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Several cyanobacterial species can produce powerful toxins that provide a serious threat for water quality, other aquatic organisms, and human health. These harmful cyanobacteria are especially prominent in freshwater ecosystems, and are a major concern for water managers.
From a scientific perspective, there are many recent advances in this research area:
- Owing to the scientific revolution in genomics, new molecular techniques have been developed that enable the detection of toxic cyanobacteria at a very early stage.
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- Remote sensing of freshwater cyanobacteria is a rapidly expanding field, owing to the increased spectral resolution of airborne data.
- New computational techniques have led to advanced models on the population dynamics of cyanobacteria.
From a management perspective, recognition of the toxins produced by harmful cyanobacteria has recently led to new environmental policies with respect to toxic cyanobacteria in many western countries.
The purpose of this work is to provide an up-to-date overview of the advances in our knowledge of harmful cyanobacteria. The work is directed towards graduate students and scientists in aquatic microbiology, aquatic ecology, environmental toxicology, and water management, and academic professionals in water management and environmental policy.
"This is an outstanding volume that should be a 'must-see' reference for all scientists and environmental professionals who are interested in cyanobacterial ecology and water quality management."
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Fifth in a series of wild flower guides to regions of South Africa, published by the Botanical Society of South Africa.
Six wild flower walks are featured: 1) Sir Lowry's Pass; 2) Nuweberg; 3) Jan Joubert's Gat; 4) Jonkershoek; 5) Kleinmond; 6) Bettys Bay; and 7) Hermanus.
The book is thoroughly illustrated with full-color photos, which accompany descriptions and species names of the wild flowers of the region.
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Namaqualand (South African Wild Flower Guide)
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West Coast (South African Wild Flower Guide)
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Of all the hardships a traveler might face--war, plague, earthquakes, bad potato salad--few are as daunting as dealing with the Indian civil service. So we learn from Rory Nugent, a journalist and sailor who got it in his head some years ago that he had to catch a glimpse of Rhodonessa caryophyllacea, the Himalayan pink-headed duck last seen in 1935. Having finally made his way through the Calcutta bureaucracy to obtain a visa to northwestern India, Nugent was obliged to survive encounters with pirates, Gurkha separatists, Tantrist necrophiliacs, a curse on his head, suspect food, a raft trip down the malarial Brahmaputra River, and an endless-loop cassette of Jethro Tull's greatest hits. Nugent may or may not have spotted his duck by journey's end (his sighting is unconfirmed), but in this amusing and eventful account, the search for the creature is a worthy end in itself.
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Fun travel essay, so-so natural history book .......2004-12-06
Bird watcher Rory Nugent one day heard about the pink-headed duck (_Rhodonessa caryophyllacea_), a species of waterfowl once known from northeastern India. Its Hindi name gulab-sir, the last confirmed sighting of it was in 1935 by a sportsman hunting in the Darbhanga area of Bihar. Never a particularly common animal, it only turned up occasionally during in the Raj in such places as the open markets of Gangtok, Sikkim. Never successfully bred in captivity despite several efforts, the bird was presumed to have gone extinct when most of its prime habitat - marshland around Calcutta - was destroyed though some naturalists held out hope that it may have lingered on in other areas of marsh in the Bengal plain and in northeast India (much of it which is fairly isolated and not well explored by naturalists).
Nugent became enamored with the animal, sold his apartment, put his belongings into storage, and set out to India to try and find the animal. The book he wrote, _The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck_, is his account of his many months of travels in northern and eastern India.
The first half of the book is about him essentially asking about the bird, sometimes in areas and with people whom he suspects have little likelihood of knowing anything about the animal. He spends weeks investigating the fowl markets of Calcutta, checking in every day to see if one has turned up or if anyone knows anything about the bird. Though greeted with suspicion at first, the locals soon warm up to him, calling him the Duck Man, and while providing little if any information do show him many kindnesses. Eventually though as word gets out he is offering a reward for any information on the bird - or the bird itself - a parade of painted birds (including some birds that weren't even ducks) were offered to him for sale. After buying a few so that he could clean them off and set them free, he realized that he had established a precedent he didn't care much for - that he would buy just about anything - and he moved on.
