The Elkhorn Slough and Moss Landing

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Small Prints

industrious ghostly apparitions

The Elkhorn Slough and Moss Landing
Michael Kenna
Manufacturer: M. Kenna and Elkhorn Slough Foundation
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Kenna, Michael | ( J-L ) | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006P8VUU

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Small Prints.......2004-01-28

The book shows Kenna's camera views of the Moss Landing area. Pictures are superb, calm, quiet yet minimalistic.
I can only imagine how much work was achieved to catch the atmosphere of this place, which IMHO could be wet&flat&banal at a glance. It's the best of Kenna's book. No heavy constructions, no dramatic shades, simplicity and poetry. I can only recommend it. Cover photograph is familiar, but it's not the best one of the book.

industrious ghostly apparitions.......2000-03-27

a storm threatens off-shore. the wind is blowing in from the west pushing the surf towards you. the day has become dark, ominous, grey. towering above, smokestacks can be seen to cough...up... towards the sky. the possibility of smelling green is there...fleeting...now here, now there! is the tide rising with the storm? leaving?

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Discover one of Californias few remaining wetlands.

In these beautifully illustrated pages, youll explore a narrow, winding waterway edged with marshy and muddy ground where plants and wildlife find a rich home. Birds, fishes and others gather here in numbers matched by few other habitats. People, too, are drawn to Elkhorn Slough (pronounced slew), where mists rise off the tide flats as the sun peeks over coastal hills, and the sound of wind through beating wings is punctuated by a curlews call. Monterey Bay Aquariums Natural History Series brings you closer to the living marine and coastal communities of the nations largest marine sanctuary, where youll come face to face with some of the more interesting residents. Produced by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Press, these books will stimulate your curiosity and understanding of the natural world.

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Taxonomy of the early life stages of fishes: Fishes of the Sacramento-San Joaquin estuary and Moss Landing Harbor-Elkhorn Slough, California
Johnson C. S Wang
Manufacturer: Ecological Analysts
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Fish & Sharks | Animals | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006Y0MEY

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Temporal and spatial linkages between watershed land use and wetland vegetation response in the Elkhorn Slough watershed, Monterey County, California : (Dissertation)
Kristin Bruere Byrd
Manufacturer: ProQuest Information and Learning
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000FIKKQQ
Release Date: 2006-04-23

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Larval settlement can explain the adult distribution of Mytilus californianus Conrad but not of M. galloprovincialis Lamarck or M. trossulus Gould in Moss ... of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology]

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Larval settlement can explain the adult distribution of Mytilus californianus Conrad but not of M. galloprovincialis Lamarck or M. trossulus Gould in Moss ... of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology]
S.B. Johnson , and J.B. Geller
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RR8AU8

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, published by Elsevier in . 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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We investigated the spatial distribution of adult and newly settled mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, Mytilus trossulus Gould and Mytilus californianus Conrad) on the shore at Moss Landing, California to test the hypothesis that adult distributions are a result of settlement patterns. Adult M. californianus were most abundant on a wave-exposed rocky jetty and adults of Blue mussels (M. trossulus and M. galloprovincialis) were more abundant inside the protected Moss Landing harbor. Using taxon-specific polymerase chain reactions, we monitored recruitment during continuous 1-2 week intervals on fibrous scrubbing pads for 12 months in 2002-2003. All mussel species settled in greatest numbers on the exposed jetty, and Blue mussels settled in greater numbers there than did M. californianus. Because Blue mussels settled abundantly where their adults were rare, post-settlement mortality appeared to be the strongest influence on adult distribution. In contrast, M. californianus settled mostly in their adult habitat.

