Average customer rating:
|
The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced: A Century of Change, 1899-2001
Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
 General
| United States
| Americas
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Alaska
| State & Local
| United States
| Americas
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Ecology
| Environment
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
Nature Writing
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
Reference & Tips
| Travel
| Subjects
| Books
| Beaches
| Business Travel
| Cruises
| Essays & Travelogues
| Food & Lodging
| Guidebooks
| Pictorial
| Reference
| Spas
| Tips
| Tourist Destinations & Museums
| Travel Writing
General
| Alaska
| States
| United States
| Travel
| Subjects
| Books
North America
| Travel
| Subjects
| Books
Similar Items:
-
Alaska 1899: Essays from the Harriman Expedition
ASIN: 0813535050 |
Book Description
"This is a profoundly perceptive and beautifully written book that sheds tremendous insights on Alaska and is a must-read for anyone who wants a deeper, richer understanding of America's last frontier."—Deborah Williams, executive director, Alaska Conservation Foundation
"With heart and soul, The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced both helps us see the beauty of the earth's ecosystems and confronts the difficult realities surrounding their use. . . . Through science, art, and the poet's words, [this book] urges us toward a sustainable use of our environment."—Gretchen C. Daily, coauthor The New Economy of Nature
"The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced takes us across 100 years of Alaskan and American history, showing us the magnificence and vulnerability of our vast wilderness coastline."—Jay Hammond, governor of Alaska, 1974-1982
"A guide to America's soul, the boundless beauty of Alaska, and the ways in which people have related to it over the years, this book should be of interest to a very wide readership."—Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden
"[A] unique and valuable perspective of a century of dramatic change in Alaska."—Tony Knowles, governor of Alaska, 1994-2002
"A fitting and fascinating capstone for a remarkable sequel to an extraordinary adventure."—Maury Klein, author of The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman
"A little like entering a time warp, [this book] provides a special chance to explore the present through the comparative lens of the past."—Stephen Kellert, author of The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Society and coauthor of The Biophilia Hypothesis
Over time, Alaska has become synonymous with the idea of wilderness—nature, free and unspoiled. Yet while the concept of this open, untamed countryside—the "land of the midnight sun"—has a romantic appeal, the reality is quite different and often much more severe.
This book reveals hard facts, challenges simple assumptions, and transforms Alaska from a wistful idea to a real place with its own changing ecology, economies, society, and values. It includes essays by the group of scientists, writers, and artists who made an expedition to Alaska in 2001, tracing the historic route of railroad baron Edward H. Harriman's ambitious journey in 1899. Together, the group visited the diverse cultures, communities, and ecosystems of Alaska. In their accounts, they share their conversations with mayors, teachers, tribal leaders and elders, children, business owners, and conservationists in order to present Alaska as it is, not simply as a fantasy on airport posters and in tourism brochures.
Following the ship's route, the book addresses wilderness conservation biology and ecology, American history, natural history and anthropology, and travel and exploration. More specific topics include the repatriation of Native objects; tourism; forestry, fisheries, and marine mammals; John Muir's notion of beauty; the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on Prince William Sound; and possibilities for a sustainable future in Alaska and around the world.
Lavishly illustrated with gorgeous color and black-and-white photographs and prints, The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced is an ambitious exploration of America's last frontier.
Book Description
This digital document is a journal article from Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 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.
