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UNINA9910777674103321 |
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Autore |
Ellins Stuart R. <1941-> |
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Titolo |
Living with coyotes [[electronic resource] ] : managing predators humanely using food aversion conditioning / / Stuart R. Ellins |
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Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Coyote - Control |
Coyote - Food |
Aversive stimuli |
Conditioned response |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-158). |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- One Coyotes in My Pen -- Two Surviving the Onslaught -- Three A Balance of Power -- Four Surplus Killing -- Five An Opportunistic Scavenger: -- Six Feeding the Pack: -- Seven To Eat or Not to Eat? -- Eight Conditioned Prey Aversions: -- Nine Predator Management: -- Ten Current Status: -- References -- Index |
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The coyote may well be North America's most adaptable large predator. While humans have depleted or eliminated most other native predators, the coyote has defied all attempts to exterminate it, simultaneously expanding its range from coast to coast and from wilderness to urban areas. As a result, coyotes are becoming the focus of increasing controversy and emotion for people across the continent— from livestock growers who would like to eradicate coyotes to conservationists who would protect them at any cost. In this thoughtful, well-argued, and timely book, Stuart Ellins makes the case that lethal methods of coyote management do not work and that people need to adopt a more humane way of coexisting with coyotes. Interweaving scientific data about coyote behavior and natural history with decades of field experience, he shows how endlessly adaptive coyotes are and how attempts to kill them off have only strengthened |
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the species through natural selection. He then explains the process of taste aversion conditioning—which he has successfully employed—to stop coyotes from killing domestic livestock and pets. Writing frankly as an advocate of this effective and humane method of controlling coyotes, he asks, "Why are we mired in the use of archaic, inefficient, unsophisticated, and barbaric methods of wildlife management in this age of reason and high technology? This question must be addressed while there is still a wildlife to manage." |
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UNINA9911018881803321 |
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Autore |
Nebeker Frederik |
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Titolo |
Dawn of the electric age : electrical technologies in the shaping of the modern world, 1914-1945 / / Frederik Nebeker |
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Piscataway, NJ, : IEEE, c2009 |
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9786612137044 |
9781282137042 |
1282137042 |
9780470409756 |
0470409754 |
9780470409749 |
0470409746 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (550 p.) |
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Electrification - History - 20th century |
Electrical engineering - History - 20th century |
Electric apparatus and appliances - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The Great War and wireless communications -- Electrical technologies in total war -- Electrification in the interwar period -- The Jazz Age and radio broadcasting -- Postwar recovery and the Great Depression : electrical technologies in industry and commerce -- Electrical technologies and the consumer culture -- Communication technologies |
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in democratic and totalitarian countries -- Electrical engineering in an age of science -- World War II and electrical technology -- Radar, the weapon that decided the war -- Conclusion : dawn of the electronic age. |
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"Much of the infrastructure of today's industrialized world arose in the period from the outbreak of World War I to the conclusion of World War II. It was during these years that the capabilities of traditional electrical engineering--generators, power transmission, motors, electric lighting and heating, home appliances, and so on--became ubiquitous. Even more importantly, it was during this time that a new type of electrical engineering--electronics--emerged. Because of its applications in communications (both wire-based and wireless), entertainment (notably radio, the phonograph, and sound movies), industry, science and medicine, and the military, the electronics industry became a major part of the economy. Dawn of the Electronic Age explores how this engineering knowledge and its main applications developed in various scientific, economic, and social contexts, and explains how each was profoundly affected by electrical technologies. It takes an international perspective and a narrative approach, unfolding the story chronologically."--P. 4 of cover. |
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UNINA9910970811803321 |
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Autore |
Kenley David L. <1968-> |
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Titolo |
New culture in a new world : the May Fourth movement and the Chinese diaspora in Singapore, 1919-1932 / / David L. Kenley |
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New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
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1-135-94565-9 |
1-280-05376-3 |
0-203-50842-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (244 p.) |
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East Asia : history, politics, sociology, culture |
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959.57/004951 |
959.57004951 |
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Chinese - Singapore - Intellectual life - 20th century |
Singaporean newspapers |
China History May Fourth movement, 1919 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-219) and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; A Note on Romanization Styles; INTRODUCTION; THE SINGAPORE CHINESE ON THE EVE OF THE NEW CULTURE MOVEMENT; AN ERA OF PROTESTS, BOYCOTTS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS; NEWSPAPERS OF THE NEW CULTURE MOVEMENT; THE SEARCH FOR ENLIGHTENMENT; SAVING THE NATION FROM AGGRESSION AND IMPERIALISM; INDEPENDENCE AND THE DIASPORA CONTEXT; CONCLUSION; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
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Analyzes the New Culture Movement from a diaspora perspective, namely that of the overseas Chinese in Singapore who had to imagine themselves as part of the Chinese nation before they could fully participate in the movement. |
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