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This book explores mathematical models of developmental processes and structures of plants, and illustrates them using state-of-the-art computer-generated images. Plant models which grow, interact with the environment, produce flowers and fruits, and finally die, have an immense intuitive appeal of "bringing life into the computer". In front of a graphics monitor it is easy to forget the underlying mathematical formulae and simply look at plants growing, self-replicating, responding to external factors, even mutating. Without compromising the mathematical rigor of presentation the authors have tried to preserve this area in their research. The following areas receive particular attention: methods for the modelling and rendering of plants which are suitable for realistic image synthesis; the scientific potential of computer graphics in the visualization of biological structures and processes; the relationship between control mechanisms employed by living plants and the resulting complex developmental sequences and structures; and the relationship between developmental processes, self-similarity and fractals. The formalism of L-systems are adopted as the primary mathematical vehicle used to express developmental processes. The notion of L-systems was conceived in 1968 by Aristid Lindenmayer as a formal model of plant development. Its elegance was promptly recognized by mathematicians, who soon developed a comprehensive theory of L-systems. However, only recently has computer graphics revealed the full potential of L-systems applied to plant modeling. Although the focus is on the results of joint research led by the authors, a survey of alternative methods for plant modelling is also included. [via]
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Trying to understand the growth and development of multicellular organisms has been one of the most intriguing subjects of research for centuries. More recently, with the help of mathematical models and computerized simulations, scientists have discovered algorithmic patterns and models that seem to describe the dynamic processes in which organisms grow, reproduce and respond to external factors. In this book, Hans Meinhardt uses sea shells to explain and illustrate structure growth patterns in nature. A diskette, packaged with the book, contains the algorithms and simulations necessary to replicate the results. [via]
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Jodidio, Philip: Architecture: Nature. München, Prestel 2006. 4°. 191 S. m. zahlr. Abb. Ppbd. [via]
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They're packed with color and small enough to fit into a pocket. They're as inviting to the eye as they are to the wallet. And there are titles to suit every occasion, taste, and interest. Like all of Prestel's products, these "Minis" feature amazing artwork of all kinds, elegantly designed and packaged. Whether for a birthday, an anniversary, or just as a surprise, these miniature treasures prove that little things mean a lot. [via]
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Der Welterfolg von Jean M. Auel! [via]
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From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slavery and war. Her stories of fiercely independent women, culminating in her masterpiece The Awakening (1899), challenged contemporary mores as much by their sensuousness as their politics, and today seem decades ahead of their time. Now, The Library of America collects all of Chopin's novels and stories as never before in one authoritative volume.
The explosive novel At Fault (1890) centers on a love triangle between a strong-willed young widow, a stiff St. Louis businessman, and the man's alcoholic wife. In the story collections Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), Chopin transforms the local color sketch into taut, perfectly calibrated tales of post-Civil War bayou culture. In The Awakening, the now-classic novel that scandalized many of her contemporaries and effectively ended her writing career, Chopin tells the story of a restless, unsatisfied woman who embarks on a quixotic search for fulfillment.
The volume also includes all the stories not collected by Chopin, including those meant for "A Vocation and a Voice," a projected volume that her publisher canceled in 1900, and three stories that were found in 1992 in a long-lost cache of Chopin's papers. [via]
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Frans Lanting, a Dutch American photographer, delivers yet another extraordinary book drawn from time spent alongside African waterholes, Antarctic beaches, and North Pacific islands, among other locales. Lanting chronicles the lives of residents such as the aye-aye of Madagascar, the elephant seal of California, and the caiman of Brazil. He favors an up-close and personal approach to his work, and his aptly titled Eye to Eye, made up of 140 color plates, captures the essential qualities of various animals. The subjects did not always appreciate posing for him; while making his images Lanting was challenged by African elephants, sniffed at by lions, and shunned by macaws. [via]
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One of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, Georgia O'Keeffe is beloved by a broad audience that ranges from the most erudite art historian to the twelve-year-old girl next door. Her monumentally sensuous oil paintings of flowers hang in the best museum collections but are known as well via mass-produced posters, greeting cards and calendars; her weathered, elegant, fierce self has long been mythicized through Alfred Stieglitz's classic black-and-white photographs of his wife. This large-format monograph on O'Keefe renews her place in the modern canon and encourages an intensive encounter with her work. Her radical departures from imitative realism, the style that was prevalent when she began to study art making, eventually led to an idiosyncratic painting style characterized by a state of suspension. Over the course of her lengthy career--she worked up until two years before her death at age 98--she discovered and developed a personal language through which to express her own feelings and ideas, creating bold picture conceptions and spatial designs that hover somewhere between the real and the abstract, the close-up and the monumental, natural representation and artificiality. [via]
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The world beneath the waves can be dangerous and it is important for the pod to stick together. When a fierce killer whale threatens Mother Whale's calf, can the pod defend him?
