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Environmental Accounting: Emergy and Environmental Decision Making
Howard T. Odum Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471114421 |
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In this important new work, Howard T. Odum, widely acknowledged as the father of systems ecology, lucidly explains his concept of emergy, a measure of real wealth that provides a rational, science-based method of evaluating commodities, services, and environmental goods. Using specific real-world examples, Dr. Odum clearly demonstrates the revolutionary role of emergy in environmental management and policy making.Environmental Accounting: Emergy and Environmental Decision Making offers environmental professionals—policymakers, managers, ecologists, planners, developers, and activists—a systematic approach to environmental and economic valuation that will eliminate much of the rancor and adversarial decision making that often plagues environmental issues. Specifically, this book:
Environmental Accounting: Emergy and Environmental Decision Making will help environmental decision makers and the society they serve maximize economic vitality with less trial and error, innovate with fewer failures, and adapt to change more rapidly. It provides the tools they need to arrive at the best policies in resource management, economics, and the environment.
Balancing the economy and the environment— from the father of systems ecology
Increasing economic dependence on diminishing natural resources has sparked a highly charged debate over the use and fate of the world environment. Environmental Accounting: Emergy and Environmental Decision Making presents a unique method of environmental management based on maximizing real wealth, the whole economy, and the public benefit.
Renowned ecologist Howard T. Odum introduces the concept of emergy to provide a rational alternative to the tug-of-war over the world's most vital assets. Emergy measures the energy put into making a product and is the cornerstone of Odum's revolutionary text. This timely and important book offers key insights into:
Environmental Accounting: Emergy and Environmental Decision Making will help economists, ecologists, policymakers, and planners make more responsible, informed decisions to sustain economic and environmental development.
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Emergetic ternary diagrams: five examples for application in environmental accounting for decision-making [An article from: Journal of Cleaner Production]
C.M.V.B. Almeida , F.A. Barrella , and B.F. Giannetti Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000PAUD1G |
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Cleaner Production, 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.
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A Checklist of Benthic Marine Algae of the Tropical and Subtropical Western Atlantic: First Revision (Nova Hedwigia)
Michael James Wynne Manufacturer: J. Cramer in Der Gebr. Borntraeger Verlagsbuc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3443510388 |
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
Alexandra David-neel Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060596554 Release Date: 2005-08-23 |
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In any time, Alexandra David-Neel would have been considered an extraordinary woman, but in the Victorian era, she was truly exceptional. Born in 1868, David-Neel eschewed the dances, dinners, and formal marriages common to women of her era and social standing in order to indulge her fierce independence and insatiable intellectual curiosity. Her interest in comparative religions dated back to early childhood; even as a student in a Catholic convent school, she kept statues of both Christ and the Buddha in her room. She made her first trip to Asia in 1891, then supported herself as a light-opera singer and journalist before marrying a seemingly conventional man, Philip Neel. Fortunately for both Alexandra David-Neel and for posterity, Philip was less stodgy than his position as a well-off engineer might imply; though he did not accompany her, he supported his wife's explorations and even acted as her literary agent when she began to write about the places she visited. Alexandra and Philip remained the closest of friends until his death in 1941.David-Neel spent years traveling in India and China, but perhaps her most daring adventure was the trip to Tibet's forbidden city of Lhasa. She was 55 years old at the time, fluent in Tibetan and well versed in both Sanskrit and Buddhism. Disguised as a man, she spent four treacherous months on the road before finally becoming the first European woman ever to enter Lhasa. My Journey to Lhasa is David-Neel's own account of her astounding journey, one fraught with hardship and danger. It is both a chronicle of a bygone time and a testimonial to a remarkable human.
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An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city.
In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. With the help of her young companion, Yongden, she willingly suffered the primitive travel conditions, frequent outbreaks of disease, the ever–present danger of border control and the military to reach her goal.
The determination and sheer physical fortitude it took for this woman, delicately reared in Paris and Brussels, is inspiration for men and women alike.
David–Neel is famous for being the first Western woman to have been received by any Dalai Lama and as a passionate scholar and explorer of Asia, hers is one of the most remarkable of all travellersߴales.
