Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology

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The first book-length exploration of behavioral mechanisms in evolutionary ecology, this ambitious volume illuminates long-standing questions about cause-and-effect relations between an animal's behavior and its environment. By focusing on biological mechanisms—the sum of an animal's cognitive, neural, developmental, and hormonal processes—leading researchers demonstrate how the integrated study of animal physiology, cognitive processes, and social interaction can yield an enriched understanding of behavior.

With studies of species ranging from insects to primates, the contributors examine how various animals identify and use environmental resources and deal with ecological constraints, as well as the roles of learning, communication, and cognitive aspects of social interaction in behavioral evolution. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate how the study of internal mechanistic foundations of behavior in relation to their ecological and evolutionary contexts and outcomes provides valuable insight into such behaviors as predation, mating, and dispersal.

Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology shows how a mechanistic approach unites various levels of biological organization to provide a broader understanding of the biological bases of behavioral evolution.

Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology.: An article from: American Scientist

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Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology

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Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology
Leslie A. Real
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Plant cell culture technology has immense potential for the production of natural products, particularly medicines. It has also been shown effective in the micropropagation of elite plants. With the rapidly increasing interest in these products, a cohesive framework to better understand
plant cell culture is urgently needed. This book is intended for plant scientists, biochemical engineers, natural product chemists and industrial microbiologists. It offers for the first time a clear, unified foundation that will enable workers in these fields to develop strategies for manipulating
secondary metabolism of plant cell cultures. In so doing, the book serves to reconcile much of the confusing and even seemingly contradictory research that has been published on the topic so far.

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Compact and useful guide.......2004-12-06

I used this guidebook on a recent trip to Europe to explore Vienna. I recommend it for its compact size and many convenient maps. I really like the Fodor's travel guides and usually use one of their country guides to learn more about where I am going and where I would like to visit. Those can be a little unwieldy to tote around a city though. These Baedeker's city guides (also put out by Fodor's) are perfect for that though. The pages of my guide were made of a sturdier than regular book material that repelled having gluewien spilled on them. Using the many maps included I managed to navigate my way around the city and various attractions fairly easily. A separate large fold out city map also came with the guide. My only negative comment is that the hotel and restaurant information is by no means inclusive or detailed. I usually have my accomodations all planned before I go and find places to eat either through recommendations or exploration so these things don't matter as much to me. Expanding this information would also undermine the guide's convenient size. If you are planning a trip to visit a foreign country I would recommend getting the larger country guide and then maybe one or more of the smaller city guides for the major cities you plan to spend any time exploring.

Austria Together with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad Handbook for Travellers

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Austria Together with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad Handbook for Travellers
Karl [ed.] Baedeker
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Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia and Bosnia. Handbook for Travellers. With 33 Maps and 44 Plans. Tenth Edition, Revised and Augmented.

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Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia and Bosnia. Handbook for Travellers. With 33 Maps and 44 Plans. Tenth Edition, Revised and Augmented.
Karl. Baedeker
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Austria-Hungary, including Dalmatia and Bosnia

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Austria-Hungary, including Dalmatia and Bosnia
Karl, firm, publishers, Leipzig Baedeker
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Austria-Hungary, including Dalmatia and Bosnia. Handbook for Traveller

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Austria-Hungary, including Dalmatia and Bosnia. Handbook for Traveller
Karl BAEDEKER
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Austria-Hungary: With excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest : handbook for travellers (Baedeker's guidebooks)

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Austria-Hungary: With excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest : handbook for travellers (Baedeker's guidebooks)
Karl Baedeker
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Baedeker Aa Vienna (Baedeker's Aa Pocket Travel Guides)

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Baedeker Aa Vienna (Baedeker's Aa Pocket Travel Guides)

Manufacturer: Salem House Publishers
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Baedeker's Austria - Not What It Used To Be

Baedeker Austria
Baedeker
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Baedeker Austria

Baedeker -- the guides to travel with.

