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Author : L. Pacholski,J Wierzejewski,A.J. Wilkie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783540383932
Author : Jason M. Vallery
Publisher : Arcane Moose
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734747900
The cost of magic is never cheap. Something Hali's all too familiar with. Renowned as a hero in her country, the populace looks to Hali for protection from a devastating plague. Though her spell cures the affliction, it also takes her unborn son, twisting him and the plague into a monstrous shadow. Hali imprisons the shadow inside a magical tattoo on her arm but can't fully contain its power before it kills her wife, adding another face to its collection. Now cursed with an unending life, she finds unexpected friendship in Alim, a magicless explorer with an insatiable appetite, and Tio, a socially awkward druid, as she attempts to free her family. Caught up in Tio's quest to restore the world's dwindling magic, Hali finds herself at a crossroads. Once again, the world calls upon her to be a hero. Does she still have the resolve to answer, knowing what it might cost? Who will be sacrificed this time?
Author : Nina G Jablonski
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814497404
The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys provides a comprehensive introduction to the biology of some of the rarest and least-known nonhuman primates. Virtually unstudied and unknown until 20 years ago, the doucs and snub-nosed monkeys occupy some of the most remote habitats of eastern Asia and exhibit some of the most unusual adaptations of any nonhuman primates. The volume provides detailed information on these rare Asian primates that will be useful to practitioners of evolutionary biology, field and laboratory primatology, systematics, field ecology, and conservation biology. Contents:Introduction (N G Jablonski)Evolution and Systematics:The Evolution of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys and the Question of the Phyletic Unity of the Odd-nosed Colobines (N G Jablonski)Classification and Distribution of the Extant Subspecies of Golden Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) (Y-X Wang et al.)Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences of Langurs: Evolutionary Inference and Conservation Relevance (Y-P Zhang & O A Ryder)Anatomy:The Integument of the “Odd-nosed” Colobines (G Chaplin & N G Jablonski)Mandibular Morphology of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys in Relation to Diet (N G Jablonski et al.)The Morphology of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Pygathrix nemaeus (Linneaus, 1771) (J M Caton)Ecology and Behavior:Ecology and Behavior in Snub-nosed and Douc Langurs (R C Kirkpatrick)Natural History of Douc Langurs (L K Lippold)Preliminary Observations on the Ecology and Behavior of the Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) in Northern Vietnam (R Boonratana & X C Le)Ecology and Behavior of the Guizhou Snub-nosed Langur (Rhinopithecus brelichi), with a Discussion of the Socioecology in the Genus (W V Bleisch & J-H Xie)Selected Nutrient Analysis of Plants in the Diet of the Guizhou Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus brelkichi) (W V Bleisch et al.)Preliminary Survey of the Home Range and Ranging Behavior of Golden Monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia National Natural Reserve, Hubei, China (Y-J Su et al.)Preliminary Survey of the Social Organization of Rhinopithecus roxellana in Shennongjia National Natural Reserve, Hubei, China (R-M Ren et al.)Time Budgets of the Yunnan Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) (Y-C Long et al.)Conservation:Primate Conservation in Vietnam (L K Lippold & V N Thanh)Conservation Status and Prospects of the Snub-nosed Langurs (Colobinae: Rhinopithecus) (R-M Ren et al.)Conservation of Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) in Vietnam (R Boonratana & X C Le)Maintenance and Breeding of Yunnan Snub-nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) in Captivity (W-Z Ji et al.)Appendix: Toward a Gazetteer of the Snub-nosed and Douc Langurs (R C Kirkpatrick) Readership: Primatologists, anthropologists and biologists. keywords:Evolution;Primates;Paleontology;Conservation;East Asia;Southeast Asia;Mammals;Anatomy;Systematics;Taxonomy “… producing a nicely bound and printed book, with excellently reproduced illustrations, including colour photographs … the publishers' recommended price is more than fair.” International Zoo News “This book is an excellent addition to the conservation biology literature and will be a valuable reference for all university libraries … I highly recommend this book to all those who are concerned about the conservation and management of highly endangered Asian primates.” Journal of Mammalogy
Author : Alan Orloff
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9780738719481
Coming home to Reston, Virginia, to bury his estranged father, Josh Handleman gets the shock of his life when he finds out that his thrifty father is actually a wealthy man who collected diamonds, but when Josh tries to locate the gems he discovers they are missing and begins to wonder if his father's death was really an accident or if it was murder.
