The Streamkeeper's Field Guide: Watershed Inventory and Stream Monitoring Methods

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Stream Studies with Guilt and Humor.......2000-08-29

Humorously illustrated with wry examples of Gray Larson's humor, this step by step guide to stream monitoring clearly explains how to set up and continue a program to measure polltants in and near a stream which affect its life cycle. Examples of data recording sheets are included, as well as extensive references and explanations of the sources and effects of various water pollutants. The importance of clean water and long range consequences of neglectful management are clarified. Simple enough for the everyday, any- and everyone remotely interested in preserving the environment will want their own copy.

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Trespassing in God's Country : Sixty Years of Flying in Northern Canada
George Theriault
Manufacturer: Treeline Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0969811802

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Is the man Ginger meets in the park really her long-lost father . . . or is he her family’s worst nightmare?

The guy is everywhere. On the jogging path. At the video store. In the coffeehouse. He’s beginning to give Ginger the creeps. But maybe he’s not a weirdo. Maybe he’s just a man looking for the daughter he walked out on ten years ago.

Or maybe not.

Beth Cooley’s cautionary tale of family relationships, identity, and the disastrous results of miscommunication is a gripping novel with the unsettling premise that danger lives closer to us than anyone ever wants to think possible.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Sort of...........2004-11-03

This book was your typical young adult girl's book, I thought. The kind of writing was okay, the character was sterotypical, and it seemed kind of cheesy.
But overal, it wasn't too bad.

Important Issue, Intriguing Read.......2004-07-03

The copy I read of this book had no indication on either the inside flap or the back cover as to what the book was actually about. So when I first started reading "Ostrich Eye" I had no clue what I was in for. Here's the lowdown: Ginger lives at home with her mother, stepfather and half-sister Vivian. Having never met her real father and always having to witness the way her mother and stepfather dote on Vivian, Ginger begins to feel out of place, slightly overshadowed. So when a mysterious stranger appears in town, she begins making connections between him and her real father. Is this man the long lost father Ginger thinks he is? Or is Ginger blind to the stranger's true intentions?

The characters in "Ostrich Eye" are interesting and well-developed. Cooley manages to give her characters voices that seem honest, seem to ring true. While I found the plot to be slightly predictable, the story is fast-paced and flows smoothly. Overall, I find "Ostrich Eye" to be an enjoyable, quick read that gives its readers a heads up on an serious crisis that affects many families. I will definitely keep an eye out for more works by Beth Cooley in the future.

A powerful debut novel--deserving the Delacorte Prize.......2004-01-18

Beth Cooley has an amazing voice. Ostrich Eye held me from the first page till the last. I'm eager to see Cooley's next work.

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All Eyes on You (Big Books By George!)
George
Manufacturer: Triple C Mangagement
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A study of eyes on the Ibis, fly, human, wasp, snake and ostrich.

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The Modern Genetics book series will cover a wide range of topics within genetics, including animal, plant, population, evolutionary and molecular genetics. Individual volumes in the series will cover themes such as sex determination, yeast artificial chromosomes and the genetics of toxicology, drug resistance, eye diseases, cancer and psychiatric conditions.
Embryonal Stem Cells: Introducing Planned Changes into the Animal Germline is the first volume in the Modern Genetics book series. Genetic manipulation of embryonal stem cells allows a wide range of precise genetic modifications. The chimaeric animals produced can then transmit these modifications to their offspring. This volume provides an up-to-date review of this rapidly developing area of research, covering embryonal stem cells, homologous recombination and gene targeting, germline transmission of planned genomic modifications and research strategies using genetically modified animals. This volume will be of interest to res

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Hardbound. These proceedings contain 145 papers - 7 plenary lectures and 138 submitted papers selected for oral presentation. The plenary lectures include five overviews of vital research areas by highly respected researchers and two overviews of advances in the science and technology of catalysis made during the last 40 years. The first group explores the forces that drive innovation in catalysis, constrained geometry in metallocene olefin polymerization, characterization and design of oxide surfaces, photocatalysis, and factors required in the molecular design of catalysts. Two others are presented by researchers who attended the first ICC meeting 40 years ago and who have been substantive contributors to science and engineering developments that have occurred since then.

