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Carlos Bulosan's 'Silence'
L. M. Grow
Masterplots II examines various works of literature. With strong interest in an analytical approach, story summaries are augmented by discussions of plot, theme, style and characters.
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Jessica Hagedorn's 'Dogeater'
L. M. Grow
Reference materials on short stories for teachers and libraries. This edition incorporates all the articles from the original six-volume set and four-volume supplement and adds 250 essays. It is organized in the standard Masterplots form, with articles arranged alphabetically by story title.
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Status of Reef Fishes in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary: Regional Project Summary
Emily F. Schmitt Lavin
This report is a summary of the first 3 years of the Fish Survey Project in the Florida Keys, with comparisons among FKNMS sites and with other distant regions. It demonstrates some ways in which data from the Project can be used.
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Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution
Alvin W. Wolfe and Honggang Yang
Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution consists of ten essays that make vividly apparent the variety of ways that anthropological approaches and perspectives can be of practical worth in the resolution of conflicts. The essays represent various subdisciplines in anthropology, including legal and political anthropology, economic anthropology, cross-cultural studies, interpretive approaches, and social network approaches.
Conflicts and potential conflicts at many levels are the subjects of the essays. One contributor uses an ethnographic account of Sikh separatists in Punjab, India, to explore fighting resulting from the intertwining of religion and politics. Another essay discusses the role that anthropology played in conceptualizing the legal reforms on an island in the remote western Pacific in relation to the recent emergence of alternative dispute resolution. Conflicts over the commons in an American suburb are examined, as are harmony ideology and adversarial ideology as they are used for both freedom and control at a manufacturing plant. The introductory essay includes a discussion of network models in regard to conflict resolution, and the epilogue cites an agenda for applied research in the area.
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Linear Algebra: Challenging Problems for Students
Fuzhen Zhang
Linear algebra is a prerequisite for students majoring in mathematics and is required of many undergraduate and first-year graduate students in statistics, engineering, and related areas. This fully updated and revised text defines the discipline's main terms, explains its key theorems, and provides over 425 example problems ranging from the elementary to some that may baffle even the most seasoned mathematicians. Vital concepts are highlighted at the beginning of each chapter and a final section contains hints for solving the problems as well as solutions to each example. Based on Fuzhen Zhang's experience teaching and researching algebra over the past two decades, Linear Algebra is the perfect examination study tool. Students in beginning and seminar-type advanced linear algebra classes and those seeking to brush up on the topic will find Zhang's plain discussions of the subject's theories refreshing and the problems diverse, interesting, and challenging.
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Haciendas of Ecuador
Barry W. Barker and Charles R. Barnett
Haciendas of Ecuador is a pictorial guide to fully functional and operating haciendas in Central Ecuador. Approximately fifteen haciendas were chosen and a team of two photographers and one was was sent to each to photographically document the property and to obtain a brief history, background, and family information about the property. Information is also included about staying at these facilities and where to call for reservations.
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Introduction to Geography, 4th edition
Arthur Getis, Jerome Donald Fellmann, Judith Getis, and Barry W. Barker
Provides an overview of the study of geography, organized around the major research traditions of geography: physical, cultural, locational and regional. Within these major themes, the topics discussed include: the weather and climate; population geography; urban geography; and political geography.
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Resolving Conflict Successfully: Needed Knowledge and Skills (Roadmaps to Success)
Neil H. Katz and John W. Lawyer
This book is the second of a three-volume series on conflict resolution for educational administrators. Following the introduction, the first three chapters discuss the following communication skills critical to communication--building rapport, listening and pacing, and chunking and problem solving. Chapter 4 provides a generic problem-solving model and an example of an actual conflict situation that was successfully resolved using the skills outlined in the book. Nineteen figures and 12 annotated references are included.
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Preventing and Managing Conflict in Schools (Roadmaps to Success)
Neil Katz and John W. Lawyer
The authors of this book, leading authorities on the topic of conflict resolution, introduce tested and effective strategies for preventing and managing conflict in both interpersonal and group settings and offer some additional strategies for managing conflict as a third party. This helpful book will greatly enhance the school administrator′s ability to ensure that human interaction over differences is both constructive and productive.