Book Features:
- An informative storyline and colorful illustrations
- 32 pages
- Appropriate for ages: 3-9
- Mini book dimensions: 5 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches [via]
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La maestría de Mario Vargas Llosa se hace patente en estas páginas, un impresionante mosaico de situaciones humanas a las que sólo un escritor de su calibre podía dar tanto dramatismo y profundidad
En el campamento minero de Naccos en las montañas del Perú han desaparecido tres hombres. El cabo Lituma, asignado a esta zona, vive agobiado por el misterio de las desapariciones y no cesa en su intento por dar con los responsables de estas muertes. Con su adjunto Tomás, se hallan sumidos en un ambiente bárbaro y hostil de desconfianza generalizada, donde se funden mito y realidad bajo la constante amenaza de los guerrilleros maoístas del Sendero Luminoso.
Como contrapunto a este drama colectivo está la historia íntima de estos personajes, en especial la de un antiguo amor de Tomás, que él mismo narra en forma de episodios intercalados que se dan en las noches de desvelo y conversaciones con su superior.
El aliento mítico de la narración, en la que se entrevén otras muchas siluetas enérgicamente trazadas, infunde una extraordinaria vida a realidades que se observan de un modo implacable y minucioso, haciendo de esta novela un clásico.
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A presentation of close-up studio photographs of one of the most varied and beautiful species on the planet: the beetle. The range of shapes and colours featured should be a source of inspiration to professional designers and a visual wonder to the general reader. As the introduction explains, beetles were deified in Ancient Egypt, used for necklaces and brooches by the Amazonian Indians of Peru, and worn live, tethered to gold chains, by fashionable ladies in Victorian times. The photographs here provide evidence of why beetles have been such a valuable commodity to various cultures. [via]
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"A master of political satire infused with a dose of the fantastical."-World Literature Today
Stefano Benni's enormously popular and distinctive mix of the absurd and the satiri-cal has made him one of Italy's most important and best-loved novelists. This is his twelfth best-selling book of fiction.
Fifteen-year-old Margherita lives with her eccentric family on the outskirts of town, a semi-urban wilderness peopled by gypsies, illegal immigrants, and no end of bizarre characters: a reassuring and fertile playground for an imaginative little girl like Margherita. But one day, a gigantic, black cube shows up next door. Her new neighbors have arrived, and they're destined to ruin everything.
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A new Hollywood blockbuster, an amazing documentary, and thousands of web pages in its honor. What's the fuss? In a word--Mothman! A famous investigator examines the reports of this huge, red-eyed creature with wings seen over Point Pleasant, West Virginia on November 15, 1966?and the spawn of Mothman seen before and after that date. [via]
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The diversity of Japan's wildlife is stunning. Lush plant life and intriguing animal species abound, many of them unseen in the West outside of zoos and botanical gardens. Yet until now, little has been written about the subject. With humor, insight, and a scattering of Japanese folklore, American naturalist Kevin Short explores the intricacies of Japan's ecosystems with a keen eye for the smallest detail.
Nothing escapes his scrutiny, from the flowering cycles of wild orchids to the unique breeding habits of the indigenous Japanese tree frog. Under Short's expert tutelage, we are taken on a guided tour of all the intricacies of native plant and animal life. The nocturnal mischief of Japan's raccoon dog, the mating rituals of the giant dragonfly, the swirl of life in Tokyo's tidal pools and coastal waters -- all these come to life in Short's fascinating sketches.
