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"Written specifically for undergraduate students, Human Health and the Climate Crisis examines the direct and indirect human health impacts of climate change while uniquely exploring climate justice - the equitable protection of all people from climate impacts and the participation of all people in climate-related decision-making regardless of race/ethnicity, class, national origin, indigenous status and gender. This comprehensive text balances appropriate technical content with sufficient contextual information about public health, epidemiology, and climate modeling for students to be able to comprehend the scientific literature on health impacts"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Where the Wild Things Are, Now
• 1: Hot Spots
• 2: The Urban Barnyard
• 3: Nurturing Nature
• 4: Bambi Boom
• 5: Room to Roam
• 6: Out of the Shadows
• 7: Close Encounters
• 8: Home to Roost
• 9: Hide and Seek
• 10: Creature Discomforts
• 11: Catch and Release
• 12: Damage Control
• 13: Fast-Forward
• 14: Embracing the Urban Wild Coda: Lost and Found Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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With wildlife thriving in cities, we have the opportunity to create vibrant urban ecosystems that serve both people and animals. The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures. Today, many of these cities have more large and charismatic wild animals living in them than at any time in at least the past 150 years. Why have so many cities-the most artificial and human-dominated of all Earth's ecosystems-grown rich with wildlife, even as wildlife has declined in most of the rest of the world? And what does this paradox mean for people, wildlife, and nature on our increasingly urban planet? The Accidental Ecosystem is the first book to explain this phenomenon from a deep historical perspective, and its focus includes a broad range of species and cities. Cities covered include New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Austin, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Digging into the natural history of cities and unpacking our conception of what it means to be wild, this book provides fascinating context for why animals are thriving more in cities than outside of them. Author Peter S. Alagona argues that the proliferation of animals in cities is largely the unintended result of human decisions that were made for reasons having little to do with the wild creatures themselves. Considering what it means to live in diverse, multispecies communities and exploring how human and non-human members of communities might thrive together, Alagona goes beyond the tension between those who embrace the surge in urban wildlife and those who think of animals as invasive or as public safety hazards. The Accidental Ecosystem calls on readers to reimagine interspecies coexistence in shared habitats, as well as policies that are based on just, humane, and sustainable approaches.
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• 1. The Virtual Turn
• 2. What Is a Virtual Reality Medium?
• 3. The Virtual Remediation of Spatial Experience
• 4. VR as a Picturing Medium
• 5. Seeing and Doing with VR Media
• 6. On Virtual Realism
• 7. Virtual Reality and Ontology.
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This is the first book to present an aesthetics of virtual reality media. It situates virtual reality media in terms of the philosophy of the arts, comparing them to more familiar media such as painting, film and photography. When philosophers have approached virtual reality, they have almost always done so through the lens of metaphysics, asking questions about the reality of virtual items and worlds, about the value of such things, and indeed, about how they may reshape our understanding of the "real" world. Grant Tavinor finds that approach to be fundamentally mistaken, and that to really account for virtual reality, we must focus on the medium and its uses, and not the hypothetical and speculative instances that are typically the focus of earlier works. He also argues that much of the cultural and metaphysical hype around virtual reality is undeserved. But this does not mean that virtual reality is illusory or uninteresting; on the contrary, it is significant for the altogether different reason that it overturns much of our understanding of how representational media can function and what we can use them to achieve. The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, philosophy of art, philosophy of technology, metaphysics, and game studies.
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"Corina Newsome is saving seaside sparrows while Michelle LaRue uses satellites to study Antarctic birds. Lizzy Lowe takes on what many fear in researching spiders, and Erin Ashe lives out the dream of many studying dolphins and whales. Kristen Hecht chases the elusive hellbender amphibian while Enikö Kubinyi uses robots to get information on wolf pups. These women are working on issues that intersect with biodiversity, species conservation, biology, and more. They stand out for their work in their fields and are also dedicated to science communication to share their knowledge with others. They challenge the assumptions of who a scientist is and what a scientist looks like."-- Amazon.com

• An Unspoken Branch of Natural History
• The Uncertain Beginnings
• Building Sound Foundations
• The Turning Point
• American Schools of Comparative Physiology
• The Belgian School and the Rise of Comparative Biochemistry
• The Canadian Way: Fish Physiology and Biochemistry
• A Showcase of Animals Living on the Edge
• Learning How Animal Brains Work
• Learning How Chemicals Rule Animal Moods
• Epilogue.

