Environmental Economics for Tree Huggers and Other Skeptics

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Though many students and environmentalists shudder at even the thought of economics, a working knowledge of the basics can be a powerful ally. Economic arguments carry a great deal of weight, and putting them to work for environmental causes can be a deciding factor, especially in policy debates. The reverse is true as well, and an understanding of the possibly flawed, misleading, or overstated economics behind an opponent's case can be crucially important.

Environmental Economics for Tree Huggers and Other Skeptics carefully explains the tools of economic analysis and shows how they can be used to help reveal the root causes of and potential solutions for environmental and natural resource problems. Jaeger's proven techniques and wonderfully conversational tone assume no economics training, and his presentation of the material is designed to facilitate clarity. His step-by-step approach unearths surprisingly simple, easy-to-remember principles and shows how to apply them to real-world environmental problems.

Those with exposure to introductory microeconomics will find Environmental Economics for Tree Huggers and Other Skeptics to be a welcome refresher. Undergraduate and graduate students of environmental studies, resource management, law, policy, and related fields, as well as novices who are skeptical of how the field could possibly help them in their own efforts, will be pleasantly surprised.

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Taking Charge: Management Guide to Troubled Companies and Turnarounds
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Natural products that have both plant growth regulatory properties and pharmaceutical properties are examined in this book. This is the first and most up-to-date text linking agrochemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry in an easy to read presentation for practitioners in both fields. Due to the intense and widespread attention being given to the undesirable side-effects of commercial herbicide products such as residual contamination, resistance, ecosystem impairments, and waste generation, the discovery of new, natural herbicides that are biologically safe will prove to be significant and profitable. Featuring over 200 tables, Biologically Active Natural Products: Agrochemicals is very useful to those in the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as those in biochemistry, plant pathology, and natural products study and development. Features

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This edited volume is provides an authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. All the major groups of organisms are treated, by the leading workers in their fields. With sections on: The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life; The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth; The Relationships of Green Plants; The Relationships of Fungi; and The Relationships of Animals. This book should prove indispensable for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, ecologists interested in biodiversity, and as a baseline sourcebook for organismic biologists, botanists, and microbiologists. An essential reference in this fundamental area.

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A wonderful and very useful book.......2006-11-17

Finally, a comprehensive review of global molecular phylogenies. Fascinating reading.
The only shortcoming is an incredible amount of typos (in figure headings in particular), plus an embarrassing error on the cover: mirror image of Strombus gigas used.

Overall quite good when on topic.......2005-01-06

As a researcher working on microbial evolution I found this book quite useful as a summary of what is currently known about phylogeny of the various groups of microbes (as well as satisfying idle curiosity about the relations of various macrobes that the bulk of the book deals with). My only criticism is that in some cases the authors of the individual chapters chose unfortunately not to address the declared topic of their assigned chapter but rather to use the space to discuss something else. In particular, one learns little about the phylogeny of Bacteria and Archaea in Ford Doolittle's chapter of that name; instead Doolittle mostly discusses his theories on lateral gene transfer which, while certainly interesting if one hasn't read about them elsewhere, are not very helpful in a reference book on phylogeny. A similar argument could be made with Herve Philippe's chapter on early eukaryotic evolution, which mostly discusses problems of long branch attraction. However, other chapters in the book such as those of Baldauf, et al. and Norm Pace do cover microbial phylogeny in a more useful manner, so all is not lost by such digressions.

This book saved my life.......2004-08-21

This book is a magnificant wealth of information. Chapter 29 is of particular interest. A rare find in the world of evolutionary biology.

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Assembling the Tree of Life
Joel Cracraft
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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The book for people really interested in deer........2007-07-26

Valerius Geist puts just what his title says into understandable language; fascinating and contemplative writing. It's not the "Critt'rspeak or limited jargon study of the 'game manager'; nor a book for the 'hook & bullet crowd'. It's the popular authority for the knowledgeable or just curious and the reference for ungulate watchers. And it makes up for what valerius doen't understand about bison and pronghorn. He also sticks his neck out about human migration, aboriginal habitat manangement and other interesting tidbits.

Inconsistent, confusing & sloppy.......2002-09-14

As a researcher attempting to use this book as a preliminary source of data/information, I have found that Geist throws around numbers without ensuring that they match ones cited earlier or later in the text; Appendix values don't match the text; some are rounded, some not; with the sloppy citations he uses, some even appear to have been plucked out of thin air. The appendix is essentially unreadable: citations, data & notes are presented in the most illogical & unintuitive format possible. Plus there are plenty of typos scattered throughout, making you question the publisher's editing skills. Granted some of the text is very interesting & informative but here again, poor formatting thwarts the reader's efforts to understand.
I was originally thrilled to find this book but now I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Phenomenal Synthesis, Penetrating Understanding.......2001-12-21

Having known Val Geist for 3 decades, and having followed the development of his thinking, I impatiently watched this particular book take shape over a third of that period. A long wait, but well worth it.

