Long thought extinct, the elusive Ivory-billed Woodpecker may yet live: in 1999, the birding community was galvanized at the news of a sighting by a hunter in a Louisiana forest. A series of expeditions continue to search for the rare bird, and all seekers rely on this elegant treatise. Written by James Tanner as his doctoral thesis, it was published by the National Audubon Society in 1942, when a few of the species could still be found in the cypress and bottomland forests of the southern United States.
The book opens with a general description of the Ivory-bill, explaining how to distinguish it from its more commonly encountered cousin, the Pileated Woodpecker. It then plots the species’ original distribution pattern; tells the history of its disappearance and the story of its distribution as of 1940; discusses the population density and range of individual birds; food and feeding habits; daily routine in the non-nesting season; voice; reactions to human presence; roosting; reproductive and nesting habits; care of the young; and causes of nesting failure. In conclusion, the author outlines both a general and a specific program for conserving the species. An appendix covers nomenclature, related species, plumages, anatomy, and measurements, and lists the scientific names of birds, mammals, and reptiles mentioned in the text. A model of patient, exacting field research, this book offers fact-filled and engrossing reading for birders and other nature lovers.
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Author: James T. Tanner Publisher: Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486148755 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2012 144 pages
This book charts the change, critically evaluating progress, take-up, inclusion and access to direct payments by different user groups. With contributions from leading campaigners, academics, practitioners, direct payment users and personal assistants, the book:·[vbTab]provides an overview of the history of direct payments;·[vbTab]presents findings from key research into direct payments and disabled people, older people, carers, people with mental health problems, people with learning difficulties and disabled children;·[vbTab]discusses the implementation and development of direct payments provision;·[vbTab]compares developments in the UK with those in North America.Developments in direct payments is an important source of information for social work students and practitioners and others working in the field of health and social care. The useful, up-to-date evidence and discussions relating to care, independence and control will also be of interest to users and providers of help and support.
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Author: Janet Leece; Professor Joanna Bornat Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 9781847421470 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2006 318 pages
„Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.“ (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Am Anfang der Entwicklung dieses Lehrbuchs stand eine Idee: ein Buch nicht nur für, sondern auch mit den Lernenden, d.h. der im Fokus stehenden Zielgruppe zu verf- sen. Ausgehend von einem intensiven Gespräch mit Rolf-Günther Hobbeling, Marketingleiter des Gabler Verlages, Wiesbaden, und vertieft durch gute Gespräche mit der mich betreuenden Lektorin, Barbara Roscher, wurde diese Idee innerhalb eines Jahres immer weiter verfeinert und konkretisiert. Deshalb wurden, nachdem der Titel „Praxisorientiertes Marketing“ den Fokus dieses Lehrbuchs gesetzt hatte, Studierende an der Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft, Berlin, zu ihren Erwartungshaltungen bzgl. eines Marketing-Lehrbuchs befragt. Denn dieses Werk soll nicht nur die relevante Marketing-Substanz transportieren, sondern ideal- weise beim Studium auch Spaß bereiten– sicherlich ein ehrgeiziger Anspruch an ein Lehrbuch. Orientiert an mehr als 300 Fragebögen, die mit wertvollen Anregungen für Konzeption und Ausgestaltung bestückt von den Studenten zurück kamen, wurde das Buch e- wickelt. Dies war allerdings nur der erste Teil, die Zielgruppe in den Ents- hungsprozess einzubinden. Zusätzlich wurden alle Teile des Buches von Katharina Burgdorff, Stefanie Jägerling und Steffen Grunwald, Studenten der Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft, Berlin, hinsichtlich Verständnis, Motivationskraft und Lesespaß üb- prüft. Außerdem haben sie intensiv an der Recherche von überzeugenden Praxisbeispielen mitgewirkt. Ihnen möchte ich an dieser Stelle meinen besonderen Dank aussprechen, weil ich durch sie viele wichtige Anregungen erhalten habe.
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Author: Ralf T Kreutzer Publisher: Gabler Verlag ISBN: 9783834996060 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2008 381 pages
Julia hasn’t seen her husband, Max, for almost a yearbut he’s just walked through the door looking as breathtaking as ever!
Max has come to make things right with his beloved Julia. But he hasn’t bargained on meeting two surprise little twin girls.
Now Max has two weeks to prove he’s the best husband and father in the world!
Author: Caroline Anderson Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 9781426827815 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: February 2009 186 pages
In Bird of Passage by Rudolf Peierls, we find a paragraph in which he de scribes his Cambridge days in the 1930s: On these [relativistic field theory] problems my main contacts were Dirac, and the younger theoreticians. These included in particular Nevill (now Sir Nevill) Mott, perhaps the friendliest among many kind and friendly people we met then. Professor Kamimura became associated with Sir Rudolf Peierls in the 1950s, when he translated, with his colleagues, Peierls’s 1955 textbook, Quantum Theory of Solids, into Japanese. This edition, to which Sir Rudolf himself contributed a preface, benefitted early generations of Japanese solid state physicists. Later in 1974/5, during a sabbatical year spent at the Cavendish Laboratory, Professor Kamimura met and began a long association with Sir Nevill Mott. In particular, they developed ideas for disordered systems. One of the outcomes is a paper coauthored by them on ESR-induced variable range hopping in doped semiconductors. A series of works on disordered systems, together with those on two-dimensional systems, have served as building blocks for Physics of Interacting Electrons in Disordered Systems, in the International Series of Monographs on Physics, coauthored by Aoki and published in 1989 by the Oxford University Press. Soon after Professor Kamimura obtained a D. Sc. in 1959 for the work on the ligand field theory under the supervision ofMasao Kotani, his strong con nections in the international physical community began when he worked at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1961/64.
