City of Gold: An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent

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David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life. In this wide-ranging, multi-tiered exploration of our contemporary global political economy, he touches on four major themes: the historical foundation of the city of gold, an assessment of its political scope, its current discontents, and ways to make a better--albeit imperfect--world from within it.

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very little information on what you need to raise quail.......1999-06-18

This book talks about raising quail without really giving you very much hard infomation. It was fun to read but not very useful for getting started with quail.

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This introductory ecology lab manual focuses on the process of collecting, recording and analyzing data, and equips students with the tools they need to function in more advanced science courses. It reflects the most current techniques for data gathering so that students can obtain the most accurate samples. Balanced coverage of plant, animal and physical elements offers a diverse range of exercises. Includes exercise on writing research reports.

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An excellent ecological field book.......2000-06-19

This guide has many techniques ideal for sampling many (and possibly any) habitat type. The guide includes field sheets for easy data entry, equations to obtain key ecological standards, plus a detailed description of the many techniques with cited references. Simply a handy tool and a "must have" when working in a field of so many different sampling techniques for different habitats.

Scientific Method for Ecological Research

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A Graduate Students guidebook
A good book that was poorly edited

Scientific Method for Ecological Research
E. David Ford
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521669731

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Scientists tend to take the thought processes that drive their research for granted, often learning them indirectly by observing their supervisors and colleagues. This book emphasizes the advantages of being explicit about these thought processes and aims to help those undertaking ecological research to develop a critical attitude to approaching a scientific problem and constructing a procedure for assessment. The outcome is a text that provides a framework for understanding methodological issues and which assists with the effective definition and planning of ecological research. As such, it represents a unique resource for anyone embarking on their research career. It also provides a valuable source of information for those more experienced researchers who are seeking to strengthen the methodology underlying their studies or who have an interest in the analysis of research methods in ecology.

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A Graduate Students guidebook.......2005-01-06

I found this book while a graduate student and it really helped me refocus my research and move forward. Graduate research can be a daunting endeavor and this book did an excellent job documenting the steps involved in research, both theoretically and practically. The use of an actual students experience as a case study was quite helpful and instructive. The main thing I took from it was the ability to extract the main theoretical bases of my thinking and separate them from the questions I was asking. It has been a few years since I read this book and it is probably time to read it again. This is the first book I recommend to new graduate students in ecology.

A good book that was poorly edited.......2000-11-06

I used Dr. Ford's text in a Research Design class. The book contains some nice nuggets of wisdom but you have to dig for them. The text is very "wordy" and often confusing. If this 600 page book would have been edited properly it would have made for an excellent 300 page publication. It seems as though the author tried to create a linear development on how to properly conduct scientific research, but somehow you get lost in the many definitions and the nth degree detail. The book does contain some good examples and some nice diagrams. Overall this book is useful as a reference tool but not as a primary text.

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Practical Methods in Ecology
Peter A. Henderson
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited
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ASIN: 1405102446

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Practical Methods in Ecology is an introductory manual of methods used by ecologists to collect and analyze data. Aimed at students with little practical or computational experience, it is an ideal text for university and senior high school students on field trips or taking courses in field ecology.Based on the classic textbook by Southwood, Ecological Methods, it begins with a discussion on planning of field work, followed by a brief overview of the statistical tests that can be used to analyze the data. The book then divides into two main sections, the first covering techniques used to sample communities and estimate population size from pitfall trapping to mark -recapture methods, the second looking at techniques for population and community analysis including diversity indices, life-tables, and multivariate techniques.Each chapter provides a summary of the theoretical principles, followed by specific examples and ideas for project work. Examples are selected for use in ponds and streams, the sea shore, fields, and woodland, and carefully chosen so at least one of these widely available habitats should be accessible to students almost anywhere in the world.

Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research

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A good introduction to multivariate statistics
grad students

Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research
Kevin McGarigal , Sam Cushman , and Susan Stafford
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0387988912

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Wildlife researchers and ecologists make widespread use of multivariate statistics in their studies. With its focus on the practical application of the techniques of multivariate statistics, this book shapes the powerful tools of statistics for the specific needs of ecologists and makes statistics more applicable to their course of study. Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research gives the reader a solid conceptual understanding of the role of multivariate statistics in ecological applications and the relationships among various techniques, while avoiding detailed mathematics and underlying theory. More important, the reader will gain insight into the type of research questions best handled by each technique and the important considerations in applying each one. Whether used as a textbook for specialized courses or as a supplement to general statistics texts, the book emphasizes those techniques that students of ecology and natural resources most need to understand and employ in their research. Detailed examples use real wildlife data sets analyzed using the SAS statistical software program. The book is specifically targeted for upper-division and graduate students in wildlife biology, forestry, and ecology, and for professional wildlife scientists and natural resource managers, but it will be valuable to researchers in any of the biological sciences.

