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Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project BudBurst collect valuable research data, which, when pooled together, create an enormous body of scientific data on a vast geographic scale. In return, such projects aim to increase participants’ connections to science, place, and nature, while supporting science literacy and environmental stewardship. In Citizen Science, experts from a variety of disciplines—including scientists and education specialists working at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where many large citizen science programs use birds as proxies for biodiversity—share their experiences of creating and implementing successful citizen science projects, primarily those that use massive data sets gathered by citizen scientists to better understand the impact of environmental change. This first and foundational book for this developing field of inquiry addresses basic aspects of how to conduct citizen science projects, including goal-setting, program design, and evaluation, as well as the nuances of creating a robust digital infrastructure and recruiting a large participant base through communications and marketing. An overview of the types of research approaches and techniques demonstrates how to make use of large data sets arising from citizen science projects. A final section focuses on citizen science’s impacts and its broad connections to understanding the human dimensions and educational aspects of participation. Citizen Science teaches teams of program developers and researchers how to cross the bridge from success at public engagement to using citizen science data to understand patterns and trends or to test hypotheses about how ecological processes respond to change at large geographic scales. Intended as a resource for a broad audience of experts and practitioners in natural sciences, information science, and social sciences, this book can be used to better understand how to improve existing programs, develop new ones, and make better use of the data resources that have accumulated from citizen science efforts. Its focus on harnessing the impact of "crowdsourcing" for scientific and educational endeavors is applicable to a wide range of fields, especially those that touch on the importance of massive collaboration aimed at understanding and conserving what we can of the natural world.

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This unique dictionary and introduction to Global Environmental Governance (GEG), written and compiled by two veterans of the international stage, provides a compilation of over 5500 terms, organizations and acronyms, drawn from hundreds of official sources. An introductory essay frames the major issues in GEG and outlines the pitfalls of talking past one another when discussing the most critical of issues facing the planet. It challenges those who are concerned with the management of our planet and its inhabitants to understand and accept a vocabulary common to the often-opposing objectives sought in the many GEG instruments. The result is a practical tool that should find a central place on the desk of anyone involved in environmental management, development or sustainability issues anywhere in the world, including the United Nations, government policy makers, NGOs and other stakeholder groups, the business community, and students and professionals. This fully revised and updated edition contains over 500 new entries and acronyms on global environmental governance as well a new introductory section on global water governance, one of the most pressing environmental issues in our era of climate change, growing populations and food shortages. Praise for the first edition:

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A riveting photo journal documenting the pandemic by notable and noteworthy actor Richard Edson.“I began the YEAR ZERO LOCKDOWN JOURNAL on March 20, 2020, the first day of the Los Angeles lockdown. I ended it a year later March 19th, 2021." "On the first day of lock down I took my bicycle and camera and rode through the empty, silent streets of Los Angeles. Everything looked the same, but everything was completely different. I took photos and came back and wrote about it. And I kept it up for next twelve months, through our personal and collective isolation, through the ups and downs of the pandemic, the slow, halting opening of society, the politicization of the virus, the George Floyd protests, the elections, the Stop-the-Steal movement, and the storming of the Capital. Covid-19 was beyond anything we thought possible or could even imagine. It’s the stuff of science fiction and dystopian nightmares. But the writers and doomsayers were right. And here we are. Each of us who have lived through Year Zero have our own stories to tell. This, in photographs and texts, is mine."

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Prince explores American celebrity and desire through the lens of Times Square This new artist’s book by Richard Prince (born 1949) revisits a seldom seen body of work made during his "Time Life" years spent around the theaters, grind houses, bars and restaurants of New York's 42nd Street and Times Square. In an introductory essay titled "The Counterfeit Memory," first published in 1981, the artist describes wandering into the Orleans Theater, writing that "I'm not sure who I am when I'm there or if, in fact, I'm comfortable and want to be there at all. One's identity it seems is easily changed when what's in front of you is reversed and transparent, directed and produced." In artworks that include some of his earliest portraits, Prince captures the ephemeral, photographic celebrity of publicity headshots, gossip columns, nightclub advertisements and pornographic films, alongside finely rendered drawings such as "Montgomery Clift as Sigmund Freud" and "George Reeves as Himself." In The Entertainers' concluding essay, "The Lone Ranger," the artist states, "I think I'll go after third place ... leave first for the hero."

