Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 33 (Evolutionary Biology)

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After volume 33, this book series was replaced by the journal "Evolutionary Biology." Please visit www.springer.com/11692 for further information.

This volume is the 33rd in this series, which includes 32 numbered volumes and an unnumbered supplement. Several special volumes have also been published as separate monographs. This volume, like the others in the series, has chapters devoted to a broad spectrum of topics. Indeed, the editors continue to solicit manuscripts on subjects covered by the encompassing rubric of Evolutionary Biology.

"Volume 33 continues the grand tradition of Evolutionary Biology in being the most comprehensive series in the field. The chapters are always up-to-date, informative, and stimulating; sometimes infuriating. Just what good scientific literature should be! Particularly attractive is the free-wheeling spirit of the series: no style or length is imposed. If you want to remain cognizant of contemporary evolutionary advances in general and have time to read only one volume a year outside your own specialty, make it Evolutionary Biology."
( Jeffrey R. Powell, Ph.D., Yale University)

Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 33 (Evolutionary Biology)

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Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 33 (Evolutionary Biology)
Ross J.; Clegg, Michael T. MacIntyre
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSH6H8

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In practice, application of geostatistical theory requires an integrated toolbox of statistical, geostatistical, spatial analysis and visualization techniques. This approach to the application of geostatistics for subsurface characterization is the focus of Practical Geostatistics, from a description of the data structures required, through discussion of the concepts, theory and application, to qualification of the end results. The linked, hypertext document structure facilitates the integration of theoretical discussion with detailed worked examples and numerous color images of computer visualization. It also allows multi-level progression through Practical Geostatistics at an overview, theoretical, application or interactive review level, with numerous links between. The document structure facilitates access to Practical Geostatistics through standard Internet browser technology on any computer platform.

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Geostatistics is also an art.......2001-02-09

This CDROM + book is a special document in the world of the geostatistical literature.

First, it is an interactive document full of illustration, easy to read and navigate. Second, the philosophy is not to emphasize the mathematical aspects but more to demonstrate the importance of taking into account the complex geometrical structure of the geological bodies into succesfull geostatistical studies. Of course, the basics of the theory are presented, but this is also available with much more details in other recent books (see Geostatistics : Modeling Spatial Uncertainty by Chiles and Delfiner for a complete excellent reference). Third, the CDROM demonstrate the application of the approach on real complex cases (2 mining, 1 soil pollution and 1 tunnelling projects) where the geometry of the layers, faults and bodies is controling the processes. Last, all the data sets are provided.

In summary, if you want to see how geostatistics can be applied in real situations, this is the book you need.

Practical Geostatistics and Visualization.......2000-10-07

Practical Geostatistics breaks new ground in providing excellent interactive media to supplement the text. In fact, there is more information in the hyperlinked text on the enclosed CD then there is in the text book. The CD is full of colorful 2-D and 3-D renderings and visualizations of various example data sets. Regretfully, the text focuses more on the visualization techniques then on the art of evaluating spatial data. There is little or no discussion of the mathematical concepts behind geostatistics. The worked examples show excellent summary visualizations for the provided data sets, but do not walk the reader through the processes of semi-variogram analysis, cross-validation, kriging, or stochastic simulation. I would recommend this book as a reference for someone interested in presenting geostatistical data evaluations using informative visualization techniques. If the reader is interested in aquiring an understanding of geostatistic, I would instead recommend the texts by I.Clark, P.K.Kitanidis, or C.Deutsch and A.Journel.

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This book offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the engineering of the world's first nonimaging Fresnel lens solar concentrator. The book closes a gap in solar concentrator design, and describes nonimaging refractive optics and its numerical mathematics . The contents follow a systems approach that is absent in standard handbooks of optics or solar energy. The reader is introduced to the principles, theories, and advantages of nonimaging optics from the standpoint of concentrating sunlight (the solar concentrator idea). The book shows the reader how to find his or her own optical solution using the rules and methodologies covering the design and the assessment of the nonimaging lens. This novel solar concentrator is developed within the natural constraints presented by the sun and in relation to competitive solutions offered by other concentrators.

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SHE BANGS! SHE BANGS!

