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Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives (Orchid Biology)
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 088192170X |
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Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives (Orchid Biology)
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0801417775 |
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Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives (Comstock Book)
Manufacturer: Cornell Univ Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0801410401 |
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Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives (Orchid Biology)
Manufacturer: Cornell Univ Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0801415128 |
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Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives (Orchid Biology)
Joseph Arditti Manufacturer: Cornell University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0801412765 |
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Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives, VII (Orchid Biology)
Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792345169 |
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This, the seventh volume in a respected series of books, continues a policy of presenting significant reviews by outstanding authorities in the field. The chapters in this volume include reviews of molecular biology of orchids, mycorrhiza, embryology, ethnobotany and research in Japan. Like previous volumes in this series, the present one will serve the need of orchid scientists and growers and botanists in general.
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Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives, VIII (Orchid Biology)
Tiiu, Ed. Kull Manufacturer: KLUWER ACADEMIC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402005806 |
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This is the eighth volume in a 25 year old series which has become the cornerstone review publication of orchid science. It presents authoritative reviews on different areas of orchid science and historical accounts by major orchid authorities. It includes biographies of two pioneering seventeenth century orchid scientists one in Europe and the other one in Indonesia, a review of orchid flower ontogeny, a discussion of orchid population dynamics, a survey of orchid seed and seedling development, an account of temperate orchid species, a description of mature orchid embryos, an history of studies of orchid seed germination and an enumeration of viruses which attack orchids. The volume is intended to provide information for botanists in general as well as orchid scientists and growers.
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Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives, II
Manufacturer: Amer Orchid Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9995176092 |
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Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives
Manufacturer: Amer Orchid Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9995176203 |
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Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives, IV
Manufacturer: Amer Orchid Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9995176114 |
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Bilbao & the Basque Lands, 3rd (Country & Regional Guides - Cadogan)
Michael Pauls , and Dana Facaros Manufacturer: Cadogan Guides ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The Ancient Ones: Basketmakers and Cliff Dwellers of the Southwest
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000AO9JSK |
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The ancient ones;: Basketmakers and Cliff Dwellers of the Southwest
Gordon Cortis Baldwin Manufacturer: Norton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006AYKZK |
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The Ancient Ones Basketmakers & Cliff Dwellers of the Southwest
Gordon C. Baldwin Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JG05ZA |
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Knightsbridge: The Art of Keith Parkinson
Manufacturer: KnightsBridge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1887569138 |
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Wonderful art, fascinating commentary.......2006-06-05
Essential.......2005-11-01
Truly Amazing.......2002-06-05
A work of magnificent excellence.......2000-02-06
Essential Art Resource.......2000-01-08
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Knightsbridge: Art/ Keith Parki
Keith Parkinson Manufacturer: FPG ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1887569596 |
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Beautifull artwork.......2000-10-01
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Complete Dog Buyer's Guide
William A. Bruette , and Kerry V. Donnelly Manufacturer: TFH Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0866220267 |
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Best dog book ever.......2000-04-03
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Celebrate the Century, 1960 - 1969 (A Collection of Commemorative Stamps, 7)
Manufacturer: Time-Life Trade Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0783553234 |
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Illustrated essays to accompany themes of stamps. Tall book; indexed.
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Celebrate the Century, 1970 - 1979 (A Collection of Commemorative Stamps, 8)
Manufacturer: Time-Life Trade Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0783553242 |
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Tall book of illustrations and essays to accompany themes of the stamps.
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Celebrate the Century, a Collection of Commemorative Stamps 1980-1989
Various ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000QSG4AQ |
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This book is from the United States Post Office and it illustrates the commemorative stamps issued each year between 1980 - 1989 and explores the history of the people and events to bring the past alive!
