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: Diane Heith
Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics
Keywords: presidential, leadership, opinion, public, govern, polling
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2003-10-28
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0804748497
ISBN-13: 9780804748490

Presidents spend millions of dollars on public opinion polling while in office. Critics often point to this polling as evidence that a “permanent campaign” has taken over the White House at the expense of traditional governance. But has presidential polling truly changed the shape of presidential leadership? Diane J. Heith examines the polling practices of six presidential administrations—those of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton—dissecting the poll apparatus of each period. She contends that while White House polls significantly influence presidential messages and respon

Authors:Michael Grosser, Michael Kunzinger, Michael Oberguge
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: applications, general, mathematics, relativity, functions, theory, generalized, geometric
Number of Pages: 521
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1402001452
ISBN-13: 9781402001451

This work provides the first comprehensive introduction to the nonlinear theory of generalized functions (in the sense of Colombeau’s construction) on differentiable manifolds. Particular emphasis is laid on a diffeomorphism invariant geometric approach to embedding the space of Schwartz distributions into algebras of generalized functions. The foundations of a `nonlinear distributional geometry’ are developed, supplying a solid base for an increasing number of applications of algebras of generalized functions to questions of a primarily geometric mature, in particular in m

Authors:Michael Oberguggenberger, Michael Grosser, Michael
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Keywords: notes, mathematics, series, research, functions, theory, generalized, nonlinear
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1999-03-16
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 0849306493
ISBN-13: 9780849306495

Questions regarding the interplay of nonlinearity and the creation and propagation of singularities arise in a variety of fields-including nonlinear partial differential equations, noise-driven stochastic partial differential equations, general relativity, and geometry with singularities. A workshop held at the Erwin-Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna investigated these questions and culminated in this volume of invited papers from experts in the fields of nonlinear partial differential equations, structure theory of generalized functions, geometry and gene

Authors:Michael Hatzenbühler, Michael Fresenius, Michael Hec
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: schmerztherapie, spezielle, german, pr�fung, vorbereitung, zur, repetitorium, auf
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 3540333002
ISBN-13: 9783540333005

Das Repetitorium Schmerztherapie hat sich neben den erfolgreichen Repetitorien Anästhesie und Intensivmedizin innerhalb kurzer Zeit etabliert und erscheint in seiner 2. Auflage komplett überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Orientiert an den Weiterbildungsinhalten der BÄK für die Zusatzbezeichnung "Spezielle Schmerztherapie" vermittelt es in knapper und verständlicher Form, mit vielen Tabellen und Schemata Wissenswertes über: Grundlagen der Schmerzentstehung und Verarbeitung, Pharmako- und Phytotherapeutika, Invasive Therapieverfahren, Akute/postoperative Schmerztherapie, Diagnostische und ther

Authors:Andre Noel Potvin,  Michael Jespersen, Michael
Publisher: Productive Fitness Publishing
Keywords: dumbbell, exercises, guide, quick, handbook, reference
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2008-09-22
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1926534115
ISBN-13: 9781926534114

This comprehensive little book covers a series of dumbbell exercises to work out the upper-body, lower-body, and abdominals. Each exercise has a start and finish photo, with easy to follow step-by-step instructions. The Great Dumbbell Handbook also shows you how to set-up your own dumbbell exercise routine, as well as pointers on stretching, staying motivated, and safety.