Inside the Celtic Tiger: The Irish Economy and the Asian Model (Contemporary Irish Studies)

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Glass Half Empty or Half Full?.......2001-07-26

Enjoyed this account of the Irish economy. There are some good insights into the nature of technology lead industrialization, and some of the distortions and exaggerations caused by such development. O'Hearn does a good job at deflating some of the euphoria over high tech in Ireland.

At the same time, the tone of pessimism pervading the book seems unwarranted. Multinational corporations (MNCs) are vilified, and even Singapore is criticized for adopting a similar model for national development. MNCs have real issues but on the whole deserve higher marks than what O'Hearn grants them. O'Hearn also bemoans that Irish workers are often assigned more mundane tasks like software localization, comparing the work to that of mind numbing sweatshops or assembly lines. Ireland's contributions to the IT industry should be a source of pride, and the opportunity to take leadership will arise as a natural outgrowth of the industry's voracious appetite for talent, just as advanced R&D has taken root in Israel, India, and other places.

Well written, balanced, and thought-provoking........1998-12-22

A well written, balanced, and thought-provoking account of the Irish economic phenomenon. Denis O'Hearn confirms that government intervention has played an important role in boosting Ireland's growth. The IDA's gamble in offering huge incentives to Intel to locate near Dublin, for instance, has paid off in a big way. But he tempers his analysis by drawing attention to the way that misleading GDP numbers have overstated the Irish economy's true rate of growth. Displaying an exceptionally well informed understanding of the East Asian tigers, he correctly concludes that Ireland's effort to build its economic prowess, while impressive by European standards, falls short in many respects compared to that of nations like Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea. Eamonn Fingleton, author of "In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, is the Key to Future Prosperity" ( to be published by Houghton Mifflin in June 1999).

Well written, balanced, and thought-provoking........1998-12-22

A well written, balanced, and thought-provoking account of the Irish economic phenomenon. O'Hearn confirms that government intervention has played an important role in boosting Ireland's growth. The IDA's gamble in offering huge incentives to Intel to locate near Dublin, for instance, has paid off in a big way. But he tempers analysis by drawing attention to the way that misleading GDP numbers have overstated the Irish economy's true rate of growth.

Eamonn Fingleton, author of "In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, is the Key to Future Prosperity" ( to be published by Houghton Mifflin in June 1999).

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A penetrating look at how government workers make sense of their work, ascribe identity to the people they encounter, and account for their decisions and actions

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The quantitative and informational characteristics of today's biomedical sciences have evolved so rapidly that students and scientists will increasingly use computers for calculation, sequence analyses, model-building, and testing hypotheses. The computer age has required biomedical workers to learn the steps involved in solving biomolecular calculations and to understand the theoretical basis of experimental procedures. This text does more than provide a catalog of biochemical calculations; in addition to showing how to perform certain calculations, it emphasizes mastery of basic theoretical and laboratory biomedical principles through the choice of topics and the inclusion of many review questions and problems. It has four sections, each with an interdisciplinary theme depicting the types of procedures used by practicing biomedical scientists. Some topics discussed may be found in textbooks of biology, general chemistry, mathematics, biochemistry, immunology, physical chemistry, statistics, or computer science. Whenever possible, recent applications of the procedures and computations in clinical, academic, industrial, and basic research laboratories are cited. This text also provides theoretical background and spreadsheet solutions in selected areas of the biomedical sciences and reflects the thinking, methods, instruments, and experimental strategies of today's practicing biomedical scientists. Ideal for upper level undergraduates and graduate students taking courses on laboratory methods and techniques in departments of biological sciences, biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology, and it may also serve as a guide for graduate students and laboratory assistants in a broad range of biomedical research activities.

Basic Biochemical Laboratory Procedures and Computing: With Principles, Review Questions, Worked Examples, and Spreadsheet Solutions

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Basic Biochemical Laboratory Procedures and Computing: With Principles, Review Questions, Worked Examples, and Spreadsheet Solutions
R. Cecil Jack
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: B000OKP5CY

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This volume describes the two main applications of plasma physics--laboratory research on thermo-nuclear fusion energy and plasma astrophysics of the solar system and stars and accretion disks--from the single viewpoint of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). This approach provides effective methods and insights for the interpretation of plasma phenomena on virtually all scales, ranging from the laboratory to the universe. The text will be of value to senior-level undergraduates and graduate students in physics, astrophysics and magnetohydrodynamics.