"Through the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts are seen as pieces of organic machinery. Animal as Machine explores the life, work, and ideas of scientists who, branding themselves as physiologists, subscribed to mechanistic concepts to explain how animals acquire and process food, breathe, circulate their blood, and sense their environment. As medical physiology thrived in the nineteenth century, zoologists struggled to forge their own distinctive physiology predicated on understanding animal functions in a context of environmental adaptation and evolutionary forces. Physiological schools with distinct emphases that shaped their outlook sprang up around the world. Dividing their time between fieldwork in marine stations and laboratory experimentation, animal physiologists stood in awe of the diversity and ingenuity of the functional strategies by which animals survived. Animal as Machine tells a remarkable and insightful story of the larger-than-life personalities and gripping historical episodes that marked the emergence and blossoming of animal physiology."-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface Part I Fundamentals of Physiology
• Chapter 1 Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
• Chapter 2 Molecules and Cells in Animal Physiology
• Chapter 3 Genomics, Proteomics, and Related Approaches to Physiology
• Chapter 4 Physiological Development and Epigenetics
• Chapter 5 Transport of Solutes and Water Part II Food, Energy, and Temperature
• Chapter 6 Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion
• Chapter 7 Energy Metabolism
• Chapter 8 Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism
• Chapter 9 The Energetics of Aerobic Activity
• Chapter 10 Thermal Relations
• Chapter 11 Food, Energy, and Temperature AT WORK: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places Part III Integrating Systems
• Chapter 12 Neurons
• Chapter 13 Synapses
• Chapter 14 Sensory Processes
• Chapter 15 Nervous System Organization and Biological Clocks
• Chapter 16 Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology
• Chapter 17 Reproduction
• Chapter 18 Integrating Systems AT WORK: Animal Navigation Part IV Movement and Muscle
• Chapter 19 Control of Movement
• Chapter 20 Muscle
• Chapter 21 Movement and Muscle AT WORK: Plasticity in Response to Use and Disuse Part V Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport
• Chapter 22 Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Physiology
• Chapter 23 External Respiration: The Physiology of Breathing
• Chapter 24 Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids (with an Introduction to Acid- Base Physiology)
• Chapter 25 Circulation
• Chapter 26 Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport AT WORK: Diving by Marine Mammals Part VI Water, Salts, and Excretion
• Chapter 27 Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and Mechanisms
• Chapter 28 Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their Environments
• Chapter 29 Kidneys and Excretion (with Notes on Nitrogen Excretion)
• Chapter 30 Water, Salts, and Excretion AT WORK: Mammals of Deserts and Dry Savannas Appendix A The Systeme International and Other Units of Measure Appendix B Prefixes Indicating Orders of Magnitude Appendix C Gases at Standard Temperature and Pressure Appendix D Logarithms Appendix E Exponential and Allometric Equations Appendix F Phylogenetically Independent Contrasts Appendix G The Standard Amino Acids Appendix H Basic Physics Terms Appendix I Summary of Major Bloodborne Hormones in Mammals E-book/online only: Appendix J Fitting Lines to Data Appendix K Mitosis and Meiosis Glossary Index.
