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The Common But Less Frequent Loon and Other Essays
ISBN: 9780300066548 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The great Piltdown fraud, the mystery of how a shark swims with an asymmetric tail, the debate over dinosaur extinction, the haunting beauty of a loon on a northern lake--these are only a few of the subjects discussed by Keith Stewart Thomson in this wide-ranging book. At once instructive and entertaining, the book celebrates the aesthetic, literary, and intellectual aspects of science and conveys what is involved in being a scientist today--the excitement of discovery and puzzle solving, the debate over what to read and what to write, and the element of promotion that seems to be necessary...
The great Piltdown fraud, the mystery of how a shark swims with an asymmetric tail, the debate over dinosaur extinction, the haunting beauty of a loon...
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182,78 zł |
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The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz: A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings; Selected, with an Introduction and Notes by Guy Davenport
ISBN: 9780313242496 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selected writings of the remarkable teacher, lecturer, and scientist, Louis Agassiz, whose enthusiasm for natural history is communicated with vitality and precision. The editor's introduction and notes at the beginning of each chapter provide a cogent analysis of the contributions of the scientist-writer.
Selected writings of the remarkable teacher, lecturer, and scientist, Louis Agassiz, whose enthusiasm for natural history is communicated with vita... |
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247,12 zł |
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Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place
ISBN: 9780387984155 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hungry Hollow is simply an ordinary creek winding through about a mile of ordinary forest and meadow somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains. But like all such places, it is also a vast and intricate web of life with extensions that reach around the planet, back into prehistoric time, and within to a teeming, bizarre microscopic world. In dozens of short, wonderfully imaginative chapters, A.K. Dewdney introduces us to the denizens of this world. We encounter a hackberry tree whose branches perfectly reproduce the taxonomic Tree of Life, learn how it would look and feel to shrink by stages to...
Hungry Hollow is simply an ordinary creek winding through about a mile of ordinary forest and meadow somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains. But like a...
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77,98 zł |
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The Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island
ISBN: 9780393064414 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is all part of Dorothy Sterling's fascinating description of The Outer Lands, and the plants and animals that inhabit this peninsula and chain of islands along our New England coast.
This is all part of Dorothy Sterling's fascinating description of The Outer Lands, and the plants and animals that inhabit this peninsula and chain of...
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78,03 zł |
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Natural Disasters
ISBN: 9780412047411 / Angielski / Twarda / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a comprehensive overview of the geophysical, technological, and social aspects of natural disasters. This book systematically reviews the agents of natural catastrophes - earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, drought, hurricanes, erosion, fires, etc. - in terms of their geophysical processes and effects. The human impact and response is examined from various perspectives, including damage and the urban environment, the logistics of planning and emergency action, medical emergencies and the epidemiology of disasters, the Third World, and socio-economic consequences. The author's unique...
Here is a comprehensive overview of the geophysical, technological, and social aspects of natural disasters. This book systematically reviews the agen...
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586,33 zł |
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Honeycomb Technology: Materials, Design, Manufacturing, Applications and Testing
ISBN: 9780412540509 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Honeycomb Technology is a guide to honeycomb cores and honeycomb sandwich panels, from the manufacturing methods by which they are produced, to the different types of design, applications for usage and methods of testing the materials. It explains the different types of honeycomb cores available and provides tabulated data of their properties. The author has been involved in the testing and design of honeycomb cores and sandwich panels for nearly 30 years. Honeycomb Technology reflects this by emphasizing a hands-on' approach and discusses procedures for designing...
Honeycomb Technology is a guide to honeycomb cores and honeycomb sandwich panels, from the manufacturing methods by which they are produced, ...
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781,79 zł |
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Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature In Modern America
ISBN: 9780465024865 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connections--and missed connections--with nature. Beginning with an extraordinary chapter on the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and the accompanying belligerent early view of nature's inexhaustibility, Price then moves on to discuss the Audubon Society's founding campaign in the 1890s against the extravagant use of stuffed birds to decorate women's hats. At the heart of the book is an improbable and extremely witty history of the plastic pink flamingo, perhaps the totem of Artifice...
In five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connections--and missed connections--with...
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140,12 zł |
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Garden Flowers Coloring Book
ISBN: 9780486231426 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. See the beauty that transforms a backyard garden into a kaleidoscope of colors. Forty most important garden flowers -- morning glory, hyacinth, delphinium, iris, tulip, peony, marigold, and many others -- handsomely drawn by author Stefen Bernath. You provide the colors from your own imagination or observation. Caption for each drawing gives common and scientific names, usual colors, blooming season, whether annual, perennial, or biennial. Each flower is reproduced in natural colors on the covers.
See the beauty that transforms a backyard garden into a kaleidoscope of colors. Forty most important garden flowers -- morning glory, hyacinth, delphi...
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21,53 zł |
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Butterflies Coloring Book
ISBN: 9780486273358 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This treasury of detailed, accurately rendered illustrations (including two double-page spreads) invites coloring book enthusiasts to bring over 40 species of butterflies to life in vivid color. Here are such delicately beautiful creatures as the black, salmon-orange, white and blue painted lady, the rapid-flying dogface butterfly, with wing markings that look like a poodle's profile, and a host of others: pipevine swallowtail, monarch, buckeye, white admiral, olive hairstreak, Milbert's tortoiseshell, great spangled fritillary, ruddy daggerwing, fiery skipper, mourning cloak, tiger...
This treasury of detailed, accurately rendered illustrations (including two double-page spreads) invites coloring book enthusiasts to bring over 40 sp...
