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Nonlinear Modelling of High Frequency Financial Time Series Edited by Christian Dunis and Bin Zhou In the competitive and risky environment of today's financial markets, daily prices and models based upon low frequency price series data do not provide the level of accuracy required by traders and a growing number of risk managers. To improve results, more and more researchers and practitioners are turning to high frequency data. Nonlinear Modelling of High Frequency Financial Time Series presents the latest developments and views of leading international researchers and market practitioners, in modelling high frequency data in finance. Combining both nonlinear modelling and intraday data for financial markets, the editors provide a fascinating foray into this extremely popular discipline. This book evolves around four major themes. The first introductory section focuses on high frequency financial data. The second part examines the exact nature of the time series considered: several linearity tests are presented and applied and their modelling implications assessed. The third and fourth parts are dedicated to modelling and forecasting these financial time series.
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Best Practices for Food and Drug Law is an authoritative insider's perspective on the legal issues facing the food and drug industry including key elements of the FDA approval process, the political aspects involved, and other aspects of advising and representing regulated companies. Featuring department heads, group chairs, and leading partners representing some of the nation's top firms, this book provides a broad yet comprehensive overview of the practice of food and drug law, discussing the current shape and future state of guidelines for FDA approval from the founding doctrines to the pivotal cases of today. From the steps involved in modifying statutory interpretation to crucial tactics around counseling clients to be in compliance with FDA procedural regulations, these authors articulate the finer points around food and drug law now and what will hold true into the future. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today as experts offer up their thoughts around the keys to success within this fascinating practice area. Table of Contents: David G. Adams, Venable LLP Jerome H. Heckman, Keller and Heckman LLP Alan G. Minsk, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP Charles J. Raubicheck, Esq.,Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP Stanley H. Abramson, Arent Fox PLLC Richard M. Blau, GrayRobinson P.A. David Hoffmeister, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. Jan Murray, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. William W. Vodra, Arnold & Porter LLP
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Best Practices for Food and Drug Law is an authoritative insider's perspective on the legal issues facing the food and drug industry including key elements of the FDA approval process, the political aspects involved, and other aspects of advising and representing regulated companies. Featuring department heads, group chairs, and leading partners representing some of the nation's top firms, this book provides a broad yet comprehensive overview of the practice of food and drug law, discussing the current shape and future state of guidelines for FDA approval from the founding doctrines to the pivotal cases of today. From the steps involved in modifying statutory interpretation to crucial tactics around counseling clients to be in compliance with FDA procedural regulations, these authors articulate the finer points around food and drug law now and what will hold true into the future. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today as experts offer up their thoughts around the keys to success within this fascinating practice area. Table of Contents: David G. Adams, Venable LLP Jerome H. Heckman, Keller and Heckman LLP Alan G. Minsk, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP Charles J. Raubicheck, Esq.,Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP Stanley H. Abramson, Arent Fox PLLC Richard M. Blau, GrayRobinson P.A. David Hoffmeister, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. Jan Murray, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. William W. Vodra, Arnold & Porter LLP
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This book is the second major volume dealing with the fruit/seed/frugivore mutualism, which is an ecological interaction of profound importance in many habitats around the world. This mutualism is particularly well-developed in the tropics, where a majority of trees and shrubs depend on animals for their seed dispersal. Detailed studies of this interaction have only recently begun, and the field is in its infancy. Yet these studies are extremely important for an understanding of how complex ecosystems evolve, how they function, and how they must be managed to preserve their structure and function. Chapters in this book are written by many of the major researchers in the field and deal with the frugivory mutualism from both theoretical and applied perspectives. The book is rich in new details about fruits and frugivores stemming from a variety of observational and experimental approaches. It also contains examples of new empirical and theoretical approaches to studying the fruit-frugivore mutualism. Finally, it contains important new perspectives on the conservation implications of this mutualism. Because of its breadth and depth, this book is a valuable source of information for advanced as well as beginning students in ecology, evolution and conservation.
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In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity
"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village. Not the East Village in New York City where Nomi would prefer to live, but an oppressive town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada.