Beyond the sheer breadth of this study of all the world's "deer" is the depth of Geists' thinking, which always challenges, intrigues and fascinates the reader. Superb illustrations add aesthetic beauty while greatly facilitating comparisons and contrasts between species and genera.

There has never been such a thorough comparison and contrast between the various species, putting them all into a comprehensive phylogenetic perspective, while contrasting the diverse habitats that shaped their ecological radiation.

Any biologist with an interest in large mammals, from behavioral, ecological or evolutionary standpoints will find this book an exceptional addition to the library.

Yet, as technically valuable as this book is, it is also highly readable. Geist's style is so clear that the main ideas can be followed even by readers who have to skip past the more technical sections.

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Director, Bear Communication & Coexistence Research Program

Best book around about deer.......2000-06-18

This is the only book I found that covered all deer, and it was fascinating (although quite technical in places) and well-referenced. I work at a zoo that has several species of deer. This book gave me a deeper understanding of various species, why they are found where they are found, and the impact humans have had on deer populations. It stimulated my curiousity in other areas, and the references are allowing me to dig more deeply into various topics. I will be referring back to this book often and I recommend it highly to anyone interested in deer, evolutionary strategies, or ecology.

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Come the summer 2004, audiences around the world will tune in to watch the most thrilling sports competition of all. Celebrate the momentous Athens homecoming of the Olympic summer games with this definitive, official, and breathtakingly illustrated history.

From the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, in partnership with the International Olympic Committee and the French sports paper, L’Equipe, comes a big, beautiful book that captures the glory and the excitement of all 26 Olympic Games. Featuring more than 600 photographs, many previously unpublished, and introductions by Gold Medalist Michael Johnson and the President of the International Olympic Committee, this magnificent volume draws on an unprecedented wealth of material. Look back at the ancient games, and see how they came to life again in 1896. Meet the athletes (such as Jim Thorpe, Johnny Weissmuller, Jesse Owens, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Olga Korbut) who triumphed in the most important arena of all; tour the stadiums where the battles played out; and delve into the drama behind the scenes. A visual treasure, filled with information to increase viewers’ enjoyment of the world’s largest sporting event.

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Summer Olympics Only.......2004-08-13

This book covers the Summer Olympics well but does not mention any of the Winter Olympics - at all.

The Olympic Games: ATHENS 1896 - ATHENS 2004

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Definitive Guide with Full-Color Action Photographs

The Olympic Games: ATHENS 1896 - ATHENS 2004
DK Publishing
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Release Date: 2004-05-03

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The Olympic tradition began in ancient Greece as early as 776 BC. The first modern games were held in Athens more than two millennia later in 1896. In the summer of 2004 the Games are returning to the country of their birth. This updated edition previews the upcoming historic Games, and covers the beautiful venues, inspiring athletes, and the spectacle surrounding the world's greatest sporting event. Features include an index of important facts as well as detailed statistical information about every medal winner since the first modern games. Covering 44 Olympiads over a century, stunning action photos taken by top sports journalists capture the true spirit of the games.

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Definitive Guide with Full-Color Action Photographs.......2004-07-21

"In the year 2004, the Olympics will return to their spiritual birthplace, Greece. The Greek capital, Athens, will host a Games featuring more than 10,200 athletes from 200 countries."

If you are a fan of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games then you might want to own this as a highly collectable documentation of every one of the Olympic Games since 1896. Full previews of Athens, 2004, Beijing, 2008 and Torino, 2006 are included.

Each section covers about 4 pages and a quarter of the book is dedicated to statistics. You can look on a chart for each year to find the Event and who won the Gold, Silver or Bronze medals. The extensive index contains the names of competitors and personalities mentioned in the text.

Extra Features: See the new medals and who designed them with Greek elements and explore the construction efforts and newly built arenas. You can look up every athlete, event and result since 1896. Pretty impressive!

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Pregnancy? Labor? Diapers? No time to wade through encyclopedic guides? It's not panic time . . . it's time for quick tips from real moms.

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Same information that's in all pregnancy books.......2006-07-24

This book is a really small size which surprised me but regardless, I didn't find any new information in this book that's not already in every other pregnancy book.

