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From tiny, burrowing lizards to rainforest canopy-dwellers and giant crocodiles, reptile populations everywhere are changing. Yet government and conservation groups are often forced to make important decisions about reptile conservation and management based on inadequate or incomplete data. With contributions from nearly seventy specialists, this volume offers a comprehensive guide to the best methods for carrying out standardized quantitative and qualitative surveys of reptiles, while maximizing comparability of data between sites, across habitats and taxa, and over time. The contributors discuss each method, provide detailed protocols for its implementation, and suggest ways to analyze the data, making this volume an essential resource for monitoring and inventorying reptile abundance, population status, and biodiversity. Reptile Biodiversity covers topics including:• terrestrial, marine, and aquatic reptiles• equipment recommendations and limitations• ethics of monitoring and inventory activities• statistical procedures• designing sampling programs• using PDAs in the field

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Now that more than half of the world's population lives in cities, the study of birds in urban ecosystems has emerged at the forefront of ornithological research. An international team of leading researchers in urban bird ecology and conservation from across Europe and North America presents the state of this diverse field, addressing classic questions while proposing new directions for further study. Areas of particular focus include the processes underlying patterns of species shifts along urban-rural gradients, the demography of urban birds and the role of citizen science, and human-avian interaction in urban areas. This important reference fills a crucial need for scientists, planners, and managers of urban spaces and all those interested in the study and conservation of birds in the world's expanding metropolises.

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Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research with Native Hawaiian oral traditions and the evidence of archaeology, Kirch puts a human face on the gradual rise to power of the Hawaiian god-kings, who by the late eighteenth century were locked in a series of wars for ultimate control of the entire archipelago.This lively, accessible chronicle works back from Captain James Cook's encounter with the pristine kingdom in 1778, when the British explorers encountered an island civilization governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people. Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive archaeological investigations into the broader historical narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive agricultural systems.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- Hawaii --- Chavaē --- Gavaĭi --- Gavaĭskie Ostrova --- Gavaĭtæ --- H.I. --- HA --- Hahuai --- Hauaiʻi --- Haṿai Inzlen --- Havaiji --- Havajai --- Havajas --- Hawai-shū --- Hawaii Eyaleti --- Hawaii-Inseln --- Hawaii (Kingdom) --- Hawaii (Republic) --- Hawaii (State) --- Hawaii (Ter.) --- Hawaii (Territory) --- Hawaiian Islands --- Hawaiju --- Hawaje --- HI --- Khavai --- Kingdom of Hawaiʻi --- Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi --- Republic of Hawaii --- Shtat Havaï --- State of Hawaii --- Territory of Hawaii --- Tlahtohcāyōtl Hahuai --- Xiaweiyi --- Xiaweiyi Zhou --- Χαβάη --- Хаваји --- Хаваи --- Штат Гаваї --- Гавайтæ --- Гавайи --- Гаваї --- האוואי --- הוואי --- ハワイ --- ハワイ州 --- 夏威夷 --- 夏威夷州 --- 하와이 --- 하와이주 --- Civilization. --- Antiquities. --- History --- Environmental conditions. --- 18th century history. --- agriculture history. --- american indians. --- archaeologist books. --- archipelago history. --- books based on facts. --- books for history lovers. --- british history. --- captain james hook. --- distractions for kids. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- european history. --- hawaiian culture. --- hawaiian religion. --- hawaiian tradition. --- history of hawaii. --- learning while reading. --- leisure reads. --- native american history. --- nonfiction history books. --- page turner. --- polynesian history. --- polynesian settlers. --- power struggle. --- south china sea. --- vacation books.

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The figure of Julius Caesar has loomed large in the United States since its very beginning, admired and evoked as a gateway to knowledge of politics, war, and even national life. In this lively and perceptive book, the first to examine Caesar's place in modern American culture, Maria Wyke investigates how his use has intensified in periods of political crisis, when the occurrence of assassination, war, dictatorship, totalitarianism or empire appears to give him fresh relevance. Her fascinating discussion shows how-from the Latin classroom to the Shakespearean stage, from cinema, television and the comic book to the internet-Caesar is mobilized in the U.S. as a resource for acculturation into the American present, as a prediction of America's future, or as a mode of commercial profit and great entertainment.

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