Biological Wastewater Treatment in Warm Climate Regions Vol. 1 & 2

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Inside the Dzanga Sangha Rain Forest follows a team of scientists, artists, and filmmakers as they search for the elusive lowland gorilla, rare birds, leopards, a universe of insects, not to mention the powerful elephants for whom the forest is named. The team is guided by local BaAka people through elephant dung, swarms of sweat bees, and unexpected swamps as they explore and record everything they can about the rain forest. Readers learn about the rain forest, from the layers of forest canopy and the lives of the BaAka to practical skills, such as what to do if approached by a gorilla, and how to eat a termite. At the end of the expedition, the team sends back 6,000 pounds of specimens and materials and an incomparable first-hand account of life in the rain forest in order to create a unique walk-through exhibit, complete with sounds and smells.

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Inside the Dzanga-Sangha Rain Forest.......2002-06-14

Inside the Dzanga-Sangha Rain Forest is a spectacular book that follows a team of twenty scientists, artists, photographers, and filmmakers, into the heart of Africa in their search to find the essence of the rain forest. Guided by the BaAka people, a local tribe, the team spends two months filming and recording the beauty of Africa. They trudge through elephant dung, swarms of "sweat" bees, and thigh-deep flood plains, or bai as it is called in the national language of Sango, to collect items for a unique walk-through rain forest exhibit in New York City. In summary, this book takes readers on a vicarious trip through the rain forest so they can experience its beauty, meet its inhabitants, and learn practical survival skills such as gathering honey, eating termites, and playing basketball BaAka style. Regardless of age, you will find fun and adventure between the covers of Inside the Dzanga-Sangha Rain Forest!

Exceptional and Exciting: A Rain Forest Experience.......2000-04-15

You may not have recently toured the rain forests of Central Africa, but you can enjoy the lush photographs and readable text about this facinating corner of the world, the Dzangu-Sangha Rain Forest. I am a lover of African lore and found this book to use in my class. My students and I have eaten it up. We marveled at the marvelous pictures and were fascinated by the facts and information we found in the text. We all loved the information about driver ants that can be used to close up wounds that formerly required stitiches. The BaAka people and their customs are carefully documented with care and with dignity. Three sections of ninth graders who have been studying Afrian literature and folklore adored this book. To boot, my own kids, ages 5-13, have poured over the book during family reading hour. I recommended our high school library acquire a copy for student use. It is incredibly readable and suitable for a large audience. It is not to be missed.

Biological Science 1 and 2 (Advanced Biology)

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WONDERFUL, INFORMATIVE, BIOLOGY BOOK.
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Biological Science 1 and 2 (Advanced Biology)
D. J. Taylor , N. P. O. Green , and G. W. Stout
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This is the third edition of the highly successful book, Biological Science. The text has been revised and updated to provide comprehensive coverage of the latest syllabuses. New material has been added in the following areas: human health and disease, microbiology and biotechnology, and the applications of genetics. Questions and practical work permeate the text and useful appendices are included covering biological chemistry, biological techniques and statistics. Biological Science is available as two soft cover volumes and as a combined volume hardback.

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WONDERFUL, INFORMATIVE, BIOLOGY BOOK........2003-05-16

I used this book for my A'level exams, it was such a helpful and informative book. Even now,I still find it very useful; which as we all know is not typical for most texts.
I recently bought a new copy & put the old one to REST. Yes! Because this book is sooooo big - expect it to fall apart!

A Wonderful and Informative Biology Book........2003-05-16

I used this book for my A'level exams, it was such a helpful and informative book. Even now, I still find it very useful; which as we all know is not typical for most texts.
I recently bought a new copy & put the old one to REST. Yes! Because this book is sooooo big - EXPECT IT TO FALL APART!

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...very similar to some other books I've read on the subject.

Outstanding Biological Reference Text.......2000-09-08

I first encountered this book when I was studying for a course in Biology, it proved to be the biologists companion to me. I found that the information in this book was complete and covered a wide range of subjects. The language usage is not to complex so as to allow biologists of all standards be able to comprehend what was acutally being said. The presentation of the text was adaquate with plenty of pictures and examples to back up the the information presented. This book helped me to complete a two year course in advanced biology providing me with information and answers to various questions that I asked of it.

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Assesses the health of the United States plants, animals, and ecosystems.

Biocomputing and Emergent Computation: Proceedings of Bcec97 Skovde, Sweden 1-2 September 1997

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Biocomputing and Emergent Computation: Proceedings of Bcec97 Skovde, Sweden 1-2 September 1997

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ASIN: 9810232624

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This volume contains papers presented at the BCEC97 conference, held in Skvde, Sweden, in September 1997. The conference brought together researchers from biology and computer science to discuss the use of computational techniques in biology, as well as the use of biological metaphors in computing. Examples of the work presented in these papers include computer simulations of embryogenesis; algorithms for protein folding prediction; problem solving using DNA computation; neural-network learning in retina implants; and optimisation algorithms inspired by natural evolution.

Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries Vol. XXXI A Biological Survey of the Waters of Woods Hole and Vicinity Vol. 1 Physical and Zoological,botanical;vol.2 Catalogue of the Marine Fauna.Depatment of Commerce and Labor

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Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries Vol. XXXI A Biological Survey of the Waters of Woods Hole and Vicinity Vol. 1 Physical and Zoological,botanical;vol.2 Catalogue of the Marine Fauna.Depatment of Commerce and Labor
George Bowers
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Biological survey of the waters of the Woods hole and Vicinity in 2 volumes

Characterization of the role of serotonin receptor subtypes (5-HT(1) and 5-HT(2)) and nitric oxide in Guinea pig dural plasma protein extravasation : (Dissertation)

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Characterization of the role of serotonin receptor subtypes (5-HT(1) and 5-HT(2)) and nitric oxide in Guinea pig dural plasma protein extravasation : (Dissertation)
Kirk W. Johnson
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Class 2 Transferases X: EC 2.7.1.113 - 2.7.5.7 (Springer Handbook of Enzymes) (Springer Handbook of Enzymes)

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Class 2 Transferases X: EC 2.7.1.113 - 2.7.5.7 (Springer Handbook of Enzymes) (Springer Handbook of Enzymes)

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The objective of the Springer Handbook of Enzymes is to provide in concise form data on enzymes sufficiently well characterized. Data sheets are arranged in their EC-Number sequence. The volumes are arranged according to enzyme classes. Considerable progress has been made in enzymology since the publication of the first edition (published as "Enzyme Handbook"): many enzymes are newly classified or reclassified. In the 2nd edition each entry is correlated with references and one or more source organisms. New datafields are created: "application" and "engineering" (for the properties of enzymes where the sequence has been changed). Altogether the amount of data has doubled so that the 2nd edition will consist of 39 volumes plus synonym index. This collection is an indispensable source of information for researchers in biochemistry, biotechnology, organic and analytical chemistry, and food sciences.

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Day and Night (Heinemann First Library)
Anita Ganeri
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Electron Microscopy of the Somatic Sensory Cortex of the Cat: Cell Types & Synaptic Organization; Fine Structure of Layers 1 and 2; and of Layers 3 and 6. (Philos Trans of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, No 812, Vol 257).

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Electron Microscopy of the Somatic Sensory Cortex of the Cat: Cell Types & Synaptic Organization; Fine Structure of Layers 1 and 2; and of Layers 3 and 6. (Philos Trans of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, No 812, Vol 257).
E G Jones
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The papers in these proceedings were peer-reviewed. The topics of these papers are at the interface between mathematical physics, numerical analysis, optimal control, and calculus of variations. They include nonlinear analysis and partial differential equations as well as classical mathematical analysis and dynamical systems.

Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation II: Applications (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften)

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Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation II: Applications (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften)
Boris S. Mordukhovich
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ASIN: 3540254382

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Variational analysis is a fruitful area in mathematics that, on one hand, deals with the study of optimization and equilibrium problems and, on the other hand, applies optimization, perturbation, and approximation ideas to the analysis of a broad range of problems that may not be of a variational nature.

This monograph in two volumes contains a comprehensive and state-of-the art study of the basic concepts and principles of variational analysis and generalized differentiation in both finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional spaces and presents numerous applications to problems in optimization, equilibria, stability and sensitivity, control theory, economics, mechanics, etc. The first volume is mainly devoted to the basic theory of variational analysis and generalized differentiations, while the second volume describes various applications. Both volumes include abundant bibliographies and extensive commentaries.

Variational Calculus, Optimal Control and Applications: International Conference in Honour of L. Bittner and R. Klötzler, Trassenheide, Germany, September ... Series of Numerical Mathematics)

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Variational Calculus, Optimal Control and Applications: International Conference in Honour of L. Bittner and R. Klötzler, Trassenheide, Germany, September ... Series of Numerical Mathematics)

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Variational Calculus, Optimal Control, and Applications: International Conference in Honour of L. Bittner and R. Klotzler, Trassenheide, Germany, September ... Series of Numerical Mathematics, Vol 124)

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A mere gathering of musings, indeed!