Miranda was the quiet type...until she moved to Austin. Home of the hippest college rock bands, Austin, Texas, is a scene. And Miranda is dying to break out of her small-town shell. So she decides to do something totally un-Miranda: learn to play the drums.

When crashing the cymbals, the girl's a wild child! Plus there's a perk to her new gig: a cute bass player. Unfortunately Mr. Bass Man isn't exactly looking for love. Can this rocker chick change his tune? Or does finding her own rhythm mean sacrificing true love?

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A fantastic book.......2007-01-08

This book is awesome, funny and also very romantic. I can relate very much to Miranda because I'm a small town girl myself, who later went on to experience life in a big city. This book proves to all teenage girls that to get the man of your dreams, just be you, and never shirk from anything you want to do fearing it's not right for you (unless of course it is something illegal or morally wrong!).

This book was great!!!!!!!!.......2006-01-24

I read this book in 2 hours. It is an awesome book for teenage girls. Especially female musicians. This book is about a girl named Miranda who has just graduated high school in a small Texas town. She moves to Austin and finds out that she can be whoever she wants to be around all the new people she meets. She sees and add and then decides to take drumming lessons. Drumming then becomes her passion. She lives, breathes and eats the music. A local band then needs a temporary drummer because theirs was not able to play and Miranda accepts the offer. While playing with the band she meets the bass player, Adam, and falls in love with him. But love isn't really what he is looking for.

An amazing plot full of twists and turns, this book is great. You learn to like all of the characters, especially Miranda, even if they make really stupid mistakes. I hope that you will read this book. :)

She's Got to be Kidding.......2005-12-21

In Pulse's line of teen romantic comedies, there are some really delightful storylines. Too bad there aren't a lot of really delightful authors.

The biggest problem in this book is Miranda, who is unsympathetic and unlikable. She is naive and ignorant beyond all believability, and spends an inordinate amount of time blushing and giggling. Her attempts at forceful decision making are unconvincing, as is her sudden passion for drumming. And she's rather shallow, too, dating a guy who isn't too bright just because he's really cute, laughing at poor, geeky people, and thinking of plus sized girls in tight jeans as people who "apparently didn't own a full-length mirror". So much for being PC.
The people around her have a little more personality, but they're still ridiculously stereotyped. Miranda's friends aren't so bad, but every other girl in the world is an easy, partying groupie who wears only mini skirts and tight tube tops. And the guys are all commitment fearing pigs...except for Mr. Sensitive, otherwise we wouldn't have a love story here, would we?
I'm not sure where Krulik learned about music. Supposedly, the band Miranda joins plays music that's not punk at all (as she assumed) but a sort of R&B/Country kind of thing. Um...with song names like 'Massacre of the Heart' and 'Coldhearted Queen'? Sounds like straight up emo to me. Oh, and the one punk band that is seen during the book is absolutely horrible. Folks, generalizations do not a good book make.

The writing is structurely sound, but otherwise unimpressive. A lot of the dialogue seems forced and contrived, especially the humorous bits...not a good thing for a romantic COMEDY. Krulik's style is heavy-handed and lacks subtlety; she feels the need to tell the reader everything she already implied.
The story meanders far, far too much. Now, this wouldn't have been a problem if that time had been spent on the developing relationship. But we don't even meet Mr. Right until page 70 or so, and she doesn't start spending time with him until the book is about half over. Even then, they're not around each a lot, and there's no chemistry between them whatsoever. So as the book begins to draw to a close, Miranda hatches a half-baked plan to get him, which fails. And then another half-baked plan to get BACK at him, which beyond all reason and believability actually succeeds. Huh.

And what's with the guys randomly sticking their tongues in Miranda's mouth? The sexual content here is silly and exploitive. It's like this is teen chick lit trying to be adult chick lit. Or perhaps adult trying to be teen.

This book makes u wanna rock.......2005-08-10

Mirada is shy and timid. She tries to break out of the comfort zone so she takes drum lessons. She loves it and eventually joins a band. What she doesn't expect is to fall for their basist and songwriter. This book has nothing to intense but is a sweet read for all girls who wanna rock.