Archaeological investigations at Elkhorn Slough: CA-MNT-229 : a middle period site on the central California coast (Papers in northern California anthropology)

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Archaeological investigations at Elkhorn Slough: CA-MNT-229 : a middle period site on the central California coast (Papers in northern California anthropology)
Stephen A Dietz
Manufacturer: Northern California Anthropological Group
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Binding: Unknown Binding

C-CAP, Coastal Change Analysis Program land cover changes in the San Francisco Bay and Elkhorn Slough areas of California, 1986 to 1993 (SuDoc C 55.54:SA 5 F/CD)

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C-CAP, Coastal Change Analysis Program land cover changes in the San Francisco Bay and Elkhorn Slough areas of California, 1986 to 1993 (SuDoc C 55.54:SA 5 F/CD)
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Manufacturer: The Center
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Tidelands | Ecosystems | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B00010WX3G

A checklist of the fishes of the Monterey Bay area including Elkhorn Slough, the San Lorenzo, Pajaro and Salinas Rivers: Annual report, part 2, July 1972 ... from the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)

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A checklist of the fishes of the Monterey Bay area including Elkhorn Slough, the San Lorenzo, Pajaro and Salinas Rivers: Annual report, part 2, July 1972 ... from the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)
Gary E Kukowski
Manufacturer: Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Contributions from the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, no. 26. Technical publication 72-2

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Contributions from the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, no. 26. Technical publication 72-2
Gary E Kukowski
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Cumulative impact assessment in environmental planning: A coastal wetland watershed example (Reprint)

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Cumulative impact assessment in environmental planning: A coastal wetland watershed example (Reprint)
Thomas G Dickert
Manufacturer: Institute of Urban & Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Written by knowledgeable locals, this guide covers every aspect of Mallorca and Menorca, from the glorious beaches to eight specially commissioned walks through impressive natural areas. There’s critical coverage of more than 700 accommodations, from rustic to ritzy, along with insider guides to the best of island cuisine and the robust wine industry. As always, the listings have been rechecked, re-researched, and rewritten as necessary, while updated maps help visitors make the most of their time.

Charming Small Hotel Guides: Spain Including Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formenters (Charming Small Hotel Guides Spain)

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Charming Small Hotel Guides: Spain Including Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formenters (Charming Small Hotel Guides Spain)

Manufacturer: Hunter Pub Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1556506740

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The Eaglet in the Americas
John Mariner
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1412045371
Release Date: 2006-07-06

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The Eaglet in the Americas is the third book in the Eaglet Trilogy. It reflects, without inhibitions, 1759 and the horrors of the Seven Years War with France.

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Baedeker's Majorca
Baedeker Guides , and Fodor's
Manufacturer: Random House, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0749519886
Release Date: 1999-05-25

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THE BALEARICS (ISLANDS OF ENCHANTMENT)

Manufacturer: Rand McNally & Comany
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000E929XI

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"The Balearics are a dazzling world of light and water, both of which are to be found in the narratives and sumptuous collection of photographs that tell the tale of sea and rock, hill and tree, man and his works."

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The Balearics: Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza
Eric Whelpton
Manufacturer: Travel Book Club
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Berlitz Travel Guide - Majorca and Minorca

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Berlitz Travel Guide - Majorca and Minorca
Editions Berlitz
Manufacturer: BERLITZ
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Conquests and reconquests of Menorca
Micaela Mata
Manufacturer: M. Mata
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Spain | Europe | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 8439813872

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The Eaglet at the Battle of Minorca
John Mariner
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1412055571
Release Date: 2006-07-06

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The first book in the Eaglet Trilogy.

Enter Into the Kitchen of Majorica Minorca Ibiza and Formentera

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Enter Into the Kitchen of Majorica Minorca Ibiza and Formentera
Caty Juan De Corral
Manufacturer: Alpha 3 Servicios Editoriales
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W0BFFM

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As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues—such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines—are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes. The accelerating circulation of human tissue fragments raises profound social and ethical concerns related to who donates or sells bodily tissue, who receives it, and who profits—or does not—from the transaction. Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell survey the rapidly expanding economies of exchange in human tissue, explaining the complex questions raised and suggesting likely developments. Comparing contemporary tissue economies in the United Kingdom and United States, they explore and complicate the distinction that has dominated practice and policy for several decades: the distinction between tissue as a gift to be exchanged in a transaction separate from the commercial market and tissue as a commodity to be traded for profit.

