Advances in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates

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The purpose of this volume is to provide an update and overview of the field of chemical communication in vertebrates, including chemical identification of the signals, sensory mechanisms, interactions between odors and the endocrine system, behavior, and ecology. It gives extensive coverage of a number of vertebrate taxa, especially amphibians, fish, and mammals, and includes both theoretical and review chapters as well as reports of recent research. The volume is divided into ten sections: comparative and revolutionary perspectives; chemical identification of chemical signals; the major histochemical complex and odor communication, social recognition: individuals, kin, and species; signaling behaviors: functions of scent marking; sex, aggression, and social behavior; relationships to endocrine function; predator-prey relationships; neural mechanisms of chemical communication, and practical applications. A wide range of topics and approaches are covered, including animal behavior and ecology, chemistry of odor signals, neurobiology of olfactory function, the role of hormones, the role of the major histocompatability complex, predator-prey relationships, and practical applications such as the use of odors in pest management. No other text in this field covers this range of topics.

Advances in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates

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Advances in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates
Robert E Johnston
Manufacturer: Springer
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Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 7: Proceedings of the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates Symposium 7, Held in Tubingen, Germany on 17-22 July 1994 (Advances in the Biosciences)

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Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 7: Proceedings of the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates Symposium 7, Held in Tubingen, Germany on 17-22 July 1994 (Advances in the Biosciences)
International Symposium on Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 1994 tubin , and Raimund Apfelbach
Manufacturer: Pergamon
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This book concerns the practical solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). It reflects an interdisciplinary approach to problems occurring in natural environmental media: the hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, biosphere and ionosphere. It assumes the reader has gained some intuitive knowledge of PDE solution properties and now wants to solve some for real, in the context of practical problems arising in real situations. The practical aspect of this book is the infused focus on computation. It presents two major discretization methods – Finite Difference and Finite Element. The blend of theory, analysis, and implementation practicality supports solving and understanding complicated problems. It is divided into three parts. Part I is an overview of Finite Difference Methods. Part II focuses on Finite Element Methods, including an FEM tutorial. Part III deals with Inverse Methods, introducing formal approaches to practical problems which are ill-posed.

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From Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries that radically altered -- and continue to alter -- the world in which we live. Tesla: Man Out of Time is an in-depth look at the seminal accomplishments of a scientific wizard and a thoughtful examination of the obsessions and eccentricities of the man behind the science.

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I agree with Carlberg.......2007-09-15

My title says it all. I just wanted to make sure that there was more balance to this book review.

Great Read .......2007-09-05

This is a great book. I never new much about Tesla and now my whole world has changed.

a work of love.......2007-08-15

Tesla was shoulder to shoulder with Newton, leibniz and Einstein. This one man was responsible for the 20th century. Wireless, as in internet, the radio, Alternating Current, Neon and fluorescent light, energy transmission without wires - this guy seems like he came from another world. Margaret obviously loves Tesla and it is hard to blame her. After the idiot Edison did every horrible thing he could do to destroy Tesla because of Edison's rival Direct Current, including, possibly having Tesla's lab burnt down amongst other devious acts. When Margaret wrote this book, Tesla wasn't wildly popular as he is in
the oughts. There are more coherent books out there on Tesla, but this book is a work of love. Good going Margaret.

very informative.......2007-05-14

a great look into the past of one of, if not the greatest inventors of all time.i learned soo much about tesla i didn't know.you won't believe how many inventions still being used today, and some not yet used were from him.a must have.

On the Shoulders of Giants.......2007-04-21

It is hard to imagine that there is anyone who does not know the names Edison and Einstein. The same should be true of Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the alternating current motor, radio, X-rays, radar and more, yet somehow Tesla's name has slipped into history, largely forgotten. As Margaret Cheney reveals in "Tesla: Man Out of Time", there are several reasons that Tesla's legacy has suffered: he didn't market himself as well as Edison, and he left no wife or children to promote his interests after his death. Although a naturalized American citizen, his ashes were returned to Croatia, the land of his birth, as were also his papers and writings. A world war and a cold war later entombed his memory.

Bizarrely enigmatic yet definitely brilliant, Nikola Tesla is one of the giants of science. He was an under-educated inventor who explored the nature and properties of electricity with a rare vision and trial and error. He was lauded in his time, an on-and-off national hero, but could do little as his patents were raided by other inventors. His life is fascinating and worthy of study. Margaret Cheney took the initiative to pull together all the separate, obscure treatises on his life and weave them together into one complete narrative, but her delivery is dry and her narrative devices stumble. She, for instance, tries to create suspense and expectation by presenting portions of Tesla's life out of sequence, by referencing back to journal entries or setting up cause and effect relationships between present and past events. These devices don't work and leave the reader confused as to why, suddenly, a decade or more has passed in Tesla's life. She also laces the narrative with Tesla's science--the properties of electricity--with no explanation at all. Why were alternating current motors so important? Just what the heck WAS a Tesla coil? What does electricity jumping an air gap do? If you do not already know the answers to these questions, this book will not answer them for you. But even though the narrative is clumsy and dry, "Tesla: Man Out of Time" still stands as a good, single-volume study of Tesla's life.

