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Presenting a multidisciplinary perspective in a concise format, Principles of Ecotoxicology, Third Edition discusses the fundamental chemical and ecological nature of pollution processes while identifying the major classes of pollutants and their environmental fate. The first edition was originally created to fill the need for a textbook that covered the basic principles of a developing and wide-ranging field and the second edition expanded on that theme. Keeping the focus on principles over practice that has made each incarnation of this textbook so popular, the third edition brings the text up to date and strengthens coverage in areas that have come to the forefront of the field. The third edition features new material on pollutants that are receiving closer scrutiny, naturally occurring poisons, the history of chemical warfare, population risk assessment, community structure, neonicotinoids, endocrine disruption, and neurotoxicity. A new section on extrapolating from molecular interaction to the consequent population changes highlights the molecules to ecosystem approach and provides the groundwork for discussions on the employment of biomarker strategies in field studies. A major theme of the new material is how the concepts discussed can contribute to improved methods of environmental risk assessment. With updates to every chapter, this text provides essential information for students in easy to use and understandable format.
Customer Reviews:
An Important Perspective of Ecotoxicology.......2007-08-09
This text does an excellent job of addressing the subject from a multi-discipline perspective. It is well written but requires some background in chemistry; as it addresses the biological fate of many chemical/organic compounds. It does so in a format that does not prepare the reader for immediate sleep but does require active participation on the part of the reader. This is not a High School or Doctorate level reference but aimed well at the BS level reader.
Ecotoxicology Text.......2006-03-16
I received the text book very quickly and the book was in mint condition. The service was perfect.
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Principles of Ecotoxicology (SCOPE)
G.C. Butler
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Customer Reviews:
An Excellent Travel Guide.......2007-03-20
Every time I visit Point Reyes I am absolutely amazed at how rural and isolated this area feels compared to the sprawling Bay Area metropolis just 45 minutes or so away. Point Reyes has it all: year round recreation, lots of marine and land animals, beautiful flower displays, historic ranches, and a wonderful guidebook by Jessica Lage. I've visited the National Seashore on three separate occasions and am planning a fourth vacation there this summer. This book will be my resource for planning that trip.
When I buy I travel guides, the first thing I look for is outdoor recreation, particularly hiking. Lage's book provides an excellent selection of hikes on the Park's 140 miles of trail. She gives detailed route descriptions for 32 trails within the Park boundaries and additional backpacking options. Large topographical maps accompany the text. But what makes this guidebook so much more impressive than similar volumes from Wilderness Press is the attention that Lage devotes to other wonderful experiences at Point Reyes. Epicureans will enjoy the listings of ranches and farmer's markets where tourists can sample homemade cheeses, butter, and organic produce as well as local oysters from Tomales Bay. Those interested in watersports will find the list of kayak rental companies and the fishing information invaluable. Wildlife observers will appreciate Lage's descriptions of where (and when) to view the Tule Elk, the Coho Salmon and Steelhead runs, and whale watching. Lage also discusses the best seasons for wildflower walks and bird watching.
In addition to recreation, Lage devotes two chapters to human and natural history. In these chapters we learn that the peninsula was at one time part of Monterey Bay, but it has moved northward with the San Andreas fault. Because of its unique location (it is near the northernmost range of the sage-shrub plant community and southernmost Douglas Fir forest belt) it has a wide variety of plants and animals. Lage also details the lives of Native Americans who lived on the Peninsula and the origin of the region's famous dairy industry. Finally, she describes the effects of the famous 1906 earthquake that was centered in Point Reyes.
In all this is a wonderful guidebook. If you are planning to explore Point Reyes or the surrounding region, including Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the Audabon property at Bolinas Lagoon, or Samuel Taylor State Park (which has a wonderful Redwood forest, about the only thing missing from Point Reyes) then this is the book to get. The joy I had reading it more than repaid the price I spent on the book at the Park Service Visitor Center.
