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The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution

By: John N. Thompson

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The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution

By: John N. Thompson

Coevolution—reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural selection—is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the earth's biodiversity: most plants and animals require coevolved interactions with other species to survive and reproduce. The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution analyzes how the biology of species provides the raw material for long-term coevolution, evaluates how local coadaptation forms the basic module of coevolutionary change, and explores how the coevolutionary process reshapes locally coevolving interactions across the earth's constantly changing landscapes. Picking up where his influential The Coevolutionary Process left off, John N. Thompsonsynthesizes the state of a rapidly developing science that integrates approaches from evolutionary ecology, population genetics, phylogeography, systematics, evolutionary biochemistry and physiology, and molecular biology. Using models, data, and hypotheses to develop a complete conceptual framework, Thompson also draws on examples from a wide range of taxa and environments, illustrating the expanding breadth and depth of research in coevolutionary biology.

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University of Chicago Press

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022611869X

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9780226118697

Relentless Evolution

By: John N. Thompson

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Relentless Evolution

By: John N. Thompson

At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is much more dynamic than biologists realized just a few decades ago. In Relentless Evolution, John N. Thompson explores why adaptive evolution never ceases and why natural selection acts on species in so many different ways. Thompson presents a view of life in which ongoing evolution is essential and inevitable. Each chapter focuses on one of the major problems in adaptive evolution: How fast is evolution? How strong is natural selection? How do species co-opt the genomes of other species as they adapt? Why does adaptive evolution sometimes lead to more, rather than less, genetic variation within populations? How does the process of adaptation drive the evolution of new species? How does coevolution among species continually reshape the web of life? And, more generally, how are our views of adaptive evolution changing? Relentless Evolution draws on studies of all the major forms of life—from microbes that evolve in microcosms within a few weeks to plants and animals that sometimes evolve in detectable ways within a few decades. It shows evolution not as a slow and stately process, but rather as a continual and sometimes frenetic process that favors yet more evolutionary change.

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University of Chicago Press

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022601861X

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9780226018614

Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830

By: John Summerson,John Newenham Summerson, Sir

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Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830

By: John Summerson,John Newenham Summerson, Sir

The author charts the development of architectural theory and practice from Elizabeth I to George IV. Questions of style, technology, and the social framework are resolved as separable but always essential components of the building worlds.

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Yale University Press

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0300058861

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9780300058864

Sir William Chambers

Architect to George III

By: John Harris

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Sir William Chambers

Architect to George III

By: John Harris

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Courtauld Gallery, London 10 October 1996-5 January 1997, Natiobalmuseum, Stockholm 20 February-20 April 1997.

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Yale University Press

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0300069405

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9780300069402

European Directory of Sustainable and Energy Efficient Building 1999

Components, Services, Materials

By: John Goulding

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European Directory of Sustainable and Energy Efficient Building 1999

Components, Services, Materials

By: John Goulding

This directory has become a valued source of information for energy-efficient building designers and specifiers throughout Europe and the details and scope of product, service and supplier listings have again been extensively updated for this edition.

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Routledge

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1134258461

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9781134258468

O'Donnell + Tuomey

Selected Works

By: Sheila O'Donnell,John Tuomey,Hugh Campbell,David Leatherbarrow

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O'Donnell + Tuomey

Selected Works

By: Sheila O'Donnell,John Tuomey,Hugh Campbell,David Leatherbarrow

In today's Ireland, it's not only the economy that's booming. Dublin-based architects O'Donnell + Tuomey have brought a wealth of exciting buildings to the Emerald Isle for the past seventeen years. Their striking modernist works show their appreciation for Ireland's rich cultural, historic, and civic identity without falling into the trap of typical pitched roofs, gables, slate, and brick. Instead the firm chooses less conventional but more fitting materials that seem to express something not quite visible about their sites. O'Donnell + Tuomey, the first monograph on the firm, presents fifteen of their institutional and residential projects in an arresting collection of color photography, plans, and drawings. The book includes the controversial Irish Pavilion at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ranelagh Multidenominational School, the Irish Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Biennale, and their recent Glucksman Gallery at the University College Cork, which was one of six buildings shortlisted for the 2005 Stirling Prize.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568986017

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9781568986012

The Civil War in Dublin

The Fight for the Irish Capital, 1922–1924

By: John Dorney

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The Civil War in Dublin

The Fight for the Irish Capital, 1922–1924

By: John Dorney

The start of the Irish Civil War was signalled by the artillery bombardment of the Four Courts in Dublin on 28 June 1922. A week later, the Four Courts was gutted and O’Connell Street a smouldering ruin, but the anti-Treaty IRA was driven from the city. Most accounts of the fighting in Dublin end there. The Civil War in Dublin reveals the complete, shocking story of Ireland’s capital during the ten-month guerrilla war that followed – a ruthless and bitter cycle of execution, outrage and revenge. The strategy of the anti-Treaty forces, often ignored or dismissed in previous histories, is brought to the fore. Dorney’s exacting research provides total insight into how the city of Dublin operated under conditions of disorder and bloodshed: how civilians and guerrilla fighters controlled the streets, the patterns of IRA violence and National Army counter-insurgency alternated, and – for the first time – how the pro-Treaty ‘Murder Gang’ emerged from Michael Collins’ IRA Intelligence Department, ‘the Squad’, with devastating effect. The Civil War in Dublin brings the chaos of these years to life through meticulous detail, revealing unsettling truths about the extreme actions taken by a burgeoning Irish Free State and its anti-Treaty opponents.

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Merrion Press

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178537124X

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9781785371240

Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism

The Gaelic Revival and the Creation of the Irish Nation State

By: John Hutchinson

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Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism

The Gaelic Revival and the Creation of the Irish Nation State

By: John Hutchinson

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1134999070

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Ireland

A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present

By: John P. McCarthy

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Ireland

A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present

By: John P. McCarthy

Ireland, from the European Nations series, is a useful reference guide for any student interested in the modern history of Ireland.

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Infobase Publishing

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0816074739

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9780816074730

Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 3

By: W R Owens,P N Furbank,D W Hayton,N H Keeble,John McVeagh,Andrew Wear

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Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 3

By: W R Owens,P N Furbank,D W Hayton,N H Keeble,John McVeagh,Andrew Wear

This collection of Daniel Defoe's travel and historical writings reveal the range of his intellectual interests. His "Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain", which came out between 1724 and 1726, drew on Defoe's travels throughout England and Scotland - often as a political agent and spy.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040250963

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9781040250969

Book's by John Gandon

The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution

The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution

Relentless Evolution

Relentless Evolution

Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830

Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830

Sir William Chambers

Sir William Chambers

European Directory of Sustainable and Energy Efficient Building 1999

European Directory of Sustainable and Energy Efficient Building 1999

O'Donnell + Tuomey

O'Donnell + Tuomey

The Civil War in Dublin

The Civil War in Dublin

Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism

Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism

Ireland

Ireland

Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 3

Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 3

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