Lemurs of Madagascar and the Comoros (World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series)

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Lemurs represent a group of highly interesting and threatened species. These beautiful and protected animals occur only on Madagascar and the Comoros, however, their unique environment is decreasing in size every year. This CD-ROM gives a complete overview of all lemurs with detailed, full-colour drawings, spectacular photography, and sounds for most of the species. Also included are an interactive identification key and distribution maps. Special attention is given to their environment and the management problems of protecting and maintaining their habitat. The entire text is hyperlinked: an illustrated glossary defines more than 250 scientific terms. The most important literature references for this group are included in this program.

Lemurs of Madagascar and the Comoros: The Iucn Red Data Book (The/Iucn Red Data Book)

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Lemurs of Madagascar and the Comoros: The Iucn Red Data Book (The/Iucn Red Data Book)
Caroline S. Harcourt , and Jane Thornback
Manufacturer: World Conservation Union
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Binding: Hardcover

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Lemurs: An entry from Thomson Gale's
<i>Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia</i>

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Lemurs: An entry from Thomson Gale's Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Kevin F., BS Fitzgerald
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000M59T5K

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Gale proudly presents the completely revised and updated version of the acclaimed “Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia” set. Hailed by many as the best reference work on animals ever published, a legacy left to us by famed zoologist and animal lover Bernhard Grzimek, this set is renowned for its scientific reporting and coverage, and serves as a major point of reference for researchers, students, and those hoping to satisfy their curiosity about the animal kingdom. Information can be found on life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology and much more. Staying true to the original scientific pedigree, Gale enlisted prominent advisors and contributors from the international scientific community to incorporate recent developments in our knowledge of the animal world.

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`his fifth edition of Catalogue of Meteorites will, like previous editions, be the essential reference volume for all those with an informed interest in meteorites. It is the definitive descriptive list of the British Natural History Museum, which maintains the offical world database of all known meteorite falls and finds. Coverage includes the 10,000 new specimens recovered since the publication of the fourth edition, including those from Antarctica. Plus, for the first time, a CD-ROM accompanies the book, which includes greatly expanded information and an important search facility.

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Catalogue of Meteorites, Edited by Monica Grady.......2001-02-14

The Big Blue Book is back. This time around the cover has a close-up photo of olivine laths in a barred olivine chondrule, and at 689 pages, is bigger and better than ever. There is a listing of 22,507 authenticated meteorites up to December 1999 which also come on a CD-ROM.

The origins of the Catalogue go back to 1847 with a listing of the 62 meteorites of the British Museum. Subsequent periodic updates were issued and in 1923, George Prior, the Keeper of Minerals of the British Museum, issued the first worldwide Catalogue of Meteorites. The well-known 4th edition, edited by Graham, Bevan, and Hutchison was published in 1985.

The 5th edition not only has ten thousand more meteorites (including such recent discoveries as the Martian Los Angeles meteorite or a Saharan EL4-5 called Grein 002), but it also reflects the multitude of changes that have taken place in the field of meteoritics in the past 15 years. Type 3 chondrites now have petrologic subtypes (3.0 to 3.9), enstatite chondrites are now distinguished as EH or EL, there are new carbonaceous chondrite groups, CH, CK, and CR, as well as the new groupings of acapulcoites, brachinites, rumurutiites and winonaites. The SNCs are now described, perhaps with a bit of British understatement, "probably from Mars". There are also various stylistic changes like dropping the ordinary chondrite terms "bronzite", "hypersthene", and "amphoterite", replacing them simply with H, L, and LL. However, the overall format is the same as the 1985 edition and readers of the latter will be right at home with this one.

Another new feature to the 2000 edition is the listing of tables of Antarctic meteorites, meteorites from the Nullarbor region, Australia, meteorites from Roosevelt County, New Mexico, and over 1500 meteorites recovered from the Sahara Desert.