The proceedings differ from those published previously in two important ways. Firstly, the papers were published prior to the meeting for distribution to all delegates who a

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"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense," writes physicist David Deutsch. In The Fabric of Reality, Deutsch traces what he considers the four main strands of scientific explanation: quantum theory, evolution, computation, and the theory of knowledge. "The four of them taken together form a coherent explanatory structure that is so far-reaching, and has come to encompass so much of our understanding of the world, that in my view it may already properly be called the first Theory of Everything." Deutsch covers some difficult material with unusual clarity. Each chapter ends with a summary and definitions of important terms, which makes the work an invaluable sourcebook.

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Quantum Theory and Multiple Universes.......2007-09-24

This is a difficult book. Deutsch, a British theoretical physicist, asks scientists to face up to the reality implied by the present fundamental theories of quantum physics and computation. He weaves these strands together with the theory of evolution and a lengthy discussion of epistemology to demonstrate that an improved understanding of the real world is to recognize it as a set of parallel universes. This "multiverse" reality has baffled scientists, who find quantum physics necessary but shy away from the implications for reality. Deutsch probes deeply into how we know anything, how science moves forward, and the reinforcing strands of computer information theory and quantum physics. While the conclusions are certainly counter-intuitive, his evidence is serious. However, the final two chapters will need reworking, as they are based on the assumption in 1997 that our universe would ultimately contract again into a "big crunch." Evidence is now persuasive that continued expansion is our fate, so that his "infinite knowledge" scenario in the final moments of the contracting universe will not occur. Nevertheless, Deutsch's analysis is compatible with those who believe that knowledge (information) is the ultimate reality. On the way, he explores the theoretical possibility of time travel (Possibilities: one way trips into the future, and round trips into the past only back to the time at which time travel technology is first deployed). Personally, I find the parallel universe conclusion hard to envision, but as an explanation of quantum physics it is certainly more straightforward than the unsatisfactory and labored interpretation of the "Copenhagen school."

Good Reading IF..........2007-07-22

IF you believe in the Multiverse AND
you believe in Evolution AND
you believe in Turing Machines
THEN
This book is really for you!
ELSE
Just an entertaining book by a Oxford guy who is very smart.
END-IF

Not Memorable.......2007-06-20

I read this book several years ago and find that I remember almost nothing that I would consider I learned from it directly. Much of the material within has been more capably addressed by folks like Michio kaku, Brian Greene and Lisa Randall. The parallel universes theory has more physical support than some reviewers might think, but the WAY it actually affects our world is up to speculation. I would highly suggest an interested reader go for Lisa Randall's Warped Passages instead.

On the quixotic quest for a theory of everything.......2007-04-05

For the last twenty years of his life, Albert Einstein labored away at Princeton's Advanced Institute attempting to unify quantum mechanics with relativity.

And the same reason that he was unsuccessful will be the same reason that the CERN hadron collider in Switzerland will help to disprove the efficacy of string theory...because an objective reality does not exist.

The first problem in relation to the estalishment of a truly empirical science is solopism. As noted by Deutsch in his book, solopism exists where an individual accept the reality of anything not generated within his own mind. Best stated by Descartes as "cognito ergo sum" "I think therefore I am" operates to refute all evidence generated by even the senses even they only secondarily filter into the brain.

In other words, the first act of observation is a belief in the power of observation. This human ability to believe sometimes does and sometimes does not result in various degrees of observer bias. In fact, many great scientific revolutions can be characterized by virtue of the fact that they overturned basic evolutionary psychology assumptions about the way things work such:

The Copernican revolution which reversed the view that the sun revolves around the Earth.

The Darwinian revolution which overturned the view that animals of discrete species have discrete speciesness to them unlike any other species. In its extreme form this view posited that all animals in existence always existed.

The astonishing hypothesis of Francis Crick which observes that all conscious experience is the product of discrete interactions between neurons and ganglia. This notion itself revisted the previous Descartes notion of body/soul duality.

The idea that some understanding has been in relation to quantifying human observer bias by no means can be said to have resulted in its elimination.

Having dealt with observer bias, the cutting edge of science has been blunted by various information limiting discoveries that propogate reductively through the assorted disciplines.

In quantum mechanics for example, we cannot know both a particle's speed and its location.

In relatively, there is no objective now because Einsteinian time warps with the space it exists in a phenomenon that of course is different for locationally different observers.

In life sciences, natural selection has no plan but moves forward choatically based on a myriad of influences from the biosphere as well periodic influences (most dramatically meteorites) from the exosphere.

