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The Conifers: Genomes, Variation and Evolution

By: David B. Neale,Nicholas C. Wheeler

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The Conifers: Genomes, Variation and Evolution

By: David B. Neale,Nicholas C. Wheeler

This book is the first comprehensive volume on conifers detailing their genomes, variations, and evolution. The book begins with general information about conifers such as taxonomy, geography, reproduction, life history, and social and economic importance. Then topics discussed include the full genome sequence, complex traits, phenotypic and genetic variations, landscape genomics, and forest health and conservation. This book also synthesizes the research included to provide a bigger picture and suggest an evolutionary trajectory. As a large plant family, conifers are an important part of economic botany. The group includes the pines, spruces, firs, larches, yews, junipers, cedars, cypresses, and sequoias. Of the phylum Coniferophyta, conifers typically bear cones and evergreen leaves. Recently, there has been much data available in conifer genomics with the publication of several crop and non-crop genome sequences. In addition to their economic importance, conifers are an important habitat for humans and animals, especially in developing parts of the world. The application of genomics for improving the productivity of conifer crops holds great promise to help provide resources for the most needy in the world.

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Springer

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3319468073

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Medicine and Warfare

Spain, 1936–1939

By: Nicholas Coni

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Medicine and Warfare

Spain, 1936–1939

By: Nicholas Coni

This original work examines the differences in medical advances on the two sides of the Spanish Civil War. Covering all aspects of medical treatment during the war, Coni covers new ground with great aplomb and delivers a book which will interest scholars involved with medical history as well as those interested in contemporary European history.

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1134170696

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Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions - Australian & New Zealand Edition - eBook

By: Peter Harris,Sue Nagy,Nicholas Vardaxis

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Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions - Australian & New Zealand Edition - eBook

By: Peter Harris,Sue Nagy,Nicholas Vardaxis

Perfect for: - Students of Nursing, Medicine and Health Professions. - Clinicians in Nursing, Medicine and Health Professions. - Educators in Nursing, Medicine and Health Professions. Benefits: - The only Australian medical dictionary. - Receive free access to the dictionary's online resources. - Over 30 medical and health specialties covered. - Over 39,000 entries, plus enyclopedic entries of significant terms. - Over 50 new drug entries. - High quality images and tables. Widely used by students, educators and professionals, Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 3rd Edition is the definitive reference text for Australian and New Zealand regions. Harris, Nagy and Vardaxis' Mosby's Dictionary, 3rd Edition delivers more than 1,100 new and revised definitions, more than 50 new drug entries, and a total of 74 new and updated tables for key reference information to complement definitions. As the only Australian medical dictionary, you also benefit from context-specific information written in local spelling conventions alongside phonetic pronunciation guides throughout Harris, Nagy and Vardaxis' reference book. Enhance your knowledge base with an array of free online content, which supplements Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 3rd Edition. Make the most of the online regionalised spellchecker, five comprehensive appendices and an extensive image collection that can be viewed offline, including a printable colour atlas of human anatomy. - over 39,000 clear, precise entries, plus encyclopaedic entries of significant terms - over 2000 high quality images and the apt use of tables to demonstrate and clarify more than 30 medical and health specialties represented - a detailed colour atlas of anatomy, enhancing the comprehension of anatomical terms - local spelling conventions and phonetic pronunciation guides throughout - fully revised etymologies - comprehensive entries for numerous drugs - valuable appendices, including normal laboratory values for adults and children, units of measurement, nutrition guidelines, assessment guides, immunisation schedules, infection control and herb-drug interactions - Evolve Resources Online Features: - free access to all online resources - regionalised spellchecker - printable colour atlas of human anatomy - image collection offers all images for online viewing - 5 comprehensive appendices

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729581381

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Fooled by Randomness

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Fooled by Randomness

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don't understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumes--Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and the expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes, updated with more than 50 percent new material--are now together in one boxed set. ANTIFRAGILE "Startling . . . richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides."--The Wall Street Journal Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls "antifragile" is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. What is crucial is that the antifragile loves errors, as it incurs small harm and large benefits from them. Spanning politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine in an interdisciplinary and erudite style, Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. THE BLACK SWAN "[A book] that altered modern thinking."--The Times (London) A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows that black swan events underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives, and yet we--especially the experts--are blind to them. FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS "[Fooled by Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther's ninety-five theses were to the Catholic Church."--Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker Are we capable of distinguishing the fortunate charlatan from the genuine visionary? Must we always try to uncover nonexistent messages in random events? Fooled by Randomness is about luck: more precisely, about how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill--the markets--Fooled by Randomness is an irreverent, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining exploration of one of the least understood forces in our lives. THE BED OF PROCRUSTES "Taleb's crystalline nuggets of thought stand alone like esoteric poems."--Financial Times This collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical views of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.