Waldby and Mitchell pull together a prodigious amount of research—involving policy reports and scientific papers, operating manuals, legal decisions, interviews, journalism, and Congressional testimony—to offer a series of case studies based on particular forms of tissue exchange. They examine the effect of threats of contamination—from HIV and other pathogens—on blood banks’ understandings of the gift/commodity relationship; the growth of autologous economies, in which individuals bank their tissues for their own use; the creation of the United Kingdom’s Stem Cell bank, which facilitates the donation of embryos for stem cell development; and the legal and financial repercussions of designating some tissues “hospital waste.” They also consider the impact of different models of biotechnology patents on tissue economies and the relationship between experimental therapies to regenerate damaged or degenerated tissues and calls for a legal, for-profit market in organs. Ultimately, Waldby and Mitchell conclude that scientific technologies, the globalization of tissue exchange, and recent anthropological, sociological, and legal thinking have blurred any strict line separating donations from the incursion of market values into tissue economies.

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Tissue Economies.......2007-01-04

This book offers a highly interesting presentation and analysis of the ways tissues are handled, sold, used and conceptualized. For example blood, umbilical cord blood, cell lines and organs are discussed. Tissue Economies does not only describe the use of these tissues, but has also analytical discussions of biovalue, waste and information. Also the meaning of gift is discussed.
The economies of tissues are global questions that are intertwined in many different phenomena. Even nationality and selfhood are at stakes in these interactions.
I recommend this book to students of biosciences, women's studies and sociology. Reading Tissue Economies requires some background knowledge, but is not a difficult read.

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Referenced and illustrated with over 860 literature citations, drawings, and tables, Multilayered Aquifer Systems: Fundamentals and Applications offers a systematic and unified approach to the classical theories and recent techniques of multilayered aquifer systems. The author clarifies governing principles and facilitates industrial problem solving. He uses the automated numerical Laplace inversion procedure to simplify mathematical material. Topics include non-leaky and leaky aquifers, stochastic analysis, computer methods, groundwater in fractured aquifers, and more. It supplies specialized tools based on Fortran programs and macro packages for MathematicaÔ.

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This is the most authoritative account ever published of that most envied of British institutions: the monarchy. With over 400 illustrations - no less than one third of them in colour - it tells the full story of the monarchy, presenting a vivid picture not only of the lives of individual kings and queens, but also of the monarchy as a political and social force from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The story begins in the fifth century; progressing through the Dark Ages, Ralph Griffiths describes the emergence of recognizable kingdoms in Scotland, Wales, and England. He then goes on to discuss the continental role of English monarchs from William the Conqueror to King John, and the refocusing of royal power in Britain from the thirteenth century with the extension of English rule to Wales, the consolidation of the Scottish kingdom, and the forging of a new relationship between monarch and nation. He also explains the way in which key traditions evolved, including the right of succession, coronations and marriages, oaths of loyalty and military service, the granting of lands and titles, and the propagation of a powerful image of royalty. John Cannon takes up the story from the reign of Henry VIII, and continues the exploration of these crucial themes. Guiding the reader through the governing monarchy of the Tudors and Stuarts and the changes that followed the loss of the throne in the Civil Wars, he goes on to look at the Hanoverians and the combination of personal rule and government by Parliament. Finally, he describes the emergence of the constitutional role of the crown in Queen Victoria's reign, and the enduring basis this has bestowed upon today's popular symbolic monarchy. Alongside this colourful and eventful tale of power and government, the book also looks at the many ways in which our social and cultural history has been shaped by monarchs and the image of royalty - as landowners, builders, sportsmen and women, patrons of the arts, and as the focus of court life, whether idealized or profane. The main account is interspersed with individual panels which focus in vivid detail on each monarch and on key general themes, such as the peerage, chivalry, and coronation rituals. The book is lavishly illustrated throughout, and the text is accompanied by a comprehensive body of reference material, including colour maps, an illustrated section on royal residences and tombs, a consolidated list of monarchs, genealogies, suggestions for further reading, and a full index.