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A history of Tibet that no longer exists, we all owe David-Neel a debt.......2007-07-16
The Pilgrim was a Lady.......2006-08-11
An unusual journey to say the least.......2004-01-26
Massively Overrated.......2003-12-24
Worth the Effort.......2001-03-10
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My Journey to Lhasa
Alexandra David-Neel Manufacturer: Time Books International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OGQSH4 |
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My Journey to Lhasa
Alexandra David-Neel Manufacturer: Virago ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000Q6RGHI |
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My journey to Lhasa [microform]: The personal story of the only white woman who succeeded in entering the forbidden city
Alexandra David-Neel Manufacturer: Harper ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006EJW18 |
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My Journey to Lhasa and the Super Human Life of Gesar of Ling
Alexandra David-Neel Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1425481817 |
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My journey to Lhasa: [The personal story of the only white woman who succeeded in entering the forbidden city]
Alexandra David-Neel Manufacturer: Penguin Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00088U7YS |
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1927. Madame David-Neel's travels in remote parts of Asia, including her fifth expedition, a journey to Tibet, of which she gives a short account in the present book, were undertaken as the result of certain peculiar circumstances. The idea of visiting Lhasa became implanted in her mind. Before the frontier post to which she had been escorted, she took an oath that in spite of all obstacles, she would reach Lhasa and show what the will of a woman could achieve.
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
Alexandra David-Neel Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF90YI |
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Tall Cool One (A-List, No. 4)
Zoey Dean Manufacturer: Poppy ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0316735086 |
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all Cool One is the fourth novel in this witty and risqu series that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. New York blueblood Anna Percy came to L.A. to learn how to have a good time. Now she's surfing Zuma Beach with the industry's hottest young television producer. But duty calls and Anna must jet down to Las Casitas, Mexico, on a secret mission for her uber-powerful businessman father. But it turns out Anna isn't the only one staying at the super-luxury resort with a secret. Soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures, The A-List and its bestselling sequels, Girls on Film, Blonde Ambition, and Tall Cool One, are full of page-turning action about the fast times of Beverly Hills' most beautiful and glamorous people.Customer Reviews:
Zoey Dean's best work yet!.......2007-07-28
LOVED IT!!!.......2006-07-19
A-List 4: Tall Cool One.......2006-07-07
Finally, No Ben!.......2006-06-28
Then again, its.............2006-06-27
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Tall Cool One
Zoey Dean Manufacturer: Tandem Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 141767590X |
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Tall Cool One
Zoey Dean Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O1MQ3E |
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Topobiology: An Introduction to Molecular Embryology
Gerald M. Edelman Manufacturer: Basic Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0465086535 |
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Interactions between cell surfaces allow embryo to develop.......2000-11-26
Heavy going, big payoff.......2000-05-09
If you have the strength and the courage, I suggest that you give this book a try
P.S. I am the "reader" from Manchester College in the previous review -- I didn't get my name on that one though.
Thick going, but worth the effort.......2000-02-05
As the header suggests, this book is not an easy read; it presents abstract concepts, and the author uses extremely complex sentence constructions to tell his story. This is not a book for the faint of heart, it is written with the professional biologist in mind.
If you have the strength and the courage, I suggest that you give this book a try.