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Cancer is the focus of intense clinical and scientific interest. This research increasingly leverages our understanding of molecular biology for the development of targeted therapeutics. Well-selected case studies provide an opportunity to explain specific examples of cancers and their management in the context of engaging, patient-centered cases. This text is a clinical companion for Weinberg’s The Biology of Cancer. However, it includes sufficient background and explanatory detail to be used on its own.

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Documenting the renowned swimmer Mark Spitz who won seven gold medals while breaking seven world records at the 1972 Olympics. Every aspect of his roller-coaster career is recorded, from an age-group prodigy and four-medal flop' at the 1968 Olympics to an outstanding collegiate career at Indiana University and a gold-medal haul in 1972 followed by lucrative endorsements and an unsuccessful stint in entertainment. Personal notes about his stormy relationships, his father, and the anti-Semitism he faced throughout his career are also included.'

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A dramatic archaeological find at Windsor Castle reveals Edward III's 'House of the Round Table', designed to show off Edward's power and prestige at a crucial moment in his attempts to lay claim to the throne of France. The image of King Arthur's Round Table is well-known, both as Thomas Malory's portrayal of a fellowship of knights dedicated to the highest ideals of chivalry, and as the great wooden table at Winchester castle. Now a dramatic archaeological find at Windsor castle sheds new light on the idea of a round table as a gathering: the 'House of the Round Table' which Edward III ordered to be constructed at the conclusion of his Windsor festival of 1344. Thediscovery of the foundation trench of a great building two hundred feet in diameter in the Upper Ward of Windsor castle, allows the reconstruction of that building's appearance and raises the question of its purpose. Chronicles, building materials inventories from the royal accounts, medieval romances, and earlier descriptions of round table festivals all confirm the archaeological evidence: at a time when secular orders of knighthood were almost unknown,Edward declared his intention to found an Order of the Round Table with three hundred knights. This grand building, and the Arthurian entertainments he planned for it, would bind his nobles to his cause at a crucial point in hisprogress to claiming the throne of France. His ambitious scheme, however, was overtaken by events. Victory at Crécy in 1346 confirmed Edward's reputation, and the order which he founded in 1348 was the much more exclusive Order of the Garter, rewarding those commanders who had helped him to win the Crécy campaign. His reputation was assured, the omens for his reign were auspicious; he had the loyalty of his knights and magnates. The Round Table building was abandoned, and eventually pulled down in the 1360s. Thus a major plank in the strategic thinking of one of England's greatest kings almost became a footnote in history. Time Team discovered ... there [are] indeed foundations of a massive round building in Windsor Castle's upper ward. A splendidly produced volume, which gives full credit both to the history and to the archaeology: analysis of the chivalric background, archaeological analysis, discussion of the probable form of the building [and] the early history of Windsor Castle as well as the types of stone used by Edward III's masons. The book is attractively illustrated, and its appendices provide a full text inLatin, with translation, of the building accounts, as well as translations of many of the relevant chronicle extracts. MICHAEL PRESTWICH, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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A dramatic archaeological find at Windsor Castle reveals Edward III's 'House of the Round Table', designed to show off Edward's power and prestige at a crucial moment in his attempts to lay claim to the throne of France. NEW LOWER PRICE The image of King Arthur's Round Table is well-known, both as Thomas Malory's portrayal of a fellowship of knights dedicated to the highest ideals of chivalry, and as the great wooden table at Winchester castle. Now a dramatic archaeological find at Windsor castle sheds new light on the idea of a round table as a gathering: the 'House of the Round Table' which Edward III ordered to be constructed at the conclusion of his Windsor festival of 1344. The discovery of the foundation trench of a great building two hundred feet in diameter in the Upper Ward of Windsor castle, allows the reconstruction of that building's appearance and raises the question of itspurpose. Chronicles, building materials inventories from the royal accounts, medieval romances, and earlier descriptions of round table festivals all confirm the archaeological evidence: at a time when secular orders of knighthood were almost unknown, Edward declared his intention to found an Order of the Round Table with three hundred knights. This grand building, and the Arthurian entertainments he planned for it, would bind his nobles to his cause ata crucial point in his progress to claiming the throne of France. His ambitious scheme, however, was overtaken by events. Victory at Crécy in 1346 confirmed Edward's reputation, and the order which he founded in 1348 was themuch more exclusive Order of the Garter, rewarding those commanders who had helped him to win the Crécy campaign. His reputation was assured, the omens for his reign were auspicious; he had the loyalty of his knights and magnates.The Round Table building was abandoned, and eventually pulled down in the 1360s. Thus a major plank in the strategic thinking of one of England's greatest kings almost became a footnote in history. Time Team discovered .there [are] indeed foundations of a massive round building in Windsor Castle's upper ward. A splendidly produced volume, which gives full credit both to the history and to the archaeology: analysis of the chivalric background, archaeological analysis, discussion of the probable form of the building [and] the early history of Windsor Castle as well as the types of stone used by Edward III's masons. The book is attractively illustrated, and its appendicesprovide a full text in Latin, with translation, of the building accounts, as well as translations of many of the relevant chronicle extracts. MICHAEL PRESTWICH, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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Arthropod transmitted infections continue to be a front-line issue in all regions of the world. Understanding the insects that transmit diseases, the mechanisms of infection and the resulting diseases is vital to doctors, veterinarians, public health workers and disease control agencies. This major reference examines the biology, classification and control of arthropods that cause disease in animals and humans. The morphology, taxonomy and phylogeny of fleas, flies, lice, mites, midges, mosquitoes and ticks are described, with descriptions of their medical and veterinary significance, diseases they cause, insect distribution and global disease spread. Updated, developed and reworked from Doug Kettle's seminal Medical and Veterinary Entomology, this major new reference presents vital information in encyclopedia format, with alphabetical entries and an extensive index to make key facts easy to find. This new treatment of the subject provides accessible content and up-to-date research, illustrated by line drawings and colour photographs.

