Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World
ISBN: 9780226041933 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vulnerable slumber. Though bed bugs today have infested the globe, the common bed bug is not a new pest at all. Indeed, as Brooke Borel reveals in this unusual history, this most-reviled species may date back over 250,000 years, wreaking havoc on our collective psyche while even inspiring art, literature, and music--in addition to vexatious red...
Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-l...
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128,02 zł |
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
ISBN: 9780500291931 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction but also the recent renewal of the idea of catastrophism: the theory that changes in the earth's crust were brought about suddenly in the past by phenomena that cannot be observed today. Was the end-Permian event caused by the impact of a huge meteorite or comet, or by prolonged volcanic eruption in Siberia? The evidence has been accumulating, and Michael J. Benton gives his verdict at the end of the volume. The new edition brings the study of the greatest mass extinction of all time...
When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction but also the recent renewal of the idea of catast...
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116,17 zł |
Marsh Mud and Mummichogs: An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia
ISBN: 9780820347677 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, writes marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr, is meant to give others an understanding of the fascinating life of the region, from the smallest creatures in marsh mud and estuarine water, to the mummichogs and multitudes of other animals that find food and shelter in the vast expanses of marsh grass, in the sounds, and along the beaches of the Georgia Isles. Sherr not only spent years doing research in coastal Georgia, she began her family there. Although Sherr s career would take her around the world, this special place stuck with her. Here she shares her deep knowledge of the... This book, writes marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr, is meant to give others an understanding of the fascinating life of the region, from the small... |
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150,10 zł |
The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780691164533 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals is the essential companion for anyone going on safari or interested in African mammals--no other field guide covers the whole continent in a portable format. Now fully revised and updated, it covers all known species of African land mammals and features 780 stunning color illustrations. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, distribution, habitat, food, behavior, adaptations, and conservation status. Coverage of several of the more complex groups of small mammals is simplified by reference to genera, and there are... The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals is the essential companion for anyone going on safari or interested in African mammals--no other ... |
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227,61 zł |
Les Nouvelles Observations Sur Les Abeilles Les tomes I et II Edition du bicentenaire (1814 - 2014)
ISBN: 9781614761563 / Francuski / Twarda / 846 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pour autant que je le sache, ce merveilleux ouvrage n'a plus ete disponible en francais depuis son edition de 1814. J'ai voulu le reediter a l'occasion du bicentenaire de sa premiere publication par Huber en 1814. Dans cette edition, il y a de nouvelles gravures nu-merisees provenant de copies tres bien conservees des deux tomes des Nouvelles Observations sur les Abeilles edition originale de 1814. Une gravure addi-tionnelle du travail d'Huber venant du livre de Cheshire et une gravure de Francois Huber tiree de l'edition anglaise de Dadant ont ete incluses. De plus, sept photos d'une...
Pour autant que je le sache, ce merveilleux ouvrage n'a plus ete disponible en francais depuis son edition de 1814. J'ai voulu le reediter a l'occasio...
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394,11 zł |
A Natural History of Trail Ridge Road: Rocky Mountain National Park's Highway to the Sky
ISBN: 9781626199354 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Constructed from 1929 to 1932 and opened to tourists and drivers the following year, Trail Ridge Road earned immediate inclusion among the scenic wonders of the world. The new path through the park followed the ancient trail across Tombstone Ridge and offered visitors breathtaking views and a privileged glimpse at unique ecosystems. Today, Trail Ridge Road endures as a truly otherworldly place. It is the country s highest continuous paved road, peaking at over twelve thousand feet and running forty-eight miles. Join author Amy Law on a tour across the Continental Divide and through the...
Constructed from 1929 to 1932 and opened to tourists and drivers the following year, Trail Ridge Road earned immediate inclusion among the scenic wond...
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94,44 zł |
Witmer Stone: The Fascination of Nature
ISBN: 9780692229385 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Witmer Stone (1866-1939) was one of the preeminent ornithologists of his day, and has been called one of the last of the "great naturalists." In addition to his involvement in the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU), including editing their journal The Auk for 25 years and serving as chairman of their conservation and classification committees, he also produced an exhaustive flora of the New Jersey Pine Barrens which is still used today, and made lesser contributions to mammalogy and entomology. He worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences (ANS) for 51 years, and performed heroic work...
Witmer Stone (1866-1939) was one of the preeminent ornithologists of his day, and has been called one of the last of the "great naturalists." In addit...
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120,25 zł |
On the Origin of Species: PRESERVATION OF The FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
ISBN: 9781507625422 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In considering the Origin of Species, it is quite conceivable that a naturalist, reflecting on the mutual affinities of organic beings, on their embryological relations, their geographical distribution, geological succession, and other such facts, might come to the conclusion that each species had not been independently created, but had descended, like varieties, from other species. Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified, so as to acquire that perfection of...
In considering the Origin of Species, it is quite conceivable that a naturalist, reflecting on the mutual affinities of organic beings, on their embry...