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Celebrate the Century: A Collection of Commemorative Stamps
Manufacturer: Time-Life Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0783553188 |
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Celebrate the Century: A Collection of Commemorative Stamps (1980-1989)
US Post Office Manufacturer: Time Life ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0783553250 |
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Celebrate the Century: A Collection of Commemorative Stamps (Celebrate the Century: A Collection of Commemorative Stamps, 10 VOLUME SET)
Manufacturer: Time-Life ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000G0UT6Y |
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United States Postal Service/Time-Life, Richmond, VA and Washington D.C.: 1998. First Edition, First Printing Slipcased set of 10 books, all Fine in Fine dustjackets with the packages of stamps still sealed. Books 3-10 are still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
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Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book.)
Stephen J. Pyne Manufacturer: University of Washington Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 029597592X |
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The Best Book on the Subject.......2002-12-02
Culture and Fire.......2001-03-12
As a child I gleefully participated in the annual raking of fallen tree leaves into piles and their subsequent destruction by fire. It seemed part of the natural order of things and was great fun. Although the community that I grew up in has long since banned the practice, it never occurred to me to reflect on the cultural norms behind the practice until I read this book. It is rather enlightening and humbling to see one's own behavior examined with the level of detachment and dispassion that an anthropologist might bring to some unfamiliar and seemingly bizarre practices of some isolated aboriginal tribe!
This book is no polemic, nor does it have any obvious agenda. I am unaware of any controversy over its contents. This is not to say that the author's views are not fresh and interesting.
The author is highly knowledgeable about his subject and previously published a highly acclaimed book about a tragic forest fire-fighting incident that resulted in the deaths of several fire-fighters. This book does not have the high drama of that work, but it is very well written and stimulating. A very good read, in my estimation.
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Tending Fire: Coping With America's Wildland Fires
Stephen Pyne Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1559635657 |
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The wildfires that spread across Southern California in the fall of 2003 were devastating in their scale-twenty-two deaths, thousands of homes destroyed and many more threatened, hundreds of thousands of acres burned. What had gone wrong? And why, after years of discussion of fire policy, are some of America's most spectacular conflagrations arising now, and often not in a remote wilderness but close to large settlements?
That is the opening to a brilliant discussion of the politics of fire by one of the country's most knowledgeable writers on the subject, Stephen J. Pyne. Once a fire fighter himself (for fifteen seasons, on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon) and now a professor at Arizona State University, Pyne gives us for the first time a book-length discussion of fire policy, of how we have come to this pass, and where we might go from here.
Tending Fire provides a remarkably broad, sometimes startling context for understanding fire. Pyne traces the "ancient alliance" between fire and humanity, delves into the role of European expansion and the creation of fire-prone public lands, and then explores the effects wrought by changing policies of "letting burn" and suppression. How, the author asks, can we better protect ourselves against the fires we don't want, and better promote those we do?
Pyne calls for important reforms in wildfire management and makes a convincing plea for a more imaginative conception of fire, though always grounded in a vivid sense of fire's reality. "Amid the shouting and roar, a central fact remains," he writes. "Fire isn't listening. It doesn't feel our pain. It doesn't care-really, really doesn't care. It understands a language of wind, drought, woods, grass, brush, and terrain, and it will ignore anything stated otherwise."
Rich in insight, wide-ranging in its subject, and clear-eyed in its proposals, Tending Fire is for anyone fascinated by fire, fire policy, or human culture.
