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Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes

Catalogue of the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology

By: John Clay Bruner

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Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes

Catalogue of the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology

By: John Clay Bruner

The Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Allberta houses type specimens of fossil fishes. This book is a catalogue of these specimens. Included for each entry is taxonomy, detailed collection locality information, the citation wherein the species was originally described, and a list of individual type specimens. This is the first list ever compiled of the fossil fish types deposited in the collections of the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology (UALVP). This collection contains 88 fish holotypes, 966 fish paratypes, 55 casts of fish holotypes from other museums, and 20 casts of fish paratypes from other museums. Key selling features: List all of the type specimens of fossil fishes currently housed in the collection of the Laboratory of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Provides details of all 88 holotypes and nearly 1000 paratypes as well as casts of types specimens held in other museum collections. Includes information on unpublished "types" - type specimens of not yet described new species.

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CRC Press

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0429676557

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9780429676550

The Invitational Champions

By: John P. Russell

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The Invitational Champions

By: John P. Russell

In 1940, a group of sportsmen of the first rank, members of the Southern Amateur Field Trial Club of Albany, Georgia, undertook to design a field trial format that would provide a more comprehensive and rigorous test of the qualities of high class bird dogs. Dubbed the Òdream trialÓ by William F. Brown at its inaugural offering, the trial, the Quail Championship, was contested in 1941, and 1942 in the quail-rich plantation country in the Albany, Georgia area. Interrupted by World War II, the trial remained as only a bright and shining memory until 1964 when it was resurrected as the Quail Championship Invitational in 1964 at Paducah, Kentucky. Limited to twelve invited contestants, the best of the previous yearÕs major circuit competition, the trial seeks to identify a bird dog with strength, courage, intelligence, and character at the highest level, the Òbest of the best.Ó True to its origin, the trial provides the most comprehensive and equitable test of the major circuit dogs of the field trial sport.

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Lulu.com

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1483486826

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9781483486826

Healthcare Law: Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998

By: Austen Garwood-Gowers,John Tingle,Tom Lewis

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Healthcare Law: Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998

By: Austen Garwood-Gowers,John Tingle,Tom Lewis

With many issues still to be resolved,the Human Rights Act has brought considerable uncertainty with respect to healthcare law. Written as a critical collection of essays, this invaluable book provides a careful examination and analysis of the issues and how they might be resolved. The book fully explores the relevance and potential impact of the European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, both genetically and in specific areas such as medical research and biotechnology.

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Routledge

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1135338744

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9781135338749

Foundation Mathematics for Computer Science

A Visual Approach

By: John Vince

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Foundation Mathematics for Computer Science

A Visual Approach

By: John Vince

In this second edition of Foundation Mathematics for Computer Science, John Vince has reviewed and edited the original book and written new chapters on combinatorics, probability, modular arithmetic and complex numbers. These subjects complement the existing chapters on number systems, algebra, logic, trigonometry, coordinate systems, determinants, vectors, matrices, geometric matrix transforms, differential and integral calculus. During this journey, the author touches upon more esoteric topics such as quaternions, octonions, Grassmann algebra, Barrycentric coordinates, transfinite sets and prime numbers. John Vince describes a range of mathematical topics to provide a solid foundation for an undergraduate course in computer science, starting with a review of number systems and their relevance to digital computers, and finishing with differential and integral calculus. Readers will find that the author’s visual approach will greatly improve their understanding as to why certain mathematical structures exist, together with how they are used in real-world applications. This second edition includes new, full-colour illustrations to clarify the mathematical descriptions, and in some cases, equations are also coloured to reveal vital algebraic patterns. The numerous worked examples will help consolidate the understanding of abstract mathematical concepts. Whether you intend to pursue a career in programming, scientific visualisation, artificial intelligence, systems design, or real-time computing, you should find the author’s literary style refreshingly lucid and engaging, and prepare you for more advanced texts.

