|
Showing 1 - 23 of
23 matches in All Departments
Throughout the world, freshwater ecosystems are considered to be
among the most vulnerable systems. In the isolated Pacific islands
there are a relatively small number of native freshwater species,
which are mainly endemic to these locations (found nowhere else in
the world). These species are characterized by an amphidromous
lifecycle; reproducing in the stream, with larvae drifting to the
ocean and eventually returning to a stream as juveniles and
spending the remainder of their lifecycle there. Throughout the
region, native flora and fauna face significant threats from
species introductions and habitat destruction. The National Parks
in the Pacific Island Network (PACN) protect some of the last
relatively pristine stream systems. Monitoring based on this
protocol: Pacific Islands Stream Monitoring: Fish, Shrimp, Snails
and Habitat Characterization, will provide park managers with some
of the information necessary to understand status and trends in
biotic integrity within park stream systems.
Seriously Silly is a book of silly poems that are fun and engaging
enough for children (10 and up), but are just as fun and meaningful
to "kids" of all ages. Some are just ridiculous, while others have
a little something more. There's a little something for everyone in
here.
While growing up on the streets of Philadelphia, Theodore King
learned how to manipulate people through violence and fear, and now
he controls the city. After learning that one of his men, Aaron
Howell, has been working with the authorities, King brutally
murders him and displays his mutilated body as an example of what
happens when someone betrays Philadelphia's most feared and
powerful man. But with his last breath, Aaron put a curse on King
that drags his younger brother Samuel into a dangerous situation.
Philadelphia is called, "the city of brotherly love," but the death
of a man's other brother brings out nothing but violence, hate, and
something much darker.
"Offers the most plausible way to renovate our political and
policy thinking to meet the challenges of the twenty-first
century."--Joe Klein, "Time"
America is at a crossroads. The global economic downturn that
began in 2008 has laid bare the structural weakness of our economy,
putting the country through its most severe test since the Great
Depression. Yet our political and business leaders have failed to
prepare us because they are in the grip of a set of "dead ideas"
about how a modern economy should work. Even the proponents of
"change" in the Obama administration remain tentative in pushing
the boundaries of the conventional wisdom.
But as Matt Miller shows in this provocative and influential
analysis, the American economy will turn the corner only if we move
beyond these outdated ways of thinking and recognize the ascendance
of a new set of "destined ideas" that will reinvigorate our
economy, our politics, and our day-to-day lives. And in a new
preface, Miller shows how today's financial crisis has finally
stripped these dead ideas of their power, offering hope for a
durable recovery.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|