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Forest Genetics and Sustainability (FORESTRY SCIENCES Volume 63) (Forestry Sciences)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792360117 |
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During the 4th International Consultation on Forest Genetics and Tree Building, held in 1998 in Beijing, China, leading scientists were invited to review past achievements, to redefine the role of forest genetics and breeding in contemporary forestry, and to set priorities for future research and development. On the basis of the invited presentations, the volume summarizes the state of knowledge in various fields, such as the impact of forest management and of changing environmental conditions on genetic resources, and the value of genetic markers as indicators for adaptational potential, as well as the tasks of conservation.
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Little Ice Ages: Ancient & Modern (Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment, 5)
Jean M. Grove Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 041509948X |
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Since the first edition the The Little Ice Age, was published in 1988, interest in climatic history has grown rapidly and research in the area has flourished. A vast amount of new data has become available from sources such as ice cores, speleothems and tree-rings. The picture that we have of past climates and glacier oscillations has extended further into the past and has become more detailed. However, the knowledge of climate change on the decennial and centennial time-scale, to which glacier history can contribute, is scarce and is in demand for attempting to predict future change, especially with regard to global warming. New chapters and material have been included throughout the book and these tend to confirm and elaborate on earlier conclusions of the first edition.
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The Biblical Flood: Global Warming & Bush's Harvest
William W Morgan Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0977849236 Release Date: 2007-01-30 |
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It is generally agreed by all reputable, mainstream climatologist that Global Warming is real. That there will be rising sea levels and temperature changes ranging from an ice age to desertification of large parts of the planet. With our present societal system based on coercion we have Global Dumbing. The result will be uncontrollable disorder and chaos, preventing us from solving the problems of Global Warming. We can not survive as a viable specie with our present societal system based on coercion. Darwin and Galambos tell us that the only system under which we can first solve Global Dumbing and then Global Warming-and they must be solved in that order-is with total and complete individual freedom. This book describes the problems and how to solve them. To prevent our extinction.
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Glacier Science and Environmental Change
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1405100184 |
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Glacier Science and Environmental Change is an authoritative and comprehensive reference work on contemporary issues in glaciology. It explores the interface between glacier science and environmental change, in the past, present, and future.Written by the world's foremost authorities in the subject and researchers at the scientific frontier where conventional wisdom of approach comes face to face with unsolved problems, this book provides:state-of-the-art reviews of the key topics in glaciology and related disciplines in environmental changecutting-edge case studies of the latest researchan interdisciplinary synthesis of the issues that draw together the research efforts of glaciologists and scientists from other areas such as geologists, hydrologists, and climatologistscolor-plate section (with selected extra figures provided in color at www.blackwellpublishing.com/knight).The topics in this book have been carefully chosen to reflect current priorities in research, the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, and the developing relationship between glaciology and studies of environmental change.Glacier Science and Environmental Change is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate research students, and professional researchers in glaciology, geology, geography, geophysics, climatology, and related disciplines.
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Glaciers & Climate Change
J. Oerlemans Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9026518137 |
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Earth Paleoenvironments: Records preserved in Mid- and Low-Latitude Glaciers (Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402021453 |
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Glaciers provide an unparalleled tool for studying global environmental change. This book is the first of its kind concentrating on the paleoenvironmental record archived in mid- and low-latitude glaciers. By concentrating mainly on the last 500 years of these records, we can now see that laws enacted to protect our environment in Europe and North America are providing positive results. Documenting global mid- and low-latitude paleoenvironmental records in glaciers, this volume forms a timely and essential complement to the wealth of literature on polar and Greenland ice sheet records.
This text is directed towards undergraduate and graduate university audiences and forms an ideal supplement in courses dealing with climate and global environmental change, glaciology, and natural resources management. It is also suitable in helping teach application of innovative analytical and interpretive methods and would be an excellent example of the rapidly emerging discipline of "Forensic Earth Science".
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Glaciers and Environmental Change (Key Issues in Environmental Change)
Atle Nesje , and Svein Olaf Dahl Manufacturer: A Hodder Arnold Publication ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0340706341 |
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This authoritative new text is a comprehensive account of glaciers and ice sheets as monitors and indicators of environmental change. Based on the latest research, this book consolidates a diverse range of data and explains their applications. It assesses methods of using palaeoenvironmental records and examines records of environmental change within glaciers as well as change in past environments left by retreating glaciers. All of these themes are also discussed in the context of contemporary debates.