Description:
In the early 1990s a simple view of forest dynamics and the role of the soil seed bank in forests was widely accepted. Plants could be divided into 'pioneers' that need canopy gaps for establishment, and 'non-pioneers' that are able to establish in shade. The species in the persistent seed bank were believed to be 'pioneers', awaiting formation of a gap in the canopy. It was also widely believed that seed bank species need (a) light, and (b) a high red: far-red (R:FR) ratio for germination, and that some need marked diel fluctuation in temperature. We review the changes in perspective during the last 15 years for the two forest-types best studied in this respect: northern temperate deciduous forest (NTDF) and tropical lowland rain forest (TLRF), and concerning NTDF we place especial emphasis on studies in nearly natural stands in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland. It is now known that 'pioneers' and 'non-pioneers' merge in the sense that in NTDF there are species that utilize gaps in the herb layer and litter under an intact tree canopy, and in TLRF there are species which need only 'micro-gaps' in the tree canopy caused by the fall of a single branch or of a whole crown a little way off. It is also known that the soil seed bank of both these forest types may contain a substantial number of species that are to a significant degree shade-tolerant; in NTDF there are a few species able to establish in the deepest shade and a greater number able to utilize gaps in the herb layer and litter, while in TLRF there are both species able to establish in the deepest shade and species needing only micro-gaps in the tree canopy. In both forest types a requirement for light and a high R:FR ratio is now seen to be characteristic of the small-seeded canopy-gap-demanding species in the seed bank; small-seeded species able to grow in an appreciable degree of shade do not need a high R:FR for germination. There is emerging evidence that (a) stimulation of germination by diel temperature fluctuation is characteristic of larger-seeded species in the seed bank, and (b) that risk-spreading dormancy is overlain on the dormancy related to awaiting an appropriate signal for germination. TLRF seems to differ from NTDF in that larger-seeded species rather than smaller-seeded last longer in the soil.
Book Description
This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. 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.
Description:
Tree uprooting and timber harvesting cause soil disturbances in forests. Plants colonise disturbed patches in two ways: generative (with germination of seeds) and vegetative (with ramets). In this study, the relative importance of the two means of colonisation was assessed and the influences of seed availability and site conditions on colonisation were explored. In a mixed mountain forest in southern Germany, topsoil was disturbed experimentally and colonisation with vascular plants was observed afterwards for 15 months. The compositions of the soil seed bank and the seed rain were investigated. Experiments were carried out in 12 forest stands with different canopy covers and forest management histories. In each stand between 10 and 18 soil disturbance plots were established. Species richness on experimental plots was significantly higher 1 year after soil disturbance than before the disturbance. The most numerous species emerging after soil disturbance was Rubus idaeus, followed by species of the genus Carex. R. idaeus colonised disturbed plots both generatively and vegetatively, but the vegetative colonisation of this species was important only on clear-cuts with high light intensities. The decisive factor for generative colonisation (considering all species) was the number of germinable seeds of R. idaeus in the soil seed bank, whereas the seed rain was unimportant. The factor with the highest explanatory power for vegetative colonisation was the cover of the adjacent vegetation. The results indicate that soil disturbances in forests increase germination rates, which are responsible for small-scale increases in species richness. R. idaeus on clear-cuts has high cover values because (1) soil disturbances by vehicle traffic and timber hauling during the harvest enhance its germination and (2) the high light intensities on clear-cuts favour the spread of this species vegetatively. Since R. idaeus is a potential competitor for tree seedlings, these findings are important for planning forest management.
Book Description
This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, 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.
Description:
Effect of prior land use on the recolonization of native woody species in plantation forests was investigated by assessing naturally regenerating flora (NRF) and soil seed banks (SSB) in plantation forests established on abandoned farmland and cleared natural forest sites in southern highlands of Ethiopia. Eucalyptus saligna and Cupressus lusitanica, two of the most widely planted tree species in the highlands of Ethiopia, were considered in the plantation treatments. About 66 plant species were recorded in the NRF and 55 plant species germinated from the soil samples collected for SSB analysis. Seedlings from the SSB were dominantly herbs, which accounted for 75% of the identified species germinated from the SSB, and native woody species accounted only for 10%. On the contrary, in the NRF native woody species were slightly more dominant (49%) than the herbs (45%). There was high species similarity between the NRF beneath the plantations and the standing vegetation in the adjacent natural forest. On the contrary there was very low similarity between the seedlings emerged from the SSB and the standing vegetation in the adjacent natural forest. Effect of prior land use was apparently stronger on the species composition of the SSB than the species richness of NRF under the plantations. The results also showed that overstory plantation species had stronger influence on the species richness of NRF rather than the pre-plantation land use history. As the SSB of the plantation sites lacked viable seed reserves for most of the naturally regenerating woody plants recorded underneath the plantations of both sites, it was assumed that seed dispersal from the adjacent natural forest has played major role in the recolonization process. From these results it could be shown that establishment of plantation forests either on abandoned farmland or directly on degraded natural forest sites can create comparable enabling environment for the recovery of the native forest flora, even if SSB are devoid of viable seeds of woody species, provided that there is a natural forest in the vicinity to donate seeds.
