The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

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On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters—the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 meters, the oceans offer 99% of the space on Earth where life can develop. And the deep sea, which has been immersed in total darkness since the dawn of time, occupies 85% of ocean space, forming the planet’s largest habitat. Yet these depths abound with mystery. The deep sea is mostly uncharted—only about 5 percent of the seafloor has been mapped with any reasonable degree of detail—and we know very little about the creatures that call it home. Current estimates about the number of species yet to be found vary between ten and thirty million. The deep sea no longer has anything to prove; it is without doubt Earth’s largest reservoir of life.
Combining the latest scientific discoveries with astonishing color imagery, The Deep takes readers on a voyage into the darkest realms of the ocean. Revealing nature’s oddest and most mesmerizing creatures in crystalline detail, The Deep features more than two hundred color photographs of terrifying sea monsters, living fossils, and ethereal bioluminescent creatures, some photographed here for the very first time. Accompanying these breathtaking photographs are contributions from some of the world’s most respected researchers that examine the biology of deep-sea organisms, the ecology of deep-sea habitats, and the history of deep-sea exploration.
An unforgettable visual and scientific tour of the teeming abyss, The Deep celebrates the incredible diversity of life on Earth and will captivate anyone intrigued by the unseen—and unimaginable—creatures of the deep sea.

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Magnificent Book.......2007-10-03

An incredible journey to the under sea world of mysterious aquatic life.
Fascinating photos of extraordinary creatures and their habitat. We purchased the book as a gift for our son, a recent art school graduate who specializes in creating concept art. He absolutely loved the book, and will be a valuable tool and reference work for his library.

buy it!.......2007-09-30

This is one of the best coffee table books I have! The pictures are amazing and numerous guests have used it as a conversation starter in our living room. For anyone who loved marine biology as a kid (and who DIDNT?!) this book is stellar.

FASCINATING!.......2007-09-23

This is the most amazing book that I have seen in a long time! Extraordinarily beautiful fotos of equally stunning and fascinating creatures! The beauty and creativity of nature takes your breath away! A must to have!

AMAZING!!!.......2007-09-23

Beautiful, depending upon what your definition of "beauty" is.
The animals in this book could very well be the inhabitants of YOUR nightmare, but not mine.
The incredible creatures, which we are privileged to view are breathtaking.
And yet another example of the world we have not seen...and are probably destroying.

The most beautiful book in the world.......2007-09-10

This is the most beautiful book I've ever see. It is loaded with photos of sealife never seen before , varied and facinating. Every picture is one you'd want to touch , or frame , or say to a friend , hey , look at this. There's a world going on we know nothing about , and it's a complex as our world.

The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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First published in 1925, Willis Linn Jepson's Manual of the Flowering Plants of California has been a standard reference for teachers, students, and naturalists. Since that time, hundreds of new species have been identified and botanical investigation has become more sophisticated. Now Jepson's philosophy of making such information available to all is again realized in this new volume, which includes a wealth of material accumulated over the past decades.
With contributions from two hundred botanists across North America, this is the most comprehensive resource and identification guide to nearly eight thousand varieties of native and naturalized California plants. The means to identify plants (using key traits and illustrations) is accompanied by special information such as horticultural requirements, endangerment, toxicity, weed status, and notes on the management of sensitive species. Identification keys have been designed for ease of use, and terms have been simplified and illustrated, making the new Manual the most authoritative field guide for the expert and amateur alike.

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The Best Technical Review of California Plants.......2003-03-06

There is no easy way to identify a plant to species, but if it is in California it is far easier to use this volume than the others. Although it was written in 1925, the line drawings are for me priceless. Be advised that names change in 75 years even if plants do not, you will need a modern flora to reference the old name. HIGHLY recommended, but technical.

Good Reference and Learning Guide.......2002-04-29

This is an excellent guide. Very comprehensive, however you must have formal education in botany and plant ID in order to effectively use the guide to key plants to genus and or species. Not recommended for the average person. Just people who are plant nerds!

Not for the uninitiated.......2001-01-13

This book is an excellent botanical key listing a huge number of plants. It is not your average "audubon" guide, since it requires you to key out the plant in question using botanical systematics. Definitely a good reference book, but hard to use casually to find out what that tree is in your front yard!

Excellent, but not for beginners.......2000-07-15

This is an excellent book covering thousands of species of flowering plants of California. The book does contain a brief introduction to keying plants and a glossary of plant terms, but despite these features, I believe that the beginner would find this book difficult to use. It's size and complexity can be intimidating, and without color pictures (which aren't always accurate, but helpful for the beginner) it can be a frustrating experience for the novice.

from what i've seen of this book i would like to buy one........1998-11-11

I really haven't had a chance to read this book, but what I've seen so far it is very informative. I work for USDA FOREST SERVICE and this book is here at work. The problem is I would like to have one of my own, so I'm now in the process of looking for it at our book store in town. If they do not have it, possibly they could order it for me. If not I will travel to the next larger town to accomplish my mission. I will get this book one way or another.

Environmental Science: A Study of Interrelationships with bind in OLC card

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Great.......2006-02-26

My book was recieved before I expected it and it was in good condition. It was a pleasure buying from Belkisa.

Thank You.......2005-09-13

The book came in a weekend as soon as the seller had the address. Book in good condition.

Gentle on the issues but well written........2004-08-21

I am an environmental science teacher who chooses to use this book. I agree with the long winded reviewer that this book is gentle on the issues, but believe this approach to be important in an introductory course. As the teacher, I make it my job to color the issues I find important. The 8th edition is out, so this version will become less popular.