In cognition, findings by Kurt Godel and Alan Turing in turns have shown that even application of consistent formal systems is necessarily incomplete but still capable of producing something like an independent intelligence. Indeed, an understanding of the uniquely limited nature of human cognition leads us back to our predicate inquiry concerning observer bias. As Harvard's Steven Pinker pointed out in How the Mind Works, we hit reality at an obligue angle.

And like using a ruler to measure the circumference of a bowling ball, we are limited by our very beings in how we access reality by virtue of ourselves and our tools.

So when one reads a book such as this or Ed Wilson's Consilience or anyone's take on a theory of everything, one cannot help but remember Albert Einstein, the theory of everything's ultimate Sir Gawain who quested but never obtained his Holy Grail.

whole > parts.......2007-01-30

This is a highly stimulating book but, depending on one's expectations, it can be frustrating as well (as can be seen in some previous reviews). Most scientific writing is designed to popularize technical insights &/or make them more accessible. Deutsch may somewhat share that goal but, to a much greater extent, he is trying to make a more ambitious case to the scientifically literate public. He isn't trying to popularize known insights, but to weave together a broader and more compelling theoretical framework.

There is an extensive tradition of 'theories of everything' in physics, but they are still theories of physics. They will concern the integration of relativity and quantum mechanics, or the formulation of a more fundamental theory such as chromodynamics or string (M) theory. But Deutsch is trying to articulate a full-fledged theory of scientific convergence. As a quantum computer scientist, he is well aware about how physics provides new insights into computation, and vice versa. But by adding the topics of biological evolution (Darwin/Dawkins) and epistemology (Popper), and exploring how quantum computation helps illuminate those theories, and vice versa, he is pushing the horizon of scientific understanding.

Any one of his theoretical `strands' can be fairly criticized. He tends, for example, to stipulate the existence of a multiverse, rather than weigh the evidence supporting that interpretation (such as, for example, Julian Barbour does in The End of Time). In computer science, he moves too quickly in asserting (again without a full assessment) that the Turing Principle should be regarded as applying primarily to the creation of virtual reality (rather than just computation). Other than highlighting the computational component, he adds little in the discussion of evolution. And, finally, his discussion of epistemology, which is strong and well integrated with the other strands (e.g., a focus on the evolution of knowledge), is made to substitute for a more complete psychological and sociological understanding of the emergence of knowledge. Thus, overall, Deutsch inadvertently gives ample targets to his critics.

So, if you want an overview of settled knowledge, you should find another source. However, in a deeper sense, Deutsch is practicing his epistemology. As a Popperian, he believes that scientific progress is achieved through a process of conjecture and refutation. Accordingly, he does not try to ground and justify each assertion. He expects that to be accomplished through the larger scientific process of isolating and testing this overall conceptual framework. Rather, he is trying to sketch the broad outlines of an encompassing theory that can reinforce and strengthen each of its theoretical components.

In addition, and this is vital, he fully recognizes the importance of emergence in nature and history. He gives credit to the achievements of reductionist scientific strategies, but also understands and explains how and why such strategies will never suffice. Rather, they must work with a correlative strategy of identifying and comprehending the process of emergence in all its various forms.

Deutsch's convergence theory as it stands is not complete, and may be weak in spots, but it is certainly the most promising theory of scientific convergence of which I am aware. This contribution would seem to be a sufficient basis for highly recommending The Fabric of Reality.

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Really engrossing.......2007-06-07

It's amazing how little detective stories have changed in all the years since Sherlock Holmes appeared. I really like the stories, and the voices are great. There's about 200 miles of great entertainment on this 3-disk set.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

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The Adventure of the Dancing Men and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Four superb stories featuring the peerless sleuth and his faithful sidekick, Dr. Watson: "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," "The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans." Wonderful introduction to Holmes corpus; pocket-size treat for any mystery lover.

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quality.......2005-12-29

I believe that the Dancing Men is one of the best of Sherlock Holmes. It shows the deductive power of a detective to break a secret code with very little information.
Excellent book. Strongly recommended.

Genius.......1999-07-28

In my 16 years of existence, I have read the complete Sherlock Holmes 4 times, yet they still continue to amaze me. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a genius, and it shows through his whole series. This book combines 4 of the many great mysteries that make the Holmes legend live on. Definitely worth much more than the 80 cents!

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's puzzles are engrossing........1999-05-05

I have read the Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Dancing Men and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories and in all his stories he reveals that marvelous skill of deduction through keen observation. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is showing us through his writing how much information you can get about a person, place or thing just by observing it. I was amazed as to how he was able to discipher the code of the dancing men. Before he reveals the answer you should try to figure it out because it is possible.