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Embryology: An Introduction to Developmental Biology
Stanley Shostak Manufacturer: Harpercollins College Div ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0060461268 |
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An Introduction to Developmental Biology
John McKenzie Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 047014985X |
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Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology
Waldo Shumway Manufacturer: Biotech Books,India ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8176220620 |
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The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology
Marcello Barbieri Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0521824141 |
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Asserting that there are many more organic codes in nature than just the genetic code, Marcello Barbieri states that the existence of these codes and their corresponding organic memories can be used to explain the key steps in the evolutionary history of life. With major events corresponding to the appearance of new codes, the organic codes and their corresponding organic memories can also shed new light on the problems of epigenesis and how embryos generate their own complexity.Download Description
The genetic code appeared on Earth with the first cells. The codes of cultural evolution arrived almost four billion years later. These are the only codes that are recognized by modern biology. In this book, however, Marcello Barbieri explains that there are many more organic codes in nature, and their appearance not only took place throughout the history of life but marked the major steps of that history. A code establishes a correspondence between two independent 'worlds', and the codemaker is a third party between those 'worlds'. Therefore the cell can be thought of as a trinity of genotype, phenotype and ribotype. The ancestral ribotypes were the agents which gave rise to the first cells. The book goes on to explain how organic codes and organic memories can be used to shed new light on the problems encountered in cell signalling, epigenesis, embryonic development, and the evolution of language.Customer Reviews:
A refreshingly new view of the genetic codes.......2005-01-31
A typical anti-Darwinism pseudoscience book.......2005-01-24
A wrong path to explaining biology.......2003-12-06
I found his ideas unconvincing. His ideas rest on his model of how complexity needs to be generated, based on algorithms to reconstruct CAT scan images. He uses a new term "convergent increase in complexity" to mean "reconstructing a structure from incomplete information", which is based on these CAT scan image algorithms. However, a wealth of literature on cellular automata (finite state machines) shows that complexity can be generated by simple rules. Furthermore, repeatable, complex structures can be observed by these processes. If one needs convincing about this, just look at the biomorph images in Dawkins' "The Blind Watchmaker" for taste of how simple rules can create complex, "body plans". L-systems are another example.
But despite his claims, Barbieri does not really offer falsifiable hypotheses and for this reason alone, it is difficult to understand how anyone can build on this work as a model of biology.
Rather than thinking of codes as means to map information spaces, other workers have followed more fruitful approaches, e.g. how codes are used in information theory as a model to understand the biology. What is apparent from computational science, e.g. Holland's work on tagging systems, and wet biology, is that life needs to have systems that co-ordinate. Co-ordination becomes increasingly difficult as organisms increase in complexity and size. Biology seems to indicate that many approaches to communication used in industry have their surrogates in living systems.
Barbieri comes over as a little petulant that his ideas have not be taken up by biologists. A quick search on the web showed that only people involved in a "discipline" called biosemiotics had looked at his work, and these texts reinforced the sense that incomprehensibity was used to mask lack of content. I hope I have given some reasons why this might be so.
In conclusion, although I found this book in a biology section, it might have been better placed with the humanities.
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Autoxidation of hydrocarbons and polyolefins;: Kinetics and mechanisms
Leo Reich Manufacturer: M. Dekker ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006BUSAA |
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Potential Theory and Right Processes (Mathematics and Its Applications)
Lucian Beznea , and Nicu Boboc Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402024967 |
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This book develops the potential theory starting from a sub-Markovian resolvent of kernels on a measurable space, covering the context offered by a right process with general state space. It turns out that the main results from the classical cases (e.g., on locally compact spaces, with Green functions) have meaningful extensions to this setting. The study of the strongly supermedian functions and specific methods like the Revuz correspondence, for the largest class of measures, and the weak duality between two sub-Markovian resolvents of kernels are presented for the first time in a complete form. It is shown that the quasi-regular semi-Dirichlet forms fit in the weak duality hypothesis. Further results are related to the subordination operators and measure perturbations. The subject matter is supplied with a probabilistic counterpart, involving the homogeneous random measures, multiplicative, left and co-natural additive functionals. The book is almost self-contained, being accessible to graduate students.
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Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing As an Art
Willa Cather Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0803263325 |
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"Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there-that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears in Willa Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others. She concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all-no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself-a game of make-believe, of re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it."Customer Reviews:
Pieces lack the "author"ity of Cather.......2000-04-24
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On Writing: Critical Studies On Writing as an Art
Willa Cather Manufacturer: Alfred A Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NPS9CI |
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On writing: Critical studies on writing as an art
Willa Cather Manufacturer: A.A. Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007FJ8NS |
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Willa Cather on writing : critical studies on writing as an Art
Willa with a foreword by Stephen Tennant Cather Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MMYMJQ |
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On Writing : Critical Studies on Writing as an Art
Willa Cather Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000ON83YS |
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