The ecosystem approach to ecology treats organisms and the physical elements of their environment as components of a single, integrated system. This comprehensive textbook outlines the central processes that characterize terrestrial ecosystems, tracing the flow of water, carbon, and nutrients from their abiotic origins to their cycles through ...
Change in the composition of the atmosphere is one of the best documented and most important of global changes, yet many of the reasons for atmospheric changes are poorly understood. The role of the biosphere as a source or sink of important atmospheric trace gases, and an understanding of why sources and sinks are changing, are critical to ...
Lack of budget. Lack of colour. Near-impossible deadlines. Bad photography. The list of constraints that designers face can go on and on. In this book, designers share their war stories and offer solid advice to their peers on how to survive when their hands seem tied. In four sections, this book identifies the key areas of constraint in graphic ...
Each profile traces the process of redesigning a company's graphic identity using before and after examples, false starts, sketches, processes and finished work from South Africa, Mexico, Hong Kong, England, Korea, Italy, Norway, China and the United States.
Migration as an instrument of cultural change is an undeniable feature of the archaeological record. Yet reliable methods of identifying migration are not always accessible. In Athapaskan Migrations, authors R. G. Matson and Martin P. R. Magne use a variety of methods to identify and describe the arrival of the Athapaskan-speaking Chilcotin ...
In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, "Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!" With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, Virginia stood poised to serve as the center of the ...
"Flashpoint" explains the unseen forces that are shaking our society & economy. These changes create enormous economic potential but they also foster the growing anxiety, insecurity & confusion that many individuals feel. This book sets forth a set of clear strategies to help the reader understand & achieve a new, more fulfilling standard of ...
A look at the men and the actions that led to the award of 72 VCs on the Western Front in 1915, when, in an effort to break the stalemate, the British embarked on trench warfare and a series of bloody onslaughts against the Germans at Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60 and Loos.
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