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A Smile as Big as the Moon

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A Smile as Big as the Moon: A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp
Mike Kersjes , and Joe Layden
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Educating Exceptional Children

ASIN: 0312303149

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After reading an article on NASA's Space Camp, high school football coach and special education teacher Mike Kersjes de-cided that this program-where students undergo tests used to prepare astronauts for journeys on the space shuttle-was just the exper-ience his special education students needed. There was just one problem: convincing administrators, parents, and the students themselves that even with disabilities like Tourette syn-drome, Down syndrome, and dyslexia, they could succeed in a program originally designed for gifted students. With limitless faith in his students and unswerving persistence, Kersjes finally got his kids to Camp, where they turned in a performance no one will ever forget. Kersjes' story is one of determination and perseverance, of empowerment and empathy. This book is for anyone who likes to see the underdog triumph.

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A Smile as Big as the Moon.......2007-08-17

This is the first review I have written and I just wanted everyone to know what an unexpected treat this book was. I purchased the book at a $6.00 or less table at the local book store and in return laughed and cried. In my opinon, I recieved a great bargan. The writing was ok, which more than adequately got the message across because the children were the story, not the author, the teacher or even NASA. It is the power of the childrens' spirit that made you appreciate what is important and what is important that is hard earned relationships.

This is a great book!! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Great Read.......2007-04-17

As a parent of a child with Down Syndrome, I found this book exciting and encouraging. The power of purpose and positive thought is so essential to all children but especially to those with special needs.
Very inspiring and a great read, I will give this gift to friends and teachers.

A Smile as Big as the Moon.......2006-04-18

The book A Smile as Big as The Moon by Mike Kersjes is an inspiring story about a special ed class and their teacher Mike. This story inspired me even more to make an even bigger difference by being a special ed teacher and striving to be the best that I can be. I think that this book can be read and enjoyed by everyone, but I would mainly recommend this book to those of us who don't think that they can get by and are ready to give up. If the kids in the story can put their minds to it and get it done then so can you.

A Smile as Big as the Moon.......2006-04-18

This book was a great story of a special education class who attended the prestigious Space Camp in Alabama. This was a challenge to all in the class to succeed with this camp not only because it was a special education class but because everyone had doubt in them. They turned everyone's views around and performed beyond everyone's expectations. This book was very easy reading. I enjoyed every page! It was the type of book you can't put down.

A very Good Book for Educators.......2006-01-29

I am a Space Program Educator. This is a great, inspiring book. In fact I found this Book Translated into Chinese during my trip to Taiwan. Then I came back to buy the original copy. I was suprised how the program had inspired the children and people around them. The Program gave them confidence, dream, and the motivation to achieve something which is regard as "impossible" in the eye of the general public.

I had always think that those programs are designed for talented children, I have a different view now. All the educators should read it.

A Smile as Big as the Moon: A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp

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Mike; Layden, Joe Kersjes
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ASIN: B000OTONE6

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Since their formation seven years ago, the British firm Historic Flying has restored ten World War II-era Spitfires to flying condition. This full-colour chronicle follows the company's history from formation to the present, providing a blow-by-blow account of all their rebuilds and the various Spitfires involved.

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The most gorgeous aircraft graces the sky once again.......2000-07-31

I bought this book as I am a modeller, it sure was a good investment! It has great photos of the actual restoration process as well as a brief history of where these fabulous fighter came from. It also goes into great depth on the history on the spitfire and the differences between the different Mk's. So if you think your just a little bit interested, get this book and it will take the little out!

For Spitfire fun.......2000-05-21

This is an excellent book for Spitfire enthusiast like me. There are full of dreams such as rebuild and fly this world famous fighter. There are many clear photos to understand structure and detail of this elegant style plane. The explanation of rebuilding process and history of the plane is quite clear. Appendix of living Spitfire and Seafire is also usefull for your visit. If you like Spitfire, you certainly enjoy this book.

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Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century. The Silent Majority provides the first regionwide account of the suburbanization of the South from the perspective of corporate leaders, political activists, and especially of the ordinary families who lived in booming Sunbelt metropolises such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Richmond.

Matthew Lassiter examines crucial battles over racial integration, court-ordered busing, and housing segregation to explain how the South moved from the era of Jim Crow fully into the mainstream of national currents. During the 1960s and 1970s, the grassroots mobilization of the suburban homeowners and school parents who embraced Richard Nixon's label of the Silent Majority reshaped southern and national politics and helped to set in motion the center-right shift that has dominated the United States ever since.