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Tesla Man Out of Time
Margaret Cheney
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
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TESLA MAN OUT OF TIME
Margaret Cheney
Manufacturer: Dorset Press
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Tesla Man Out Of Time
Margaret Cheney
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Tesla : Man Out of Time (Reprints Ser.)
Margaret Cheney
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Tesla : Man Out of Time (Reprints Ser.)

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TESLA: MAN OUT OF TIME
MARGARET CHENEY
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A new "Da Vinci"!
The Man Who Invented The Twentieth Century

Tesla: Man Out of Time
Margaret Cheney
Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble
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In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was, without a doubt, a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent. Tesla not only discovered the rotating magnetic field -- the basis of most alternating-current machinery -- but also introduced us to the fundamentals of robotics, computers, and missile science. Almost supernaturally gifted, unfailingly flamboyant and neurotic, Tesla was troubled by an array of compulsions and phobias and was fond of extravagant, visionary experimentations. He was also a popular man-about-town, admired by men as diverse as Mark Twain and George Westinghouse, and adored by scores of society beauties. From Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries that radically altered -- and continue to alter -- the world in which we live. Tesla: Man Out of Time is an in-depth look at the seminal accomplishments of a scientific wizard and a thoughtful examination of the obsessions and eccentricities of the man behind the science.

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A new "Da Vinci"!.......2006-12-15

Pond: "Looks like Marconi got the jump on you."
Tesla: "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents." (161)

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I'm not sure we will ever understand Tesla. First, he was head and shoulders above everyone else, we are like puppy dogs trying to keep up with his great strides. One biographer suggested that Tesla was the avatar of an alien from Venus (p. xiii). The problem with that theory is that it is almost believable!

The second problem is that Tesla was a classic introvert. (The first observation is the cause of the second.) As a classic introvert, he had a chronic case of the Da Vinci Syndrome. He was so smart, his internal world was far more exciting than the humdrum external world--the world of politics, back-stabbing, no finaces, and the ever-cascading trifles and trivia.

The difference is that we can read Da Vinci's notebooks and try to reconstruct his mind, much as we can read all of the Lost Tales of Middle-Earth (Tolkien also had Da Vinci syndrome) and think about what could have been. However, with Tesla he was not a note keeper. On top of that we have the problem of the missing Tesla papers. Thirdly, if we even had the papers, could we make sense of them?

Cheney's masterwork is worthy of her subject. It is readable, balances the hard science with the human-interest, and when you are done, you know you have read a beautiful tragicomedy. This book has converted me to Tesla, and I suspect it will do the same for you.

The Man Who Invented The Twentieth Century.......2006-08-13

Nikola Tesla, for the uninitiated, made wireless transmission (radio) a reality. He also perfected alternating current which was, up until then, merely a concept. During W.W.I he proposed using radio waves to find German U-boats in a method we now call 'triangulation'. He also envisioned a time when electricity and radio waves would be used to transmit data and images between various persons or agencies, ie; the wireless internet. This was at a time when the telephone was still viewed as a novelty. I haven't even gotten to his envisioning of geo-synchronous satellites. Oh yeah, this man died in 1942.

Any one of these accomplishments would merit the highest of accolades from the scientific community yet the name Nikola Tesla is greeted, more often than not, with questions. "Who? I thought Marconi invented the radio..."

Nikola Tesla was, quite simply, the most important figure of the twentieth century but he made the mistake of angering Thomas Edison by doing what Edison said couldn't be done (perfecting alternating current) and thus a Stalin-esque media campaign championed by Edison was born to impune the imperious Serb (Tesla). The inertia of the campaign continues to this day - The People's Almanac Vol. 2 credits Marconi with inventing radio...

The chapters detailing Tesla's interaction with Edison are alone worth the price of the book. Sadly, it reads like a soap opera as Edison was a spiteful old man. It's a pity that Mr. Edison's ego prevented him from seeing the importance of Mr. Tesla.

This is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. Like so many others, I was taught that Marconi invented the radio but this book addresses that issue in a chapter entitled 'The Great Radio Controversy'. This book also describes the many expirements with electricity conducted by Mr. Tesla. How different life would have been for Henry Ford if he'd been unable to build and operate his assembly lines due to a lack of sustainable power. Tesla's research into mechanical resonance still leaves me in awe - he generated earthquakes with a little gizmo he cooked up in his lab.