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America's Fires: Management on Wildlands and Forests (Forest History Society Issues Series)
Stephen J. Pyne Manufacturer: Forest History Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0890300534 |
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Elizabethan & Jacobean Style
Timothy Mowl Manufacturer: Phaidon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 071484120X |
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Architecture historian Timothy Mowl (Architecture Without Kings, An Insular Rococo) opens this excellent, elegant, entertaining defense of Elizabethan and Jacobean design, in all its gaudy excess, by comparing it to the two preeminent quill-dippers of its period: "Neither Shakespeare nor Ben Jonson was a 'Classical' playwright.... but the earthy richness of their imagery and the uninhibited gusto of their vocabulary has never been held against them." That's the kind of open mind Mowl would like us to bring to the churches, castles, townhouses, furnishings, and gardens of the era that began with Elizabeth I's accession to the throne in 1558 and ended with James I's death in 1625--an era whose architecture has traditionally been seen as a bombastic, busy melange of Tudor, timbered vernacular, and manic decorative strapwork until Inigo Jones's Whitehall Banqueting House of 1619 signaled a shift to "tasteful" classical purity.At opening our minds Mowl richly succeeds. Not that, if you're of a classicist or otherwise minimalist bent (like this reviewer), you'll end up liking the architecture of this period any more than you ever have. It's just that Mowl is such a playful, eloquent writer and an erudite social historian that he raises what might have been a prosaic overview to the highest level possible--an absorbing, detail-packed narrative of a fascinating era, as told through its church tombs and castle towers, tapestries and theater sets, knot gardens, armchairs, and tableware. Even as fine full-color photographs take us through the grounds and interiors of such sites as St. Mary the Virgin at Bottesford, London's Staple Inn (which, with its timbered Snow White stripes, couldn't look more like what we commonly call "Tudor"), and Kenilworth Castle (one of the queen's many playgrounds), Mowl is introducing us--through a fine array of excerpts from period books, plays, and letters--to a dazzling cast of characters including writers John Donne, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe, plus several noblemen who built some of the great manors of the age. (A final chapter, on the "Jacobethan" revival of the 19th century, leads out into a glossary of terms, a directory of estates to visit in the UK, and a bibliography.) But certainly the figure that sets the dominant tone here is the remarkable Elizabeth. It was the shrewdness and mettle of this beloved "Virgin Queen" that brought strength and stability to England in the precarious wake of its split from Rome. But it was her love of music, theater, and all things grandiose and romantic, Mowl persuasively argues, that gave birth to an exuberant, eclectic architecture whose aim, in his words, was "to be unique, not correct." --Timothy Murphy
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Architecture historian Timothy Mowl (Architecture Without Kings, An Insular Rococo) opens this excellent, elegant, entertaining defense of Elizabethan and Jacobean design, in all its gaudy excess, by comparing it to the two preeminent quill-dippers of its period: "Neither Shakespeare nor Ben Jonson was a 'Classical' playwright.... but the earthy richness of their imagery and the uninhibited gusto of their vocabulary has never been held against them." That's the kind of open mind Mowl would like us to bring to the churches, castles, townhouses, furnishings, and gardens of the era that began with Elizabeth I's accession to the throne in 1558 and ended with James I's death in 1625--an era whose architecture has traditionally been seen as a bombastic, busy melange of Tudor, timbered vernacular, and manic decorative strapwork until Inigo Jones's Whitehall Banqueting House of 1619 signaled a shift to "tasteful" classical purity. At opening our minds Mowl richly succeeds. Not that, if you're of a classicist or otherwise minimalist bent (like this reviewer), you'll end up liking the architecture of this period any more than you ever have. It's just that Mowl is such a playful, eloquent writer and an erudite social historian that he raises what might have been a prosaic overview to the highest level possible--an absorbing, detail-packed narrative of a fascinating era, as told through its church tombs and castle towers, tapestries and theater sets, knot gardens, armchairs, and tableware. Even as fine full-color photographs take us through the grounds and interiors of such sites as St. Mary the Virgin at Bottesford, London's Staple Inn (which, with its timbered Snow White stripes, couldn't look more like what we commonly call "Tudor"), and Kenilworth Castle (one of the queen's many playgrounds), Mowl is introducing us--through a fine array of excerpts from period books, plays, and letters--to a dazzling cast of characters including writers John Donne, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe, plus several noblemen who built some of the great manors of the age. (A final chapter, on the "Jacobethan" revival of the 19th century, leads out into a glossary of terms, a directory of estates to visit in the UK, and a bibliography.) But certainly the figure that sets the dominant tone here is the remarkable Elizabeth. It was the shrewdness and mettle of this beloved "Virgin Queen" that brought strength and stability to England in the precarious wake of its split from Rome. But it was her love of music, theater, and all things grandiose and romantic, Mowl persuasively argues, that gave birth to an exuberant, eclectic architecture whose aim, in his words, was "to be unique, not correct." --Timothy MurphyCustomer Reviews:
An Excellent Overview of an Era.......2000-11-04
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Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Influence of Continental Prints, 1558-1625 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
Anthony Wells-Cole Manufacturer: Paul Mellon Center BA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0300066511 |
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This richly illustrated book is the first comprehensive exploration of precisely what imported prints were used as sources of inspiration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Wells-Cole sets out a visual feast of buildings and their contents, side by side with photographs of the prints that inspired them.
