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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the legislation and the issues surrounding animals, from laws concerning both domesticated and wild animals to the regulatory agencies that administer them, and the groups that fight for the proper treatment of animals. Entries include dolphins, kosher slaughter, patenting animals, fur farming, hunting, Marine Mammal Protection Act, vivisection, Liberation Front, zoos, and more. Other coverage focuses on landmark legal cases and such well-known figures in the animal rights movement as Cleveland Amory and Ingrid Newkirk. Includes bibliography and index.

International Wildlife Trade: A Cites Sourcebook

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ASIN: 1559633484

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For more than two decades, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as CITES, has been one of the largest and most effective conservation agreements in the world. By regulating international commerce in certain species - from African elephants and exotic birds to hardwoods and bulbs - the treaty limits trade in species that are in genuine need of protection while allowing controlled trade in species that can withstand some level of exploitation.

In addition to explaining how CITES operates, this definitive reference includes:

the full text of the CITES treaty
CITES Appendices I, II, and III
a list of Parties as of March 1994
a list of reservations by Parties as of October 1993

Chapters address the status of highly threatened species such as elephants, rhinos, and tigers as well as other heavily exploited species including parrots, primates, and bears.

International Wildlife Trade provides a valuable overview of wildlife trade issues, and of the strengths and weaknesses of the current treaty.

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At the present time, the average undergraduate mathematics major finds mathematics heavily compartmentalized. After Calculus, students take courses in analysis and algebra, and depending on their interest, they take courses in special topics. If the student is exposed to topology, it is usually straightforward point set topology; if the student is exposed to geometry, it is usually classical differential geometry.

These notes are an attempt to break up this compartmentalization, at least in topology-geometry. What the student has learned in algebra and advanced calculus are used to prove some fairly deep results relating geometry, topology and group theory. The material studied includes De Rhams's theorem, the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for surfaces, the functional relation of fundamental group to covering space, and surfaces of constant curvature as homogeneous spaces.

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Concise and modern.......2004-06-07

First, a small carp at Amazon: The book has two authors and since John Thorpe is the junior and by far the less famous, I suspect that he actually did most of the writing. Please give him his due!

This is a very dense book. While this makes for rough sledding for the first timer, it's also an exciting introduction to modern topology and geometry and a good first step for those interested in such things in physics as gauge theories and superstrings. It's worth the effort.

Starting with the basics of set theory, the first couple chapters take the reader through point set topology. The next couple chapters introduce algebraic topology. The rest of the book is about the algebraic topology of differentiable manifolds and a very clean, modern introduction to the classical differential geometry of surfaces. The only caveat is, as Spivak says, "a weird proof of the de Rham theorem" in Chapter 6. I'm torn about this. The proof in Warner's "Foundations of Differentiable Manifold and Lie Groups" is much cleaner and better lends itself to other applications, but involves lots of machinery. The proof in Singer and Thorpe is a lot less elegant, using the lowest level tools possible. This makes the learning curve shorter and may make the theorem more clear, but may also obscure the big picture. Much of the important work in algebraic topology over the next 20 years and theoretical physics up to now is related to this result. Though much of this work was developed by Singer with his collaborater Michael Atiyah, their approach is closer to Warner's than to that in Singer and Thorpe.

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This volume contains the work of the great Swiss mathematician on differential geometry, a field marked by some of his greatest achievements. Between 1690 and 1700, Jacob Bernoulli published twelve treatises in the scientific journal Acta Eruditorum on the use of infinitesimal methods to answer geometrical questions. Preparatory notes for most of these papers and on many other themes are found in Bernoulli's scientific diary Meditationes, from which twentynine texts are published here for the first time. Among the curves considered are the isochrones (lines of constant descent), the parabolic spiral, the loxodrome, the cycloid, the tractrix, and the logarithmic spiral (Bernoulli's spira mirabilis, which also adorns his tombstone). The description of these curves by differential equations and by geometrical constructions, their rectification and quadrature, and the determination of their evolutes and caustics offered Bernoulli and his colleagues a range of challenging problems, many of them relevant for mechanical or optical applications. The French mathematician André Weil, who lived in the United States until his recent death, has greatly influenced 20th century mathematics, among other things, as a founding member of the Bourbaki group. For many years he has pursued intensive studies of the history of mathematics, especially number theory and algebraic geometry. Weil's introduction to this volume places Jacob Bernoulli's contribution to differential geometry in a line of development from Descartes, Huygens and Barrow through Newton's und Leibniz's epochal innovations right up to the codification of the subject by Euler. Martin Mattmüller, secretary of the Bernoulli Edition at Basel, edited the source text. His commentaries consider particular topics in differential geometry with reference to their historical context at the end of the 17th century.