I loved it!.......2006-01-23

Thsi book was honest, comforting and real. This book is not scary like some other books and it gives you an overview of everything to expect. This is a must read especially for first time pregnant moms!

Great Book - anwsers the questions you really want to know!.......2005-01-06

My wife and I are expecting our first child and thus have about 1,000 and 1 questions. When I read this book I was expecting the same I have gotten out of all the other 50 books we own but this one is differnt! It answers the questions that you always forget to ask when you are sitting nervously at your doctor's office.

The other day we found mouse droppings in our kitchen and I imeeditalty went to the book for the answer. Within 2 minutes I already knew what dangers it posed to my wife and how to clean it up. The book put us at ease and thus a nervous two days of calls to our doctors and local posion control was avoided and a 15 minute clean up insued.

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Tony Kushner's Angels in America is that rare entity: a work for the stage that is profoundly moving yet very funny, highly theatrical yet steeped in traditional literary values, and most of all deeply American in its attitudes and political concerns. In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handful of people trying to make sense of the world. Prior is a man living with AIDS whose lover Louis has left him and become involved with Joe, an ex-Mormon and political conservative whose wife, Harper, is slowly having a nervous breakdown. These stories are contrasted with that of Roy Cohn (a fictional re-creation of the infamous American conservative ideologue who died of AIDS in 1986) and his attempts to remain in the closet while trying to find some sort of personal salvation in his beliefs.

But such a summary does not do justice to Kushner's grand plan, which mixes magical realism with political speeches, high comedy with painful tragedy, and stitches it all together with a daring sense of irony and a moral vision that demands respect and attention. On one level, the play is an indictment of the government led by Ronald Reagan, from the blatant disregard for the AIDS crisis to the flagrant political corruption. But beneath the acute sense of political and moral outrage lies a meditation on what it means to live and die--of AIDS, or anything else--in a society that cares less and less about human life and basic decency. The play's breadth and internal drive is matched by its beautiful writing and unbridled compassion. Winner of two Tony Awards and the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Angels in America is one of the most outstanding plays of the American theater. --Michael Bronski

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HBO Films will present Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols from Tony Kushner's own adaptation of his Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. The remarkable cast features Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, James Cromwell, Michael Gambon and Simon Callow.

Angels in America is one of the most remarkable and celebrated plays of our time. Over 350,000 copies have been sold in paperback since their original publication in 1993.

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"Angels in America is the broadest, deepest, most searching American play of our time."-Jack Kroll, Newsweek

"A vast, miraculous play . . . provocative, witty and deeply upsetting . . . a searching and radical rethinking of Ameri-can political drama."-Frank Rich, The New York Times

"Something rare, dangerous and harrowingâ€¦a roman candle hurled into a drawing room . . . "-Nicholas de Jongh, London Evening Standard

"Playful and profound, extravagantly theatrical and deeply spiritual, witty, and compassionate, furious and incredibly smart . . . It's impossible to imagine anyone captivated by the beginning not wanting-needing-to go back for the end."-Linda Winer, Newsday

"An enormously impressive work of the imagination and intellect, a towering example of what theatre stretched to its full potential can achieve."-Clifford A. Ridley, Philadelphia Inquirer

"Perestroika is a masterpiece."-John Lahr, New Yorker

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A Wonderful Read.......2006-12-19

After watching the Angels in America DVD, I wanted to see how it was originally as a play, and it does not disappoint. In many ways, I think it's a better experience reading this play than it was to see it on my tiny television. Angels in America is essentially a theatrical work, and the miniseries came off just as that, a filmed stage play, espcially in Part 1: Millenium Approaches, so that it seemed really static, even with, if not because of, Mike Nichols' direction. It was, on the other hand, tremendously faithful to the play script. As far as I could tell, not a word was changed.

Part 2: Perestroika, however, had a few changes from the script to screen, and those changes worked well, making the filmed version far more dynamic than Part 1. There's some additional backstory that got dropped in the translation, but the spirit is very much the same.

Ultimately, I recommend that you watch the DVD to get an idea of the characters' mannerisms and the staging, then read the script to fully appreciate the poetry of Tony Kushner's language. Buy it and love it!

Masterpiece.......2006-10-01

Angels in America is probably one of the most important pieces of American theatre of the last twenty years. Outside of musicals, probably one of the few contemporary plays of the period that has had a significant mainstream impact outside of an adapted form (and probably significantly more important then a large number of the adapted ones even before it became an excellent miniseries). And for that reason alone, it is worth reading.

But there is more then that.