Journeying to the capital of New Delhi, he spent literally months trying to get permission to visit some of the most remote areas of northeastern India. At first treated as if he were some sort of spy - though not a very good one - he is later treated as a crazy man (officials incredulous that he is looking for a mere duck), though later many of the officials at the ministry warm to him. Though they deny his requests repeatedly, they are not unfriendly and give him advice on how to appeal each decision as it is made.
As the lengthy process to grant him approval winds its way through the labyrinth of bureaucracy, Nugent took two side trips that had really nothing to do with his quest. During the course of his travels he met several individuals who implored him as a visiting westerner and obviously a journalist of some type to expose to the world their various causes. One, a Buddhist named Ganju Lama convinced Nugent to journey with him to Tibet to verify Chinese wrong-doing, but through a series of misadventures he does not actually reach Tibet. Another he met introduced him to key leaders - indeed the key leader, Subash Ghising - of the Gurkha National Liberation Front, people who impress among Nugent the "rightness" of their cause of Gurkha autonomy if not independence. All of this was interesting and at times hilarious but had absolutely nothing to do with the pink-headed duck (making for good travel writing but not so good natural history writing).
The second half of the book I found a bit more interesting and a bit more on-topic with the book's title. Just by happenstance meeting in a bookstore in New Delhi a man named Shankar Barua who had roughly similar interests, the two hatch a scheme (after Nugent finally won approval for his journeys) to buy a boat and journey down the mighty Brahmaputra River, an immense 2,900 kilometer river that begins in Tibet and winds its way through India and Bangladesh on its way to the sea. They purchase a boat that Shakar names _Lahey-Lahey_ (Assamese for "Slowly, slowly"), a tiny boat that is ten feet at the waterline, twelve long overall and "at her beamiest" is thirty-inches. Though Nugent, a sailor, admires her lines, the boat continually under whelmed most of the locals who saw it.
This journey was Nugent's best chance to spot the duck, and in truth he described very briefly a lot of the wildlife he saw, which included crested serpent eagles, storks, ibises, bitterns, kingfishers, Ganges dolphins, mergansers, pariah kites, and even a rarely seen fishing cat (though a bit too briefly I thought and there are no pictures of these animals; lots of nice pictures instead of the people he met, boats he saw, and some of the buildings and other sites). He saw lots of ducks - including a great many pochards, a species of which does faintly resemble the pink-headed duck in having a red head - I don't think I am spoiling anything by saying Nugent does not get his bird.
He has lots of adventures during his long river journey as he is treated with awe, suspicion, humor, or respect at various times because he was a "firang" or foreigner (being the first white person many along the river had ever seen; many had wondered what was the matter with Nugent that made him looked the way he did). Nugent and Shakar, warned of pirates and crocodiles, found little of either but did have trouble with a whirlpool. They met a variety of interesting people, including Tantrists (who believe that sexual energy is the purest form of energy) and "bongs" (sailors from Bangladesh, not recorded a great deal of respect by the Indians).
An interesting book, sometimes very funny, fairly light on natural history though a good travel essay otherwise.
