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British Sheep and Shepherding
ISBN: 9781444652116 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This extensive referance book is a complete encyclopaedia of gardening, explaining in alphabetical sequence terms of the culture and propagation of hardy and half-hardy plants, trees and shrubs, orchids, ferns, fruit, vegetables, hothouse and greenhouse plants, etc. including diseases, treatments, their specific and common names. The gardener is provided with a comprehensive encyclopaedia which not only gives brief descriptions of all the plants they are likely to meet but also complete information regarding their cultivation. In its complete and unabridged original form it is extensively...
This extensive referance book is a complete encyclopaedia of gardening, explaining in alphabetical sequence terms of the culture and propagation of ha...
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178,82 zł |
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Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas: A Beachcomber's Guide
ISBN: 9781561644902 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Georgia and the Carolinas beckon curious beachcombers with over 600 miles of wave-swept Atlantic coastline. These beaches offer more than a sandy stroll amidst stunning scenery--they are alive As ever-changing ribbons of sand, these beaches foster unique life-forms and accept beguiling castaways from a vast marine wilderness. Mysteries abound. What is this odd creature? Why does the beach look this way? How did this strange item get here? Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas satisfies a beachcomber's curiosity within a comprehensive yet easily browsed guide covering beach...
Georgia and the Carolinas beckon curious beachcombers with over 600 miles of wave-swept Atlantic coastline. These beaches offer more than a sandy stro...
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92,14 zł |
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Light at the Edge
ISBN: 9780984161614 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With artful images rich in visual poetry, Light at the Edge brings the reader into the beautiful and ephemeral landscapes of Point Reyes, California. Located at the edge of the continent and sculpted by massive tectonic plates, this landscape is constantly changing. Pacific Ocean fog pours in and glows in dawn and at sunset. Waves crash against the shore and create stunning vistas defined in beautiful light. It is a place that stimulates all one s senses, and each moment is a gift. Breaking new ground in landscape photography, the images throughout Light at the Edge have the power to convey...
With artful images rich in visual poetry, Light at the Edge brings the reader into the beautiful and ephemeral landscapes of Point Reyes, California. ...
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120,12 zł |
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The Great Alaska Nature Factbook: A Guide to the State's Remarkable Animals, Plants, and Natural Features
ISBN: 9780882408385 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Great Alaska Nature Factbook describes the diversity of plants and animals in Alaska. Illustrated with line drawings, the text has entries for the 105 species of mammals, nearly 300 birds, and 1,500 species of plants. The author also provides an overview of the six regions and the natural features such as the Bering Land Bridge, mineral deposits, and hot springs. It is a field guide or minature encyclopedia of facts and trivia about Alaska. Index and Further readings are also included.
The Great Alaska Nature Factbook describes the diversity of plants and animals in Alaska. Illustrated with line drawings, the text has entries for the...
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60,39 zł |
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Nature Watch Austin: Guide to the Seasons in an Urban Wildland
ISBN: 9781603444316 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ducks in January . . . bats in March . . . rain lilies in April . . . meteors in August . . . the predictable appearance of fauna and flora allows humans to experience the natural cycles in the environment, no matter how urban the setting. In "Nature Watch Austin," avid amateur naturalists Lynne and Jim Weber provide an introduction and guide to some of the natural events that define the seasons in the city of Austin and its surrounding areas. Month-by-month, each chapter profiles the plants, animals, insects, and other natural phenomena that are particularly noteworthy at that time of year....
Ducks in January . . . bats in March . . . rain lilies in April . . . meteors in August . . . the predictable appearance of fauna and flora allows hum...