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Editeurs divers USA

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0399590455

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Triassic Life on Land

The Great Transition

By: Hans-Dieter Sues,Nicholas C. Fraser

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Triassic Life on Land

The Great Transition

By: Hans-Dieter Sues,Nicholas C. Fraser

The Triassic period is generally viewed as the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. For paleontologists, however, it also marks the rise of the world's first modern land ecosystems. Over the past three decades, extensive, worldwide fieldwork has led to the discovery of many new species of Triassic animals and plants, suggesting that faunal and floral changes already began in the Middle Triassic and were more protracted than previously thought. The Late Triassic is a pivotal time in the evolution of life on land, with many of the major groups of present-day vertebrates and insects first appearing in the fossil record. This book provides the first detailed overview of life on land during the Triassic period for advanced students and researchers. Noted vertebrate paleontologists Hans-Dieter Sues and Nicholas C. Fraser also review the biotic changes of this period and their possible causes.

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Columbia University Press

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0231509413

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Eh, Paesan!

Being Italian in Toronto

By: Nicholas De Maria Harney

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Eh, Paesan!

Being Italian in Toronto

By: Nicholas De Maria Harney

Today's Italian-Canadians face different images than previous generations. An exploration of the reproduction of cultural heritage in a global economy of rapid international communication.

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0802080995

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Jesuit Ranches and the Agrarian Development of Colonial Argentina, 1650-1767

By: Nicholas P. Cushner

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Jesuit Ranches and the Agrarian Development of Colonial Argentina, 1650-1767

By: Nicholas P. Cushner

Jesuit Ranches and the Agrarian Development of Colonial Argentina, 1650-1767, is the last book in a trilogy that examines Jesuit economic activity in three major geographic regions of colonial Spanish America. The first, Lords of the Land, focuses on Jesuit sugar and wine production on the Peruvian coast, primarily from the viewpoint of the agricultural geographer. The second, Farm and Factory, examines the complex of Jesuit farm, wool, and textile production in Interandine Ecuador insofar as it contributed to the beginnings of agrarian capitalism in Latin America. This book examines the agro-pastoral development of colonial Argentina, primarily Tucumán, its farms, its ranches, and its trade connections with Alto Peru. Three major geographical regions are thus studied, each specializing in a distinct complex of economic enterprises, but each linked by trade routes that crossed snowy mountains and traversed barren deserts.

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0873957067

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Rigid Local Systems. (AM-139), Volume 139

By: Nicholas M. Katz

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Rigid Local Systems. (AM-139), Volume 139

By: Nicholas M. Katz

Riemann introduced the concept of a "local system" on P1-{a finite set of points} nearly 140 years ago. His idea was to study nth order linear differential equations by studying the rank n local systems (of local holomorphic solutions) to which they gave rise. His first application was to study the classical Gauss hypergeometric function, which he did by studying rank-two local systems on P1- {0,1,infinity}. His investigation was successful, largely because any such (irreducible) local system is rigid in the sense that it is globally determined as soon as one knows separately each of its local monodromies. It became clear that luck played a role in Riemann's success: most local systems are not rigid. Yet many classical functions are solutions of differential equations whose local systems are rigid, including both of the standard nth order generalizations of the hypergeometric function, n F n-1's, and the Pochhammer hypergeometric functions. This book is devoted to constructing all (irreducible) rigid local systems on P1-{a finite set of points} and recognizing which collections of independently given local monodromies arise as the local monodromies of irreducible rigid local systems. Although the problems addressed here go back to Riemann, and seem to be problems in complex analysis, their solutions depend essentially on a great deal of very recent arithmetic algebraic geometry, including Grothendieck's etale cohomology theory, Deligne's proof of his far-reaching generalization of the original Weil Conjectures, the theory of perverse sheaves, and Laumon's work on the l-adic Fourier Transform.