Author : Patricia Chapple Wright
Publisher : Lantern Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781590564226
Before primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright became the world's foremost expert on lemurs, she was enchanted by another primate—Aotus, the owl monkey, or "monkey of the night." But along her journey to discover the behavior of these unique nocturnal creatures, Wright finds more than she expected about family, human nature, and herself. It all starts in a New York City pet shop when Wright and her husband buy an owl monkey whose lively and rambunctious ways soon lead the young couple to South America to acquire him a mate. But while Wright's monkey family is growing, her own begins to fall apart when her husband leaves her and her daughter. Undeterred by her lack of academic experience, Wright sets out as a single mother to study primate behavior in the wild, including a year at a research station in the remote jungles of Peru. There she encounters jaguars, poisonous snakes, army ants, and massive floods that threaten her and her daughter's lives, as well as moments of great clarity and beauty. From New York City in the 1960s to the depths of the Amazon in the 1970s and 80s, this story of one woman's transformation from Brooklyn housewife to an accomplished scientist will captivate fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. High Moon Over the Amazon is a thrilling memoir of adventure, inspiration, and of falling in love with a species not so unlike our own.
Author : Mark Gillies
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595288595
The endless war is being fought on one of the 11 planets in their unusual solar system and the ten million remaining people of Unis know they were slowly being exterminated. No one knows if one of the other planets can provide a safe haven but if they do not escape they will surely die. The only space ship ever built is sent out with the last prayer of these desperate people. The new planet has mere remnants of the old and dying civilizations fighting to the last while Nature is slowly repairing the environment and resurfacing the world. Strange new creatures are evolving from the wastes the dead and the dying have left behind. Can Tangor repair his space ship with the detritus of the past? Should Tangor delay his return to help his new found friends? Would it be one struggle and one disappointment after another? Would Poloda's power amplifier still be operating for his return? Would truth, justice and the Unisian way survive?
Author : Katharine Milton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0231048505
This collection of short stories focuses on the Scottish civil war of 1644-45, in which the Marquis of Montrose led his royalist forces in a series of stunning victories against the odds before his final defeat at Philiphaugh. Each of Hogg's five tales centres on one of the five major battles of Montrose's brilliant but ultimately futile campaign. Each tale is utterly different from the others in genre and tone, but taken together they build up a composite picture of what it was like to experience the 'anarchy and confusion' of the time at first hand.
Author : Marie Pierce Weber
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438973043
Marooned in Africa is an exciting adventure set in the wild and untamed forests of West Africa. A young female biologist is separated from her group, and is storm-tossed on the Expedition yacht into a huge tidal basin, alone. Paula goes ashore to explore, where she is seen and followed by natives, who capture her and take her far inland to be a trophy wife for their chief. Subjected to ritual combat for status, she knows mutilation will soon follow if she does not escape. Once into the forest, she becomes disoriented and follows the wrong trail, ending up on a hillside full of lion dens. Unaware that she is being followed and also stalked, she is confronted by lions and within moments of becoming dinner, is saved by a lone traveler. The journey back to the cove is enlivened by animal encounters, and campfire stories that take her back to times long gone with glimpses into the unknown and savage secrets of Africa. Along the way a unique relationship develops with the man who saved her from the lions, but neither one wants to be the first to express their feelings, until an unexpected decision is made and changes everything.
Author : Juliette C. Kitchens,Julie L. Hawk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030246167
This book explores the transmedial nature of the storyworlds created by and/or affiliated with television auteur, writer, and filmmaker, Joss Whedon. As such, the book addresses the ways in which Whedon’s storyworlds, or ‘verses, employ transmedia, both intrinsically as texts and extrinsically as these texts are consumed and, in some cases, reworked, by audiences. This collection walks readers through fan and scholar-fan engagement, intrinsic textual transmediality, and Whedon’s lasting influence on televisual and transmedia texts. In closing, the editors argue for the need to continue research into how the Whedonverse(s) lend themselves to transmedial study, engage audiences in ways that take advantage of multiple media, and encourage textual internalization of these engagements within audiences.