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Fifty years of McCall Glacier research: from the International Geophysical year 1957-58 to the International Polar Year 2007-08.(InfoNorth): An article from: Arctic
Gunter Weller , Matt Nolan , Gerd Wendler , Carl Benson , Keith Echelmeyer , and Norbert Untersteiner Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000PDZD86 Release Date: 2007-04-12 |
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This digital document is an article from Arctic, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 7141 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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Glaciers and Environmental Change
W. H. Theakstone , C. Harris , and Theakstone Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0340538791 |
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The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change
Paul Andrew Mayewski , Frank White , and Lynn Margulis Manufacturer: New Hampshire ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding Similar Items:
ASIN: 1584650613 |
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An exciting account of revolutionary new discoveries for understanding the earth's climate, and their implications for future scientific research and global environmental policy.Customer Reviews:
Ice Chronicles Overview.......2007-02-13
A cool look at the overheated climate controversy.......2003-04-11
The book, published in the fall of 2002, centers on the findings from the two-mile long ice core that Mayewski's team pulled from the center of the Greenland Ice Cap. This ice core, labeled GISP2, allowed scientists to track a wide range of climate variables in exquisite detail over the past 100,000 years. It produced many important findings that can help clarify the highly politicized climate controversy. The core reveals that Earth's climate is far from steady. Even without any contributions from manmade greenhouse gasses, ozone-depleting chemicals or particulates, regional and global conditions have swung from hot to cold and wet to dry many times, often with dramatic suddenness. Mayewski repeatedly makes the point that the climatologically calm, benign Holocene--the time period during which human civilization appeared and has developed--is a myth. The ten millennia or so since the end of the most recent ice age have been marked by two large global climate shifts, the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period, and many less drastic but still potent changes. He also presents intriguing evidence that some of these changes contributed to the downfall of several ancient civilizations, including the Mesopotamian Empire around 1200 BC, the Mayan Civilization around 900 AD, and the Norse colonies in Greenland around 1400 AD.
My only real criticism of the book is that it may present more of the nitty gritty history and findings of the GISP2 project than most readers want or need. Still, most of this is put into boxes which readers can dive into or skip as they choose.
While the research findings and their implications are fascinating, perhaps the most important contribution the authors make is their perspective. The data Mayewksi himself uncovered show that the climate is a complicated and sensitive system, pushed from regime to regime by a variety of natural forces. But Mayewski is equally clear that human activities, most notably the marked and well-documented increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses, have joined the party, and must be considered in order to understand current conditions or predict future climate change. And he is clear that unless we take sensible steps to reduce our impacts on the system, we risk not just global warming and whatever changes that would bring, but increased climactic instability and unpredictability. To the authors' credit, they attempt to bring some calm into the climate debates by propounding ten realistic, commonsense principles. The reflect that, "No matter what we do, the climate will change." But they also admonish, "We should strive more for climate predictability than control," and "If we cannot have global control of climate policy, we must at least have global cooperation."
The Ice Chronicles is well worth reading, both for the hard-won scientific facts it presents and explains so clearly, and for the constructive, down-to-earth perspective it provides.
Robert Adler, author of Science Firsts: From the Creation of Science to the Science of Creation. (John Wiley & Sons, September 2002).
yesterday upon the stair............2002-12-20
At it's weakest point however, there is a sad attempt to relate the ice core data to global warming. This could be parodied as "there is no evidence of recent dramatic global warming in the ice core data, therefore global warming exists." To be kinder, the author feels "since I know global warming exists from other sources, the lack of data supporting global warming in my ice cores means this must be an entirely new sort of warming." There clearly is an easier explanation.
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The Patagonian Icefields: A Unique Natural Laboratory for Environmental and Climate Change Studies
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0306467895 |
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This book presents a collection of 17 papers by authors from eight different countries from diverse fields dealing with multi disciplinary research on the Patagonian Icefields. The main emphasis is glaciology, climatology and paleoclimatology, with contributions in glacier ecology, microbiology and aerosols. The volume is the proceedings of a meeting held on board a Chilean Navy ship, which sailed along the fjords, where the participants had the opportunity of actually setting foot on the Southern Patagonia Icefield.
The volume presents an updated review of glacier and climate-related research of the Patagonian icefields, and will become necessary reading for anyone interested in the Patagonian glaciers and the surrounding environment.