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75,76 zł |
The Other Walls: The Arab-Israeli Peace Process in a Global Perspective - Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780691608648 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on intensive firsthand experience gained during the most successful years of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, Harold Saunders explains the complexities of the peace process: it was not just a series of negotiated agreements but negotiation embedded in a larger political process. In the first edition of The Other Walls, Saunders argued persuasively that until leaders change the political environment by lowering the human and political barriers to peace, negotiators stand little chance. Now he places that focus on political process in the context of a new world--where familiar... Drawing on intensive firsthand experience gained during the most successful years of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, Harold Saunders explains the ... |
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279,88 zł |
The Illustrated Walden: With Photographs. from the Gleason Collection
ISBN: 9780691618227 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called "the simple beauty of New England," became interested in Thoreau's work when commissioned in 1906 by the Houghton Mifflin Company to illustrate their edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. With the help of the few surviving people who had known Thoreau, Gleason searched out the exact places Thoreau had described--all of them still looking... This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the n... |
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330,71 zł |
The Natural History of New York: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780989333313 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of New York state, with more than 300 full-color photographs, maps and illustrations. Everything from bears and beavers to snakes and spiders is covered. Learn about the state's geology, its rivers and mountains. Find out how it was formed by the ice age and the collision of continents. Learn about the first human residents. There are checklists of common birds, trees, wildflowers and butterflies. There is also a calendar showing when events in nature happen through the months in New York state.
This is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of New York state, with more than 300 full-color photographs, maps and illustrations. Everything ...
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107,99 zł |
The Earliest Record of Beekeeping in Northern England
ISBN: 9781908904706 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a story of a journey that includes joy, disappointment, experimentation, discovery, destruction, devastation, and satisfaction, played out to a backdrop of religious differences and intolerances, political upheaval, plague, pestilence, civil war and regicide: but mostly it is about 17th century beekeeping. In this volume, for the very first time the author details the methods used by one English beekeeper as recorded in his manuscript of 1644 - 1658. The bee-hive he devised and management techniques he employed are described, analysed and compared with those previously considered to...
This is a story of a journey that includes joy, disappointment, experimentation, discovery, destruction, devastation, and satisfaction, played out to ...
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67,34 zł |
Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
ISBN: 9780691168364 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield--one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and the early oceans--covers this vast history, emphasizing its relationship to the evolution of life and the evolving chemistry of the Earth. Canfield guides readers through the various lines of scientific evidence, considers some of the wrong turns and dead ends along the way, and highlights the... The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was n... |
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85,29 zł |
The Illustrated Walden with Photographs from the Gleason Collection
ISBN: 9780691645230 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called "the simple beauty of New England," became interested in Thoreau's work when commissioned in 1906 by the Houghton Mifflin Company to illustrate their edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. With the help of the few surviving people who had known Thoreau, Gleason searched out the exact places Thoreau had described--all of them still looking... This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the n... |
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1050,95 zł |
The Other Walls: The Arab-Israeli Peace Process in a Global Perspective - Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780691637068 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on intensive firsthand experience gained during the most successful years of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, Harold Saunders explains the complexities of the peace process: it was not just a series of negotiated agreements but negotiation embedded in a larger political process. In the first edition of The Other Walls, Saunders argued persuasively that until leaders change the political environment by lowering the human and political barriers to peace, negotiators stand little chance. Now he places that focus on political process in the context of a new world--where familiar... Drawing on intensive firsthand experience gained during the most successful years of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, Harold Saunders explains the ... |
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533,40 zł |
The Natural History of Pennsylvania
ISBN: 9780989333337 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Natural History of Pennsylvania" is a unique, comprehensive guide to the nature of Pennsylvania. There are more than 400 full-color photographs, maps and illustrations covering everything from bears and beavers to snakes and spiders to weather and wildflowers. Learn about the state's geology, its endangered species and its rivers and mountains. Find out how it was shaped by the ice age and the movement of the continents. Learn about the first human residents. There are identification pages, with photos, of the common birds, butterflies, trees and wildflowers. And there's a... "The Natural History of Pennsylvania" is a unique, comprehensive guide to the nature of Pennsylvania. There are more than 400 full-color photograph... |
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107,99 zł |
Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies
ISBN: 9780691162683 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries, the beauty of fireflies has evoked wonder and delight. Yet for most of us, fireflies remain shrouded in mystery: How do fireflies make their light? What are they saying with their flashing? And what do fireflies look for in a mate? In Silent Sparks, noted biologist and firefly expert Sara Lewis dives into the fascinating world of fireflies and reveals the most up-to-date discoveries about these beloved insects. From the meadows of New England and the hills of the Great Smoky Mountains, to the rivers of Japan and mangrove forests of Malaysia, this beautifully... For centuries, the beauty of fireflies has evoked wonder and delight. Yet for most of us, fireflies remain shrouded in mystery: How do fireflies ma... |
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128,63 zł |
Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps
ISBN: 9780253021021 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups cover the most essential topics in the study of dinosaur tracks. Some assess and demonstrate state-of-the-art approaches and techniques, such as experimental ichnology, photogrammetry, biplanar X-rays, and a numerical scale for quantifying the quality of track preservation. The high diversity of these up-to-date studies underlines that dinosaur ichnological research is a vibrant field, that important discoveries are continuously made, and that... The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups c... |
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182,43 zł |
The Faithful Creator: Affirming Creation and Providence in an Age of Anxiety
ISBN: 9781783593729 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,30 zł |
Hawthorn: The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages
ISBN: 9780300219876 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An engaging introduction to the ancient hawthorn tree and its varied roles in human history
One of humankind's oldest companions, the hawthorn tree is bound up in the memories of every recorded age and the plot lines of cultures across the Northern Hemisphere. In Hawthorn, Bill Vaughn examines the little-recognized political, cultural, and natural history of this ancient spiky plant. Used for thousands of years in the impenetrable living fences that defined the landscapes of Europe, the hawthorn eventually helped feed the class antagonism that led to widespread social... An engaging introduction to the ancient hawthorn tree and its varied roles in human history
One of humankind's oldest companions, the hawt... |
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270,84 zł |