The Silent Majority traces the emergence of a "color-blind" ideology in the white middle-class suburbs that defended residential segregation and neighborhood schools as the natural outcomes of market forces and individual meritocracy rather than the unconstitutional products of discriminatory public policies. Connecting local and national stories, and reintegrating southern and American history, The Silent Majority is critical reading for those interested in urban and suburban studies, political and social history, the civil rights movement, public policy, and the intersection of race and class in modern America.

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"Color-blind" Politics and Racial Segregation.......2007-08-22

Lassiter's book addresses the creation of contemporary Republican Party dominance in the South. Lassiter distinguishes the "Sunbelt" from the "South" on the basis of class and urbanization, but also history: the South is a complete society with a history going back to the 1600's, whereas the Sunbelt refers to recently developed, high-growth urban population centers. While the South comprises all classes, stata, subcultures, and races, the Sunbelt is specifically the new South of urban sprawl, suburbs, affluent regional immigrants, and (often) technology, finance, or mass retailing.

Specifically, the book addresses the urban legend that GOP operative Kevin Phillips won the South for the Republicans through a strategy of ostentatious appeals to racism. However, this question only dominates the preface and Chapter 10 (of a 12-chapter book); otherwise, the book is an outstanding study of the sociological divisions within a specific region of the Southeastern USA.

In particular, the book examines a period from around 1960 to 1975 when several policies of the New Deal came to fruition. During this period, Georgia and North Carolina (for example) experienced extremely rapid economic growth and something of a political thaw from the Talmadge & Shelby Dynasties. Federal programs, chiefly in defense and energy, stimulated manufacturing and research in the areas around Atlanta and Charlotte. In 1960, finally, Atlanta and Charlotte were associated with the "New South," in which White Power and paternalism were shunned by a cosmopolitan and business-oriented populace.

The wedge issue for these regions was the desegregation of the school districts. In 1959, the Open Schools Movement emerged to resist the scheme of closing all public schools (a scorched policy to resist desegregation, and the precursor to the "Voucher" schemes). The Open Schools Movement seldom or never endorsed the *Brown vs. [Topeka] Board of Education* decision (1954), but merely stuck to the position that compliance within the system of public schools was a practical necessity.

An important point that emerges from the complex struggles over desegregation, integration, and busing was that the affluent, managerial class of homeowners and voters (whose voting power and electoral influence far surpassed its actual numbers in the Southern cities) was opposed to the egregious racism of people like Wallace or Maddox, and insisted on colorblindness, attractive neighborhoods, safety, and "fairness" to [White] households living in the present day. Lassiter explains how the idealism and hope of the 1960's and '70's both enabled White acceptance of desegregation, and fueled the suburban sprawl that effectively restored segregation.

Definitely a first-rate, measured, and well-documented account of the era, with a strong focus on two specific cases studies (Atlanta and Charlotte).

Great Insight.......2007-02-11

Having had the opportunity to have learned from Lassiter at the University of Michigan, reading his book was quite a joy. Lassiter's insight and perspective on the growth of suburbia in the South and the move towards "color-blindness" as opposed to the racially conscious liberal movement offers a great theory that counters the somewhat accepted notion of individual racism as the driving force in the 1960s south. Really a great read for anyone interested in the subject, and even those who may not be as interested. Lassiter has a great way of writing that really makes this book readable.

The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South.(Book review): An article from: The Historian

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Timothy K. Kinsella
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The Silent Majority : Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)

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Matthew D. Lassiter
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As part of a global effort to identify those areas where conservation measures are needed most urgently, World Wildlife Fund has assembled teams of scientists to conduct ecological assessments of all seven continents. Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar is the latest contribution, presenting in a single volume the first in-depth analysis of the state of freshwater biodiversity across Africa, Madagascar, and the islands of the region. Looking at biodiversity and threats in terms of biological units rather than political units, the book offers a comprehensive examination of the entire range of aquatic systems.

In addition to its six main chapters, the book includes nineteen essays by regional experts that provide more depth on key issues, as well as six detailed appendixes that present summary data used in the analyses, specific analytical methodologies, and a thorough text description for each of Africa's ninety-three freshwater ecoregions.

Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar provides a blueprint for conservation action and represents an unparalleled guide for investments and activities of conservation agencies and donor organizations.

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