Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution

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The last ten years have seen an explosion of activity in the application of molecular biological techniques to evolutionary and ecological studies. This volume attempts to summarize advances in the field and place into context the wide variety of methods available to ecologists and evolutionary biologists using molecular techniques. Both the molecular techniques and the variety of methods available for the analysis of such data are presented in the text. The book has three major sections - populations, species and higher taxa. Each of these sections contains chapters by leading scientists working at these levels, where clear and concise discussion of technology and implication of results are presented. The volume is intended for advanced students of ecology and evolution and would be a suitable textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate student seminar courses.

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Molecular Approaches to Evolution
Jacques Ninio
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This is a seminal book in molecular evolutionary theory........1999-09-27

Ninio's "Molecular Approaches to Evolution" helped establish the concept of "sequence space" and encouraged rigorous, elegant, but fun, approaches to the study of molecular evolution long before it became a fad. The prose makes clear extremely difficult topics in a delightful, and deeply satisfying way. But be careful - reading this book is likely to make you a zealous molecular evolutionist.

Aquatic Microbial Ecology: Biochemical and Molecular Approaches (Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience)

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Aquatic Microbial Ecology: Biochemical and Molecular Approaches (Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience)
Jurgen Overbeck
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Molecular Ecology and Evolution: Approaches and Applications (Exs (Experientia Supplementum))

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The critically acclaimed laboratory standard, Methods in Enzymology, is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. The series contains much material still relevant today - truly an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences.

Function and molecular aspects of biomembrane transport: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Function and Molecular Aspects of Biomembrane Transport ... in bioenergetics and biomembranes)

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Function and molecular aspects of biomembrane transport: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Function and Molecular Aspects of Biomembrane Transport ... in bioenergetics and biomembranes)

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Hydrogen ion transport in epithelia: Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydrogen Ion Transport in Epithelia, held in Frankfurt am Main (German ... in bioenergetics and biomembranes ; v. 4)

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Hydrogen ion transport in epithelia: Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydrogen Ion Transport in Epithelia, held in Frankfurt am Main (German ... in bioenergetics and biomembranes ; v. 4)

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Mitochondria: biogenesis and bioenergetics;: [and] Biomembranes: molecular arrangements and transport mechanisms, Federation of European Biochemical Societies ... ([Proceedings of the] eighth FEBS meeting)

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Molecular Basis of Biomembrane Transport (Developments in bioenergetics and biomembranes)

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Molecular Basis of Biomembrane Transport (Developments in bioenergetics and biomembranes)

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Transport and Bioenergetics in Biomembranes

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Vectorial reactions in electron and ion transport in mitochondria and bacteria: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Vectorial Reactions in Electron ... in Bioenergetics & Biomembranes)

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Biomembranes, Part G: Bioenergetics: Biogenesis of Mitochondria, Organization, and Transport, Volume 56 : Volume 56: Biomembranes Part G (Biomembranes)

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Biomembranes, Part G: Bioenergetics: Biogenesis of Mitochondria, Organization, and Transport, Volume 56 : Volume 56: Biomembranes Part G (Biomembranes)
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Biomembranes, Part G: Bioenergetics: Biogenesis of Mitochondria, Organization, and Transport: Volume 56: Biomembranes Part G
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Mitochondria: Biogenesis and Bioenergetics, Biomembranes: Molecular Arrangements and Transport Mechanisms Vol. 28 (Eighth FEBS meeting)
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This book aims to provide a valuable source, which focuses on interdisciplinary methods and affiliate research in the area of Geometric Modeling and Graphics. It aims to provide the user community with a variety of Geometric Modeling techniques, applications, systems and tools necessary for various real life problems in areas such as Designing objects, Medical Visualization, Scientific Data Visualization, Archaeology, Toon Rendering, Virtual Reality, Body Simulation, etc. It also aims to collect and disseminate information from various disciplines including Curve and Surface Fitting, Geometric Algorithms, Scientific Visualization, Shape Abstraction and Modeling, Intelligent CAD Systems, Computational Geometry, Solid Modeling, Shape Analysis and Description, Medical and Industrial Applications. The major goal of this book is to stimulate views and provide a source where researchers and practitioners can find the latest developments in the field of Geometric Modeling and related practical issues. The book is useful for researchers, practicing engineers, computer scientists, and many others who seek state of the art techniques, applications, systems and tools for Geometric Modeling and Graphics. The book will be a useful source of ideas and techniques for those who seek further research and practice in the development and applications of Computer Aided Geometric Modeling. The introduction to various techniques and applications, together with the developed systems and tools, may serve to stimulate the interest of undergraduate senior students as well as graduate students in the areas of Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. The book consists of twenty-two well documented chapters distributed in three sections of Geometric Modeling Techniques, Applications, Systems and Tools.

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Geometric Modeling: Techniques, Applications, Systems and Tools
Muhammad Sarfraz
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When war broke out in August 1914, 21-year-old Vera Brittain was planning on enrolling at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father told her she wouldn't be able to go: "In a few months' time we should probably all find ourselves in the Workhouse!" he opined. Brittain had hoped to escape the Northern provinces, but the war seemingly dashed her plans. "It is not, perhaps, so very surprising that the War at first seemed to me an infuriating personal interruption rather than a world-wide catastrophe."