Ample photographs and detailed drawings by the author accompany his reports and evoke the beauty of this nature-loving country. At the back of the book, Short introduces local parks and preserves. But whether you are a traveler or simply an armchair nature-lover, this fascinating romp through the indigenous plant and animal life in around Tokyo will offer hours of enjoyable -- and eye-opening -- reading. [via]
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573pages. poche. Poche. [via]
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This winsome and humorous natural history narrative describes the author's evolution from a hapless flatlander aching to become a mountain man into an accomplished outdoor writer. Tougias' journey begins when he buys a remote mountain-top cabin in the hopes of becoming a real "mountain man," and gets much more than he bargained for. Misadventure follows calamity in his encounters with wildlife, the locals, and nature. In There's a Porcupine in My Outhouse, Tougias reveals his deepening respect for and connection to the natural world and how this transforms his ideas on all aspects of life. As his love of the outdoors grows, so does his feeling of responsibility and stewardship toward the environment. A funny, honest, and personal account, this is the perfect book for anyone who loves the outdoors and loves to laugh. [via]
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This just absolutely rocks.Audrey Niffenegger
Raunchy, funny, and disturbing.Chicago Reader
Deeply charming.The Washington Post
A tender, joyful, raunchy, radiant novel. Imagine The Metamorphoses or A Midsummer Nights Dream transported to the woods of Illinois. When a development company cuts down a beloved tree, and tries to drive out Raedawn Summers family, strange things start to happen.

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Harold Bloom, author of The Western Canon and one of the world's most renowned literary critics, surveys Walt Whitman's vast poetic work, from early notebook fragments of Song of Myself to the late poems of Good-bye My Fancy. [via]
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A guide to around 250 flowering plants commonly found in Japan. [via]
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Spectacular color photos of Yellowstone National Park's wild wolves plus eye-witness stories from park scientists and "wolf watchers." An unprecendented portrait of individual wolves and wolf packs and astonishing new information about how wolves are changing the park's very nature. This book sets a new standard for wolf photography and natural history. [via]
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Pocket, 18*11 cm, 537 pages [via]
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434pages. in8. broché jaquette. Ecrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite fran?se d?int presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un d?rdre tragique des familles fran?ses de toute sorte, des plus hupp? aux plus modestes. Avec bonheur, Ir? N?rovsky traque les innombrables petites l?et?et les fragiles ?ns de solidarit?'une population en d?ute. Cocottes largu? par leur amant, grands bourgeois d?? par la populace, bless?abandonn?dans des fermes engorgent les routes de France bombard? au hasard. Peu ?eu l'ennemi prend possession d'un pays inerte et apeur? Comme tant d'autres, le village de Bussy est pays alors contraint d'accueillir des troupes allemandes. Exacerb? par la pr?nce de l'occupant, les tensions sociales et frustrations des habitants se r?illent. Roman bouleversant, intimiste, implacable, d?ilant avec une extraordinaire lucidit?'? de chaque Fran?s pendant l'Occupation (enrichi des notes et de la correspondance d'Ir? N?rovsky), Suite fran?se ressuscite d'une plume brillante et intuitive un pan ?if de notre m?ire. [via]
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"Je suis entrée dans la vie sexuelle adulte comme, petite fille, je m'engouffrais dans le tunnel du train fantôme, à l'aveugle, pour le plaisir d'être ballottée et saisie au hasard", déclare la narratrice. En quatre chapitres le nombre, l'espace, l'espace replié et détails, soit la multiplication des aventures, d'une partouze à l'autre, les relations à l'emporte-pièce, les lieux et le corps apprécié dans ses coins et recoins , Catherine se livre volontiers et sans fard à toutes les confessions, baisant "comme elle respire". Nulle chronologie, nulle construction véritable dans ce récit débridé conduit tout entier à la première personne.
La quatrième de couverture parle de tradition érotique et de littérature française. Soit. La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. n'est pourtant pas un texte érotique mais plutôt pornographique. Il a encore moins partie liée avec la littérature. Mais l'Suvre signée par la directrice d'Art Press a cependant un avantage : les vingt premières pages sont égales aux deux cents qui suivent. Le lecteur pourra toujours consommer sur le pouce. Il n'y perdra rien. --Céline Darner [via]
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Les faiblesses, les abandons, les déchéances de l'homme, (...) la littérature de nos jours n'est que trop habile à les dénoncer ; mais ce surpassement de soi qu'obtient la volonté tendue, c'est là ce que nous avons surtout besoin qu'on nous montre.