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Time-Varying Image Processing and Moving Object Recognition, 4
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0444823077 |
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New digital image processing and recognition methods, implementation techniques and advanced applications (television, remote sensing, biomedicine, traffic, inspection, robotics, etc.) are presented in this volume. Novel approaches (i.e. digital filters, source coding, neural networks etc.) for solving 2-D and 3-D problems are described. Many papers focus on the motion estimation and tracking recognition of moving objects. The increasingly important field of Cultural Heritage is also covered. Some papers are more theoretical or of review nature, while others contain new implementations and applications. Generally the book presents - for the above outlined area - the state of the art (theory, implementation, applications) with future trends.This book will be of interest not only to researchers, professors and students in university departments of engineering, communications, computers and automatic control, but also to engineers and managers of industries concerned with computer vision, manufacturing, automation, robotics and quality control.
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sMothering
Wendy French Manufacturer: Forge Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0765347032 Release Date: 2004-11-30 |
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A smart, fast, funny take on mother-daughter relationships, boyfriend-girlfriend disasters, and the career-girl blues.Meet Claire McLeod, a twenty-something American girl living in Portland, Oregon. Claire's got big problems: her mother's a tyrant, her sister's a lesbian, and her father's in Omaha.Claire's peaceful, if dull, existence is shattered when her mother arrives in Portland for an unexpected--and unwelcome--visit. Armed with a sharp tongue, a critical eye, and enough Weekender Wear to make anyone nervous, Mom has mysteriously left Dad at home in the Midwest. It's not enough that Claire's job as a telephone survey-taker is excruciatingly irritating and her boyfriend has dumped her. No, now, embarrassed by her dead-end job and flatlining love life, she must also bear the weight of Mom's critical eagle eye while trying to close the rift between her mother and her sister, solve the riddle of her missing father, climb a shaky corporate ladder, stalk a cute coworker, reinvent herself, and maybe--just maybe--find a little happiness.By turns tender and insightful--but always hilariously funny-sMothering is a novel you can't put down.Customer Reviews:
Great Read!.......2007-07-15
Hilarious Read!.......2005-12-29
Too good to pass up!!!.......2005-01-31
I **loved** this book!.......2005-01-20
Fun Read.......2005-01-10
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Amor que Asfixia (Smothering Love)
Robert M Wilson Manufacturer: International Universities Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Accessories:
ASIN: 9687968435 |
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I AM STILL HURT BY THE SMOTHERING.......2003-05-06
Aquella hermosa frase que dice "Si los amas, DEJALOS IR!".......2003-04-30
MI MADRE MURIO HACE DIEZ AÃ`OS..........2003-04-21
EN CIERTA MANERA, ME APENA CONFESAR.......2003-04-14
DE NADA SIRVE HACERNOS LAS SORDAS !.......2003-04-14
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Smothering
Wendy French Manufacturer: ST MARTINS PRESS * ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000SHVYBY |
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Smothering The Soul
Leilani K. Heno Manufacturer: X-Trainers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories: ASIN: 0970549504 |
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In Smothering The Soul, Leilani shares the secret behind her 85-pound weight-loss. The book stresses the Mind/Body/Spirit connection, and explanins the missing element in fad diets and quick-fix weight loss formulas. Smothering The Soul was written to motivate clients to reach any weight-loss goal; therefore, it promisses to be the last weight-loss book you will ever need.
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Technical report - U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station
Robert J Reimold Manufacturer: Available from National Technical Information Service ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006WZCE6 |
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Controversy heats up as rate of bed sharing continues to rise. (Opponents Cite Risk of SIDS, Smothering).: An article from: Pediatric News
Steve Perlstein Manufacturer: International Medical News Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008D9KQ4 Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Pediatric News, published by International Medical News Group on February 1, 2003. The length of the article is 805 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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Heinz pours on profit, smothering its critics. (H.J. Heinz Co.)(includes related article): An article from: Food Processing
Jack Neff Manufacturer: Putman Media, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00096KGNQ Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Food Processing, published by Putman Media, Inc. on May 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1963 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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Senators, NRLC Assail Senate Democratic Leadership for Smothering Bill to Ban Partial-Birth Abortion.(National Right to Life Committee): An article from: National Right to Life News
Manufacturer: National Right to Life Committee, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FOK9O Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from National Right to Life News, published by National Right to Life Committee, Inc. on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1022 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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Smothering the flames: fireproof blanket offers new alternative to extinguishing household fires.(Brief Article): An article from: Nonwovens Industry
Eileen Wubbe Manufacturer: Rodman Publications, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008ETXGU Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Nonwovens Industry, published by Rodman Publications, Inc. on June 1, 2002. The length of the article is 422 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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The love feast of competitors: Smothering trade feuds with association fellowship
Forrest Crissey Manufacturer: Association Bureau ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008C51A4 |
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