Book Description
This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. 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.
Description:
Pinus ponderosa Laws. (ponderosa pine) forests have changed considerably during the past century, partly because recurrent fires have been absent for a century or more. A number of studies have explored the influence of timber harvest or burning on understory production in ponderosa pine forests, but study designs incorporating cutting and prescribed burning in an experimental framework are needed to identify mechanisms responsible for the observed changes. In this study, we first characterized the disturbance history and the soil seed bank of a ponderosa pine stand in the northern Black Hills. We then experimentally addressed the effects of prescribed burning and overstory reduction on understory vegetation. Before Anglo settlement of the area, the mean fire interval was 14 years and no fires were recorded after 1879. Cessation of fires, prolific regeneration of ponderosa pine, and subsequent logging in 1903 has led to a very dense, even-aged ponderosa pine stand with very little understory vegetation and very few viable seeds in the soil seed bank. Only 57 individual plants, or 186seeds/m^2, emerged from 1080 soil samples. Response of understory vegetation during the first growing season after application of treatments was sparse, with no significant treatment effect. There were, however, significant treatment effects during the second growing season. Total understory biomass ranged from 5.8kg/ha on untreated plots to 1724kg/ha on clearcut, unburned plots. Herbaceous dicots comprised over 90% of total understory biomass. Both understory species richness and evenness responded to treatments, but understory woody plant density did not respond to either treatment. Paucity of viable seeds in the soil seed bank does not appear to constrain recruitment of understory vegetation in dense ponderosa pine forests of South Dakota.
Book Description
This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, 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.
Description:
Conservation of plant species diversity in managed and natural forests is a concern worldwide. To clarify the effects of thinning and distance from neighboring hardwood forests on hardwood establishment in conifer plantations, we measured the abundance and diversity of hardwoods at different life stages (seed-fall, soil seed bank, seedling, sapling) and environmental conditions (light, soil temperature, litter accumulation, and composition) from -2 to 40m from the hardwood-coniferous forest boundary into the coniferous forest interior in five unthinned and four thinned stands in Cryptomeria japonica plantations in Japan. In unthinned stands, hardwood abundance and diversity decreased with increasing distance into the coniferous forest interior for all life stages, perhaps because of a distance-dependent decrease in seed-fall and the subsequent soil seed bank for wind- and bird-dispersed seeds. Higher light and soil temperatures and shallower litter accumulation were observed at the hardwood-coniferous forest boundary compared to the coniferous forest interior, suggesting favorable environmental conditions for germination, emergence, and seedling growth for hardwood species, and resulting in higher species diversity near the boundary. In thinned stands, hardwood abundance and diversity also decreased with increasing distance into the coniferous forest interior for seed-fall and the soil seed bank, but did not decrease for seedlings and saplings, probably because of distance-independent improvement of environmental conditions due to thinning. Higher light availability and soil temperature and lower litter accumulation in thinned stands enhance seedling establishment for not only shade-tolerant but also shade-intolerant and light-demanding species. Our results suggest that distance-dependent diversity of juvenile hardwoods in dense coniferous plantations is closely related to distance-dependent gradients in both seed-fall and environmental conditions, but thinning enhances diversity, even in the forest interior.
Average customer rating:
|
Postfire Seed Bank and Soil Conditions in a Blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima Torr.) Shrubland.: An article from: Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences)
Simon A. Lei
Manufacturer: Southern California Academy of Sciences
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
| Audiobooks
| Automotive
| Books on CD
| Books on Cassette
| Crime & Criminals
| Current Events
| Economics
| Education
| Foreign Language Nonfiction
| Government
| Holidays
| Law
| Philosophy
| Politics
| Social Sciences
| Transportation
| True Accounts
| Urban Planning & Development
| Women's Studies
Soil Science
| Agricultural Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Science & Technology
| Subjects
| e-Docs
| Formats
| Books
General
| Nonfiction
| HTML
| Formats
| e-Docs
| Formats
| Books
Science
| HTML
| Formats
| e-Docs
| Formats
| Books
ASIN: B0009FGGEU
Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences), published by Southern California Academy of Sciences on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 5104 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Postfire Seed Bank and Soil Conditions in a Blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima Torr.) Shrubland.
