L C M B A Official Programme
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L C M B A Official Programme
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Author : Letter Carriers' Mutual Benefit Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1905
L C M B A Official Programme written by Letter Carriers' Mutual Benefit Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1905 with Letter carriers categories.
The Pagan Tribes Of Borneo
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Author : Charles Hose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
The Pagan Tribes Of Borneo written by Charles Hose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Anthropometry categories.
The World Ayahuasca Diaspora
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Author : Beatriz Caiuby Labate
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-09-01
The World Ayahuasca Diaspora written by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with Religion categories.
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive substance that has long been associated with indigenous Amazonian shamanic practices. The recent rise of the drink’s visibility in the media and popular culture, and its rapidly advancing inroads into international awareness, mean that the field of ayahuasca is quickly expanding. This expansion brings with it legal problems, economic inequalities, new forms of ritual and belief, cultural misunderstandings, and other controversies and reinventions. In The World Ayahuasca Diaspora, leading scholars, including established academics and new voices in anthropology, religious studies, and law fuse case-study ethnographies with evaluations of relevant legal and anthropological knowledge. They explore how the substance has impacted indigenous communities, new urban religiosities, ritual healing, international drug policy, religious persecution, and recreational drug milieus. This unique book presents classic and contemporary issues in social science and the humanities, providing rich material on the bourgeoning expansion of ayahuasca use around the globe.
Marine Biodiversity And Ecosystem Functioning
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Author : Martin Solan
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2012-07-19
Marine Biodiversity And Ecosystem Functioning written by Martin Solan and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-19 with Science categories.
The biological composition and richness of most of the Earth's major ecosystems are being dramatically and irreversibly transformed by anthropogenic activity. Yet, despite the vast areal extent of our oceans, the mainstay of research to-date in the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning arena has been weighted towards ecological observations and experimentation in terrestrial plant and soil systems. This book provides a framework for extending these concepts to a variety of marine systems. Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning is the first book to address the latest advances in biodiversity-function science using marine examples. It brings together contributions from the leading scientists in the field to provide an in-depth evaluation of the science, before offering a perspective on future research directions for some of the most pressing environmental issues facing society today and in the future.
Young Sun Early Earth And The Origins Of Life
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Author : Muriel Gargaud
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Young Sun Early Earth And The Origins Of Life written by Muriel Gargaud and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Science categories.
- How did the Sun come into existence? - How was the Earth formed? - How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents? - How do you define “life”? - How did the first life forms emerge? - What conditions made it possible for living things to evolve? All these questions are answered in this colourful textbook addressing undergraduate students in "Origins of Life" courses and the scientifically interested public. The authors take the reader on an amazing voyage through time, beginning five thousand million years ago in a cloud of interstellar dust and ending five hundred million years ago, when the living world that we see today was finally formed. A chapter on exoplanets provides an overview of the search for planets outside the solar system, especially for habitable ones. The appendix closes the book with a glossary, a bibliography of further readings and a summary of the Origins of the Earth and life in fourteen boxes.
Amino Acids And The Asymmetry Of Life
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Author : Uwe Meierhenrich
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-08-15
Amino Acids And The Asymmetry Of Life written by Uwe Meierhenrich and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-15 with Science categories.
"How did life originate and why were left-handed molecules selected for its architecture?" This question of high public and interdisciplinary scientific interest is the central theme of this book. It is widely known that in processes triggering the origin of life on Earth, the equal occurrence, the parity between left-handed amino acids and their right-handed mirror images, was violated. The balance was inevitably tipped to the left – as a result of which life's proteins today exclusively implement the left form of amino acids. Written in an engaging style, this book describes how the basic building blocks of life, the amino acids, formed. After a comprehensible introduction to stereochemistry, the author addresses the inherent property of amino acids in living organisms, namely the preference for left-handedness. What was the cause for the violation of parity of amino acids in the emergence of life on Earth? All the fascinating models proposed by physicists, chemists and biologist are vividly presented including the scientific conflicts. The author describes the attempt to verify any of those models with the chirality module of the ROSETTA mission, a probe built and launched with the mission to land on a comet and analyse whether there are chiral organic compounds that could have been brought to the Earth by cometary impacts. A truly interdisciplinary astrobiology book, "Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life" will fascinate students, researchers and all readers with backgrounds in natural sciences. With a foreword by Henri B. Kagan.