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416

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Springer Nature

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3030420787

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9783030420789

Maritime Quarantine

The British Experience, c.1650–1900

By: John Booker

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Maritime Quarantine

The British Experience, c.1650–1900

By: John Booker

As a maritime trading nation, the issue of quarantine was one of constant concern to Britain. Whilst naturally keen to promote international trade, there was a constant fear of importing potentially devastating diseases into British territories. In this groundbreaking study, John Booker examines the methods by which British authorities sought to keep their territories free from contagious diseases, and the reactions to, and practical consequences of, these policies. Drawing upon a wealth of documentary sources, Dr Booker paints a vivid picture of this controversial episode of British political and mercantile history, concluding that quarantine was a peculiarly British disaster, doomed to inefficiency by the royal prerogative and concerns for trade and individual liberty. Whilst it may not have fatally hindered the economic development of Britain, it certainly irritated the City and the mercantile elites and remained a source of constant political friction for many years. As such, an understanding of British maritime quarantine provides a fuller picture of attitudes to trade, culture, politics and medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Routledge

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1351919849

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9781351919845

Sherman's March Through the Carolinas

By: John G. Barrett

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Sherman's March Through the Carolinas

By: John G. Barrett

In retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats, greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865, he was more convinced than ever that the bold application of his ideas of total war could speedily end the conflict. John Barrett's story of what happened in the three months that followed is based on printed memoirs and documentary records of those who fought and of the civilians who lived in the path of Sherman's onslaught. The burning of Columbia, the battle of Bentonville, and Joseph E. Johnston's surrender nine days after Appomattox are at the center of the story, but Barrett also focuses on other aspects of the campaign, such as the undisciplined pillaging of the 'bummers,' and on its effects on local populations.

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336

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UNC Press Books

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1469611120

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9781469611129

The Turning Point for the Teaching Profession

Growing Expertise and Evaluative Thinking

By: Field Rickards,John Hattie,Catherine Reid

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The Turning Point for the Teaching Profession

Growing Expertise and Evaluative Thinking

By: Field Rickards,John Hattie,Catherine Reid

A revolution is happening in education, with leaders and teachers now asked to focus on learning, to develop collaborative teams to impact on students, to use and raise professional standards, and to identify and esteem expertise in our profession. With new demands relating to technological advances, changing demographics, internationalism, and the inclusion of ‘twenty-first-century skills,’ there is pressure on schools to deliver greater and deeper success with more students. The Turning Point aims to present the factors needed to affect real change for school systems, in classrooms, and in the teaching profession by: Arguing for the establishment of teaching as a true 'profession' alongside areas such as medicine or law. Identifying the expertise fundamental to the meeting demands of schools. Elaborating on evaluative thinking and clinical practice as the basis of this new profession. Outlining core levers of change to show how teachers can have profound impacts on educational, medical, and social dimensions of students. This book is essential reading for teachers, school leaders, education policymakers, teacher candidates, and teacher educators. Those working in affiliated professions, such as adolescent psychologists and health workers, will also find aspects of the book relevant to their work.

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Routledge

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1000220141

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9781000220148

Annotated Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Africa, Asia (Exclusive of the USSR) and Australasia

By: John Drew Ridge

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Annotated Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Africa, Asia (Exclusive of the USSR) and Australasia

By: John Drew Ridge

Annotated Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Africa, Asia (Exclusive of the USSR) and Australasia brings together annotated bibliographies of mineral deposits in Africa, Asia (with the exception of the USSR), and Australasia. Each bibliography is followed by notes to show the deposit's location; geological framework; age and type; structural and stratigraphic relations; conditions of formation; and position in the modified Lindgren classification. Comprised of 25 chapters, this volume begins with an introduction to the more important sources of references in the bibliographies, set down in alphabetical order with the number of references provided by each source. The distribution of deposits by continent and country follows. The deposits include molybdenum, nickel, copper, lead, and tin. Eruptive rocks, the metamorphic cycle, and the mineralization process are addressed, along with liquid immiscibility between silicate magmas and sulfide melts; the geology, mineralogy, and petrology of ore deposits in various mines; and the significance of mineralized breccia pipes. This book will be of value to mineralogists, geologists, and earth and mineral scientists as well as students interested in ore deposits.