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Differentialgeometrie
Bernhard Baule
Manufacturer: VERLAG VON S. HIRZEL IN LEIPZI
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Differentialgeometrie und Minimalflächen

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Differentialgeometrie und Minimalflächen
Jost-Hinrich Eschenburg , and Jürgen Jost
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ASIN: 3540222278

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Das vorliegende Lehrbuch bietet eine moderne Einführung in die Differentialgeometrie etwa im Umfang einer einsemestrigen Vorlesung. Zunächst wird die Geometrie von Flächen im Raum behandelt. Hierbei wird die geometrische Anschauung des Lesers anhand vieler Beispiele gefördert, deren wichtigste Klasse die Minimalflächen bilden. Zu ihrem Studium werden analytische Methoden entwickelt, und in diesem Zusammenhang wird auch das Plateausche Problem, eine Minimalfläche mit vorgegebener Berandung zu finden, gelöst. Als Beispiel einer globalen Aussage der Differentialgeometrie wird der Bernsteinsche Satz bewiesen. Weitere Kapitel behandeln die innere Geometrie von Flächen, einschließlich des Satzes von Gauss-Bonnet und einer ausführlichen Darstellung der hyperbolischen Geometrie. Verschiedene geistesgeschichtliche Bemerkungen runden diesen Text ab, welcher durch seine Verbindung von geometrischen Konstruktionen und analytischen Methoden einem zentralen Trend der modernen mathematischen Forschung folgt.

Für die Neuauflage wurde der Text in Zusammenarbeit mit J.-H. Eschenburg überarbeitet und aktualisiert.

Differentialgeometrie. Kurven - Flächen - Mannigfaltigkeiten.

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Differentialgeometrie. Kurven - Flächen - Mannigfaltigkeiten.
Wolfgang Kühnel
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Differentialgeometrie. Kurven und Flächen.

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Differentialgeometrie. Kurven und Flächen.
Volkmar Wünsch
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Eine Vorlesung uber Differentialgeometrie (Heidelberger Taschenbucher, Bd. 107)

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Eine Vorlesung uber Differentialgeometrie (Heidelberger Taschenbucher, Bd. 107)
Wilhelm Klingenberg
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ASIN: 354006253X

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Since the discovery of endothelin, major advances have been made in understanding the molecular structure and function of the endothelin receptors. At least two subtypes of receptors, designated ETA and ETB, have been identified through biochemical and pharmacological techniques. These subtypes are cloned and expressed and additional subtypes appear to exist. The biochemical events involved in the signal transduction processes that ultimately activate the cellular machinery involved in the end-organ responses are presented, as are the mechanisms by which the receptors recognize specific and different G-proteins. Functions mediated by the receptors at the cellular, tissue and, organ level are reviewed in detail, as well as the roles that they may play a part in the physiologic and pathophysiologic processes in animals and in humans. This book is unique in its breadth of scope. The most recent and important advances, from the intracellular level of the nucleus to the functional effect that endothelin receptors mediate in intact organs, are compiled and reviewed.

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Good place to start.......2001-01-13

I found this book a good fundamental starting point for understanding endothelin biology. As with all the CRC books, this one is very well referenced. Although in 2001 it is a few years out of date, I still found it to provide a wide range of foundational information on the field.

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A unique look at some of the hottest topics in photophysics and photochemistry today

The study of molecules in excited states has exploded over the past decade, providing new insights into conformational changes in organic molecules and opening up research opportunities for scientists and professionals in chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, and materials engineering.