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Princeton University Press

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1400882591

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The Spiders of the United States

By: Nicholas Marcellus Hentz

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The Spiders of the United States

By: Nicholas Marcellus Hentz

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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Antiquities of Athens

Measured and Delineated by James Stuart, FRS and FSA, and Nicholas Revett, Painters and Architects

By: James Stuart,Nicholas Revett,Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America

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Antiquities of Athens

Measured and Delineated by James Stuart, FRS and FSA, and Nicholas Revett, Painters and Architects

By: James Stuart,Nicholas Revett,Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America

James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett's monumental Antiquities of Athens was the first accurate survey of ancient Greek architecture ever completed. Based on precise measured drawings done at the sites of the ancient ruins between 1751 and 1754, these books set a new standard for archaeological investigation in the eighteenth century. In doing so, they also transformed our understanding of Greek architecture and by pointing up differences between Greek and Roman examples fundamentally challenged prevailing notions about a universal classical ideal and fueled the Greek Revival movement that dominated British, European, and American architecture and design for over a century. Originally published in four volumes that appeared between 1762 and 1816, Stuart and Revett's masterwork is presented here in its entirety as part of our Classic Reprint series and features a new introduction by scholar Frank Salmon. With its many images of buildings, plans, sculpture, friezes, and decorative objects such as vases, it remains the logical starting point for anyone interested in Athens, Greece, and its influence on the history of Western architecture. Published in association with The Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America.

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1568987234

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Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity

The Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom

By: David L. Schindler,Nicholas J. Healy Jr.

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Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity

The Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom

By: David L. Schindler,Nicholas J. Healy Jr.

In this Book David L. Schindier and Nicholas J. Healy Jr. promote a deeper understanding of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom - Dignitatis Humanae - which Pope Paul VI characterized as one of the greatest documents of Vatican II. In addition to presenting a new translation of the approved text of the Declaration, they make available for the first time in English the five schemas (drafts) of the document that were presented to the Council bishops leading up to the final version. The book also includes an original interpretive essay on Dignitatis Humanae by Schindier and an essay on the genesis and redaction history of the text by Healy. Book jacket.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802871550

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9780802871558

Florence in the Early Modern World

New Perspectives

By: Nicholas Scott Baker,Brian J. Maxson

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Florence in the Early Modern World

New Perspectives

By: Nicholas Scott Baker,Brian J. Maxson

Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of Florence remains unique. By exploring the city’s relationship to its close and distant neighbours, this collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals the transnational history of Florence. The chapters orient the lenses of the most recent historiographical turns perfected in studies on Venice, Rome, Bologna, Naples, and elsewhere towards Florence. New techniques, such as digital mapping, alongside new comparisons of architectural theory and merchants in Eurasia, provide the latest perspectives about Florence’s cultural and political importance before, during, and after the Renaissance. From Florentine merchants in Egypt and India, through actual and idealized military ambitions in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean, to Tuscan humanists in late medieval England, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume reveal the connections Florence held to early modern cities across the globe. This book steers away from the historical narrative of an insular Renaissance Europe and instead identifies the significance of other global influences. By using Florence as a case study to trace these connections, this volume of essays provides essential reading for students and scholars of early modern cities and the Renaissance.

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Routledge

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042985546X

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Practice Notes on Conveyancing

By: Ross Coates,Nicholas Attwell

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Practice Notes on Conveyancing

By: Ross Coates,Nicholas Attwell

The basic essentials of the conveyancing transaction are of long standing, but recent years have seen many developments, which this book incorporates. As the legal profession has endeavoured to adapt to commercial pressures, so the art and practice of conveyancing has had to respond to the realities of modern day life. This new edition represents a more comprehensive contribution to the art and practice of conveyancing. It looks at the task through the eyes of someone in business as a conveyancer and the challenges and opportunities that it provides. It aims to tame its market as a training handbook, which is quick and easy to read and to assimilate.

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1135346585

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Writings on Church and Reform

By: Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa)

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Writings on Church and Reform

By: Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa)

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), a student of canon law who became a Catholic cardinal, was widely considered the most important original philosopher of the Renaissance. He wrote principally on theology, philosophy, and church politics. This volume makes most of Nicholas's other writings on Church and reform available in English for the first time.

