Biologia i przyroda
ilość książek w kategorii: 206022
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A Natural History of the Brown Mouse Lemur
ISBN: 9780132432719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text can be used for any undergraduate or graduate course with a primate behavior or primate ecology component. It can also be used as supplemental reading, for any advanced animal behavior class. There are very few books that address the biology of nocturnal primates. There are even fewer that delve with any detail regarding the behavior of specific species. These animals are difficult to follow. Their diminutive size, the thickness of the vegetation, and their nocturnal habits, make the study of their habits a demanding task.Through a trial of patience, Sylvia Atsalis has undertaken... This text can be used for any undergraduate or graduate course with a primate behavior or primate ecology component. It can also be used as supplem... |
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Unraveling DNA: Molecular Biology for the Laboratory
ISBN: 9780132700344 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This manual encompasses an integrated series of molecular biology laboratory exercises that involve the cloning and analysis of the bioluminescence (lux) genes from the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri. The manual is divided into discrete units with each demonstrating one or more aspects of the cloning project. The manual is based on one of nature's most fascinating biological phenomenon: the biological production of light. This results in a recurrent theme of interest and makes the project very relevant to interdisciplinary topics such as fish symbiosis,... This manual encompasses an integrated series of molecular biology laboratory exercises that involve the cloning and analysis of the biolu... |
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966,75 |
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The Solace of Open Spaces
ISBN: 9780140081138 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A stunning collection of personal observations that uses images of the American West to probe larger concerns in lyrical, evocative prose that is a true celebration of the region.
A stunning collection of personal observations that uses images of the American West to probe larger concerns in lyrical, evocative prose that is a tr...
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64,80 |
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest
ISBN: 9780140129915 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves contain plant compounds. Now Western medicine, faced with health crises such as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, has begun to look to the healing plants used by indigenous peoples to develop powerful new medicines. Nowhere is the search more promising than in the Amazon, the world's largest tropical forest, home to a quarter of all botanical...
For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extract...
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72,42 |
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780140178241 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents...
"The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a...
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80,04 |
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
ISBN: 9780140187441 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck's masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, embarked on a month long marine specimen-collecting expedition in the Gulf of California, which resulted in their collaboration on the Sea of Cortez. In 1951, after Ricketts' death, Steinbeck reissued his narrative portion of the work in memory of his friend and the inspiration for Cannery...
In the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck's masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the cente...
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Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie
ISBN: 9780140233889 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. More than forty percent of our country was once open prairie, grassland that extended from Missouri to Montana. Taking a critical look at this little-understood biome, award-winning journalist Richard Manning urges the reclamation of this land, showing how the grass is not only our last connection to the natural world, but also a vital link to our own prehistoric roots, our history, and our culture.
Framing his book with the story of the remarkable elk, whose mysterious wanderings seem to reclaim his ancestral plains, Manning traces the expansion of America into what was then viewed... More than forty percent of our country was once open prairie, grassland that extended from Missouri to Montana. Taking a critical look at this little-...
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A Good House: Building a Life on the Land
ISBN: 9780140234077 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A Good House is a chronicle of the year in which Manning set out to build his house and rebuild his life. Combining entertaining tales of the cast of characters who helped him build; practical information about wiring, roofing, and plumbing; and meditations on the struggle to integrate environmental and spiritual values into everyday life, this is a book about creating a solid foundation and building up from therein a hosue, in a family, in living a good life."
A Good House is a chronicle of the year in which Manning set out to build his house and rebuild his life. Combining entertaining tales of the c...
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91,48 |
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The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
ISBN: 9780140237207 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Long before environmental consciousness became popular, a young nature writer named Opal Whitely captured America's heart. Opal's childhood diary, published in 1902, became an immediate bestseller, one of the most talked-about books of its time. Wistful, funny, and wise, it was described by an admirer as "the revelation of the ...life of a feminine Peter Pan of the Oregon wilderness--so innocent, so intimate, so haunting, that I should not know where in all literature to look for a counterpart."
But the diary soon fell into disgrace. Condemning it as an adult-written hoax, skeptics stirred... Long before environmental consciousness became popular, a young nature writer named Opal Whitely captured America's heart. Opal's childhood diary, pub...