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Maybe the best book of its kind on the market.......2005-07-08

The history of Great Britain since the 5th century is largely the history of its sovereigns, and vice versa, and this fat volume is a success on both scores. Beginning with the early Celtic kings who brought some form of organization to early British (and Welsh and Irish) society, Cannon escorts the reader through the island's history, reign by reign, from Rædwald of the East Angles to Elizabeth II, tracing the waxing and waning of the monarch's personal power, noting royal marriages and interments, wars and treaties, glorious victories and humiliating failures. A great deal of the personal is included along with the politics, as when the young Edward VI coolly notes the execution in 1552 of his uncle, the Duke of Somerset, and the exasperated Queen Anne's attempts in 1703 to reason with her Whig ministers. The numerous illustrations, many in color, add to the flavor of the narrative as well as the reader's understanding. This book may be the only general history of the British monarchy that any student would ever need.

A Royal Collection.......2003-07-10

The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy is a uniquely complete book. This is a book very worthy of Oxford, consisting primarily of chapters on royal and political history generally, interspersed throughout with boxed essays on each monarch, special topics, maps, photographs and paintings.

This book begins with the murky beginnings of royalty in Britain, arising out of the chaos of the post-Roman world. Here we encounter names such as Aethelberht, Raewald, and Hywel Dda -- this book doesn't just concentrate as so many do on the English monarchies, but also on Welsh and Scottish clans, lines, and kingdoms. Here we find that King Eric Bloodaxe, the Viking King of York was followed not too many years later by Edgar the Peacable, king of Mercia and the Danelaw.

With the inclusion of this extensive pre-Norman section, the book is a must for any British history library. Apart from that, the history is fairly basic -- well written, interesting, but no grand and new insights, more of an encyclopedia writ as an essay rather than articles on particular subjects (for which I am grateful--nothing so disjointed and unsatisfying in many ways as reading an encyclopedia). This however can make looking up topics a bit more difficult, but I've found as I've sought out one piece of information (using the very good index) I find much more (which is always to be desired).

The final sections include chapters on Royal Residences and Tombs, Genealogies, and Lists of Monarchs, including Scottish as well as English monarchs.

This book is filled with little bits of interest--for instance, an example of 17th century propaganda: 'In the absence of newspapers, radio, and television, other means of representing events and influencing opinion assumed greater importance. A pack of cards took as its unconvivial theme Monmouth's rebellion in 1685. The six of clubs shows Monmouth's entry into Lyme Regis; the seven of spades shows the duke's fate; and the five of diamonds that of his followers.' This caption accompanies pictures of playing cards with scenes of hanged or beheaded men, etc. An interesting means of information dissemination.

A very worthy book, perhaps the only royal book a non-historian would ever need; a definite need for any historian or royal watcher.

Thouroughly enjoyable. Scholarly, but highly readable........1999-10-20

This book is a must for those readers interested in the history of the British Monarchy. The authors and editors have masterly created both an historical perspective of the institution as well as a personal viewpoint which is both critical and sentimental. Some may be turned off by the length of this book, but once you begin reading, you'll wonder where the time goes. And the wonderful photographs and illustrations bring their words to life.

Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy

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Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy
John & Ralph Griffiths Cannon
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P3IE8C

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Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy
John Cannon & Ralph Griffiths
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKKURE

The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy

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The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy
John Cannon and Ralph Griffiths
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OL8A02

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THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE BRITISH MONARCHY.
John, & Ralph Griffiths. Cannon
Manufacturer: Oxford Univ. Press,
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N7G5UE

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