This darkly funny novel is the world according to the unforgettable Nomi, a bewildered and wry sixteen-year-old trapped in a town governed by fundamentalist religion and in the shattered remains of a family it destroyed. In Nomi's droll, refreshing voice, we're told the story of an eccentric, loving family that falls apart as each member lands on a collision course with the only community any of them have ever known. A work of fierce humor and tragedy by a writer who has taken the American market by storm, this searing, tender, comic testament to family love will break your heart.
"Miriam Toews has written a novel shot through with aching sadness, the spectre of loss, and unexpected humor.... It might seem an odd metaphor to use about someone who has authored such a vivid, anguished indictment of religious fundamentalism, but Miriam Toews writes like an angel." -David Rakoff, author of Fraud
"Nomi Nickel is a sassy 16-year-old whose mother and sister have bolted from their Mennonite community, leaving Nomi with her off-kilter father in a repressive town where rebellion is severely punished." -O, The Oprah Magazine
"Miriam Toews's brilliant third novel, A Complicated Kindness...is told in Nomi's cocky, brooding voice." -New York Times Book Review
"There have been a lot of Holden Caulfield knockoffs since 1951, but few authors have been as successful as J.D. Salinger in channeling adolescent angst in a way that's as charming as it is profound. Miriam Toews hits that elusive mark with her new novel. In fact, A Complicated Kindness just may be a future classic in its own right." -Philadelphia Inquirer
"At times [Nomi is] all bravado and sardonic wit regarding her faith, but beneath that is a 16-year-old who's spent sleepless nights praying for her family's salvation. By way of Jesus Christ or John Lennon, she's never quite sure." -Ruminator Review
"In Toews's canny hands, Nomi is as vivid and exasperating as any teenager running amok." -Seattle Times
"The wry 16-year-old, trapped in a tiny Mennonite community in southern Manitoba, earns readers' sympathy and adoration from her first angst-drenched rage." -Bloomsbury Review
"Offering incisive reflections on life, death and Lou Reed, the black-sheep Nomi is clearly wise beyond her years, and her voice is unique. The road to anywhere else may be rough for her, but her angst-ridden journey is unforgettable." -People Magazine
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More proof that life is a surrealist comedy!.......2007-05-13
I don't care for most Canadian fiction but this is a notable exception. Toews' novel is the type of book you CAN put down, but I mean that in a good way!
Classically alienated teenager Nomi's story is told in a series of vignettes, and an in unusually slow pace at that. HOWEVER...there are such PILES of startling poetic images in every chapter that that a patient reader will get many rewards along the way.
It's a case of, do you enjoy a fast-paced, whirlwind of a novel or do you like a more subtle character study? This is the latter. If you prefer to savour rather than tear through a story, you'll like this a lot. Toews is very, very good (alternately funny and heartbreaking), and I can't imagine anybody else sustaining a series of vignettes nearly this well. This is one that creeps up on you; you'll still be thinking about it a week or two later!
Rebel angels.......2006-12-28
Nomi, the first person narrator, is growing up in an isolated Mennonite community in Manitoba. They apparently drive cars and use electricity but are sufficiently distinctive that tourists come to photograph them. (She has great fun mocking the attitudes of the tourists.) There's a lot of interesting background information about Amish and Hutterite sects, which show remarkable parallels to Jewish orthodox and Hasidic groups.
Nomi recklessly defies all the rules and leads a life more untrammeled than she probably would have been able to do in her longed-for New York City. Her family ultimately breaks up because the rebellious ways of some of its members result in the community inflicting the punishment of "shunning" which causes them to have to choose between obeying the religious rules and maintaining contact with the shunned.
It challenged comparison with two other books I had recently read about girls growing up in religious groups circumscribed by religiously based restrictions. Those were Pearl Abrahams' "Romance Reader" and Kelly Kerney's "Born Again." All three are great books, and all are deliciously funny at some points. I thought Kerney's was the best. That's to some extent because Kerney is such a great prose writer, but also because her plot centers on the issue of the belief itself rather than just the restrictive social conventions it imposes. The central issue for Kerney is whether to believe or not believe. The central issue for Toews and Abrahams is whether to conform or not conform.