The play actually is one of the most influential plays for a reason. It speaks to a number of socially relevent themes about the American experience. It deals heavily with the roles of gays in society giving a fascinating dialectic about the potential roles that gays can play in society. One of the most interesting social arguments in the play has to be the complete failure of the traditional nuclear family on every level, a statement that can echo the larger social issue where the image of the nuclear family has failed. As a tangent to that, the play deals heavily with the Mormon church, being both one of the only major religions founded in America and one of the religions with the heaviest focus on the family (and one of the ones with the harshest line towards homosexuality).

This probably isn't a great play to read if you like to read things out of a larger social context. Honestly, though, I really can't imagine how any American could read this play without connecting it to the larger social issues (and I think that would be true for people of a lot of other nationalities as well, though to what degree I'm not sure).

In terms of the actual play, its quite good. But I found (and just about everyone I've asked) has said that they found Part I to be much stronger then Part II.

Well written.......2006-07-08

Wow, I don't usually read plays, but this one is the exception, its astonishing! I even went out to rent the play from HBO studios! I strongly reccomend this book.

Deeply Flawed But Nonetheless Brilliant.......2004-10-05

A playscript is a blueprint for a performance--a document that is intended to be interpreted by those trained in theatre arts. For this reason most non-theatre people find reading a play akin to a tour of purgatory: it is often extremely difficult for the layman to imagine how these strings of words on a page will actually play on a stage before a live audience. This is particularly true of Tony Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA, a play which even many theatre arts people (myself included) find very, very flat on the page; consequently, I do not really recommend it for those without a background in theatre arts.

Set in 1980s New York and subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," the play concerns a group of largely homosexual men who find themselves caught up in series of disasters that range from love to religion and from politics to philosophy--and most specifically caught between the rising tide of AIDS and a generally unsympathetic society. In the midst of this, AIDS patient Pior Walter begins to have a series of visions, which may be fever dreams, medicine-induced hallucinations... or, most unnerving of all, real. His long dead ancestors rise to speak to him, the floor cracks open to reveal a burning book--and at the conclusion of the play's first half a beautiful woman with majestic wings crashes through his roof. She is the Angel of America. He is, she tells him, a prophet, and she has come to bring him a message for mankind.

Intertwined with Prior's other-earthly experiences are oddly parallel lives. Joe and Harper Pitt are a deeply dysfunctional couple doubting their faith in the Mormon Church, Joe a closeted homosexual, Harper a valium-addicted and mildly psychotic woman given to visions as strange as those of Prior Walter's. And as further counterpoint historical figure Roy Cohn (1927-1986), among the most sinister figures of 20th Century America, finds himself taunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg as he drifts toward his own AIDS-induced death. The characters swirl in and out of each other's lives and dreams, playing to stereotypes and yet defying them, arguing politics and philosophy and love and death--and it is fascinating stuff. And the play, which ran six hours and had to be performed across two consecutive evenings, astounded theatregoers: nothing similar had been seen on Broadway since the days of Eugene O'Neill's MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA.

But for all of this remarkable vortex of dreams and realities, issues and ideas, there is a tremendous problem with ANGELS IN AMERICA, and even the most casual reader should be able to spot it. When an angel crashes through the roof you naturally expect startling revelations to follow--but having spent the first half of his play building to this amazing climax, Kushner seems to have painted himself into a dramatic corner. The ideas, issues, and characters continue to swirl as brilliantly as before, but the angelic revelations and their gradual unraveling seem to be born more of desperation than of true originality.

Is ANGELS IN AMERICA a play that will resonate through time? It is possible, but I think it unlikely. To return to MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA, that play is very much of its era in terms of style--but it deals with themes and ideas that are of all times and places, and in consequence it remains as powerful today as it was when it startled Broadway some seventy years ago. But ANGELS IN AMERICA is not only stylistically of its place and time, it is also a play that deals specifically with issues peculiar to its place and time, and as our thinking about these issues change the play's authority begins to fade. While it remains required reading (and ideally required viewing) for any one who is seriously interested in theatre, it seems unlikely that it will forever maintain that status.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

Couldn't put it down.......2004-09-16

As an actor I have a very discerning eye when it comes to plays, and i was amazed with this piece of literature. I decided to read the first few pages before bed, and before i knew it i had finished and it was almost dawn.
No matter what personal views you have on the subject of politics, AIDS, or religion there is a clear message aimed at all of us as Americans, regardless of beliefs. I found Kushner's ideas compelling, making me think and even more so, feel. there's nothing like reading a great book and becoming enveloped by it and this is one of the best plays of our time; hands down.

Angels in America. A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Part One : Millennium Approaches. Part Two : Perestroika.

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Angels in America. A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Part One : Millennium Approaches. Part Two : Perestroika.

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