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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
will appeal to researchers, instructors, and applied practitioners
interested in human-animal interactions extends our understanding
of the contexts in which humans and animals interact shares
considerations for applied programming and implementation including
how to create virtual human-animal content the book is anchored in
seminal and just-published findings from the field of human-animal
interactions shares new quantitative and qualitative findings
attesting to the efficacy of virtual human-animal interactions
will appeal to researchers, instructors, and applied practitioners
interested in human-animal interactions extends our understanding
of the contexts in which humans and animals interact shares
considerations for applied programming and implementation including
how to create virtual human-animal content the book is anchored in
seminal and just-published findings from the field of human-animal
interactions shares new quantitative and qualitative findings
attesting to the efficacy of virtual human-animal interactions
An invaluable information source about cast iron holloware of the
pre-Griswold and Wagner era for collectors, museum curators,
reenactors, and hearth cooking aficionados. It is the first book to
document cast iron pots, skillets, spiders, pans, kettles,
teakettles, Dutch ovens, and mortars, plus several items in brass,
from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, spanning the
years 1645 to 1900. Over 350 photos illustrate identifiable changes
in the manufacturing technologies and the vessel forms. Line
drawings and detail photos enable the reader to correctly date the
objects they find. The engaging text is a product of forty years of
collecting and wide-ranging research. Most of the vessels are
illustrated in print for the first time. Many of these objects have
been seen occasionally in antiques shops or at auctions, but they
have never before been identified in the literature. This will be a
standard reference book for many years to come.
Mindfulness and Critical Friendship: A New Perspective on
Professional Development for Educators assembles an international
community of scholar-practitioners from multiple disciplines who
utilize different methodologies and ideological perspectives to
reflect on and interrogate contexts that situate mindfulness and
critical friendship as constructs which support professional
development for educators. Mindfulness and critical friendship
connect critically and creatively like-minded colleagues and enable
the facilitation and promotion of transformative pedagogy and
practice. Supported by a robust set of evidence-based research, the
contributors to this collection consider the ways in which
educators can develop habits of mind and courses of action which
will support them as they cultivate their ability to thrive and
cope with the modern demands of their personal and professional
lives. This edited collection is recommended for educators of all
disciplines and for scholars of education, social science, and
psychology.
Covering principles of therapy dog team training, assessment,
skills, and ongoing monitoring, Canine-Assisted Interventions
provides guidance on the most evidence-based methods for therapy
dog team welfare, training, and assessment. The authors offer a
linear approach to understanding all aspects of the screening,
assessment, and selection of dog-handler teams by exploring the
journey of dog therapy teams from assessment of canines and
handlers to the importance of ongoing monitoring, recredentialing,
and retirement. In addition to reviewing key findings within the
field of human-animal interactions, each chapter emphasizes skills
on both the human and dog ends of the leash and makes
recommendations for research-informed best practices. To support
readers, the book culminates with checklists and training resources
to serve as a quick reference for readers. This book will be of
great interest for practitioners, in-service professionals, and
researchers in the fields of canine-assisted interventions and
counseling.
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative
biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of
size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the
universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories
ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Gulliver's Travels, he shows
that humans have always been fascinated by things big and small.
Why then does size always reside on the fringes of science and
never on the center stage? Why do biologists and others ponder size
only when studying something else—running speed, life span, or
metabolism? Why Size Matters, a pioneering book of big ideas in a
compact size, gives size its due by presenting a profound yet lucid
overview of what we know about its role in the living world. Bonner
argues that size really does matter—that it is the supreme and
universal determinant of what any organism can be and do. For
example, because tiny creatures are subject primarily to forces of
cohesion and larger beasts to gravity, a fly can easily walk up a
wall, something we humans cannot even begin to imagine doing.
Bonner introduces us to size through the giants and dwarfs of
human, animal, and plant history and then explores questions
including the physics of size as it affects biology, the evolution
of size over geological time, and the role of size in the function
and longevity of living things. As this elegantly written book
shows, size affects life in its every aspect. It is a universal
frame from which nothing escapes.
Covering principles of therapy dog team training, assessment,
skills, and ongoing monitoring, Canine-Assisted Interventions
provides guidance on the most evidence-based methods for therapy
dog team welfare, training, and assessment. The authors offer a
linear approach to understanding all aspects of the screening,
assessment, and selection of dog-handler teams by exploring the
journey of dog therapy teams from assessment of canines and
handlers to the importance of ongoing monitoring, recredentialing,
and retirement. In addition to reviewing key findings within the
field of human-animal interactions, each chapter emphasizes skills
on both the human and dog ends of the leash and makes
recommendations for research-informed best practices. To support
readers, the book culminates with checklists and training resources
to serve as a quick reference for readers. This book will be of
great interest for practitioners, in-service professionals, and
researchers in the fields of canine-assisted interventions and
counseling.