Everything you want to know on a Point Reyes visit.......2004-09-07
This is not an ordinary guidebook. The author's thorough knowledge and appreciation of the magnificent Point Reyes seashore shows on every page. Any visitor to the rural/wilderness parkland just north of urban San Francisco will appreciate the information about the rich natural and human history of Point Reyes and the current art and food scene which has grown up around the seashore. Plus clearly written guides to every hike imaginable in the seashore and surrounds, as well as information about hiking, biking, horseback riding, and kayaking.
Book Description
This pocket-sized reference emphasizes Spanish commercial vocabulary with terms and translations covering banking, labor and management, accounting, transportation, manufacturing, communications media, computers, electronic data processing, and much more.
Customer Reviews:
Boring layout, more dictionary-like than anything.......2007-03-11
Very thorough as far as words used in various business types, but very straightforward (boring). Not enough real life examples for my liking. Any more cut and dry and it would be a dictionary. Blah. I'll use it for reference than as a study guide as I had intended.
Not bad, needs update.......2007-01-04
I work as a translator and occupational Spanish instructor at a university in the US. I use about 12 sources of information when I translate and this is one of them. I purchasd the book simply due to a lack of other options.
This dictionary of sorts is organized into functional business areas such as accounting, sales, human resources etc. The authors did an extensive amount of work putting this together but I would say it is past due for an update to make itself useful in the US.
Here are some observations:
PROS
- Very nice size and the print is easy to read.
- Price is reasonable.
- Thoughtfully laid out.
- The authors seemed to really know what they were doing
in terms of language expertise.
CONS
- The Spanish used is that from Spain, so for someone learning US Spanish, it has great limitation. Although, a large part of the vocabulary is the same and translating is a moving target. But if you are working with the Spanish or studying there, it could be a good resource.
- The showstopper here is the fact that there is no English to Spanish glossary, and the reason I would recommend buyers go elsewhere. In other words, if you want to quickly find a word in Spanish and you know the word in English, you are out of luck. Strangely, it does have a Spanish to English glossary so you must first know the word in Spanish, so you can learn it is English. Just plain bizarre considering the cover is written in all English. But, this is something the authors could remedy in another version and make it very useful.
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For now, I would recommend looking at another book.
Only has 3,500 entries, and is over 10 years old........2006-05-11
I am a business translator, and have bought every English-Spanish dictionary published for almost 25 years now. This dictionary has only 3,500 entries, and was translated in 1997 from a 1995 German book. Hence, the book is not current, is very limited in scope, and worse of all, not even oriented towards English or Spanish.
I gave it two stars because its sample sentences may be helpful for beginners. This book will be of no use to anyone of an intermediate of advanced level in either language. It is completely inadequate for business translators.
I recommend your buying one or both of the following: Webster's New World English-Spanish/Spanish-English Business Dictionary, or The Oxford Spanish Business Dictionary. If you only need one, then buy Webster's New World English-Spanish/Spanish-English Business Dictionary. Do not buy Mastering Spanish Business Vocabulary : A Thematic Approach, unless you are aware of and accept these limitations.
Thematic Approach helps you master one thing at a time.......2000-06-14
This book is very helpful. I read it before studying marketing for a year in Mexico. It helped me get a grasp on the vocabulary in my classes.
Later I was offered a job because I spoke Spanish and knew about business. This book helped forge the foundation of an international business career.
Currently I manage an import/export business in Monterrey, Mexico. This book has been extremely helpful.
I highly reccomended this book to a professor at the University of Tennessee for required reading use in his classes. (Spanish for Business)
Very Helpful.......2000-03-28
This book has proven very benificial to me. I am in the process of moving to South America with my employer. I am a Human Resource Manager and this book has helped me greatly with my spanish buisness vocabulary. Another book that I have found to be even more indispensable for me and a definite "5" star is the book "Spanish for Human Resources Managers."
Book Description
This Spanish word-power builder presents more than 5,000 words and phrases with translations into English. The feature that makes this vocabulary book distinctive is the way words are divided into themes, grouped together so that the foreign traveler or language student can find words related by subject. The subject themes include business terms, medical terms, household terms, scientific words and phrases, units of measurement, clothing, food and dining, transportation, art and culture— 24 separate themes in all. The new second edition has been expanded and updated with increased vocabulary.
