About This Book

This book is published as an open-access work under the Wikimedia CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Among other things (for which you must check the actual license) this means that you are not allowed commercial use of any of the book’s contents, and are not allowed to distribute altered versions of the contents. The full text of this book is available as a PDF document at https://bwo.life/bk/pdf/bk.pdf. It is also available, in possibly altered, updated, or corrected form as a web (html) document at https://bwo.life/bk/. Other forms of availability, if any, will be noted at that web address.

You may reproduce and distribute whole chapters or the entire book — for use in the classroom or for other non-commercial purposes. However, you cannot safely assume that all images in the book — especially those without an open-access license — are legally available for redistribution; some of them definitely are not. All forms of text distribution require that you credit the material to the author, and (as given above) provide links to the license and the original online location of the book. For reviews, of course, you should follow the usual legal and ethical guidelines applying to book reviews.

This book was written over seventeen years by Stephen L. Talbott, a senior researcher at The Nature Institute. The writing was helpfully overseen at all stages by Craig Holdrege, the director of the Institute, to whom the author is deeply indebted. The preparation for publication using In Design software was expertly performed by Ann Erwin (identification?), who, however, cannot be held responsible for ill-advised design choices insisted on by the author.

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