Authors:Hugh M. French, Olav Slaymaker,
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: canadian, series, geography, geographers, association, environments, canada, cold
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1997-05
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0773516360
ISBN-13: 9780773516366

A collection of scientific essays about the physical nature of Canada’s coldness. They focus on the distinctive attributes of Canada’s cold environments, their temporal and spatial variability, and the constraints that coldness places on human activity. This text is aimed at environmental scientists at all levels who need informed overviews of the substantive findings on a range of cold-related topics.

Author: Olav Velthuis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: prices, princeton, studies, sociology, art, cultural, contemporary, symbolic, meanings, market, talking
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-07-05
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0691121664
ISBN-13: 9780691121666

How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and Amsterdam, Olav Velthuis shows how contemporary art galleries juggle the contradictory logics of art and economics. In doing so, they rely on a highly ritualized business repertoire. For instance, a sharp distinction between a gallery’s museumlike front space and its businesslike back space saf

Author: Olav Kallenberg
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: probability, applications, principles, invariance, symmetries, probabilistic
Number of Pages: 510
Published: 2005-07-27
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0387251154
ISBN-13: 9780387251158

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the three basic symmetries of probability theory - contractability, exchangeability, and rotatability - defined as invariance in distribution under contractions, permutations, and rotations. Originating with the pioneering work of de Finetti from the 1930’s, the theory has evolved into a unique body of deep, beautiful, and often surprising results, comprising the basic representations and invariance properties in one and several dimensions, and exhibiting some unexpected links between the various symmetries as well as to many other areas of mo

Author: Olav Giere
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: aquatic, sediments, fauna, motile, microscopic, meiobenthology
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 3540686576
ISBN-13: 9783540686576

Meiobenthology is the science of the tiny animals that live in huge numbers in all aquatic sediments. This fully revised and enlarged second edition emphasizes new discoveries and developments in this field. Major progress has been made in three general areas: - Systematics, diversity and distribution, - Ecology, food webs, and energy flow, - Environmental aspects, including studies of anthropogenic impacts. The meiobenthos of polar and tropical regions, deep-sea bottoms and hydrothermal vents are now studied in more detail. The high number of species found to survive under such extreme c

Author: Olav Kjrven
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: bank, world, technical, paper, experience, environmental, review, impact, assessment
Number of Pages: 146
Published: 1997-04
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0821339230
ISBN-13: 9780821339237

Author: Olav Kallenberg
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: probability, modern, foundations
Number of Pages: 648
Published: 2002-01-08
List price: $97.00
ISBN-10: 0387953132
ISBN-13: 9780387953137

From the reviews of the first edition: "...Kallenberg’s present book would have to qualify as the assimilation of probability par excellence. It is a great edifice of material, clearly and ingeniously presented, without any non-mathematical distractions. Readers wishing to venture into it may do so with confidence that they are in very capable hands." F.B. Knight, Mathematical Reviews "... Indeed the monograph has the potential to become a (possibly even ``the’’) major reference book on large parts of probability theory for the next decade or more." M. Scheutzow, Zentralbl

Author: Eikeland Olav
Publisher: Peter Lang
Keywords: aristotelian, weiterbildung, und, studies, berufs, vocational, education, continuing, zur, studien, phronesis, aristotle, philosophy, dialogue, research, action, ways
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2008-05-16
List price: $111.95
ISBN-10: 3039114719
ISBN-13: 9783039114719