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As new condition FIRST edition signed by the author. Few experiences can compare to a shark attack while casting to world record bonefish to help put a diagnosis of cancer in perspective. Fly-fishing winds like an interactive time machine through the pages of Dances With Sharks, taking you on a 340 million year journey from Carboniferous mayflies the size of canaries to contemporary Mexico where the direct descendents of Mayan Jaguar Priests learn to be flats fishing guides. These short stories in the classic tradition are funny, informative, poignant, and filled with enough action to keep you up reading late into the night. The three novellas in Dances with Sharks take you on three very different adventures, and your first stop is... Armageddon. Experience first hand the end of over 300 million years of world history along with Duke and the Mayor on a five day river trip through a wilderness canyon. They wake up covered with radioactive ash, in the yellow twilight of nuclear winter the hatches have… Read More

As new with DJ. Nature writer Janet Lembke claims "dangerous" birds can be as plain as sparrows or as light and elusive as hummingbirds, so long as they catch hold of a human being's fascination and never let go. In a brilliant work, Janet visits some of these "dangerous" birds, letting readers share her love and knowledge of them and the unique sense of wonder they inspire.

Organized in alternating biographical and scientific chapters, a clear and highly readable account explains the influences that shaped Charles Darwin's life and examines his legacy to science and culture.

VG/VG First Edition.From the Jacket: Dan Chiodo, N.Y.P.D. shield number 27996, was a decoy man. In a tough, dangerous profession, his was the toughest, most dangerous job. Prowling the Bowery and the East Village, Washington Square Park and Central Park, Brooklyn and lower Broadway, looking the part of the aimless drifter, the nervous, strung-up addict, the vulnerable drunk, he fought street crime by attracting it-to himself. And for him, crime in the streets was not hard to find. He went after car boosters, flim-flam men, muggers, mashers, robbers and petty thieves. He nabbed hoodlums in the act of beating and robbing bums for pennies. He caught street-corner Romeos pawing women pedestrians and chased purse-snatchers and junkies. He mingled with crowds of war protestors at demonstrations, trying to cool tempers inflamed by militant rhetoric. And there were the bigger fish: networks of pushers distributing to addicted kids; motorcycle thugs gang-raping an innocent young girl from the country;… Read More

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Most aspects of plant growth and development that affect food production involve the regulated expression of specific genes. This volume addresses the problem of how physiological environmental, and genetic factors interact to control plant gene expression, in the belief that an improved understanding of how plants function at the molecular level is an important prerequisite for the next phase in plant genetic engineering.

New copy still in original shrink wrap. * The three bird families covered in this comprehensive monographloons, grebes, and auksshare many common features, but their taxonomic relationships remain in doubt. They are the most aquatic of North America birds, coming ashore, if at all, only to nest. Predominately fish eaters, all have anatomical adaptations for swimming that impede walking and make them weak fliers; diving, not flight, is their usual response to danger. Derived from a thorough review of the literature, the book is divided into two sections: comparative biology and species accounts. Scholarly and quite technical, yet accessible to serious amateur birders, this study is recommended to academic and larger public libraries. (Illustrations not seen.) Paul B. Cors, Univ. of Wyoming Lib., LaramieCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This book is designed and presented as a general volume on domestic rabbits.

New York Academy of Sciences; (1986)