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Everything Is Miscellaneous
The Power of the New Digital Disorder
by David Weinberger
“Perfectly placed to tell us what’s really new about <the> second-generation Web.”— Los Angeles Times Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended. In the digital world, everything has its places, with transformative effects: • Information is now a... (more)
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Naming Nature
The Clash Between Instinct and Science
by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
The surprising, untold story about the poetic and deeply human (cognitive) capacity to name the natural world. Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set out to order and name the entire living world and ended up founding a science: the field of scientific classification, or taxonomy. Yet, in spite of Linnaeus’s pioneering work and the genius of those who followed him, from Darwin... (more)
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Ambient Findability
by Peter Morville
How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by... (more)
The Biology of TardigradesIan M. Kinchin
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The Biology of Tardigrades
by Ian M. Kinchin
An account of marine and freshwater tardigrades which includes a taxonomic review, as well as covering every aspect of their biology. Topics covered include: affinities of the tardigrades; origins and systematics; external morphology; reproduction and life history; and cryptobiosis.
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Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
by Rob Dunn
Biologists and laypeople alike have repeatedly claimed victory over life. A thousand years ago we thought we knew almost everything; a hundred years ago, too. But even today, Rob Dunn argues, discoveries we can't yet imagine still await. In a series of vivid portraits of single-minded scientists, Dunn traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to... (more)
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Dry Storeroom No. 1
The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
by Richard Fortey
Richard Fortey—one of the world’s most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author of Life, Trilobite and Earth —describes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a legendary place. Within its pages, London’s Natural History Museum, a home of treasures—plants from the voyage of Captain Cook, barnacles to which Charles Darwin devoted years of... (more)
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The Sibley Guide to Trees
by David Allen Sibley
Book Description The man who revolutionized the field guide to birds now brings his formidable skills of identification and illustration to the more than six hundred tree species of North America. Similar in size and format to The Sibley Guide to Birds , the layout for this guide is another triumph of logic and concision. Species are arranged taxonomically, not by features such as leaf shape (as in most... (more)
A Browser's Dictionary:And Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language:A ComJohn Ciardi
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A Browser's Dictionary:And Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language:A Com
by John Ciardi
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Library and Information Science Text
The Organization of Information
by Arlene G. Taylor, Daniel N. Joudrey
This third edition of Taylor's modern classic continues to articulate the theory, principles, standards, and tools behind information organization. As with previous editions, it begins with strong justification for the continued importance of organizing principles and practice. Following a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor and Joudrey provide a detailed and insightful... (more)
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The Species Seekers
Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth
by Richard Conniff
The story of bold adventurers who risked death to discover strange life forms in the farthest corners of planet Earth. Beginning with Linnaeus, a colorful band of explorers made it their mission to travel to the most perilous corners of the planet and bring back astonishing new life forms. They attracted followers ranging from Thomas Jefferson, who laid out mastodon bones on the White House floor, to... (more)
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Among the Wonderful
by Stacy Carlson
In 1842 Phineas T. Barnum is a young man, freshly arrived in New York and still unknown to the world. With uncanny confidence and impeccable timing, he transforms a dusty natural history museum into a great ark for public imagination. Barnum's museum, with its human wonders and extraordinary live animal menagerie, rises to become not only the nation's most popular attraction, but also a catalyst that ushers... (more)
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Semi-Supervised Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)
In the field of machine learning, semi-supervised learning (SSL) occupies the middle ground, between supervised learning (in which all training examples are labeled) and unsupervised learning (in which no label data are given). Interest in SSL has increased in recent years, particularly because of application domains in which unlabeled data are plentiful, such as images, text, and bioinformatics. This first... (more)
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Biology Coloring Book
by Robert D. Griffin
Readers experience for themselves how the coloring of a carefully designed picture almost magically creates understanding. Indispensable for every biology student.
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Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
by James G. Harris
Plant identification employs an extensive and complex terminology. Professional botanists often need several years in the field to master this terminology, and it presents a daunting obstacle to the student of botany. The meaning of most botanical terms, however, is immediately apparent when an illustration is available. That is the purpose of this volume. Plant Identification Terminology provides over... (more)
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Animal
The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife
by Jane Burton, David Burnie, Don E. Wilson
This authoritative volume starts with a clear introduction to the animal world, examining the reasons for the apparently infinite variety of animal forms and the major evolutionary developments. Animal anatomy, life-cycles and the principles of classification are also explored. This is followed by a superbly illustrated survey of world habitats, showing how animals have adapted to each environment and the threats... (more)
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Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families, 4th Ed.
by Thomas J. Elpel
Now you can cut years off the process of learning about plants. Learn how related plants have similar features for identification. Discover how they often have similar properties and similar uses. Toms book takes you beyond the details towards a greater understanding of the patterns among plants. Most plant books cover only one or two hundred species. Botany in a Day includes more than 100 plant... (more)
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Meet the Arthropods... (Doris, Ellen. Real Kids Real Science Books.)
by Ellen Doris
Gr. 4^-7. Fieldwork is an integral part of this new entry in the real kids/real science series produced in cooperation with the Children's School of Science in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Doris introduces animals from six classes of Arthropoda, including the horseshoe crab, potato beetle, and praying mantis, then follows with an assortment of loosely structured activities (to do at the local pond, in the backyard,... (more)
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Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace
by Pierre Le?vy
Shows how unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has the potential to liberate us from the social and political hierarchies that have stood in the way of mankind's advance. A unique contribution to the growing interest & debate on network communication and the impact on human cognition. DLC: Information technology - Social aspects.
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Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness
by Patrick Lambe
Taxonomies are often thought to play a niche role in content-oriented knowledge management projects, as many consider them nice to have but not essential. In this groundbreaking book, Patrick Lambe illustrates how taxonomies play an integral role in helping organizations coordinate and communicate effectively. Through a series of real-world case studies, decision-making frameworks, and example questionnaires,... (more)
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Keys to the Families and Genera of Vascular Plants in Northwest California
by J. P. Smith, John O. Sawyer
320 pages. An introduction to the families of vascular plants native to North America and selected families of ornamental or economic importance. This book is intended for a student taking elementary plant taxonomy or anyone interested in learning about the families of vascular plants. It is assumed that the reader is unfamiliar with the subject.