Even some of the citations have changed. For example, the TKW of Nakhla is now 10 kg, due to the research of Kevin Kichinka (Meteorite! Aug. '98) down from the original 40 kg and the infamous phrase, "one of the stones killed a dog", now reads, "one of the stones reputedly killed a dog". Divnoe has been upgraded to an "ungrouped achondrite", and although this reviewer thought it was actually a brachinite, Alan Rubin informs me that Monica is correct. Gao and Guenie have now been amalgamated into the one fall denoted Gao-Guenie. The recently found Nadiabondi individuals have maintained their status under that name even though there was some speculation they might be associated with the Gao-Guenie fall. Apparently not.

The inclusion of a CD-ROM makes this edition of the CM so much more useful than previous editions and more in keeping with modern databases. Once it is installed on your computer you do not have to put the disk in again as it resident on your harddrive ready to use. You can search for a single entry, or use the data fields to do more complex searches, like finding all CM2 carbonaceous chondrites from Australia (Adelaide, Lookout Hill, Murchison). Filling in the search form is easy and you do not need a manual to run it. You do have to remember to select "valid" from one of the drop down lists as otherwise you get doubtful returns as well. The search speed probably depends on the speed of your computer: my 600 MHz Gateway took about 10 seconds for multiple searches, but was virtually instantaneous if searching for a particular meteorite. The CD-ROM also has more analytical data and more complete reference citations for the researcher than the book itself.

Of course in any work of this great magnitude, there are a few misprints/glitches, but I won't dwell on these. There are some people who would go to a concert by Heifetz and listen only for the wrong notes (if any!)

It is entirely fitting that there are meteorites named Grady (p.220). This book represents a prodigious amount of human endeavor, and the meteorite community owes Monica Grady an enormous debt of gratitude. If you are a serious amateur or a professional, you will want to have this book.

New fifth edition.......2000-10-25

The enclosed CD-ROM is for PC only. With a MAC version, my rating would be five stars.

Appendix to the Catalogue of meteorites: With special reference to those represented in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) (Publication - British Museum)

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Appendix to the Catalogue of meteorites: With special reference to those represented in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) (Publication - British Museum)
British Museum (Natural History)
Manufacturer: The Museum
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Catalogue of Meteorites

Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0565009419

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A Catalogue of Meteorites
G.T. Prior
Manufacturer: British Museum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LZQDL4

Handbook and Descriptive Catalogue of the Meteorite Collections in the United States National Museum

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Handbook and Descriptive Catalogue of the Meteorite Collections in the United States National Museum

Manufacturer: US National Museum, Washington DC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I9NWXA

Catalogue of 230 meteorite craters, thereto of 78 erroneous objects (Veröffentlichungen der Sternwarte Pulsnitz)

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Catalogue of 230 meteorite craters, thereto of 78 erroneous objects (VeroÌˆffentlichungen der Sternwarte Pulsnitz)
J Classen
Manufacturer: Sternwarte Pulsnitz
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007B2I3Y

Catalogue of all recorded meteorites,: With a description of the specimens in the Harvard College Collection, including the cabinet of the late J. Lawrence Smith

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Catalogue of all recorded meteorites,: With a description of the specimens in the Harvard College Collection, including the cabinet of the late J. Lawrence Smith
Oliver Whipple Huntington
Manufacturer: J. Wilson and son
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008A668M

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A Catalogue of Meteorites
G.T. Prior
Manufacturer: British Museum,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000R0BCW8

A catalogue of meteorites and fireballs, from A.D. 2 to A.D. 1860

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A catalogue of meteorites and fireballs, from A.D. 2 to A.D. 1860
Robert Philips Greg
Manufacturer: Taylor and Francis
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008CNTXK

Catalogue of meteorites in Dutch collections (Scripta geologica)

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Catalogue of meteorites in Dutch collections (Scripta geologica)
P. W. C. van Calsteren
Manufacturer: Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1893 edition by the University Press, Cambridge.

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Superbly written, but specialized.......2004-02-23

A wonderful read for die-hard fans of Wharton, but certainly not a casual read for most.

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Amazon is selling the wrong book
Wharton's Letters
An excellent selection by a top scholar

Letters of Edith Wharton

Manufacturer: Scribner
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0020344007

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UP the long hill from the station at St.-Cloud, Lizzie West climbed in the cold spring sunshine. As she breasted the incline, she noticed the first waves of wistaria over courtyard railings and the high lights of new foliage against the walls of ivy-matted gardens; and she thought again, as she had thought a hundred times before,that she had never seen so beautiful a spring.