Complicated indeed.......2006-07-12
After finishing this novel, you may ask yourself: "where on earth is the kindness in this story?"
It is a complicated tale about the mennonite teenage girl Nomi, who lives in a strict religious community in Canada. All members of the community has to follow the rules of the founder of the mennonite religion, but Nomi cannot accept that. All through the book there is a feeling of Nomi not knowing herself, that she does many things against the religious rules.
The story is full of 'weird' characters, but they are never describes as weird, it seems like 'weird' characters in the small town are pretty normal.
The kindness part does materialize itself after giving the book's ending a few thoughts, and I strongly recommend this book. It is a very interesting story.
Growing up Mennonite .......2006-07-01
People have compared the character of Nomi Nickel to Holden Caulfield, and it's easy to see why. "A Complicated Kindness" is a coming-of-age novel about a 16-year-old girl who lives in a strict Mennonite community. Nomi lives with her father, Ray: her mother and older sister ultimately abandoned their fundamentalist Christian town, leaving the rest of the family to fend for themselves. The relationship between Nomi and Ray is very fragile: they're both spinning out of control in different directions and it's hard for them to maintain a connection with each other. It's very obvious to Nomi that her life is screwed up. She longs to flee the town and travel to a fabulous and exciting place like New York City, but she's not sure if she has what it takes to make it on her own in the "real" world. Nomi experiences many of the usual aches and pains associated with growing up, but she also must deal with a lot of family and religious issues.
I thought this was an interesting book. Sometimes Nomi's long-winded tangents were a bit overdone and distracting, but author Miriam Toews did an excellent job of telling this story from a young girl's point of view. There are a lot of different themes in this book, but I personally found the whole religious aspect extremely interesting. Nomi is moved by the extraordinary acts of kindness demonstrated by the people in her town, but those people are also quick to excommunicate people from the church if they display signs of weakness or behave in a way that is considered "sinful." Isn't a church supposed to practice forgiveness and acceptance? Based on my personal experience, that isn't always the case, and I was able to relate to Nomi's observations about the blatant hypocrisy in her community.
"A Complicated Kindness" is an honest and insightful book: truly unique! I think there are some slight character flaws and the narration tends to drift off and become distracting at times, but the book is very original and will definitely hold the reader's interest. This story is bold, funny, and sentimental: a very enjoyable read.
Amazingly Real and Funny Book.......2006-03-29
This was a surprise find and an awesome one at that. Funny and sweet, the "Menno" teenage author is falling, falling, falling out of grace with her strict Mennonite community; stoned half the time, confused the other half, she takes us into the world of a small-town religious town girl yearning for something more.
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Following the capture of Tarawa in November 1943, American eyes turned to the Marshall Islands. These were the next vital stepping-stone across the Pacific towards Japan, and would bring the islands of Guam and Saipan within the reach of US forces. In their first amphibious attack, the new 4th Marine Division landed on Roi and Namur islands on 1 February 1944, while US 7th Division landed on Kwajalein. At the time this was the longest shore-to-shore amphibious assault in history. The lessons of the bloody fighting on Tarawa had been well learned and the successful attack on the Marshalls set the pattern for future amphibious operations in the Pacific War.
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Fills in the Details on Forgotten Operations.......2005-01-24
In Osprey's Campaign series #146, The Marshall Islands 1944, Gordon L. Rottman continues his painstaking effort to detail US Marine operations in the Pacific in the Second World War. As usual, Rottman provides ample information on unit movements, casualties and orders of battle, while avoiding any effort to put the campaign in a human perspective by including first-person accounts or mentioning Medal of Honor recipients. Nevertheless, the Marshall Island campaign of 1944 has faded from sight due to all the attention on D-Day and bigger Pacific actions like Okinawa, so Rottman's effort is not without its merit. By including this operation and all the others that Rottman has written about, Osprey has established a common framework for looking at these largely forgotten campaigns of 1943-1944.