Some good features but no hard truths in textbooks!.......2004-07-27

These comments are on the 6th edition which I'm sure mostly apply to the 7th.
General comments. Well done book from one point of view and I suppose it's about as honest as you can get and still get it published and used. But, as with nearly all public statements on the environment, it carefully(and perhaps unconsciously) avoids any serious presentation of politically incorrect views. Sad, as they are often the only completely honest and accurate ones and as long as the world keeps up the illusions there is no hope for the future. I mention a few of the more notable ones that are nearly universal in public discourse. I mostly stopped reading books on the environment decades ago and this is only the second time I have ever written anything about it as it is clearly hopeless but as this book evidently reaches many I'll try. No, I do not have any vested interests as I am not rich, never have owned stock, have no children, never had any religious or political affiliations and no racial or elitist prejudices whatsoever. I'm old and in a few years I won't be here so I really should not give a damn but just can't help feeling bad about the end of the world!

P21 rt col bottom-"..conflicts over resources may flare up..." This has to be one of the understatements of the century as such conflicts have been a universal feature of society from its inception and get worse by the day so one might better say they happen constantly everywhere and are guaranteed to get far worse as the population grows and resources disappear. I'm sure that "people" were fighting incessantly over resources 3 million years ago. How do we know? Just take a look at primates.

P22 Fig 1.9 legend et seq throughout the book----one might say that "poverty" is the politically correct term for "overpopulation" and that as it is the people themselves who produce more children, and destroy everything they can, they (and their countries and the world) suffer the consequences of their own stupidity and selfishness. Of course the same is true everywhere and though tragic from some points of view it is simple justice from others. The poor are only the rich in waiting.

Fig 1.10---Percent of what ?

P25 Fig 1.12---Of course no precise figures exist on species loss but I'd say you might replace "host" by tens or hundreds of thousands of species being lost annually and no informed person could object.

Fig 1.13 and throughout the book re "helping" the poor. Yes this is the common and politically correct thing to say but if you reflect on the concept of "help" in its global long term consequences I think you will nearly always find that helping one person harms another, or actually many, both in the present and future. Increasing anyone's health, life span or standard of living inevitably destroys the earth faster and causes more suffering in the long run, so at the very least it's debatable as to what is helping and what is more humane and what protects the environment. E.g., they may not chop down so many trees for firewood if they can afford a gas stove or have as many babies if health standards improve but they will build more and bigger houses, consume more of everything, live longer and their negative impact on the world will be far worse in the long run. Of course it's the same for the first world also. The basic problem is the selfish nature of every human. Like all organisms, we are programmed to destroy the earth-i.e., reproduce and consume without limits. I recall some of the new ten commandments that my late mentor Garrett Hardin set forth in an essay some 30 years ago. "Blessed are the merciful for they shall be sitting ducks." and, if memory serves, "Blessed are the meek for they shall reproduce without restraint." It is a legitimate and revealing point of view that we are all enemies of life on earth and that every meal and every pair of pants contributes to its destruction. A dollar is a unit of planetary destruction and it's defensible that it's better spent on planting a tree, buying and protecting a nature reserve or buying birth control pills or an abortion than providing food, medicine or a new dam for the third world(or the first!). Or, if you must "help" others, tie money and food to population control and environmental protection . To live is to destroy, every mother and baby are enemies of life on earth., there is no free lunch, and if we look at the whole picture and are honest, it's clear that the only good human is a dead one. Not comforting, but if we keep up the illusions that are the nearly universal stance of social discourse, there is no hope at all for the future. But who has the courage to tell the truth, or as Hardin put it so aptly, to shout that the Emperor has no clothes?

Rt col top---4 million children hungry in USA?---I always wonder about these statistics as I have traveled over the USA including the ghettos for decades and I don't recall ever seeing anyone who looked like they were starving and in fact mostly people young and old look overfed so just how do they decide this?

Rt col bottom-It is highly debatable that colonialism destabilized or impoverished anyone(provided you look at the whole picture and consider the likely present if colonists had never entered these countries). The background is that all countries everywhere almost nonstop thru history have exploited each other and their own people to the max. If the colonists had not brought in medicine, money and technology most of the third world might be in far worse shape than now. Of course it's also true that the introduction of these is directly responsible for the population explosion that dooms them all.

P26 Fig 1.14 and thru the book---It is a defensible point of view, which they don't seem to mention anywhere, that these (ie third world) countries are overdeveloped and those of the first world grossly overdeveloped. Underdevelopment is another popular but fatal delusion. Nobody anywhere is underdeveloped in my view.

P27 left col middle. The only desire we really need to curb is the desire to produce more than one child---then everything will take care of itself. Without this, all the other laudable actions are almost certainly a waste of time.

P28 rt col. Same comments as for "helping" in Fig 1.13 above. Poverty reduction and social justice guarantee accelerated ecological collapse and that from another viewpoint, the "Good News" is really "Bad News" and vv. If one takes the long term global view, nearly anything that increases anyone's std. of living or a country's GDP is very bad news indeed. If we cared about the future (or say, even our own grandchildren) we would all be doing our best to reduce the GDP every year. It is a reasonable view that one of (or even THE) basic principles of human ecology is "THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH". And it is you and I who pay with our taxes (which equal years of our working lives!) and all the world's people in the future who pay with their happiness. Equality and justice and humaneness have a huge financial (i.e., environmental) cost which usually far outweigh the benefits and in the global long term produce more inequality, injustice and inhumanity than they remove. Of course I assume that like nearly everything I say here, the authors really know it too but just don't dare to say.

