Download or read book The Species Maker written by Kristin Johnson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extensively-researched novel about the role of science in modern life, set against the backdrop of the 1925 Scopes Trial"--
Download or read book Ordering Life written by Kristin Johnson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the career of German entomologist Karl Jordan, an innovator in the field of biological taxonomy. The internal battles and politics of the entomological science are studied, as well as the influence on Jordan's work of social and political upheavals, particularly World War I and World War II.
Download or read book The Image Maker written by Michael Zadai and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Michael and Connie grab you by the heart and catapult you onto what feels like an already begun roller coaster ride. This sensory banquet of tale spins, drenches and thrills as it careens its way to the next stage of this brand-new, age-old story. You arrive at ride's end breathlessly exhilarated, stunned and...profoundly grateful!" -Don Freeman ..".following Milton's lead...in the style of modern epic writers, Michael and Connie take the reader on a suspenseful journey. Once the pages of this story touched my hands, I could not let go." -Mark Foreman ..".the book is at its best when the author's use their creativity to integrate themes of science or to explore motives and other dimensions, adding richness to the world they've created and layers to our understanding of the true Story of stories." -Dr. Richard Olsen "This face-paced and thought-provoking tale is a thoroughly entertaining read!" -Leanne Hillary
Download or read book The Pan American Geologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A monthly journal devoted to speculative geology, constructive geological criticism, and geological record" (varies slightly).
Download or read book Earth Ponds The Country Pond Maker s Guide to Building Maintenance and Restoration Third Edition written by Tim Matson and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bible of pond-making in a fully redesigned 30th-anniversary edition. There is nothing like a pond. What else can simultaneously increase your aesthetic pleasure, offer recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase the value of your property? Earth Ponds is the standard resource for building and maintaining these important and lovely landscape features. For thirty years now Earth Ponds, with some 100,000 copies in print, has guided an entire generation of pond makers on everything from site planning to soil sampling to drainage and wildlife management. It’s a complete overview of the country pond. Illustrations guide the pond builder through every step of the process; chapters carefully describe the issues and decisions in a wonderfully personal way. It’s the condensed wisdom of a man who has spent a lifetime building, restoring, and maintaining ponds.
Download or read book Journal of Conchology written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Society's Proceedings, June 1879-
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Download or read book Early English Viols Instruments Makers and Music written by Michael Fleming and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that ’Your Best Provision’ for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English viol makers than which ’there are no Better in the World’. Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur) who aim to understand and play this music require reliable historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in early modern England.
Download or read book Quantitative Conservation of Vertebrates written by Michael J. Conroy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a hands-on introduction to the construction and application of models to studies of vertebrate distribution, abundance, and habitat. The book is aimed at field biologists, conservation planners, and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students who are involved with planning and analyzing conservation studies, and applying the results to conservation decisions. The book also acts as a bridge to more advanced and mathematically challenging coverage in the wider literature. Part I provides a basic background in population and community modeling. It introduces statistical models, and familiarizes the reader with important concepts in the design of monitoring and research programs. These programs provide the essential data that guide conservation decision making. Part II covers the principal methods used to estimate abundance, occupancy, demographic parameters, and community parameters, including occupancy sampling, sample counts, distance sampling, and capture-mark-recapture (for both closed and open populations). Emphasis is placed on practical aspects of designing and implementing field studies, and the proper analysis of data. Part III introduces structured decision making and adaptive management, in which predictive models are used to inform conservation decision makers on appropriate decisions in the face of uncertainty—with the goal of reducing uncertainty through monitoring and research. A detailed case study is used to illustrate each of these themes. Numerous worked examples and accompanying electronic material (on a website - http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/conroy - and accompanying CD) provide the details of model construction and application, and data analysis.
Download or read book Value of Information in the Earth Sciences written by Jo Eidsvik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering the right kind and the right amount of information is crucial for any decision-making process. This book presents a unified framework for assessing the value of potential data gathering schemes by integrating spatial modelling and decision analysis, with a focus on the Earth sciences. The authors discuss the value of imperfect versus perfect information, and the value of total versus partial information, where only subsets of the data are acquired. Concepts are illustrated using a suite of quantitative tools from decision analysis, such as decision trees and influence diagrams, as well as models for continuous and discrete dependent spatial variables, including Bayesian networks, Markov random fields, Gaussian processes, and multiple-point geostatistics. Unique in scope, this book is of interest to students, researchers and industry professionals in the Earth and environmental sciences, who use applied statistics and decision analysis techniques, and particularly to those working in petroleum, mining, and environmental geoscience.
Download or read book Our Uncommon Heritage written by Charles Perrings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodiversity change is the biggest environmental problem of our time. It leads to much more than species extinctions, affecting the food we eat, the diseases we face, our vulnerability to fire and flood, and our ability to adapt to climate change. Our Uncommon Heritage explores the many dimensions of human-driven biodiversity change. It integrates ecology, economics and policy to examine the causes and consequences of changes in ecosystems, species and genes, and to identify better ways to manage those changes. It explores the place of biodiversity in the wealth of nations, the rights and responsibilities people have for natural resources at local, regional, national and international levels, and the challenges faced in protecting the common good at the global level. This is an important book for students and researchers in the fields of conservation and sustainability science, ecology, natural resource economics and management. It also has much to say to those engaged in international conservation, health, agriculture, forestry and fisheries policy.
Download or read book Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.
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