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The Education of Mrs. Bemis : A Novel
ISBN: 9780060512590 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A dead body floating by a pier. An elderly woman curled up on a bed in a department store. A psychiatrist searching for her own identity. These are the pieces of the puzzle that, in John Sedgwick's masterful novel of psychological suspense, begin to come into focus when Madeline Bemis is referred to the treatment of Dr. Alice Matthews at Montrose Psychiatric Hospital. Mrs. Bemis's treatment gradually peels back the layers of a disturbing past whose shameful secrets and hidden sorrows stem from the war years of the 1940s--and reveals an unexpected link to the floating corpse. Mrs.... A dead body floating by a pier. An elderly woman curled up on a bed in a department store. A psychiatrist searching for her own identity. These are... |
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55,98 zł |
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Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild
ISBN: 9780060934842 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the co-author of the New York Times bestseller When Elephants Weep comes a book that uses true stories backed by scientific research to explore the way young animals discover their worlds and learn how to survive. How does a baby animal figure out how to get around in the world? How much of what animals know is instinctive, and how much must they learn? In Becoming a Tiger, bestselling author Susan McCarthy addresses these intriguing matters, presenting fascinating and funny examples of animal behaviour in the laboratory and in the wild.... From the co-author of the New York Times bestseller When Elephants Weep comes a book that uses true stories backed by scientific ... |
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60,07 zł |
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Chinchillas for Kids - Amazing Animal Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9781517282103 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. What is a Chinchilla? 3. What a Chinchilla Looks Like 4. Habitat 5. Chinchilla Life Cycle 6. The Way Chinchillas Talk 7. Chinchilla Defense Mechanisms 8. Chinchilla Diet 9. Chinchilla Table Manners 10. Chinchilla Conservation: Working to Save an Endangered Species 11. Efforts to Save the Chinchilla 12. Chinchillas as Pets 13. Giving a Chinchilla a Home in Your House 14. Domestic Chinchilla Diet 15. Chinchillas as Social Animals 16. Dangers to a Chinchilla in Your Home 17. Unique Chinchilla Facts: What Makes a Chinchilla so Special? 18. Where to Visit a...
Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. What is a Chinchilla? 3. What a Chinchilla Looks Like 4. Habitat 5. Chinchilla Life Cycle 6. The Way Chinchillas ...
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50,62 zł |
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Cats for Kids - Amazing Animal Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9781517281397 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Table of Contents Introduction How does a cat's life begin? What do kittens eat and why? Early development Best time to get a new cat? Chapter 2 Fascinating Cat Species Balinese: Chartreux: Egyptian Mau: Chapter 3 - A Cat's History A Cat's Life Fascinating Features Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction The smallest feline is a masterpiece. Leonardo da Vinci Have you ever thought of a cat as masterpiece in motion? There is no doubt cats are fascinating creatures, from the tip of their ears all the way to their furry little toes Cats have a rich history going back many years, long...
Table of Contents Introduction How does a cat's life begin? What do kittens eat and why? Early development Best time to get a new cat? Chapter 2 Fasci...
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42,36 zł |
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
ISBN: 9780156031448 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. I don't know if people will ever be able to talk to animals the way Doctor Doolittle could, or whether animals will be able to talk back. Maybe science will have something to say about that. But I do know people can learn to "talk" to animals, and to hear what animals have to say, better than they do now. --From Animals in Translation Why would a cow lick a tractor? Why are collies getting dumber? Why do dolphins sometimes kill for fun? How can a parrot learn to spell? How did wolves teach man to evolve? Temple Grandin draws upon a long, distinguished career as an animal...
I don't know if people will ever be able to talk to animals the way Doctor Doolittle could, or whether animals will be able to talk back. Maybe sci...
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63,85 zł |
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Do Lemmings Commit Suicide? : Beautiful Hypotheses and Ugly Facts
ISBN: 9780195097856 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Unlike nearly all science books which tell of successful ventures and satisfactory conclusions, this book reveals the harsher but more common side of scientific research. Written by one of this century's most distinguished small mammal ecologists, it is both a personal history of and an apology for a life in science spent working on problems for which no final dramatic closure was reached. Included along the way are important anecdotes and history about Charles Elton and his pioneering work at the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford University, from which much of modern population has...