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Comprehensive, contemporary, and engaging, Animal Physiology provides evolutionary and ecological context to help students make connections across all levels of physiological scale. One of the major challenges instructors and students face in Animal Physiology is making connections across levels of biological scale. Animal Physiology addresses this challenge by providing ecological and evolutionary context to the study of physiology at all levels of organization: genome, molecular biology, biochemistry, cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems. Hill's inclusion of ecology and evolution helps readers gain a holistic perspective on animal function and sets Animal Physiology apart from texts that focus more narrowly on physiology. Hill's Animal Physiology is trusted by instructors and students because of its authoritative, current, engaging, and lavishly illustrated presentation.
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• Part 1: Exploring Theoretical Issues in Urban Human/Nonhuman Animal Relations 1. Animals in the City, A Review 2. The More-Than-Human Right to the City: A Multispecies Reevaluation 3. The Zoopolitics of Movement in the Postapartheid City 4. Of Fowl Feet, Beak, and Street: Eyes on the Ground in Ybor City
• Part 2: Multispecies Relationships in the City 5. Kawaii Pets and Animal Abandonment in Japan 6. There Goes the Neighborhood: Urban Coyotes and the Politics of Wildlife 7. The Multispecies Community Within the Training and Housing Complex Inside the Racetrack Sluzewiec, From Pre-Socialist, Through Socialist, to Present-Day Warsaw 8. Leisure, Life Satisfaction, and Urban Space: Elderly Bird Keepers in Hong Kong
• Part 3: Public Policy Implications of Animals in the City 9. When Urban Masculinity Manifests in Violence: On Finding Practical Solutions to End the Practice of Dogfighting in America 10. Animal Cruelty and the Urban Environment 11. Breed-Specific Legislation: An Examination of the Policy's Failures For Both People and Pit Bulls 12. The Management of Free-Roaming Cats in US Cities: An Increasingly Important Public Policy Issue 13. Humane Communities: Social Change Through Policies Promoting Collective Welfare.
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This book presents interdisciplinary research to examine the ongoing debates around nonhuman animals in urban spaces. It explores how we can better appreciate and accommodate animals in the city, while also exploring the ecological, health, ethical, and cultural implications of the same. The book addresses seven interrelated themes such as blurred boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, the right of nonhuman species to the city, interactions between the human and nonhuman animals, the fabric of urban space, human and nonhuman complex systems, and collective welfare that forms the basis of a transspecies urban theory. It explains how a holistic understanding of the city requires that these blurred boundaries are acknowledged and critically examined. Chapters analytically consider the need to bring interspecies relationships to the fore to tackle questions of legitimacy and who has the "right" to the city. These also consider important intersections between the economic, political, social, and cultural aspects of the urban experience. The research contained in this book focuses on the development of an urban theory that would eradicate the divide between humans and other species in cities, and it depicts nonhuman animals as social actors that have voices within urban spaces. With global insights on human-animal relationships in a contemporary context, this book will be useful reading for scholars and students of urban studies, animal sciences, animal law, animals and public policy, anthropology, and environmental studies who are interested in the study of animals in cities.
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"Designed for just-in-time learning and support, this quick-reference guide gives you brief and digestible answers to your most pressing questions about teaching secondary math. Written by four seasoned math educators, it offers the guidance and advice these educators wish they had years ago, lessons they've learned over decades of practice, research, coaching, and through working with math teachers every day. These questions are organized into five areas of effort that will help you most thrive in your secondary math classroom"-- Provided by publisher.

