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Offers the best general summary of the field, with a view toward fostering common disciplinary goals. Allen and Hoekstra begin with hierarchy theory as a basic premise and explain that the conventional 'levels' (ecosystems, landscapes, communities, populations, organisms) are not levels in themselves but criteria for observation.
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Remarkable approach to reconcile a pluralistic science under.......1999-08-09
The challenging idea to find a common point from where to unify a science as pluralistic in style, method, theory and subject as ecology, is taken up by the authors in a strikingly consistent way. The introduction of the notion of scale as a framework to re-order a vast amount of existing theories renders many new and provoking aspects to the scientists view on his or her own subject. Nevertheless, the authors never directly address implicit philosophical models of construction and re-construction they apply and hence fail to see there own work in a broader horizont. Instead, a certain reluctance to get to close to "esoteric argumentation" keeps them from any more theoretical justification that I charge as obligatory when a notion as strong as >scale
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Biodiversity in Drylands: Toward a Unified Framework (Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series)
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Biodiversity in Drylands, the first internationally based synthesis volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Series, unifies the concepts of species and landscape diversity with respect to deserts. Within this framework, the book treats several emerging themes, among them: DT how animal biodiversity can be supported in deserts DT diversity's relation to habitat structure, environmental variability, and species interactions DT the relation between spatial scale and diversity DT how to use a landscape simulation model to understand diversity DT microbial contributions to biodiversity in deserts DT species diversity and ecosystem processes DT resource partitioning and biodiversity in fractal environments DT effects of grazing on biodiversity DT reconciliation ecology and the future of conservation management In the face of global change, integration is crucial for dealing with the problem of sustaining biodiversity. This book promises to be a vital resource for students, researchers, and managers interested in integrative species, resource, and landscape diversities.
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This Symposium builds on the best science & technology available to assure that the data & info. produced in future inventory & monitoring programs are comparable, quality assured, available, & adequate for their intended purposes, thereby providing a reliable framework for characterization, assessment, & management of forest ecosystems in North America. Central to the syntheses delivered here was the conclusion that a fundamental improvement in the approaches used for inventorying & monitoring ecosystem resources is required to meet current & future environmental uncertainties. Specific actions to address these challenges are described.
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This is the 8th edition of the very popular Hidden Places of East Anglia. The cover, page layouts and maps in this edition have been completely redesigned to produce a very attractive and easy-to-use travel guide covering Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. The book is printed in full color and includes detailed directional maps and eye catching photographs. It is also packed with places of interest, places to stay and places to eat and drink full details of which are contained in a handy separate section. Norfolk is of course renowned for the Norfolk Broads, but this county of expansive horizons also offers visitors gentle rolling hills, a beautiful coastline with picturesque views and countryside rich in wildlife and nature. Suffolk is blessed with incomparable rural beauty with its meandering tidal rivers and numerous streams, brooks and gullies. Essex is a county that historically has a rich maritime tradition going back as far as Roman times, and in Colchester, possesses the oldest recorded town in England. Cambridgeshire is most famous for its ancient university as well as being the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Pepys.
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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East Anglia: Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk (Pallas Guides)
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EAST ANGLIA: Including Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgeshire and Essex (The Hidden Inns)
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The Hidden Inns of East Anglia is another great title in the Hidden Inns series of regional guides, which will cover "hidden" pubs and inns throughout the United Kingdom. The series originates from the enthusiastic suggestions of the landladies and landlords of inns reviewed in the Hidden Places series of travel guides and from Hidden Places readers who want to be directed to traditional inns with atmosphere and character, which are so much a part of our British heritage. The inns reviewed in the book may have been coaching inns and have definitely been a part of the history of the village or town in which they are located for many, many years. All of the inns reviewed have been visited by a Travel Publishing researcher and all serve food and drink. Many also offer the visitor accommodation. The guide covers inns and pubs in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire.
