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Agriculture & related industriesJuly 1998Thysanoptera
An Identification Guide, 2nd Edition
by Laurence A Mound, Geoffrey Kibby
A number of species of Thysanoptera (thrips) are increasingly important crop pests in many parts of the world, as well as in some cases being vectors of plant disease. Communicating the known information about a species of organism is dependent on our ability to recognise or identify it accurately. This book is a completely revised and rewritten edition of the standard, widely used manual on these minute flying insects written by J.M. Palmer, L.A. Mound and G.J. du Heaume and published in 1989 as CIE Guides to Insects of Importance to Man 2. Thysanoptera, which provides a practical identification guide on a worldwide scale. The previous version posed problems for students in terms of fluency in English & knowledge of dichotomous keys. However, this thoroughly updated edition incorporates a new set of pictorial keys, which have been developed and used very successfully for training courses at the International Institute of Entomology and which will greatly enhance the ability of the non-specialist to identify thrips to species. Individuals of these insects can usually be identified only by examination under a microscope, often at high power. Within each species, individuals can vary in size, colour and shape and their appearance can be altered by techniques used in preparation. This booklet describes techniques used in the preparation of thrip specimens onto slides for identification and the means of identifying slide-mounted specimens most commonly encountered. It also introduces students to the biological diversity that is found amongst the Thysanoptera, their economic importance in terms of both damaging and beneficial effects, new identification techniques, additional information and taxa, glossary of technical terms, notes on each genus (described alphabetically within their families and subfamilies). Supplementary keys to species are also given within four genera that include several pest species (Caliothrips, Frankliniella, Scirtothrips and Thrips) along with new distribution records which have occurred since the publication of the first edition. It is an essential tool for applied entomologists and crop protection specialists involved in the control of crop pest thrips, and thrip taxonomists.
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Picture booksSeptember 2020The Space Swing
by Jean Leroy
Head in the stars... A moment of grace as the parents play along with their kids’ game. Mim and Crocus set up a swing with Dad. And it’s not just any swing. It’s a space swing! They invite Mom to try it out. When Dad rings the little bell for takeoff, Mim and Crocus give the swing a push. Di-ling di-ling! The journey has come to an end.
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Picture booksNovember 2020Doctor Popov
by Dorothée de Monfreid
A new adventure with the doggies! Today Popov has decided to be the doggies’ personal doctor. But nobody wants a check-up or medicine. Popov starts to cry... If that’s the case, he’s going to drink all of the cough syrup.
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Picture booksOctober 2020Meow! Chirp! Bonk!
by Matthieu Maudet
The heroine of Go Fetch! is back, and she’s braver than ever! Thanks to her red cape, Lucie is “Super Lulu.” She’s going to save the world! Suddenly she hears, “Meow! Chirp! Bonk!” A cat, a baby bird, and a turtle are in danger! Super Lulu doesn’t think twice before heading to the rescue! Really? So why can we still hear, “Meow! Chirp! Bonk!”...?
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January 2019O homem como animal na Historia Animalium de Aristóteles
by Denis, Leon
O homem como animal na História Animalium de Aristóteles Leitura instigante. Dois milênios e meio transcorreram, desde que se tem notícia escrita da noção de si mesmo que o animal humano construiu, no exame comparativo entre as emoções, a inteligência, a perspicácia e a linguagem que aproximam e distanciam as espécies animais umas das outras. Nenhuma das características até hoje apontadas como marcadoras da superioridade dos humanos sobre o resto da espécie animal comprovou-se eficaz para estabelecer hierarquias entre a mente de uns e a de outros. Pioneira no Brasil, a reconstituição dos argumentos aristotélicos sobre as diferenças e semelhanças entre animais humanos e não humanos, ajuda-nos a dar mais um passo no restabelecimento do estatuto ético singular da vida de cada animal sob o domínio humano, sem subtrair deles o que não estamos dispostos a ceder do que nos resta." Sônia T. Felipe Man as an animal in Aristotle's Historia Animalium Stunning reading. Two and a half millennia have passed, since there is written news of the notion of self that the human race has built, in the comparative examination between emotions, intelligence, perspicacity and language that bring animal species closer and further apart. None of the characteristics to date pointed out as markers of the superiority of humans over the rest of the animal species has proven effective in establishing hierarchies between the minds of some and that of others. Pioneer in Brazil, the reconstruction of the Aristotelian arguments about the differences and similarities between human and non-human animals, helps us to take another step in the restoration of the unique ethical status of the life of each animal under the human domain, without subtracting from them what we are not willing to give up from what we have left. "Sônia T. Felipe
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Children's & YATreasury of Science Facts Series
by Lee Sze Wai, Dylan Yap
Treasury of Science Facts; Lower Block and Upper Block cover the 5 core Science themes of Diversity, Cycles, Energy, Systems and Interactions through lively and exciting photos, illustrations and diagrams. Each section comprehensively explores its subject matter, making these two books indispensable reference for Primary 3 to Primary 6 students doing their school projects or homework.
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Sap Hunters
by Romain Benassaya, Alexandre Ristorcelli and Laurent Genefort
The World Tree is dying, threatening the lives of all the clans that inhabit it. Can three Sap Hunters and the last Chasm Strider clan find the source of its sickness in time? All is not right within the branches of the sacred World Tree. Towering huge, its life-giving sap sustains the many divided clans living within it… until the Chasm Strider clan’s diviner, Pierig, discovers the Tree’s sap has become infected! Before he can warn his clan, tragedy strikes and he is violently captured by the Sap Hunter clan, warriors who demand he use his special divining skills to track the source of the corruption. As the sickness eats away at the World Tree, the party works its way down the levels of the massive Tree, inching closer to its roots. But what secrets do the dense roots hide? How deep will this unlikely group descend to save everything they love?Mad Max meets Avatar in this adaptation of Laurent Genefort's novel, as adapted by Alexandre Ristorcelli.
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Children's & YAOctober 2020Wrong
by Matilde Piran, Andrea Falcone
Wrong is the story of a journey: Davide and Elisa, both 15, are on the run, looking for a place to be themselves. It’s also the story of a friendship and the search for a common language to express all those emotions that the two just can’t deal with.Davide is the invisible boy. He doesn’t like or dislike anything specific, girls and boys frighten him equally, he doesn’t fit in with any particular group, and he doesn’t know how to approach his own desires.Elisa’s family has just moved to the city from a small town so that her kid brother can get the therapy he needs. She doesn’t know anyone yet. What she knows is that her half-wit brother, will not help her make new friends.Through text and images, the story snowballs towards the meeting between Davide and Elisa, and between two different ways to go wrong and be wrong - and to do it together.
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Agriculture & farmingJanuary 2015Biological Sciences
Innovations and Dynamics
by Rajeshwar P. Sinha, Richa & Rajesh Prasad Rastogi
The objective of this book is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge, and highlight the current developments taking place in biological sciences. The book encompasses topics on prokaryotic cyanobacteria to higher plants, distributed in fourteen chapters for the benefit of graduate and post-graduate students as well as young researchers and scientists. Subjects covered include molecular and biochemical diversity of microbes, stress biology, cyanotoxins, antimicrobial activity of drugs originated from plants, natural bioactive compounds of microbial origin, detection approaches for genetically modified crops, genomics and proteomics. The book provides an insight for future perspectives in particular field with extensive bibliographies at the end of each . With all these, this book becomes highly useful and must-read for students, researchers and professionals in botany, biotechnology, bioinformatics, environmental sciences, agriculture, molecular biology and other streams of biological sciences.