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Fifty Years of Impacts on Coral Reefs in Bermuda
C. B. Cook, Richard Dodge, and S. R. Smith
[Chapter Abstract]
The high latitude coral reefs of Bermuda have been impacted by two major kinds of events since the early 1940s. The first was the dredging operation in Castle Harbour which led to the construction of Kindley airfield (now the Bermuda Air Terminal.) The associated sedimentation, turbidity and altered hydrology caused a mass mortality of corals, especially of the major reef-building genus Diploria. While there has been post-dredging recruitment of corals, D. strigosa, a species sensitive to sedimentation, has been particularly slow to recover and is less prevalent at this site than elsewhere in Bermuda. Ship groundings comprise the second class of event: since 1940, thirteen major ship groundings have occurred on the reefs which have destroyed an estimated 1% of the outer reefs. Studies of the recovery and recruitment of corals at a major grounding site indicate that these processes occur very slowly in Bermuda. It is estimated that 100-150 years would be required to restore coral coverage and species diversity, with species of Diploria being particularly slow to recover. Recent episodes of coral bleaching in Bermuda are considered to have had very little effect on coral populations and reefs.
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Long-Term Monitoring (2.5 Years) of Effects of Short-Term Field Exposure of Stony Corals to Dispersed and Undispersed Crude Oil
Richard Dodge and Anthony H. Knap
[Chapter Abstract]
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate long-term effects to shallow sub-tidal coral reef species from short-term exposure to dispersed and untreated crude oil. The study location was in the northwestern Laguna de Chiriqui, Caribbean coast of Panama. Experimental sites consisted of 900m2 plots which were enclosed by a boom with .45cm deep skirts. All sites contained shallow subtidal coral reefs. One site was designated as a control. One site received dispersed oil at a target concentration of 50ppm for 24 hours, representing a high exposure. One site received only crude oil at an amount of about 1 l/m2 for a duration of approximately 48 hours, representing moderate exposure.
Prespill chemical and biological parameters were collected in March and mid November, 1984. The experimental spill was conducted in late November, 1984. Monitoring of parameters continued periodically until August, 1986. Biological parameters that were measured included epifaunal and epifloral coverage of the coral reef substrate utilizing plotless line transects. Skeletal growth of four selected coral species was also measured at each site. Chemical sampling involved analysis (not reported here) of large and small-volume water samples for GC and GC/MS together with large-volume water samples by pumping through XAD resin.
Results indicated that the coverage of all organisms, hard corals, all animals, and all plants was significantly depressed in the Dispersed Oil treatment compared to the Control station. Little recovery of most organisms was evident some 20 months after initial treatment. Coverage parameters of the Oil Only treatment were generally lower than, but not usually significantly different from coverage of the Control. Of the four coral species investigated for growth, two (Agaricia tennuifolia and Porites porites) showed significant effects from exposure to dispersed oil (reduced blade and tip extension rate at the dispersed oil site). These results provided useful indications of long-term effects from short-term field exposure of corals and coral reefs to oil and dispersed oil. Information from this and other field and laboratory studies benefits marine management by providing data upon which to base informed decisions regarding dispersant use in tropical areas.
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Oil Refinery Impacts on Coral Reef Communities in Aruba, N.A.
C. Mark Eakin, Joshua S. Feingold, and Peter Glynn
[Chapter Abstract]
From 1925 to 1985, Lago Oil and Transport Co. operated a transshipping terminal and refinery on the southeastern coast of Aruba, N.A. This facility has affected the nearshore marine ecosystem through both oil contamination at the harbor and tanker berths, and from disturbance related to shipping, dredging and construction. The impact of this facility on nearby coral reef communities was studied from January 1987 to August 1989. This included an analysis of reef community structure comparing sites adjacent to the refinery with those upstream and downstream, the modern and historical growth of the predominant coral species, and recruitment of new corals. Both upstream and downstream control sites were in good health and exhibited high diversity. In contrast, reefs adjacent to the refinery exhibited low density and diversity of live corals and abundant dead coral rubble. Additionally, periods of construction in the inner harbor and on surrounding spoil islands and high refinery activity corresponded well with periods of reduced coral growth near the refinery. Although the relative importance of oil contamination, sedimentation and other anthropogenic effects is uncertain, our observations suggest that sedimentation and other physical stress resulted in substantial reductions in environmental quality at the disturbed sites. Coral recruitment at the highly impacted sites showed hope for recovery if these environments are protected from renewed perturbation.
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Conflict Resolution: Building Bridges (Roadmaps to Success)
Neil Katz and John W. Lawyer
In this, the first of three volumes on conflict resolution for school administrators, two foremost authorities on the top give you the critical knowledge you need to handle conflict constructively and creatively. Katz and Lawyer explore the nature of conflict and its principal sources. They suggest helpful attitudes for framing conflict and offer a process for defusing conflict at an interpersonal level or small group level.
This book explores how school administrators can deal with conflict constructively and creatively. The theoretical knowledge and practical skills presented will enable administrators to handle their own differences and disputes in a more effective manner, provide effective third party intervention to assist others manage their differences and facilitate the transference of these skills to others by modelling their use and benefits within the schools.
