Natural History
Author | : Justina Robson |
Publisher | : Pan |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Androids |
ISBN | : 9780330489430 |
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Author | : Justina Robson |
Publisher | : Pan |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Androids |
ISBN | : 9780330489430 |
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Author | : Kathryn Hennessy |
Publisher | : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : 9780756667528 |
A landmark in reference publishing and overseen and authenticated by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Natural History presents an unrivaled visual survey of Earth's natural history. Giving a clear overview of the classification of our natural world-over 6,000 species-Natural History looks at every kingdom of life, from bacteria, minerals, and rocks to fossils to plants and animals. Featuring a remarkable array of specially commissioned photographs, Natural History looks at thousands of specimens and species displayed in visual galleries that take the reader on an incredible journey from the most fundamental building blocks of the world's landscapes, through the simplest of life forms, to plants, fungi, and animals.
Author | : American Museum of Natural History |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Illustrated books |
ISBN | : 9781454912149 |
Highlights 40 masterworks of illustrated scientific art from the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History.
Author | : Allan A. Schoenherr |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1992-12-16 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520069218 |
Includes introductory chapters on basic ecology and geology to familiarize the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants, and animals in each distinctive region of California and shows how the state's natural history is uniquely interwoven with its human history.
Author | : Greta LaFleur |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421426439 |
Ultimately, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America not only rewrites all dominant scholarly narratives of eighteenth-century sexual behavior but poses a major intervention into queer theoretical understandings of the relationship between sex and the subject.
Author | : Marie Brennan |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2013-02-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765331969 |
The story of a pioneering spirit who risked her reputation, her prospects, and her fragile flesh and bone to satisfy her scientific curiosity; of how she sought true love and happiness despite her eccentricities; and of her thrilling expedition to the perilous mountains of Vystrana.
Author | : Frederic Augustus Lucas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alice Outwater |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2008-08-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0786725818 |
An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource. Water: A Natural History takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the reservoir to the modern toilet, from the grasslands of the Midwest to the Everglades of Florida, through the guts of a wastewater treatment plant and out to the waterways again. It shows how human-engineered dams, canals and farms replaced nature's beaver dams, prairie dog tunnels, and buffalo wallows. Step by step, Outwater makes clear what should have always been obvious: while engineering can de-pollute water, only ecologically interacting systems can create healthy waterways. Important reading for students of environmental studies, the heart of this history is a vision of our land and waterways as they once were, and a plan that can restore them to their former glory: a land of living streams, public lands with hundreds of millions of beaver-built wetlands, prairie dog towns that increase the amount of rainfall that percolates to the groundwater, and forests that feed their fallen trees to the sea.
Author | : Chris Lavers |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2009-08-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0061900842 |
“Lavers keeps his intellectual detective story passionate and suspenseful.” — Washington Post Book World From Biblical stories about virgins to adventures with Harry Potter, unicorns have enchanted people for millennia. In the endlessly fascinating The Natural History of Unicorns, author Chris Lavers ingeniously traces the legend of this mysterious creature to the real people, places, and animals that have influenced its story.
Author | : Marston Bates |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1400861543 |
This classic work is an exploration of what natural history is, and a sustained effort to see how it relates to other areas of biology. Marston Bates did not attempt to overwhelm his audience with facts or overinterpret those he did use, and, perhaps for this reason, The Nature of Natural History is a timeless work. The author's genuine interest in the tropics has a very current feeling, and the first ten or fifteen chapters of the work have a style that is parallel to that of David Attenborough's verbal presentations of nature. From the book: "I have already made several remarks about the connection between parasitism and degeneracy. I suspect this is a matter of point of view. We are predatory animals ourselves, and consequently admire the characteristics of predationagility, speed, cunning, self-reliance. We feel a certain kinship with the lion, and regard the liver fluke with horror. If a sheep were given the choice, though, it might prefer to be debilitated by liver flukes rather than killed by a lion." Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.