Wave-Swept Shore: The Rigors of Life on a Rocky Coast

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Take a close look at a wave-battered coast and you will discover a rich, fascinating, and remarkably brutal environment. Here, animals and plants exposed to wind, sun, and rain at low tide must cope with crashing waves as the seas rise to submerge them each day at high tide. How do living things survive in this harsh zone? With 87 stunning color photographs and an engaging text written for those with little or no knowledge of marine biology or physics, this book tells the story of one stretch along the Pacific coast of North America--introducing the mussels, limpets, crabs, grasses, starfish, kelp, and other animals and plants that live there, and explaining how they function and flourish in an environment of waves, sand, and rocks.
In pictures and words, Wave-Swept Shore explains complex phenomena, such as wave action, using simple, intuitive analogies. It explores how the forms of animals and plants affect their survival in this harsh environment, considers their distribution on the shore, and looks at their seasonal variations, focusing on what can be easily observed by visitors to the coast. Revealing the rich variety of habitats woven into what may at first look like a fairly uniform environment, the book, an effective and beautiful tool for learning about the edge of oceans everywhere, opens our eyes to the wonders of rocky shores and introduces a whole new way of looking at the natural world.

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An honor and pleasure to read..........2006-05-25

This book eminates respect for the natural ecosystems of our shorelines. Visually it left me in awe. I frequently walk the Oregon coastlines and the detailed images are causing me to take a closer look... I am equally eager to explore the text at deeper levels. We are purchasing a copy for evening reading at our beach house and anticipate that it will become a fabulous gift for all those on our list who share our passion for the sea...highly recommended *****

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Ackerman's orchid flora of PR VI.......2007-05-07

A concise, highly technical reference book - many drawings - though I cannot say it is "missing" information per se - as it is very detailed, I would have preferred color photo plates as well and then it would have been perfect.

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· A critically acclaimed budget travel guide with attitude, mixing an irreverent look at culture and politics with brutally honest dining, lodging, and sightseeing reviews; original, socially aware.
· Covers New York from the traditional sights like Ellis Island and the Met to dance clubs, Harlem attractions, and outer borough destinations.
· Researched, written, and edited by University of California at Berkeley students.
· Packed with sidebars full of trivia and fascinating facts on everything from famous Brooklynites to the Punk movement.
· Up-to-date information on politics and culture.
· Hundreds of recommended cheap eats and sleeps plus suggested splurges.
· What's low-cost or free.
· Loaded with outdoor activities.
· Travel information for gays, women, people with disabilities.
· 35 pages of maps.
· Complete destination/topic indexes.

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best travel book I have ever read.......1998-10-24

This book was funny, informative, and hip. It had information that was in none of the other travel books, and it is not boring like the Lonely Planet Guides. It was also organized in a great easy to read style. It lists places to eat for under five dollars which is great, too. A necessary book for the budget traveller.

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Statistics say most kids know less geography than ever - don't let that apply to your students! Start by making sure kids know the main places & geographic features in their own state. Give them activities that pretend they are taking a cross-state bike tour, using free football game passes, jogging through the state, etc. - & they'll find their way around in a hurry! Geography activities include info on New York counties, rivers, museums, historic places, sites of interest, colleges, bordering states, climate, topography, crops and more, all ready to reproduce! Approximately 30 activities and 200 geography-related places and facts are covered. Students work alone or in groups and use maps, reference books or resource people to complete challenging riddles, matching games, word searches, fill-in lists, scavenger hunts, and completion exercises that reinforce learning, sharpen research skills, and provide a lively introduction to New York. Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. Geography is critical - make learning it fun!

New York "jography!": A fun run through our state!

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New York "jography!": A fun run through our state!
Carole Marsh
Manufacturer: Gallopade Publishing Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006RGU8I

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Armored fishes and monster sharks, fishes with arms and fishes that breathe air--these and many other strange creatures are part of the remarkable story told in this book. In The Rise of Fishes, John Long traces the evolutionary history of fishes over the course of 500 million years, describes the discovery of extraordinary fossil remains, and explains the techniques used in their interpretation. Featuring more than 300 color illustrations, the book includes photographs of fossils from around the world as well as the author's dramatic color illustrations of what the fish may have actually looked like.

Long tells the story of how these creatures lived and developed and why their rise from the waters of the archaic seas and rivers onto land was so momentous an event in the evolution of life on earth. He combines current scientific information with entertaining stories about his own field work in Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Antarctica. Detailed, accessible, and lavishly illustrated, The Rise of Fishes is a book for anyone with an interest in evolution, fossils, or fish.

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Forget the dinosaurs!.......2005-04-28

This book should appeal to everyone who realizes that there is more to paleontology than dinosaurs and hominids! This was one of the first books to address fossil fishes as a popular read, though it is a pleasure for professionals as well. In fact, I often found myself glancing at some of the placoderm reconstructions during the course of my dissertation. The photos and illustrations, almost as abundant as text, are the most amazing part of this book. One really begins to realize the diversity of these dinosaur antecedents and marvel at the incredibly preserved specimens that Dr. Long and his Australian peers have uncovered. The Devonian actinopterygians on pages 41-42 look like they washed up on the beach yesterday! This book should be an integral part of anyone's paleolibrary, curious readers and paleoworkers alike.

A FASCINATING JOURNEY BACK THROUGH TIME.......2004-04-18

Curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Western Australian Museum in Perth, Western Australia, John A. Long is a thoughtful scholar. He writes in his introduction, "The story of fishes through time is also the story of changing continents and climates, devastating mass extinctions, and changing faunas and floras."

So begins a fascinating journey back through our planet's distant ages to begin the story of the evolution of fishes - the first creatures to have a skeleton. Armosred fishes, monster sharks, fishes with arms and fishes that breathe are all characters in this ongoing panorama of life then and now.

