The three English brothers : Sir Thomas Sherley his travels, with his three yeares imprisonment in Turkie : his inlargement by his Maiesties letters to the great Turke : and lastly, his safe returne into England this present yeare, 1607 : Sir Anthony Sherley, his embassage to the Christian princes : Master Robert Sherley his wars against the Turkes, with his marriage to the Emperour of Persia his neece.

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The life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, LL.D. including in detail his various travels and extraordinary missionary exertions, in England, Ireland, America, and the West Indies : with an account of his death, May 3, 1814, while on a missionary voyage to the island of Ceylon, in the East Indies. Interspersed with numerous reflections; and concluding with an abstract of his writings and character /

Mode of access: Internet.

A voyage to Abyssinia, and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years 1809 and 1810; in which are included, an account of the Portuguese settlements on the east coast of Africa, visited in the course of the voyage; a concise narrative of late events in Arabia Felix; and some particulars respecting the aboriginal African tribes, extending from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt; together with vocabularies of their respective languages.

Mode of access: Internet.

New travels into the interior parts of Africa, by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, in the years 1783, 84 and 85. /

Imperfect: lacks map.

Journal of voyages to Marguaritta, Trinidad, & Maturin, with the author's travels across the plains of the llaneros, to Angustura, and subsequent descent of the Orinoco, in the years 1819 & 1820;

Mode of access: Internet.

The moral state of nations, or Travels over the most interesting part of the globe, to discover the source of moral motion; communicated to lead mankind through the conviction of the senses to intellectual existence, and an enlightened state of nature ... In the year of man's retrospective knowledge, by astrononmical calculation 5000.

"The revelation of nature: wherein the source of moral motion is disclosed ... [By John Stewart. Granville, Middletown, N. J.] 1835.": 122 p. at end.

The heart of Africa. Three years' travels and adventures in the unexplored regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871.

Mode of access: Internet.

An account of the escape of six federal soldiers from prison at Danville, Va.: their travels by night through the enemy's country to the Union pickets at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, in the winter of 1863-64.

The other escaping prisoners were L. B. Smith, 4th Mich. cav.; W. Siutherland, 16th U. S. inf.; W. C. Trippe, 16th U. S. inf.; J. F. Wood, 26th Ohio inf.; R. G. Taylor, 2d Mass. cav.

The travels of Pedro de Cieza de León, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru.

Mode of access: Internet.

Travels & discoveries in the Levant.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catlin's notes of eight years' travels and residence in Europe with his North American Indian collection. With anecdotes and incidents of the travels and adventures of three different parties of American Indians whom he introduced to the courts of England, France and Belgium ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Travels to discover the source of the Nile in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773.

Vol. 8 contains the plates and maps.

Competitive advantage in public-sector organizations: explaining the public good/sustainable competitive advantage paradox

Resource-based views of the firm and in particular Kay's (Why Firms Succeed. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995) model of sustainable competitive advantage have been used to advance an understanding of differences in the competitive advantage of private-sector firms. We extend the analysis to a public-sector firm where its major purpose includes engaging in public good by giving away its knowledge base and services. The case highlights the paradox that many public-sector organizations face in simultaneously pursuing public good and sustainable competitive advantage. While Kay's model is applicable for understanding intergovernmental agency competition, we find it necessary to incorporate resource dependency theory to address the paradox. Implications for theory and practice are provided. (C) 2002 Elsevier Inc. All rights reseved.

Multivariate quantitative genetics and the Lek Paradox: Genetic variance in male sexually selected traits of Drosophila serrata under field control

Single male sexually selected traits have been found to exhibit substantial genetic variance, even though natural and sexual selection are predicted to deplete genetic variance in these traits. We tested whether genetic variance in multiple male display traits of Drosophila serrata was maintained under field conditions. A breeding design involving 300 field-reared males and their laboratory-reared offspring allowed the estimation of the genetic variance-covariance matrix for six male cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) under field conditions. Despite individual CHCs displaying substantial genetic variance under field conditions, the vast majority of genetic variance in CHCs was not closely associated with the direction of sexual selection measured on field phenotypes. Relative concentrations of three CHCs correlated positively with body size in the field, but not under laboratory conditions, suggesting condition-dependent expression of CHCs under field conditions. Therefore condition dependence may not maintain genetic variance in preferred combinations of male CHCs under field conditions, suggesting that the large mutational target supplied by the evolution of condition dependence may not provide a solution to the lek paradox in this species. Sustained sexual selection may be adequate to deplete genetic variance in the direction of selection, perhaps as a consequence of the low rate of favorable mutations expected in multiple trait systems.