P29 left col. It seems very clear to me from the evidence presented throughout this book(and of course everywhere one looks) that the world cannot sustain even its current use rates without making blue sky projections unsustained by any hard facts. Eg, I have never seen a hint anywhere as to how the world will replace the 75 billion tons of topsoil lost every year. Every serious book like this should reference Lester Brown's lovely little book "Who will feed China? I have never seen anything to refute it either and of course the Chinese govt. shut down the web page it was reprinted on there.

P30 left col middle. And Fig 1.10 pg 31. Fine-give aid,-provided you tie it all to population control. Otherwise it just makes things worse. I used to rail against the huge military budgets too until I realized it's either good or irrelevant. "Human development" is just another euphemism for ecological collapse. Better to burn the money than increase the GDP anywhere.

P32 re statistics on a poor African village. So if the village will reduce births to about 10 so it shrinks by one or two a year then give them aid. People anywhere who are unwilling to reduce their population for the benefit of the future are not responsible members of world society, not, one might say, even human(and yes it's the same for NY City!).

P37 left col top. Re shooting of poachers by game wardens. Yes that's what is has, and will, come to-to paraphrase Mao, Ecology comes out of the barrel of a gun.

P38 , 39 Postmodernism etc. I suggest everyone read Pinker's superb "The Blank Slate: the modern denial of human nature." It is easily the best book on this and the influence of genes on human behavior. One way to look at things is that the basis for all our behavior and views come from our inborn psychology and much of this is a web of delusions (some of which Hardin called "Taboos") which prevent us from seeing ourselves as part of the world and thinking about these issues rationally and honestly. It is a revelation to realize that you are arguing with genes and not people but of course whether this really gets you anywhere is another matter.

P39 rt col bottom re the "fact" that we do not hold children responsible for murder. Many now do hold the child responsible and there are compelling reasons for doing so. Is it not the act rather than the precise psychological state of mind that matters? Practically, the combination of genes and environment that produces these acts is irrelevant. Most children or adults do not kill, rape etc and everyone can come up with an excuse. One might view the world's problems as due to the failure to hold people responsible for their actions.

P50 rt col middle re NeoLuddites who want to destroy modern technology. Very few people actually take such a view. Rather they want to stop development, reduce the GDP(Gross Destructive Product-my own highly revealing term but hardly very original), and decrease the population.

P191 and throughout the book. It is only fair to point out that it is the reduction of mortality that is primarily responsible for ecological collapse, war and most human misery. The last thing a sane, decent person wants to do is reduce mortality without reducing births.

P236 rt col middle---"Not all activities are harmful." All human activities are harmful and the only thing one can say is that some are more harmful than others!

P237 left col re supplying food to the world. One should keep in mind here and countless other places in the book that supplying these calories(and housing etc etc) is done at the cost of destroying everyone's future.

P238 left col middle-"poverty is the greatest threat to food security". Again, this is a politically correct term for "overpopulation" is it not?

P240 left col middle "What causes ..tragedies?" Yes of course we know what you mean and yes it's the PC thing that nearly everyone says but nevertheless, tragic and dishonest and absolutely futile not to list overpopulation as the basic universal cause of famine and just about all of the world's problems.

P243 rt col middle---"As a result in many places..." How about in "all" places? Is there really anywhere that human activities do not eliminate the topsoil? How can it be replaced if there is tillage and crop removal? References?

P246 rt col top-"relatively little impact" Ah, yes, what does that mean? If it means it can last a thousand years then maybe its little but even then those alive at that time would surely disagree! So acceptable impact should mean indefinitely sustainable which means the land will be as good 1000 years from now as today. And, so far as I can see, that means there is no such thing as sustainable use of anything in the modern world, not even the air or the sea.

P248 left col top. I have often thought it illuminating to think of each person as eliminating 15 tons of topsoil a year(of course maybe ten times that if they are rich and 1/10th if they are poor) and putting ca 4 tons of garbage and toxic waste and 1000 tons of polluted water etc into the world every year. Think about this in the middle of all the discussions about helping the poor, increasing food output and sustainability.

Rt col top---5 tons topsoil loss is then not really a NET loss at all but I've seen the studies that show that even flat, well managed land in temperate zones(eg USA) loses 10tons/acre/yr and this must be the NET loss. It is unclear how cropland can build up NET any topsoil!
Something very confused here and don't think it's me!

P265 rt col bottom---Again its at least debatable whether disease reduction is a benefit for reasons mentioned elsewhere. What "helps" some hurts others, now and in the future.

P311 left col top---destruction by antigovernment forces of forest projects in Israel??!! Are you sure its not Indonesia or India?

P313 rt col last line-I think the CR govt. terminated Janzen's project, undoubtedly for political(ie,selfish and stupid) reasons.

P325 left col middle----Consider Brazil---The fact is that the rich often do a much better job of protecting the land than the poor, who will eventually increase their numbers and exploit every square cm of anything they can get their hands on. They show this in this paragraph where they note that on big farms owned by the rich , 13% of land is idle-this is exactly what one wants-idle land-if only it could be 95% there would be no problems!

Left col bottom.-"productivity is ...higher". They just don't get it(of course they have most of the world for company!). What one wants if one cares at all about the future is DECREASED productivity, decreased everything and DECREASED GDP.

Fig 13.28 re the signing away of Indian rights to some land. I assume that they leave out the most important part -that they were FORCED in some way to sign the contract and how were they forced?