Now in fully revised editions, Baedeker guides offer today's visitor a tremendous depth and reliability of information

Completely updated and revisedCompact guide and foldout map in a clear plastic walletHundreds of full-color photos throughoutDetailed maps and floorplansA-to-Z listings of sights or towns with in-depth reviews and detailed descriptions.Baedeker's original star-rating system.Solid background coverage highlighting history, culture, the economy, the people, and moreUseful practical information, facts and figures, hotel and restaurant listings, and language glossaries.

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Baedeker's Austria - Not What It Used To Be.......2005-05-19

I just purchased the latest edition of this book and am comparing it to one I have from 1984. I would rate the 1984 edition as a 5 star. This newest one is lacking.

The size format has changed, but this is of no consequence to the content. What's missing from the newer edition are sections of the "Practical Information" section. The older edition had lists of the Castles, Schlosshotels, Country Houses, Monasteries and Religious House; and these antiquities are some of the main attractions of this beautiful country.

The newer edition contains none of these, and the space has been taken with lists of Information Offices, Water Sports and Winter Sports Centres, etc. It certainly appears - disappointingly - that the focus of this used to be great guide has changed. Good, it is; but no longer great. 4 stars

Baedeker Austria/Book and Map (Baedeker's Austria)

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Baedeker Austria/Book and Map (Baedeker's Austria)
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Baedeker Guide: Austria (AA Baedeker's Guides)

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Baedeker Guide: Austria (AA Baedeker's Guides)

Manufacturer: AA Publishing
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ASIN: 0749504021

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Accurately rendered collection of 16 dolls and 17 costumes depicts the victorious Civil War commander and his family. Outfits include Grant’s military uniform, formal attire for the first and second inaugural balls, an elaborate ensemble for his daughter’s White House wedding and much more. An irresistible collection for students of American history, Civil War buffs and paper doll fans.

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Grant in his underwear.......2004-04-03

If you're the type of person that enjoys viewing American icons clad in their underwear, then this is your baby. General Grant is shown basically unclad and then the nimble-fingered among you can dress him in uniform, black suit or even tails. Fred Astaire would be so jealous!

Grant's family is also shown, as well as his much-hated son-in-law, Algie, his crabby father-in-law, Colonel Dent, and his mismatched parents, with whom Grant had strained, weird relationship. All of the dolls strongly resemble the actual people and this is a marked strength in the booklet. The clothes are also accurate and appealing. The front and back covers of the book contain a fairly accurate representation of Grant's life, with the fanciful inclusion that Gen. and Mrs. Grant actually had five children, one of whom was lost in infancy. This "lost child" has no pedigree and no mention is made of this mysterious babe in any of the existing Grant literature.

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Cute little book.......2004-05-24

If you're a fan of Grant or a fan of paper dolls in general, this is a fine (and fun) book.

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The biomineralization and biomaterials research communities have not been working side by side in the past few years. To our knowledge, no book has addressed before this topic in such an integrated and "looking forward" perspective. There is, therefore, a necessity for a book that would address, in an integrated way, topics that go from understanding biomineralization processes of different mineralized tissues (that means: not only bone, tooth, etc.) to the use of that science to engineer new biomimetic processes and materials. In fact, only an understanding of the relevant fundamentals and a simultaneous application oriented view will lead to the design of new biomimetic materials and processing routes (including production of biomimetic coatings). There is almost no training content on most of the books that are aimed at presenting new breakthroughs on biomineralization science. So, this book will constitute a complimentary tool as it seemed to be the best forum to educate and brainstorming on this area of such strategic importance.