A cute, quick read.......2005-06-21

SHE'S GOT THE BEAT is another book from the Simon Pulse teen romantic comedy line, and I found it irresistable. It's a cute, fun, easy read that teenage girls will love, especially considering the strong female characters.

Miranda has just graduated from high school, and for the first time in her life she's leaving her small town for bigger things - she's going to school in Austin, Texas. With support from her family and (most of) her friends, she heads off...and of course, Austin is nothing like she imagined. After a rough start, though, Miranda makes some new friends (Kathleen, the more alternative-type girl and Missy, the flirt) and things start looking up.

Miranda still feels like something is missing though, and that's when SHE'S GOT THE BEAT really starts picking up. She decides that she's going to do something completely unlike herself: Miranda signs up for drum lessons.

SHE'S GOT THE BEAT is a good mix of comedy, music, and romance. Miranda's different encounters with a few (very) different boys are funny and relateable at the same time.

Recommended to fans of How Not to Spend Your Senior Year, the Mates, Dates, and...series, and Royally Jacked.

Overall grade - B

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This Book Has Issues!!
friends how many of us have them
Issues With This Book
Real Hard to Get Into But....
wonderful read!

She's Got Issues
Stephanie Johnson
Manufacturer: Urban Books
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ASIN: 0974363642

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Sinclair has issues. After discovering that her husband is having an affair with not one, but two women, she divorces him. She thinks she's finally over the heartbreak until she meets Aliette, one of the two women who wrecked her marriage. Now she wants revenge, or at least she thinks she does. She falsely befriends Aliette with plans to destroy her life, but something unexpected happens. Now she must decide if revenge is more important than this unlikely friendship. Will Aliette be made to pay for her past, or will these two women form a bond and become a force to be reckoned with?

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This Book Has Issues!!.......2006-08-04

The author begins this book by writing an ode to all the "haters" in her life and in so many words telling them to step off. Well, after reading this book I have a word of advice for Ms. Johnson, they weren't hating, they were just being real with you.

This book is poorly written and the characters and their situations are unrealistic and not fully developed. Seriously, how could Aliette and Sinclair have been best friends for so long and not known each other's marital status. Not to mention, Aliette had never been to Sinclair's home.

Not to mention, there are some chapters where it is hard to determine who is speaking.

friends how many of us have them.......2006-07-25

This book showed how mature adults that seek God are able to handle more than many can bare. I love the outcome.

Issues With This Book.......2006-06-05

I am so sick and tired of reading books that turn out to be real let-downs!!!

Does any author really know how to write a good book nowadays?

Not once does Stephanie Johson bother to go into great deal about her "round" characters facial descriptions, but the character Mia who is considered a "flat" character gets a full-description of her beautiful features? But why? Mia is not relevant to the overall plot in the book. So, why waste time, writing/focusing on her character?

Help me, I'm really confused???

As a matter-of-fact the book does not even start off very well. I was reading the first couple of chapters shaking my head.

Real Hard to Get Into But...........2006-04-28

This book was a hard one to get into and to finish. Several times I had to stop and decide if I was going to finish it or not. And by page 130-something I started to get into it but it was real hard. I think the storyline could have picked up early on and then it would have been a better read. But all in all it was okay. Not a "must-read" persay but okay.

wonderful read!.......2006-04-01

She's Got Issues is a page turner for real!! I really enjoyed reading it! I recommend that everyone go out and purchase She Got Issues! It's truly a wonderful read! Lisa From BlackNovels.net

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TERRBILY CLICHE and ANNOYING...
she's got issues
This book stinks!
Either I don't get it, or this is a really, really stupid book
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She's Got Issues (Avon Books)
Stephanie Lessing
Manufacturer: Avon A
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ASIN: 0060756969
Release Date: 2005-06-28

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What if the narrator of The Devil Wears Prada was too busy changing her outfits to get upset by her boss? What if the Shopaholic got locked in Lucky's shoe closet? What if Plum Sykes had to get a real job? Find out in Stephanie Lessing's fabulous first novel about climbing the ladder (at a thinly–veiled fashion magazine) without breaking a sweat––or a heel.