P 331 left col bottom and of course all over the book. "continue to use..in traditional ways." One might better substitute "abuse" or "destroy" as truly traditional, sustainable use is virtually nonexistent anywhere. They and all "native peoples" all use modern tools(ie steel hoes, machetes, fertilizers, chemicals, tractors, horses, sheep etc) they never had before, medicines etc and have larger populations and use the environment in countless ways and to a degree their ancestors never did. Sure, there is bad and very bad but I doubt very much a careful look will show that "traditional use" anywhere is really sustainable or that it has preserved anything like the ecology that was there 1000 years ago.

P340 rt col top, p 341 left col top---See the comments on p28. I can't see any evidence at all that the "new world order" will save a damn thing! In fact, with minor exceptions, it will only accelerate the destruction and the same goes for Thoreau's comment. Recall this dictum?-"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions". The surest way to destroy the planet is to give everyone what they want, or even what they need.

P377 Fig 17.4 Maybe I'm just dense but it is not obvious from this figure why the greenhouse effect causes more than 100 units to be radiated.

P378 left col top-"because of cycling..." Again it's just not obvious where the extra 30% comes from---the earth's core?

P403 rt col top--- and elsewhere: The costs of health care or of various diseases are almost always hugely wrong-ie, 180 deg in the wrong direction! Like the calculation of costs and benefits of many things, they deliberately or unconsciously(monkey psychology again)fail to represent the true situation. If one includes the savings resulting from decreased costs to society(ie medical costs, ecological costs of all kinds etc-to say nothing of the personal costs in suffering of patients and relatives)in the long term due to shortened life spans one gets very different results(eg, the huge costs turn into huge benefits). Amazingly, as this is an utterly taboo subject, this was pointed out in a report by an accountant for one of the large tobacco companies a couple years ago but of course they immediately issued an apology. It is only possible for the rich countries to ignore the facts and it is highly likely this will change also by mid-century when even the US welfare system(social security etc) will be bankrupt(just dial the SS 800 tel #) and the national debt will likely be soaring past $40 trillion and neither the US nor anyone will have the money or materials to feed the world(or to be its policeman). So from a strictly rational and humane point of view governments should do everything possible to encourage smoking.

Also, calling smoking control a pollution control measure is both wrong(as the decreased death and debility will clearly produce far more pollution of other kinds) and right, as we could then include population control as a form of pollution control and the only one which is really cost effective and permanent!

P414 and elsewhere: list of things-- What can you do? Infinitely greater impact by not having children or preventing others from having them. Failing this, working for any social measure that will decrease the population or GDP of your own country or others, eg, opposing the World Bank, the IMF, the UN, the WTO, construction of any kind anywhere, any type of Globalization, use of agricultural chemical and fertilizers, dams, irrigation projects, roads, public health projects, immunization, antibiotics etc etc , and spreading abortion, birth control, knowledge about the coming collapse of planetary ecology and the idea that every mother and baby are enemies of life on earth. All the listed measures do a little but in the end they are really just a sham.

Rt. Col. Bottom and elsewhere throughout the text. I think its critical to make everyone understand that the environment is so fragile(or people so destructive) that serious and often irreversible damage was being done on smaller ecosystems-especially in semiarid areas-- in prehistoric times and ever since. E.g., just a couple of many: archeologists a few years ago studied an ancient village in the middle east and found that in just a decade or so the plaster floors became mud ones as the wood available for making lime disappeared. Here and many other places they can see pollen changes that show the elimination or drastic reduction of some plants. Even Attenborough give some examples in his famous programs-the Roman's destruction of the ecosystem on the N. African coast by a few decades of farming and the desertification of Greece and the destruction of Ephesus by human activities in the dry surrounding hills. The disappearance of large animals in many areas coincident with occupation by early humans(eg Australia ca 50K years ago).

P434 Case Study: As I said elsewhere, "helping" Malawi now harms them and everyone else in the long run and the only models we should want to spread are one child families, declining GDP, no destruction of nature whatsoever and a very modest living standard.

P449 rt col middle-"surely these are goals worth pursuing". Surely not! The last thing the world needs is more and healthier people! Only if any kind of "help" is inextricably linked to population control and other environmental measures should it be given to anyone anywhere. Those who will not place the survival of the ecosphere above their own interests do not deserve any help nor even status as human beings. And yes, same for Indians or New Yorkers!

P455 In Depth rt col center re arsenic in Bangladesh water. No sane, honest, informed person should want to do anything to save them from the consequences of their own genetic greed unless they could be forced to become responsible citizens of the world at the same time(ie mandatory pop. and other environmental controls).

P468 left col top---As pointed out before, it is incontrovertible that misery and suffering will NOT be avoided but increased by providing sanitation to the world.

P468 left col re "taking" of private land by the government. Up to now the world has operated on the most primitive, undemocratic, unecological and totally self centered principles. The people who "own" the land and money and resources have "taken" it from the planet and all other people and other creatures without real(in my view) authorization or justification. So, the government(ie, the people or the world) is justified in "taking" them back. Yes of course they all have some rationalization but if you take a long term global view, its all just theft. Of course one could say this makes all current laws and government moot and I say -"Now you are getting it!"

P484 rt col top---'waste of ...resources". Wonderful!---the sooner all the energy sources are gone, the better.

P485 rt col middle----"methane is ten times.." but on pg 387 you say its 20 to 30 x as effective as C02.