Biomimetic Materials and Design: Biointerfacial Strategies, Tissue Engineering, and Targeted Drug Delivery (Manufacturing Engineering & Materials Processing)

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Biomimetic Materials and Design: Biointerfacial Strategies, Tissue Engineering, and Targeted Drug Delivery (Manufacturing Engineering & Materials Processing)

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Detailing innovations in wound healing and reconstruction, this reference describes the mechanisms and architecture of biological systems to formulate and design natural and synthetic compounds, degradable and non-degradable scaffolds, and targeted drug delivery devices. It offers strategies to control adhesive interactions, elicit specific cellular responses, and improve the biocompatibility, performance, and durability of prosthetic materials. Covering significant advances in the field, the book discusses the effect of topographical features on cell behaviors such as orientation, adhesion, migration, proliferation, and differentation.

Biomimetics: Design and Processing of Materials (Aip Series in Polymers and Complex Materials)

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Biomimetics: Design and Processing of Materials (Aip Series in Polymers and Complex Materials)

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Market: Students and researchers in geophysics, astronomy, and astrophysics. This book reports on the timely Earth Observing System (EOS) Program's wide range of scientific investigations, observational capabilities, vast data and information system, and educational activities. Because its primary goal is to determine the extent, causes, and regional consequences of global climate change, this program provides the scientific knowledge needed by world leaders to formulate sound and equitable environmental policies.

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Edited by Daniel Rothbart of George Mason University in Virginia, this book is a collection of Rom Harré's work on modeling in science (particularly physics and psychology). In over 28 authored books and 240 articles and book chapters, Rom Harré of Georgetown University in Washington, DC is a towering figure in philosophy, linguistics, and social psychology. He has inspired a generation of scholars, both for the ways in which his research is carried out and his profound insights. For Harré, the stunning discoveries of research demand a kind of thinking that is found in the construction and control of models. Iconic modeling is pivotal for representing real-world structures, explaining phenomena, manipulating instruments, constructing theories, and acquiring data.

This volume in the new Elsevier book series Studies in Multidisciplinarity includes major topics on the structure and function of models, the debates over scientific realism, explanation through analogical modeling, a metaphysics for physics, the rationale for experimentation, and modeling in social encounters.

* A multidisciplinary work of sweeping scope about the nature of science
* Revolutionary interpretation that challenges conventional wisdom about the character of scientific thinking
* Profound insights about fundamental challenges to contemporary physics
* Brilliant discoveries into the nature of social interaction and human identity
* Presents a rational conception of methods for acquiring knowledge of remote regions of the world
* Written by one of the great thinkers of our time.

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Few figures hold as mythic a place in America's historical consciousness as John Brown. A fervent abolitionist, his New England reserve tempered by a childhood on the Ohio frontier, Brown advocated arming fugitive slaves to fight for their freedom, an idea that impressed Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. In 1855, answering the call of his five sons to join them in the desperate struggle for freedom in the new territories, John Brown became a hero of "Bleeding Kansas." When he returned east, the fiery leader launched his ambitious campaign to rouse the slaves to freedom with a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859.

Labeled a madman for his failed military adventure, and repudiated even by prominent antislavery leaders, Brown was tried in a Virginia court and sentenced to hang for treason and sundry other crimes. In The John Brown Legend Revisited, the eminent historian Merrill D. Peterson brings the same blend of sharp-eyed analysis and narrative elegance to bear on Brown's legacy that he has used to unravel the images of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.

Brown's reputation has undergone a series of tectonic shifts since he met his death on the gallows just before the Civil War. Southerners viewed his exploits with apprehension, seeing Harpers Ferry as a harbinger of servile insurrection, while Brown's eloquence before the court won him sympathy in the North and confirmed his place there as a hero and martyr. Thoreau, the author of passive resistance, wrote of Brown as a man of conscience. Perhaps most important historically, Brown's exploits convinced Southerners that Lincoln's election meant secession and a call to arms.

Peterson gives us Brown in his own day, but he also shows how the flaming abolitionist warrior's image, celebrated in art, literature, and journalism, has shed some of the infamy conferred by "Bleeding Kansas" to become a symbol of American idealism and fervor to activists along the political spectrum. And so in the civil rights battles of the twentieth century, Brown became a hero to African Americans.