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Elsevier

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1483156842

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The Story of Big Bend National Park

By: John Jameson

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The Story of Big Bend National Park

By: John Jameson

Describes the development of Texas's Big Bend National Park, as well as the controversies that have shaped it over its first fifty years.

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University of Texas Press

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0292740425

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9780292740426

True Divinity in Christ

A Testimony of Faith and Hope with Four Short Stories

By: John M. Keith

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True Divinity in Christ

A Testimony of Faith and Hope with Four Short Stories

By: John M. Keith

John M. Keith's theological memoir Complete Humanity in Jesus considered what it means to be human in relation to the perfect humanity of Jesus. In his new book, True Divinity in Christ, Keith now examines the other side of Christ's person and reflects on how we are involved in God's life through the divinity of Christ. In chapters focused on the concepts of epiphany, transfiguration, resurrection, and ascension, the book describes how we know God, how we are transformed by God, how we share in the life of God, and how we participate in the work of God. Four accompanying short stories, inspired by events in churches during Keith's ministry, resonate with the book's theological themes.

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NewSouth Books

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160306057X

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9781603060578

Cultural Geographies

An Introduction

By: John Horton,Peter Kraftl

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Cultural Geographies

An Introduction

By: John Horton,Peter Kraftl

Cultural geography is a major, vibrant subdiscipline of human geography. Cultural geographers have done some of the most important, exciting and thought-provokingly zesty work in human geography over the last half-century. This book exists to provide an introduction to the remarkably diverse, controversial, and sometimes-infuriating work of cultural geographers. The book outlines how cultural geography in its various forms provides a rich body of research about cultural practices and politics in diverse contexts. Cultural geography offers a major resource for exploring the importance of cultural materials, media, texts and representations in particular contexts and is one of the most theoretically adventurous subdisciplines within human geography, engaging with many important lines of social and cultural theory. The book has been designed to provide an accessible, wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction for students studying cultural geography, or specific topics within this subdiscipline. Through a wide range of case studies and learning activities, it provides an engaging introduction to cultural geography.

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1317753674

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Unlocking the World

Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930

By: John Darwin

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Unlocking the World

Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930

By: John Darwin

From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the rampaging expansion of Europeans and Americans on a scale previously unimaginable. Unlocking the World is the captivating history of the great port cities which emerged as the bridgeheads of this new steam-driven economy, reshaping not just the trade and industry of the regions around them but their culture and politics as well. They were the agents of what we now call 'globalization', but their impact and influence, and the reactions they provoked, were far from predictable. Nor were they immune to the great upheavals in world politics across the 'steam century'. This book is global history at its very best. Packed with fascinating case histories (from New Orleans to Montreal, Bombay to Singapore, Calcutta to Shanghai), individual stories and original ideas, Darwin's book allows us, for better or worse, to see the modern age taking shape.

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Penguin UK

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0141992808

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9780141992808

Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War

By: John Farley

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Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War

By: John Farley

Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century. A world-renowned psychiatrist, he was the first director-general of the World Health Organization and built it up against overwhelming political odds in the years immediately following the Second World War. An atheist and a fierce critic of jingoistic nationalism, he supported world peace and world government and became a champion of the United Nations and the WHO. Post-1945 international politics, global health issues, and medical history intersect in this highly readable account of a remarkable Canadian.

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UBC Press

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0774858400

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9780774858403

Book's by John P. Russell

Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes

Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes

The Invitational Champions

The Invitational Champions

Healthcare Law: Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998

Healthcare Law: Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998

Foundation Mathematics for Computer Science

Foundation Mathematics for Computer Science

Maritime Quarantine

Maritime Quarantine

Sherman's March Through the Carolinas

Sherman's March Through the Carolinas

The Turning Point for the Teaching Profession

The Turning Point for the Teaching Profession

Annotated Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Africa, Asia (Exclusive of the USSR) and Australasia

Annotated Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Africa, Asia (Exclusive of the USSR) and Australasia

The Story of Big Bend National Park

The Story of Big Bend National Park

True Divinity in Christ

True Divinity in Christ

Cultural Geographies

Cultural Geographies

Unlocking the World

Unlocking the World

Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War

Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War

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