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152,20 zł |
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The Highlands: Critical Resources, Treasured Landscapes
ISBN: 9780813551333 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Think of the Highlands as the "backyard" and "backstop" of the Philadelphia-New York-Hartford metroplex. A backyard that spans over three million acres across Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut, the Highlands serves as recreational open space for the metroplex's burgeoning human population. As backstop, Highlands' watersheds provide a ready source of high-quality drinking water for over fifteen million people. The Highlands is the first book to examine the natural and cultural landscape of this four-state region, showing how it's distinctive and why its conservation is... Think of the Highlands as the "backyard" and "backstop" of the Philadelphia-New York-Hartford metroplex. A backyard that spans over three million a... |
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231,41 zł |
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Iowa Gems and Minerals in Your Pocket
ISBN: 9781609380854 / Angielski / Miscellaneous print / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the spiky teeth of a geode containing sparkling quartz crystals, the rich browns and golds of smoky quartz and goethite needles on calcite, and the coral-like branches of plumose barite to the abstract reds and whites of polished agate cabochons, world-class mineral crystals are harvested from the rocks of the Hawkeye State. Collecting these high-quality crystals requires access to active mines, pits, and quarries, and individual collectors are rarely allowed entrance to these facilities. With information about each specimen s type, source, size, and current location, Paul Garvin and... From the spiky teeth of a geode containing sparkling quartz crystals, the rich browns and golds of smoky quartz and goethite needles on calcite, an... |
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68,09 zł |
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The Galapagos: A Natural History
ISBN: 9780465035977 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas"-- the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galapagos is the most pristine archipelago to be found anywhere in the tropics. It is so remote, so untouched, that the act of wading ashore can make you feel like you are the first to do so. Yet the Galapagos is far more than a wild paradise on earth--it is one of the most important sites in the history of science. Home to over 4,000 species native to its shores,...
Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas"-- the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Paci...
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201,83 zł |
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Darwin's Hunch Science, Race, and the Search for Human Origins
ISBN: 9781431424252 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South Africa and provides fresh insight on the search for human origins - in the fields of palaeoanthropology and genetics - over the past century. The book follows the colonial practice in Europe, the US and South Africa of collecting human skeletons and cataloguing them into racial types, in the hope that they would provide clues to human evolution. Kuljian sheds light on how, during apartheid, the concept of racial classification mirrored the way in...
Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South Afri...
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88,79 zł |
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Nature Guide to New England
ISBN: 9789766500511 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lone Pine Publishing's nature guides historically have been best-sellers, popular for their comprehensive and easy-to-access natural history of a region. Now, we're proud to present the new Nature Guide to New England. This book features over 400 species of mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, fish, inverterbrates, trees, shrubs and vines, as well as ferns and grasses: size, habitat, behaviour, range and natural history color illustrations a full-color map shows ecoregions, parks and natural areas color-coded Reference Guide at the front of the book to make it quick and easy to find the...
Lone Pine Publishing's nature guides historically have been best-sellers, popular for their comprehensive and easy-to-access natural history of a regi...
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92,14 zł |
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Badlands of the American West: A Primer
ISBN: 9781469954875 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A geographer presents an introduction to the badlands environments of the western United States. The physical geography and geology of these spectacular environments is presented in plain language (Reading level is Age 12 to Adult) and is fully illustrated (37 full-color photos, diagrams, and maps). The book is aimed at travelers and teachers who would like a concise overview of the processes that sculpted these dry country landscapes. A glossary is included. Regions featured are: Little Missouri River Badlands of North Dakota; White River Badlands of South Dakota and Nebraska, Paint Mines of...
A geographer presents an introduction to the badlands environments of the western United States. The physical geography and geology of these spectacul...
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59,77 zł |
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Taos Waterfalls
ISBN: 9781463759544 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book presents waterfalls I have found that are within an 85 mile radius of Taos, New Mexico. Encluding - Santa Fe - Los Alamos - Chama - Red River - Las Vegas - Cimarron - and some of Southern Colorado... I have lived in and hiked the Taos area for most of my 60 years. I'm a "Waterfall Lover" and I have published "Taos Waterfalls" to share this area's waterfalls with you. 152 pages - 8.5" x 11" with over 140 full color photos... primarily full page images. gps coordinates and brief descriptions appear for each waterfall. However, I do not "spoon-feed" you... so you will have to do...
This book presents waterfalls I have found that are within an 85 mile radius of Taos, New Mexico. Encluding - Santa Fe - Los Alamos - Chama - Red Rive...
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167,54 zł |
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The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory: A Century of Discovering the Nature of Nature
ISBN: 9781609381219 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Imagine a place dedicated to the long-term study of nature in nature, a permanent biological field station, a teaching and research laboratory that promotes complete immersion in the natural world. Lakeside Laboratory, founded on the shore of Lake Okoboji in northwestern Iowa in 1909, is just such a place. In this remarkable and insightful book, Michael Lannoo sets the story of Lakeside Lab within the larger story of the primacy of fieldwork, the emergence of conservation biology, and the ability of field stations to address such growing problems as pollution, disease, habitat loss, invasive...
