Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 802

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Author: Margaret M. Carreiro
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387714251
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Trees and vegetation in cities aren’t just there to make the place look pretty. They have an important ecological function. This book contains studies and perspectives on urban forests from a broad array of basic and applied scientific disciplines including ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, landscape ecology, plant community ecology, geography, and social science. The book includes contributions from experts around the world, allowing the reader to evaluate methods and management that are appropriate for particular geographic, environmental, and socio-political contexts.

Author: Thomas Borstelmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195079426
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Borstelmann (history, Cornell U.) brings to light the neglected history of Washington's strong, but hushed, backing for the white supremacist National Party government that won power in South Africa in 1948, and for its formal establishment of apartheid. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Knut Dahl
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Expedition 1894, from Darwin to Victoria River and Roebuck Bay; Physical appearance, weapons, baskets and bags for food collecting; During 2 years in district author came across 13 tribes; Wogait, Mollak-Mollak, Tjerait, Pongo-Pongo, Dim-Dim, Dilik, Wolwanga, Wolna, Warai, Agigondin, Agoguila, Larrakia; Camping arrangements; Types of food, cooking; Magic, superstitions, medicine men; Conception, education of children; Uniya Mission on Daly River; Vocabulary of Hermit Hill natives; Cannibalism occasionally practised, circumcision operation described; Arenbarra Station; Word list of Warai tribe; Cave paintings south from Blunder Bay, Victoria River - full description of locality and paintings; Cairns near Mary R.; Circular stone structures; Lending of wives; Katherine Station; Roebuck Bay natives - Hill Station --; Physical appearance, general life, bodily decoration, corroborees.

Author: Masanobu Tsuji
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Category : Singapore
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: David Lloyd
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402083521
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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5. 1. 1 Biological Rhythms and Clocks From an evolutionary perspective, the adaptation of an organism’s behavior to its environment has depended on one of life’s fundamental traits: biological rhythm generation. In virtually all light-sensitive organisms from cyanobacteria to humans, biological clocks adapt cyclic physiology to geophysical time with time-keeping properties in the circadian (24 h), ultradian (24 h) domains (Edmunds, 1988; Lloyd, 1998; Lloyd et al. , 2001; Lloyd and Murray, 2006; Lloyd, 2007; Pittendrigh, 1993; Sweeney and Hastings, 1960) By definition, all rhythms exhibit regular periodicities since they constitute a mechanism of timing. Timing exerted by oscillatory mechanisms are found throughout the biological world and their periods span a wide range from milliseconds, as in the action potential of n- rons and the myocytes, to the slow evolutionary changes that require thousands of generations. In this context, to understand the synchronization of a population of coupled oscillators is an important problem for the dynamics of physiology in living systems (Aon et al. , 2007a, b; Kuramoto, 1984; Strogatz, 2003; Winfree, 1967). Circadian rhythms, the most intensively studied, are devoted to measuring daily 24 h cycles. A variety of physiological processes in a wide range of eukaryotic organisms display circadian rhythmicity which is characterized by the following major properties (Anderson et al. , 1985; Edmunds, 1988): (i) stable, autonomous (self-sustaining) oscillations having a free-running period under constant envir- mental conditions of ca.

Author: Edward Shann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316601676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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Originally published in 1930, this book provides an account of Australian economic development from 1788 up until the early twentieth century. The text is divided into three main sections: 'Convicts, Wool, and Gold 1788-1860'; 'Colonial Particularism 1860-1900'; 'The Commonwealth'. Notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in perspectives on the development of Australia and economic history.

Author: Col. Masanobu Tsuji
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787200981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Originally published in 1960, the author of this book is one of the planners of the Imperial Japanese Army’s invasion of Malaya and the capture of Singapore—Colonel Masanobu Tsuji himself. In it, he “unreservedly attributes Japan’s victory in Malaya to the patriotic fervour and self-sacrifice of the frontline officers and men of her 25th Army, which, in advancing six hundred miles and capturing Singapore in seventy days, achieved one of the decisive victories of World War II and accomplished a feat unparalleled in military history. [...] For the first time in history an army carried out “a blitzkrieg on bicycles”, astounding the world by the sureness and rapidity of its advance, and exploding the myth of the impregnability of Singapore—which, as Colonel Tsuji emphasizes, had no rear defences, a fact he states was unknown to Winston Churchill at the time. [...] Colonel Tsuji’s career proves him a master planner and an outstanding field officer. He now appears as an excellent writer and is to be congratulated upon his book, and also upon the motives which led to his escape from the Allied forces after the national surrender [...].”