This book provides the first book-lengthy study focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Chinese characteristics, in line with China's open ambition of becoming an AI superpower by 2030. China's unique domestic politics has developed distinct characteristics for its AI approach. By analysing national strategy, security and governance aspects of AI in China, this book argues that China's AI approach is sophisticated and multifaceted, and it has brought about both considerable benefits and challenges to China. The book suggests that a more accurate understanding of AI with Chinese characteristics is essential in order to inform the debate regarding what lessons can be learnt from China⁰́₉s AI approach and how to respond to China's rise as the AI leader, if not superpower. Jinghan Zeng is Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University. His research focuses on China⁰́₉s domestic and international politics. He is the author of Slogan Politics: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy Concepts (2020) and The Chinese Communist Party's Capacity to Rule: Ideology, Legitimacy and Party Cohesion (2015). He is also the co-editor of One Belt, One Road, One Story?: Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021).

• Introduction: Haliaeetus Leucocephalus: the species
• Part One: A bird for a new nation
• Part Two: Predator, symbol, and divine messenger
• Part Three: New science and new attitudes
• Part Four: Restoration
• Epilogue: Reconciliation

The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble" yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the United States' founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the brink of extinction. Filled with spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers and the lives of bald eagles themselves-monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world's finest parents-The Bald Eagle is a much-awaited cultural and natural history that demonstrates how this bird's wondrous journey may provide inspiration today, as we grapple with environmental peril on a larger scale.
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• Introduction: Plant and Insect Immigrants
• San José Scale: Contested Origins at the Turn of the Century
• Early Yellow Peril vs. Western Menace: Chestnut Blight, Citrus Canker, and PQN
• Liable Insects at the US-Mexico Border
• Contagious Yellow Peril: Diseased Bodies and the Threat of Little Brown Men
• Pestilence in Paradise: Invasives in Hawai'i
• Japanese Beetle Menace: Discovery of the Beetle
• Infiltrating Perils: A Race against Ownership, Contamination, and Miscegenation
• Yellow Peril No More? National and Naturalized Enemies during World War II
• Conclusion: Toward a Multi(horti)cultural Global Society.

"This timely book reveals how the increase in traffic of transpacific plants, insects, and peoples raised fears of a "biological yellow peril" beginning in the late nineteenth century, when mass quantities of nursery stock and other agricultural products were shipped from large, corporate nurseries in Japan to meet the growing demand for exotics in the United States. Jeannie Shinozuka marshals extensive research to explain how the categories of "native" and "invasive" defined groups as bio-invasions that must be regulated-or somehow annihilated-during a period of American empire-building. Shinozuka shows how the modern fixation on foreign species provided a linguistic and conceptual arsenal for anti-immigration movements that gained ground in the early twentieth century. Xenophobia fed concerns about biodiversity, and in turn facilitated the implementation of plant quarantine measures while also valuing, and devaluing, certain species over others. The emergence and rise of economic entomology and plant pathology alongside public health and anti-immigration movements was not merely coincidental. Ultimately, what this book unearths is that the inhumane and unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II cannot, and should not, be disentangled from this longer history"-- Provided by publisher.

