Author: Benedict Anderson
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: mapping, series, nation
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1859840604
ISBN-13: 9781859840603
Few political phenomena have proved as confusing and difficult to comprehend as nationalism. There is no consensus on its identity, genesis or future. Are we, for example, in the process of being thrust back into a nineteenth-century world of competitive and aggressive great powers and petty nationalisms? Or are we being flung headlong into a new, globalized and supra-national millennium? Has the nation-state outlived its usefulness and exhausted its progressive and emancipatory role, or has nationalism always been implicated in an exclusivist ethnic and militaristic logic? Mapping the Nation
Authors:Khalid Meksem, Guenter Kahl,
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: mapping, genetic, physical, genome, plant, handbook
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 2005-05-09
List price: $260.00
ISBN-10: 3527311165
ISBN-13: 9783527311163
While the complete sequencing of the genomes of model organisms such as a multitude of bacteria and archaea, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fly Drosophila melanogaster, and the mouse and human genomes have received much public attention, the deciphering of plant genomeswas greatly lagging behind. Up to now, only two plant genomes, one of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and one of the crop species rice (Oryza sativa) have been sequenced, though a series of other crop genome sequencing projects are underway. Notwithstanding this public bias towards
Authors:Nancy Margulies, Nusa Maal, Margaret J. Wheat
Publisher: Corwin Pre
Keywords: mapping, visual, teaching, space, inner, learning
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1569761388
ISBN-13: 9781569761380
Visual note-taking relies on paring down thoughts to key words and pictures. This introduction to this technique illustrates how relationships among various concepts are highlighted and more information can be recorded on a page. This helpful tool can be used for personal self-expression, curriculum planning, group processes, and as a teaching strategy in daily lessons. Beginners are introduced to stroke-by-stroke exercises in drawing simple iconic figures that can be incorporated into one’s mindscapes.
Author: Committee on Floodplain Mapping Technologies Nati
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: mapping, floodplain, data, elevation
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-08-17
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0309104092
ISBN-13: 9780309104098
Floodplain maps serve as the basis for determining whether homes or buildings require flood insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Approximately $650 billion in insured assets are now covered under the program. FEMA is modernizing floodplain maps to better serve the program. However, concerns have been raised as to the adequacy of the "base map" information available to support floodplain map modernization."Elevation Data for Floodplain Mapping" shows that there is sufficient two-dimensional "base map imagery" to meet FEMA
Authors:Wayne Hunter, Chittaranjan Kole,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: genome, genomics, mapping, animals, arthropods
Number of Pages: 122
Published: 2007-12-18
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3540738320
ISBN-13: 9783540738329
Mapping of animal genomes has generated huge databases and several new concepts and strategies, which are useful to elucidate origin, evolution and phylogeny. Genetic and physical maps of genomes further provide precise details on chromosomal location, function, expression and regulation of academically and economically important genes. The series "Genome Mapping and Genomics in Animals" provides comprehensive and up-to-date reviews on genomic research on a large variety of selected animal systems, contributed by leading scientists from around the world. Insects and other arthropods, the large
Author: Peter Dicke
Publisher: The Guilford Pre
Keywords: changing, contours, global, mapping, shift, economy, world, fifth
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2007-03-06
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1593854366
ISBN-13: 9781593854362
This bestselling work is the definitive text on globalization. Peter Dicken provides a comprehensive, balanced yet critical account of globalization processes and their sweeping, highly uneven effects on peoples lives. Each chapter reflects current globalization and antiglobalization debates, the latest empirical developments, and new ideas about the shaping and reshaping of production, distribution, and consumption in the world economy. Of special utility are detailed case studies of key global industries and more than 250 specially designed figures and tables. To facilitate use in the class
Author: H&s
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: mapping
Published: 1995-08-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0748608168
ISBN-13: 9780748608164