Author: Simon A. Lei
Publication:
Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences) (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2001
Publisher: Southern California Academy of Sciences
Volume: 100
Issue: 2
Page: 100
Distributed by Thomson Gale
Book Description
This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2007. 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.
Description:
Understanding the seed rain and seed loss dynamics in the natural condition has important significance for revealing the natural regeneration mechanisms. We conducted a 3-year field observation on seed rain, seed loss and natural regeneration of Castanopsis fargesii Franch., a dominant tree species in evergreen broad-leaved forests in Dujiangyan, southwestern China. The results showed that: (1) there were marked differences in (mature) seed production between mast (733,700 seeds in 2001) and regular (51,200 and 195,600 seeds in 2002 and 2003, respectively) years for C. fargesii. (2) Most seeds were dispersed in leaf litter, humus and 0-2cm depth soil in seed bank. (3) Frequency distributions of both DBH and height indicated that C. fargesii had a relatively stable population. (4) Seed rain, seed ground density, seed loss, and leaf fall were highly dynamic and certain quantity of seeds were preserved on the ground for a prolonged time due to predator satiation in both the mast and regular years so that the continuous presence of seed bank and seedling recruitments in situ became possible. Both longer time observations and manipulative experiments should be carried out to better understand the roles of seed dispersal and regeneration process in the ecosystem performance.
Book Description
This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. 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.
Description:
The study of tropical secondary forests, and of the time taken for them to revert to 'primary' forest, is of increasing importance given the current global destruction of tropical rain forests. We describe a 55-year-old secondary rain forest at Barito Ulu, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, and compare it with the adjacent, undisturbed, primary forest. Three 0.25ha plots were set up in each forest type and all stems over 10cm dbh were measured and identified, soil samples were taken and analysed, and the composition of the seed bank was examined. Although the basal area, tree height and biomass of the old secondary forest approached that of the primary forest (82% for basal area, 88% for tree height and 74% for biomass), there were still major differences in the floristics and species diversity. The old secondary forest was dominated by Cratoxylon arborescens (Hypericaceae) and Pternandra caerulescens (Melastomataceae), whereas the primary forest was dominated by dipterocarps. The Shannon-Wiener diversity index was 3.40 for the old secondary forest plots and 4.17 for the primary forest plots; the Jaccard's coefficient of similarity was 24%. Mortality, recruitment, turnover and tree growth rates were greater in the old secondary forest. The seed bank of the old secondary forest contained more than double the number of seeds of the primary forest seed bank and many more seeds were of shrub species; there were the same number of species in the two forests seed banks. There were no major differences between the two forest types in terms of soil chemistry. Despite the close proximity to potential seed sources, succession in the Barito Ulu area has proceeded more slowly than in some other tropical areas. This may be due to the low concentrations of soil nutrients and/or the poor dispersal of dipterocarp seeds. Fifty-five years of succession is concluded to be insufficient time for the return of most primary forest species. However, the forest structure of the old secondary forest shows a closer resemblance to the primary forest than does the floristic composition.
Book Description
This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2007. 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.
