Partner Earth

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A well-respected herbalist describes how opening ourselves to the spirit forces of nature can promote personal well-being and restore a healthy relationship between humanity and Earth.Â

The pace and demands of modern life have caused a great split between the material and the spiritual in our lives. Our bodies reflect this through fatigue, depression, and chronic illness. To become whole beings again, the author asserts that we must reclaim our birthright as partners with all of creation, opening ourselves to the spirits of plants, animals, and the elements, known as devas, through whom we can bridge the gap between the physical body and the energetic patterns that support all life. Partner Earth provides a wide range of practical exercises, based on traditional wisdom, visualizations, and the author's experience as an herbalist, that enable one to create sacred space, find plant and animal allies, and create flower essences that can help heal the rift between individuals and their environment.Â

Explorations: An Introduction to Astronomy with Essential Study Partner CD-ROM, Online Learning Center and PowerWeb Password Card

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Explorations: An Introduction to Astronomy with Essential Study Partner CD-ROM, Online Learning Center and PowerWeb Password Card
Thomas T Arny
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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ASIN: 0072486678

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Arny: Explorations-An Introduction to Astronomy, 3rd edition, is built on the foundation of its well known writing style, accuracy, and emphasis on current information. The new edition of Arny takes learning one step further by offering one of the most comprehensive technology support packages available. Those technology tools include: PowerWeb(web-based research, up to the minute news and weekly updates that allow instructors to bring the very latest discoveries and developments into the classroom); Online Learning Center (quizzing in many formats, animations, capability to go to a complete online course management system); and a new CD-ROM that offers new and different text material/animations/links to even further enhance student comprehension. Take your course one step further...

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Excellent.......1999-09-20

This is the best Astronomy text that I have ever seen. It is filled with colorful photos and diagrams, and delves into the more interesting aspects of astronomy. A must for any Astronomy teacher, student, or amateur astronomer. It's also included with a great CD that has planetarium software on it.

Reluctant Partners?: Non-Governmental Organizations, the State and Sustainable Agricultural Development (Non-Governmental Organizations)

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Reluctant Partners?: Non-Governmental Organizations, the State and Sustainable Agricultural Development (Non-Governmental Organizations)
J. Farrington
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover

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Inadequate quantities and inequities in food production and supply in poor countries need to be addressed as problems of both agricultural resource management and rural democratization. Reluctant Partners combines comprehensive empirical insights into the work of non-governmental organizations in agriculture with wider considerations of their relationships with the government and their contribution to democratic pluralism.

This overview volume for the Non-Governmental Organisations series contextualizes and synthesizes the case study material in the three regional volumes on Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It presents data from more than sixty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation. The contributors examine the performance of NGOs in promoting technological innovation and their role in addressing constraints to change in peasant agriculture. They also explore the effectiveness of NGOs at strengthening grassroots/local organizations, and how donor pressures influence NGOs and their links to government.

Earth Partners: Saving the Planet (Shockwave: History and Politics)

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Earth Partners: Saving the Planet (Shockwave: History and Politics)
Yvonne Morrison
Manufacturer: Children's Press (CT)
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Binding: Library Binding

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Voices of the Earth: Indigenous Peoples, New Partners, and the Right to Self-Determination in Practice

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Voices of the Earth: Indigenous Peoples, New Partners, and the Right to Self-Determination in Practice

Manufacturer: International Books
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ASIN: 9062249833

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Diagnostically illustrated with light and scanning electron micrographs, Comparative Wood Anatomy lucidly introduces dicotyledon wood in terms of cell types and their variations, pertinent literature, taxonomic distribution of features, terminology, and methods for preparation. Two final chapters present syntheses: taxonomic achievements of wood studies; and the evolutionary relationship between structure, physiological function, and ecology. This detailed survey serves a wide range of interests: identification, systematics, evolution and physiology.

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Heavy going even for the specialist.......2000-04-27

The price suggests this is a book for institutional libraries only. This is quite correct. Dr Carlquist has made a career of studying wood of small diameter stems: shrubs, subshrubs, liana's, etc. He has brought together an enormous body of knowledge on the variation in their wood anatomy and came up with many a theory to explain this. This book takes stock of his work up to 1988. Since many of his conclusions are controversial this work should only be read within hand's reach of an extended reference library: food for thought for the specialist!

Note: for those interested in practical wood anatomy (wood identification) the book by R.Bruce Hoadley is a good introduction. For those interested in an academic introduction to systematic wood anatomy the work 'Anatomy of the Dicotyledons' 2nd edition Volume II (1983) by Metcalfe & Chalk is the standard work: a good solid reference.

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Baltic Capitals, 3rd: Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, and Kaliningrad: The Bradt Travel Guide
Neil Taylor , Chris Patrick , Stephen Baister , and Howard Jarvis
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Insight Pocket Guide Helsinki (Insight Pocket Guides)

ASIN: 1841621390

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Still the best guide to the Baltic states for those touring these cultural capitals, this guide excels in packing all the essentials travelers need into one trim book. Independent travelers will find it easy to put together their own itinerary, and a good range of information on the heritage, architecture, entertainment, restaurants, and cafes of each city is contained in this handy volume. A section on excursions out from each center expands the possibilities further for visitors, and includes gems such as the medieval Trakai castle on the outskirts of Vilnius, the Latvian seaside resort of Jurmala, and the year-round delight and tranquility of the Kadriog Park near Tallinn.