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A good introduction to multivariate statistics.......2007-01-26

This book is fairly easy to understand, even with little knowledge of multivariate statistics. The author uses specific examples relevant to ecological fields and does not focus on theory (which is a rarity in statistical manuals). It is, however, starting to get a bit outdated with some of the techniques gaining favor in the literature recently.

grad students.......2002-04-01

I am an ecology grad student and I have returned to this text again and again.

History and Philosophy of Science.(phylogeny, ethics, ecology): An article from: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences

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History and Philosophy of Science.(phylogeny, ethics, ecology): An article from: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences

Manufacturer: Mississippi Academy of Sciences
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This digital document is an article from Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, published by Mississippi Academy of Sciences on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2013 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: History and Philosophy of Science.(phylogeny, ethics, ecology)
Publication: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Mississippi Academy of Sciences
Volume: 48 Issue: 1 Page: 60(3)

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From the gray wolf and the dingo to the South American bush dog and the whistling hunter, this book covers the wild dogs that have been free spirits on every continent except Antarctica and have thrived in all environments. Described are dogs that roam free over the planet, the hottest and driest parts of Africa and Australia, the wettest forests of New Guinea and South America, and the coldest parts of the Arctic Circle. This up-to-date account discusses the skills, personalities, and lifestyles of these dogs. It includes information on wolves, foxes, coyotes, jackals, and dingoes, as well as details about rare dogs such as the dhole and the South American bush dog. Also provided are insights into the extraordinary group coherence of wild dogs; their faithfulness and intelligence; their ability to learn, remember, and solve problems; and what they have in common with domesticated dogs.

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The Common Ground Among Canines.......2006-02-19

While I found the book to be informative and interesting, and I certainly don't regret buying it, it was somewhat different from what I had expected. I had expected the pages to devote more individual time to each specific canine species. Instead, the chapters were dedicated to exploring some of the characteristics shared among the canines (Intelligent behavior, Communication, etc.). I guess it wasn't as comprehensively expository of each species as I wanted it to be, but a good read nonetheless.

Good info...........2006-01-29

even if written to an 8th-grade reader's level. A long time canine fan, I learned a thing or two from this book that I hadn't run across elsewhere. If you're a dog fan, you'll want to know more about their wild canine relatives.

Their spirit lives on........2003-09-03

This book posed a few intriguing questions for me, in which animal lovers, biologists, social theorists and others might also be interested. The authors have backgrounds in animal behaviour, neuroscience in animals, and animal communication, cognition and welfare.

Dogs belong to the family Canidae, ground-living carnivores with around 36 species, although some of these species interbreed. The lineage is around 40-50 million years old, originating in North America. They reached Europe around 5-7 million years ago, where the well known grey wolf is though to have evolved, who then passed back into North America, amongst other places, around 700,000 years ago. All domestic dogs appear to derive from one ancestral species-Canus lupus-the grey wolf. Latest evidence suggests dogs were first domesticated around 135,000 years ago, perhaps as old as early homo sapien (p12).

A variety of wild dog characteristics can be found in the domestic versions, with some notable exceptions.

Short-sightedness is probably a domestic trait only (p45). All dogs move their ears and head around to pinpoint location-originally location of prey. Domestic dogs have two photopigments in their eyes, unlike humans with three, meaning they are slightly colour blind (compared to us). Smell is, of course, well developed, and they can tell which direction an animal/person was moving-an important hunting ability (p49). Wild pups must not stray from the den, and so domesticates can reasonably learn to stay at home. Howling (in wolves) is used to increase distances between clans and individuals. (I think there is more here-sex?, hunting prospects?, group development?). Sniffing in all dogs is intimately related to pair bonding and territorial marking. There is a variety of vocalisation forms in wild dogs, such as short distance barks, yelps, and whining, with some co-opted for dog-human communication-eg human sentence upwards inflections reflect some whining communication, etc. Barking, though variable in type and frequency, occurs in all canids, despite common misconceptions. Regurgitating food to the young is also common to all canids (I have a collie who as a puppy managed to steal my dinner from my mouth once-totally innocently of course).

Grey wolves, as opposed to some other canids, have a strong vertical social structure. Occasionally submissiveness is ignored by a superior, due to hierarchal threat, or occasionally the inferior won't submit, and an individual may occasionally be forced out of a clan entirely (sound familiar? p94).

Also of interest is that African wild dogs have a flatter social structure than grey wolves, which appears to be proportional to their `harsher' environment-that is, elements of in-group competition and in-group rivalry are reduced when conditions become more hazardous-group hierarchy in this sense is an evolved 'luxury', so to speak (p103-104). (This idea has interesting implications to social inequality in humans). Also, species which have a high degree of predatory enemies have less infighting and high co-operation rates (p141). Also of note is that an African wild dog rejected by its clan has little chance of survival from both predators and through stress-induced immune deficiency.