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excelent book.......2006-10-20

I am having this book as a textbook in a Space Plasma Physics Course. It is outstanding, and very helpful. I highly recommend it.

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The Tiger Killers is the second volume of a new translation of the Chinese classical novel generally known as The Water Margin. Like the first volume, The Broken Seals, it follows the fortunes of various outlaw heroes as they move through a world of treacherous officials, jealous toadies, bullying jailers, hired assassins, foolhardy generals and cannibalistic innkeepers.

This volume contains some of the most famous scenes in the novel, starting with the episode in which Wu Song gets drunk at the tavern, ascends the pass in late evening and kills a notorious man-eating tiger with his bare hands. His subsequent encounter with his midget brother's flirtatious wife, Jinlian or Golden Lotus, and her vain attempt to seduce him lead into a tale of adultery, callous murder and bloody vengeance. The second half of the book is concerned with Song Jiang's attempts to serve out his prison sentence honorably and avoid becoming an outlaw, until he is unjustly condemned to death for a misconstrued poem. Towards the end of this volume we meet the violent Li Kui, variously known as Iron Ox or Black Whirlwind, who also turns out to have a way with tigers. This volume consists of chapters 23 to 43 of the full 120-chapter version of the novel by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong. It is the first English translation based on this version.

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A Chinese Classic Brilliantly Translated to English.......2005-01-09

The Marshes of Mount Liang is one of the great works of ancient Chinese literature. The father and son team of John and Alex Dent-Young have done a brilliant job of translating the Shui-hu Zhuan by the 14th century author Shi Nai-an from ancient Chinese into contemporary English. Although this is the 2nd volume of the 5 volume book, this review easily applies to all 5 volumes. The novel is set around 1100 during the Northern Song Dynasty. The story revolves around 108 heroes from throughout China who fall afoul of the law or the corrupted law, as the emperor is surrounded by evil and malicious advisors. The series describes how each of the herores makes his way to the Marshes of Mount Liang, a giant outlaw sanctuary. The theme is that the heroes would like to serve the emperor (who himself as the son of Heaven is blameless), but the Imperial Court is infested with corrupt vermin. The first half of this series describes the gathering together of these heroes. There are a number of adventures after all have reached the marshes and are seeking the Imperial Pardon. And then after they are pardoned, that last book deals with their work under the emperor and the ill fates that happen to many of the party. Besides creating a translation that flows very smoothly (despite being over 2000 pages in all 5 volumes), the Dent-Youngs have used epithets and nicknames for the Heroes (e.g., Twin Rods, the Monk, Opportune Rain, White Water Dragon, etc.) that make it much easier for English speakers to follow the actions of the different heroes. Otherwise, it would be like sorting out the characters of a Tolstoy novel, but worse. Another plus to the translators is that they have not shied away from the cannibalism, crude language and other violent descriptions that previous translators had felt necessary to edit out. I have read all 5 volumes and heartily recommend them all!

Interesting work by the translation isn't top notch.......2003-09-17

The novel is no doubt one of the great masterpieces of Chinese literature. Yet, the tranlsation isn't that well executed and much of the original flavor has been lost in the process. Quite a pity.

Wonderful Tales.......2000-01-17

This wonderful and amazing book should delight anyone who has any interest in China, and perhaps even a great many who don't, so long as they have at least a sense of humor and a sense of adventure. Here, in relatively short, action-packed chapters, a large cast of well-defined characters, with nicknames such as "Iron Ox" (a.k.a. "The Black Whirlwind"), "Bee Sting Huang," "The Three-Inch Poxy Midget," "Short-Arse Wang," "The Magic Messenger," and "The Opportune Rain," to name a few, hurry you irresistibly along through stories of heroic combat, political intrigue, judicial corruption, last-minute rescue from execution, drunken brawling, adultery, revenge, murder, cannibalism, you name it. The book amuses your sense of adventure in a subtler sense, too, in that you get caught up in time travel and experiences of cultural difference and strangeness that make this narrative unlike anything you've ever read before--really one of a kind.