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Shifting Perspectives and the Stylish Style: Mannerism in Shakespeare and His Jacobean Contemporaries
John Philip Peter Greenwood Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0802026176 |
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Fotografia de Interiores
Schultz Hicks Manufacturer: Documenta ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8492111402 |
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Fotografia de Interiores
Roger Hicks , and Frances Schultz Manufacturer: Directory of Interior Design ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9879978862 |
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Kernel Methods in Bioengineering, Signal And Image Processing
Manufacturer: Idea Group Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1599040433 Release Date: 2007-01-29 |
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"In the last decade, a number of powerful kernel-based learning methods have been proposed in the machine learning community: support vector machines (SVMs), kernel fisher discriminant (KFD) analysis, kernel PCA/ICA, kernel mutual information, kernel k-means, and kernel ARMA. Successful applications of these algorithms have been reported in many fields, such as medicine, bioengineering, communications, audio and image processing, and computational biology and bioinformatics. Kernel Methods in Bioengineering, Signal and Image Processing covers real-world applications, such as computational biology, text categorization, time series prediction, interpolation, system identification, speech recognition, image de-noising, image coding, classification, and segmentation. Kernel Methods in Bioengineering, Signal and Image Processing encompasses the vast field of kernel methods from a multidisciplinary approach by presenting chapters dedicated to adaptation and use of kernel methods in the selected areas of bioengineering, signal processing and communications, and image processing."
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Historias Fascinantes de Vidas Olvidadas: Redescubriendo Algunos Personajes del Antiguo Testamento (Grandes Vidas de la Palabra de Dios)
Charles R. Swindoll Manufacturer: Editorial Mundo Hispano ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0311461883 |
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Amor, Ven a Mi / Love, Come to Me (Best Seller)
Lisa Kleypas ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Sexualidad / Sexuality: Los Jovenes Preguntan / Youth Question
Juan Luis Alvarez-Gayou Jurgerson , and Paulina Millan Alvarez Manufacturer: Ediciones Paidos Iberica ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9688535796 |
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Sharing Executive Power: Roles and Relationships at the Top
José Luis Alvarez , and Silviya Svejenova Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 052160107X |
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Executive teams are a key ingredient of today's business world--from the charismatic CEO who relies on the operational expertise of a COO, to family businesses which trust in personal bonds to achieve professional results. This study examines duo and trio executive teams in practice to shed light on the personalities, relationships, and organizational principles characterizing the top echelons of corporate power, from international financial giants to creative industries. The book answers critical questions regarding how companies work and tackle issues of governance and accountability.
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Vida y obra de Luis Alvarez Petrena (Coleccion Reencuentros)
Max Aub Manufacturer: Viamonte ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 8492142294 |
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Pablo: Un Hombre de Gracia y Firmeza (Grandes Vidas de la Palabra de Dios)
Charles R. Swindoll Manufacturer: Casa Bautista de Publicaciones ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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100 Problemas de Fisica Cuantica
Ramon Fernandez Alvarez-Estrada , and Jose Luis Sanchez Gomez Manufacturer: Alianza ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8420686336 |
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Adarmes (Poesia)
Luis Lopez Alvarez Manufacturer: Ediciones Endymion ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 8477310882 |
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Alcohol Y Trafico/ Alcohol and Traffic: Estudio Y Analisis De La Conduccion De Vehiculos Bajo La Influencia De Bebidas Alcoholicas/ a Study and Analysis of Vehicles Driving Under the Effects
Jose Luis Lopez Alvarez ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8466540229 |
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