Professor Bonner has rewritten more than half of this standard
treatise to take account of the great amount of recent research on
the cellular slime molds. He has included a larger selection of
material, more figures and new plates. The bibliography has been
greatly enlarged. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
John Tyler Bonner, a major participant in the development of
biology as an experimental science, is the author not only of
important monographs but also of a wonderfully readable book, Life
Cycles, which is both a personal memoir and a profound commentary
on the central themes of biology. This volume of essays presents
new material that extends the concepts from Life Cycles and his
other writings. Its originality lies in comparing key basic
biological processes at different levels, from molecular
interactions through multicellular development to behavior and
social interactions. The first chapter in the book discusses
self-organization and natural selection; the second, competition
and natural selection; and the third, gene accumulation and gene
silencing. The fourth chapter examines the division of labor in
organisms at all levels: within the organelles of a cell, within
groups of cells in the guise of differentiation, within groups of
individuals in an animal society, and within our culturally
determined human societies. The work closes with a charming
personal history of sixty years of changes in the field of biology,
including the transformation in the ways that research work is
funded. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
Noted biologist and author John Tyler Bonner has experimented
with cellular slime molds for more than sixty years, and he has
done more than anyone else to raise these peculiar collections of
amoebae from a minor biological curiosity to a major model
organism--one that is widely studied for clues to the development
and evolution of all living things. Now, five decades after he
published his first pioneering book on cellular slime molds, Bonner
steps back from the proliferating and increasingly specialized
knowledge about the organism to provide a broad, nontechnical
picture of its whole biology, including its evolution,
sociobiology, ecology, behavior, and development. "The Social
Amoebae" draws the big lessons from decades of research, and shows
how slime molds fit into and illuminate biology as a whole.
Slime molds are very different from other organisms; they feed
as individual amoebae before coming together to form a
multicellular organism that has a remarkable ability to move and
orient itself in its environment. Furthermore, these social amoebae
display a sophisticated division of labor; within each organism,
some cells form the stalk and others become the spores that will
seed the next generation. In "The Social Amoebae," Bonner examines
all these parts together, giving a balanced, concise, and clear
overview of slime mold biology, from molecules to cells to
multicells, as he advances some unconventional and unexpected
insights.
Within a single captivating narrative, John Bonner combines an
intensely personal memoir of scientific progress and an overview of
what we now know about living things. Bonner, a major participant
in the development of biology as an experimental science, draws on
his life-long study of slime molds for an understanding of the life
cycle-the foundation of all biology. In an age of increasing
specialization and fragmentation among subfields of biology, this
is a unique work of reflection and integration. Originally
published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful
biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary
biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold
and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be
explained by something other than natural selection.
With his customary wit and accessible style, Bonner makes an
argument for the underappreciated role that randomness--or
chance--plays in evolution. Due to the tremendous and enduring
influence of Darwin's natural selection, the importance of
randomness has been to some extent overshadowed. Bonner shows how
the effects of randomness differ for organisms of different sizes,
and how the smaller an organism is, the more likely it is that
morphological differences will be random and selection may not be
involved to any degree. He traces the increase in size and
complexity of organisms over geological time, and looks at the
varying significance of randomness at different size levels, from
microorganisms to large mammals. Bonner also discusses how sexual
cycles vary depending on size and complexity, and how the trend
away from randomness in higher forms has even been reversed in some
social organisms.
Certain to provoke lively discussion, "Randomness in Evolution"
is a book that may fundamentally change our understanding of
evolution and the history of life.
John Tyler Bonner, a major participant in the development of
biology as an experimental science, is the author not only of
important monographs but also of a wonderfully readable book, Life
Cycles, which is both a personal memoir and a profound commentary
on the central themes of biology. This volume of essays presents
new material that extends the concepts from Life Cycles and his
other writings. Its originality lies in comparing key basic
biological processes at different levels, from molecular
interactions through multicellular development to behavior and
social interactions. The first chapter in the book discusses
self-organization and natural selection; the second, competition
and natural selection; and the third, gene accumulation and gene
silencing. The fourth chapter examines the division of labor in
organisms at all levels: within the organelles of a cell, within
groups of cells in the guise of differentiation, within groups of
individuals in an animal society, and within our culturally
determined human societies. The work closes with a charming
personal history of sixty years of changes in the field of biology,
including the transformation in the ways that research work is
funded. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
A discussion of life cycles and individual size in organisms, and
of the relationships between the two, and of their conjoint role in
evolution. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
The howling monkeys of Barro Colorado Island in Panama have a
rudimentary language which serves the needs of their social
activities. The red deer of Scotland, the seals of the Pribilof
Islands, the beavers, the social insects, the army ants and
termites, and lastly the colonial and single-celled organisms such
as amoebae all meet the same basic biological necessities of
feeding, reproduction, and social coordination. Though the means of
meeting the requirements are amazingly varied, Mr. Bonner shows
that these three functions form a basic pattern that can be
recognized in amoebae, in monkeys, and in man-in fact wherever life
occurs. Originally published in 1955. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
In the current resurgence of interest in the biological basis of
animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions
pursued by Charles Darwin remain fresh and insightful. This is
especially true of "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to
Sex," Darwin's second most important work. This edition is a
facsimile reprint of the first printing of the first edition
(1871), not previously available in paperback.
The work is divided into two parts. Part One marshals behavioral
and morphological evidence to argue that humans evolved from other
animals. Darwin shoes that human mental and emotional capacities,
far from making human beings unique, are evidence of an animal
origin and evolutionary development. Part Two is an extended
discussion of the differences between the sexes of many species and
how they arose as a result of selection. Here Darwin lays the
foundation for much contemporary research by arguing that many
characteristics of animals have evolved not in response to the
selective pressures exerted by their physical and biological
environment, but rather to confer an advantage in sexual
competition. These two themes are drawn together in two final
chapters on the role of sexual selection in humans.
In their Introduction, Professors Bonner and May discuss the
place of "The Descent" in its own time and relation to current work
in biology and other disciplines.
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