In terms of style, for example, the translators have worked hard to give you a feel for how perhaps this "novel," a vast collection of diverse tales, was originally derived from or always close to conventions of oral storytelling: characters are dismissed from the scene with verbal formulas like "we say no more of him"; the audience is sometimes primed for action, like a barehanded fight with a tiger, with the comment, "it's slow in the telling, but it happens in a flash"; and the storyteller/narrator sometimes draws himself up to deliver a short, often humorous poem to commemorate or point the moral to what you feel must have been a familiar tale to the audience. The greatest triumph of the book for me, though, in terms of style--and it's certainly related to this matter of oral storytelling--is that the characters, all of whom have plenty to say out loud, speak in distinct styles or accents: colloquial and even slangy for low-life types and the rough-and-ready sense of manliness many of the characters aim to project, but sometimes almost comically formal and elaborate in scenes where characters meet and strive to outdo each other in politeness and a sense of honor.

In terms of what's happening, too, you are carried away into a wonderfully unfamiliar world. Take this matter of the cannibalism, for example, which has often been suppressed in earlier translations of this ancient saga. In their little shop of horrors, the inn by the great tree at Crossways Rise, Zhang Qing, "The Gardener," and his wife, Sister Sun, "The Ogress," drug the wine of hapless travelers, chop up the hefty ones for sale as buffalo meat to people thereabouts, and "turn the skinny ones into mince meat for pie fillings." When Wu Song, one of the heroes of the tale, rescues himself from an attempt by "The Ogress" to carve him up, "The Gardener" realizes they're dealing with someone special, someone with The Right Stuff, Chinese style: he bows to Wu Song, prostrates himself and loudly regrets that his wife "couldn't see what was staring her in the face." The hero, "seeing the husband's manner was so correct," not only releases "The Ogress," but laughs it up with both of them and joins them in a feast (not on mince pies). "The Gardener," to make conversation, says he has to be careful about whom he kills. If he and his wife were "to meddle with"--that is, make mince pies out of--any of the young women who make their living as traveling performers, for example, word might get out and someone "might proclaim it from the stage" that he's no "gentleman." Wow, what an insult! And what an injustice! The incongruities here seem to me wild and funny. But the underlying truth, I suppose, is that we're traveling, as readers, through a world whose values differ from our own in ways that often amuse, sometimes shock, and (at least for me) always fascinate. "Murder one can forgive," as one of the heroes elsewhere says, proverbially, expecting everyone to nod in agreement, "but not an insult to one's feelings." Oh? How would that play in Peoria?

Some readers of this review may be put off by observing that the present volume is the second in John and Alex Dent-Young's on-going translation of this classical Chinese narrative, the SHUIHU ZHUAN, more generally known in the West as THE WATER MARGIN. The first volume, which they title THE BROKEN SEALS, is also in print with the same publisher, of course; but the important thing to say in the present context is that this second volume stands very well on its own, and in fact contains some of the most famous and arresting episodes. For "episodic" is the right way to describe it, I think. The book as a whole (I'm waiting for their translation of the rest of it!) seems to have a large, wave-like rhythm, as these ambiguous outlaw-heroes, outcasts in a divinely inspired but humanly corrupt imperial system, full of toadies, hypocrites and cowardly cheats, gradually converge on a mountain stronghold near the marshes of Mt. Liang. But the real fascination and life of the book for me are more immediate: they lie in the moment-by-moment rendering of the characters and their actions, narrated in this new translation with unmatched vigor, humor and colloquial ease; the insights you get into daily life of Chinese peddlers, soldiers, petty bureaucrats, bawds, outcasts, gentlemen, and countless others; and (as I've suggested) the really absorbing experience you get of seeing what very different things people from another culture--and not only, I suspect, in days gone by--cherish or take for granted. Treat yourself to a classic but completely novel novel!