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An Inside Account of One Company's Remarkable Transformation Take a fascinating, decade-long journey to witness the remarkabletransformation of a mediocre company into a team-based topcompetitor. Your guides are a trio of participant/observers, allkey players in achieving this systemic change of classicproportion. --Jerome M. Rosow, president, Work in America Institute, Inc. Anyone in a leadership position today, union or management, shouldread this book. It tells the important story of howlabor/management partnerships can make a difference and provideworkable solutions to complex problems presented by today's globaleconomy. --Boyd Young, international president, United PaperworkersInternational Union A Cinderella story of perseverance and triumph, What Works is aninstructive guide to achieving success through cooperation,teamwork, and courage. It tells the tale of how ChampionInternational--one of America's oldest and largest industrial papercompanies--transformed itself from an underachieving,tradition-bound organization into a thriving Wall Street winnerover the course of eleven years. In answering the question of how acompany can change successfully over time while remaining bothhumane and profitable, this brisk, brutally honest, insiders'account offers a number of hard-won lessons and practical tools tomanagers and visionaries faced with the same daunting challenges.

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The risks of arms control and disarmament, how they can be reduced or eliminated, and the political implications of drastic disarmament are analyzed by eleven experts. Emphasis is placed on the development of techniques for disarming that are politically feasible and give reasonable assurance to each side that the other is not violating its obligations for any serious reason. Three major aspects of the problem are considered: how to get the disarmament process started, and once started to continue it how to retain the freedom of diplomatic action that might be needed to defend national interests; and how to approach the problems of political security in a fully disarmed world. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Serves as an ideal complement to your medical student curriculum and a helpful tool for primary care residents and physicians who want to broaden their knowledge of eye disease diagnosis and treatment. The tenth edition includes updated, practical information on the diagnosis, management and referral of common ocular disorders, and summarises important ophthalmic concepts and techniques. It includes coverage of eye examinations, acute and chronic vision loss, red eye, ocular and orbital injuries, amblyopia and strabismus, neuro-ophthalmology, ocular manifestations of systemic diseases and drugs and the eye.This edition includes a new chapter on eyelid, orbital, and lacrimal disease. It also features 140 figures, access to 17 video clips, key points to remember, sample problems to test knowledge, and annotated resources.

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Las relaciones entre ética y religión, entre relativismo y fundamentalismo, entre naturaleza humana y deseo humano preocuparon largamente a Richard Rorty. Producto de esa preocupación es este libro en el cual, poco antes de su muerte, el filósofo norteamericano define una ética laica que no está situada en un lugar subordinado respecto de la religión, sino que tiene una autonomía precisa y constituye un importante recurso para garantizar el futuro espiritual de la humanidad. Apoyándose en los grandes autores que guiaron el conjunto de su obra, y en abierta y explícita oposición a las doctrinas promovidas por Benedicto XVI, Rorty afirma que la única fuente de ideales morales es la imaginación humana.