Unlike nearly all science books which tell of successful ventures and satisfactory conclusions, this book reveals the harsher but more common side of ...
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1109,85 zł |
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When Man Is the Prey: True Stories of Animals Attacking Humans
ISBN: 9780312373009 / Angielski / Miękka / 397 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since we humans have evolved into the dominant species on this planet, we sometimes fail to recognize--and respect--the ever-present threat posed by the animals we love or fear, hunt or fight to protect. Many of nature's most lethal residents have combative skills that have been honed by millions of years of adaptive survival, and it takes only a second for an otherwise evolved individual to become a helpless victim. WHEN MAN IS THE PREY is a one-of-a-kind collection of real-life encounters between man and beast that explores the uneasy relationship that humanity has with its native... Since we humans have evolved into the dominant species on this planet, we sometimes fail to recognize--and respect--the ever-present threat posed b... |
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111,26 zł |
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Nocturnal Animals
ISBN: 9780313335464 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. We share the earth with a wide variety of animal species, each of which brings something special to the diversity of the planet. By knowing more about how animals behave and live, we gain a greater understanding of how life evolved and the importance of biodiversity. This book is about the animals that rise when the sun sets and are active throughout the night. "Nocturnal Animals" examines how such animals live and explains their highly developed senses that enable them to survive in the dark, as well as their behavior and adaptations to avoid sunlight and predators during the day. The... We share the earth with a wide variety of animal species, each of which brings something special to the diversity of the planet. By knowing more ab... |
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299,86 zł |
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Extraordinary Animals : An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals
ISBN: 9780313339226 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Animals have existed on Earth for many hundreds of millions of years. In that time they have evolved into a great variety of forms, exploiting nearly every habitat the planet has to offer. In the dark depths of the oceans, in the seemingly inhospitable Polar Regions, in the driest deserts, even within the bodies of other animals, there are animal species that have developed unique and extraordinary means of surviving and thriving. Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals is an exploration of those members of the animal kingdom who possess strange and... Animals have existed on Earth for many hundreds of millions of years. In that time they have evolved into a great variety of forms, exploiting near... |
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525,53 zł |
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When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
ISBN: 9780385314282 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall. The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, and was profiled in People for his ground-breaking and fascinating study. Not since Darwin's The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals has a book so thoroughly and effectively explored the full range of emotions that exist throughout the animal kingdom....
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous...
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67,99 zł |
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Animals and Society : Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780415371841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2032 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Animals are crucial to the functioning of any society: they provide humans with food, labour, raw materials, modes of transport, companionship, scientific knowledge through observation and experimentation, and forms of leisure and entertainment. Given both the wide variety of ways in which animals are involved in human societies, and also the broad range of controversies (from vivisection for scientific and commercial purposes, to factory farming) that have arisen, the study of animals is by its very nature interdisciplinary. Each social scientific discipline has distinctive and... Animals are crucial to the functioning of any society: they provide humans with food, labour, raw materials, modes of transport, companionship, sci... |
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5783,56 zł |
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Amphibians and Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region
ISBN: 9780472066285 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Now featuring an updated look--same great content inside.Most people have limited knowledge about the reptiles and amphibians found in the Great Lakes area, so they do not realize the importance of these species to the environment. This book by James H. Harding is a welcome volume that is sure to increase the awareness and knowledge of these often-misunderstood Great Lakes animals.
Amphibians and Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region offers thorough coverage on all the important subjects and issues confronting the world of herpetology today. While being a volume of great usefulness to... Now featuring an updated look--same great content inside.Most people have limited knowledge about the reptiles and amphibians found in the Great Lakes...
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111,45 zł |
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Animal Sketching
ISBN: 9780486201290 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Alexander Calder, the renowned sculptor and inventor of mobiles, here brings his characteristic simplicity of line and spirit of movement to the art of animal sketching. The purpose of the book is to help the student to draw animals as he or she sees them. Noting and practicing the way Mr. Calder captures the emotions and attitudes of animals in a few quick lines, the student can quickly obtain a lasting groundwork in animal sketching that will before long become second nature.
These full-body sketches and enlarged details, in rapid, expressive brush-and-ink, of animals from the farm, the... Alexander Calder, the renowned sculptor and inventor of mobiles, here brings his characteristic simplicity of line and spirit of movement to the art o...
