Modern Trends in Applied Aquatic Ecology

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This volume brings together some of the foremost leaders in the field of aquatic ecology. Chapter topics include research on management of wetlands, hydrochemical determinism, biomonitoring and bioindicators in aquatic ecosystems, and environmental impacts of dam projects. This volume is essential reading for professionals and researchers in the fields of ecology, hydrology, limnology, and watershed management, to name a few.

Modern Trends in Applied Aquatic Ecology

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Modern Trends in Applied Aquatic Ecology
R. S. (EDT) Ambasht
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: B000OSJKTU

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What’s going on up there when the rain falls, when the wind blows, when the clouds roll in and the lightning flashes? How do hurricanes arise and where to tornadoes come from? Why do seasonal conditions sometimes vary so much from one year to the next? Our ways of life, our very existences depend on knowing the answers to questions like these. Economies have been wiped out, civilizations have risen and fallen, entire species have come into being or gone extinct because of a temperature shift of just a few degrees, or a brief shortage or glut of rainfall. With so much riding on the weather, it makes you wonder how you’ve lived this long without knowing more about it.

Don’t worry it’s never too late to find out about what makes the weather tick.

And there’s never been an easier or more enjoyable way to learn than Weather For Dummies. In know time, you’ll know enough of weather basics to be able to:

Identify cloud types
Make sense of seasonal differences in the weather
Understand what causes hurricanes, tornadoes, and other extreme events
Make your own weather forecasts
Avoid danger during severe weather
Understand the global warming debate
Get a handle on smog, the greenhouse effect, El Niño, and more

Award-winning science writer John D. Cox brings the science of meteorology down to earth and, with the help of dozens of cool maps and charts and stunning photographs of weather conditions, he covers a wide range of fascinating subjects, including:

What is weather and how it fits into the entire global ecosystem
What goes into making a professional daily weather forecast
The basic elements of weather, including air pressure, clouds, and humidity
Storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, monsoons, and other extreme forms of weather
Seasonal weather effects and why they vary
Lightening, rainbows, sundogs, haloes, and other special effects

Featuring clear explanations, stunning illustrations, and fun, easy experiments and activities you can do at home , Weather For Dummies is your guide to making sense of the baffling turmoil of the ever-changing skies above.

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Weather for Dummies.......2007-01-06

It was a basic book on starting to understand weather, which is what I was looking for. I was able to read and understand more advanced books on the subject after that one. It served its purpose.

A Reader-Friendly Reference.......2004-02-23

Weather is a subject that everyone knows something about. However that's just where John Cox starts. So one knows about Doppler radar? How about polar orbiters? So one has always heard the expression "it's too cold to snow?" Is it really?

Of course this is a reader-friendly book. But I will wager that it will soon turn into a handy reference book that is frequently pulled from the shelf.

Weather for Dummies.......2000-11-10

This is a great book for those of us interested more in the weather and less in stuffy meteorology. I now have an understanding of "relative humidity" and why a "dry heat" is more comfortable than humid heat. I now know where some weather proverbs come from, such as "Red sky at night, sailor's delight." (There's actually factual basis for this proverb.)

This book makes a nice coffee table book, and it lends itself to casual reading. But if you're serious about the weather, you can get a lot from this book as well. There's a chapter on setting up your own weather instruments at home and keeping a weather diary. And the appendix lists a number of websites where you can learn even more about the weather. No more glib answers from me when someone says, "How about this weather?"

Great Book on Weather.......2000-11-02

Very good book on the topic. It gives a great description and count on how weather forms for example hurricanes like el nino. I am glad that dummies finally put out a book on weather. Nice job John D. Cox. It's good to see a new writer in this field!!

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Weather for Dummies
Cox
Manufacturer: HUNGRY MINDS (TWLD)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K6KPX6

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Modern Magnetooptics and Magnetooptical Materials provides a comprehensive account of the principles and applications of magnetooptics, bridging the gap between textbooks and specialist accounts in the research and review literature. The book is aimed at the graduate physicist and electrical engineer, but assumes no specialist knowledge of magnetooptics. Chapters have been designed to be reasonably independent, so that readers in search of information on a particular topic can go straight to the appropriate place in the book, with only occasional reference to material elsewhere. Divided into three main parts, the book begins with the principles of magnetooptics to provide the necessary theoretical background. This section's emphasis is on introducing practical considerations through examples taken from real-life situations. The next part surveys a wide range of magnetooptic materials, including metals, alloys, and granular structures. The final part explores applications of magnetooptics in practical devices, such as modulators, switches, memory devices, and waveguides. This book provides a thorough introduction for graduate students of physics and electrical engineering, and a useful reference for researchers.

