Pollen and spores are ubiquitous, and preserve exceptionally well. This, and their enormous structural diversity, offers exceptional opportunities for integrating findings from studies of both recent and fossil material, and for developing new insights into the pathways and processes of diversification. This volume brings together both international authorities and younger researchers who have developed novel approaches from such diverse fields as paleobotany, ontogeny, molecular biology, and systematics. Three main issues are discussed: the evidence provided by the fossil record, the...

This revised and reorganized text is designed for a standard forest ecology course for undergraduates in forestry, natural resources, environmental science, environmental ecology, and field ecology programs. Provides an eminently current perspective on the material by emphasizing forest ecosystems using a landscape-ecosystem or geo-ecosystem approach. Written by both field teachers and researchers of forest ecology and practitioners of forest ecology in both public and private arenas. Treats traditional plant ecology topics of community, succession, biota from a landscape ecosystem...

High performance liquid chromatography is the most powerful of all the chromatographic techniques, often achieving separations and analyses that would be difficult or impossible with other forms of chromatography. This study and training text examines the concepts and techniques used in this field. A selection of literature available from equipment manufacturers is included along with a brief review of some more specialized topics.

The five hundred years from 300 B.C. to A.D. 200 were a period during which Greek science made spectacular advances and Greek philosophy underwent dramatic changes. How much did the scientists take note of the philosophical issues bearing on their pursuits? What progress did the philosophers make with methodological and theoretical issues arising out of developments in science? What influence did philosophical criticism or philosophical ideas have on specific theories in medicine or mechanics, mathematics or astronomy? These are some of the questions discussed in this series of papers by the...

Focusing on the challenges faced by the US military in responding to operations other than war in the post-Cold War era, Rudolph Barnes makes a plea for the US government to address the organizational bias for combat and narrow traditionalist view of military professionalism within the Pentagon, which, he argues, are serious obstacles to developing an effective capabiilty for operations other than war. He draws on examples from Vietnam to the mismanagement of US military involvement in Somalia.

Will Croft Barnes (1858 1937) first came to Arizona as a cavalryman and went on to become a rancher, state legislator, and conservationist. From 1905 to 1935, his travels throughout the state, largely on horseback, enabled him to gather the anecdotes and geographical information that came to constitute Arizona Place Names.
For this first toponymic encyclopedia of Arizona, Barnes compiled information from published histories, federal and state government documents, and reminiscences of "old timers, Indians, Mexicans, cowboys, sheep-herders, historians, any and everybody who...

Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils in History provides specific guidance on:

• recognising high ability and multiple intelligences
• planning, differentiation and extension/enrichment in History
• teacher questioning skills
• support for more able pupils with learning difficulties (dyslexics, ADHD, sensory impairment)
• homework
• recording and assessment
• beyond the classroom: visits, residentials, competitions, summer schools, masterclasses, links with universities, businesses and other organisations.

The book features...

While verse as sound is its main concern, the book can be read as an introductory history of English verse from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

In Part two of this Trilogy, Susan DiGiovanni has come into a fortune worth billions as well as ownership of a massive gold mine. Unfortunately, it cost her the love of her life and made her the target of a cabal trying to take control of the world. Roland Troth is the man Susan has to take down so she can excerpt her revenge. Troth, a member of a secret society, has reached out for help from a man even richer and more powerful than himself, Maxwell York. York is interested in one thing, establishing a neofeudalistic society with him and his associates controlling the world. To Clean up...