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20,54 zł |
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The Art of Animal Drawing : Construction, Action, Analysis, Caricature
ISBN: 9780486274263 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. -You'll learn everything there is to learn about drawing animals.- -- Collectors' Corner -You'll learn everything there is to learn about drawing animals.- -- Collectors' Corner |
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48,10 zł |
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Wild Animals I Have Known : And 200 Drawings
ISBN: 9780486410845 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Meet Old Lobo, a gigantic gray wolf whose death-defying predations on sheep and cattle herds are the scourge of farmers and ranchers in the Currumpaw region of northern New Mexico. This great wolf is just one of the animals whose true stories come to life in this engrossing collection of tales by the celebrated naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946). Combining scientific observations of animals in their natural habitats with a romantic vision of nature and the narrative skills of a born storyteller, Seton created an extraordinary collection of tales that gave the animal story new force...
Meet Old Lobo, a gigantic gray wolf whose death-defying predations on sheep and cattle herds are the scourge of farmers and ranchers in the Currumpaw ...
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52,04 zł |
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Hunter and Hunted : Relationships between Carnivores and People
ISBN: 9780521891097 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hans Kruuk, a life-long naturalist, tells the fascinating story of carnivores and humans' intricate relationships with them. The book is illustrated with specially commissioned drawings, and deals not only with the wild beauty of carnivores and their conservation, but also with the topics of furs and medicine, man-eaters and sheep-killers. Kruuk explains in simple terms the role of carnivores in nature, how they impact human life, art and literature, and how we instinctively respond to them and why.
Hans Kruuk, a life-long naturalist, tells the fascinating story of carnivores and humans' intricate relationships with them. The book is illustrated w...
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282,15 zł |
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Grizzly Lessons : Coexisting with Bears and Wolves
ISBN: 9780595328611 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Grizzly Lessons" is a survival guide to living in, or visiting, grizzly and wolf country. Fear, physical danger, financial hardship, and animosity between neighbors are contemporary challenges of the everyday Western experience.
Stories of grizzly attacks reveal the remarkable psychological resilience of survivors. Most have returned to the wilderness with increased respect for bears and their love of nature intact. "Grizzly Lessons" avoids the polarizing rhetoric of the vitriolic wolf-bear debates. In contrast, Blanchard presents accounts of coexistence, from historical Native... "Grizzly Lessons" is a survival guide to living in, or visiting, grizzly and wolf country. Fear, physical danger, financial hardship, and animosity be...
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59,91 zł |
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The Ninemile Wolves
ISBN: 9780618263028 / Angielski / Miękka / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Heralded by Science Fiction Chronicle as one of the Best Books of 2001. Across the waterworld of Aquasilva, change is being fought and ruthlessly suppressed by the Domain and its ferocious holy warriors, the Sacri. When Cathan, a count's son, inadvertently stumbles across a terrifying Domain plot to wipe out the rising discontent, he is thrust headlong into a fight beyond his control.
Heralded by Science Fiction Chronicle as one of the Best Books of 2001. Across the waterworld of Aquasilva, change is being fought and ruthlessly supp...
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55,98 zł |
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Peterson Field Guide to Animal Tracks: Third Edition
ISBN: 9780618517435 / Angielski / Miękka / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Roger Tory Peterson's unique identification system explains exactly what features to look for to tell one species from another. In each Peterson Field Guide, an author with expertise in the subject and an experienced artist work closely with the editors to ensure that both text and illustrations are accurate. This edition includes 100 color photographs of tracks and signs, more than 1,000 line drawings, and nomenclature for all the mammals of North America. The text includes descriptions of habits, habitats, tracks, signs, and ranges, and is filled with wonderful natural history stories....
Roger Tory Peterson's unique identification system explains exactly what features to look for to tell one species from another. In each Peterson Field...
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103,38 zł |
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Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst
ISBN: 9780618619290 / Angielski / Miękka / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study of the eastern coyote traces its first emergence in New England in the 1970s to its life there today. Reid shows that during its migration from the Southwest, the eastern coyote picked up wolf DNA and acquired little-understood behaviors of pack allegiance and prey.
This study of the eastern coyote traces its first emergence in New England in the 1970s to its life there today. Reid shows that during its migration ...
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52,04 zł |