Customer Reviews:
A brilliant way to enlarge your vocabulary.......2007-09-21
Barron's series Mastering Vocabulary is a great tool for language learners! As another reviewer points out, this is not a book for teaching yourself grammar. It is, though, a great way to move on from knowing the basics to being competent in the language.
Using a normal course, such as one in the Colloqial series, you will end up with knowing the grammar relatively well and with a vocabulary of 1500 words. That's a good start, but you need to know more words to get moving. The Mastering Vocabulary series is a great help along the way. By doing one chapter each week, you will know more than 7000 words after half a year. That is enough to live in a language where the language is spoken and use it in all everyday interactions and communication. My only real complaint with the series is that it's not available for more than four languages.
A Very Novel Approach to Teaching Spanish Vocabulary .......2006-11-06
As the editor of the Learning Spanish Products Reviews (LearningSpanishProductsReviews) site, one of my responsibilities is to review learning-Spanish resources. I am also a native Spanish speaker from Argentina, and a professional private Spanish instructor.
MSV uses a very novel approach to teaching vocabulary. Instead of giving the student a long list of vocabulary words and instructing the student to memorize the words, MSV groups Spanish words and phrases according to 24 different themes that the reader is likely to encounter in everyday life.
The themes that are covered include:
a. Personal Information
b. Human Body
c. Health and Medicine
d. Mental Processes and states
e. Shopping, eating, drinking and clothing
f. Living arrangements
g. Private life, social relations
h. Education, school, university
i. Occupation and the job world
j. Leisure time
k. Travel and tourism
l. Visual arts, music, literature
m. History, religion
n. Government, science, Politics
o. Business and the economy
p. Communications and Mass Media
q. Traffic, Transportation
s. Nature, Environment, and Ecology
t. Time and space
u. colors and shapes
v. General concepts
w. Structural words
x. Americanisms
If you include the various subthemes that this book covers, you can say that this book easily covers about 100 different vocabulary topics consisting of over 9,500 useful terms. One of the strong points of this book is that it sometimes covers both the Latin American vocabulary word and the European Spanish vocabulary word. This can be very helpful especially for the traveler that travels to Latin America and Spain or the student interested in learning the Spanish that is spoken in the Americas as well as Europe. Here's an example straight from MSV:
el duranzo - el melocoton - peach
la banana - el platano - banana
(I have intentionally omitted any accent marks because they sometimes appear as strange characters on my Amazon reviews).
In terms of content, MSV is well-deserving of 5 stars. The only issue I have with this book is that it does not provide the student with the tools to retain the 9,500 plus words and phrases. Without visual or audio aids the student may have some difficulty retaining the over 9,500 words and phrases. But MSV is such a comprehensive Spanish vocabulary book with a such an inexpensive price tag, that I still must give it 5 stars and recommend it to the beginner, intermediate, and advanced student seeking to increase her vocabulary.
A wonderful help.......2006-03-10
I have to admit that I've never had a Spanish lesson in my life, but I would really like to learn it, at least well enough to read Spanish books and magazines. While I've had French and have done considerable reading recently in that language, I have not had any serious exposure to Spanish vocabularly, so I purchased this volume to assist in developing a basic vocabularly. While I find it a little daunting, I'm surprised at how much I've been able to learn. The book is arranged in a manner that presents primarily nouns and adjectives in logical classes. The reader learns a word and its meaning and then sees how it is used in a sentance, thereby passively learning something of sentance structure and other word forms like verbs and adverbs. I find this method works well for me, because I really am a noun-adjective person more than a verb-adverb person. I can remember the concrete more thoroughly than I can actions and ideas, probably because I'm a visual person--not to mention a not very active one. I've purchased several children's books in Spanish: Lemony Snicket, Harry Potter, and the Spiderwich Chronicals, and in my attempts to read them, I can actually see progress being made. I'm quite pleased.
Good reference book for more advanced students.......2005-08-22
This is a great book to have if you're also pairing it with Breaking out of Beginner's Spanish, or something along that lines. Not for the one who is looking to buy Spanish for Dummies. However, it's categorized well, and very logical in its presentation.
