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Sappi Tree Spotting

Lifer List

By: Kevin Balkwill

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Sappi Tree Spotting

Lifer List

By: Kevin Balkwill

This edition of the Tree spotting series that is designed to enhance this fast-growing eco-hobby in southern Africa.

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Jacana Media

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1770090363

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9781770090361

Biodiversity

An Introduction

By: Kevin J. Gaston,John I. Spicer

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Biodiversity

An Introduction

By: Kevin J. Gaston,John I. Spicer

This concise introductory text provides a complete overview of biodiversity - what it is, how it arose, its distribution, why it is important, human impact upon it, and what should be done to maintain it. Timely overview of the serious attempts made to quantify and describe biodiversity in a scientific way Acts as an easy entry point into the primary literature Provides real-world examples of key issues, including illustrations of major temporal and spatial patterns in biodiversity Designed primarily with undergraduate students and course lecturers in mind, it will also be of interest to anyone who requires an overview of, and entry to, the vast literature on these topics. All the figures included in the book are downloadable from the Blackwell Publishing website

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194

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118684915

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9781118684917

Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation

By: Kevin Gutzwiller

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Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation

By: Kevin Gutzwiller

This book provides a current synthesis of principles and applications in landscape ecology and conservation biology. Bringing together insights from leaders in landscape ecology and conservation biology, it explains how principles of landscape ecology can help us understand, manage and maintain biodiversity. Gutzwiller also identifies gaps in current knowledge and provides research approaches to fill those voids.

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558

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387953221

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9780387953229

Deep Marine Systems

Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation

By: Kevin T. Pickering,Richard N. Hiscott

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Deep Marine Systems

Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation

By: Kevin T. Pickering,Richard N. Hiscott

Deep-water (below wave base) processes, although generallyhidden from view, shape the sedimentary record of more than 65% ofthe Earth’s surface, including large parts of ancientmountain belts. This book aims to inform advanced-levelundergraduate and postgraduate students, and professional Earthscientists with interests in physical oceanography and hydrocarbonexploration and production, about many of the important physicalaspects of deep-water (mainly deep-marine) systems. The authorsconsider transport and deposition in the deep sea, trace-fossilassemblages, and facies stacking patterns as an archive of theunderlying controls on deposit architecture (e.g., seismicity,climate change, autocyclicity). Topics include modern and ancientdeep-water sedimentary environments, tectonic settings, and howbasinal and extra-basinal processes generate the typicalcharacteristics of basin slopes, submarine canyons, contouritemounds and drifts, submarine fans, basin floors and abyssalplains.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118865480

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9781118865484

Discerning Buddhas

Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism

By: Kevin Buckelew

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Discerning Buddhas

Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism

By: Kevin Buckelew

In Song-period China (960–1279 CE), masters in the Chan (Japanese Zen) school of Buddhism were presented as sources of religious authority on par with the Buddha, an almost unthinkably lofty status before the rise of Chan. This claim carried great rhetorical power, facilitating Chan’s appeal to Buddhist monastics and powerful patrons alike. But it also raised a challenging question for Chan Buddhists, who insisted that buddhahood properly transcends all worldly marks: By what signs could one recognize a Chan master as a buddha? Discerning Buddhas argues that Chan Buddhists wove together tropes of sovereignty, hospitality, and martial heroism drawn from both Buddhist tradition and China’s cultural heritage to develop a distinctive vision of what it meant for a Chan master to be a buddha in Song-period China. Kevin Buckelew analyzes the ways Chan Buddhists deployed such tropes in ritual, literature, and visual culture in order to stage the comparison of Chan mastery with buddhahood. He examines how they used the concept of buddhahood to work through questions about the ideal Chan master’s authority, agency, and masculinity, in the process rendering buddhahood in terms highly legible to elite Chinese society. Chan Buddhists, Buckelew shows, developed their own “signature” of buddhahood, according to which enlightened Chan masters who truly deserved comparison to the Buddha were supposed to be distinguished from everyone else. By exploring the resulting Chan culture of discernment, which raised fundamental questions about Buddhist authority at a pivotal inflection point in Chinese history, this book offers fresh insight into the place of Buddhism in Chinese society.

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Columbia University Press

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0231560265

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9780231560269

Sappi Tree Spotting

Lifer List

By: Kevin Balkwill

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Sappi Tree Spotting

Lifer List

By: Kevin Balkwill

This edition of the Tree spotting series that is designed to enhance this fast-growing eco-hobby in southern Africa.

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Jacana Media

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Sappi Tree Spotting

Sappi Tree Spotting

Biodiversity

Biodiversity

Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation

Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation

Deep Marine Systems

Deep Marine Systems

Discerning Buddhas

Discerning Buddhas

Sappi Tree Spotting

Sappi Tree Spotting

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