Hunter S. Thompson's illegitimate son does India.......1997-05-05
A goofy book that would do the good Doktor proud with its gonzo traveling companions including ex-chefs for the governor of New York, now Hindu mystics, Kashmiri seperatists, and smugglers. Probably one of the last travel books to truely visit real unexplored territory. This book is a rollicking picaresque tale where the humor and liveliness of the people and country are vividly illustrated without an underlying self-discovery subtext. Not neccessarily a Pulitzer winner, but a great time, like a good Bond movie
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The World in Time of Marie Antoinette (The World in the Time of)
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Systematics and Biogeography: Cladistics and Vicariance
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This digital document is a journal article from Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Paleobiogeographic patterns within the Amphisbaenia were evaluated using the modified Brooks Parsimony Analysis (BPA) and recently published morphological and molecular phylogenies. Extant amphisbaenians are present in Africa, South America, North America, Europe, and the Middle East. The modified BPA was used to determine the relative effects of Pangean breakup, sea-level change, and climate change on evolutionary and distributional patterns within the Amphisbaenia. The modified BPA also tested the biogeographic effect of the Rhineuridae's phylogenetic position as either most basal in the morphologic phylogeny or most derived in the molecular phylogeny. The morphological and molecular analyses resulted in two different biogeographic hypotheses. The morphological analysis indicated three major biogeographic regions for the Amphisbaenia: 1) Africa, South America, and the Caribbean, 2) western Asia, and 3) North America. The molecular analysis indicated two major biogeographic regions: 1) Africa, western Asia, and North America, and 2) South America. The morphological biogeographic pattern corresponds with the known timing of the breakup of Pangea and the resulting paleogeographic reconstructions of the Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic. While the molecular pattern is similar to patterns recovered from dinosaurian biogeographic studies, the closer connection of Africa with North America rather than South America does not match well-constrained geologic evidence for the sequence of Pangean breakup. Both paleobiogeographic analyses, however, resulted in congruent patterns of speciation through vicariance and geodispersal. This suggests that in addition to the breakup of Pangea, such cyclical Earth history processes as sea-level and climate changes played an important role in the biogeographic patterns of the Amphisbaenia.
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Distributional history of the South American endemic group Tristiridae was reconstructed applying DIVA. The results suggest that Tristiridae originated within an area currently represented by Puna and Patagonia. Three lineages split thence: one dispersed into Desert, a second one became restricted to Patagonia and a third persisted in the original areas. The latter lineage underwent a vicariant event that split Puna and Patagonia, and dispersed from Puna to Yungas and Central Chile. A subsequent vicariant event divided Puna and Yungas from Central Chile. Finally, Puna was separated from Yungas, possibly due to a vicariant or dispersal event. In order to interpret biogeographical events that affected the family Tristiridae, these results are contrasted with the major geologic events occurring in South America since early Miocene.
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In this paper, we develop a five-step approach for analysis of historical relationships among areas of endemism using a set of 22 clades (9 mammal, 7 bird, 4 reptile, 1 amphibian, and 1 cactus) drawn from the warm deserts biota of western North America. As has been suggested in previous studies of portions of this biota, our results suggest a complex biogeographic history, but with substantial support for the influence of several major vicariant events in the diversification and assembly of the aridlands biota. We discuss and demonstrate the reciprocal strengths (and weaknesses) of phylogeography and phylogenetic biogeography for defining areas of endemism, analysing vicariance and dispersal, and dealing with temporal and spatial pseudo-congruence.
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Biocatalysts for Fine Chemicals Synthesis (Catalysts for Fine Chemicals Synthesis)
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Replacing the very successful loose-leaf format, this invaluable set of protocols covers those areas where cells and enzymes have been proven to be useful catalysts.
From 1992-1997 Preparative Biotransformations was published in the loose-leaf format. During this time 800 pages of detailed protocols on the use and handling of cells and enzymes in organic synthesis were collected. This collection of protocopls has become very valuable and useful. Today's chemists are expected to be able to use enzymes as normal catalysts. In this key reference source, anyone working in area of synthesis will find the necessary techniques and skills to master the problems of using these 'non-chemical' catalysts. It includes:
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Biocatalysts in Organic Syntheses (Studies in Organic Chemistry No 22)
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Immobilized Biocatalysts: An Introduction
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Computation of Unsteady Internal Flows provides an in-depth understanding of unsteady flow modeling and algorithms. This understanding enables suitable algorithms and approaches for particular fields of application to be selected. In addition, the understanding of the behavior of algorithms gained allows practitioners to use them more safely in existing codes, enabling meaningful results to be produced more economically. Features of Computation of Unsteady Internal Flows: Specialized unsteady flow modeling algorithms, their traits, and practical tips relating to their use are presented. Case studies considering complex, practically significant problems are given. Source code and set-up files are included. Intended to be of a tutorial nature, these enable the reader to reproduce and extend case studies and to further explore algorithm performances. Mathematical derivations are used in a fashion that illuminates understanding of the physical implications of different numerical schemes. Physically intuitive mathematical concepts are used. New material on adaptive time stepping is included. £/LIST£ Audience: Researchers in both the academic and industrial areas who wish to gain in-depth knowledge of unsteady flow modeling will find Computation of Unsteady Internal Flows invaluable. It can also be used as a text in courses centered on computational fluid dynamics.