Norfolk is well known for its Broads, a landscape of gentle hills and expansive horizons, delightful pastoral scenes, a beautiful coastline rich in wildlife and many interesting places to visit. Suffolk was made famous by the brush of John Constable and is blessed with incomparable rural beauty, encompassing wide-open spaces broken by gentle hills and tidal rivers meandering from a coastline teeming with birdlife. Essex contains England's oldest recorded town (Colchester) and has a strong maritime tradition, pretty villages, a coastline with attractive estuaries and a rich history going back to Roman times. Cambridgeshire is famous for its ancient university and being the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Pepys it offers a wealth of peaceful and attractive countryside with many towns and villages steeped in history. Other Hidden Inns titles have received excellent reviews in the local and national press including television and radio.?
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East Anglia;: England's eastern province,
R. H Mottram
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The 6th edition of the Hidden Places of East Anglia has been completely redesigned to include a new cover and new page layouts. The Hidden Place of East Anglia is printed in full colour and includes detailed directional maps, eye catching photographs and is packed with places to eat, drink and stay. The beautiful region of East Anglia includes the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. Norfolk is renowned for the Norfolk Broads, as well as delightful scenes of gentle rolling hills, expansive horizons and a beautiful coastline charmed with picturesque views and endowed rich with wildlife and nature. Suffolk is blessed with incomparable rural beauty. Meandering tidal rivers and numerous streams, brooks and gullies intersect this beautiful land. Essex is a county that historically has a rich maritime tradition going back as far as Roman times, and has the oldest recorded town in England namely Colchester. Cambridgeshire is most famous for its ancient university as well as being the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Pepys. The new edition includes a stunning redesigned cover that incorporates an eye-catching photograph of a Windmill in Cley-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk
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This is the 9th edition of The Hidden Places of East Anglia which has been attractively updated and contains a wealth of interesting information on the history, the countryside, the towns and villages and the more established visitor attractions, but it also focuses on promoting the more secluded and little known places of interest and places to stay, eat and drink.
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X-Ray Microanalysis in the Electron Microscope (Practical Methods in Electron Microscopy)
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Surface Analysis by Electron Spectroscopy: Measurement and Interpretation (Updates in Applied Physics and Electrical Technology)
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The textbooks in this acclaimed series introduce the nonspecialist to the fundamentals and recent developments of a particular field. The current volume focuses on Auger electron spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, with an emphasis on current applications. Physicists, chemists, and materials scientists will learn principles of operation, some design theory, and assessment techniques.
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X-rays, Electrons and Analytical Chemistry
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Stability & Time-Optimal Control of Hereditary Systems - With Application to the Economic Dynamics of the US (2nd Edition) (Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences)
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Stability and Time-Optimal Control of Hereditary Systems is the mathematical foundation and theory required for studying in depth the stability and optimal control of systems whose history is taken into account. In this edition, the economic application is enlarged, and explored in some depth. The application holds out the hope that full employment and high income growth will be compatible with low prices and low inflation, provided that the control matrix has full rank, i.e., the existing controls are fully effectively used. The book concludes with a new appendix containing complete programs, data, graphs and quantitative results for the US economy.
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Great adventures of the sea and of the soul, related by a novelist considered one of the greatest writers in the language. Contains three of Conrad's most powerful stories —"Youth: A Narrative" (1898), "Typhoon" (1902) and "The Secret Sharer" (1910) — each probing deeply, suspensefully into the mysteries of human character.