Rottman provides more strategic background to this campaign than he has in other volumes. In his section on opposing plans, Rottman notes that the Japanese misjudged American intentions in the central Pacific and deployed only "odds and ends" forces into the Marshall Islands and the leadership in Tokyo viewed the islands as beyond their main defensive sphere. Given the Japanese refusal to commit additional air or naval forces to the defense of the Marshalls, the Japanese effort in the islands was doomed from the start and the 28,000 troops deployed on the numerous islands in the chain were merely intended to delay the inevitable American victory. Thus, studying the campaign in the Marshalls has its limitations, since one side never intended to win and the question of superior generalship is a moot point under such circumstances. The author also details the opposing commanders and opposing forces in some detail, including a very detailed order of battle. There are more 2-D maps in this volume than a usual Osprey; there are 9 2-D maps, including ones on the strategic situation, and each of the main islands. The three 3-D maps are: Roi-Namur, Kwajalein and Engebi islands. The three battle scenes are: tank support on Roi island; clearing spider holes on Kwajalein and Japanese defense of a bomb crater on Engebi island.
As usual, Rottman gives the details of military operations without much analysis and he tends to favor the US Marines. For example, he provides details on the 4th Marine Division's effort to clear all the minor islands around Roi-Namur on D-1 (31 January 1944). However, Rottman fails to connect the dots in these preliminary operations, since it is clear that the Marines used over 3,000 men to eliminate fewer than 100 Japanese defenders. While these preliminary operations were useful - they gave the Marines positions to land their artillery to support the main landings on the next day - they also disrupted the landing craft availability on D-Day (almost half the amphibious tractors were not back in time to land the main force). By the laws of war, the 4th Marine Division violated economy of force by using an entire regiment to take out essentially a dispersed company and this impacted the performance of the division for the main operation. Once the Marines did land on Roi-Namur, Rottman notes that there was an unusual breakdown in controlling the troops given the lighter-than-expected resistance. A large amount of the casualties on Roi-Namur were inflicted by a careless detonation of a Japanese torpedo bunker (this happens to just about everybody in war, e.g. the Germans in 1916 lost hundreds of troops to carelessness in an explosion in Fort Douamont at Verdun) and readers should note the very high number of MIAs in this operation (more than KIAs).
Another factor that makes these campaigns somewhat unusual is that the Japanese defenders had not had much time to construct strong bunkers and they had very little in the way of indirect fire support. Consequently, the American preliminary bombardments of these islands was more effective than usual and the Japanese had much less ability to contest the beachheads. Readers should note that US Army units tended to suffer less casualties than US Marine units, a discrepancy left unexamined by Rottman. In the end, these operations were foregone conclusions, although at the price of 3,200 US American casualties (including over 600 dead) and that cost should not soon be forgotten.
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In the first full-scale biography of Calhoun in almost fifty years, John Niven presents a new interpretation of this preeminent spokesman of the Old South. Skillfully blending Calhoun's public career with important elements of his private life, Niven shows Calhoun to have been at once a more consistent politician and a more complex human being than previous historians have portrayed. This masterly retelling of John C. Calhoun's eventful life is a model biography.
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Scarlett O'Hara's Favorite Senator.......2000-10-19
In his opening remarks John Niven makes the promise that he would not undertake psychoanalysis of John C.Calhoun, Much to his credit, he is true to his word. What Niven has delivered is an eminently readable and straightforward account of South Carolina's greatest political figure. We forget all that he did: senator, secretary of war, secretary of state, and vice president, in a distinguished career that began in the early days of Madison's presidency and concluded during the Taylor-Fillmore administration, a span of nearly four decades.
Niven's disclaimer, however, is telling. There is a tendency to use Calhoun's career as a sort of national inkblot. For constitutional scholars and ideologues of many stripes Calhoun's writings survive as either the last great stand of states rights or as a subversive manifesto for the tragic secession that would follow. For politicians and observers of human behavior, Calhoun is either the consummate patriot or his own worst enemy.