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Modern Magnetooptics and Magnetooptical Materials
A. K. Zvezdin
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
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ASIN: B000MBSF0O

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Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Boomer Books
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ASIN: 1600969410
Release Date: 2007-02-28

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This sixth book about Tarzan is actually a collection of short stories about Tarzan\'s childhood and teenage years as he is raised by the great apes, whose life consists mainly of foraging for food and defending territory Unlike his wild guardians, Tarzan wants to learn. He painfully teaches himself to read from books left by his dead father, and he seeks to apply his knowledge to the world around him. This collection includes some of the most fascinating tales ever written about Tarzan. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.

Tarzan 2-in-1 (Tarzan & the Jewels of Opar and Jungle Tales of Tarzan) (Tarzan)

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Tarzan 2-in-1 (Tarzan & the Jewels of Opar and Jungle Tales of Tarzan) (Tarzan)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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ASIN: 0345408314
Release Date: 1996-11-27

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TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF OPAR

In the forgotten city of Opar the bloodied sacrificial altar of the Flaming God stood above the vaults piled high with the gold destined for fabled, lost Atlantis. There the beautiful high priestess La still dreamed of Tarzan, who had escaped her knife before. But now Tarzan was returning, and the hideous priests were waiting for him. Tarzan was prepared for them, but he could not avoid the earthquake that struck him down in the vaults and left him with only his childhood memories among the savage apes who reared him.

JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN

The young Tarzan was unlike the great apes who were his only companions. Theirs was a simple, savage life. But Tarzan had all of a normal boy's desire to learn, and he had painfully taught himself to read from books left by his dead father. Now he tried to apply this book knowledge to the world of the jungle. He searched for the love and affection that every human being needs. But he was alone in his struggles to grow and understand--and the life of the jungle had no room for abstractions.

Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Found in the Attic Series, 20)

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ERB retells some early tales about Tarzan of the Apes

Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Found in the Attic Series, 20)
Edgar Rice Burroughs , and J. St. John Allen
Manufacturer: Quiet Vision Pub
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ERB retells some early tales about Tarzan of the Apes.......2004-06-14

"Jungle Tales of Tarzan" is actually a nice companion volume to the original "Tarzan of the Apes," provide more depth and detail to the early years of the Lord of the Jungle. It also marks a coda to what we would now consider the original story arc of the Tarzan novels. Burroughs would write another 21 Tarzan novels but they would become increasingly formulaic. In many ways this is the last time we would see the original Tarzan; you can think of "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" as sort of being the "deleted scenes" from the original "Tarzan of the Apes" novel. This particular edition also features ilustrations by J. St. John Allen, always considered the best of ERB's original artists.

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ERB retells some early tales about Tarzan of the Apes

Jungle Tales of Tarzan

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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1594568235
Release Date: 2004-02-02

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ERB retells some early tales about Tarzan of the Apes.......2005-05-21

"Jungle Tales of Tarzan" is the sixth volume in the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs and pretty much goes back to the beginning for a collection of short stories set in the time when Tarzan still lived among the great apes. Tarzan has learned how to read from the books he has found and it is opening his young mind to new questions, like where do dreams come from and where he can confront Goro, the supreme being that is the moon. There is also the love triangle between Tarzan, his first love Teeka, and their rival Taug, as well as his adventures tormenting the people of the local Mbonga tribe.

"Jungle Tales of Tarzan" is actually a nice companion volume to the original "Tarzan of the Apes," provide more depth and detail to the early years of the Lord of the Jungle. It also marks a coda to what we would now consider the original story arc of the Tarzan novels. Burroughs would write another 21 Tarzan novels but they would become increasingly formulaic. In many ways this is the last time we would see the original Tarzan; you can think of "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" as sort of being the "deleted scenes" from the original "Tarzan of the Apes" novel. This particular edition also features ilustrations by J. St. John Allen, always considered the best of ERB's original artists.

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Disney's Beloved Tales

Manufacturer: DS-MAX
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1588054632

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Stories included are The Lion King, Simba's Pride, Tarzan, Hercules, Mulan, Cinderella, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Bug's Life, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Robin Hood, and The Jungle Book.

Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan #6) (Vintage Ballantine, U2006)

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Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan #6) (Vintage Ballantine, U2006)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 0345220064

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Illustrated fiction
This is a Tarzan graphic novel by Burne Hogarth
Yes, There was a Mistake
JUNGLE TALES: ERB at His Best & Worst
A large mistake

Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan, 6)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Tantor Media, Inc.
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In this collection of 12 short stories, Burroughs returns to Tarzan's early years providing new depth and detail to the Lord of the Jungle, during his time among the great apes. Having learned to read from his father's books, Tarzan seeks to apply his knowledge to the world around him and to learn more about life, death, dreams, God, love, and friendship. Tarzan challenges his best friend Taug, in a fight to the death, but then risks his life to save him; he has nightmares after eating rancid elephant meat only to awake and be faced with a live, man-eating gorilla; twice he sports a lion's skin to play a practical joke, but he doesn't always have the last laugh!
The Jungles Tales include:
1)Tarzan's First Love, 2)The Capture of Tarzan, 3)The Fight for the Balu, 4)The God of Tarzan, 5)Tarzan and the Black Boy, 6)The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance, 7)The End of Bukawai, 8)The Lion, 9)The Nightmare, 10)The Battle for Teeka, 11)A Jungle Joke, and 12)Tarzan Rescues the Moon Tarzan Series #6

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TEEKA, STRETCHED AT luxurious ease in the shade of the tropical forest, presented, unquestionably, a most alluring picture of young, feminine loveliness. Or at least so thought Tarzan of the Apes, who squatted upon a low-swinging branch in a near-by tree and looked down upon her. Just to have seen him there, lolling upon the swaying bough of the jungle-forest giant, his brown skin mottled by the brilliant equatorial sunlight which percolated through the leafy canopy of green above him, his clean-limbed body relaxed in graceful ease, his shapely head partly turned in contemplative absorption and his intelligent, gray eyes dreamily devouring the object of their devotion, you would have thought him the reincarnation of some demigod of old.

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Illustrated fiction.......2007-03-09

Having only seen copies of the artwork from this book, I can still say that it lives up to the reputation of the forerunner, Tarzan of the Apes, also illustrated by Burne Hogarth. the only disappointment is that it was printed in black&white, not full color as was the 1st volume.

This is a Tarzan graphic novel by Burne Hogarth.......2005-11-30

In 1972 Watson-Guptil published what is now considered the first contemporary graphic novel, "Tarzan of the Apes" with a text adapted from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel and art by Burne Hogarth. A large format hard cover book, it was pictorial fiction previously unseen in sequential art. Moreover, it was intended for an adult readership. Published in 11 languages, it proved influential in many creative fields. Other comic strip/book artists took note and tried their hand at this new format with mixed results.
In 1972 Hogarth was a veteran of the comic strip, having drawn the Sunday "Tarzan" for the newspapers from 1937 to 1950. He was also an educator, the founder of the New York School of Visual Arts, and an author of anatomy books for artists that are now standards around the world (witness the recent Kong issue of Wired - it's Hogarth's drawings all over the wall behind the CG artists). After having trained most of the Silver Age comic artists at his school, Hogarth reapproached the Lord of the Jungle. The results are the definitive vision of the Ape Man, the point at which Renaissance fine art finally meshes with dynamic movement and a pop culture medium.
Hogarth completed his Tarzan work with Jungle Tales in 1976, the pinnacle of 20th Century sequential art. His use of hidden images and negative space imagery are brilliant details in page design concepts that are far beyond other comic art.
It is sheer beauty and grace that pervades this book, resulting in a profound visual expression. These stories of Tarzan's young adulthood are explorations of humanity's questions of existence and are as relevant now as when Burroughs first wrote the novel in 1919.

Yes, There was a Mistake.......2003-10-31

Most of the reviews written here are not for Burne Hogarth's "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" but are for the original Tarzan novel by Burroughs and not the beautiful Burne Hogarth comic book/trade paperback 1976 adaptation. I now own the Burne Hogarth edition and love it. It is boldly done and Hogarth's art is at its best and most detailed. The only drawback is that it is not colored---it is only black and white---and only available in paperback (unlike the hardback and colored 1972 "Tarzan of the Apes" Burroughs/Hogarth edition). Still it is a pleasure to behold, and is larger than the 1972 "Tarzan of the Apes" edition. About half of the tales in Burroughs' original "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" are there. The forward is interesting and shows some pages from both Hogarth/Burroughs' books. Burne Hogarth definately brings Burroughs' amazing works to life like no one else. A perfect match. Hogarth is to comic book art as Frank Frazetta is to paperback covers.

