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This study is facilitated by following economic entomologists' and ecologists' changing ideas about different pest control strategies, chiefly 'chemical', 'biological', and 'integrated' control. The author then follows the efforts of one specific group of entomologists, at the University of California, over three generations from their advocacy of 'biological' controls in the 1930s and 40s, through their shifting attention to the development of an 'integrated pest management' in the context of 'big biology' during the 1970s.
Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture examines the vastly expanded governmental funding of scientific research and technological development for the institutional and intellectual organization of life sciences in the twentieth century. It studies the history of natural historical investigations of insects in the light of the growinginstitutional organisation of the agricultural sciences in the United States and Canada, exploring how this context has shaped the emergenc ... Read more

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Describes the varied tasks and responsibilities of a nurse in an obstetrician's office. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from SuperScience, published by Scholastic, Inc. on May 1, 2009. The length of the article is 473 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cool science jobs.(careers)(Daniel Lindner)(Interview)
Author: Jacqueline Adams
Publication: SuperScience (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2009
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 20Issue: 8Page: 11(2)

Article Type: Interview

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Dare To Be Free is for nurses who are seeking more out of their time, their lives, and their nursing careers.Reading this book could bedangerous! It will change the way you think, live, and practice nursing. ... Read more

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'You should learn to use a computer'.'Internet is a very useful tool'... Dont waste your time.

Self-employed nurse tells how you can change your life
I wrote this book.And rather than tell you how great it is (what else would you expect me to say? ;-) I'll just give you a preview of what the book offers.I've been a self-employed nurse entrepreneur for since 1980, and this book distills my experiences, and show you how you can take control of your life and nursing career.

(1) visualizing your future will change your life.how to do it.p. 8

(2) what you should (mentally speaking) never take your eyes off of.p. 8

(3)the difference between dreams and goals.p. 9

(4)resolving contradictory goals.p. 10

(5)the 3 most important questions you can ask about your life.pages 13-14

(6)putting your dreams into reality.p. 15

(7)the crucial question to ask when you fail.p. 17

(8)what's the opposite of success?(hint:it's not failure ...)p. 17

(9) the crucial question to ask about any dream.p. 19

(10)an important mental exercise that will tell you what's important to you in your career.p. 23

(11)positioning yourself for career success.pages 27-30

(12)getting business to come to you even when you don't like sales.pages 31-32

(13)hints on buying equipment for your business (one of these hints saved me over $200 -- over 90% off what I would have normally paid for the piece of equipment -- one time).pages 34-35

(14) what distinguishes winners from losers.p. 35

(15)68 nursing business career ideas requiring little or no money to start.pages 44-46

(16)an easy way to "get your feet wet" in nursing self-employment.pages 48-49

(17)the one thing that you should never say about your competitors.p. 61

(18)2 books (in addition to this one!) that changed my life.(they will probably change your's, too).p. 71

I welcome additional questions about this book.I'm here to help.

Jim Huffman

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The book offers a history of the agricultural sciences in Nazi Germany. It analyzes scientific practice under the Nazi regime, Nazi agricultural policy and autarkic strategies as well as expansion policy in Eastern Europe. It also offers new insights into the Auschwitz concentration camp. It outlines the Nazi s comprehensive nutritional and agricultural research program intended to prepare Germany for war by raising productivity through scientific means, researching the relation between nutrition and performance at the edge of starvation, and restructuring the agricultural economy of the continent. The book reveals the relation between science and power in Nazi Germany beyond the usual dichotomy that paints scientists in Nazi Germany either as victims of oppression or as sadistic beasts. It shows the involvement of a high ranking scientific elite in the Nazi regime of occupation and looting of cultural goods in the occupied eastern territories largely for the sake of their own careers. The main audience the book addresses are students of history and the history of science, and anyone interested in the history of Nazi Germany.

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This digital document is an article from Science World, published by Scholastic, Inc. on January 12, 2009. The length of the article is 466 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: I want that job! Tina Neal has one hot career! She's a volcanologist--a scientist who studies volcanoes.(CAREERS)
Author: Jacqueline Adams
Publication: Science World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 12, 2009
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 65Issue: 8Page: 15(1)

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on April 7, 2007. The length of the article is 1032 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Science of life; Students get taste of cutting-edge career choices.(Careers)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 7, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Describes the daily reponsibilities, tasks, and life of a firefighter. ... Read more

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If you've ever worked in military intelligence or within the special operations community, you know you're different from the rest of the work world. You're part of a very special community trained and deployed to safeguard the security of your country. Sacrificing personal goals to the greater good, your work and your life are often inseparable. Representing the best of the best, you've come to love your work, especially the bright and energetic people with whom you work. Indeed, this is the best job you've ever had. You would love to continue working in this career and community. But all good things do come to an end. Or do they really have to?

What happens when you leave this career and community of special people? Are you able to find employment that is as professionally and personally rewarding as when you worked in military intelligence and special operations? For many individuals, the answer is no. Unfamiliar with the civilian work world, many of these special people simply don't know were to go to find comparable and satisfying employment. "No more," says Mark Merritt, author of the newly released Alternative Careers in Secret Operations. There are plenty of great jobs in the civilian sector for people with backgrounds in military intelligence and special operations. ... Read more

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Career or motherhood? Do you have to sacrifice one to be truly successful in the other? And if you're trying to do both, will you have to compromise your career path or your child's needs? Is "having it all" even realistic, or just plain fantasy?

Leading Stanford University psychologist Dr. Laraine Zappert draws upon her twenty years of clinical and research experience to answer these questions and create a road map of innovative solutions. Through her findings from a landmark study of more than three hundred female graduates of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, Dr. Zappert addresses such critical concerns as:

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Describes the varied tasks and activities of a park ranger at a national park. ... Read more

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Very informative for children
My five year old son spends his days pretending to be a park ranger, so we found this book for him to help him learn more about what park rangers do.The book is pretty good, and we're sure glad it exists, because it's the only one we found.It includes lots of details about the various activities that a ranger does.

But I do wish a better book existed.This one is focused on a park ranger at Fire Island National Seashore on Long Island, and the book makes it sounds like a very urban environment.The ranger spends her days dealing with campers, horses, deer, fishermen, boaters, beachcombers, hunters, and school children.And it's just a small 20,000 acre park, which means 50 of them could fit inside Glacier National Park!I wish there was a children's book that talked about the experience of rangers in the Rocky Mountains -- building trails, backpacking in the wilderness, monitoring wildfires, doing controlled burns, tracking wildlife, dealing with problem bears, monitoring the health of the forests, search & rescue, interpretation programs, etc.That's the type of experience that would really engage a young reader that hopes to be a park ranger, and it is more representative of what rangers do around here.

interesting look at rangers for young children
This is a book for young children about rangers in our National Parks.This book follows the day of a ranger as she does her duty.(For those of you "in the know" about the NPS, the ranger profiled is a seasonal law enforcement ranger, but the book covers fire and interpretation/education too).There is a picture of a ranger on a page, with a one page "chapter" on the facing page.The "chapters" are:People & Nature Together, Ready for Anything, In the Tower, Patrolling the Beach, Many Ways to Get Around, Ranger to the Rescue, Camping & Teaching, Learning about Wildlife, A Piece of History, and Protecting the Land.It is an informative and interesting read.The pictures are great; they show many aspects of the ranger's job.It's an interesting career that children are usually curious about. ... Read more