Primate Anatomy, Second Edition: An Introduction

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Primates include a wide variety of mammals from the relatively ancient lineages of lemurs on Madagascar and tiny tarsiers of Southeast Asia to the gorillas of montane Africa. Of course, humankind are also primates - one twig on the primate evolutionary tree. Primate Anatomy: An Introduction, Second Edition is a succinct and readable survey of primatology focusing particularly on the anatomy of primates. Following an introduction, the chapters are organized by organ system. Also included are chapters dealing with reproduction, chromosomes, blood groups, and molecular studies of primate evolution. This book would be ideal for an introductory course in primatology and should appeal to both faculty and students who need a brief treatment of the essentials of primatology.

* The only introductory text on primatology on the market
* First time comprehensive survey of molecular primatology
* Plenty of information that is not found in other textbooks
* Up-to-date discussion of all aspects of taxonomy and anatomy
* Many unique and informative illustrations, charts, and tables

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Comprehensive Guide for SE Oregon, SW Idaho, and N Nevada.......2000-09-17

This is the ultimate botanical sourcebook for Steens and surrounding areas of Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada. Finally a single book covering this area, which as the author points out, contains plants at their geographic limit from several different floristic regions of the West. I was pleased to see a key included. So many popular field guides have forgone keys and only include select species. This key includes every species known from Steens and adjacent areas. If you have ever found yourself frustrated because the plant at hand isn't in your book, this is for you.

For the most part, the organization of the book is good. I was disappointed to see monocots and dicots lumped together in one alphabetic section. The author's intent was to make use easier for the amateur, but I found it frustrating. The black and white illustrations are well done. I found the color plates disappointing. Because of the quality of the paper, the ink has soaked in, obscuring detail and toning down contrast. However, it is easy to overlook this short-coming because of the wealth of information in one convenient source.

no coffee table book.......2000-04-12

This is a great guide to the plants of Steens mountains, very detailed. If you are only casually interested in the plants of this area, be forewarned that this is not a picture book, but rather a key with excellent descriptions.

Excellent field guide!.......2000-03-31

This is the most comprehensive field guide of any sort that I have ever seen! It's perfectly designed to help one identify any unknown plant in the Steens. Having been to the Steens Mountains I've witnessed the great diversity of the flora and the detail put into this guide for each individual specimen is most impressive!

Vascular flora of Steens Mountain, Oregon (Journal of the Idaho Academy of Science)

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Vascular flora of Steens Mountain, Oregon (Journal of the Idaho Academy of Science)
Donald H Mansfield
Manufacturer: Idaho Academy of Science
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This volume focuses on the transient gene expression technologies for recombinant protein production and gene therapy. It provides coverage of an important issue in Cell Engineering by internationally authoritative experts. Topics covered range from the use of baculovirus, adenovirus, adeno-associated virus and alphavirus vectors in biopharmaceutical, genomics and gene delivery research, to large-scale transfection of plasmid DNA into cultured cells for bioreactor applications. This book illuminates all the scientific and technological issues involved in the research, development, production, and human use of viral and non-viral vectors for in vitro and in vivo expression of recombinant proteins, thus making it an essential reference for cell culture technologists, virologists, and scientists interested in gene therapy.

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This practical guide will tell you everything you need to know about the proper handling of numeric data. Compiled from widely scattered sources, this definitive reference volume offers information on coordinating data from many disciplines. The volume gathers the recommendation for publication of data for measurements of a physical chemical nature together with current IUPAC recommendations for quantities, symbols, and units. A unified reference source for all authors of scientific publications!

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The book contains a unitary and systematic presentation of both classical and very recent parts of a fundamental branch of functional analysis: linear semigroup theory with main emphasis on examples and applications. There are several specialized, but quite interesting, topics which didn't find their place into a monograph till now, mainly because they are very new. So, the book, although containing the main parts of the classical theory of C o-semigroups, as the Hille-Yosida theory, includes also several very new results, as for instance those referring to various classes of semigroups such as equicontinuous, compact, differentiable, or analytic, as well as to some nonstandard types of partial differential equations, i.e. elliptic and parabolic systems with dynamic boundary conditions, and linear or semilinear differential equations with distributed (time, spatial) measures. Moreover, some finite-dimensional-like methods for certain semilinear pseudo-parabolic, or hyperbolic equations are also disscussed. Among the most interesting applications covered are not only the standard ones concerning the Laplace equation subject to either Dirichlet, or Neumann boundary conditions, or the Wave, or Klein-Gordon equations, but also those referring to the Maxwell equations, the equations of Linear Thermoelasticity, the equations of Linear Viscoelasticity, to list only a few. Moreover, each chapter contains a set of various problems, all of them completely solved and explained in a special section at the end of the book.

The book is primarily addressed to graduate students and researchers in the field, but it would be of interest for both physicists and engineers. It should be emphasised that it is almost self-contained, requiring only a basic course in Functional Analysis and Partial Differential Equations.

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Perfect, for a Joyce fan who owns Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.......2006-02-07

ANOTHER HOMERUN BY PENGUIN PORTABLE LIBRARY!!!!!

This is a very impressive sampling of one of the greatest manipulators of the English language, the member of the great trimverte of modern prose writers, who stands tall with Marcel Proust (1871-1922) and Thomas Mann(1875-1955).

