocative, and entertaining look at one of the most important and underreported realities in American society. No one is in better position to tell this story than John Ziegler as he warns that this most cherished constitutional right is in grave jeopardy.
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John Ziegler rocks!.......2007-07-09
***A Definite Must Read***.......2006-05-31
One of the most important books of our times.......2006-05-23
Luckily I didnt pay for my copy.......2006-04-07
READ THIS BOOK!!! America's future may depend on it!.......2006-01-07
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Tiger Moon: Tracking the Great Cats in Nepal
Fiona Sunquist , and Mel Sunquist Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0226779971 |
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