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Marine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification

By: Thomas Allen Jefferson,Marc A. Webber,Robert L. Pitman

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Marine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification

By: Thomas Allen Jefferson,Marc A. Webber,Robert L. Pitman

With coverage on all the marine mammals of the world, authors Jefferson, Webber, and Pitman have created a user-friendly guide to identify marine mammals alive in nature (at sea or on the beach), dead specimens "in hand, and also to identify marine mammals based on features of the skull. This handy guide provides marine biologists and interested lay people with detailed descriptions of diagnostic features, illustrations of external appearance, beautiful photographs, dichotomous keys, and more. Full color illustrations and vivid photographs of every living marine mammal species are incorporated, as well as comprehendible maps showing a range of information. For readers who desire further consultation, authors have included a list of literature references at the end of each species account. For an enhanced understanding of habitation, this guide also includes recognizable geographic forms described separately with colorful paintings and photographs. All of these essential tools provided make Marine Mammals of the World the most detailed and authoritative guide available!* Contains superb photographs of every species of marine mammal for accurate identification * Authors' collective experience adds up to 80 years, and have seen nearly all of the species and distinctive geographic forms described in the guide * Provides the most detailed and anatomically accurate illustrations currently available * Special emphasis is placed on the identification of species in "problem groups, such as the beaked whales, long-beaked oceanic dolphin, and southern fur seals * Includes a detailed list of sources for more information at the back of the book.

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0080557848

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Marine Mammals of the World

A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification

By: Marc A. Webber,Thomas Allen Jefferson,Robert L. Pitman

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Marine Mammals of the World

A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification

By: Marc A. Webber,Thomas Allen Jefferson,Robert L. Pitman

This new edition of Marine Mammals of the World describes and illustrates newly discovered and rarely photographed species, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date identification guide available. This edition continues to meet the research-focused needs of marine biologists and conservation biologists by providing a tremendous influx of new photos, taking advantage of advances in digital and auto-focusing photography, and the emergence of marine mammal studies and "whalewatching" around the world. The book encompasses cetacean, pinniped, and sirenian species, as well as extinct species, and describes basic biology and taxonomic groupings of marine mammals. - Contains superb photographs of every species of marine mammal for accurate identification - Authors possess nearly 80 years of collective experience with almost all of the species and distinctive geographic forms described in the guide - Provides the most detailed and anatomically accurate illustrations currently available, including more than 750 new illustrations - Special emphasis is placed on the identification of species in "problem groups," such as the beaked whales, long-beaked oceanic dolphins, and southern fur seals - Includes a detailed list of sources for more information - Contains updated taxonomy including four new species

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Academic Press

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0124095925

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9780124095922

Pitman's Measure of Closeness

A Comparison of Statistical Estimators

By: Jerome P. Keating,Robert L. Mason,Pranab K. Sen

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Pitman's Measure of Closeness

A Comparison of Statistical Estimators

By: Jerome P. Keating,Robert L. Mason,Pranab K. Sen

This book provides a thorough introduction to the methods and known results associated with PMC.

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241

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SIAM

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1611971578

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9781611971576

Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Methods for Science and Technology

By: Robert Dautray,Jacques-Louis Lions

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Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Methods for Science and Technology

By: Robert Dautray,Jacques-Louis Lions

These 6 volumes - the result of a 10 year collaboration between the authors, two of France's leading scientists and both distinguished international figures - compile the mathematical knowledge required by researchers in mechanics, physics, engineering, chemistry and other branches of application of mathematics for the theoretical and numerical resolution of physical models on computers. Since the publication in 1924 of the "Methoden der mathematischen Physik" by Courant and Hilbert there has been no other comprehensive and up-to-date publication presenting the mathematical tools needed in applications of mathematics in directly implementable form. The advent of large computers has in the meantime revolutionised methods of computation and made this gap in the literature intolerable: the objective of the present work is to fill just this gap. Many phenomena in physical mathematics may be modeled by a system of partial differential equations in distributed systems: a model here means a set of equations, which together with given boundary data and, if the phenomenon is evolving in time, initial data, defines the system. The advent of high-speed computers has made it possible for the first time to calculate values from models accurately and rapidly. Researchers and engineers thus have a crucial means of using numerical results to modify and adapt arguments and experiments along the way. Every facet of technical and industrial activity has been affected by these developments. Modeling by distributed systems now also supports work in many areas of physics (plasmas, new materials, astrophysics, geophysics), chemistry and mechanics and is finding increasing use in the life sciences.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354050205X

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9783540502050

The Behavioral Science of Firearms

A Mental Health Perspective on Guns, Suicide, and Violence

By: Gianni Pirelli,Hayley Wechsler,Robert J. Cramer

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The Behavioral Science of Firearms

A Mental Health Perspective on Guns, Suicide, and Violence

By: Gianni Pirelli,Hayley Wechsler,Robert J. Cramer

This book focuses on how the principles and empirical knowledge within behavioral science can inform and improve firearm-related policy, practice, and research. It features a formal framework for the assessment of civilians seeking firearms permits, reinstatement of their firearms subsequent to revocation, and considerations for relevant others"--

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0190630434

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Marine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification

Marine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification

Marine Mammals of the World

Marine Mammals of the World

Pitman's Measure of Closeness

Pitman's Measure of Closeness

Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Methods for Science and Technology

Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Methods for Science and Technology

The Behavioral Science of Firearms

The Behavioral Science of Firearms

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