2 and ozone). Covers a large number of environmental topics on water and atmospheric chemistry. Emphasizes natural processes that affect the major elements as they provide a background against which to measure human-induced changes.
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Using a direct and student-centered style, Vimala Pillari shows readers why people behave the way they do and prepares them for situations they will encounter on the job and in daily living. The book focuses on the psychological, socio-cultural, and biological influences on human development, includes coverage of personality theories, and offers, for each different stage of the life cycle, coverage of physical growth; the physical environment; the cognitive, social, and psychological environments; and relevant personality theories.
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Great job.......2005-09-11
I'm very pleased with my order. The book arrived quickly, and is in great shape. And so much cheaper than buying at my college bookstore! I'll definitely be back!
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The oceans represent a vast, complex and poorly understood ecosystem. Marine Ecological Processes is a modern review and synthesis of marine ecology that provides the reader--particularly the graduate student--with a lucid introduction to the intellectual concepts, approaches, and methods of this evolving discipline. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book focuses on the processes controlling marine ecosystems, communities, and populations and demonstrates how general ecological principles--derived from terrestrial and freshwater systems as well--apply to marine ecosystems. Numerous illustrations, examples, and references clearly impart to the reader the current state of research in this field: its achievements as well as unresolved controversies. This is a comprehensive and highly respected synthesis of marine ecology. It has been well received both as a text and a reference book. Reviewers said "organization of the book is logical, the writing is clear, and the text illustrations are well done" and "this book has much to offer as a textbook."
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Where is the 3rd edition? [Esp. updating global warming].......2006-06-26
This second edition came out in 95, some 10 years after the first edition. By the preface's rationale, it is surely overdue for the third edition.
However, for the undergrad, and perhaps too for the grad student in marine sciences, the bulk of this text should still be useful. It gives detailed explanations of marine ecosystems, and of their food chains. Key ideas like species diversity are explored at length. The text also looks at a very macro issue. The carbon cycle. In both aerobic and anoxic environments.
On a very topical subject, the large scale effects of long term atmospheric changes are predicted. Remember that this was written in 95. With the recent onslaught of new observational evidence for global warming, this section of the book cries out for updating. In 95, some of the conclusions were justifiably tentative, being based only on what was then known. Perhaps the conclusions can now be restated and expanded with more assurance?
A basic tool for oceanographers.......2001-01-20
Marine Ecological Processes is a clear and broad compendium of the present knowledge on biological oceanography. In my opinion it is, among the books on the subject, the one that presents a wider and deeper vision of biological oceanography. Although it is addressed mostly to graduate students, the complexity of the subjects dealt make it also valuable for more advanced researchers. In summary, is the kind of book that should be, as a basic consult guide, in the library of any oceanographer.
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Nitrogen in the Marine Environment
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Agriculture and the Nitrogen Cycle: Assessing the Impacts of Fertilizer Use on Food Production and the Environment (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series)
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Nitrogen is an essential element for plant growth and development and a key agricultural input-but in excess it can lead to a host of problems for human and ecological health. Across the globe, distribution of fertilizer nitrogen is very uneven, with some areas subject to nitrogen pollution and others suffering from reduced soil fertility, diminished crop production, and other consequences of inadequate supply.
Agriculture and the Nitrogen Cycle provides a global assessment of the role of nitrogen fertilizer in the nitrogen cycle. The focus of the book is regional, emphasizing the need to maintain food and fiber production while minimizing environmental impacts where fertilizer is abundant, and the need to enhance fertilizer utilization in systems where nitrogen is limited. The book is derived from a workshop held by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) in Kampala, Uganda, that brought together the world's leading scientists to examine and discuss the nitrogen cycle and related problems. It contains an overview chapter that summarizes the group's findings, four chapters on cross-cutting issues, and thirteen background chapters.
The book offers a unique synthesis and provides an up-to-date, broad perspective on the issues of nitrogen fertilizer in food production and the interaction of nitrogen and the environment.
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The circulation and interactions of major elements such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, oxygen, and hydrogen are critical for the maintenance of the earth's ecosystems. Human activities including agriculture, industry, and urbanization alter element interactions and contribute to major environmental problems ranging from climate change and depletion of the ozone layer to acidification of soils to the destruction of coral reefs.
Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles is a new scientific assessment of element interactions in the biosphere. It provides an up-to-date review of biogeochemistry and its effects on earth's systems, with leading experts in biogeochemical cycling in atmospheric, land, freshwater, and marine environments offering chapters that summarize and synthesize information in each discipline.
The book opens with chapters on cross-cutting issues that have significance in understanding global change effects and their potential management. These chapters address:
* trends in element interactions in response to global change
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The Silicon Cycle: Human Perturbations and Impacts on Aquatic Systems (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series)
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A technical resource written especially for experts and professionals.......2007-05-13
The Silicon Cycle: Human Perturbations and Impacts on Aquatic Systems is an anthology of essays by learned authors concerning the cycle of silicon, an abundant yet oft-unappreciated element key to numerous biogeochemical processes in natural ecology. The first book in more than twenty years offering a thorough overview of the many issues associated with the silicon cycle, The Silicon Cycle summarizes the major outcomes of the project Land-Ocean Interactions: Silica Cycle, tracks the path of silicon from land to sea, and contemplates both natural geological processes as well as atmospheric and hydrological processes and human alterations to the natural controls of the silicon cycle. A technical resource written especially for experts and professionals, and an invaluable modern reference for environmental scientists and natural history scholars.
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Biogenic Sulfur in the Environment (Acs Symposium Series)
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Features state-of-the-art research on the fate and origin of natural (as opposed to pollutant) sulfur compounds, specifically, the cycling of biologically produced sulfur throughout the environment. Covers terrestrial and freshwater systems: emissions and transformations, oceans:
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Earth System Science in the Anthropocene: Emerging Issues and Problems
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Earth System Science in the Anthropocene aims to provide an in-depth perspective and update on special topics in Global Environmental Change in relation to Human Security. It gives an overview on the new Joint Projects of the four International Global Change Programmmes and on research efforts in Germany. It is also an up-to-date report on emerging necessities in Global Environmental Change research as well as suggestions for its future development.
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Environmentally Improved Production Processes and Products: An Introduction (Environment & Management)
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Environmentally Improved Production Processes and Products introduces students at institutes of higher education, company management, civil servants, professional designers and process engineers to the field of environmentally oriented product and process improvement. The book deals with improvements that are integrated into processes and products. It differs from other books currently available in that it covers both production and products. It is also different because both social/economic and technical aspects of the improvement of products and production processes are dealt with, rather than the more usual focus either on technical or on social and/or economic aspects. Another characteristic is the wide range of production processes and products covered, ranging from bakeries to olive growing, from nuclear power plants to glues, from office chairs to breweries, and from television sets to steel plants. Geographical coverage ranges from Sweden to China and from India to Italy and the USA.
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- Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human-Machine Systems (Resources for Ecological Psychology, Vol 1)
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- Higher Education in the World 2007: Accreditation for Quality Assurance: What Is at stake? (Guni Series on the Social Commitment of Universities)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
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- iGenetics: A Mendelian Approach (The Genetics Place Series)
- Illustrated Guide to Fossil Collecting (Fossils & Dinosaurs)
- In A Mexican Garden: Courtyards, Pools, and Open-Air Living Rooms
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