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Harvard University Press

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0674025245

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9780674025240

Virgil, "Aeneid" 6

A Commentary

By: Nicholas Horsfall

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Virgil, "Aeneid" 6

A Commentary

By: Nicholas Horsfall

Working “in the shadow of Eduard Norden” in the author’s own words, Nicholas Horsfall has written his own monumental commentary on Aeneid 6. This is Horsfall’s fifth large-scale commentary on the Aeneid, and as his earlier commentaries on books 7, 11, 3, and 2, this is not a commentary aimed at undergraduates. Horsfall is a commentators’ commentator writing with encyclopedic command of Virgilian scholarship for the most demanding reader. Volume One includes the introduction, text and translation, and bibliography, Volume Two includes the commentary, appendices, and indices.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110229919

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9783110229912

Why Have You Come Here?

The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America

By: Nicholas P. Cushner

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Why Have You Come Here?

The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America

By: Nicholas P. Cushner

Christian evangelism was the ostensible motive for much of the early European interaction with the indigenous population of America. The religious orders of the Catholic Church were the front-line representatives of Western culture and the ones who met indigenous America face-to-face. They were also the primary agents of religious change. In this book, Nicholas Cushner provides the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the American missionary activities of the Jesuits. From the North American encounter with the Indians of Florida in 1565, through Mexico, New France, the Paraguay Reductions, Andean Perus, to contact with Native Americans in Maryland on the eve of the American Revolution, members of the order interacted with both native elites and colonizers. Drawing on the abundant documentation of and scholarship about these encounters, Cushner examines how the Jesuits behaved toward the indigenous population and analyzes the way in which native belief systems were replaced by Christianity. He seeks to understand how and why the initial European-Indian encounter changed not only the religion of the natives, but also their material culture, economic activity, social organization, and even their sexual behavior. Always sensitive to the influence of European "cultural filters" on Jesuit accounts, Cushner attempts as far as possible to discover the authentic voices of the Native Americans with whom they interacted. The result is a fascinating and highly accessible introduction to the earliest colonial encounters in the Americas.

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Oxford University Press

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0190294574

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The Fungi

By: Sarah C. Watkinson,Lynne Boddy,Nicholas Money

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The Fungi

By: Sarah C. Watkinson,Lynne Boddy,Nicholas Money

The Fungi, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive and thoroughly integrated treatment of the biology of the fungi. This modern synthesis highlights the scientific foundations that continue to inform mycologists today, as well as recent breakthroughs and the formidable challenges in current research. The Fungi combines a wide scope with the depth of inquiry and clarity offered by three leading fungal biologists. The book describes the astonishing diversity of the fungi, their complex life cycles, and intriguing mechanisms of spore release. The distinctive cell biology of the fungi is linked to their development as well as their metabolism and physiology. One of the great advances in mycology in recent decades is the recognition of the vital importance of fungi in the natural environment. Plants are supported by mycorrhizal symbioses with fungi, are attacked by other fungi that cause plant diseases, and are the major decomposers of their dead tissues. Fungi also engage in supportive and harmful interactions with animals, including humans. They are major players in global nutrient cycles. This book is written for undergraduates and graduate students, and will also be useful for professional biologists interested in familiarizing themselves with specific topics in fungal biology. - Describes the diversity of the fungi, their life cycles, and mechanisms of spore release - Highlights the study of fungal genetics and draws upon a wealth of information derived from molecular biological research - Explains the cellular and molecular interactions that underlie the key roles of fungi in plant diversity and productivity - Elucidates the interactions of fungi with other microbes and animals - Highlights fungi in a changing world - Details the expanding uses of fungi in biotechnology

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Academic Press

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0123820359

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The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, with Notes

Vol. IV

By: Horatio Nelson Nelson,Nicholas Harris Nicolas

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The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, with Notes

Vol. IV

By: Horatio Nelson Nelson,Nicholas Harris Nicolas

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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3368878808

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On the Dot

The Speck That Changed the World

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez

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On the Dot

The Speck That Changed the World

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez

Introduction: The Tiniest Sign. Time and Chance: Punctuality and the Coin Toss. Dit Dah: Codes to Sigh For. With a Bullet: Checklists and Dingbats. And a Half: Musical Dots. For Short: Mr., Sr., et al. Dot Dot Dot: Ellipses, Lacunae, and Missing Links. Stet: Emendations of Immortality. Ninety-Eight Point Six: Decimals and Determinings. Dot Com: Computation Punctuation. Bang!: The Dot Meets The Family. Period: The End Point. Afterword and Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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OUP USA

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0195324994

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A Field Guide to the Ants of New England