A PENSIVE SUPERBLY WRITTEN REMINISCENCE

The dream devoutly to be wished

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Fifty Days of Solitude
Doris Grumbach
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When her companion Sylvia left for an extended book-buying trip, Doris Grumbach was given 50 days alone in their home on the coast of Maine. It was the winter of 1993 and the 75-year-old Grumbach surrounded herself with silence and music, with books and an empty journal, with paintings and the view out her window of a bare winter landscape. Fifty Days of Solitude is a memoir of what Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins called the "inscape": the deep, meandering landscape of an interior life. Grumbach's observations about the paintings of Edward Hopper, the death of a friend from AIDS, and the life-long grief of Dr. Anna Perkins for her companion Miss Hannay are full of dignity and pathos. Fifty Days of Solitude is a rendering of the mind and heart alone, of how distance and silence inform our compassion and intellect.

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Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation about what it means to write, to be alone, and to come to terms with mortality.

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A mere gathering of musings, indeed!.......2006-12-14

I was disappointed , I couldn't get over the fact that the title of this book is not totally about solitude . The author went into town to buy goods, she spoke to the postman on occasion and ups delivery service,.She had access to a telephone with a tape message machine and access to the internet. I believe she spoke to the neighbor,as well.Internet access-- now. thats a connection!
Her musing were boring, They were very subjective--the authors experience.
I felt forced as the reader to look into her life and her experiences and interpretations. Such a heavy title , not represented well throughout the book.
The fact that she had access to the internet, a phone and T.V. by the way, she would listen to the news and whatever,strips the imagination of desparateness, survival and immediate thoughts and feelings. Perhaps pure reflectiveness without connectiveness would be more poignant.
Nothing to ponder or to learn from this book.

A PENSIVE SUPERBLY WRITTEN REMINISCENCE.......2005-04-30

For most of us, social interaction is a daily aspect of life. Solitude is suspect rather than pursued. In this peaceful, exquisitely penned memoir novelist Doris Grumbach recounts her 50 days of absolute aloneness during a Maine winter.

"I learned that there is a softness about being alone in the country, even the frozen, snow-filled country," she writes. "Solidity, concrete, and bricks do not define one's surroundings. The edges of my landscape are blurred, made uneven by the action of wind and bending branches. There is comforting balm in the way the water beyond the white meadow breaks through the ice when the tide comes in and then freezes over in irregular ridges when it goes out."

Grumbach turned off the telephone, did not watch television. She went into town only to collect her mail and attend church, always leaving before the end of the service so as not to be drawn into any conversation. Her only companions were music, books, and herself. As she said, "I was now alone with music, books, an unpopulated cove, and with that frightening reflexive pronoun, myself."

This pensive superbly written reminiscence may have been intended as her nod to mortality, instead it is a paean to life. Don't miss it!

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The dream devoutly to be wished.......2005-04-23

Isn't it every writer's dream to have fifty days of solitude? Seven weeks of blissful nothingness, with no demands on one's time or space? Well, that's the kind of "vacation" Doris Grumbach took during one Maine winter. While she did make some inroads on the novel she was working on, she found herself spending more moments in personal reflection -- about past experiences, about friends and family members, about being alone, and about writing in general. The result is this slim volume of musings. Readers who are writers will get the most out of these pages. Anyone considering spending some time alone will benefit as well. For it is only after we know who we are on our own, that we can understand our connections with others.

Free from Blather...........2005-03-20

This slim, spare book touches on many of the gravest issues of our time while avoiding both smug solemnity and grinning uplift.

Grumbach's voice is considered, flinty even, much like the wintery Maine landscape detailed in the book. As her days of solitude progress she writes of history, piety, AIDS, the experience of aging, the borders between the individual and the community, and the often invisible lives of women. She watches everything and lets that observation live on the page without forcing conclusions onto it.

This is a profoundly religious book, and a profoundly feminist one. It wrestles with sacredness, without the silly cliches of so much writing about "the sacred". Its rectitude and honesty are a rebuke to much of the fuzzy-minded writing out there.

a gem.......2000-10-03

I first read this book about 3 years ago. I don't read many books by writers about writing, and I don't read many autobiographical books by writers, period. However, I read the first few pages of this book, and I was captivated.

She moved herself into an isolated country house for 50 days.

Grumbach's style is simple, plain, and direct. Her book is a study of one person's solitude; as such, it works well as a personal "coming of age" story. That may strike you as odd, because Grumbach is probably in her 50's or 60's, but it's a personal journey story, a tale of one person's finding herself, of imposing a solitary life upon herself.

It's about solitude, and adjusting yourself from a more frenetic way of life to a simpler way of life, socially.

I generally don't read this sort of thing at all, but I loved this book.

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Fifty Days of Solitude
Doris Grumbach
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Fifty Days of Solitude.
Doris. GRUMBACH
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