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Ufens is known to parasitize primarily hemipteran eggs and is a cosmopolitan genus most common in temperate and semi-arid regions such as the southwestern United States and Australia. This book presents a worldwide revision of the wasp genus Ufens Girault, 1911 (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae: Oligositinae).

Presents the documentation of Nzadi, a Bantu language spoken by fishermen along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This title covers the segmental phonology, tone system, morphology, and sentence structure, followed by appendices on the Nzadi people and history and on Proto-Bantu to Nzadi sound changes.

Provides an in-depth look at the production of clicks using a variety of different techniques. This work examines how the three different click types of IsiZulu differ from each other in their production in both spatial and temporal dimensions, and considers the question of how these complex segments are integrated into the stream of speech.

Presents the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. This book provides nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area of the reproductive system, along with discussions of possible Chinese cognates.

The attempt by the George W Bush administration to reshape world order after September 11, 2001, appears to have resulted in a catastrophic "misshaping" of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations worldwide? This title explores the role of culture in this process of geopolitical transformation.

Presents a forum for scholarly exchange about the status of Mayfly and Stonefly science. This title contains a chapter reflecting on the quality of mayflies as good indicators of global warming and the quality of streams and lakes. It explores topics of Scale and Hierarchy and the Ecology of Plecoptera.

The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. This book explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious practice.

Human rights is all too often the first casualty of national insecurity. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights? This volume compares the lessons of the United States and Israel with the 'best-case scenarios' of the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and Germany.

Oliver P Pearson's studies on mammalian biology remain standard reading for ecologists, taxonomists, and biogeographers. This work expands our understanding of the ecology and evolution of subterranean mammals, and of ecology, taxonomy, and biogeography of Neotropical mammals, a group that was central to the latter half of Pearson's career.

Revises the Neotropical ant genus Linepithema at the species level. This work provides taxonomic keys, diagnoses, illustrations, and discussions of the biology, distribution, natural history, and taxonomy. It recognizes nineteen species following extensive synonymy, including six new species.

California has one of the world's most diverse chrysidid wasp faunas. These are large, brightly metallic-colored parasitoids of sphecoid wasps and bees. This study reviews the species and genera of Chrysididae in California, maps their overall distributions, and gives keys to California genera and species.

Represents a reconstruction of Proto-Wintun, the parent language of a group of California Indian languages. This volume includes a grammatical sketch of Proto-Wintun, cognate sets with reconstructions and an index to the reconstructions. It fulfills a need for in-depth reconstructions of proto-languages for California Indian language families.

The subfamily Rileyinae (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) is redefined to contain 6 genera and 69 species for which keys are provided. This book includes tables detailing host utilization for Eurytomidae (genera), Rileyinae (species), and confirmed/suspected plant associations for Rileyinae.

This volume describes aspects of word- and sentence-formation in Nuuchahnulth (formerly known as Nootka), a language spoken on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Aspects included are polysynthetic word formation, word classes, and clause structure.

A study of the Miocene Carmel flora of California, an evergreen laurel-oak forest that grew in a mild temperate, frost-free climate, with annual precipitation of about 760mm.

Revises the genus Anopina of the leafroller family, Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). This title describes sixty-two species and provides a hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships of the species, proposes a classification, and includes illustrations of adults, larvae, and male and female genitalia.

From Latin through the Romance languages, which types of past participle survived? Which older "irregular" types disappeared and which older "regular" types proliferated? This text explores these questions, and the reasons for the expansion or contraction of each type, in each area.

The coenosus group is the most speciose clade of Histerini in the Americas. The author provides a comprehensive revision of these species, including keys for identification, complete distributional data, illustrations of diagnostic characters and a detailed phylogenetic analysis.

A study that provides an original key to species, diagnoses, descriptions, distributions, and illustrations along with a compilation of biological information for these species.

Oligocene Haynes Creek flora of Eastern Idaho of 70 species is dominated by deciduous trees, many with descendants in China. Comparison with the Horse Prairie flora, 30 miles east and across the present continental divide, indicates that the divide was then low and discontinuous, with warmer climate to the east.

An Eocene (45 Ma) flora from Thunder Mountain caldera shows that montane conifer forest species from upper slopes descended to interfinger with mixed conifer-deciduous hardwood forest on the caldera floor then near 1700m. Most species are allied to those in the USA, but a few genera are in China.

This bibliography of more than 3000 entries lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a time of great change. Among the subjects included are slavery, women's rights, the Civil War, labour, social and economic behaviour and political movements.

Offers an investigation of macrogeographic variation in the Plain Titmouse (Parus inornatus) complex in western North America, the author assessed population-level patterns of differentiation in morphometric, colorimetric, allozymic, mtDNA, and vocal characters.

Central Hill Nisenan was spoken in the hills northeast of Sacramento, California, but like many other California languages, it is no longer spoken. This monograph includes texts recorded by the late Richard Smith, a brief description of the language and a short word list.

This work provides a systematic and comprehensive reconstruction of proto-Afroasiatic. The book applies throughout the established canon and techniques of the historical-comparative method and incorporates up-to-date evidence from the distinctive African branches of the family.

CA-Mno-2122 is an extensive, multi-component site complex in the Mono Lake basin of east-central California containing 31 native encampments and 4 wing traps dating between AD 500 and 1900. This archeological study of the site provides information regarding communal pronghorn hunting, the region's Protohistoric period, and cultural continuity.

This catalogue contains detailed descriptions of 91 items in the Armenian Manuscript Collection in the Department of Special Collections at the University Research Library of the University of California, Los Angeles.