wyszukanych pozycji: 15
The Ginkgo: An Intellectual and Visionary Coming-of-Age
ISBN: 9781442166899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Ginkgo is a story about a girl from a western ranch who comes to a large university and writes four papers about a single tree. In the process, she discovers and explores the clash between tradition and creativity, eventually producing a sobering vision of American a thousand years into the future.
The Ginkgo is a story about a girl from a western ranch who comes to a large university and writes four papers about a single tree. In the process, sh...
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82,92 zł |
Outwitting College Professors, 5th Edition: An Insider's Guide to Secrets of the System
ISBN: 9781516979639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. OUTWITTING COLLEGE PROFESSORS is the ultimate college success book. This valuable little volume tells everything you need to know, from how profs make out exams, how you should act if you encounter your prof in a bar, tips for maximizing grades on papers, to advice on how to handle your relationships with the most difficult profs (in a chapter named "Advanced Outwitting" ) For over four decades, college students have used these tricks on the author, and now he's passing along the ones that work, along with explanations of why they work. The 4th Edition contains a contributed chapter by Nicole...
OUTWITTING COLLEGE PROFESSORS is the ultimate college success book. This valuable little volume tells everything you need to know, from how profs make...
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78,30 zł |
Intelligent Designer: Evolution for Politicians
ISBN: 9781466387386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Intelligent Designer is a set of twenty answered questions about evolution. The book is intended to help alleviate the rampant scientific illiteracy so typical of today's political climate, an illiteracy that is outright dangerous to any society so dependent on science and technology as is the United States.
Intelligent Designer is a set of twenty answered questions about evolution. The book is intended to help alleviate the rampant scientific illiteracy s...
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69,06 zł |
Teaching in Eden : Lessons from Cedar Point
ISBN: 9780415946674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Teaching in Eden is about a teacher's rebellion against the paradigms of higher education as they are manifested in the trenches. This book comes out of Janovy's quarter century of teaching science at Cedar Point.
Teaching in Eden is about a teacher's rebellion against the paradigms of higher education as they are manifested in the trenches. This book comes out ...
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98,31 zł |
The Weatherford Trial
ISBN: 9781534677050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,30 zł |
Ten Minute Ecologist, 2nd Edition: Twenty Answered Questions for Busy People Facing Environmental Issues
ISBN: 9781466393998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ten Minute Ecologist contains twenty answered questions about life on Earth and the factors that control numbers and distributions of biological resources. The book should be required reading for anyone dealing with natural resources, and it is ideal for classroom use and both the high school and college level.
Ten Minute Ecologist contains twenty answered questions about life on Earth and the factors that control numbers and distributions of biological resou...
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69,06 zł |
The Stitcher File
ISBN: 9781505754407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With another death at his small, Forbes-listed, liberal arts college in Iowa, Gideon Marshall, unwilling and temporary chair of the Geology Department, gets dumped into even a bigger and more complex mess than he experienced as a result of the first one a year earlier. Instead of the simple heart attack and stroke that felled his predecessor, which was the perfect murder of a despised faculty bully, Marshall now deals with the brutal execution-style shooting of a geology prof, this one a female whose personality has earned her the nickname "Becky Bitcher." THE STITCHER FILE is a sequel to BE...
With another death at his small, Forbes-listed, liberal arts college in Iowa, Gideon Marshall, unwilling and temporary chair of the Geology Department...
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69,06 zł |
Teaching in Eden: Lessons from Cedar Point
ISBN: 9780415946667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Teaching in Eden provides any teacher with powerful and virtually free tools that he or she can use to alter the fundamental nature of the educational experience. The tools are simple instructional devices that require only a teacher's time, and the courage to break out of the existing constraints to discover and assemble the elements of an ideal instructional environment.
Teaching in Eden provides any teacher with powerful and virtually free tools that he or she can use to alter the fundamental nature of the ed...
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186,32 zł |
Back in Keith County
ISBN: 9780803275607 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Good biologist though Janovy] is, he's an even better nature writer, with a special affinity for the mysterious and the mystic."-Noel Perrin "This 'human need for wilderness' is the trail winding through Back in Keith County . . . to] the streams of John Janovy's 'inner cowboy country.' The fourteen essays are a very human mix of biology, sentiment, wandering observation and personal philosophy."-Smithsonian John Janovy Jr. is Varner Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and director of the Cedar Point Biological Station. He is the author of Keith...