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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
ISBN: 9780140243192 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The medusa is a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of man and his world begun in The Lives of a Cell. Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others,...
The medusa is a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in t...
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The Land of Little Rain
ISBN: 9780140249194 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite--east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert" is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders of this region, Austin generously shares "such news of the land, of its trails and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another." Her vivid writings capture the landscape--from burnt hills to sun-baked mesas--as well as the rich variety of plant and animal life, and the few human beings...
"Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite--east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably in...
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64,80 |
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My First Summer in the Sierra
ISBN: 9780140255706 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, ...
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Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women
ISBN: 9780140263480 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science, anthropology, animal behavior, neuroscience, psychology, and endocrinology, Deborah Blum explores matters ranging from the link between immunology and sex to male/female gossip styles. The results are intriguing, startling, and often very amusing. For instance, did you know that. . .
? Male testosterone levels drop in happy marriages; scientists speculate that women may use monogamy to control male behavior ? Young female... Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evoluti...
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91,48 |
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
ISBN: 9780140264456 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly encourages the survival of the fittest, why are humans compelled to live in cooperative, complex societies? In this fascinating examination of the roots of human trust and virtue, a zoologist and former American editor of the Economist reveals the results of recent studies that suggest that self-interest and mutual aid are not at all incompatible. In fact, he points out, our cooperative instincts may have evolved as part of mankind's natural selfish behavior--by exchanging favors we can benefit ourselves as well as others.Brilliantly...
If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly encourages the survival of the fittest, why are humans compelled to live in cooperative, complex societ...
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Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark
ISBN: 9780140265132 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
National Book Award-winning author Peter Matthiessen takes readers on an expedition to find the most dangerous predator on Earth the legendary great white shark. On a trek that lasts 17 months and takes him from the Caribbean to the whaling grounds off South Africa, and across the Indian Ocean to the South Australian coast, Matthiessen describes the awesome experience of swimming in open water... A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leop...
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
ISBN: 9780140275018 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An unexpected, energetic look at world history on sea and land from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World An unexpected, energetic look at world history on sea and land from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World... |
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The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
ISBN: 9780140286762 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The most mysterious and elusive of all sea creatures, the giant squid--at least sixty feet long and weighing nearly a ton--is also one of the largest. Yet for all its magnificent size and threatening undersea presence, Architeuthis has remained a mystery. Until now. In this marvelous and beautifully illustrated book, marine biologist, explorer, and artist Richard Ellis presents all that is known about the giant squid. Delving into myth, literature, popular culture, and science, he brings readers face to face with this remarkable creature. He also provides a thorough, compelling study...
The most mysterious and elusive of all sea creatures, the giant squid--at least sixty feet long and weighing nearly a ton--is also one of the largest....
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Autobiographies
ISBN: 9780140433906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual giants
The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and experiences of one of the world's intellectual giants. They begin with engaging memories of his childhood and youth and of his burgeoning scientific curiosity and love of the natural world, which led to him joining the expedition on the Beagle. Darwin follows this with survey of his career and ends with a reckoning of his life's work. Interspersed with these recollections are fascinating portraits - from his devoted... A glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual giants
The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinat... |
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50,40 |
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Natural History
ISBN: 9780140444131 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses' milk to remove wrinkles. Pliny himself died while investigating the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79, and the natural curiosity that brought about his death is also very much evident in the Natural History -- a...
Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute obse...
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Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect
ISBN: 9780142000533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why do we behave the way we do? Biologist Paul Ehrlich suggests that although people share a common genetic code, these genes "do not shout commands at us...at the very most, they whisper suggestions." He argues that human nature is not so much result of genetic coding; rather, it is heavily influenced by cultural conditioning and environmental factors. With personal anecdotes, a well-written narrative, and clear examples, Human Natures is a major work of synthesis and scholarship as well as a valuable primer on genetics and evolution that makes complex scientific concepts...
Why do we behave the way we do? Biologist Paul Ehrlich suggests that although people share a common genetic code, these genes "do not shout com...
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