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Leggat = The Captain: True or False?.......2006-08-28
In THE SECRET SHARER, Joseph Conrad posits an interesting choice for the Captain protagonist: should he follow maritime law and return a self-confessed murderer to his ship to face justice or should he allow his personal feelings to intrude and harbor a fugitive and let him escape? On the surface, this seems like a fairly routine choice, but in the world of Joseph Conrad no choices are ever easy. Readers who come to this novella from HEART OF DARKNESS are well aware that Conrad likes to place hesitancies in the minds of readers, most of which are couched in symbolic language which suggest a tapping into their psyches. In the case of the Captain, his choice is confounded by his perception of the man Leggatt who climbs aboard his ship. As the Captain sees Leggatt, he sees a man who is described in terms of one who is physically incomplete. Leggatt appears to be headless and as he ascends the rope from water to deck, Conrad's imagery suggests a watery re-birth. The Captain sees Leggatt and in the pages that follow calls him terms that circle back to himself: my double, my secret sharer, and my other self. It is clear that in Leggatt the Captain sees more than just a little bit of himself. They went to the same school with the Captain graduating only a few years prior. At this point, Conrad suggests that the Captain's decision not to hand Leggatt over to justice may not be simply a matter of identifying with Leggatt on a superficial level in that they merely share some common traits. With the Captain's heavily symbolic language, Conrad probes more deeply in the Captain's psyche and by extension in the reader's psyche by suggesting that the Captain's willingness to protect Leggatt even at the cost of his own career and the safety of his ship and crew lies in his subconscious linking of himself to Leggatt. For the Captain to hand over Leggatt to the law and to possible execution would be tantamount to being complicit in his own doom. To further complicate matters, on an even more subconscious level, Conrad raises the possibility that there is no Leggatt at all and that their entire relationship, replete with conversation, mutual interaction, and hiding Leggatt in his bathroom may have existed only within the Captain's mind. If this latter interpretation holds water, then in order for the Captain to maintain the illusion of Leggatt's existence, he had to act as if Leggatt truly existed, even to the point of endangering his ship by approaching too close to shore to allow Leggatt to jump off and swim to safety to a nearby isle. Conrad leaves the reader to ponder the state of mind of the Captain. When the Captain sees a floating hat at the end when Leggatt has jumped ship, that hat serves to remind the Captain and possibly the reader as well that the difference between reality and illusion may be no more significant than whether an abandoned hat floats or sinks in a stormy sea.
Actually..........2006-06-07
Just to clarify: English was Conrad's third language. Polish and French preceded it.
Should Have Been Kept a Secret.......2005-12-13
I am being a bit too harsh with the title to my review, but I really did not enjoy this short (but it seems so, so long) story. Just as Conrad's other novel, Heart of Darkness, has symbolism and deeper meanings- so follows the Secret Sharer. Simply, I did not like this book. I would have been completely lost if it were not for the helpful introduction written by Albert Guerard. I read the introduction after reading the story, and it shed a lot of light on the book. Though I did not enjoy the book, I am impressed with the man behind the book- I cannot believe that English is his second language. He also has an impressive personal life history- it seems as if he has experienced everything he writes about, this adds value to his works.
All good stuff.......2003-12-20
The Secret Sharer was one of the best books I've read in a long time. Even though it is really short there is a large amount of importance in every line. Whether its symbolism or some type of hidden meaning its there and it is what makes the book great.
Conrad puts you in the mind of of his characters and you seem to experience what they are going through. It gives you the sense that you are right there on the boat with the captain and his hidden passenger. You feel as if your the only one in on there little secret and if they are found out you will be too. Conrad then puts so much description into his characters you can actually get a feeling of what they look like and the way they act. The similarities between the two main characters is so great that at points you can't see a difference between them. This constantly keeps you on your toes and thinking about what is going on.
What makes the book though is the symbolism and how much meaning each little thing holds. You can read a paragraph and just take it s a regular story or you can think more into it and it holds so much more. It almost completely changes the way you look at what is happening.
This book is definitely worth reading. It makes you appreciate the genius that some people hold in there writing abilities. You will come out of this book with a changed perspective on the way things happen in life.
Uninteresting and Dreadful.......2002-10-01
I'm sorry, but this book is much too full of description and symbolism. If you juxtapose it to other short stories, I'm sure you will notice the negative difference. My advice is: Do not buy this book!! Find another one - you will enjoy it more! When you unpack the story, you'll find that the first paragraph is full of description about an empty ocean, all mysterious and strnage. Other settings are a ship deck and an L-shaped cabin. I think I need not say any more - this book is dreadful!
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Secret Sharer & Other Stories
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The Secret Sharer and Other Great Stories
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Secret Sharer and Other Stories
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Old soft cover book. Contents include Youth, The Secret Sharer, The Shadow Line, To the Reader: Conrad's Hero, Joseph Conrad: A Biographical Sketch, Themes in Conrad's Life and Writing, and A Selective Biography of Joseph Conrad.
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The Secret Sharer and Other Stories: Library Edition
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"The Secret Sharer" and Other Sea Stories (Collins English Library Level 4)
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