Using conformational analysis as a unifying concept, this important new work provides readers with a cohesive and cutting-edge overview of this fascinating and challenging field. From conformational changes accompanying photoinduced electron transfer to elementary photophysical and photochemical processes in living systems, the most representative and challenging topics are carefully gleaned from the vast literature, highlighting major conceptual problems along with the relevant experimental techniques. Authoritative, detailed contributions from both experimentalists and theoreticians include coverage of:
* Conformational changes in intramolecular excited state electron transfer
* Conformational aspects of excited state proton transfer
* The novel topic of solute-solvent friction in chemical reactions
* Mechanisms and structural aspects of exciplex formations
* Conformational aspects of organic photochemistry
* Calculations of excited state conformational properties

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Captivating and disturbing

a tremendously disturbing novel with strong emotional impact

One Pill Makes You Smaller, but Alice was Already Small

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One Pill Makes You Smaller: A Novel
Lisa Dierbeck
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Set in the bell-bottomed, experimental 1970s, Lisa Dierbeck's debut novel, One Pill Makes You Smaller, features a smart, young protagonist on a long, strange trip. As if she consumed a cake marked "Eat Me," Alice Duncan feels monstrously tall for her age. At 11 years old she stands 5'7" and fully developed, and beautiful too. Alice wants people to notice her collage artwork, but seems only to attract the sort of attention she's too young to know what to do with.

Borrowing from Lewis Carroll's classic, Dierbeck sends Alice on a similarly startling and surreal journey--spooky and compelling and drug-filled like the Jefferson Airplane song based on the same book. Alice's parents are as absent as those in the original story, leaving her under the care of her coke-snorting teenage half-sister, Aunt Esme. The rabbit hole in this case is The Balthus Institute, a dilapidated summer camp in North Carolina where Aunt Esme sends Alice so she can pursue a rock star in Los Angeles. Upon arrival Alice discovers that Balthus is less an art institute than a mental institution, populated by a tiny assemblage of strange and threatening inhabitants. Arrogant twin sisters take the place of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and the Cheshire Cat appears in the form of grinning J.D., a drug dealer and seducer who leads Alice down a dangerous path. By the end of her harrowing journey, not even a bottle marked "Drink Me" could bring back Alice's lost innocence. A convincing, disturbing read. --Brangien Davis

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Eleven-year-old Alice Duncan has a problem: her body is, literally, growing up too fast. Gawky, innocent, and tongue-tied, Alice is taller than her teachers, with long, long legs and a voluptuous chest she refers to it as 'The Breasts.' One Pill Makes You Smaller brings to life the surreal experience of being a girl-stuck in a woman's body. Dierbeck shoots down the rabbit hole of 1970s misbehavior, combining her modern tale with the fantastic universe of Alice in Wonderland, set in the black-lit, drug-infested art world of Andy Warhol's Manhattan. When Alice is shipped off to a freethinking art camp in North Carolina, she encounters J.D., a sweet-talking adult man who engages her in a dangerous flirtation. This deliciously pop, self-assured debut is an inspired paean to lost innocence.

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what did I miss?.......2005-06-24

I don't remember the 70's as being as spectacular as the author depicts it, but apparently some of the themes in this book are similar to what the author experienced when she was growing up. She said that she developed breasts at the age of 8 and went through embarrassing situations.

Whatever...so book basically centers around the 11 year old Alice and her 'womanly' body and J.D., a drug dealer who wants nothing than to seduce Alice. The art pretext is just something to fill up the book and give Alice a reason to be in J.D.'s universe.

I found J.D. to be annoying at best. Much of the dialogue is annoying. For example:
"Are you even listening?" said J.D. He sounded upset.
"Who are They?" Alice asked.
"Who are who?" said J.D.
"You said They got to me. They taught me. Who are they?"

If you like listening to two stoned people talk while you're straight, then this is the book for you.

J.D., Rabbit and Crash Omaha are the kind of sleazy guys that must have been running amok during the 70's. They're all about getting girls to do things they don't want to do. Alice and Aunt Esme apparently hadn't heard of the women's movement because they give in to everything and everyone. It's a bit depressing.

J.D. in particular spends most of his time convincing Alice to do things. It takes many pages of inane dialogue to get her to give in. For the stoner he is, I'm surprised he has the energy.
If J.D. existed today he would be considered a homeless, slacker pedophile.

Captivating and disturbing .......2005-03-04

I was hooked into this book by the end of the first chapter. I saw Lisa Dierbeck read from this book, and was so curious, I bought it the next day. It did not disappoint.