P488---Nobody seems to realize that Chernobyl is the only meaningful nature reserve in the world and a model for what could be done elsewhere. Only if it causes a quick and certain death to use it will anything be protected.

P494 rt col---I don't have the reference handy but I recall that if most of the worlds energy ever comes from fission(and much more so from fusion) not only will it devastate the ecology of many rivers and large areas of the sea(cooling water) but the heat will likely produce a significant acceleration of the greenhouse effect.
Table 22.2----these yields are over useful life of the equipment or what and they are the total earnings/total costs or total energy yield in BTU/total energy input in BTU or?

P511 Table 22.3 ---Yes the efficiency of some fuel cells may be 40% provided you do NOT count the energy needed to produce the fuel and the cell and transport and maintain and dispose of them etc. and of course the energy and materials for deal with the pollution they make and the consequences of the C02, plastic, heat pollution etc. Of course as they note someplace there are major hidden and subsidized costs for all energy sources, foods, jobs etc etc.

Rt. Col bottom-same comments for biomass re hidden costs(financial, health, ecological etc) of production, transportation, pollution, disposal etc.

P514 rt col. Middle---"contain 4.8 billion gigajoules"--- OK but see my comments on p513 re the costs(energy etc) to get this biofuel and use it and dispose of it and deal with the consequences and much of this 4.8 will disappear and, as with using anything for any reason on a large scale, the long term consequences re financial and ecological costs may make it a better choice to just forget the whole thing.

P515 left col top re fuel alcohol production and "grain surpluses".... It is a certainty that this situation ( surpluses, space, topsoil, low cost chemicals etc) will not last more than a few decades, so again if one looks at the global long term situation, or even just at Brazil's I think one will come to a very different conclusion as to what really makes sense.

P533 left col top-and throughout the book--Of course there is a large degree of arbitrariness in how anything is to be valued but this is one of the key ecological concepts and mostly misunderstood or ignored(deliberately!). A can of coke costs say 75 cents to buy retail but the real costs include the energy, soil loss, other ecological damage and pollution created to produce and transport (and dispose of wastes) the sugar, flavorings, and above all the aluminum in the can. Most of this is hidden (ie, subsidized in various ways by taxes or ecological, health etc., consequences that are just ignored-ie, other people or the future has to deal with them). So from the perspective of someone whose life is being destroyed by a bauxite mine or a sugar plantation or from say 50 years in the future we might value the coke at $5 or 10 or 100. The markup increases as we go further into the future and as the complexity , size and cost of the item increases. A reasonable current value for a car might be 5 or 10 times its actual costs and food the same (but highly variable)as it costs topsoil, chemicals that devastate the ecology etc and a house varies depending on its materials, where it is and what was or would be on that land now etc.

P554-left col bottom.-"tragically high" infant death rates. Of course many beg to differ and say its neither a tragedy nor nearly high enough. An infant who grows to adulthood and reproduces uses vast resources that may increase by say 10 to 100 times if it has eg, great grandchildren and the total of misery they suffer and cause others to suffer is hardly negligible.

P565-left col bottom..."feasible benefit"---As I have stated elsewhere it is very clear that there is a huge LOSS to the world and no benefit at all if ones takes a global long term view.

Rt col middle---"China has done....". All the sources I see show that China's cities are swelling rapidly and the population is increasing some 12 to 15 million a year and as for much of the third world the std of living is improving on the average but most of it is by a small minority and this is all being done by destroying their own and the world's future.

P584 Global Issues----Yes of course this is the standard refrain and we know what they mea,n but for reasons stated before, I maintain its obvious that making the poor rich(or the rich richer) does not REALLY make the world a better place but inevitably destroys it faster. In the global long term view development is destruction.

P591---Table 25.7 first line--One hopes they will "respect " the world, but in fact regardless of what anyone says we all do "resect" it!

Horrible........2004-01-21

Any text that advises poverty-stricken Africans to use solar-powered stoves as opposed to wood-burning fires to cook their food in attempt to lower energy consumption has gone too far off the deep end as to be a suitable college source.

Too many typos, too opinionated in the wrong places, not opinionated enough in the right places, just horrible. Wretched book. And to think, my family spent over $100 on the package. Ack!

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In this daring work, Edward O. Wilson proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity.

Dear Pastor:
We have not met, yet I feel I know you well enough to call you friend. First of all, we grew up in the same faith. Although I no longer belong to that faith, I am confident that if we met and spoke privately of our deepest beliefs, it would be in a spirit of mutual respect and goodwill. I write to you now for your counsel and help. Let us see if we can, and you are willing, to meet on the near side of metaphysics in order to deal with the real world we share. I suggest that we set aside our differences in order to save the Creation. The defense of living Nature is a universal value. It doesn't rise from nor does it promote any religious or ideological dogma. Rather, it serves without discrimination the interests of all humanity.

Pastor, we need your help. The Creation—living Nature—is in deep trouble.

The Creation is E. O. Wilson's most important work since the publications of Sociobiology and Biophilia. Like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, it is a book about the fate of the earth and the survival of our planet. Yet while Carson was specifically concerned with insecticides and the ecological destruction of our natural resources, Wilson, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, attempts his new social revolution by bridging the seemingly irreconcilable worlds of fundamentalism and science. Like Carson, Wilson passionately concerned about the state of the world, draws on his own personal experiences and expertise as an entomologist, and prophesies that half the species of plants and animals on Earth could either have gone or at least are fated for early extinction by the end of our present century.