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20,65 zł |
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Natural History of the Islands of California
ISBN: 9780520239180 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Islands have always been fascinating places, their separateness evoking a sense of mystery and inspiring a yearning for exploration. California's islands are unique evolutionary laboratories, places where plants and animals have grown and interacted in isolation for millions of years. This comprehensive book discusses both the human and the natural history of the islands of California, including all eight Channel Islands, Ano Nuevo, the Farallons, and the islands of San Francisco Bay. It is also useful as a field guide for visitors, and details on reaching the islands are contained in the...
Islands have always been fascinating places, their separateness evoking a sense of mystery and inspiring a yearning for exploration. California's isla...
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170,24 zł |
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The Differences Between the Sexes
ISBN: 9780521448789 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In most animals, from bees to bulls, mice to men, it is possible to see at a glance whether an individual is male or female. How and why these differences in appearance and behavior developed and the nature and extent of the differences between males and females is a complex subject. This book reviews the latest molecular, genetic, hormonal, anatomical, and behavioral data in a wide range of species in a series of lively and highly readable articles from the world's leading experts in this field. Unashamedly Darwinian, this book brings sexual selection up to date and discusses not only a...
In most animals, from bees to bulls, mice to men, it is possible to see at a glance whether an individual is male or female. How and why these differe...
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342,33 zł |
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Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas
ISBN: 9780521468343 / Angielski / Miękka / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature. The book includes portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, Thoreau, and such key twentieth-century ecologists as Rachel Carson, Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, James Lovelock, and Eugene Odum. It concludes with a new Part VI, which looks at the directions ecology has taken most recently.
Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, a...
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159,46 zł |
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Cultures of Natural History
ISBN: 9780521558945 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lavishly illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history. Public interest in this lively field has been stimulated by environmental concerns and through links with the histories of art, collecting and gardening. Twenty-four essays, written at an accessible level, cover the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The book includes suggestions for further reading, and highlights the relevance of history for current debates on museum practice, ecological diversity, and the environment.
This lavishly illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural hist...
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258,31 zł |
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Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
ISBN: 9780521657006 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It examines the development of natural history, settlers' adaptations to the end of expansion, scientists' shift from natural history to ecology, and the rise of environmentalism. Addressing not only scientific knowledge but also popular issues from hunting to landscape painting, this book explores the ways in which English-speaking settlers looked at nature in their new lands.
This book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature in the Anglo settler coun...
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194,06 zł |
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A Naturalist Indoors: Observing the World of Nature Inside Your Home
ISBN: 9780595167555 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,98 zł |
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Chipembere
ISBN: 9780595399604 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They are attacked by crocodiles, hippopotami and leopards become involved with the long arm of the South African Security Forces, save a young Arab girl who has been kidnapped, recover a kings ransom in treasure.
Chase and are chased across two continents, get involved with a Nazi collaborator, but most of all it is about the trust, and respect, of two men, one white, the other black. The story is based on actual experiences, original names f places are used, names of characters have been changed where it is felt living relatives could be disadvantaged because of the publication of the... They are attacked by crocodiles, hippopotami and leopards become involved with the long arm of the South African Security Forces, save a young Arab gi...
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112,80 zł |
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The Overture Bird: Poems
ISBN: 9780595405893 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of poems that experiments with style and sound. It almost feels like you can touch the landscapes and embrace the world of a traveler. "I travel, I travel so many places, yet I always feel at home."
The poems in "The Overture Bird" have both depth of meaning and simplicity, as they guide us through with color and flight into unlikely places, at times we are left staring out into the sky or at a statue in awe. "Trespassing into the backyard of gods." McSherry carves words with a seasonal tension of fleetingness. A meditative echo unattached and refreshingly lacking any... A collection of poems that experiments with style and sound. It almost feels like you can touch the landscapes and embrace the world of a traveler. "I...
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47,60 zł |
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Deer Tails & Other Tales
ISBN: 9780595412297 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book consists of forty-three individual stories of true hunting, fishing, or related events, experienced by the author, his relatives and friends, over a period of sixty-five years. I began writing these stories when I realized they were an important part of my life, and would be lost forever, unless they were recorded for posterity. I eventually amassed over eighty different stories, but that was too much writing for my book. As a result I have reduced it nearly in half, by editing out all but the most interesting and memorable stories. They are humorous, unbelievable, factual,...
This book consists of forty-three individual stories of true hunting, fishing, or related events, experienced by the author, his relatives and friends...
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86,72 zł |
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What the Heart Wants: Stories of Hope and Belonging
ISBN: 9780595415588 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WHAT THE HEART WANTS "is the story of one woman's passion for the natural world, told with a lyrical and emotional depth that evokes one's deepest connections to heart and soul-indeed to life itself.""DIANNE GROB has an extraordinary capacity to bring the reader into a lovely, rapt silence-and to simultaneously awaken and satisfy our yearning for the living reality of our world. I cannot think of anyone who has written of the path through hopelessness to hope for the world with greater clarity and honest, evocative wisdom. I love to think of all the people who will have their hearts opened by...
WHAT THE HEART WANTS "is the story of one woman's passion for the natural world, told with a lyrical and emotional depth that evokes one's deepest con...
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47,60 zł |
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The Animal in Its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972): Volume Two: Laboratory Experiments and General Papers
ISBN: 9780674037281 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nikolaas Tinbergen has devoted a lifetime of research to exploring the behavior of many types of animals in their natural environments, and has founded centers of worldwide renown for research and teaching in the behavioral sciences, first in his native Holland and later at Oxford. His influence extends far beyond the borders of Europe and zoology proper, and he has contributed substantially to international and interdisciplinary collaboration. He has tirelessly worked for the use of scientific methods in the study of human behavior, both normal and abnormal. Volume I is devoted to... Nikolaas Tinbergen has devoted a lifetime of research to exploring the behavior of many types of animals in their natural environments, and has fou... |
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180,95 zł |
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