Description:
Failure to take into account the ecological complexity of landrace populations of crop plants limits our ability to conserve their genetic resources in situ. Soil seed banks are a central feature of the ecology of landrace populations of cassava; their existence has consequences for conservation. Seedlings recruited from seed banks are incorporated by farmers into their stocks of clones of this vegetatively propagated crop, transforming pure clonality into a mixed clonal/sexual reproductive system. Soil seed banks, and farmers' responses to them, play an important role in maintaining diversity in populations of cassava landraces. In a study combining genetic and ethnobiological approaches, we showed the following: (i) Recruitment from soil seed banks increased diversity of populations at the local scale. At the level of a field, the presence of plants issued from seeds resulted in significantly greater diversity of genotypes and phenotypes than if only individuals planted by farmers had been present. (ii) Farmers' use of seed banks has enabled indirect 'exchange' of locally adapted cassava germplasm between cultural groups, without requiring that groups actually encountered one another and engaged in social exchange of cultivars. (iii) Farmers have responded to catastrophic crop failure by using seed banks to regenerate stocks of clones. This use of seed banks should enable cassava populations to respond to disasters by an increase of genetic diversity, rather than by a narrowing of the genetic base, often feared in such situations.
Average customer rating:
|
Ecology of Soil Seed Banks
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Soil Science
| Agricultural Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Agronomy
| Agricultural Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Nature & Ecology
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Botany
| Biological Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Ecology
| Biological Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Ecology
| Environment
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Agricultural Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0124404065 |
Customer Reviews:
A Classic.......2005-03-29
Although this book needs to be updated (Mike Tyson alone could add a dozen pages) this book is a classic. James Brown's PCP-fueled two-state police chase? You can follow the route here. Hilarious in its inclusiveness, it manages to keep things tasteful despite hotspots like "Where Margaret Mitchell got run over by a car" (downtown Atlanta)and "Where Jayne Mansfield got decapitated" (California). Some inclusions in an updated edition could include "Where Jean Claude Van Damme got beat up by a bouncer" (Scores Nightclub, Queens NY)and "Where Stephen King got run over by a car" (Route 5 near Fryeburg, ME).
A good guide to the offbeat.......1999-07-12
If you're planning a trip and you'd rather skip the usual theme parks, outlet malls and hole-in-the-wall museums, this book is packed with ideas ranging from a town that got "nuked" (sort of -- the bomb didn't go off) to places where Sean Penn got into fights (yes, there was more than one).
Book Description
With perhaps 8,000 different species, beetles are easily the largest group of animals in California and can be found virtually everywhere in the state. They grapple over flower heads, lurk in pantries, paddle through pristine mountain streams, amble over dunes, and buzz about porch lights on warm evenings. But until now, there was no single resource for identifying the most commonly encountered beetles in California's mountains, valleys, and deserts. This valuable field guide, a companion volume to Introduction to California Beetles published in 2004, identifies more than 500 of the state's more conspicuous and colorful species, with the majority presented in stunning color photographs. Written and designed for amateur naturalists, students, and field biologists, it is chock-full of what every beetle watcher wants to know, including suggestions for finding beetles, starting a beetle collection, and keeping beetles in captivity. The informative, accessibly written species accounts include information on beetle identification, natural history, and distribution.
¥ Features 300 color photographs, 110 drawings, and 2 maps
¥ Covers 569 species in 56 families
¥ Lists California's sensitive, threatened, and endangered species
¥ Provides resources and web sites for further study of California beetles
Average customer rating:
|
Structure and Dynamics of Partially Solidified Systems (NATO Science Series E: (closed))
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Medicine
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Oncology
| Internal Medicine
| Medicine
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Pediatrics
| Specialties
| Medicine
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Mechanics
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Solid-State Physics
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Crystallography
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Mechanical Properties of Solids
| Materials Science
| Engineering
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Oncology
| Internal Medicine
| Medicine
| Medical
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General & Reference
| Chemistry
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Mechanics
| Physics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Solid State Physics
| Physics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
All Amazon Upgrade
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Engineering
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Medicine
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Professional & Technical
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Science
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 9024735009 |
Average customer rating:
|
Linear Models: An Integrated Approach
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka , and
Debasis Sengupta
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Mathematics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Probability & Statistics
| Applied
| Mathematics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Medicine
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Applied
| Mathematics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Statistics
| Applied
| Mathematics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside Science Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 9810245920 |
Book Description
Linear Models: An Integrated Approach aims to provide a clear and deep understanding of the general linear model using simple statistical ideas. Elegant geometric arguments are also invoked as needed and a review of vector spaces and matrices is provided to make the treatment self-contained. Complex, matrix-algebraic methods, such as those used in the rank-deficient case, are replaced by statistical proofs that are more transparent and that show the parallels with the simple linear model.