"Good biologist though Janovy] is, he's an even better nature writer, with a special affinity for the mysterious and the mystic."-Noel Perrin "This '...
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56,90 zł |
Life Lessons from a Parasite: What Tapeworms, Lice, and Roundworms Can Teach Us About Humanity's Most Difficult Problems
ISBN: 9781728292526 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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71,40 zł |
Be Careful, Dr. Renner
ISBN: 9781505731958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dr. Clyde Renner, professor of geology, chair of the department, world renowned expert on volcanoes and earthquakes, and intellectual giant, is dead, apparently of a heart attack, alone in his insect-infested house. Leonard Branch, campus cop at Renner's small liberal arts college in Iowa, is convinced there's more to Renner's demise than appears on the death certificate. Gideon Marshall, paleontologist, now acting chair, plays host to a parade of characters, including Ranner's bullied secretary and accountant, a belligerent female prof, an untenured young scientist and his hot-headed coed...
Dr. Clyde Renner, professor of geology, chair of the department, world renowned expert on volcanoes and earthquakes, and intellectual giant, is dead, ...
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69,06 zł |
On Becoming a Biologist, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780803276208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. We share a common bond with even the most bizarre beetle of the Peruvian rain forest, asserts John Janovy Jr. A belief in that common bond might, in fact, be the most fundamental characteristic of a biologist. And biologists see the worth of a plant or an animal not in monetary terms but in its contribution to our understanding of life. The famous naturalist brings a humanist s vision to this superbly written book.
On Becoming a Biologist is grounded in reality, cognizant of practical matters (education and jobs) as well as the ideals that inform the profession a reverence for life... We share a common bond with even the most bizarre beetle of the Peruvian rain forest, asserts John Janovy Jr. A belief in that common bond might, in f...
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72,43 zł |
The Earthquake Lady
ISBN: 9781517176099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A brutal murder at Gideon Marshall's upscale liberal arts college in Iowa remains unsolved. A Department of Criminal Investigation detective and the Polk County medical examiner show up in Marshall's office on a bleak Friday afternoon with the victim's autopsy report, a box of plastic bags, and a request to determine the origin of dirt samples. Paleontologist Marshall is about to become a crucial prosecution witness because of his ability to identify materials in those bags. The DCI request sends Marshall and his wife Mykala on an adventure that begins with concealed carry training and...
A brutal murder at Gideon Marshall's upscale liberal arts college in Iowa remains unsolved. A Department of Criminal Investigation detective and the P...
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78,30 zł |
Tuskers
ISBN: 9781453637371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. TUSKERS takes place on the day of a football game between the University of Nebraska and the University of Oklahoma in the year 2090. Nebraska has not lost a game in ten years, but must win this last one to complete the perfect Winning Decade. Global warming has turned the American central plains into a desert. A brilliant chemical engineer has devised a way to make petroleum products from slime corn, a desert-loving perennial invented by molecular biologists. As a result of his patents, this engineer owns a company named Anti-Environmental Products, Inc. (AEPI), whose raw material-corn...
TUSKERS takes place on the day of a football game between the University of Nebraska and the University of Oklahoma in the year 2090. Nebraska has not...
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92,16 zł |
Keith County Journal
ISBN: 9780803275881 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. To learn from nature, not about nature, was the imperative that took John Janovy Jr. and his students into the sandhills, marshes, grasslands, canyons, lakes, and streams of Keith County in western Nebraska. The biologist explores the web of interrelationships among land, animals, and human beings. Even termites, snails, and barn swallows earn respect and assume significance in the overall scheme of things. Janovy, reminiscent of Henry David Thoreau in his acute powers of observation and search for wisdom, has written a new foreword for this Bison Books edition. John Janovy Jr. is Varner...
To learn from nature, not about nature, was the imperative that took John Janovy Jr. and his students into the sandhills, marshes, grasslands, canyons...
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62,08 zł |