By Richard Schweid
ISBN-10: 1469615134
ISBN-13: 9781469615134
As this attractive culinary and common heritage finds, the standard eel is certainly an awesome creature. each ecu and American eel starts off its lifestyles within the Sargasso Sea--a tremendous, weedy stretch of deep Atlantic waters among Bermuda and the Azores. Larval eels waft for as much as 3 years till they achieve the rivers of North the United States or Europe, the place they mature and stay so long as 20 years ahead of returning to the Sargasso to mate and die. Eels have by no means been bred effectively in captivity.
Consulting fisherfolk, chefs, and scientists, Schweid takes the reader on a world journey to bare the commercial and gastronomic significance of eel in areas corresponding to japanese North Carolina, Spain, Northern eire, England, and Japan. (While this wealthy but mild-tasting fish has nearly disappeared from U.S. tables, over $2 billion worthy of eel continues to be eagerly fed on in Europe and Asia each one year.) The publication additionally comprises recipes, either historical and modern, for getting ready eel.
By Guangxing Wang,Qihao Weng
ISBN-10: 1466556927
ISBN-13: 9781466556928
Highlighting new applied sciences, Remote Sensing of common Resources explores complex distant sensing platforms and algorithms for picture processing, enhancement, function extraction, facts fusion, photograph category, image-based modeling, image-based sampling layout, map accuracy review and qc. It additionally discusses their functions for evaluate of average assets, together with sampling layout, land use and land hide class, typical panorama and surroundings overview, forestry, agriculture, biomass and carbon-cycle modeling, wetland category and dynamics tracking, and soils and minerals mapping.
The booklet combines evaluate articles with case stories that reveal contemporary advances and advancements of equipment, thoughts, and purposes of distant sensing, with each one bankruptcy on a particular quarter of common assets. via a finished exam of the big variety of purposes of distant sensing applied sciences to normal assets, the e-book presents perception into complex distant sensing platforms, applied sciences, and algorithms for researchers, scientists, engineers, and determination makers.
By Ben Kessler
ISBN-10: 1936033224
ISBN-13: 9781936033225
“Ben Kessler is that rarest and most dear of writers, one whose each note is shaped and knowledgeable via a profound love of the wildlife, one whose loyalty is undeniably with the realm that's our and everybody else’s in simple terms domestic. And he’s a hell of a author. Please learn this ebook, after which placed the e-book away and pass outdoor, transformed.”
— Derrick Jensen, writer of "The delusion of Human Supremacy"
“‘The complete historical earth thinks prodigiously / and the murmur of its nice bushes grows.’ Rilke’s strains stored nudging me as I pored over this manuscript. by the point I reached the top, I had the eerie experience that Kessler, a improving biologist, was once in some way channeling Thoreau (‘Shall I now not have intelligence with the earth?’), Loren Eiseley (‘I was once water and the unspeakable alchemies that gestate and take form in water.’) and the towering, incredible indignation of Edward Abbey. I don’t as a rule carry with resurrections, yet I’m making an exception with Ben Kessler. Abbey is back.”
—Calvin Luther Martin, writer of "The method of the Human Being"
BEN KESSLER is or used to be a schoolteacher, box biologist, gardener, activist, painter, and nurseryman. He lives in a bit hole within the Blue Ridge Mountains of important Virginia.
By John Chuchman
ISBN-10: 1419602691
ISBN-13: 9781419602696
By Florian Neukirchen
ISBN-10: 3827429218
ISBN-13: 9783827429216
By Jennifer M. Collins,Kevin Walsh
ISBN-10: 3319475924
ISBN-13: 9783319475929
By Ney C. Landrum
ISBN-10: 0826215009
ISBN-13: 9780826215000
ISBN-10: 0826220185
ISBN-13: 9780826220189
By Orrin H. Pilkey,William J. Neal,James Andrew Graham Cooper,Joseph T. Kelley
ISBN-10: 0520268717
ISBN-13: 9780520268715
ISBN-10: 0520268725
ISBN-13: 9780520268722
By Gould,John Mead
ISBN-10: 1347214496
ISBN-13: 9781347214497