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The Past Lives On In Books........2006-08-14

John Brown had been born on May 9, 1800. By the time he and his sons pulled their stunt taking over the National Armory on October 16, 1859, he was fifty (that's old for that era). He was an abolitionist and religious zealot. His misbegotten mission was to make people release their slaves and create a stronghold in the Virgina/Maryland mountains for them to live in peace. His plan to liberate them using violence cost him the lives of two of his sons, Oliver (20 yrs. old) died on Oct. 17 and Watson (24) on the 18th from their fatal injuries. Joseph Barry wrote an indepth account of the captives and how they were caught in his book printed in 1903, 'The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry.' Here they were trying to liberate the blacks and the first victim was a black train porter there on the tracks leading to the bridge, which I found ironic. I took my sons and two nephews to Harper's Ferry and it is a quaint little place, there at three states. That part of Virginia near Sandy Hook where the Appalachian Trail meanders was later made into a new state called West Virginia. The whole population of the town was involved in this botched takeover.

Robert E. Lee and J. E. B. Stuart captured Brown's raiders; he was found guilty of treason against his country, conspiring with slaves to create an insurrection, and hanged on December 2, 1859. Stephen Vincent Benet wrote a long poem of the Civil War which became an American classic, first printed in 1927 and won the Pultizer Prize in 1929. In it, he wrote: "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave." That is the legend school children learn.

In September, 1862, the largest military operation against Harper's Ferry occurred prior to the Battle of Antietam when Stonewall Jackson's Confederate forces seized the town and captured the 12,500-man Union garrison, the largest surrender of troops during the Civil War. The first shot occurred at Fort Sumpter, S. C. on April 12, 1861, prior to the bloodiest battle of all at Antietam and the deadliest at Gettysburg, PA. John Penn Warren wrote about John Brown: 'The Making of a Martyr.' I'm glad this legend has now been reviewed to put the atrocity to bed for good. It as the damnest thing a demented person could do; how he ever thought he would get away with it beats me. He met his end at John Brown's Fort. It is an interesting place to visit, and gives that little state some semblance of importance.

John Brown: The Legend Revisited .......2006-05-31

Some theologians make the distinction between the "Christ of Faith" and the "Jesus of History." The idea is that the Christ of Faith is the Christ mediated through the depictions of him in the New Testament, depictions that represent the writers' faith reaction to the phenomenon of Christ. The Jesus of History was the actual historical person, who we can know little if anything about, buried beneath the overlay of mythologizing that resulted in the Christ of Faith

Discovering the historical John Brown is certainly a more fruitful enterprise than discovering the Jesus of History, but John Brown as symbol and myth is quite fulsome. Merrill D. Peterson's John Brown: The Legend Revisited provides us with a good taste of the historical John Brown and a banquet of John Brown the symbol and myth.

The sketch of the historical Brown that Peterson provides us makes it clear how Brown could occasion some significant mythologizing about him. Brown is an enigmatic person, seemingly driven by forces he himself doesn't fully comprehend. Also, his background and experiences do not seem to fully account for the extremities to which he would take his abolitionist beliefs. His inexplicability creates vacuums teasingly available for the purposes of mythologizers.

It's here that Peterson work shines. He provides us with plethora of ways Brown has been depicted through time. The ways range from historical narratives to artistic and other creative representations. Not all the representations have been flattering.

I wish Peterson would have provided a deeper explication of the social and political forces and agendas that formed the kinds of representations and reputations that Brown the myth has received through time. Nevertheless, Peterson's work is a must read for Brown scholarship and his approach deserves high marks for its uniqueness.

John Brown: the Legend Revisited.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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John Brown: the Legend Revisited.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
William Cheek , and Aimee Lee Cheek
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
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ASIN: B00082J5TC
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: John Brown: the Legend Revisited.(Book Review)
Author: William Cheek
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 70 Issue: 2 Page: 435(2)

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