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Author: Hideo Aoki; Masahiko Tsukada; M. Schlüter; Francis Lévy Publisher: Springer Netherlands ISBN: 9789401131902 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2012 470 pages
The 2nd Edition of Chemical Peels, by Drs. Mark G. Rubin and Rebecca Tung, shows you how to get great results by performing the newest techniques and treatments. Explore new chapters devoted to body peeling, review adjunct therapies and various methods used internationally, master chemical peeling for darker skin types, and examine case studies with before-and-after clinical photographs. This new edition in the Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology Series lets you offer your patients the best skin rejuvenation methods available today.
Learn the “tricks of the trade” from practically minded, technically skilled, hands-on clinicians.
Review a wealth of color illustrations and photographs that depict cases as they present in practice.
Improve your technique by examining common pitfalls and how to optimize outcomes.
Get a look at emerging topics in the field, with guidance on the newest developments in cosmetic procedures
Confidently meet the growing demand for chemical body peeling with a targeted chapter addressing the stronger chemical concentrations and added skills needed, the extent of treatments, and the body areas that prove the most resistant.
Enhance outcomes for your patients with new coverage of the CROSS technique for improving hard-to-treat scars.
Explore new chapters on comprehensive complications with expert advice on how to avoid them and details on corrective management.
Know how to vary your technique for patients with darker skin types, and learn alternate approaches used internationally.
Get expert tips by viewing case study details with “before-and-after” clinical photographs.
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Author: Rebecca Tung; Mark G. Rubin Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 9781437736151 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: November 2010 208 pages
In this shockingly true-to-life novel written by an all-star team of Internet phenoms from the Total Frat Move generation, you’ll get the first true glimpse of “real” sorority life in all its f**ked up glory.
Dirty Rush by Taylor Bell is what happens when you take the creative minds behind Babe Walker (author of the New York Times bestselling White Girl Problems series) and add Rebecca Martinson to the mix. Rebecca Martinson—yes, that bitch—the former Delta Gamma sister responsible for the scathing, expletive-filled email that verbally assaulted her entire chapter for being “so f**king boring” at social functions, and threatened to “c*nt punt” every last one of them if their behavior didn’t shape up. Dirty Rush is a no-holds-barred look at what really happens when you “go Greek.”
Taylor Bell comes from a long line of Beta Zeta sorority sisters, who all expect her to pledge upon starting at the university. But Taylor has other plans: she’s determined to give her family the proverbial middle finger and destroy the rich tradition they hold so dear by eschewing sorority life altogether. However, Taylor’s resolve soon melts when she falls in with a group of hilarious, ultra-saucy girls, who introduce her to all things Greek and soften her to the idea of joining. Resigned to the fate the Greek gods have dealt her, Taylor pledges Beta Zeta and embarks on a collegiate career filled with the kind of carousing sure to make any sorority sister proud.
Soon, Taylor’s experience as a BZ starts to feel like a jacked-up, drug-infused, and X-rated fairy tale—especially when reality comes crashing down and a rather lewd sex tape is leaked. The girl in the video looks a lot like Taylor. Has Taylor gone off the deep end? Or is someone trying to frame her? Unless she can prove her innocence and re-ingratiate herself with the sisters who’ve accused her of leaking the video in a Kim Kardashian–style bid for attention, Taylor is at risk of losing everything she’s fought (partied) so hard for.
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Author: Taylor Bell Publisher: Gallery Books ISBN: 9781476775715 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2015 288 pages
This ebook is dedicated to Canada. The foundation was laid during a well-attended Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) roundtable discussion between industry leaders and hospitality educators in May 2012 . The papers in this ebook look at the various areas of sustainable development, international hotel management, hotel administration, hotel operations, hotel investment and financial management and hotel marketing.
Author: Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN: 9781781908617 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2013 125 pages
This book is the first comprehensive, modern introduction to the theory of central simple algebras over arbitrary fields. Starting from the basics, it reaches such advanced results as the Merkurjev-Suslin theorem. This theorem is both the culmination of work initiated by Brauer, Noether, Hasse and Albert and the starting point of current research in motivic cohomology theory by Voevodsky, Suslin, Rost and others. Assuming only a solid background in algebra, but no homological algebra, the book covers the basic theory of central simple algebras, methods of Galois descent and Galois cohomology, Severi-Brauer varieties, residue maps and, finally, Milnor K-theory and K-cohomology. The last chapter rounds off the theory by presenting the results in positive characteristic, including the theorem of Bloch-Gabber-Kato. The book is suitable as a textbook for graduate students and as a reference for researchers working in algebra, algebraic geometry or K-theory.
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Author: Philippe Gille; Tamás Szamuely Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780511223150 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2006 357 pages
Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Malcolm Schofield debates to what extent the Greeks and Romans deal with the same issues as modern political thinkers.
Author: Malcolm Schofield Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781134667970 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: September 2003 256 pages