I was very surprised that it not only contains his great collection of short stories which convey a great sense of Dublin, Dubliners (1914), but it has the complete novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Not only that, it has all the poetry the man ever wrote (or at least all that sees the light in our modern times). AND...if that is not enough for you, it also contains his 1918 play Exiles. It also contains a sampling of his more complicated great stream of consciousness novels from his mature period and they are the great masterpiece of stream of consciousness writing which established it as a modern art form, Ulysses (1922) and the incredible, controversial, mind boggling epic that is Finnegans Wake (1939).
To read the latter is hard and to understand it is just about impossible. Think of it as a final statement of Joyce's art, sort of forging a new language, going beyond the constricing limits of the English Language or, if you're like most of it's "victims," think of it as a prelonged and rediculous practical joke. Whatever you think about this guy, you can't help but remember the writings of James Joyce (1882-1941).

A good sample of Joyce .......2005-01-16

In a way all of Joyce's themes are contained in miniature 'Dubliners' and ' Portrait of an Artist'. Both of these are included in this anthology. There are also in the anthology chapters from ' Ulysses' and from ' Finnegan's Wake'. One of the distinguished Joyce scholars of the previous generation Harry Levin writes the introduction. The reader of this volume will get in miniature the collective portrait of the city Dublin, the story of the artistic quest of the Joyce alter ego Stephen Daedelaus ( including the renunciation of church, homeland, and family) the attempt to transform all of life and history into a new language which the reader is required to read ' all the years of the nights of his life'. The vast Joycean ambition and enterprise, the magical lyrical verbal art, the maker - remaker - creator the giant of twentieth century and world literature is the lyrical taddy carrying us along to one of the most brilliant of all literary toy fairs.
Enjoy it.

Laptop Joyce.......2000-10-06

Laptop Joyce

This is an admirable effort that includes all of "Dubliners," "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," the play "Exiles," a collection of poems, including "Chamber Music" and "Pomes Penyeach," five chapters from "Ulysses," and three from Finnegan's Wake. The entire volume is introduced briefly (16 pages); each major work has a short preface as well. Not surprisingly, such brevity omits the many interpretations of Joyce's works, and much background material. But this is a good get-your-feet-wet volume: An introduction to the major themes and styles of Joyce that can be approached by readers of varying experience.

"Dubliners" is easily comprehended at first reading (although the reader may choose to pursue its many layers by reading books that focus on interpretation), and may encourage the extra effort (and resulting pleasures) sometimes required for the other material. The inclusion of a few chapters from "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake" afford a sampling of the author's more "difficult" books. I don't think the reader will come away with an appreciation of the total book (how could one?), but will gain some familiarity with Joyce's more complex works.

Should you buy this compact, thick, version, or the works individually? I think there are two groups to whom the book will appeal: The reader who wants a fairly comprehensive introduction to Joyce, and the Joyce-fan who knows he or she would like a portable collection. Both types will forfeit some ease of reading (the print is small, but surprisingly clear), the complete text of the longer books, and literary "decoding" and criticism for the convenience and savings of one volume. For these readers, this volume is highly recommended.

For a little more money, get a lot more JOYCE!.......1999-11-03

I was out on a shopping venture intending to buy a copy of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" when I stumbled on to this Joyce volume. For only $4 more, this is well worth it. Not only does this include "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", but it also includes Joyce's revolutionary short story collection, "Dubliners". Levin also includes samples of other Joyce writings including pieces of "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". The writings of Joyce speak for themselves; therefore, anyone serious about literature already knows they should read Joyce. Since it is not necessary to tell the literary public to read Joyce, I just wanted everyone to know that this volume contains a lot more Joyce for not too much more money.

A fantastic collection of Joyce's major works.......1999-03-22

Within the pages of the Portable James Joyce the reader will find two of the greatest works of all time, his Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Additionally, Levin has included exerts from Joycs's epic stream of consciousness works, Ulyssis and Finnegan's Wake. But what I found the most pleasant was the inclusion of some of Joyce's lesser acclaimed poetry, including Chamber Music and his three act play Exiles. Harry Levin has strung together all of what has made Joyce the worlds prominent literary artist while also providing for alternative perspectives of his voice and genius. Truly a must for any Joycean and students of the writen word.

THE PORTABLE IRISH READER: Ireland; Letter to Robert Bryanton; Good Manners; Adventures in Connemara; On Bicycles; On the Boer War; The Beginnings of Joyce; On Never Going to the British Museum; Spreading the News; A Night at an Inn; Riders to the Sea

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THE PORTABLE IRISH READER: Ireland; Letter to Robert Bryanton; Good Manners; Adventures in Connemara; On Bicycles; On the Boer War; The Beginnings of Joyce; On Never Going to the British Museum; Spreading the News; A Night at an Inn; Riders to the Sea
Diarmuid (editor) (Dora Sigerson Shorter; Oliver Goldsmith; Jonathan Swift; Maria Edgeworth; T. M. Healy; John Eglinton; Robert Lynd; Lady Gregory; Lord Dunsany; John M. Synge; George Berkeley; James Bryce; C. E. Montague; E. E. Somerville) Russell
Manufacturer: Viking Press
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The Portable James Joyce

Manufacturer: Viking
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Literature Portable Anthology & Dead
Janet E. Gardner , Beverly Lawn , Jack Ridl , Peter Schakel , and James Joyce
Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
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The Portable
James Joyce
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The Portable D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
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THE PORTABLE JAMES JOYCE
Harry Levin
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THE PORTABLE JAMES JOYCE
Harry (Editor) Levin
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Portable James Joyce

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