The implications are numerous. Maybe someone would have come along to invent these devices but I can find no one person who had such a wide field of vision for the potential of electricity. Tesla proposed ways to use electric impulses as a weapon of war before W.W.II. In the 1970's computer designers were surprised to learn that some of their patent applications were denied because such devices had already existed for decades. Guess who?!

I have only scratched the surface here. Nikola Tesla is one of the most important figures of the last five hundred years. Margaret Cheney has written a superb book that reads like a science fiction novel - surely no one man could have been so brilliant but Nikola Tesla was truly that brilliant.

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Prepare to be absolutely charmed by Jennifer Crusie's riotous tale of two slightly twisted sisters and a town chock full of hunks, coots, and petty politics in Welcome to Temptation.

Sophie and Amy Dempsey are just two wedding filmers trying to hop to the next level of their careers when they agree to produce a documentary of aging film star Clea Whipple's return to her hometown of Temptation, Ohio. And when the local mayor, Phin Tucker, and the police chief, Wes Mazur, proffer themselves as willing subjects for quick flings, Sophie and Amy aren't the type to object. But things are never easy in rural Ohio, and what starts off as an esoteric art film project soon evolves into potential porn--and that's just the relationships, let alone the documentary. Clea's husband Zane turns belly-up, the race for mayor turns dirty, and Sophie and Phin turn on the heat full steam.

With hot sex, clever characters, and Crusie's trademark wit, Welcome to Temptation will keep your eyes glued to the page and your stomach aching with laughter. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien

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Sophie Dempsey is content living a quiet life filming wedding videos until an assignment brings her to Temptation, Ohio.From the moment she drives into town, she gets a bad feeling; Sophie is from the wrong side of the tracks and everything in Temptation is a little too right.And when she has a run-in with the town's unnervingly sexy mayor, Phineas Tucker, making a little movie turns out to be more than a little dangerous.All Sophie wants to do is film the video and head home.All Phin wants to do is play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful.They both get more than they bargained for when Sophie's video causes an uproar and the proper citizens of Temptation set out to shut them down. As events spiral out of control, Sophie and Phin find themselves caught in a web of gossip, blackmail, adultery, murder, and really excellent sex. All hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble . . . and in love.AUTHORBIO: JENNIFER CRUSIE is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Tell Me Lies and Crazy for You. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, and teaches writing at Ohio State University.

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On of my favorites.......2007-09-16

I read through some of the other reviews before intering this one, and I can't believe how many negitives there were to such an excellent book. I'm an avid reader of anything I can get my hands on and forget most the books I read within a months time,but Temtation is like an old friend I like to revisit now and then. I don't believe I've ever laughed that hard during a book in my life. I've read critisicm on this book for it not being realistic, well, who the hell wants reality all the time! There are times when I want a serious read and will sit down with a Nora Roberts but if your in the mood to relax and just have a good time, this is it. I have a group of friends that I exchange books with and all of us put this book in our top ten of favorites, and for us, that's saying a lot. Read it, please, and see if you can ever look at a water tower again and not smile.

Light Piece of Slightly Enjoyable Fluff.......2007-07-23

This is the kind of book you read when you really, really, REALLY don't want to think much. It was an OK read but the romance was ridiculous, there were too many characters and I could barely keep them straight with their personality quirks (which were supposed to make them funny? I guess?). The constant use of the f-word was repetitive, juvenile and tiresome. The sex scenes were tepid at best--what self-respecting woman has sex with a man she's met two times? Especially in this day & age? The final conclusion was also unbelievable--the hero's mother finally comes around & accepts the heroine after disliking her so much that they suspect her of trying to kill her? Get real! And finally, I HATE it when romance novels pretend that it's a good policy to get married after knowing someone for a very short time just because you're "in love". Talk about setting yourself up for divorce! I really can't recommend this book. Maybe some of Jennifer Crusie's other books are better, but I won't ever find out because this one has ended any interest I had in reading her works.

Hysterically funny.......2007-07-12

This book was laugh out loud funny, engrossing, and really an enjoyable read. Crusie has the ability to vividly depict ludicrous situations in a spare, wry style that holds your attention and is very involving. I have read a number of her books since, and find this one to be one of the best. I look forward to many re-readings.

My Favorite.......2007-06-24

Welcome is my favorite Jennifer Crusie. It is smart, laugh out loud funny, and to quote Crusie "sexy as hell". I love the film references through out the book. The charcters are well written, so quirky. This is just a very fun book. If you like it read, Faking It, to find out what happens to Sophie's brother Danny.

