In this authoritative review, leading international researchers explore the growing range of applications of stable isotope techniques for probing and integrating biological processes and palaeoclimatic cycles. The interdisciplinary approach covers a wide range of issues, opportunities and developments, setting interactions with plants in the context of water and nutrient cycles, exchanges with the atmosphere and modelling past and present climate change. This important book will appeal to those requiring an overview of the use of stable isotopes in aquatic, terrestrial and climatic processes...

Theshipshears onthrough billowing seas Carried on tempest s wings with ease A cry of joy goes up from fore and aft: Our destination is within our grasp But the helmsman s words are lost in the throng: We ve been sailing in circles all along. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach This book has been written as an aid to anyone in the print media industry, be they managers or customers, who is looking to steer their business into calmer waters in what are stormy times. New technologies offer tremendous opportunities for innovation and process improvement but only if we understand the fundamental...

The unique benefit of this book is twofold. While reading the large blocked letters that are laid out in alphabetical order, children of all ages will be able to explore the colorful inventions contributed by African American inventors.

Once celebrated as 'the English Sappho, ' Mary Robinson was a major figure in British Romanticism. This volume offers comprehensive study of Robinson's achievement as a poet, a professional writer, a formative influence on the Romantic movement, and a participant in the literary, political, and social scene of the late 1700s