Imagine a place dedicated to the long-term study of nature in nature, a permanent biological field station, a teaching and research laboratory that pr...
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114,82 zł |
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Superstition Mountains Photos and Points of Interest
ISBN: 9781475214215 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Full color photos and Topographic Maps of points of interest in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona.
Full color photos and Topographic Maps of points of interest in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona.
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63,36 zł |
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Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace
ISBN: 9780823249893 / Angielski / Miękka / 151 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A groundbreaking new book, Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on the relationship between nature and America's most prominent city. The volume's title derives from a telling observation in Robert Sullivan's contribution that considers how a hawk in
the city is perceived so much differently from a hawk in the countryside. Yet it's still the same hawk. How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Or a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the... A groundbreaking new book, Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on...
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94,17 zł |
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The Nature of the Meadowlands
ISBN: 9780764341861 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Celebrate the environmental restoration of the Meadowlands. For decades, New Jersey's Meadowlands have been known as mostly the home of the NFL's Giants and Jets, the place where Jimmy Hoffa is purportedly buried, or a wasteland that you passed through on your way somewhere else. Until recently, that reputation was deserved. The land was blighted with unregulated landfills and the Hackensack River so polluted that barnacles couldn't survive. Today, though, the 30.4-square-mile region has made a remarkable comeback. Located in Bergen and Hudson Counties and just five miles from Manhattan, the...
Celebrate the environmental restoration of the Meadowlands. For decades, New Jersey's Meadowlands have been known as mostly the home of the NFL's Gian...
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183,30 zł |
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Fat Lighter: Our Southern Longleaf Heritage
ISBN: 9781463626389 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Those who remember what the longleaf pine woodland looked like are passing with each tree that is cut. Perhaps it takes age, and an outsider who became a fire ecologist, to appreciate what once was. This pictorial gift (over 80 pics & images ) of the longleaf pine story will be appreciated if you liked: Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Neel's The Art of Managing Longleaf, or Earley's Looking for Longleaf. If you love the South then this book's for you It speaks about one of North America's premier forests: the longleaf pine ecosystem. This coastal plain forest once dominated the...
Those who remember what the longleaf pine woodland looked like are passing with each tree that is cut. Perhaps it takes age, and an outsider who becam...
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105,24 zł |
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Common Plants of Nunavut
ISBN: 9781927095195 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Explore the fascinating world of Nunavut's varied plant life in this richly visual, informative book. Through beautiful photographs and a broad range of information--including traditional knowledge about plant use compiled through interviews with Inuit elders--readers will learn about the appearances, adaptations, life cycles, and habitats of the diverse array of plants that live in the North. Far beyond a barren land of ice and snow, this book will introduce readers to the beautiful variations of plant life that abound on the tundra.
Explore the fascinating world of Nunavut's varied plant life in this richly visual, informative book. Through beautiful photographs and a broad range ...
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80,23 zł |
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The Water Closet: Ipswich River Watershed and Beyond
ISBN: 9781478260073 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Welcome to a rich and enjoyable assortment of water-related essays written for a weekly column, "The Water Closet," by the Middleton Stream Team and published from January, 2006, through December, 2011, in the Tri-Town Transcript, a community paper serving the Ipswich River watershed towns of Middleton, Boxford and Topsfield, Massachusetts. The Middleton Stream Team is an active volunteer group with the broad purposes of environmental stewardship, conservation, advocacy, public service and education. The essays and information provided span all these purposes.
Welcome to a rich and enjoyable assortment of water-related essays written for a weekly column, "The Water Closet," by the Middleton Stream Team and p...
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84,19 zł |
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Crossroads of the Natural World: Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt
ISBN: 9781469606996 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species from our distant past to the unparalleled biodiversity of today. With varied topography and a climate that is simultaneously subtropical, temperate, and subarctic, he shows that North Carolina is a meeting place for living things more commonly found far to the north and south. Highlighting the ways in which the state is a unique...
In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Explori...
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143,93 zł |
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