A little too much...everything........2007-06-07

Could have been better without the use of so many "f" words. Pick Linda Lael Miller or Catherine Anderson if you want a good read without the explicits.

Jennifer Crusie Four-Book Set: Tell Me Lies, Crazy For You, Welcome To Temptation, Fast Women

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Sadly, this set is only average!

Jennifer Crusie Four-Book Set: Tell Me Lies, Crazy For You, Welcome To Temptation, Fast Women
Jennifer Crusie
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BET ME.......2005-01-05

Such a witty and romantic novel has made me love each and every character in her book...the way her discriptions of the characters feelings are so true and believable and most of all very romantic which every woman wants in her life. Keep up the great job!

Amazing........2004-04-05

I have to say, im not usually a fan of romantic novels, but i came across a magazine advertisement of Tell Me Lies. Since i was making a trip to the library anyway, i figured i'd check it out and see if i liked it. I absolutely fell in love with it. I love Jennifer Crusie's style of writing. I continued to check out her books one by one and I became more and more devoted to her characters. They seem so real and alive. People that I can relate to, not those perfect heroines that you usually find in novels. Two thumbs up. Keep it up, Jennifer.

Sadly, this set is only average!.......2004-02-08

Being the romantic reader that I have become through the past few years (and bored with all the same old same old) a friend suggested I purchase this set by Jennifer Crusie. Sadly, I was disappointed. The stories are average at best. I was expecting something grand...the joke was on me. Ms. Cruise is an okay writer but far from sizzling! DISAPPOINTED!

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Welcome to Temptation
Jennifer Crusie
Manufacturer: Pan
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4 Titles By Jennifer Crusie - Bet Me - Fast Women - Tell Me Lies - Welcome to Temptation - Getting Rid of Bradley

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These books will only make you want more

4 Titles By Jennifer Crusie - Bet Me - Fast Women - Tell Me Lies - Welcome to Temptation - Getting Rid of Bradley
Jennifer Crusie
Manufacturer: Avon
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4 massmarket paperback Titles By Jennifer Crusie - Bet Me - Fast Women - Tell Me Lies - Welcome to Temptation - Getting Rid of Bradley

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These books will only make you want more.......2007-08-28

Two of my absolute favorite books are included in this set - Bet Me and Getting Rid of Bradley are witty, sexy and great reads. Once you read one, you will not be able to stop!!

Dempsey Series: Welcome to Temptation, Faking It (Set of 2)

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Dempsey Series: Welcome to Temptation, Faking It (Set of 2)
Jennifer Crusie
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Jennifer Crusie Collection: Welcome to Temptation, Fast Women, and Faking It

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Jennifer Crusie Collection: Welcome to Temptation, Fast Women, and Faking It
Jennifer Crusie
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Welcome to Temptation (Aasne Vigesaa, Laura Grafton, Jill Sovis):
Sophie Dempsey wants to help her sister film a video and then get out of Temptation, Ohio. Mayor Phin Tucker wants to play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. But when Sophie and Phin meet, they both get more than they want. Gossip, blackmail, adultery, murder, vehicular abuse of a corpse, and slightly perverse but excellent sex: all hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble, and in love.

Fast Women (Sandra Burr, Laura Grafton, Jill Sovis):
Nell Dysart's in trouble. Her divorce is 18 months old, she's been sleepwalking through life, and the best job she can get is with a detective agency that specializes in relationship work. Determined to turn her life around, Nell flings herself into making McKenna Investigations a better place. On day one, she uncovers an embezzler. On day two, she turns up bribery. On day three, she has sex with the wrong man. On day four, she steals a dog. On day five, her boss tries to fire her . . . And fails miserably.

Faking It (Aasne Vigesaa, Laura Grafton, Melissa Coates):
Reformed art forger Tilda Goodnight reluctantly joins forces with semi-reformed con man Davy Dempsey to steal a dubious painting and several million embezzled dollars from a lethal widow named Clea who has targeted a mild-mannered art collector as her next dearly departed. Complications include her sister, the female impersonator; his best friend, the reformed cat burglar; a recidivist embezzler named Rabbit; a hit man, some lousy sex, and a juke box. Trouble ensues...

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Welcome to Temptation
Jennifer Crusie
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Welcome to Temptation
Jennifer Crusie
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ASIN: 1423322509
Release Date: 2007-11-28

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Sophie Dempsey wants to help her sister film a video and then get out of Temptation, Ohio. Mayor Phin Tucker wants to play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. But when Sophie and Phin meet, they both get more than they want. Gossip, blackmail, adultery, murder, vehicular abuse of a corpse, and slightly perverse but excellent sex: all hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble, and in love.

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Welcome to Temptation
Jennifer Crusie
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Welcome to Temptation/ Bet Me
Jennifer Cruise
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