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This comprehensive book covers a wide variety of methods for estimating the sizes and related parameters of closed populations. With the effect of climate change, and human territory invasion, we have seen huge species losses and a major biodiversity decline. Populations include plants, trees, various land and sea animals, and some human populations. With such a diversity of populations, an extensive variety of different methods are described ...

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This comprehensive book, rich with applications, offers a quantitative framework for the analysis of the various capture-recapture models for open animal populations, while also addressing associated computational methods. The state of our wildlife populations provides a litmus test for the state of our environment, especially in light of global warming and the increasing pollution of our land, seas, and air. In addition to monitoring our food...

The Shrapnel Pickers tells two stories. The main theme is the true first person account of a boy's life in war torn England. From the London Blitz, through evacuations to the well-bombed midlands, and back in time for rockets and flying bombs, the reader is led through encounters with the black market, rationing, nights and days in air raid shelters, pubs, music halls and playground fights. The writer takes us through the action-filled, someti...

The Shrapnel Pickers tells two stories. The main theme is the true first person account of a boy's life in war torn England. From the London Blitz, through evacuations to the well-bombed midlands, and back in time for rockets and flying bombs, the reader is led through encounters with the black market, rationing, nights and days in air raid shelters, pubs, music halls and playground fights. The writer takes us through the action-filled, someti...

As the first generation to be so long lived, we face the challenge of taking personal responsibility for the quality of our extended lives. We'll be long-term pioneers, making the second part of our lives as rich and rewarding as the first, if not more so. But aging isn't the point. The point is lifelong development - our ability to live skillfully each day with the opportunities, choices, and changes that will happen inside and outside of our...

?Mr. Westwood does not pretend to have written a clinical textbook of sexual disorder, nor, would he venture to claim the status of a psychologist of the unconscious.' Still less does he ape the statistical preciosities of the sociologist. But, drawing on these and sundry other sources of information, he does attempt to give a balanced outline of the problem of homosexuality. In this book the homosexual emerges as a man amongst men struggling ...

Retirement can be as rich and rewarding as you've always envisioned. The challenge is figuring out how to craft the life you want when so many variables are unknown: When will you stop working? What income streams can you create now? What will bring joy ten years down the road? How will you deal with the inevitable twists and turns? How Do I Get There from Here? challenges you to rethink your retirement and your life by cultivating new outlook...