From the data Niven provides, it can be said that while Calhoun may have been eccentric, he was not crazy. Everyone born in primitive eighteenth century America survived with a history, and Calhoun, born in 1782, was no exception. His family and his colony shared a history of terrible suffering at the hands of the British [those were Calhoun's people slaughtered in Mel Gibson's "The Patriot."] Calhoun himself was orphaned as a young teen and appears to have spent a studious but lonely existence until he studied law at Yale under the famous Timothy Dwight.
Calhoun arrived home with his diploma just in time to ride a wave of strong Carolina resistance against the Virginia-New York axis that seemed to control presidential elections. This handsome, passionate, articulate favorite son soon found himself elected to Congress where he naturally became a leading advocate of war against the hated British. On June 18, 1812, Calhoun and other hawks got their war, but the thoughtful Calhoun quickly ascertained that the United States was woefully unprepared. Calhoun regretted his impetuousness, and nothing would absolve his guilt for this nasty war.
Calhoun would do penance for his sins by serving as Secretary of War under Monroe. Niven commends him for an outstanding tenure during which Calhoun reformed the army's purchasing policies, developed stronger defense outposts in the west, and crafted an almost enlightened Indian policy. An ambitious man, Calhoun not unreasonably expected his War Department success to catapult him toward bigger and better things.
But here one of the major themes of the book emerges: Calhoun was an unlucky politician. It was his bad fortune to reach his prime concurrently with an unusually large class of outstanding statesmen: Henry Clay, William Crawford, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren, to name a few. While he could console himself with the role of "everybody's favorite second" in the 1824 election, that convoluted contest left him tainted goods in the eyes of many, and an outsider in the Adams cabinet to boot.
Calhoun reluctantly threw his lot with Jackson in 1828, but by this date the South Carolinian was having long thoughts about his home region. Cotton prices were low, and protective tariffs seemed to him to exact a crushingly heavy toll from southern growers like himself. And although he shared some of Clay's enthusiasms for internal improvements, most notably transportation systems for the inner reaches of the Carolinas, Calhoun became increasingly suspicious and hostile of the federal government, dubious about its ability and will to protect slavery and Calhoun's idyllic picture of the agricultural southern life. A highly sensitive man, he internalized what he saw as the political treachery of Clay, Van Buren, and especially Crawford, who raised Calhoun-baiting to an art form, for reasons never precisely spelled out.
Calhoun began to write prodigiously on the subject of states rights and federal encroachments. As Niven observes, his writings were alternately brilliant and contradictory. Potboiler states rights speeches and pamphlets were common in America as the young nation sorted itself out. But how far could a politician really go on the matter of a state's autonomy? Until the Jackson era there seemed to have been a gentleman's agreement that the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions represented the boundary of political good taste. Calhoun crossed that line in his defense of nullification, increasingly preoccupied by perceived threats to his beloved South Carolina, In doing so Calhoun lost his national political base and a sense of the national pulse. No longer viable as even a regional candidate for the presidency, he assisted President Tyler by his skillful negotiating with Great Britain on the Oregon border question. But he objected to the Mexican War, not on humanitarian grounds but because he feared the socioeconomic consequences of the acquisition of Mexican territory, i.e., new free soil states. He was correct in his assessment that the consequences of the Mexican War would bring political turmoil to the United States. He had few horses to trade on the floor of congress as the Wilmot Proviso was debated, but his style till the end was magnificent.
From Niven's account it is fair to say that Calhoun was never a universally recognized spokesman for the South during his own lifetime. The Richmond Junto despised him. Unionists were still a majority in the South at the time of his death in 1850. Moderate southern businessmen even in his home state found his philosophy antiquated and at times deleterious to their state's economy. Many found him unbearably pedantic. Only later, as the nation polarized, would his political philosophy become a revered creed for those who dared to think the unthinkable.
Niven's work is a fine presentation for the casual reader and a more than adequate primer for those eager to delve into the mind and works of the consummate antebellum apostle of states' rights.