Her father eventually relented, however, and she was allowed to attend. By the end of her first year, she had fallen in love with a young soldier and resolved to become active in the war effort by volunteering as a nurse--turning her back on what she called her "provincial young-ladyhood." Brittain suffered through 12-hour days by reminding herself that nothing she endured was worse than what her fiancé, Roland, experienced in the trenches. Roland was expected home on leave for Christmas 1915; on December 26, Brittain received news that he had been killed at the front. Ten months later Brittain herself was sent to Malta and then to France to serve in the hospitals nearer the front, where she witnessed firsthand the horrors of battle. When peace finally came, Brittain had also lost her brother Edward and two close friends. As she walked the streets of London on November 11, 1918--Armistice Day--she felt alone in the crowds:

For the first time I realised, with all that full realisation meant, how completely everything that had hitherto made up my life had vanished with Edward and Roland, with Victor and Geoffrey. The War was over; a new age was beginning; but the dead were dead and would never return.

First published in 1933, Testament of Youth established Brittain as one of the best-loved authors of her time. Her crisp, clear prose and searing honesty make this unsentimental memoir of a generation scarred by war a classic. --Sunny Delaney

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Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By war's end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its time,” it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.

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Heavy handed prose weakens work.......2007-09-13

I clearly am in a minority here but I did not like this book. A peer of other notable young British writers like Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen, Britton's book stands out among the male writers of the period as giving a woman's view of the war. The problem, at least for me, is that Britton is so over come with bitterness that she flogs the reader with it from the start.

An early feminist Britton had strong views and supported her male friends and family going off to the First World War but as they fell to the german guns she, like many of her generation, became disillusioned. This is understandable but in writing her book, Britton cannot set aside her bitterness and it makes the reading ponderous and heavy. For example noting a fete in her early childhood and the bunting and flags put out she says "If only I knew then it was all meaningless." we are taken from a little girl's views to a bitter adult in the blink of an eye and it just gets too much.

By comparrison the autobiography of Robert Graves, Goodby to All That, starts out with the childish illusions being enjoyed as a child and slowly the bitterness slips into the writer's world view as he matures and is exposed to the horrors of the war. this is far more subtle and easier to read, meaning you are guided to the ponit he wants you to reach, instead of trying to bludgeon you into the mindset as Britton does.

Indispensable autobiography.......2007-03-24

The word "classic" gets thrown around a lot these days. Many so-called "modern classics" are not that important, but "Testament of Youth" deserves this reprint as a Penguin Classic. Brittain tells of her early life in the north of England between 1893 and the start of World War I in 1914 in beautifully clear prose, and her clarity of thought and powers of observation make the bulk of the book, dealing with the war's impact on her, painfully vivid without ever lapsing into self-pity. Like too many others of her generation (and the next and the next) Vera Brittain learned almost unimaginable lessons about life and her own inner strength. To that extent, "Testament of Youth" can serve as both example and inspiration.

Vera Brittain came from an upper-middle-class background shared by millions of young women in late Victorian England. One thing that made her different was her great intellectual curiosity and determination to escape a truly suffocating existence that few of today's Western women can easily imagine. What made her like most citizens of the time (and of later times)was her complete ignorance of the meaning of "war." Patriotism, her social conscience, and a desire to take part in the bigger world led her to volunteer as a nursing sister with the British Army. Her grueling hospital experiences were a revelation to her. Her personal losses are even more powerfully revealing of the human condition. Brittain was a "survivor" in every sense of the word.

"Testament of Youth" is just as fresh and moving today as it was when it was written 75 years ago and Vera Brittain tells a story that must be told and retold to each generation. For every reader who finds the book "too long" by current standards (its almost 700 pages), there will be two who wish they could follow the author even further. But even if you find yourself skipping ahead, particularly in the early part, you will not be able to forget Vera Brittain or her story. "Testament of Youth" is one of the great autobiographies of the past 100 years.

Deserves Wider Readership.......2006-06-03

This is a fascinating, insightful book that it would behoove many of us modern folk to read. Learn about the harder times of the past, while sipping latte in a comfy chair. You'll be thankful for today's comforts -- and today's modern attitudes towards the capabilities and intelligence of women -- after you read what it was like for one woman early in the 20th century. Simply a great book.

Testamony.......2006-04-23

Vera Brittain enrolled in Summerville College, Oxford, in a time before degrees were granted to women. This was just before The First World War changed almost everything for almost everyone. When it was over, her best friends, her fiance and her brother had all been killed. She also personally witnessed the agony of thousands in the surgical wards where she worked as a volunteer nurse.

In response, she became a suffragette, a feminist and a liberal writer and lecturer. She sought to prevent such tragedy from reoccurring.

The answers to the political and social questions with which she struggled elude us still. But Vera Brittain's autobiographical account of her generation's trials, Testament of Youth, remains both a stunningly-honest portrait of a courageous young woman and a vivid chronicle of a time almost out of living memory. Through her words we see what we might have thought, felt and believed, had we been born into her era.

Great WWI Living History.......2005-11-26

A real sleeper - I'm surprised after reading it that the book isn't more well known. Very well written and compelling. The author juxtaposes the war and it's history with the daily life of the people living it. She's a keen observer of both history and human nature. She does, I think, leave out some history that seems important now but maybe they weren't to her at the time. Highly recomended.

Testament of Youth, an Autobiographical Study of the Years, 1900-1925.

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Testament of Youth, an Autobiographical Study of the Years, 1900-1925.
Vera. Brittain
Manufacturer: The Macmillan Company
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TESTAMENT OF YOUTH: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF THE YEARS 1900 - 1925.
Vera Brittain
Manufacturer: Victor Gollancz
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925.
Vera Brittain
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
Vera Brittain
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
Vera Brittain
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Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

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Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Vera Brittain
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