Astonishingly, The Creation is not a bitter, predictable rant against fundamentalist Christians or deniers of Darwin. Rather, Wilson, a leading "secular humanist," draws upon his own rich background as a boy in Alabama who "took the waters," and seeks not to condemn this new generations of Christians but to address them on their own terms. Conceiving the book as an extended letter to a southern Baptist minister, Wilson, in stirring language that can evoke Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," tells this everyman minister how, in fact, the world really came to be. He pleads with these men of the cloth to understand the cataclysmic damage that is destroying our planet and asks for their help in preventing the destruction of our Earth before it is too late. Never a pessimist, Wilson avers that there are solutions that may yet save the planet, and believes that the vision that he presents in The Creation is one that both scientists and pastors can accept, and work on together in spite of their fundamental ideological differences. 25 line drawings.

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Great Read -- But pay attention.......2007-10-05

It took me a couple of weeks to read this book, because the biology in it requires you to really pay attention. But Wilson's chapter on extinctions is scary and saddening.

A Passion for Life on Earth.......2007-09-13

It seems that Edward O. Wilson's goal in this book as an open letter to a southern Baptist minister was a persuasion to an enthusiasm in the enjoyment of the diversity of life, to use this to protect "The Creation" which is the biological riches that are still here, and indirectly to share his belief in evolution. Other than the last goal I felt his eloquent writing and passion was quite persuasive. He made me feel a bit guilty for not continuiing on as a biology teacher.

Wilson does mention evolution in the book but his mentioning is not part of an overall arguement in defense of it. I imagine some people that either do not believe in evolution or do and would like it well defended were disappointed in this aspect of the book. I did not feel that it was the main point, despite the title and it's near play on creationism, and I think Wilson's writing and avidity for the diversity of life are the substance of this book.

There are plenty of biological gems illuminated in "The Creation" and I think anyone would be interested and fascinated by such information as the existence of over 700 species of bacteria in the average person's mouth or details of the underground biosphere that could continue existing even with a complete scorching of the earth's surface. Wilson's has learned much about the life of the earth and this small book is a distillation of his learning and thoughts from a life of study. I would recommend it to anyone.

" a title" ! What do you mean? explain.......2007-08-08

Very detail analysis of issues. I hope our leaders are required to read such material

Not the Fittest.......2007-06-09

The book didn't quite live up to its billing. I'd expected something that was not at all incendiary or overtly driven by scientific (evolution theory dogmatic) beliefs. Instead, the book came across much more as smelling of sarcasm with tones of "surely everyone knows this stuff". This is certainly scientific apologetics, without apology to its supposed intended audience. Staunch marcoevolutionists will smirk at the veiled selfaggrandizement. Creationists will find nothing new in the "others'" view. Those with feet in both camps still await the Rosetta Stone that bridges the gulf.

The creation: An Appeal to Save LIfe on Earth.......2007-05-14

The book is written as an "impassioned letter to a Southern Babtist Pastor". I'm not sure that this letter would convince a "Southern Babtist Pastor" to help in efforts to save the bioshpere. He does have good arguments that would convince persons in the scientific community that we must save the biodiverity of the earth.

E. O. Wilson is a gifted author and keeps it interesting.

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Difficult to Read
Good as a Limnology Primer
My view of the Wetzel's limnology book

Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems
Robert G. Wetzel
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ASIN: 0127447601

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Limnology is the study of the structural and functional interrelationships of organisms of inland waters as they are affected by their dynamic physical, chemical, and biotic environments. Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems, 3rd Edition, is a new edition of this established classic text. The coverage remains rigorous and uncompromising and has been thoroughly reviewed and updated with evolving recent research results and theoretical understanding. In addition, the author has expanded coverage of lakes to reservoir and river ecosystems in comparative functional analyses.

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Difficult to Read.......2003-11-04

Well there is no doubt that this book contains a large amount of information, it CANNOT be used as an introductory text. It is much to difficult to comprehend, and Wetzel makes absolutely no effort to teach the concepts. Here merely presents a synthesis of limnological research.

Good as a Limnology Primer.......2000-01-30

This is an excellent general reference text. Can not say enough about the excellent content of this text. But it is need of an edition update with information for lake mapping and restoration. Dr. C.L. Nelson of St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN has an excellent small text on physical limnology for the mapping aspect. This book does do an excellent job on the biological aspects of limnological work.

My view of the Wetzel's limnology book.......2000-01-30

The book contains a lot of information related to lakes. It's a complete work about the conditions on this systems. Include a study about the performance of the ionic particles in this systems. It's a suitable book for students like me, to understand the freshwater ecology.

Environmental Science: Working with the Earth (with Environmental ScienceNOW?, InfoTrac® 1-Semester Printed Access Card) (Environmental Science: Working with the Earth)

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great seller!
New
A great text for teaching Environmental Science
Excellent from multiple excellent thoughts ...
explains issues like population growth and global warming

Environmental Science: Working with the Earth (with Environmental ScienceNOW?, InfoTrac® 1-Semester Printed Access Card) (Environmental Science: Working with the Earth)
G. Tyler Miller
Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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ASIN: 0534422500

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, 11th Edition, boasts an unparalleled coverage of sustainability, basic science, and bias-free comparisons, within a flexible chapter organization and supported by the strongest media tools and illustration program available. New media to this edition includes: "How Would You Vote?" found at http://biology.brookscole.com/miller11. This is an application of 68 provocative environmental issues covered in the text. Students investigate the issues in a structured manner, and then cast their votes on the Web where the results are tallied; Environmental ScienceNow, a learning tool that helps students assess their study needs through pretests, post-test, personalized learning plans and "How Do I Prepare," which aides students in basic math, chemistry and graphing review; and InfoTrac College Edition, a library of full text articles; PowerLecture for Miller's Environmental Science, 11th Edition. This one-stop PowerPoint Tool contains robust, preloaded PowerPoint lecture images organized by every chapter. PowerLecture contains: animations that bring key topics and concepts to life; a slide-sorting view for each chapter that lets you select, copy and paste slides into your PowerPoint lecture; the ability to select a piece of a figure and enlarge it; labels in text boxes that you can edit, remove, or present one label at a time; quick access to animations and videos--if a PowerPoint slide contains a green button, just click on it to show a related animation; Instructor's Manual and associated chapter outlines; and Test Bank--a complete electronic file of test items.