A creative biography.......1999-10-17
John Niven, professor emeritus of American History at the Claremont Graduate School, has shed new light on a statesman that history has long viewed as just another inconsistent headstrong Southerner, John C. Calhoun. Niven convinces the reader that this prominent politician of the antebellum south was much more consistent and levelheaded in both his public and private lives than his typical portrayal as a protean, stubborn hot-head from South Carolina would suggest. A lifelong advocate of the South, John C. Calhoun served as a member of Congress at the time of the War of 1812, secretary of war under James Monroe, vice president with John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, secretary of state under John Tyler, and then as a senator from South Carolina until he died in 1850. The key to Niven's success in bringing to life to this "cast iron man" is drawing on Calhoun's personal life and experiences in order to gain persuasive insight into the motives and stances of his political career. (back cover) Instead of telling the classic tale of Calhoun's shift from nationalism, during the War of 1812 and the tariff of 1816, to sectionalism and states' rights in later years, on the issues of the protective tariff and slavery, Niven convincingly exerts the original contention that Calhoun had always stood behind individual liberty and states rights. In Calhoun's view, as supported by his own papers, his apparent nationalistic support of the war and the tariff of 1816 was actually an effort to "provide for the common defense and to utilize the resources of all to strengthen the states as individual entities." (p. 127) When national policies began to benefit northern states at the expense of his home, the South, is when his states' rights sentiment began to manifest itself as sectionalism. The weakness of Niven's otherwise masterful biography is that "as a northerner, born and bred in New York and Connecticut," Niven is never able to completely shake his own predisposition against slavery and present Calhoun's feelings on the issue as being valid views with their own arsenal of support. (p. xv) Although he obviously attempts to be completely objective, Niven's own views show through in his portrayal of the slavery problem as Calhoun's resistance against the antislavery movement as opposed to the antislavery movement threatening Calhoun's southern way of life and ingrained teachings. John Niven's somewhat unconventional view of the career and motives of one of the leading spokesmen for the Old South, John C. Calhoun, is convincingly and understandably expressed in this original biography. He succeeds in depicting Calhoun as a very consistent man with a humanity and complexity entirely devoted to the preservation of the South.
Not well versed in matters Calhounian........1999-07-29
Prof. Niven's book fails on a number of counts, but mainly on that of familiarity with the sources of Calhoun's political thought. For example, in describing Calhoun's indebtedness to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Niven says that neither document contemplated action by an individual state. To correct this impression, one need only consult Jefferson's draft of the Kentucky Resolutions; how anyone who had even read this five-page document could see it as anything other than a threat to interfere with enforcement of the Alien and Sedition Acts within the boundaries of Kentucky is beyond me. The book is full of similiar evidence of Niven's failure to acquaint himself with even the most basic sources. Try Bartlett's Calhoun biography, instead.
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The ecosystem concept-the idea that flora and fauna interact with the environment to form an ecological complex-has long been central to the public perception of ecology and to increasing awareness of environmental degradation. In this book an eminent ecologist explains the ecosystem concept, tracing its evolution, describing how numerous American and European researchers contributed to its evolution, and discussing the explosive growth of ecosystem studies.
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A valuable sourcebook for anyone interested in Ecology.......2001-09-28
This is a highly readable and engaging account of the rise of one of the dominant "paradigms" in modern ecology. Golley manages to humanize the scientists behind the science while at the same time providing us with extensive footnotes and a really good overview of the theoretical and historical issues involved in the creation of the ecosystem concept. Numerous pictures also help us to visualize the people behind the text and also give us glimpses of the social settings in which some of these ideas developed. While I disagree on theoretical grounds with the widespread use of the term "ecosystem" Golley is to be commended for giving us a remarkably even-handed vision of where it all came from. I use this book extensively with my undergraduate classes in ecology and conservation and it is a real shame that it is out of print. If you see it, grab it.
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ASIN: B000APDOZ8
Release Date: 2005-08-04 |
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This digital document is an article from The Australian Journal of Politics and History, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3724 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.
Citation Details
Title: Northern Territory: July to December 2004.(Political Chronicles)
Author: David Carment
Publication:
The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 51
Issue: 2
Page: 314(8)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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