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A twentieth-century classic,
Appointment in Samarra is the first and most widely read book by the writer Fran Leibowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville social circuit is electrified with parties and dances, where the music plays late into the night and the liquor flows freely. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English—the envy of friends and strangers alike. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction.
Appointment in Samarra brilliantly captures the personal politics and easy bitterness of small-town life. It is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement, and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence of a major American novelist.
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An extremely honest work........2007-07-26
O'Hara introduces his main character and drives straight and hard to the story's conclusion. He writes peceptively about marital relations, and about how men and women think about sexual acts. I was really surprised at how directly and perceptively he writes about sex.
He is in complete control of this work from beginning to end, and it never for a moment sounds false or romantisized.
Fear in a handful of dust.......2007-07-17
John O'Hara's first novel detailing the lives of the wealthy and the sordid among the smart set of Gibbsville (a thinly disguised Pottsville, PA) made a sensation when it came out in the early years of the Depression, and, reading it now, it's very easy to see why. Although O'Hara writes about the same sorts of characters here that his contemporary Fitzgerald detailed, he avoids for the most part Fitzgerald's chivalric sentimentalism. As in his later BUTTERFIELD 8, one character among O'Hara's assortment of the well-to-do makes a terrible dramatic gesture that sets off a chain of events that ultimately results in that character's doom, thus demonstrating the tremendous power of this social world (held together by its nasty array of prejudices, snobberies, and cruelties). Few writers could capture the rhythms of early 20th-century conversation so well as O'Hara did, and the give-and-takes between husband and wife, master and servant, mother and daughter are a real pleasure to read.
THE VOICE OF THE 'SMART SET' .......2007-04-22
John O'Hara is a novelist who has undeservedly faded from the top ranks of American writers. At one time he was, not without reason, compared most favorably with contemporaries like Dos Passos, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Well, so much for literary fashions. Here, in his first novel, O'Hara explores the trials and tribulations of three eventful days in the lives of a conventionally rich young Philadephais Main Line(fictional Gibbsville, to be exact, a scene for more than one of his later novels) country club set couple, Julian and Caroline English, and the narrowness of their little world and the poverty of their horizons. O'Hara always had a good ear for describing the contradictions and the frustrations of the essential meaninglessness of life for these denizens of the small town `smart set', a preview of the homogenization of business-oriented society that would burst out after World War II in the sagas of the men in the grey flannel suits and their families. Julian English is their father or older brother. And his fate is not pretty. Moreover, there is the catch. As expressed in an Arabian parable in the front of the book- you cannot escape your fate, even if you, as Julian desperately did, take action to move away the horror of it. Well, maybe. But read the book.
B O R I N G.......2007-04-09
Recommendation from HEmmigway which says it all. If you like Hemmingway, you MAY like O'Hara
Appointment reading..........2007-04-01
Some books listed on the MLA 100 are boring, bloated, monstrosities. This one isn't. It is art, but it is also accessible. You will finish it quickly, you will appreciate the style, and you will never find a dull passage. This may be a good gateway book...give someone Ulysses to start off with, and they may run screaming into the wilderness. Give someone Appointment in Samarra, and you may assist in the formation of a lifelong reader.
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Appointment in Samarra
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