1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996210320503316

Titolo

Natural enemies [[electronic resource] ] : the population biology of predators, parasites, and diseases / / edited by M.J. Crawley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Boston, : Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1992

ISBN

1-282-27889-4

9786612278891

1-4443-1407-6

1-4443-1406-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (594 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CrawleyMichael J

Disciplina

574.5

591.53

Soggetti

Predation (Biology)

Predatory animals

Population biology

Parasitism

Parasites

Diseases

Pests - Biological control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Natural Enemies: The Population Biology of Predators, Parasites and Diseases; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part 1: BACKGROUND; 1: Evolution of Exploiter-Victim Relationships; 2: Correlates of Carnivory: Approaches and Answers; 3: Population Dynamics of Natural Enemies and their Prey; 4: Foraging Theory; Part 2: POPULATION BIOLOGY OF NATURAL ENEMIES; 5: Large Carnivores and their Prey: the Quick and the Dead; 6: Birds of Prey; 7: Insectivorous Mammals; 8: Marine Mammals; 9: Marine Invertebrates; 10: Predatory Arthropods; 11: The Population Biology of Insect Parasitoids

12: Bloodsucking Arthropods13: Spiders as Representative 'Sit-and-wait' Predators; 14: Macroparasites: Worms and Others; 15: Microparasites: Viruses and Bacteria; Part 3: SYNTHESIS; 16: Predator



Psychology and the Evolution of Prey Coloration; 17: Natural Enemies and Community Dynamics; 18: Biological Control; 19: The Dynamics of Predator-Prey and Resource-Harvester Systems; 20: Prey Defence and Predator Foraging; 21: Overview; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about disease and death. It is an ecologist's view of Darwin's vivid evocation of Nature, red in tooth and claw. An international team of authors examines broad patterns in the population biology of natural enemies, and addresses general questions about the role of natural enemies in the population dynamics and evolution of their prey. For instance, how do large natural enemies like wolves differ from small natural enemies like bacterial diseases in their effects on prey abundance? Is it better to chase after prey, or sit and wait for it to come to you? How should prey behave in o

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00081958

Titolo

L'Egypte chantée : 2- Oum Kalthoum / Samir Mégally

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Edition Samir Mégally, 1997

ISBN

29-03-84132-2

Descrizione fisica

193 p. ; 21 cm

Disciplina

781.62927

Soggetti

MUSICA ARABA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Arabo

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828147203321

Autore

Manjapra Kris <1978->

Titolo

Age of entanglement : German and Indian intellectuals across empire / / Kris Manjapra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-674-72746-0

0-674-72631-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (454 p.)

Collana

Harvard Historical Studies ; ; 183

Disciplina

303.48/243054

Soggetti

Learning and scholarship - India - History - 19th century

Learning and scholarship - India - History - 20th century

Learning and scholarship - Germany - History - 19th century

Learning and scholarship - Germany - History - 20th century

India Intellectual life 19th century

India Intellectual life 20th century

Germany Intellectual life 19th century

Germany Intellectual life 20th century

India Relations Germany

Germany Relations India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Note on Style and Transliteration -- Introduction -- I Stages of Entanglement -- II Fields of Encounter -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- Glossary of Bengali and German Names and Keywords -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Age of Entanglement explores the patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of philologists, physicists, poets, economists, and others who shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another's worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques of colonialism, this



study recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers. Collaborations in the sciences, arts, and humanities produced extraordinary meetings of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta, and Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a new university, and Himanshu Rai worked with Franz Osten to establish movie studios in Bombay. These interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the hegemony of the British empire. Germans and Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an Anglocentric world order. As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational encounters are not inherently progressive. From Orientalism to Aryanism to scientism, German-Indian entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by genuine cooperation.