Marine Macroecology
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Author : Jon D. Witman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-10-15
Marine Macroecology written by Jon D. Witman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-15 with Science categories.
Pioneered in the late 1980s, the concept of macroecology—a framework for studying ecological communities with a focus on patterns and processes—revolutionized the field. Although this approach has been applied mainly to terrestrial ecosystems, there is increasing interest in quantifying macroecological patterns in the sea and understanding the processes that generate them. Taking stock of the current work in the field and advocating a research agenda for the decades ahead, Marine Macroecology draws together insights and approaches from a diverse group of scientists to show how marine ecology can benefit from the adoption of macroecological approaches. Divided into three parts, Marine Macroecology first provides an overview of marine diversity patterns and offers case studies of specific habitats and taxonomic groups. In the second part, contributors focus on process-based explanations for marine ecological patterns. The third part presents new approaches to understanding processes driving the macroecolgical patterns in the sea. Uniting unique insights from different perspectives with the common goal of identifying and understanding large-scale biodiversity patterns, Marine Macroecology will inspire the next wave of marine ecologists to approach their research from a macroecological perspective.
Land Ocean Interaction
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Author : D. Huntley
language : en
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Release Date : 2000-12-01
Land Ocean Interaction written by D. Huntley and has been published by IWA Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-01 with Science categories.
The UK Land-Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) provided a major opportunity to measure and model the processes controlling the fluxes of materials between river basins and coastal seas. The main programme of research took place between 1992 and 1998, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council, and involved approximately 360 coastal researchers contributing to more than 70 collaborative projects. This book presents accessible summaries of key results of this research. The ten chapters of the book are written by leading contributors to the programme, and cover aspects of the physical, sedimentological, chemical and biological processes controlling fluxes between river catchments and coastal seas in temporate environments. Major overarching themes for all of the chapters include the persistence, storage, degradation and transport of pollutants from catchment to coastal sea, and an emphasis on the relevance of research for river and coastal water quality management. The chapters also describe a number of important technological advances in the measurement of processes and longer term monitoring of the fluvial, estuarine and coastal environments. Approaches to monitoring were also transferred between disciplines, in many cases for the first time. The rivers and coastal programme of LOIS was unique in its scale and inter-disciplinarity and its results are of lasting value. This book provides a useful and important summary of many of its results and an effective introduction to the research for those who want to delve more deeply into the data and published papers. It will be of interest to scientists, environmental managers and scientific policy makers. Contents Background and Context of the Programme River and Estuary Management Issues in the Humber Catchment Suspended Sediment Fluxes from River Basins River Chemistry Modelling of Large-Scale River Basins Tidal Reaches Estuarine Sediments The Intertidal Zone The Holderness Coast Estuarine Chemistry
Stylasteridae Cnidaria Hydrozoa Anthoathecata Of The New Caledonian Region
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Author : Stephen D. Cairns
language : en
Publisher: French National Museum Natural History
Release Date : 2016-02-15
Stylasteridae Cnidaria Hydrozoa Anthoathecata Of The New Caledonian Region written by Stephen D. Cairns and has been published by French National Museum Natural History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-15 with Benthic animals categories.
Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos is a series dedicated to the inventory and description of the deep-sea fauna of the world, with special emphasis on their most extensive--but remote and least-explored--habitats: the Indo-West Pacific. Growing out of marine expeditions undertaken by the French National Museum of Natural History and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, the series continues to present many new, strange, and sometimes colorful invertebrates. The present volume presents results from recent expeditions within the New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone, reporting ninety-eight species (including fifty-seven new species) of corals from the Stylasteridae family and one new calcified species of hydrozoa from the family Hydractiniidae. Including numerous seamounts, submarine ridges, and small islands, New Caledonia's deep-sea benthos are ideal habitat for stylasterids, making it the most species-rich marine region in the world for this taxon.
Prebiotic Chemistry
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Author : Peter Walde
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2005-10-13
Prebiotic Chemistry written by Peter Walde and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-13 with Science categories.