In a social hierarchy, ritualised and stereotyped acts are common (sound familiar?). Sometimes a group of young males may turn on an alpha male and expel or kill him (sound familiar)?. Interestingly, being an alpha male may not relate to being the best hunter-appearance, confidence and adherence to social rituals give social status, not killing/athletic success.

In many clans every female comes into oestrus at the same time, and pseudo pregnancies also occur in females within a clan, where they produce milk and may even suckle pups not of their own-obviously a group survival strategy (p114). (It is not clear whether this only occurs in related individuals-selfish gene theorists take note!). Higher levels of oestrogen in African wild dogs create more male pups in their litters (p117). I am also aware that sometimes pups within a litter have different fathers.

The larger the pack the larger the prey that is hunted (p123). Dingos in Australia also use deception in hunting. Interestingly, wolves in captivity are known to watch gatekeepers open latches and learn to do this themselves, whilst domesticates generally do not (p147). Also, wolves wait until the coast is clear before attempting to escape. This 'escape intelligence' has obviously been somewhat nullified by domestication. However, wolves are not willing to learn tricks, unlike domesticates. Dogs are also better than chimps in reading a persons eyes-a trait of group hunting (p158-9). 'Glancing' is observed in dogs between food bowls and owners, or between balls and owners.
It is also suggested that human smell is so poor partly because we have used dogs for hunting in our recent evolutionary history (p165-6). (It has even been suggested elsewhere that language may have been facilitated by this reduction in our need for smell, whereby flatter faces and the migration of the larynx to the back of the throat increased vocalisation range).

The future of the wild dog is unclear. It is stated that many rehabilitation and reintroduction programs of all species fail due to problems with animal behaviour-eg they haven't learnt to hunt, they lack predator cognition, they don't follow park boundaries etc. It appears group species like the wolf are less likely to survive in closer contact with humans than the more parasitic and solitary species such as foxes, coyotes, and also cats. (Once group habits are fractured, group species tend to perish). I like to think the 'spirit of the wild dog', so to speak, `knows' this (or in Darwinian form-a portion of the gene pool has been selected)-and so lives on within the human group. Maybe the unfairly expelled wolf from the pack lives on today in my lounge room.

Opportunity, adaptability, co-operation, humility, wildness-we have much to learn from them.

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Good book for the parent who knows nothing

Teaching Kids Golf: A Baffled Parent's Guide
Bernadette B. Moore
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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The First Tee Shot: A Parent's Guide to Teaching Kids Golf

IN EVERY KID THERE LURKS A TIGER: RUDY DURAN'S 5-STEP PROGRAM TO TEACH YOU AND YOUR CHILD THE FUNDAMENTALS OF GOLF

The Kids Book of Golf

The Junior Golf Book: An Instructional For Beginning Players, Ages 8-18

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ASIN: 0071370250

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Teaching Kids Golf is all any parent will ever need to welcome a child to the sport he or she will play for a lifetime. Written by a golfer with more than 25 years of teaching kids and adults at some of the country's most prestigious golf schools, this latest addition to the acclaimed Baffled Parent's series covers everything from the basics of proper grip and swing techniques, to putting, pitching, driving, and managing time on the course.

Q&A sections provide solutions to problems new instructors face
Designed for golfing and non-golfing parents alike
Takes a drill-based approach to teaching the basics

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Good book for the parent who knows nothing.......2007-08-11

Perfect for the parent who truly knows nothing about golf. For experienced golfers, it may help prevent you from overwhelming your child with golf.

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GET IT!!!.......2007-03-12

IF YOU WANT A GOOD BOOK TO LEARN SPANISH, GET THIS ONE!!! I LOVE IT!

enhancements are available.......2005-11-06

the book is okay, i would suggest using the companion premium website and purchasing the program cds - set of 15. the latter is available through the publisher's website.

Ok, but not great.......2005-10-01

I actually ordered the wrong edition of the manual, but that's not why I didn't give it a great rating. I'm using the Mosaicos textbooks for a basic Spanish class, and I don't like the way they're set up. They teach phrases before grammar and put all the vocabulary at the end of the chapters instead of the beginning. Coming out of years of Latin where we learned the fundamentals first, I've had a hard time adjusting. Frankly I don't think I'm learning as well on this new set up.

Mosaicos Spanish.......2004-05-17

Worst book I have ever used to learn a language. Who ever wrote the book was into a lot more than teaching. You need to use this disc or that disc or use the internet. The Prenhall is not very user friendly either. The book is very confusing.