To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Zoo. There, the bald eagles and other birds of prey captured his imagination for the first time. In Bird Brother, Rodney shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America's few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration an accepted part of daily life for nearly everyone he knew. To rent his own apartment, he needed a paycheck-something the money from dealing drugs didn't provide. For that, he took a position in 1992 with a new nonprofit, the Earth Conservation Corps. Gradually, Rodney fell in love with the work to restore and conserve the polluted Anacostia River that flows through D.C. As conditions along the river improved, he helped to reintroduce bald eagles to the region and befriended an injured Eurasian Eagle Owl named Mr. Hoots, the first of many birds whose respect he would work hard to earn. Bird Brother is a story about pursuing dreams against all odds, and the importance of second chances. Rodney's life was nearly upended when he was arrested on drug charges in 2002. The jail sentence sharpened his resolve to get out of the hustling life. With the fierceness of the raptors he had admired for so long, he began to train to become a master falconer and to develop his own raptor education program and sanctuary. Rodney's son Mike, a D.C. firefighter, has also begun his journey to being a master falconer, with his own kids cheering him along the way. Eye-opening, witty, and moving, Bird Brother is a love letter to the raptors and humans who transformed what Rodney thought his life could be. It is an unflinching look at the uphill battle Black children face in pursuing stable, fulfilling lives, a testament to the healing power of nature, and a reminder that no matter how much heartbreak we've endured, we still have the capacity to give back to our communities and follow our wildest dreams.
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• The Savoy-Piedmont 'Renaissance' : from pre-Enlightenment to the end of the 18th century / Germana Pareti
• The Savoy-Piedmont 'Renaissance' : between materialism and spiritualism / Germana Pareti
• Carlo Francesco Giuseppe Bellingeri, a forgotten pioneer of the Italian neurology / Lorenzo Lorusso and Stefano Zago
• Exploring the Museum of Human Anatomy / Giacomo Giacobini, Cristina Cilli, Giancarla Malerba
• Cesare Lombroso: an unconventional biography / Paul Knepper
• Seeing the history of neuroscience in Turin through the lenses of its instruments, part 1 / Marco R. Galloni
• Enrico Morselli in Turin : expectations, challenges, and disappointment / Alessandro Bargoni
• Neuroimaging before neuroimaging : Angelo Mosso's pioneering experiments / Stefano Sandrone
• The role of Federico Kiesow in the development of experimental psychology in Europe / Stefano Zago and Lorenzo Lorusso
• Camillo Negro : neurologist, neuroscientist, science communicator and mentor / Adriano Chiò, Andrea Calvo
• Brief happy military-neurophysiological stint of Mario Camis in wartime Turin / Giovanni Berlucchi
• Seeing the history of neuroscience in Turin through the lenses of its instruments, part 2 / Marco R. Galloni
• Giulio Bizzozero and Aldo Perroncito : reform and regeneration / Ariane Dröscher
• Ernesto Lugaro : the founder of the Turin neurological school / Davide Schiffer
• Ernesto Lugaro : contributions to modern psychiatry / Filippo Bogetto and Silvio Bellino
• Agostino Gemelli's years in Turin / Carlo Cristini and Alessandro Porro
• Mario Ponzo and the age of visual illusions / Nick Wade
• Science and literature at Giuseppe Levi's home in Turin / Marco Piccolino
• Myth, religion, politics, and literature / Giacomo Magrini
• A real imperfection? Rita and the long story of the Nerve Growth Factor / Germana Pareti.

"In the early 18th century, Piedmontese intellectuals and scientists were keen on dialoguing with colleagues and academic institutions across the Alps. They had a truly cosmopolitan approach to research and its dissemination. Physicians were particularly active, and ideas started to circulate. Turin and Piedmont found themselves within a network connecting the most important European capitals, but also their scientific societies and the universities. This stimulating environment was further enriched by the growth of the civil society: new academies were funded and scientific works were published. These became the pillars of a renewed 'cosmopolitan spirit'. During the second half of the century, exchanges among academic institution and societies, but also friendships and personal contacts (sometimes even occasional) favoured the 'process of Europeanisation' (and of 'deprovincialization') of Piedmontese culture and its medicine. This process was defined and described by Vincenzo Ferrone, an historian of the Enlightenment. As a result, Turin joined the league of other European capitals, such as Paris, Berlin and Saint Petersburg (Ferrone, 1988). This became especially evident under Victor Amadeus II, were rationalisation programmes against myths and false beliefs flourished"-- Provided by publisher.

