Author: Hugh Drummond
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197629849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"Aggressive competition between sibling chicks differs between blue-footed and brown boobies. In a brood of two blue-foot chicks, the senior one (four days older) maintains dominance over the three-month nestling period by daily low-level attacking, ensuring privileged growth and survival for itself by limiting junior's begging and feeding. Both blue-foot siblings often survive and fledge, but when parents provide insufficient food, senior increases its aggression and junior starves to death or gets killed by adult neighbors while seeking adoption in their nests. In contrast, brown booby parents bring less food to their broods and their senior chicks are unconditionally intolerant and violent; they attack their sibling at every opportunity and toss it out of the nest, to certain death. The behavioral roles of booby family members - including conditional sharing, siblicide, and parental passivity - are explained by Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness and kin selection, which also applies to humans"--
Synthesis
Author: Deborah A. Schmedemann
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
ISBN: 1454886501
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Communication employs a successful step-by-step approach to effective legal reasoning and writing skills, teaching students how to think like a lawyer: how to read the law, how to reason a client’s situation, and how to write about the case in different legal forms. Maintaining a pedagogy designed to teach students in a variety of ways, the text incorporates numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners. Exercises—based on tort law issues that are particularly accessible to first-year students—provide opportunities for active application of skills. Also included is complete coverage of memo and brief writing. The book is accompanied by a Teacher’s Manual that contains additional exercises based on different areas of the first-year curriculum, suggestions for how to most effectively use the book, and sample syllabi.
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
ISBN: 1454886501
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Communication employs a successful step-by-step approach to effective legal reasoning and writing skills, teaching students how to think like a lawyer: how to read the law, how to reason a client’s situation, and how to write about the case in different legal forms. Maintaining a pedagogy designed to teach students in a variety of ways, the text incorporates numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners. Exercises—based on tort law issues that are particularly accessible to first-year students—provide opportunities for active application of skills. Also included is complete coverage of memo and brief writing. The book is accompanied by a Teacher’s Manual that contains additional exercises based on different areas of the first-year curriculum, suggestions for how to most effectively use the book, and sample syllabi.
Key to North American Birds
Author: Elliott Coues
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Body Language from Head to Toe
Author: Per-Olof Hasselgren
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631355449
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Written by a physician, Body Language – from Head to Toe is a “dictionary” of American idioms and other expressions that contain the name of a body part. The use of body part-related expressions is both interesting and fun. This book contains about 2,000 such idioms, words, and expressions, such as “with the back against the wall,” “brainstorming,” “sweet tooth,” and “tongue in cheek.” Says author Per-Olof Hasselgren, “As a surgeon, I understand the importance of anatomy and the knowledge of organs and tissues. This book reflects my longstanding interest in idioms and other expressions referring to body parts, and it ‘connects’ anatomy with the spoken and written language.” This book was written for three main reasons. First, anatomy matters, particularly in surgery. During the last several years, collecting such expressions became a hobby for the author. Second, as someone moving to this country from another part of the world, Dr. Hasselgren is interested in the peculiarities of the American language. Idioms, slang, and other expressions are specific for any given language and quite often cannot be directly translated. Third, when one starts to be aware of them, written and spoken body language can become quite entertaining.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631355449
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Written by a physician, Body Language – from Head to Toe is a “dictionary” of American idioms and other expressions that contain the name of a body part. The use of body part-related expressions is both interesting and fun. This book contains about 2,000 such idioms, words, and expressions, such as “with the back against the wall,” “brainstorming,” “sweet tooth,” and “tongue in cheek.” Says author Per-Olof Hasselgren, “As a surgeon, I understand the importance of anatomy and the knowledge of organs and tissues. This book reflects my longstanding interest in idioms and other expressions referring to body parts, and it ‘connects’ anatomy with the spoken and written language.” This book was written for three main reasons. First, anatomy matters, particularly in surgery. During the last several years, collecting such expressions became a hobby for the author. Second, as someone moving to this country from another part of the world, Dr. Hasselgren is interested in the peculiarities of the American language. Idioms, slang, and other expressions are specific for any given language and quite often cannot be directly translated. Third, when one starts to be aware of them, written and spoken body language can become quite entertaining.
National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia
Author: Lucy Spelman
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426310226
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Contains more than 1,000 full-color photographs and text of many animals.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426310226
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Contains more than 1,000 full-color photographs and text of many animals.
Pinocchio, The Tale Of A Puppet
Author: Collodi C.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521054782
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Карло Коллоди – это всемирно известный итальянский писатель и журналист, известный прежде всего своей детской сказкой «Приключения Пиноккио. История деревянной куклы». Деревянный мальчик Пиноккио очень хочет стать настоящим человеком, но чтобы претворить его мечту в реальность, судьба приготовила Пиноккио множество препятствий и испытаний: голод, холод, обман Кота и Лисы, проверку на честность и многое другое… Чем же закончатся его приключения?Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521054782
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Карло Коллоди – это всемирно известный итальянский писатель и журналист, известный прежде всего своей детской сказкой «Приключения Пиноккио. История деревянной куклы». Деревянный мальчик Пиноккио очень хочет стать настоящим человеком, но чтобы претворить его мечту в реальность, судьба приготовила Пиноккио множество препятствий и испытаний: голод, холод, обман Кота и Лисы, проверку на честность и многое другое… Чем же закончатся его приключения?Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
Book Description
Plants and Animals of Hawaii
Author: Susan Scott
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9780935848939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A thorough treatment of the many plant and animal species found in Hawai'i.
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9780935848939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A thorough treatment of the many plant and animal species found in Hawai'i.
The Osprey
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Steinberg Groups for Jordan Pairs
Author: Ottmar Loos
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 1071602640
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The present monograph develops a unified theory of Steinberg groups, independent of matrix representations, based on the theory of Jordan pairs and the theory of 3-graded locally finite root systems. The development of this approach occurs over six chapters, progressing from groups with commutator relations and their Steinberg groups, then on to Jordan pairs, 3-graded locally finite root systems, and groups associated with Jordan pairs graded by root systems, before exploring the volume's main focus: the definition of the Steinberg group of a root graded Jordan pair by a small set of relations, and its central closedness. Several original concepts, such as the notions of Jordan graphs and Weyl elements, provide readers with the necessary tools from combinatorics and group theory. Steinberg Groups for Jordan Pairs is ideal for PhD students and researchers in the fields of elementary groups, Steinberg groups, Jordan algebras, and Jordan pairs. By adopting a unified approach, anybody interested in this area who seeks an alternative to case-by-case arguments and explicit matrix calculations will find this book essential.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 1071602640
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The present monograph develops a unified theory of Steinberg groups, independent of matrix representations, based on the theory of Jordan pairs and the theory of 3-graded locally finite root systems. The development of this approach occurs over six chapters, progressing from groups with commutator relations and their Steinberg groups, then on to Jordan pairs, 3-graded locally finite root systems, and groups associated with Jordan pairs graded by root systems, before exploring the volume's main focus: the definition of the Steinberg group of a root graded Jordan pair by a small set of relations, and its central closedness. Several original concepts, such as the notions of Jordan graphs and Weyl elements, provide readers with the necessary tools from combinatorics and group theory. Steinberg Groups for Jordan Pairs is ideal for PhD students and researchers in the fields of elementary groups, Steinberg groups, Jordan algebras, and Jordan pairs. By adopting a unified approach, anybody interested in this area who seeks an alternative to case-by-case arguments and explicit matrix calculations will find this book essential.
Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Contains list of members.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Contains list of members.