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European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common.
For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of
strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by
barbarian hordes. In "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes", Amin Maalouf
has sifted through the works of a score of contemporary Arab
chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in
the events. He retells their stories in their own vivacious style,
giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts,
and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. He
retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, and
offers fascinating insights into some of the forces that shape Arab
and Islamic consciousness today.
Stock Assessment: Quantitative Methods and Applications for Small
Scale Fisheries is a book about stock assessment as it is
practiced. It focuses on applications for small scale or artisanal
fisheries in developing countries, however it is not limited in
applicability to tropical waters and should also be considered a
resource for students of temperate fishery management problems. It
incorporates a careful sample design, various mathematical models
as a basis for predicting consequences for stock exploitation, and
discusses the impact of exploitation on non-targeted species. This
was a unique concept involving a collaborative effort between U.S.
and host country scientists to address issues of regional and
global concern through innovative research. Unlike other books on
stock assessment that show mathematical models, this is the only
book of its kind that discusses how an assessment is carried out.
It looks at the field as a whole and includes sampling, age
determination and acoustics. The book represents the culmination of
a nine-year program financed by the United States Agency for
International Development to provide new or improved methods of
stock assessment for artisanal fisheries.
Stock Assessment: Quantitative Methods and Applications for Small
Scale Fisheries is a book about stock assessment as it is
practiced. It focuses on applications for small scale or artisanal
fisheries in developing countries, however it is not limited in
applicability to tropical waters and should also be considered a
resource for students of temperate fishery management problems. It
incorporates a careful sample design, various mathematical models
as a basis for predicting consequences for stock exploitation, and
discusses the impact of exploitation on non-targeted species. This
was a unique concept involving a collaborative effort between U.S.
and host country scientists to address issues of regional and
global concern through innovative research.
Unlike other books on stock assessment that show mathematical
models, this is the only book of its kind that discusses how an
assessment is carried out. It looks at the field as a whole and
includes sampling, age determination and acoustics.
The book represents the culmination of a nine-year program financed
by the United States Agency for International Development to
provide new or improved methods of stock assessment for artisanal
fisheries.
Fisheries science in North America is changing in response to a
changing climate, new technologies, an ecosystem approach to
management and new thinking about the processes affecting stock and
recruitment. Authors of the 34 chapters review the science in their
particular fields and use their experience to develop informed
opinions about the future. Everyone associated with fish, fisheries
and fisheries management will find material that will stimulate
their thinking about the future. Readers will be impressed with the
potential for new discoveries, but disturbed by how much needs to
be done in fisheries science if we are to sustain North American
fisheries in our changing climate. Officials that manage or fund
fisheries science will appreciate the urgency for the new
information needed for the stewardship of fish populations and
their ecosystems. Research organizations may want to keep some
extra copies for a future look back into the thoughts of a wide
range of fisheries professionals. Fisheries science has been full
of surprises with some of the surprises having major economic
impacts. It is important to minimize these impacts as the demand
for seafood increases and the complexities of fisheries management
increase.
Fisheries science in North America is changing in response to a
changing climate, new technologies, an ecosystem approach to
management and new thinking about the processes affecting stock and
recruitment.
Authors of the 34 chapters review the science in their
particular fields and use their experience to develop informed
opinions about the future. Everyone associated with fish, fisheries
and fisheries management will find material that will stimulate
their thinking about the future. Readers will be impressed with the
potential for new discoveries, but disturbed by how much needs to
be done in fisheries science if we are to sustain North American
fisheries in our changing climate. Officials that manage or fund
fisheries science will appreciate the urgency for the new
information needed for the stewardship of fish populations and
their ecosystems. Research organizations may want to keep some
extra copies for a future look back into the thoughts of a wide
range of fisheries professionals. Fisheries science has been full
of surprises with some of the surprises having major economic
impacts. It is important to minimize these impacts as the demand
for seafood increases and the complexities of fisheries management
increase.
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Les Insectes, Organisation, Moeurs, Chasse, Collection, Classification, Histoire Naturelle - Des Orthoptères, Névroptères, Hyménoptères, Hemiptères, Diptères, Aptères (Paperback)
J. Rothschild
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R947
Discovery Miles 9 470
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Le Chien: Description Des Races, Croisements, Elevage, Dressage, Maladies Et Leur Traitement, - D'Apres Les Ouvrages Les Plus Recents de Stonehenge, Youatt, Mayhew, Bouley, Hamilton Smith, Etc. (French, Paperback)
J. Rothschild
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Discovery Miles 8 540
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