Author : Sonya Kudei
Publisher : BHC Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643973128
“readers with a taste for madcap fantasy will find something to enjoy.” —Publishers Weekly Drawing on an eclectic mix of influences and based on the myths and history of Zagreb, Croatia, The City Beneath the Hidden Stars is a fantastical story that unveils the wondrous concealed in the mundane and is an adventure not to be missed. Long ago, the Black Queen once ruled Zagreb in a looming fortress over the city. Her legend lives on in children’s games and bedtime stories. Is it truly only folklore? And what harm is death to a queen who supposedly stole secrets from the stars? When rumors surface that the Black Queen might still be alive and living in a haunted chasm beneath Zagreb’s Bear Mountain, it prompts the Star Council to dispatch star daimon Leo Solar to Earth to investigate. After witnessing a bizarre event at a local music gig, former philosophy student Dario Taubek begins to notice a strange-looking man in a star suit. Curious, he follows him and what he discovers catapults him into a world he never knew existed. A world of magical trams, myths and monsters, celestial beings, and the legendary Black Queen.
Author : Ian Tregillis
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316248020
The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war. Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he must begin his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden. Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster of New France, mastermind behind her nation's attempts to undermine the Dutch Hegemony -- has been banished from her homeland and captured by the Clockmakers Guild's draconian secret police force. Meanwhile, Captain Hugo Longchamp is faced with rallying the beleaguered and untested defenders of Marseilles-in-the-West for the inevitable onslaught from the Brasswork Throne and its army of mechanical soldiers.
Author : Louise Emmons
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520223844
Treeshrews are misleadingly named, as they are not shrews and do not live in trees. The authors tracked and studied six species of shrew in the Bornean rainforest, and this text descibes their habitat, nesting behaviour, and other facets of their lives.
Author : Catherine Gander
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748670543
Provides a new perspective on the documentary diversity of Muriel Rukeyser's work and influences. This study of twentieth-century American poet Muriel Rukeyser explores the multiple avenues of her 'poetics of connection' to reveal a profound engagement with the equally intertextual documentary genre. It examines previously overlooked photo narratives, poetry, prose and archival material and demonstrates an enduring dialogue between the poet's relational aesthetics and documentary's similarly interdisciplinary and creative approach to the world. By considering the sources of documentary in Rukeyser's work, the study provides insight into her guiding poetic principles, situating her as a vital figure in the history of twentieth-century American literature and culture, and as a pioneering personality in the development of American Studies.
Author : Thad Q. Bartlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317348047
Primatologists have long viewed small fruiting trees, like figs, as the reason for gibbons’ territorial and monogamous behavior. However, at Khao Yai National Park in Thailand where gibbons are prevalent, figs are one of the largest trees in the forest. In this long-term field study, Bartlett takes up this apparent contradiction, and follows gibbons as their major food sources wax and wane over time.This is an important reference on gibbons and the study of small apes which provides a thorough, expansive coverage of the relationship between fruit abundance and diet, range use, and intergroup interactions in Gibbon apes. The Gibbons of Khao Yai: Seasonal Variation in Behavior and Ecology provides an essential resource for students conducting research in this field.
Author : P. Rochat
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995-10-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080542638
The origins of knowledge about the self is arguably the most fundamental problem of psychology. It is a classic theme that has preoccupied great psychologists, beginning with William James and Freud. On reading current literature, today's developmental psychologists and ethologists are clearly expressing a renewed interest in the topic. Furthermore, recent progress in the study of infant and animal behavior, provides important and genuinely new insights regarding the origins of self-knowledge. This book is a collection of current theoretical views and research on the self in early infancy, prior to self-identification and the well-documented emergence of mirror self-recognition. The focus is on the early sense of self of the young infant. Its aim is to provide an account of recent research substantiating the precursors of self-recognition and self-identification. By concentrating on early infancy, the book provides an updated look at the origins of self-knowledge.