Instead of giving you a synopsis of the book, I'm just going to say that it is most definitely worth reading. Some parts make you cringe, and some make you blush. VERY well-written and effective. I loved it.

a tremendously disturbing novel with strong emotional impact.......2004-10-05

Reviewed by Katherine Darnell for Small Spiral Notebook

A haunting meditation on innocence lost amidst the heedless 1970's, One Pill Makes You Smaller by Lisa Dierbeck focuses on the counter-culture fallout wrought on Alice, an eleven-year old girl raised in Manhattan. Dierbeck captures the energy and emotions of the 1970's with startling resonance. She evokes a time when everything was allowed, when parents felt free to abandon their children and seek their own more selfish joy, and teenagers looked to rock bands like Led Zeppelin for philosophy and life instruction. In Dierbeck's 70's, sexual permissiveness was deemed necessary exploration, it was argued by the culture to be something healthy and desired. Men and boys used this rationale to lure girls like Alice into sexual relationships they were too young to want and too scared and confused to speak out about, and Dierbeck painstakingly mines the treacherous horror fashioned at the hands of these predatory lotharios.

After her mother leaves to "pursue joy" and her father seeks refuge in a Connecticut mental hospital, Alice is left in the care of her half-sister, whom she calls Aunt Esme. In the history of literature, Aunt Esme surely ranks as amongst one of the most painfully ill prepared caretakers entrusted to monitor the safety of a child. While Aunt Esme is just a teenager herself, she is remarkably selfish and spends her days getting high with friends and lovers in her attic bedroom, which she has dubbed the "Dollhouse." Several of these lovers sexually abuse Alice, including the creepy hanger-on named Rabbit and a petulant rock star called Crash Omaha. After being sent to an art camp in North Carolina for the summer so that Aunt Esme can follow Crash Omaha to Los Angeles, Alice arrives to discover that the camp is barely operating, with only a skeleton staff and a handful of callous students in attendance. A sinister drug dealer named J.D. quickly slithers into Alice's life, engaging her in an ongoing debate about her innocence, sexuality, and adulthood that lasts throughout the rest of the novel, ultimately leading to a scene of drug-induced horror - a rabbit hole from which Alice will not emerge the same.

Using the outlines of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Dierbeck casts a mesmerizing sense of unreality to One Pill Makes You Smaller. She hews closely the characters and moods of the classic text, while reconfiguring it to suit the themes of her unique tale. Dierbeck has maintained the same sense of wonder combined with fear that Lewis Carroll so inventively created for his Alice, and yet Dierbeck confidently branches beyond Carroll's surreal characters, imbuing her spooky twins, mercurial rabbit, and grinning Cheshire with the concreteness and peculiarity needed to craft this fierce and haunting work of fiction. The reader never knows what twisted situation Alice might encounter around the next turn, and it is precisely this sense of adventure and trepidation that drives the narrative while also allowing the story to thoughtfully inquire into the dangerous nature of permissiveness and the dark side of freedom. Dierbeck has initiated great art from a wild time of heedless freedom, creating a tremendously disturbing novel with strong emotional impact.

One Pill Makes You Smaller, but Alice was Already Small.......2004-05-01

Pity poor Alice Duncan, an 11-year old trapped in her own body that is mature and developed beyond her years. It's the 70s, New York City. Her mother has run off, her father is recovering in an out-of-state institution. The only person left to care for Alice is her half-sister "Aunt" Esme, aged 16. At the start of the novel, Alice is observing Esme's decadence with two young men, one of whom periodically molests (and there is no other word for it, given her age) Alice. Alice eventually becomes kind of a drag for Esme, so she sends her off to art camp in the south where she meets another child molester, who is also a drug dealer. She somehow survives this all, including a 72 hour acid trip. This novel is a bizarre bildingsroman--where world crashes into girl. It is a disturbing, but oddly compelling story. Alice is a fascinating character, maybe a bit too passive at times, but she is 11. Her journey parallels that of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the other Alice from the Jefferson Airplane song. This novel isn't an uplifting read, but as I said before, it's strangely compelling and certainly won't bore you.

One Pill Makes You Smaller :.......2004-03-05

Lisa Dierbeck has created a modern classic..Very dry,very witty...
Very good
This is a razor sharp romp thru the excess of the 70's.Try this book!

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