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The Agamemnon is the first play of the Oresteia trilogy, which won
Aeschylus a first prize in 458 BCE. It presents the return of
Agamemnon to his home in Argos after the fall of Troy, as his
victorious homecoming soon gives way to the horrors of an ancient
curse and the consequences of vengeance. With its accounts of war,
sacrifice, confessions, prophecy, and prayer, this tragic drama
begins both a brutal and compassionate journey toward redefining
justice. Through the use of syllabic verse, this new version
maintains an organic link with the original Greek text, while
recreating the music of poetry in contemporary speech for reading
and performance.
This book explores the factors affecting the survival of small
populations. As the human impact on Earth expands, populations of
many wild species are being squeezed into smaller and smaller
habitats. As a consequence, they face an increasing threat of
extinction. National and international conservation groups rush to
add these populations, species and sub-species to their existing
endangered and threatened lists. In nations with strong
conservation laws, listing often triggers elaborate plans to rescue
declining populations and restore their habitats. The authors
review these theoretical ideas, the existing data, and explore the
question: how well do small and isolated populations actually
perform? Their case study group is the song sparrows of Mandarte
Island, British Columbia. This population is small enough and
isolated enough so that all individuals can be uniquely marked and
their survival and reproduction monitored over many generations.
This is one of the strongest long-term ecological studies of a
contained vertebrate population, now in its 31st year.
"Serengeti II: Dynamics, Management, and Conservation of an
Ecosystem" brings together twenty years of research by leading
scientists to provide the most most thorough understanding to date
of the spectacular Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in East Africa, home to
one of the largest and most diverse populations of animals in the
world.
Building on the groundwork laid by the classic "Serengeti: Dynamics
of an Ecosystem," published in 1979 by the University of Chicago
Press, this new book integrates studies of the ecosystem at every
level--from the plants at the bottom of the visible food chain, to
the many species of herbivores and predators, to the system as a
whole. Drawing on new data from many long-term studies and from
more recent research initiatives, and applying new theory and
computer technology, the contributors examine the large-scale
processes that have produced the Serengeti's extraordinary
biological diversity, as well as the interactions among species and
between plants and animals and their environment. They also
introduce computer modeling as a tool for exploring these
interactions, employing this new technology to test and anticipate
the effects of social, political, and economic changes on the
entire ecosystem and on particular species, and so to shape future
conservation and management strategies.
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