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The New Leviathan, originally published in 1942, a few months before the author's death, is the book which R. G. Collingwood chose to write in preference to completing his life's work on the philosophy of history. It was occasioned by the Second World War and the threat which Nazism and Fascism constituted to civlization. The book draws upon many years of work in moral and political philosophy and attempts to establish the multiple and complex connections between the levels of consciousness, society, civilization, and barbarism. Collingwood argues that traditional social contract theory has failed to account for the continuing existence of the non-social community and its relation to the social community in the body politic. He is also critical of the tendency within ethics to confound right and duty. The publication of 120 pages of additional manuscript material in this revised edition demonstrates in more detail how Collingwood was determined to show that right and duty occupy different levels of rational practical consciousness. The additional writings also contain Collingwood's unequivocal rejection of relativism. David Boucher's introduction shows that The New Leviathan and The Idea of History are integrally related and that neither can be properly understood independently of the other. He is also concerned to show how many of Collingwood's ideas have a contemporary relevance, and that his ideas on barbarism are not so unusual as they might at first appear. 'A strange and fascinating book . . . The publication of this handsome new edition of The New Leviathan . . . is a welcome event.' Political Studies 'In his respectful and informative introduction David Boucher shows how The New Leviathan and the additional material appended to it fit in with Collingwood's thought as a whole.' History of Political Thought 'Throughout, the Introduction displays Boucher's usual mastery of the material, serious and probing approach, and judicious appraisal.' Collingwood Studies

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R. G. Collingwood.......2004-02-26

This is the book you want to read about Politics, Human Relations and Civilization by one of the great philosophers of our time.

Highly Recommended.

Profound Analysis of History, Society and Civilization.......2004-02-26

The terse style of this book, written in numbered paragraphs, accents the rigorous thought and analysis. This is the epitome of 40 years of prolific work in all the subject areas covered, by one of the most original minds of the past century. The short history of philosophy should go -- Plato -- Kant -- Collingwood.

The book is an apology (in the classic sense of that term) for Civilization. Here is an example of his style and what you can expect:

New Leviathan 37.18: "The will to civilization is the will to earn one's own self-respect and the respect of the other members of one's own community; and this is done (36.93) by the sheer exercise of will, joining with these others to do something about the situation in which you find yourselves."

Very rewarding reading. Highly recommended.

The New Leviathan : Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism

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The New Leviathan : Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism
R. G. Collingwood
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press(UK)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKTVKG

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New Leviathan or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism
R.G. Collingwood
Manufacturer: OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000STFB98

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The New Leviathan Or, Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism
R. G. Collingwood
Manufacturer: Oxford U. Press 1944 (1942)
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000R7X7J2

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This is the first major study of the Nuer based on primary research since Evans-Pritchard's classic Nuer Religion. It is also the first full-length historical study of indigenous African prophets operating outside the context of the world's main religions, and as such builds on
Evans-Pritchard's pioneering work in promoting collaboration and dialogue between the disciplines of anthropology and history. Prophets first emerged as significant figures among the Nuer in the nineteenth century. They fashioned the religious idiom of prophecy from a range of spiritual ideas, and
enunciated the social principles which broadened and sustained a moral community across political and ethnic boundaries. Douglas Johnson argues that, contrary to the standard anthropological interpretation, the major prophets' lasting contribution was their vision of peace, not their role in war.
This vision is particularly relevant today, and the book concludes with a detailed discussion of events in the Sudan since independence in 1956, describing how modern Nuer, and many other southern Sudanese, still find the message of the nineteenth-century prophets relevant to their experiences in
the current civil war.

Nuer Prophets: A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

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Nuer Prophets: A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Douglas H. Johnson
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKYIMC

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The Ultimate Test - 8yr old Grandson.......2000-06-28

I gave this book to my 8yr old Grandson on an outing with Grandma this past week. I handed it to him as we began our 35 min trip by car. He leafed slowly through the pages and for the next 20 mins. we discussed each image.

