Автор: Nora Noffke
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 3642127711
Количество страниц: 194
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This book describes microbially induced sedimentary structures as new group in the Classification of Primary Sedimentary Structures. Those structures rise from the interaction of benthic microorganisms with physical sediment dynamics caused by waves and currents. We can observe the formation of those features today in modern coastal settings, where the structures are much more common than stromatolites. However, fossil structures occur since the earliest Archean, and are abundant throughout Earth history. The structures constitute a significant archive for the understanding of Earth’s earliest worlds, and are important biosignatures for the detection of life on other planets. This book is for sedimentologists, paleontologists, microbiologists, and geobiologists likewise.
Автор: Susan Libes
Издательство: Academic Press
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 0120885301
Количество страниц: 928
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Focuses on the ocean's role in the biogeochemical cycling of selected elements and the impact of humans on the cycling of these elements. This book integrates the research, allowing students to learn concepts in context. It includes coverage of computational aspects. It offers an online companion site, including a study guide, for students. *The focus of Introduction to Marine Biogeochemistry is the concept of the ocean as a system, linking land and atmospheric processes. *The text integrates the most current research, allowing students to learn concepts in context *Includes detailed coverage of computational aspects *Offers an online companion site, including a full study guide, available for students
Автор: Chuck Stewart
Издательство: Greenwood
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 0313342318
Количество страниц: 1282
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This groundbreaking set offers the most up-to-date international overview of key issues in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. More than 70 countries are represented, with a resource guide for each country provided. A thumbnail country map accompanies each chapter. In some regions and countries, such as the Middle East, homosexuality is taboo and not officially acknowledged as existing. Information in these areas and countries is hard to find or does not exist yet. In the West, information on LGBT issues is much more available. Yet to date, there has been no reference that covers LGBT issues worldwide - until now. The material in this set is especially needed in a cultural climate that supports and informs about LGBT populations. The content is useful for a paper on a hot topic, health classes, discussion groups, and gay/straight alliance groups. Each chapter devoted to a country offers standard coverage, which allows for comparison. The format per chapter includes the following essay sections: Overview; Education; Employment and Economics; Social/Government Programs; Sexuality/Sexual Practices; Family; Community; Law; Religion and Spirituality; Violence; and, Outlook for the 21st Century.
Автор: Anna Del Conte, Thomas Laessoe
Издательство: DK ADULT
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0756638674
Количество страниц: 192
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Beginning in the kitchen, readers learn how to prepare wild fungi for cooking, then how to make sixty mouthwatering recipes from Scrambled Chanterelles to Baked Mushroom Polenta. Moving on to the field, The Edible Mushroom Book tells you where and when to forage, provides an identification guide, and includes information on more than fifty-five edible mushrooms.
Автор: Nigel Rothfels
Издательство: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 0801869102
Количество страниц: 288
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German animal entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck. By the late nineteenth century, Hagenbeck had emerged as the world's undisputed leader in the capture and transport of exotic animals. His business included procuring and exhibiting indigenous peoples in highly profitable spectacles throughout Europe and training exotic animals--humanely, Hagenbeck advertised--for circuses around the world. When in 1907 the Hagenbeck Animal Park opened in a village near Hamburg, Germany, Hagenbeck brought together all his business interests in a revolutionary zoological park. He moved wild animals out of their cages and into "natural landscapes" alongside "primitive" peoples from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the islands of the Pacific. Hagenbeck had invented a new way of imagining captivity: the animals and people on exhibit appeared to be living in the wilds of their native lands.
Автор: Anna Bramwell
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год издания: 1989
isbn: 0300045212
Количество страниц: 292
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This book - an intellectual and political history of the ecology movement from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present - provides the first thorough study of the origins and background of 'Green' politics which has in recent years carved out a significant political constituency throughout Europe and America. Anna Bramwell locates the roots of the ideas of the modern ecological movement in two distinct strands of the scientific community, the biological and economic, and then traces the intellectual contributions of biological and economic ecologists through movements in Germany and Britain during the twentieth century. She looks at the literary background ofecologism, focusing in particular on the works of Knut Hamsun and Henry Williamson, and describes the work of the most important biological ecologist, the German Ernst Haeckel. Bramwell then explores the German contribution to ecologism in science and literature, its existence as a hidden agenda in the Third Reich, and its cross-fertilization with Britain and America.
Автор: Toshihiko Yamada, German Spangenberg
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0387791434
Количество страниц: 352
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The 5th International Symposium on the Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf covers all aspects of molecular breeding of forage and turf plants, from gene discovery, functional genomics, molecular genetics and marker technology, marker-assisted selection, transgenesis to transgenic molecular breeding; address applications - among others - for enhanced quality, tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses; relating to forage grasses, forage legumes, their bacterial and fungal endosymbionts, as well as turf grasses. The Symposium includes keynote presentations from international science leaders in the above fields and offer abstracts in the following topics - breeding and functional genomics for tolerance to biotic stress, - Molecular breeding and functional genomics for tolerance to abiotic stress, - Molecular genetics and modification of flowering and reproductive development, - Genomics of plant-symbiont relations, - Molecular breeding for animal, human and environmental welfare, - Development and Application of molecular technologies in forage and turf improvement, - Bioinformatics-bringing data to a usable form for breeders, - Population and quantitative genetic aspects of molecular breeding, - Gene manipulation, field testing, risk assessment and biosafety, - Intellectual property rights for molecular tools or marker systems.
Автор: Gregory L. Blatch
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 0387493085
Количество страниц: 139
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
"The Networking of Chaperones by Co-chaperones" updates the current understanding of how chaperones are regulated and networked, and is a resource for those in the specialized field of cell stress and chaperones. The book will also be of interest to those in broader cross-cutting field such as cellular networks and systems biology.
Автор: Rick Emmer
Издательство: Chelsea House Publications
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 079109782X
Количество страниц: 109
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
All over the world, there are tales of giant creatures that hide from human contact. Giant Anaconda and Other Cryptids: Fact or Fiction? presents evidence for the existence of several of these amazing animals, including the Sucuriju, a 50-foot-long snake from South America; the bloodthirsty Chupacabras, or "Goat Sucker," from Puerto Rico; the fierce lizard Megalania, Australia's gigantic cousin of the Komodo dragon; the thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial from Tasmania; the Thunderbird, a monstrous, child-snatching bird of prey from the United States; the Kongamato and Ropen, prehistoric flying reptiles from Africa and New Guinea; and the Ri, a mermaid-like creature inhabiting the waters of a tropical island paradise in the Pacific Ocean. The book allows readers to draw their own conclusions about the existence of these hidden creatures
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