Lovely.......2004-04-22

This is everything I could have hoped for in a foreign language textbook; it is an instructor's dream. Now...if they only designed a text of equal quality for Portuguese!

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An extensive collection of beautiful masks from around the world, all portrayed in beautiful color. Powerful in their form, nearly every continent is represented with masks organized by country of origin and by tribal group. The origin, size, materials, and other useful information is included in the concise captions. Also included are photographs of the masks in use. This collection was originally installed as an exhibition of the California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica, California. It will make a welcome addition to any library of tribal art.

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Fascinating Book.......2007-08-15

I enjoy this book every time I look at it. The culture of Papua is beautifully told and well illustrated. A good introduction for me about a
country I will never be able to visit.

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Rather folk costumes of Europe than of the world
Very Helpful with many facts about costumes
Very Helpful with many facts about costumes

Folk Costumes Of The World
Robert Harrold , and Phyllida Legg
Manufacturer: Sterling
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 030435029X

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Over 200 costumes in color, with descriptions relating each to traditions, music, dance and ritual. “Valuable as a design history and visual reference.”—Theatre Crafts Magazine. “Useful in high school and public libraries.”—RSBALA

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Rather folk costumes of Europe than of the world.......2006-06-11

I'm very interested in folk costumes and found this book informative with beautiful illustrations, BUT...it's not, as it claims, a book of folk costumes of the world.
Europe (where I live) is shown thoroughly, with examples of costumes even from islands like Sicily, Madeira and Tenerife, while there are not very many costumes from Asia. Africa is represented only by some costumes from North Africa and Ethiopia, Oceania only by Maori costumes. Just four-five of the many gorgeous Amerindian costumes are shown and although Cuba is described in the text, no costumes are shown in the book. I would say the book is eurocentric. If you want to learn more about costumes from Europe, do buy this book, but NOT if you want to look at costumes from all over the world.

Very Helpful with many facts about costumes.......1999-01-20

This book is very helpful for getting basic details of folk and dance costumes from throughout the world. There are colored sketches of most costumes, but a few more would be helpful. They describe many things that are not illustrated, yet sometimes illustrate items for which there are scant descriptions. Unfortunately, however, there are no costumes from most of Africa. This is a serious omission for a book claiming to cover world costume.

Very Helpful with many facts about costumes.......1999-01-20

This book is very helpful for getting basic details of folk and dance costumes from throughout the world. There are colored sketches of most costumes, but a few more would be helpful. They describe many things that are not illustrated, yet sometimes illustrate items for which there are scant descriptions. Unfortunamtely, however, there are no costumes from most of Africa. This is a serious omission for a book claiming to cover world costume.

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Folk and Festival Costumes of the World
Ruth Turner Wilcox
Manufacturer: Unicorn
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Binding: Paperback

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Folk Costumes of the World in Colour
Robert Harrold , and Phyllida Legg
Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
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FOLK AND FESTIVAL COSTUME OF THE WORLD (Folk Festival Costume World Hre)

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A Gem of A Book

FOLK AND FESTIVAL COSTUME OF THE WORLD (Folk Festival Costume World Hre)
R Wilcox
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Board book

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A Gem of A Book.......2000-06-17

I have used this "Treasure of A Book" for the last 20 years, when I first found a copy of it in my town's local library when I was 19 years of age. It has been especially useful while I went and after I graduated from Fashion Design School in Los Angeles. It has been an invaluable reference book, whenever I needed to find an ethic costume. For example, if I want to draw a Korean women in original costume dress. I just look under the country, alphabetically and there it is. I can easily see the traditional dress and sketch it. All the illustrations are excellent and show very good detail. The book does a very good job of representing many different ethic costumes of the world, even ones in countries that no longer exist. Many of the ethic costume designs are still used to this day in the countries that they come from. I have used it to draw illustrations showing different children from around the world. Also, I have used it for other kinds purposes including graphic design illustrations for restaurant menus and restaurant ads. I have returned to this book, over and over, as the best resource for all my needs. Even though, it was published in 1977, I still to this day find it the very best book of its kind.

A World of Faces: Masks of the Northwest Coast Indians

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A World of Faces: Masks of the Northwest Coast Indians
Edward Malin
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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ASIN: 0917304055

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An exploration of the meaning behind the treasured masks created by artisans for ritual purposes, or simply for enjoyment. The author presents a photo gallery of outstanding examples.

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Folk and Festival Costume of the World
R. Turner Wilcox
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Folk And Fwstival Costume Of The World
Wilcox
Manufacturer: Charles Scribners Sons
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Folk and Festival Costume of the World
R. Turner Wilcox
Manufacturer: Charles Scrbner's Sons
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Folk & Festival Costume of the World
R Turner Wilcox
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