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Inequalities of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Inequalities of the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Verso

A groundbreaking exploration of contemporary global inequality by leading scholars from across the world.

Why Birds Matter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

Why Birds Matter

"Explore[s] the role of birds in such important ecological dynamics as scavenging, nutrient cycling, food chains, and plant-animal interactions-- all seen through the lens of human well-being. ... The contributors show that quantifying avian ecosystem services is crucial when formulating contemporary conservation strategies."--Back cover.

Environmental Scenario for 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 506

Environmental Scenario for 21st Century

Festschrift volume to Prem Shanker Dubey, b. 1942, Indian botanist and chairman of Pollution Control Board, Bhopal; contributed articles.

Foraging
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 626

Foraging

Foraging is fundamental to animal survival and reproduction, yet it is much more than a simple matter of finding food; it is a biological imperative. Animals must find and consume resources to succeed, and they make extraordinary efforts to do so. For instance, pythons rarely eat, but when they do, their meals are large—as much as 60 percent larger than their own bodies. The snake’s digestive system is normally dormant, but during digestion metabolic rates can increase fortyfold. A python digesting quietly on the forest floor has the metabolic rate of thoroughbred in a dead heat. This and related foraging processes have broad applications in ecology, cognitive science, anthropology, and ...

Theorization Of Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Theorization Of Law

  • Categories: Law

The book was initially a dissertation had been pertained in front of the Senate of Universitas Diponegoro, on June 4, 2003. As clued by the title, it was aimed to explore and describe the legal thought fl ourished in Indonesia in the era of 1945-1990-s. It was focused on the development of legal thought, conducted through collection, inquiry, and inventory of various sources. The inquiry and inventory were deliberately determined within the framework of historical approach, meaning to put the thoughts in the context of space and time. By this perspective, the sources of the theory of law was utilized, both the general and special ones, related to any particular theories or respective period ...

The Antisocial Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

The Antisocial Mind

In this book, Professor Ghahreman Khodadad illuminates the basis of human behavior by examining the structures that underline antisociality. The book’s central thesis is that antisocial people are so thanks to biological and neurological structures. The principle of structure to function is used to argue that the brain, without us being conscious of it, produces our behaviors. If this claim is correct, then antisocial individuals are not accountable for their antisocial behavior, and they should be treated respectfully instead of being punished. Furthermore, prisons should accordingly be converted into rehabilitation, treatment, and behavioral research centers. This is a book for the general reader who is interested in the basis of human behavior. It should also be of interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, geneticists, neurobiologists, and philosophers.

Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East

The beautifully illustrated Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East approaches landscape design from an ecological perspective, encouraging professional horticulturalists and backyard enthusiasts alike to intensify their use of indigenous or native plants. These plants, ones that grow naturally in the same place in which they evolved, form the basis of the food web. Wildlife simply cannot continue to survive without them-nor can we. Summers provides guidelines for * The best ways to use exotic and nonindigenous plants responsibly * Easy-to-follow strategies for hosting butterflies, bees, moths, birds, and fish * Designs for traditional gardens using native trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, perennials, fruiting plants, and groundcovers as substitutes for exotic plants * How to control plant reproduction, choose cultivars, open-pollinated indigenous plants, and different types of hybrids.

Global Pro Bono
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 751

Global Pro Bono

  • Categories: Law

This book provides the first-ever analysis of the growing yet contested role of pro bono services in access to justice globally.

The Narrow Edge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

The Narrow Edge

Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the water's edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding grounds, they will have completed a near-miraculous 9,000-mile journey that began in Tierra del Fuego. Deborah Cramer followed these knots, whose numbers have declined by 75 percent, on their extraordinary odyssey from one end of the earth to the other—from an isolated beach at the tip of South America all the way to the icy tundra. In her firsthand account, she explores how diminishing a single stopover can compromise the birds' entire journey, and how the ...

Experimental Ecology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 492

Experimental Ecology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Experimentation is a dominant approach in contemporary ecological research, pervading studies at all levels of biological organization and across diverse taxa and habitats. Experimental Ecology assembles an eminent group of ecologists who synthesize insights from these varied sources into a cogent statement about experimentalism as an analytical paradigm, placing experimentation within the larger framework of ecological investigation. The book discusses diverse experimental approaches ranging from laboratory microcosms to manipulation of entire ecosystem, illustrating the myriad ways experiments strengthen ecological inference. Experimental ecologists critique their science to move the field forward on all fronts: from better designs, to better links between experiments and theory, to more realism in experiments targeted at specific systems and questions.