Author: Dr. Jeffrey Carrier
Publisher: Voyageur Pre
Keywords: sharks, discovering
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0760325626
ISBN-13: 9780760325629

Sharks are one of the world’s most feared and most misunderstood of all animals. These powerful predators have dominated life in the oceans for millions of years, yet are increasingly under the threat of slaughter by man. Discover the dynamic and secretive world of the shark, and witness its grace and splendor as hunter of the seas.

Authors:Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, Michael R. Heith
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: biology, marine, sharks, relatives
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2004-03-19
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 084931514X
ISBN-13: 9780849315145

Sharks and their relatives are* the subjects of tremendous interest. The public’s fascination is influenced by their roles in movies and popular literature, while the media races to cover stories of predators endangering helpless humans. The alarming threat to shark populations is also garnering significant publicity and leading to a worldwide increase in conservation initiatives. Finally, technological advances are impacting every area of shark research and revealing incredible secrets about these mysterious animals. These major factors indicate the need for a timely synthesis of the bi

Authors:Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, Michael R. Heith
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: conservation, marine, biology, physiology, adaptive, relatives, biodiversity, sharks
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2010-03-09
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1420080474
ISBN-13: 9781420080476

Since the award-winning first volume, The Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives, published in 2004, the field has witnessed tremendous developments in research, rapid advances in technology, and the emergence of new investigators beginning to explore issues of biodiversity, distribution, physiology, and ecology in ways that eluded more traditional studies. As an entirely new companion volume, Sharks and Their Relatives II: Biodiversity, Adaptive Physiology, and Conservation brings you up to speed on these significant changes, specifically examining how elasmobranch fishes – the sharks, skate

Author: Jim Carrier
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: movement, rights, civil, guide, traveler
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-01-19
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 015602697X
ISBN-13: 9780156026970

In 2004, the United States will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. As our country begins a national retrospective of the civil rights movement, here is the perfect book to help explore the long struggle toward racial equality. Part guidebook, part civil rights primer, A Traveler’s Guide to the Civil Rights Movement memorializes the years 1954 to 1965 as well as the vast, underappreciated black history from which our modern civil rights movement began. More than five million people visit civil rights and black history landmarks each year, from the National Vot

Author: Jim Carrier
Publisher: International Marine
Keywords: storm, ship
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-10-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 007135526X
ISBN-13: 9780071355261

"Utterly compulsive and unputdownable--the most exciting, authentic, and humanly moving of all the recent Storm books. Brilliantly paced and perfectly balanced. . . . Carrier is a marvelously trustworthy narrator. . . . A terrific book."--Jonathan Raban, author of Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings and Bad Land: An American Romance "A wonderful story. An extremely well-written account of the events as I knew them. I commend Jim Carrier for a magnificent job."--Jerry D. Jarrell, Director, National Hurricane Center In October 1998, the majestic schooner Fantome came face-to-face with on

Author: Brian Carrier
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: analysis, forensic, system, file
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2005-03-27
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 0321268172
ISBN-13: 9780321268174

This is an advanced cookbook and reference guide for digital forensic practitioners. File System Forensic Analysis focuses on the file system and disk. The file system of a computer is where most files are stored and where most evidence is found; it also the most technically challenging part of forensic analysis. This book offers an overview and detailed knowledge of the file system and disc layout. The overview will allow an investigator to more easily find evidence, recover deleted data, and validate his tools. The cookbook section will show how to use the many open source tools for a

Author: James G. Carrier
Publisher: Berg Publisher
Keywords: market, explorations, anthropology, culture, western, free, meanings
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1859731449
ISBN-13: 9781859731444

For almost twenty years, the ’Free Market’ has been a central feature of public debate in the West, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. In the name of the Market and its supposed benefits, governments and international agencies have imposed massive changes on peoples’ lives.Curiously, scholars have paid little attention to the ways that the idea of the Market is invoked, to what it might mean and how it is being used. This book helps correct that state of affairs. Focusing on the United States, where the Market model is strongest, authors analyze portrayals of the Market, its value