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Genetic Maps: Locus Maps of Complex Genomes
Stephen James O'Brien
Human genome research will be one of the dominant themes of science in the 1990s. To assist its progress, new technologies and concepts are expected to emerge from the analysis of other organisms' genes and chromosomes. Comparative data on the genetic organization of different species, therefore, have particular importance. Since 1980, Genetic Maps has been the only comprehensive source of such information. This new, sixth edition is published in two formats: as a series of six paperback volumes, each containing a variety of genetic maps from one group of organisms, and as a cloth-bound, reading-room edition containing the complete collection of maps from all 129 species listed. Book 1 - Viruses Book 2 - Bacteria, Algae, and Protozoa Book 3 - Lower Eukaryotes Book 4 - Nonhuman Vertebrates Book 5 - The Human Maps Book 6 - Plants
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Justice Lies in the District: The U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1902–1960
Charles Zelden
In 1902 a new federal district court was established to serve a broad segment of the Texas Gulf Coast region, including Houston. In the use of its discretion to choose between "private" and "public" law, this court for many years served the interests of the region's economic and political elite and helped stabilize a fast-changing economy that was undergoing wild swings of boom and bust. After 1945, however, the court reluctantly began to address growing demands for public law enforcement of national policies, including civil rights, and by 1960, public law issues had come to dominate the court's dockets. In this groundbreaking study of a representative lower federal court, Charles L. Zelden provides insight into the functioning of district courts and their impact on the larger legal, economic, and political systems. Combining the perspectives of legal history with those of economic, business, urban, political, and social history, and drawing on largely untapped manuscript court records, he offers a unique view of the ways in which the federal courts have shaped the nation's public and private life. The well-crafted narrative looks at the full range of the court's decisions, clearly explaining complex legal issues. It sketches in as well the personalities and political positions of the judges. Zelden demonstrates that a judge's personal and class background largely determined his judicial philosophy and set his agenda on the bench. Zelden's work contributes an important dimension to the growing literature on the economic, social, and urban history of Texas and of America in the first half of this century. It elucidates the judicial role in consolidating a cultural ethos of economicgrowth, self-reliant individualism, and freedom from governmental restraint.
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Section 4: Conflict Resolution: Chapter 2:Communication and Conflict - Management Skills
Neil H. Katz and John W. Lawyer
A Peace Reader contains articles reflecting different and even opposing viewpoints, offering competing visions of the future. They range from the scholarly to the folksy; from the philosophical to the satirical; from the didactic to the poetic. In an effort to help students develop critical thinking skills, the authors include study questions after every major article. The result is a book as contemporary as today's headlines and as timeless as the wisdom of the ages.
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Circadian Rhythms in Fishes and Their Implications for Research
Richard E. Spieler
This book discusses the care and use of fish, amphibians and reptiles in research. These species are used as important research models in many different biomedical disciplines. Little has been written about their humane and responsible care in a research environment. This book also discusses anaesthesia, analgesia, euthanasia, handling, husbandry, nutrition, behaviour, disease, field research and medicine for the different species of fish.
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Feeding-Entrained Circadian Rhythms in Fishes
Richard E. Spieler
There has been sufficient work done in fishes to warrant a review of feeding-entrained rhythmicity, if only for comparative reasons. Relative to the extensive work with laboratory mammals, however, information on this topic in fishes is meager. An attempt at a broad overview at this point is fated from the outset to be data poor and speculation rich; hopefully this paper will, nevertheless, serve a heuristic role. Specifically, the paper addresses five questions regarding feeding entrainment of circadian rhythms in fishes: Does feeding entrain rhythms in fishes? How? Why? So what? and What next?
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Cearbhall O Dalaigh: An Irish Poet in Romance and Oral Tradition (Harvard Dissertations in Folklore and Oral Literature)
James E. Doan
Originally presented as the author's thesis, Harvard University.
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Chapter 12: Evaluation Research on Nonviolent Action
Neil Katz
As Gene Sharp has documented, nonviolent struggle has an Impressive, If often overlooked, history. Contemporary scholars are now beginning to research and discuss case studies of nonviolent action and the dynamics of nonviolent struggle. The latter literature focuses on how the strategy and tactics that each of the protagonists use help determine the outcomes in nonviolent action.
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Chinese Translation of: A Survey of Matrix Theory and Matrix Inequalities
Marvin Marcus and Henryk Minc
This is a Chinese translation of the famous Marcus and Minc's famous book.
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Metal Binding Proteins and Peptides for the Detection of Heavy
D. H. Petering, M. S. Goodrich, W. Hodgeman, S. Krezoski, D. N. Weber, C. F. Shaw III, Richard E. Spieler, and L. D. Zettergren
Overview. Anatomical and cytological endpoints. Detoxication, adaptive and immunological responses. Genotoxic responses. Metal metabolism. Application of biomakers in field evaluation.
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