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Amazon is selling the wrong book.......2006-05-31

Be careful if you are thinking of buying this book. It is not a book of letters, as advertised, but a short story by Wharton called The Letters. I ordered it, realized their mistake, e-mailed them about it, and returned the book. I was given a refund, but Amazon has not changed the description of this book despite my warning. I understand that Amazon has thousands of books, but I really think it should be a priority to make sure the right information is matched up with the right book.

Wharton's Letters.......2005-09-13

Although many of the lines contained in these letters have been well publicized for years, never before have Wharton's private and business correspondences been so collectively accessible. Interesting enough for their biographic aspects, the letters are also wonderful companion pieces to Wharton's books, particularly A BACKWARD GLANCE, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, and THE HOUSE OF MIRTH.

An excellent selection by a top scholar.......2001-08-08

This book contains about 400 of Wharton's letters, out of about 4,000 extant. It is a careful selection, including "major" letters that are often quoted, and for the first time (other than in a small university publication), a substantial portion of her correspondence with Morton Fullerton, with whom she had an affair while in her mid-40s. That particular correspondence did not surface until the 1980s, and added an entirely new perspective on Wharton's life and work. Unfortunately, nearly all of her correspondence with two of her greatest friends, Henry James and Walter Berry, did not survive, and the absence is felt. I applaud the editors (one of whom wrote a Pulitzer prize winning bio of Wharton) for a selection that is very readable and never trite or repetitive (a big problem when dealing with letters in their entirety). Reading the letters after having read the bio, I found they added to my understanding of Wharton as a person and a writer.

Commemorative Tributes of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1905-1941

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Commemorative Tributes of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1905-1941

Manufacturer: American Academy of Arts and Letters
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000ETJJMW

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Reprints of the tributes given to many authors and artists, including Henry Adams, G. W. Cable, S. L. Clemens, Henry James, Hamlin Garland, Winslow Homer, Edith Wharton, & Woodrow Wilson

Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901-1930

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Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901-1930

Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0230008437
Release Date: 2007-11-27

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This book publishes, for the first time, some 400 letters between Edith Wharton and her chief London publisher, Macmillan. The correspondence highlights Wharton's determination to be taken seriously as a novelist, as well as her exceptionally developed understanding of the "sociology text" in the early twentieth century, casting new light on Wharton's working practices which will be of crucial importance for scholars. The letters offer readers a valuable and intimate insight into transatlantic publishing practices in the period.

The crack-up, with other uncollected pieces, note-books and unpublished letters;: Together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, ... and poems (A New Directions paperbook)

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The crack-up, with other uncollected pieces, note-books and unpublished letters;: Together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, ... and poems (A New Directions paperbook)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Manufacturer: J. Laughlin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters

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Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters
Janet Beer Goodwyn
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

ETHAN FROME + THE HOUSE OF MIRTH + TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTS (The Bolted Door + His Father's Son + The Daunt Diana + The Debt + Full Circle + The Legend + The Eyes + The Blond Beast + Afterward + The Letters) (COMPLETE / UNABRIDGED, 3 Books in 1 Volume)

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ETHAN FROME + THE HOUSE OF MIRTH + TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTS (The Bolted Door + His Father's Son + The Daunt Diana + The Debt + Full Circle + The Legend + The Eyes + The Blond Beast + Afterward + The Letters) (COMPLETE / UNABRIDGED, 3 Books in 1 Volume)
Edith Wharton
Manufacturer: Avenel Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The Glimpses of the Moon
Edith Wharton
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback

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1922. Wharton, American author, is best known for her stories and ironic novels about upper class people. Wharton's central subjects were the conflict between social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old families and the nouveau riche, who had made their fortunes in more recent years. Among her numerous novels, short stories, and travel writings are The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and the Pulitzer prize-winning Age of Innocence. An international bestseller, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of the Lansings, a 1920's couple with the right connections but no money. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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