Features include:
>City information including sightseeing and walking tours plus half-day excursions from each city
>Background material including history and culture
>Essential words and phrases in four languages
>An ideal source for both tourists and business travelers

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Many aspects of human activity involve energy transfer of some type. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology examines some of the ways in which measurements of energy intake, expenditure and balance have been used to study human populations by biological anthropologists and human biologists. The book provides an integration of human adaptation and adaptability approaches, placing these issues in an ecological context by considering traditional subsistence economies in the developing world. This is the first volume to present such an integrated approach, and will be useful in the teaching of biological anthropology, human population biology, nutritional anthropology, and third world nutrition at senior undergraduate and graduate student level.

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'Fractionation by Packed-Column SFC and SFE' provides the reader with technical guidance on how to use existing HPLC and GC instruments as SFC/SFE systems. The book introduces the basic principles, instrumentation, sample preparation, and applications of SFC and SFE for using and building such instruments. The equipment necessary for converting HPLC instruments into SFC and SFE systems is explained, illustrated, and tabulated.
Readers will find many practical examples that will facilitate an understanding that 'SFC is chromatography with a little exotic mobile phase', and will be able to readily perform SFC and SFE using commercial SFC/SFE instruments or even utilizing HPLC instruments. In addition, the thermodynamics and phase equilibria necessary for practice of SFC and SFE are described.
Fractionation by Packed-Column SFC and SFE is a methods-oriented book for analytical chemists, environmental chemists, and food chemists involved in environmentally sound clean separations.

PACKED COLUMN SFC (Chromatography Monographs)

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PACKED COLUMN SFC (Chromatography Monographs)
T. BERGER
Manufacturer: Royal Society of Chemistry
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Binding: Hardcover

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Nature tries to minimize the surface area of a soap film through the action of surface tension. The process can be understood mathematically by using differential geometry, complex analysis, and the calculus of variations. This book employs ingredients from each of these subjects to tell the mathematical story of soap films.

The text is fully self-contained, bringing together a mixture of types of mathematics along with a bit of the physics that underlies the subject. The development is primarily from first principles, requiring no advanced background material from either mathematics or physics.

Through the Maple® applications, the reader is given tools for creating the shapes that are being studied. Thus, you can "see" a fluid rising up an inclined plane, create minimal surfaces from complex variables data, and investigate the "true" shape of a balloon. Oprea also includes descriptions of experiments and photographs that let you see real soap films on wire frames.

The theory of minimal surfaces is a beautiful subject, which naturally introduces the reader to fascinating, yet accessible, topics in mathematics. Oprea's presentation is rich with examples, explanations, and applications.

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There have been many wonderful developments in the theory of minimal surfaces and geometric measure theory in the past 25 to 30 years. Many of the researchers who have produced these excellent results were inspired by this little book--or by Fred Almgren himself.

The book is indeed a delightful invitation to the world of variational geometry. A central topic is Plateau's Problem, which is concerned with surfaces that model the behavior of soap films. When trying to resolve the problem, however, one soon finds that smooth surfaces are insufficient: Varifolds are needed. With varifolds, one can obtain geometrically meaningful solutions without having to know in advance all their possible singularities. This new tool makes possible much exciting new analysis and many new results.

Plateau's problem and varifolds live in the world of geometric measure theory, where differential geometry and measure theory combine to solve problems which have variational aspects. The author's hope in writing this book was to encourage young mathematicians to study this fascinating subject further. Judging from the success of his students, it achieves this exceedingly well.

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An elegant application of differential geometry.......2006-04-18

This book is well-illustrated and motivates all of its theorems. In order to get anything out of this text, one should at least be familiar with basic algebraic topology of surfaces (I recommend Kinsey's "Topology of Surfaces" for beginners) and should know the calculus of differential forms and chains in Spivak's "Calculus on Manifolds". It makes for a good read aftwerwards.

Geometry V: Minimal Surfaces (Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences)

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Geometry V: Minimal Surfaces (Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences)

Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3540605231

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The theory of minimal surfaces has expanded in many directions over the past decade or two. This volume gathers in one place an overview of some of the most exciting developments, presented by five of the leading contributors to those developments. H.Fujimoto, who obtained the definitive results on the Gauss map of minimal surfaces, reports on Minimal Surfaces and Nevanlinna Theory. S.Hildebrandt provides an up-to-date account of the Plateau problem and related boundary-value problems. D.Hoffman and H.Karcher describe the wealth of results on embedded minimal surfaces from the past decade, starting with Costa's surface and the subsequent Hoffman-Meeks examples. Finally, L.Simon covers the PDE aspect of minimal surfaces, with a survey of known results both in the classical case of surfaces and the higher dimensional case.

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The New Generation Play Project was a daring experiment in American children's theatre. Begun in 1989 by a consortium that included the Seattle Children's Theatre, The Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Stage One: The Louisville Children's Theatre, and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, the NGPP raised half a million dollars to commission major American dramatists to create new works for young people and to produce these plays over a several-year period. This book provides the full text of the plays produced through the NGPP: ∑ Constance Congdon, Beauty and the Beast ∑ Velina Hasu Houston, Hula Heart ∑ Tina Howe, East of the Sun and West of the Moon ∑ Len Jenkin, The Invisible Man ∑ Mark Medoff, Kringle's Window ∑ Eric Overmyer, Duke Kahanamoku vs. The Surfnappers ∑ Michael Weller, Dogbrain ∑ Y York, The Witch of Blackbird Pond In his introduction, Coleman Jennings describes the work of the NGPP, some of the controversies surrounding its selection of playwrights who do not ordinarily write for young audiences, as well as the playwrights' reactions to the project, and the critical reception of the plays. Suzan Zeder, one of the nation's leading playwrights for family audiences, supplies the foreword.

Eight Plays for Children: The New Generation Play Project

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Eight Plays for Children: The New Generation Play Project
Editor Coleman A. Jennings
Manufacturer: Univ of Texas Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORDFVA

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