__________ Mother. Daughter. Ruler. Provider. What does it mean to be female? The female species has never been more scrutinized or politicised. As we search to define our gender, combat prejudice, and celebrate the myriad of femininity - what can the animal kingdom teach us about its true nature? In BITCH, award winning zoologist, broadcaster and author Lucy Cooke, takes the reader on a global journey to meet the animals and scientists that are helping to redefine female species and release it from the shackles of stereotype. Lucy will present us with a dazzling portrait of the female, introducing us to polyamorous chimps, alpha-female hyenas, menopausal killer whales and lesbian lizards. By showing us the spectrum of the species, she sets out to re-write the evolutionary labels that have come to define a gender and propose a new understanding of what it means to be female today.
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'A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully...' Observer 'A book that is tearing down the stereotypes and the biases. Absolutely fascinating.' BBC R4 Woman's Hour 'From the heir to Attenborough. 5*' - Telegraph 'Glorious ... A bold and gripping takedown of the sexist mythology baked into biology ... Full of marvellous surprises. Guardian 'Colourful, committed and deeply informed.' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________ What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again. In the last few decades a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biology. Lucy Cooke introduces us to a riotous cast of animals, and the scientists studying them, that are redefining the female of the species. Meet the female lemurs of Madagascar, our ancient primate cousins that dominate the males of their species physically and politically. Or female albatross couples, hooking up together to raise their chicks in Hawaii. Or the meerkat mothers of the Kalahari Desert - the most murderous mammals on the planet. The bitches in BITCH overturn outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology and behaviour. Lucy Cooke's brilliant new book will change how you think - about sex, sexual identity and sexuality in animals and also the very forces that shape evolution. __________ Praise for Lucy's previous book THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS 'Endlessly fascinating' - Bill Bryson 'I cannot remember when I enjoyed a non-fiction book so much' - Daily Express 'A joy from beginning to end' - Guardian 'Best science pick: deeply researched, sassily written' - Nature.
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This picture book follows one color's journey throughout history--from ancient Afghan painters to 1905, when a chemical blue dye was created--and around the world, as it becomes the blue we know today

• A story of the land
• A land of provision
• A land of production
• T.L.L. Temple and the humble beginnings of a legacy
• A Land of industry: railroads, logging, and land acquisition
• The land fenced: ranching, tenant farming, and the birth of forestry
• The fenced land: game and wildlife management
• The land for sale: the Great Depression and difficult decisions
• Whose land Is It? Personality factors in shaping Boggy Slough
• The ranch becomes Boggy Slough
• Conservation land
• Appendix. An ecological analysis from Boggy Slough Conservation Area's original Texas land surveys

Boggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland hardwood forest situated in East Texas' Trinity and Houston counties. More than twenty miles of the Neches River, one of the last free-flowing rivers in the state, serves as the eastern boundary, and for more than a century the land has been one of the state's leading game and industrial forest management areas.A unique blend of natural, cultural, and business history, Boggy Slough presents a highly illustrated narrative of the land, people, and evolving purpose, from time of European contact to the present. Gerland traces the many phases of land use in this forest as it transitioned from hunting, gathering, fishing, and subsistence farming to an experimental mix of stock raising and large-scale commercial forestry, eventually becoming important conservation land along the Neches River Corridor. Gerland explores the natural features and adaptive land use practices of the region as well as the environmental history of railroads and logging camps, barbed wire fences and company cattle ranches, and exclusive hunting clubs. The underlying story is the evolution and environmental impact of Southern Pine Lumber Company, founded in 1893 by T. L. L. Temple. Now owned and maintained by the fifth generation of the Temple family, the Boggy Slough lands are the last remnants of what was once a 1.2 million-acre forest empire. Gerland examines the family's and the lumber company's struggles to grow and manage a second-, third-, and fourth-generation forest, ultimately achieving sustainability while managing changing environmental concerns and attitudes.
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• 1. What is behavioral neuroscience?
• Part I. Neural foundations of behavior: the basic equipment
• 2. Communication within the nervous system
• 3. The organization and functions of the nervous system
• 4. The methods and ethics of research
• Part II. Motivation and emotion: what makes us go
• 5. Drugs, addiction, and reward
• 6. Motivation and the regulation of internal states
• 7. The biology of sex and gender
• 8. Emotion and health
• Part III. Interacting with the world
• 9. Hearing and language
• 10. Vision and visual perception
• 11. The body senses and movement
• Part IV. Complex behavior
• 12. Learning and memory
• 13. Intelligence and cognitive functioning
• 14. Psychological disorders
• 15. Sleep and consciousness