JUNGLE TALES: ERB at His Best & Worst.......2003-08-13

When Tarzan became a household world, readers of Edgar Rice Burroughs began to pester him to write about a more personalized, more gossipy side of the apeman. ERB obliged his fans by writing a dozen stories that detail his growing up in Africa during his teenage years. In JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN, ERB portrays a Tarzan that might have fit in well in any number of television sitcoms or domestic dramas. This Tarzan shows a side to his development that is only hinted at in the events of the first novel of the series, TARZAN ON THE APES, in whose events it runs concurrently.

Many of the same themes and plot devices that run through the entire series are explored here, several of which show ERB at his literary best and worst. Plotting and pacing are ERB's strongpoints. He constantly captures the interest of his readers with exotic yet believable storylines. Yet, his insistence on coincidence to make his plots mesh combined with more than a touch of blatant racism intrude to the point that if ERB published his books today, a formidable array of political correctness would howl for his scalp.

The first story, "Tarzan's First Love," describes a teenage Tarzan who has a love crush on a lovely gorilla female named Teeka. Tarzan declares his love for her, and battles a childhood chum for her favors. By the story's end, Tarzan recognizes the genetic differences and reluctantly gives her up. What is of interest here, is the psychological battle that he goes through. More than once, ERB mentions the impact that Kala, Tarzan's foster ape mother, has had on Tarzan, an impact that endures throughout the entire series. There is a strong Oedipal undercurrent as Tarzan compares the love for Teeka with that of his love for the deceased Kala.

In several of the stories, ERB describes blacks in such a manner that he constantly harps on what he sees as their physical, emotional, and intellectual shortcomings. In "The Capture of Tarzan," the apeman singlehandedly fights off more than fifty black cannibals. In "Tarzan and the Black Boy," ERB is unabashedly racist as he notes, "Imagination it is which builds bridges, and cities, and empires. The beasts know it not, the blacks only a little." Tarzan often baits blacks in this book and others by killing them at random or playing gruesome jokes on them. In "A Jungle Joke," ERB explicity suggests the low intelligence of the cannibal blacks by making it seem as if Tarzan could metamorphosize himself into a lion at will.

If racist themes turned off some readers, other more universal ones attracted generations of readers. When Tarzan was not involved in the day to day affairs of the reality of jungle life, his human side forced him into a philosophical contemplation of the mysteries of the universe. In "The God of Tarzan," the apeman attempts the age-old human quest for the meaning of life. He attempts to track down God in the same way that he would follow the spoor of a wounded deer. In "Tarzan Rescues the Moon," Tarzan sees a lunar eclipse and in his efforts to rescue the moon, shoots arrows into the moon until the moon re-emerges from the eclipse. In both stories, Tarzan goes through the same mental anguish that his human forebears must have endured. And like them, his conclusions about his place in the universe are tentative at best. It his Tarzan's reaching out to further distinguish himself from his anthropoid tribe that makes him as fascinating to today's readers as it was to past generations.

A large mistake.......2003-04-25

The customer review written here is about the ERB tarzan novel. All the used books being sold here are nothing but ERB tarzan novels. I put in the ISBN number and as you can see this is the jungle tales of Tarzan the big 10 by 13 book illustrated in comic book forum by the great Burne Hogarth not the tarzan novel by ERB. The people that wrote comments and the sellers of so called used copies are confused they are referring to a different book. I know I own the real one.

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JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN

Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H3DN2M

BURROUGHS BULLETIN - New Series Number 42 - Spring 2000: Fabulous Tales from a Papyrus Scroll: Tarzan and the Lost Empire; Edgar Rice Burroughs and Metropolitan News Service; Michigan Military Academy; Law and Justice in the Burroughs Canon; Jungle Man

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BURROUGHS BULLETIN - New Series Number 42 - Spring 2000: Fabulous Tales from a Papyrus Scroll: Tarzan and the Lost Empire; Edgar Rice Burroughs and Metropolitan News Service; Michigan Military Academy; Law and Justice in the Burroughs Canon; Jungle Man
George C. (editor) (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs) McWhorter
Manufacturer: The Burroughs Bibliophiles
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ASIN: B000NSYUPU

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JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN

Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I8VTOA

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