The author chose to color the images which makes it easier to identify each object relative to the text. And makes it fun to look at. However, one or two actual grayscale photos with arrows would have been nice. I kept wanting to explain to him that the carpet beetle wasn't really day-glo colors, etc. Hopefully, the next book out in hardcover will show a few real images. For the adults, I'll add that my engineer at home enjoyed the photos as well.

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Dirt and Grime, Like You'Ve Never Seen (Like You've Never Seen!)
Vicki Cobb
Manufacturer: Sagebrush Education Resources
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0613076230

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This book introduces readers to the important concepts for understanding the environmental challenges and consequences of the declining diversity of life on the planet. Contributions from scientists, and academics in the social sciences and humanities provide readers with an initial tool kit for understanding the concepts central to their disciplinary perspective and the multi-dimensional aspects of the loss of biodiversity.

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Loss of Biodiversity.......2004-05-24

The book deals with the multi-dimensional aspects of the loss of biodiversity. Where biologists consider loss of biodiversity generally as the reduction in the number of species in an ecosystem due to habitat fragmentation, unsustainable land use and related subjects, this book puts loss of biodiversity in a wider perspective. Issues as the ethical perspectives, environmental economics, politics and policymaking, and international cooperation on the loss of biodiversity are raised. All issues are illustrated by examples from practice. Unfortunately most examples are from the U.S., where the majority of the biodiversity hotspots lie in the tropics. The topics raised above might work out differently in these regions of the world. Nevertheless interesting subjects to consider when studying biodiversity and it's rapid loss of it.

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The Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss

Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1853836990

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The world is losing species and biodiversity at a rate unprecedented in history. The causes go deep, and the losses are driven by a complex array of social, economic, political and biological factors at different levels. Immediate causes, such as overharvesting, pollution and habitat change, have been well studied. But the socio-economic factors driving people to degrade their environment are less well understood.
This book examines the underlying causes. It provides analyses of a range of case studies around the world and integrates them into a new and interdisciplinary framework for understanding what is happening. From these results, the editors are able to derive policy conclusions and recommendations, for operational and institutional approaches to address the 'root causes' and reverse the current trends.
It makes an invaluable contribution to the understanding of all those - from ecologists and conservationists to economists and policy makers - working on one of the major challenges we face. Published in association with WWF

Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Fragmented forest Landscapes: The forests of Montane Mexico and Temperate South America (Cabi International)

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Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Fragmented forest Landscapes: The forests of Montane Mexico and Temperate South America (Cabi International)

Manufacturer: CABI
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Increasing concern surrounding the loss of natural forests and the decline in biodiversity has lead to a rise in research and policy initiatives in recent years. However, interest has focused primarily on lowland tropical rainforests. Tropical montane and temperate rainforests, which face
similar pressures from human activities and play major roles in the livelihood of rural communities, are often ignored.

Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Fragmented Forest Landscapes is the product of over ten years of intensive field research into the changing montane and temperate rainforests of Mexico and South America. By concentrating on these largely overlooked environments, the studies reported allow for
comparative analysis across areas and help identify how human disturbance has impacted the biodiversity of all forest types. Chapters incorporate features of landscape ecology, floristic biodiversity, conservation and policy and vary from in-depth investigations of a single study area to integrated
examinations across regions.

Biodiversity Loss: Economic and Ecological Issues

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Biodiversity Loss: Economic and Ecological Issues

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521588669

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This important book reports the findings of a research program that brought together economists and ecologists to consider the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss. It shows that while the immediate causes of biodiversity loss lie in habitat destruction and harvesting, the underlying causes are incentives that encourage resource users to ignore the effects of their actions. These effects include both loss of genetic material, and the collapse of ecosystem resilience--our "insurance" against the fundamental uncertain effects of economic and population growth. The "solutions" are argued to lie in the reform of incentives.