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great seller!.......2007-05-14

I received the product in the condition stated and in a short time.

New.......2006-07-19

Environmental Science/Tenth Edition.Excellent condition. No highlighting, torn pages or other marks. Sealed CD (Interactive Concepts in Environmental Science) included with book.

A great text for teaching Environmental Science.......2006-05-05

I began teaching with Miller's thicker text "living in the environment" but found that the main material was covered by this thinner and less expensive version. The graphics are helpful and the students enjoy reading the material as it is presented in an accessible and applicable fashion. The guest essays and case studies are from some of the top names speaking at conferences and so students are getting some really current views and information. Although there is not much of a lab book or teacher text-- there are plenty of other sources for field work and activity inspiration. The students also liked the website for activities and practice problems.

Excellent from multiple excellent thoughts ..........2006-03-01

Thyler Miller's books (I have 5 of them) are always the source of inspiration for me. I started reading his book when I took my Environmental Health Class for my Master of Public Helath Program.

The contents are clear, concise, correct, courtesy and full with critical thouught that has facilitated my curiosity to know more and more ....

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explains issues like population growth and global warming.......2006-02-25

Miller stresses the intricate interrelationships with the Earth's environment. Vital issues like population growth and its impact on the environment are gone into. Here, there is perhaps cautious optimism. But only if we as a species moderate our growth rate (maybe even turn it negative!) and resource consumption.

There is a natural flow from this issue to a discussion about global warming. The scientific basis for concern is explained, and the evidence for warming presented. While not absolutely conclusive, it is seen as very strong. In fact, in the 5 years since the book came out, even more evidence has appeared to indicate a continuing and possibly accelerating trend. Miller also suggests several ways that global warming might be slowed.

The Search for Life in the Universe (Third Edition)

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Jack Kennedy
Excellent Overview
Great for people interested in SETI ...
The search for life in the spotlight.

The Search for Life in the Universe (Third Edition)
Donald Goldsmith , and Tobias Owen
Manufacturer: University Science Books
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ASIN: 1891389165

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Long recognized as the "Gold Standard" text for astrobiology courses, The Search for Life in the Universe now appears in a completely revised and updated Third Edition. This book engages students in astronomy by presenting a great, unsolved mystery: How likely is life beyond earth, and how can we find it if it exists? The text covers the fundamentals of astronomy and astrophysics, including the discovery of more than 55 planets around other stars, and also provides an overview of biology, geology, evolution, and the possibilities of interstellar travel and communication. Written for readers with no background in mathematics, the book includes 24 color insert pages and brilliantly rendered illustrations by Jon Lomberg.

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Jack Kennedy.......2006-02-27

This book is used as a text by the University of North Dakota Space Studies program where I was exposed to its content. It is an excellent book filled with the recent nuggets of information about the search for life in the universe. It is an excellent guide to understanding the cosmos in galatic and down-to-Earth terms. This book can be read for pure pleasure as well as for general knowledge of astrobilogy and astronomy.

Excellent Overview.......2003-11-07

The new edition of this book still is by far the most comprehensive introduction to Bioastronomy, touching almost every branch of science along the exciting path it follows. Remaining firmly grounded in science it shows that reality is so fantastic that it is in no way necessary to fantasize up facts and fictions. Science still is one of the greatest adventures of mankind, and the search for life in space is one of its most stimulating branches. It also is a good motivation for young college students from other subjects to further their knowledge in science - which is necessary because we live in a science dominated world.

Stefan Thiesen www.bioastronomie.de

Great for people interested in SETI ..........2001-02-27

The book deals with everything from the formation of stars and planets, to how life formed, to even the best ways to search for life and the odds of life being on other planets. It goes step by step, is easy to understand and even has review questions at the end of each chapter (along with a summary). Lots of photos, some in color, along with figures and tables to help explain and give more details. Great for people who want to understand the reasons people are searching for life on other planets, but also great for just understand the science of life on our planet too. All that and humor too.

The search for life in the spotlight........2000-09-04

This book really explaines in simple language how scientists work on this search. It is written in a way that keeps your interest on top all the way.

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

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Never really used it.
Poorly written
Biomimicry is Very Good, Very Detailed
Insightful, inspiring
New Revolution?

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Janine M. Benyus
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This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature's best ideas to solve our toughest 21st–century problems.

If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage of evolution's 3.8 billion years of R\'9126D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature's best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells – and adapt them for human use. They are revolutionising how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world.

Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus names and explains this phenomenon. She takes us into the lab and out in the field with cutting–edge researchers as they stir vats of proteins to unleash their computing power; analyse how electrons zipping around a leaf cell convert sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when theyᱥ sick; study the hardy prairie as a model for low–maintenance agriculture; and more.

