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Book Plant Genetic Conservation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nigel Maxted
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 1997-01-31
  • ISBN : 0412637308
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Plant Genetic Conservation written by Nigel Maxted and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-01-31 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent development of ideas on biodiversity conservation was already being considered almost three-quarters of a century ago for crop plants and the wild species related to them, by the Russian geneticist N.!. Vavilov. He was undoubtedly the first scientist to understand the impor tance for humankind of conserving for utilization the genetic diversity of our ancient crop plants and their wild relatives from their centres of diversity. His collections showed various traits of adaptation to environ mental extremes and biotypes of crop diseases and pests which were unknown to most plant breeders in the first quarter of the twentieth cen tury. Later, in the 1940s-1960s scientists began to realize that the pool of genetic diversity known to Vavilov and his colleagues was beginning to disappear. Through the replacement of the old, primitive and highly diverse land races by uniform modem varieties created by plant breed ers, the crop gene pool was being eroded. The genetic diversity of wild species was equally being threatened by human activities: over-exploita tion, habitat destruction or fragmentation, competition resulting from the introduction of alien species or varieties, changes and intensification of land use, environmental pollution and possible climate change.

Book The Conservation of Plant Biodiversity

Download or read book The Conservation of Plant Biodiversity written by Otto Herzberg Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the various options for conserving plants at the level of the gene, species and community.

Book Med checklist  Dicotyledones  Lauraceae Rhamnaceae

Download or read book Med checklist Dicotyledones Lauraceae Rhamnaceae written by W. Greuter and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marketing Places Europe

Download or read book Marketing Places Europe written by Philip Kotler and published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at tourism agencies, students of tourism and local government agencies, this book explains how to adopt a strategic marketing plan that will enable places to adapt and conquer the ever-evolving world marketplace.

Book Color Atlas of Biochemistry

Download or read book Color Atlas of Biochemistry written by Jan Koolman and published by Thieme. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Totally revised and expanded, the Color Atlas of Biochemistry presents the fundamentals of human and mammalian biochemistry on 215 stunning color plates.Alongside a short introduction to chemistry and the classical topics of biochemistry, the 2nd edition covers new approaches and aspects in biochemistry, such as links between chemical structure and biological function or pathways for information transfer, as well as recent developments and discoveries, such as the structures of many new important molecules. Key features of this title include:- The unique combination of highly effective color graphics and comprehensive figure legends;- Unified color-coding of atoms, coenzymes, chemical classes, and cell organelles that allows quick recognition of all involved systems;- Computer graphics provide simulated 3D representation of many important molecules.This Flexibook is ideal for students of medicine and biochemistry and a valuable source of reference for practitioners.

Book Philosophy After Darwin

Download or read book Philosophy After Darwin written by Michael Ruse and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essential writings that cover some of the most influential ideas about the philosophical implications of Darwinism, since the publication of "On the Origin of Species".

Book Darwin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adrian J. Desmond
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780393311501
  • Pages : 910 pages

Download or read book Darwin written by Adrian J. Desmond and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lively and accessible style, the authors tell how Darwin came to his world-changing conclusions and how he kept his thoughts secret for twenty years. Hailed as the definitive biography, this book explains Darwin's paradox and offers a window on Victorian science, theology, and mores. Contains a wealth of new information and 90 photographs.

Book Evolution of Self Consciousness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chauncey Wright
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-07-03
  • ISBN : 9781721869091
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Evolution of Self Consciousness written by Chauncey Wright and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Evolution of Self-Consciousness, Wright endeavored to explain the most elaborate psychical activities of men as developments of elementary forms of conscious processes present in the animal kingdom as a whole. The immediacy of sensible qualities to consciousness entails that there is no way to separate subject and object in consciousness. In this quotation, Wright suggests that the division of subject from object may constitute "rightly dividing the world" as indexed by survival value. A division made in these terms, rather than by an individual's experiences of himself and the world, is a reasonable basis for natural realism.

Book The Ethical Sellout

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lily Zheng
  • Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • Release : 2019-10-29
  • ISBN : 1523085851
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book The Ethical Sellout written by Lily Zheng and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all fear selling out. Yet we all face situations that test our ideals and values with no clear right answer. In a world where compromise is an essential aspect of life, authors Lily Zheng and Inge Hansen make the bold claim that everyone sells out-and that the real challenge lies in doing so ethically. Zheng and Hansen share stories from a diversity of people who have found their own answers to this dilemma and offer new ways to think about marginalization, privilege, and self-interest. From these stories, they pull out teachable skills for taking the step from selling out to selling out ethically. The Ethical Sellout is for all those committed to maintaining their integrity in a messy world.

Book Aspects of Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander von Humboldt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1849
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Aspects of Nature written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Without Miracles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary Cziko
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780262531474
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Without Miracles written by Gary Cziko and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without Miracles describes many remarkable examples of the fit of various structures, behaviors, and products of living organisms to their environments in a broad synthesis of humankind's attempt to understand the emergence of complex, adapted entities.

Book Re Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings

Download or read book Re Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings written by William C. Wimsatt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analytic philosophers once pantomimed physics, trying to understand the world by breaking it down. Thinkers from the Darwinian sciences now pose alternatives to such reductionism. Wimsatt argues that today’s scientists seek to atomize phenomena only to understand how entities, events, and processes articulate at different levels.

Book The Foundations of Ethology

Download or read book The Foundations of Ethology written by K. Lorenz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a contribution to the history of ethology-not a definitive history, but the personal view of a major figure in that story. It is all the more welcome because such a grand theme as ethology calls for a range of perspectives. One reason is the overarching scope of the subject. Two great questions about life that constitute much of biology are "How does it work (structure and function)?" and "How did it get that way (evolu tion and ontogeny)?" Ethology addresses the antecedent of "it. " Of what are we trying to explain the mechanism and development? Surely behav ior, in all its wealth of detail, variation, causation, and control, is the main achievement of animal evolution, the essential consequence of animal structure and function, the raison d' etre of all the rest. Ethology thus spans between and overlaps with the ever-widening circles of ecol ogy over the eons and the ever-narrowing focus of physiology of the neurons. Another reason why the history of ethology needs perspectives is the recency of its acceptance. For such an obviously major aspect of animal biology, it is curious how short a time-less than three decades-has seen the excitement of an active field and a substantial fraternity of work ers, the addition of professors and courses to departments and curricula in biology (still far from universal}, and the normal complement of spe cial journals, symposia, and sessions at congresses.

Book Vocational Training in Italy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Istituto per lo sviluppo della formazione professionale dei lavoratori
  • Publisher : Berlin : European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Vocational Training in Italy written by Istituto per lo sviluppo della formazione professionale dei lavoratori and published by Berlin : European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training. This book was released on 1988 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document on vocational training in Italy contains eight chapters. Chapter 1 describes the population of Italy. Chapter 2 describes the Italian economy through the agricultural, industrial, and service sectors. Chapter 3 describes education and vocational training in Italy, including regional agricultural and nonagricultural vocational training, vocational training in industry and commerce, apprenticeship, and training and work contracts. Vocational guidance and vocational training and the labor market are also described in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 describes continuing training. Chapter 5 describes the historical development of education and vocational training in Italy. Chapter 6 identifies the responsible authorities for vocational training. Chapter 7 identifies the sources of funding for vocational training. Trends in vocational training in Italy are discussed in Chapter 8. (CML)

Book Typhoon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Conrad
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Typhoon written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: