Authors:Eric Wikramanayake, Eric Dinerstein, Colby J. Loucks
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: wildlife, fund, ecoregion, assessments, world, assessment, ecoregions, indo, pacific, conservation, terrestrial
Number of Pages: 824
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1559639237
ISBN-13: 9781559639231

"This book, along with its companions in this series, takes an ecoregional approach, dividing large regions into small, distinct units, each with its characteristic species, ecosystems, natural history, and threats. As such, it has no peers. It is the sourcebook for anyone who must look for where and how to act to save the variety of life on Earth." - from the foreword by Stuart L. Pim.A number of conservation groups, including World Wildlife Fund, have in recent years adopted an approach to conservation that uses ecoregions to identify biological and conservation priority areas. Ecoregions de

Author: Eric D. Loucks Conference on Water Resources
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineer
Keywords: water, resources, conference, management, annual, planning, proceedings, urban, environment, 25th
Number of Pages: 806
Published: 1998-05-01
List price: $94.00
ISBN-10: 0784403430
ISBN-13: 9780784403433

This proceedings, "Water Resources and the Urban Environment", contains extended abstracts presented at the ASCE 25th Conference on Water Resources Planning and Management held in Chicago, Illinois, June 8-10, 1998. While many of the papers address traditional topics such as hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, protection of drinking supplies, and reservoir operation, more recent issues such as groundwater modeling, water resource problems in the developing world, and water quality of urban runoff are also explored. Some of the major topics discussed include: urban stormwater management; geograp

Author: Robert Alden Loucks
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Keywords: treasure, tapping, oil, shale
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2002-07
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 1401057039
ISBN-13: 9781401057039

Shale Oil-Tapping the Treasure is about the most recent effort by government and industry to develop the vast hydrocarbon resources which exist in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The book describes the extensive and comprehensive studies which proved that development could proceed without undue harm to the ecology of the area. Based on this fact and the continued unsettled nature of our energy supplies, the author argues that a well-planned effort be undertaken to establish a shale oil industry now to better provide for current and future generations.

Authors:Daniel P. Loucks, John S. Gladwell,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: international, hydrology, series, systems, resource, criteria, water, sustainability
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 1999-07-28
List price: $125.99
ISBN-10: 0521560446
ISBN-13: 9780521560443

Water resources professionals have an obligation to conceive and manage water resource systems so that they will fully contribute to an improved quality of life. Those sustainable water resource systems will be able to satisfy the changing demands that will inevitably be placed on them, without significant system degradation. An international group of experts has reviewed various guidelines for achieving greater degrees of sustainability and the extent to which they have been applied in a number of case studies. The group provides approaches for measuring and modeling sustainability and ways i

Authors:Robert Browning,  James F. Loucks, Andrew M. S
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: critical, editions, norton, poetry, browning, robert
Number of Pages: 685
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393926001
ISBN-13: 9780393926002

The Second Edition of this substantial collection of Browning’s poetry again reprints the texts of the seventeen-volume “Fourth and complete edition” (Smith, Elder), of which all but the final volume were approved by Browning before his death. The poems are ordered chronologically according to their first appearance in book form. Thirteen new poems are included in this edition, with Pauline now printed in its entirety. Annotations have been revised throughout to clarify Browning’s references and vocabulary. “Criticism” retains the important contextual perspective of the First Edit

Authors:Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, Eric Flin
Publisher: Bae
Keywords: mercedes, lackey, karres, wizard
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-08-03
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0743488393
ISBN-13: 9780743488396

It just wasn’t fair! Captain Pausert had foiled the deadliest of space pirates and eliminated the threat of the Worm World, yet his troubles just kept piling up. The Empress Haile herself sent him on a secret mission to stop the nanite plague, a self-aware disease that could devastate whole worlds. Then someone convinced the Imperial Fleet that he was actually a wanted criminal, which led to a battle leaving his ship in urgent need of repairs. And while Goth and the Leewit, two of the notorious witches of Karres, could do amazing things, ship repair was not in their line. There was only

Authors:Eric Charpentier, Etienne Ghys, Annick Lesne, Eric Ch
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematics, history, poincare, legacy, scientific
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 2010-02-02
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 082184718X
ISBN-13: 9780821847183

Henri Poincare (1854-1912) was one of the greatest scientists of his time, perhaps the last one to have mastered and expanded almost all areas in mathematics and theoretical physics. He created new mathematical branches, such as algebraic topology, dynamical systems, and automorphic functions, and he opened the way to complex analysis with several variables and to the modern approach to asymptotic expansions. He revolutionized celestial mechanics, discovering deterministic chaos. In physics, he is one of the fathers of special relativity, and his work in the philosophy of sciences is illuminat