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Never really used it........2007-09-27

I had no need for it in my class so I did not use it.

Poorly written.......2007-06-30

Interesting topic, but very poorly written. Many of her explanations are oversimplified, and there's a lot of unnecessary details about things like scientists' office decorations. Also, by now, about half of the book is out of date. Especially the chapter on biological computing, which was very confusing to start with. Also, there was a surprising lack of citations, significantly diminishing the value of the book.

I felt that this book was more about choice interviews with the few scientists she was able to get a hold of.

Given that, I did enjoy the chapter on Wes Jackson's work.

Biomimicry is Very Good, Very Detailed.......2007-06-19

As other reviewers have pointed out, Biomimicry is a good to great book, but the level of detail is enough to make a non-scientist's head spin. Be prepared for in-depth discussions on cellular activity, computer theory, and energy transfer. The main point of the book is excellent, which is that as a human race, we will eventually have to start acting like the rest of the living world and only use what we have in a sustainable manner. Physically, our path of using more energy than the world can generate is simply not sustainable for long. The book is not one of those alarmist environmental-destruction-is-imminent books however, it actually has good ideas on directions to take for sustainable manufacturing and sustainable energy.

Insightful, inspiring.......2007-03-09

Thoroughly enjoyed the refreshing perspective and the paradigm shifting philosophies of how human approaches science. Provides clarity of where things went wrong and how it can be rectified. Brilliant

New Revolution?.......2005-11-27

This book is a really good read for anyone interested in technological partial solutions for modern environmental issues. Many great examples of processes which have been innovated, and what could be done.

My only issue with this book is that you have to have a strong knowledge of many sciences to fully understand this piece. This may be a good thing if you are looking for something very specific; but it will be definately too much for the average person.

Invitation to Oceanography, Third Edition

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A superbly organized and presented textbook
Weirdest textbook I ever used
Just what I wanted!
Great Applications Towards Oceanography

Invitation to Oceanography, Third Edition
Paul R. Pinet
Manufacturer: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
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Anybody can learn about the processes and creatures of the ocean by reading this visually exciting and timely textbook.

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A superbly organized and presented textbook.......2003-07-26

Now in an updated and expanded third edition, Invitation To Oceanography by oceanographer Paul R. Pinet is a superbly organized and presented textbook for advanced students of this fascinating and specialized field of science. An optional student study guide enhances the primary text, which stands well on its own with full-color illustrations, and a wide survey of topics from marine sedimentation to biological productivity in the ocean, coastal habitats, ocean circulation and much more. With laboratory exercises designed by Karl Chauffe and Mark Jefferies which make use of safe, inexpensive, reusable, and readily available materials, Invitation To Oceanography is a very confidently recommended addition to academic reading lists, as well as an excellent curriculum resource for "student friendly" classroom instruction.

Weirdest textbook I ever used.......2003-06-20

Although Mr. Pinet can explain things very clearly, some of his writing is very strange, especially for a college textbook. At one point, he refers to animals as "critters." At another point, he recommends an experiment of taking your bathtub outside and putting by your pool when the wind is blowing. This book is full of weird little things like that.

Just what I wanted!.......2000-06-15

Although a college textbook designed for non-majors, "Invitation to Oceanography" contains much information for those interested in the subject. What I especially liked and appreciated the most were the application tasks. These are mathematical problems/questions one can use and apply to the ocean on their next trip to the beach. Moreover, the Internet links provided in the book add a great supplement. Educators at the secondary (high school or college) level will enjoy teaching from this book.

Great Applications Towards Oceanography.......2000-05-28

"Invitation to Oceanography" provides a wealth of information as a non-fiction text. For those interested in the complexities of the inner-workings of oceanic events and marine biology, this is the book to read. The book is a fascinating read delving into facts and figures of oceanic characteristics and definitions. Teachers and/or those interested in marine science will find the book intriguing with its application towards the field of mathematics, marine science, and chemistry. It will forever change how you perceive the ocean on your next beach vacation.

Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance: Hands-On Field Package (5th Edition)

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Scarily good

Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance: Hands-On Field Package (5th Edition)
Charles J. Krebs
Manufacturer: Benjamin Cummings
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This best-selling majors ecology book continues to present ecology as a series of problems for readers to critically analyze. No other text presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information in an equally accessible style. Reflecting the way ecologists actually practice, the book emphasizes the role of experiments in testing ecological ideas and discusses many contemporary and controversial problems related to distribution and abundance. Throughout the book, Krebs thoroughly explains the application of mathematical concepts in ecology while reinforcing these concepts with research references, examples, and interesting end-of-chapter review questions. Thoroughly updated with new examples and references, the book now features a new full-color design and is accompanied by an art CD-ROM for instructors. &LT;P&GT;The field package also includes The Ecology Action Guide, a guide that encourages readers to be environmentally responsible citizens, and a subscription to The Ecology Place (www.ecologyplace.com), a web site and CD-ROM that enables users to become virtual field ecologists by performing experiments such as estimating the number of mice on an imaginary island or restoring prairie land in Iowa. For college instructors and students.

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Scarily good.......2005-04-05

As a layperson with next-to-no knowledge of the subject, nor any maths, algebra or statistics, I thought I'd have a lot of trouble with this book.

And yes, I did have some trouble, and yes, I would really have liked to have had a tutor and classmates to help me through the exercises.

But even so I got a great deal from it, it has lead me to read scientific papers, it has prompted me to investigate higher education possibilities - and it has made me extremely grateful for scientists!

Thanks!

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