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Encuadernación: Rústica con solapasTécnicas sencillas para hacer realidad los sueños.Ha imaginado cómo sería su vida si pudiera tener, hacer o ser lo que desea? Esto es hacer uso positivo de la visualización creativa: la capacidad de ver con la mente. Cada vez que soñamos despiertos, estamos visualizando.En Visualización creativa Richard Webster presenta un sistema efectivo para lograr lo que siempre has deseado. Con ejercicios sencillos y técnicas fáciles de seguir, podrás mejorar todas las áreas de tu vida, incluyendo la salud, las relaciones personales, la carrera laboral, la creatividad y las finanzas.También descubrirás qué hacer si te encuentras con dificultades en el camino a alcanzar tus sueños.La visualización creativa es la capacidad de ver con la mente; es una capacidad que todos poseemos en mayor o menor grado. Es el arte de crear imágenes en la mente para obtener lo que deseamos, y aunque algunas personas la usan instintivamente, la mayoría necesita aprender

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En el siglo XIX la energía de vapor y la paz hicieron posible un movimiento internacional de bienes que llevó a los que hoy son países ricos a alcanzar la hegemonía: fue la Gran Divergencia. La nueva globalización, en cambio, está siendo impulsada por las tecnologías de la información, que han reducido radicalmente el coste del movimiento internacional de ideas. Las empresas multinacionales no solo trasladan el trabajo intensivo en mano de obra a los países en vías de desarrollo, sino también sus conocimientos. El resultado es la Gran Convergencia actual.Impulsada por el rápido cambio tecnológico y la fragmentación de la producción, los efectos de la globalización son ahora más repentinos, más selectivos, más impredecibles. Y plantea, tanto a los países ricos como a los países en vías de desarrollo, unos retos sin precedentes.

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Desde su posición de declarado ateísmo, Dawkins disecciona en este libro la irracionalidad de la creencia en Dios y el daño que la religión, desde sus numerosas perspectivas, ha causado en la sociedad a través de los siglos. Mediante un exhaustivo análisis de todos los argumentos que sustentan la religión, demuestra la improbabilidad de la existencia de un ser supremo y ofrece las múltiples ventajas que, según su criterio, ofrece el ateísmo para el individuo y la sociedad.

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La colección Clásicos bilingües te ofrece un sencillo método para aprender idiomas, combinando en inglés y el español en un mismo libro. Para ello, presenta los mejores títulos de los clásicos, magníficamente ilustrados, en los que podrás encontrar primero el texto en español y a continuación en inglés. Descubre la mágica historia de amor de la Bella y la Bestia y el ingenio de los siete cabritillos narrados en dos idiomas: inglés y español.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Grandes cuestionesQué significa ser consciente? Nos engaña la mente? Qué es esa cosa llamada amor? Existe realmente el libre albedrío? Es posible pensar en dos cosas a la vez?Grandes cuestiones es una serie pensada para responder a las preguntas fundamentales y a menudo poco explicadas de la ciencia y la filosofía. En cada libro un experto da respuesta de manera concisa y rigurosa a esas grandes preguntas que han dejado perplejos a los hombres.

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Un análisis provocador de la vida y la obra del médico vienés.

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Humor e inteligencia a raudales a pesar del ?tema?. Una novela que se adelantó a la historia.

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Encuadernación: CartonéColección: Sillón orejeroBasado en la novela original de Richard StarkTras arreglar las cuentas con los que le habían traicionado, Parker, el truhán surgido de la pluma de Richard Stark (seudónimo de Donald Westlake), se ha arreglado la cara y disfruta de las comodidades de la vida alojándose en buenos hoteles. Hasta que un chivato lo descubre ante La Compañía para conseguir la recompensa. El intento de eliminarle sale mal y Parker recurre a diversos contactos de los bajos fondos que le deben favores para ir a por la cabeza de la organización que quiere quitarle de en medio.La Compañía es, tras El cazador (Astiberri, 2010), que le valió a Darwyn Cooke los premios Eisner y Harvey al mejor autor de cómic, la segunda adaptación de Cooke de las novelas de Parker, en esta ocasión mezclando partes de la segunda y tercera novelas de la serie: El hombre que cambió de cara y La Compañía.

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