If you ARE beginning Spanish study, this is a little too detailed for you. Get the major verb tenses and conjugations down first, and then buy this book after at least a year of class or self-study.
This is laid out for the older student - upper high school and adults. For the much younger student, Flip Flop Spanish is a good one for a simple approach as well.
Get used to listening.......2005-02-10
Studying Spanish only in my home, I soon knew how to say more in Spanish than I could understand by listening. This was a very easy way to start listening for comprehension. I put it on my NOMAD MP3 player and listened to while I walked back and forth to my place of employment. The book that comes with it has both the Spanish words of the song and a literal English translation; so, for those words that I could not understand, it was very easy to look them up. Since then, I have moved on to other recordings, but this is the one that got me started, and I highly recommend it if you are having some problems "hearing" Spanish. One caveat: My native Spanish-speaking friend, upon listening to about one second of one song said: "Aha! Spanish from an English-speaking singer." My next step was to learn to "hear" Spanish sung by a native Spanish speaker.
Book Description
The first generation of women to have tasted social, political, and economic empowerment-some thirty-seven million strong-has reached a new frontier that is unexpected and unexplored. Nearing their fifties and entering their sixties, they have fulfilled all the prescribed roles-daughter, wife, mother, employee; yet with longer life expectancy and better health they do not intend to retire from the world. They want to experience more. Inventing the Rest of Our Lives is an evocative and eye- opening road map across this uncharted terrain.
Suzanne Braun Levine, the first editor of Ms. magazine and a long-time journalist, has been reporting on the lives of women like herself throughout their tumultuous first adulthood. Here she draws on personal stories, cutting-edge science, up-to-date trend analysis, and her own struggles to show that Second Adulthood women are simply not the same people they were, only older; they are changing-both inside and out. The latest research she has uncovered proves it: Certain areas of their brains are undergoing a growth spurt very similar to that in adolescence, their sexual and emotional rhythms are readjusting along with their hormones, and their priorities are shifting dramatically.
From work to love, self-discovery to civic duty, health to economics, Inventing the Rest of Our Lives examines every aspect of their lives, offers solutions, and shares stories-sometimes touching, sometimes joyous-of women who have found insights and answers to the three crucial questions that each confronts: What matters? What works? What's next?
Inventing the Rest of Our Lives is a bold, honest, and sharp-witted guidebook, companion, and source of inspiration for every woman entering these uncharted waters.
Customer Reviews:
Good, solid information.......2007-10-18
Not sure I agree with the author on everything in this book, and would choose a few different terms myself in some cases (as mentioned in other reviews), but I'm finding this to be a useful book as I navigate an unsettling period/transition in my life. Some of the stories shared are very inspiring. Much of this book has sparked deep thought.
My one complaint is that I see myself as a vibrant and sensual person. Age doesn't diminish those aspects. In fact, age seems (to me) to enhance and and change them in ways that aren't at all bad. In that regard, The Blackberry Tea Club, by Barbara Herrick is, in my opinion, a better read.
This book is useful for considering options, and I recommend it in that venue.
USED FOR RESEARCH.......2007-03-19
I found the author's interviews helpful in giving me a perspective on my own later life, and I used the book as one of 150 books I read as research for my own book. Pamela D. Blair, Author, The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Midlife and Beyond The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Mid-Life And Beyond
Helpful & informative!.......2006-11-14
Very good read! Helpful information & thought provoking examples for women who are 50+. I bought several copies to give away to my friends.
Disappointing ..........2006-05-25
I was attracted to this book because I was turning 50 and finding it unexpectedly disturbing. The book was interesting enough but not very useful. I didn't really find out anything I didn't already know - other than there were a lot more women out there who were going through, or had been through, a similar re-evaluation. So while it was vaguely comforting, it wasn't at all inspiring or particuarly helpful. I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone who hasn't had a traditional married-with-kids-plus-career lifestyle.
Provocative Thoughts for a Successful Transition.......2006-01-04
This book is at the top of my list as a must-read for all of my coaching clients trying to negotiate the slippery slope of mid-life transition. For the first time, we learn not only that we are different at mid-life and exactly HOW we are different. Inventing the Rest of Our Lives is both reassuring and instructional.
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