André Gide note aussi dans sa préface que les courriers postaux de nuit étaient encore hasardeux en ces années trente. Les pilotes, à la fois bergers du ciel, veilleurs et messagers, font donc preuve de pugnacité, de courage, mais aussi de joie puissante face aux éléments et à l'inconnu. Entre ces hommes et leur chef Rivière, avant tout accaparé par les événements, se noue pourtant une silencieuse fraternité due peut-être à cette certitude commune : "Le bonheur n'est pas dans la liberté mais dans l'acceptation d'un devoir."
Vol de nuit est le roman qui fit connaître Saint-Exupéry et reçut le prix Femina en 1931. Plus encore que dans Courrier sud où le témoignage de ses vols se mêle à une intrigue amoureuse, Saint-Exupéry retient ici la noblesse et l'héroïsme de son personnage, conférant à son récit des allures d'épopée. --Laure Anciel [via]
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[Jean M. Auel: Ayla und der Clan des Bären Taschenbuch (Akzeptabel) Heyne 1992 14. Auflage] [via]
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"Die Yrr haben die Welt für alle Zeiten verändert." Letzter Tagebucheintrag, nachdem die Welt haarscharf am Untergang entlanggeschrammt war. Alles hatte angefangen mit einem peruanischen Fischer. Das letzte was Ucañan in seinem Leben zu sehen bekam, war eine riesige silbrig glitzernde Fläche, die näher kam. Ein Schwarm Goldmakrelen, dachte er erfreut. Ucañan irrte. Was ihn das Leben kostete, sollte sich sehr bald zu einer unheimlichen und existenziellen Bedrohung für den gesamten Planeten auswachsen.
Unter der Meeresoberfläche brodelt es neuerdings gehörig. Im Nordwesten Amerikas verschwinden Wale spurlos, um bald darauf gar nicht mehr artgerecht wieder aufzutauchen. Australien gibt Quallenalarm. Vor Norwegens Küste entdecken Ölbohrfachleute eine unbekannte Wurmspezies, deren monströse Kauwerkzeuge einen halben Kontinent zum Einsturz bringen können. Dem Meeresbiologen und Schöngeist Sigur Johanson schwant Übles: Die gesamte Meeresfauna und -flora scheint sich ferngesteuert gegen die Menschheit zu wenden. Ein wissenschaftliches Dreamteam nimmt den Kampf auf.
Unglaubliche 1.000 Seiten (angeblich Verlagsrekord!), routiniert erzählt und -- so weit es sich überblicken lässt -- solide recherchiert (immerhin ging ein wissenschaftlicher Beraterstab von annähernder Heeresstärke dem Autor zur Hand). Die Ökothematik zerdehnt zwar die Story, aber so nebenbei erfährt man allerhand über die Ölgewinnung auf den riesigen Plattformen vor Norwegens Küste und wird mit dem weit gehend unerforschten Ökosystem Tiefsee vertraut gemacht.
Für den spannenden Plot hat Tausendsassa Schätzing (der Mann leitet eine Werbeagentur, ist Musikproduzent, sieht gut aus und hat eine mehr als bewegte Website), diverse Erfolgsrezepte zusammengerührt und mit Öko abgeschmeckt. Nicht unclever und präventiv erwähnt Schätzing im Roman das Quellgebiet, das er geistig angezapft hat. Michael Crichtons Ruvre, Independence Day, Contact mit Jodie Foster und ganz besonders James Camerons Erfolgsfilm Abyss, sie alle grüßen herzlich aus nicht allzu großer Ferne.
Im letzten Drittel wird kräftig (Methan-)Gas gegeben. Tsunamis schwappen, Gallertartiges triumphiert. Höllengleich mutieren Zellverbände zu formenreichen Glibberwesen voller Tentakel. Knietief jagt Schätzing uns durch den intelligenten Schleim, der die Menschheit vor ihre größte Herausforderung stellt. Beängstigender Ökothriller! Bitte sofort die Ölheizung abdrehen! --Ravi Unger [via]
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Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]
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