When Chloe gets her dream job as assistant to the assistant at Issues Magazine, she is in hog heaven. Her sister, however, is ready to keel over at the very thought of her own flesh and blood slaving away to further the patriarchy and sell cellulite cream. Chloe pays her sister's ranting no mind, which is exactly the same amount of attention she pays to her grasping, desperate boss and the swamp of office politics she's unknowingly waded into. Sure, filing pedicure receipts and making coffee exactly the same colour as a camel (one hump, not two) is hard work. But as long as she has a key to the shoe closet, how bad could things be?

Well, bad. Chloe's bumbling lovability and miraculous gift for accessorizing has attracted just a tad bit too much attention, not only from the Editor–in–Chief and his boss, the Publisher, but also from a small but dogged group of underfed beauty editors who can't stand that they can't get a rise out of her. But when they publicly slander her, are they telling the truth? Has Chloe's sweetness been just an act that lets her steal shoes (lots of them), tell lies (whoppers) and undermine her idiot boss in the hopes of getting her job?

Wouldn't you like to know?

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TERRBILY CLICHE and ANNOYING..........2007-07-02

Ok, I realize "chick-lit" isn't a very literary genre... and it can be difficult to produce fresh ideas--but this book was terrible. Not only did it rehash every idea ever produced in the genre, it was poorly written and the characters were unbelievably naive. The "funny" instances other reviews reference, are predictable and cliche. I picked this up for my book club, read to page 100, then snuck back to BN to return it with my receipt and buy some decent (heck, VERY good) chick-lit by Jennifer Weiner. Don't waste your time (or $$$) on this one!

she's got issues.......2007-01-09

the book came in great time and was in excellent condition. thanks

This book stinks!.......2007-01-09

It was hard to follow and it was very difficult to muster up any kind of sympathy for the characters.
I was tempted to give up and chuck the book, but I finished it. I wouldn't recommend this book at all.

Either I don't get it, or this is a really, really stupid book.......2006-12-24

Rave reviews here and I frankly did not expect to read such a boring, inane, pointless book. Page 118 and nothing yet has happened since all the minutiae that occupy Chloe's mind since she got her minion assistant's assistant job to the least popular person in the Issue magazine. This character cannot be SO stupid, I keep repeating aloud. Her ready-for-asylum sister cannot be so neurotic as to write her 35 page-letters debating every single detail of the way she should behave in the workplace in intellectual guerilla terms - and have the author almost report these letters verbatim. And the marvels of the Shoe Cabinet? Oy!!!
Page 130, and I ask myself: "Why am I still reading this?" I have better things to do with my life. I put the book down.
Moved to Nora Ephron and her neck...finally some intelligent good time!
P.S. Maybe this is a work of genius and yours truly did not get it at all.

Deja Vu.......2006-09-06

I can picture Ann Hathaway and Meryl Streep in this movie. Oh, that's right, it's already been done. Too many parallels to the original, and poor character development. Easy read, annoyingly simplistic main character.

Ciara: she's got the vocals, moves and looks and works them to the top.(Cover story): An article from: Jet

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Ciara: she's got the vocals, moves and looks and works them to the top.(Cover story): An article from: Jet
Margena A. Christian
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Release Date: 2007-01-23

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This digital document is an article from Jet, published by Thomson Gale on December 4, 2006. The length of the article is 1485 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ciara: she's got the vocals, moves and looks and works them to the top.(Cover story)
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Our lady of the grid: she's got 21 million kilowatts of electric current at her fingertips. Is Vickie VanZandt powerful enough to bring our transmission ... Story): An article from: OnEarth

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Our lady of the grid: she's got 21 million kilowatts of electric current at her fingertips. Is Vickie VanZandt powerful enough to bring our transmission ... Story): An article from: OnEarth
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This digital document is an article from OnEarth, published by Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 5469 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Date: June 22, 2004
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She's got game: sports agent Sharon Creer.(Career Profile) : An article from: Black Enterprise
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This digital document is an article from Black Enterprise, published by Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc. on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 588 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: She's got game: sports agent Sharon Creer.(Career Profile)
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Date: April 1, 2005
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