By: Aaron M. Ellison,Nicholas J. Gotelli,Elizabeth J. Farnsworth,Gary D. Alpert

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A Field Guide to the Ants of New England

By: Aaron M. Ellison,Nicholas J. Gotelli,Elizabeth J. Farnsworth,Gary D. Alpert

This book is the first user-friendly regional guide devoted to ants—the “little things that run the world.” Lavishly illustrated with more than 500 line drawings, 300-plus photographs, and regional distribution maps as composite illustrations for every species, this guide will introduce amateur and professional naturalists and biologists, teachers and students, and environmental managers and pest-control professionals to more than 140 ant species found in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. The detailed drawings and species descriptions, together with the high-magnification photographs, will allow anyone to identify and learn about ants and their diversity, ecology, life histories, and beauty. In addition, the book includes sections on collecting ants, ant ecology and evolution, natural history, and patterns of geographic distribution and diversity to help readers gain a greater understanding and appreciation of ants.

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Yale University Press

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0300169302

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9780300169300

Mushroom

By: Nicholas P. Money

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Mushroom

By: Nicholas P. Money

An illuminating look at the wonders of mushroom biology and an exploration of their enduring appeal

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Oxford University Press

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0199875782

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Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions - 4th ANZ Edition - E-Book

By: Peter Harris,Nicholas Vardaxis,Louise Purtell

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Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions - 4th ANZ Edition - E-Book

By: Peter Harris,Nicholas Vardaxis,Louise Purtell

Trusted resource for students and educators in Australia and New Zealand Mosby’s Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions Australian and New Zealand edition is an established and acclaimed reference guide suitable for all students and clinicians wanting current, accurate definitions of medical terms. The fourth edition has been updated to reflect the latest changes in healthcare terminology, and retains the comprehensiveness, clarity and currency that readers expect from the Mosby Dictionary. It provides full coverage of nearly 40,000 terms as well as images, tables, graphs and an anatomy and physiology atlas for deeper insight into complex concepts. This resource is an ideal support for students throughout their studies in medicine, nursing and the broader health professions, and will remain a definitive reference for all clinicians who understand the importance of accurate terminology for better patient care. • Nearly 40,000 clear, precise entries –updated to take in recent healthcare developments to support study and research use • Over 2,000 high quality images and a detailed colour anatomy atlas to enhance comprehension • More than 30 medical and health specialties represented – suitable for all healthcare students, educators and clinicians • Local spelling conventions and phonetic pronunciation guides throughout – suitable for readers in Australia and New Zealand • Etymologies revised to ensure currency • Comprehensive entries for numerous drugs and medications • Useful appendices, including normal laboratory values for adults and children, units of measurement, nutrition guidelines, assessment guides, immunisation schedules, infection control and herb-drug interactions • An eBook included with print purchase

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0729598705

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Lords of the Land

Sugar, Wine, and Jesuit Estates of Coastal Peru, 1600-1767

By: Nicholas P. Cushner

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Lords of the Land

Sugar, Wine, and Jesuit Estates of Coastal Peru, 1600-1767

By: Nicholas P. Cushner

Lords of the Land presents the only study in English of the large, landed estates in colonial Peru. It focuses on the function of the estates and their linkages with the rest of Spanish America. Based almost exclusively on documents from archives in Rome, Madrid, and Lima (most hitherto unused), the book guides the reader through the agricultural cycles of Peru's great ecclesiastical estates and explains how they first developed, functioned, and distributed their products. Colonial labor forms, finance, and early trade networks are carefully detailed. Painstakingly researched and gracefully articulated, this book fills a major gap in the economic and agricultural history of colonial Latin America.

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State University of New York Press

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1438400292

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Virgil, Aeneid 3

A Commentary

By: Nicholas Horsfall

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Virgil, Aeneid 3

A Commentary

By: Nicholas Horsfall

This is the first detailed commentary on Aeneid 3, being some three times the size of that by R.D.Williams(1962), and aimed at the scholarly public. It treats fully the thorny problem of book 3's place in the growth of the poem, matters of linguistic and textual interpretation, metre, prosody, grammar, lexicon and idiom, as well as Virgil's sources and the literary tradition in which he writes. Full attention is given to matters geographical and nautical. New critical approaches and recent developments in Virgilian studies have been taken into account, with more attention to their spirit than to their language. A text, with translation, and three indices are included.

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9047418247

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