This book has the following special features:
o Use of simple statistical ideas such as linear zero functions and covariance adjustment to explain the fundamental as well as advanced concepts
o Emphasis on the statistical interpretation of complex algebraic results
o A thorough treatment of the singular linear model, including the case of multivariate response
o A unified discussion on models with a partially unknown dispersion matrix, including mixed-effects/variance-components models and models for spatial and time series data
o Insight into updates on the linear model and their connection with diagnostics, design, variable selection, the Kalman filter, etc.
o An extensive discussion on the foundations of linear inference, along with linear alternatives to least squares
o Coverage of other special topics, such as collinearity, stochastic and inequality constraints, misspecified models, etc.
o Simpler proofs of numerous known results
o Pointers to current research through examples and exercises
Customer Reviews:
Excellent text.......2006-01-30
This book deserves attention from researchers and students in statistics as well as people who are applying linear models and wish to go deeper into parts of the theory. The broad scope of linear model topics covered by the book has a very well-written and unified presentation. This is an easy-to-read introduction to the theory of linear models, which provide the foundation of regression and analysis of variance.
Average customer rating:
|
The American Tradition in Literature: Shorter Edition in One Volume/Ninth Edition
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Classics
| United States
| World Literature
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| History & Criticism
| United States
| World Literature
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
Literary Theory
| History & Criticism
| United States
| World Literature
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| United States
| World Literature
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Essays
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
Classics
| General
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0070494207 |
Book Description
THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE has introduced nearly two million students to the historic sweep of American Literature. Now, in its eighth edition, this leading anthology once again presents the best collection published. Published in 3 volumes - I, II, and the Shorter Edition (a single volume) - they are all available in both hard and soft cover. This revision balances the major writers with new and newly appreciated voices. Literary merit, as identified by the most current criticism, remains the guiding principle of selection. The headnotes and bibliographies have been extensively revised to reflect recent scholarship, and the new selections that have been added represent more fully early American literatrue and the latter half of the twentieth century. Now in its fourth decade, George and Barbara Perkins continue to create the standard by which all other American literature anthologies are judged.
Customer Reviews:
I still read mine!.......2001-06-06
I used this as a text book in high school and I still read it! I'm using it with my homeschooled children now.
Books:
- The Historic Cumberland Plateau: An Explorer's Guide (Outdoor Tennessee Series)
- The Ice-Age History of National Parks in the Rocky Mountains
- The Indus River: Biodiversity, Resources, Humankind (Enviromental Science)
- The Last Neanderthal : The Rise, Success, and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relatives
- The Logic of Life
- The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
- The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
- The Mysterious Lands: A Naturalist Explores the Four Great Deserts of the Southwest
- The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth
- THE PINE BARRENS. A PRELIMINARY ECOLOGICAL INVENTORY.
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- Great Boom Ahead: YOUR COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO PERSONAL AND BUSINESS PROFIT IN THE NEW ERA OF PROSPER
- History: Fiction or Science
- History: Fiction or Science
- Discovering Another Way: Raising Brighter Children While Haveing a Meaningful Career
- Dragon Ball Z, Volume 26
- Discovering Statistics Using SPSS
- Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
- Diana, Princess of Wales: Queen of Hearts, An Audio Tribute. Her Life. Her Thoughts. Her words .....
- From VPI to State University: President T. Marshall Hahn Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech
- Bacterial Growth And Division: BIOCHEMISTRY AND REGUALTION OF PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC CYCLES
![Changing perspectives on the role of the soil seed bank in northern temperate deciduous forests and in tropical lowland rain forests: parallels and contrasts ... in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21SD3W7W6DL.jpg)
![Colonisation by vascular plants after soil disturbance in the Bavarian Forest-key factors and relevance for forest dynamics [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21NEN6B0DAL.jpg)
![The unappreciated ecology of landrace populations: Conservation consequences of soil seed banks in Cassava [An article from: Biological Conservation]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21N7WP9WNTL.jpg)
