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Price: $49.00
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Sale: $39.03
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.7286
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Publication Date: 1983-09-15
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Reading Level: 823
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Description: This volume is a synthesis of existing knowledge about the flora and fauna of Costa Rica. The major portion of the book consists of detailed accounts of agricultural species, vegetation, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, and insects.
"This is an extraordinary, virtually unique work. . . . The tremendous amount of original, previously unpublished, firsthand information is remarkable."—Peter H. Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden
"An essential resource for anyone interested in tropical biology. . . . It can be used both as an encyclopedia—a source of facts on specific organisms—and as a source of ideas and generalizations about tropical ecology."—Alan P. Smith, Ecology
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $3.90
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alison Jolly
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 599.83
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Publication Date: 2004-04-20
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: In the extreme south of Madagascar is a place called Berenty, where Tandroy tribesmen, French lords, mad scientists, and two or three species of lemurs may be found gathered peacefully under a tamarind tree. Forty years ago Alison Jolly went to Berenty to study lemurs, and she has been enthralled by it ever since. In Lords and Lemurs she tells the story of the place, its people, and its other animals.
The owner of Berenty, Jean de Heaulme, arrived there in 1928 as a six-month-old baby, riding with his mother in the sidecar of his father's Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The de Heaulme family has lived at Berenty ever since, supporting Madagascar's fight for independence from France, serving in the government, and enduring economic turmoil, civil war, and even imprisonment. Although they are relics of a colonial system that seized land and tortured dissidents, the de Heaulmes also epitomize noblesse oblige in the best sense of the phrase, showing a remarkable sense of responsibility for both the people and the ecosystem of Berenty. Early on they set aside a large portion of their estate as a nature preserve, where lemurs and other animals have thrived over the years. Jean de Heaulme became a blood brother to one of the local Tandroy nobles -- the kings with spears. Traditionally the Tandroy were warriors who raided for women, cattle, and slaves. Now those who live at Berenty can take what they need from the modern world -- medical care, education, and a cash income -- without giving up their own customs and way of life. Many Tandroy still live in traditional villages surrounded by walls of thorn, and even the men who hold salaried jobs work hard so they can return to their clan with enough cattle to buy a bride or two. When a clan elder dies, the family offers a grandiose funeral where, amid gunfire and dancing and merrymaking and sex, a whole herd of zebu cattle is sacrificed to honor the new Ancestor -- even if he happens to be a Christian. Alison Jolly and her husband were honored to be invited to attend a Tandroy funeral.
Poignant and colorful, tragic and funny, Lords and Lemurs is a remarkable tale of one of the last great places on earth and the extraordinary people who live there, a tale of marriage, birth, and death, of spear fights and stink fights and dancing. It shows how human warmth and dignity can reach out beyond any social system.
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Price: $37.95
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Sale: $46.38
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James P. Gibbs::Malcolm L., Jr. Hunter::Eleanor J. Sterling
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 570
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Publication Date: 1998-05-15
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: This book, intended as a supplement to a conservation biology or wildlife management textbook, provides a series of exercises for the field, lab or classroom. Topics range from population viability analysis to conservation planning, rare species occurrence, and gap analysis. The authors plan to develop a web site in conjunction with the book so that free-ware programmes and other information can be downloaded for use in some of the exercises.
- Perfect as a field manual as well as a course textbook.
- An instructors manual will also be available.
- Web site provides downloadable exercises.
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Price: $30.95
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Sale: $22.79
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Howard C. Berg
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.01519282
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Publication Date: 1993-09-07
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Reading Level: 164
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Description: This book is a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. It provides a sound basis for understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles, or cells, or of processes that depend on such motion or are markedly affected by it. Readers do not need to understand thermodynamics in order to acquire a knowledge of the physics involved in diffusion, sedimentation, electrophoresis, chromatography, and cell motility--subjects that become lively and immediate when the author discusses them in terms of random walks of individual particles.
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Price: $42.95
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Sale: $24.39
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Manufacturer: Greystone Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Wayne Grady
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Publisher: Greystone Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.77
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Publication Date: 2007-10-28
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Ever since French explorer Samuel de Champlain’s first taste of what he called “la mer douce” — the freshwater sea — the Great Lakes have been admired, exploited, and renewed. This vast region is a study in contrasts: a hub of industry that’s the resting spot for billions of migrating birds. 40 million residents, immense untamed forests. 95 percent of North America’s fresh water and a dumping ground for poisonous wastes. The Great Lakes is an authoritative, accessible look at an ecosystem in eternal flux. Written by one of North America’s most acclaimed science and nature writers, the book explores the area’s geological formation and its role in human history; its diverse plant, bird, and animal species; and its significant physical, climatic, and environmental features. This captivating tribute to the Great Lakes region is also an essential guide to the challenge of preserving the natural world.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $25.00
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Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Arthur R. Kruckeberg
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 1995-10
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Reading Level: 468
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $14.40
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Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Donald M. Ayers
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Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.014
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Publication Date: 1972-04-01
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Reading Level: 325
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Description: "Lessons that develop a set of guides toward understanding 'new' scientific vocabulary through examination of stems and bases, suffixes etc. A help-yourself guide for 'unlocking' unfamiliar scientific words accompanied by many examples and exercises." —The National Science Teachers Association
"This new book is designed to self-teach the budding scientist the basics of the scientific language." —The Associated Press
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.27
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Roger Williams
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 612.015
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Publication Date: 1998-09-11
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Forty years ago Dr. Roger Williams, a University of Texas biochemist, published this groundbreaking work, which is only now coming to be accepted and understood by the medical community. Until now, generalized dietary recommendations like the RDAs were the norm. This timeless classic links our biological diversity with individual nutritional needs and shows you how to determine and meet those needs for optimal well-being.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $49.59
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Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Serrao
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Publisher: Stackpole Books
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 1992-08
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Reading Level: 292
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Price: $23.90
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Sale: $11.00
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lynn Margulis::Dorion Sagan
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 576.8
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Publication Date: 1997-05-29
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: BACK IN PRINT WITH A REVISED PREFACE
Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to our understanding of the future of the planet. Addressed to general readers, the book provides a beautifully written view of evolution as a process based on interdependency and thei nterconnectedness of all life on the planet.
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