Some 220 vibrant color photographs plus numerous color drawings and black and white photos enhance this meticulously prepared volume.

For those with an interest in evolution, fossils or fish, The Rise of Fishes is not to be missed.

- Gail Cooke

Easy to read evolutionary history of fishes.......2000-11-27

Easy to read, containing hundreds of color illustrations, this reference nonetheless gives a detailed evolutionary history of the fishes. The reference starts with tunicates, cephalochordates and conodonts and moves on to the agnatha, sharks and the extinct acanthodians and placoderms. The emergence of the bony fish (class osteichthyes) in the late Silurian is then discussed. Major groups of this class include the ray-finned fishes (actinopterygii), the predatory lobe-finned fishes (crossopterygii) and the lungfishes (dipnoi), and each is discussed in more detail. The final chapter of the reference discusses the evolutionary transition from fish to tetrapod.

Fossil fish with a slight "Aussie" bias........1999-05-12

John A. Long, a vertebrate paleontologist in Perth, is proud of the fossil record found in Austrialia. In this book he presents a manageable overview, encompassing 500 million years of fish evolution, with some interesting anecdotes about his own research. Long is a talented writer and brilliant scientific educator with a gentle, but obvious, bias towards the "land down under". The Rise of Fishes is well organized and beautifully illustrated. Photography of fossil specimens and locations is artfully presented. The chapters on lungfish development and tetrapod evolution (independent of one another) are easily understood and well documented sections. It's certainly one of the most visually compelling reference books available for the amateur fossil hunter or professional icthyologist/vertebrate paleontologist.

An authorative synopsis of the evolution of fishes downunder.......1999-02-01

John Long presents a beautifully illustrated summary of the 500 million year evolution of arguably the most successful of the chordate faunas. If you have found the exclusion of Australian fishes from general texts on marine evolution irritating, then you'll be pleased at the wealth of information and photograph's on Australian - Gondwanaland - fishes that is contained within these pages. John is vertebrate curator at the West Australian Museum, has published over 80 scientific papers, and is author of the book "Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand ...". If you are a professional Paleontologist, or aspire to be, or an enthusiastic fossil-hunter, then this book is cumpulsory reading. Order it today!

The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution.: An article from: American Scientist

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The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution.: An article from: American Scientist

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The Rise of Fishes. 500 Million Years of Evolution.
John A. LONG
Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins Press
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ASIN: B000OREH3A

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K 2007 on with the show: Europe's premier plastics event takes place once again in Dusseldorf this October. K 2007 looks like it will be the biggest so ... An article from: Plastics Engineering

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K 2007 on with the show: Europe's premier plastics event takes place once again in Dusseldorf this October. K 2007 looks like it will be the biggest so ... An article from: Plastics Engineering
Peter Mapleston
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Plastics Engineering, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1807 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: K 2007 on with the show: Europe's premier plastics event takes place once again in Dusseldorf this October. K 2007 looks like it will be the biggest so far, with the addition of yet another hall. We find out what's on offer and get some market views from the K Exhibitor Council.
Author: Peter Mapleston
Publication: Plastics Engineering (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 63 Issue: 2 Page: 16(4)

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A great resource for teachers of chemistry

Chemistry in the Market Place

Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A great resource for teachers of chemistry.......1996-06-19

The title of this book is "Chemistry in the Marketplace", not "Chemistry in the Market Place". In its 674 pages, it provides a huge amount of practical, "real life" information that teachers of chemistry can use to enliven their presentations of the subject. Lay readers will be amazed to find how much chemistry is essential to their way of life.

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At the heart of modern cryptographic algorithms lies computational number theory. Whether you're encrypting or decrypting ciphers, a solid background in number theory is essential for success. Written by a number theorist and practicing cryptographer, Cryptanalysis of Number Theoretic Ciphers takes you from basic number theory to the inner workings of ciphers and protocols. First, the book provides the mathematical background needed in cryptography as well as definitions and simple examples from cryptography. It includes summaries of elementary number theory and group theory, as well as common methods of finding or constructing large random primes, factoring large integers, and computing discrete logarithms. Next, it describes a selection of cryptographic algorithms, most of which use number theory. Finally, the book presents methods of attack on the cryptographic algorithms and assesses their effectiveness. For each attack method the author lists the systems it applies to and tells how they may be broken with it. Computational number theorists are some of the most successful cryptanalysts against public key systems. Cryptanalysis of Number Theoretic Ciphers builds a solid foundation in number theory and shows you how to apply it not only when breaking ciphers, but also when designing ones that are difficult to break.

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Good textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate course.......2003-06-15

I read the book and is almost self contained. No knowledge in Number Theory is assumed. Has a great combination of text and math. Last few chapters could have been better.

Assistant Researcher.......2003-04-07

An excellent book. I am a beginning cryptographer with some statistics, discrete math, user level crypto and programming under my belt - crossing over from another field. This book is an excellent read with proper amounts of examples and theorems. It is easy to follow and would make a good reference.

Cryptanalysis of Number Theoretic Cipher

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Cryptanalysis of Number Theoretic Cipher
Samuel Wagstaff
Manufacturer: CRC PRESS INC @
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N65664

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For the first time, the collected prose of national treasure Nikki Giovanni

Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet
Nominated for the National Book Award, this is a journey -- both private and public -- through the trials and triumphs of 1960s America.

Sacred Cows ... And Other Edibles
Winner of the Ohioana Library Award, these fresh and wryly humorous essays explore some of America's lofty institutions and the poet's pivotal life experiences.

Racism 101
This collection of essays contributes a vital and critical chapter to the debate on American national values.

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Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OF0MRC

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