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First Edition with a good mylar protected DJ. Very nice condition book, may have price markings/sticker.

Very nice condition. First Edition. Price sticker.

As new with DJ. Price sticker. This work undertakes several tasks at once. In attempting to expand Mead's and (to a much lesser extent) Fortune's 1932 field notes into a monograph on the Mundugumor of New Guinea's Speik region, McDowell also evaluates the quality of the original data and the effects of the theoretical milieu in which it was gathered. The outcome is strikingly different than that arrived at by Derek Freeman, whose Margaret Mead and Samoa ( LJ 5/1/83) derided both Mead's skills as a fieldworker and the culture theory that influenced her. McDowell shapes Mead's materials into something like an ethnography and finds that this is possible because Mead's notes allowed for far more complexity and contradiction (i.e., they reflected real life) than her simplistic published portrayals ever could. For specialists.- Glenn Petersen, Baruch Coll., CUNYCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

"This work makes a solid contribution to our understanding of a poorly known era in cenral lowland Maya prehistory.... It also provides stratigraphic evidence for phasing the subdivisions of the Postclassic era, offering important support for a detailed chronology of this era in the central lowlands--an unresolved and disputed issue until now." -- Robert J. Sharer, University of Pennsylvania "Rice has written the best and most comprehensive study of Postclassic pottery from the southern Maya lowlands. We have precious few windows into the panorama of late Maya history in the Peten, and the ceramics, although they can never tell us all we wish to know, give us some of the most detailed information we are ever likely to have on the centuries after the southern Maya collapse" -- E. Wyllys Andrews V, Tulane University In reconsidering the transition from the Classic to the Postclassic period of Maya civilization in the Department of Peten, Guatemala, Prudence Rice challenges traditional concepts of… Read More

Very nice clean copy.

An anthology of brilliantly written articles on fishing the dry fly from the world's masters of the sport of fly fishing. You've met them before, in the dozens of books and hundreds of magazine articles they have written, but here is some of the best work from the world's most renowned dry-fly experts, assembled in one classic volume.With articles ranging from instruction in reading the water to tying better dry flies, and beautifully illustrated with photographs and Dave Whitlock's incomparable drawings, THE MASTERS ON THE DRY FLY will be a welcome addition to any angler's library.Good clean condition. Softcover wrinkled.

Nice clean copy, no DJ. Price sticker on inside of front cover.

A good clean copy with mylar protected dustjacket. First Edition.

Very good condition with dj.

Through an integration of systematics, genetics, and related disciplines, the Modern Synthesis of Evolutionary Biology came into being over fifty years ago. Knowledge of evolution has since been transformed by several revolutions: the way we interpret the fossil record has been radically affected by theories of continental drift and asteroid impacts; the way we classify organisms has been influenced by the development of cladistics. Perhaps the most dramatic revolution has been the explosion in molecular biology of information about the genome. Aiming to capture the excitement of modern evolutionary biology, six prominent scientists here explore important issues and problems in their areas of specialization and identify the most promising directions of future research.The scope of this volume ranges from macroevolutionary patterns in the Precambrian to molecular evolution of the genome. Major themes include the origin and maintenance of variation and the causes of evolutionary change. Chapters on… Read More

This chronicle of a Montana trout fisherman's seasons describes the first warm days when the ice melts in spring through the time when the rivers freeze again - a pursuit of trout by a passionate angler who builds a calendar unconnected to Mondays. Along the way, such concerns as the essential occupation of wintertime Montanans, the "social impact" of the famed salmonfly hatch, and the basic nature of grizzly bears preoccupy Barsness. (51/2 X 81/4, 128 pages) Softcover

Good condition with chipped dj. First American Edition.