Biosphere: Ecosystems and Biodiversity Loss (Our Fragile Planet)

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Biosphere: Ecosystems and Biodiversity Loss (Our Fragile Planet)
Dana Desonie
Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
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ASIN: 0816062196

Conservation and Biodiversity (Exploring the Loss of Biological Diversity)

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Conservation and Biodiversity (Exploring the Loss of Biological Diversity)
Andrew P. Dobson
Manufacturer: Scientific American
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ASIN: B000QGZQGG

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As species disappear at an unprecedented rate, scientists work to conserve the Earth's biodiversity. In Conservation and Biodiversity, Andrew Dobson looks at the current state of endangered species management, exploring the economics of different conservation techniques and the practical possibilities for using the environment while sustaining it. Filled with case studies, it is a compelling investigation into a wide range of issues, from the ivory trade in elephants to the sale of rhino horns, from the function of zoos to the reintroduction of species to the wild. Conservation And Biodiversity introduces readers to problems, both scientific and economic, of quantifying the magnitude and value of biodiversity. What really is the extent of biodiversity loss and how does one go about figuring it out? Why is biodiversity valuable for the earth and ourselves, what can be done to conserve it? Dobson gives clear answers in this beautifully illustrated book. Conservation And Biodiversity offers a lucid explanation of how current extinction rates are figured and how species endangerment is determined. He also offers fascinating insights into managing endangered species and the economics of different conservation strategies. Filled with vivid case studies, Dobson cites the changes in animal populations before and after management attempts. Highly recommended!

Biodiversity good enough to eat.: An article from: E

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Biodiversity good enough to eat.: An article from: E
Andre Carothers
Manufacturer: Earth Action Network, Inc.
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00092KUYK
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on August 1, 1994. The length of the article is 750 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.

From the supplier: The the lack of biodiversity in food staples, with corn, rice and wheat providing 50% of those consumed, threatens future supplies as there needs to be alternatives if diseases or pests attack crops. New organizations are seeking to preserve rare seeds and promote the consumption of alternative grains.

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Title: Biodiversity good enough to eat.
Author: Andre Carothers
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 1994
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
Volume: v5 Issue: n4 Page: p64(1)

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Commission proposes new EU plan to halt biodiversity loss.(European Union): An article from: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

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Commission proposes new EU plan to halt biodiversity loss.(European Union): An article from: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy
Gale Reference Team
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This digital document is an article from Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 776 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: Commission proposes new EU plan to halt biodiversity loss.(European Union)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Page: 89(2)

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Desperately seeking numbers: global warming, species loss, and the use and abuse of quantification in climate change policy analysis.(response to article ... from: University of Pennsylvania Law Review

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Desperately seeking numbers: global warming, species loss, and the use and abuse of quantification in climate change policy analysis.(response to article ... from: University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Jason Scott Johnston
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This digital document is an article from University of Pennsylvania Law Review, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2007. The length of the article is 10764 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: Desperately seeking numbers: global warming, species loss, and the use and abuse of quantification in climate change policy analysis.(response to article by Wayne Hsiung and Cass Sunstein in this issue, p. 1697)
Author: Jason Scott Johnston
Publication: University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 155 Issue: 6 Page: 1901(24)

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Does specialization explain rarity and decline among British bumblebees? A response to Goulson et al. [An article from: Biological Conservation]

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Does specialization explain rarity and decline among British bumblebees? A response to Goulson et al. [An article from: Biological Conservation]
P. Williams
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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, 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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Recent studies of British bumblebees have proposed a seemingly simple explanation for the decline in some species: that greater dietary specialization among the rarer species has put them at greater risk. However, comparisons of dietary specialization require: (1) that bees have access to the same dietary options among which to make their choices; (2) that the differing relative breadths of dietary choices made are not obscured by the differing sample sizes among bee species. Using one of the few suitable data sets, I find no evidence for a relationship between, on the one hand, rarity or declines in British bumblebees and, on the other, their dietary breadths, the strengths of their dietary preferences, or their proboscis lengths (which influence dietary choices). In contrast, there is support for a relationship between rarity or declines within Britain and the sizes of species' European ranges, particularly when these measures are adjusted to represent their ranges near sea level. Adjusted range sizes may reflect overall niche breadth and perhaps climatic and habitat specialization. This is not to say that climate change is the driving factor for declines or that changing food-plant availability is unimportant, but that climatic and habitat specialization may be a better indicator of risk of decline, which deserves further study.

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