• Part A. The Carboniferous timescale : an introduction / Spencer G. Lucas, Joerg W. Schneider, Svetlana Nikolaeva and Xiangdong Wang
• Carbonifersous chronostratigraphy. The Carboniferous chronostratigraphic scale : history, status and prospectus / Spencer G. Lucas, Joerg W. Schneider, Svetlana Nikolaeva and Xiandong Wang
• Russian regional Carboniferous stratigraphy / Alexander S. Alekseev, Svetlana V. Nikolaeva, Nataliya V. Goreva, Nina B. Donova, Olga L. Kossovaya, Elena I. Kulagina, Nadezhda A. Kucheva, Alena V. Kurilenko, Ruslan V. Kutygin, Lyudmila I. Popeko and Tatyana I. Stepanova
• Proposed chronostratigraphic unites for the Carboniferous and early Permian of the southwestern Gondwana margin / Carlos R. González and Pamela Díaz Saravia
• Magnetostratigraphy. A geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Carboniferous / Mark W. Hounslow
• Isotope stratigraphy. Carboniferous isotope stratigraphy / Jitao Chen, Bo Chen and Isabel P. Montañez
• Cyclostratigraphy. Current synthesis of the penultimate icehouse and its imprint on the Upper Devonian through Permian stratigraphic record / Isabel Patricia Montañez
• Marine biostratigraphy. Carboniferous smaller Foraminifera : convergences and divergences / Daniel Vachard and François La Coze
• Carboniferous fusuline Foraminifera : taxonomy, regional biostratigraphy, and palaeobiogeographic faunal development / Katsumi Ueno
• Global Carboniferous brachiopod biostratigraphy / Lucia Angiolini, Gabriela A. Cisterna, Bernard Mottequin, Shu-Zhong Shen and Giovanni Muttoni
• Carboniferous crinoids / William I. Ausich, Thomas W. Kammer and Georgy V. Mirantsev
• Carboniferous biostratigraphy of rugose corals / Xiang-Deng Wang, Sun-Rong Yang, Le Yao, Tetsuo Sugiyama and Ke-yi Hu
• Carboniferous ammonoid genozones / S. V. Nikoaeva
• Part B. Carboniferous conodont biostratigraphy / James E. Barrick, Alexander S. Alekseev, Silvia Blanco-Ferrera, Natalia V. Goreva, Keyi Hu, Lance L. Lambert, Tamara I. Nemyrovska, Yuping Qi, Scott M. Ritter and Javier Sanz-López
• The biostratigraphy of Carboniferous chondrichthyans / Michal Ginter
• Non-marine biostratigraphy. Appalachian coal bed palynofloras : changes in composition through time and comparison with other areas / Cortland F. Eble
• Carboniferous macroflora biostratigraphy : an overview / Stanislav Opluštil, Christopher J. Cleal, Jun Wang and Mingli Wan
• Improved blattoid insect and conchostracan zonation for the Late Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian, of Euramarica / Joerg W. Schneider, Frank Scholze, Andrew J. Ross, Bascombe M. Blake, Jr and Spencer G. Lucas
• A global review of Carboniferous marine and non-marine bivalve biostratigraphy / Michael R. W. Amler and Vladimir V. Silantiev --Carboniferous tetrapod footprint biostratigraphy, biochronology and evolutionary events / Spencer G. Lucas, Matthew R. Stimson, Olivia A. King, John H. Calder, Chris F. Mansky, Brian L. Hebert and Adrian P. Hunt
• Carboniferous tetrapod biostratigraphy, biochronology and evolutionary events / Spencer G. Lucas

• Introduction to the cardiovascular system
• Cellular structure and function
• Electrical activity of the heart
• Cardiac function
• Vascular function
• Neurohumoral control of the heart and circulation
• Organ blood flow
• Exchange function of the microcirculation
• Cardiovascular integration, adaptation, and pathophysiology.

Praised for its concise coverage, this highly accessible monograph lays a foundation for understanding the underlying concepts of normal cardiovascular function and offers a welcome alternative to a more mechanicastically oriented approach or an encyclopedic physiology text. Clear explanations, ample illustrations, and engaging clinical cases and problems provide the perfect guidance for self-directed learning and prepare you to excel in clinical practice. -- From publisher's description.