Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Natural History

In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists have suspected for some time--that in the United States alone, free-ranging cats are killing birds and other animals by the billions. Equally alarming are the little-known but potentially devastating public health consequences of rabies and parasitic Toxoplasma passing from cats to humans at rising...

At the heart of it all from the very start have been curators. Yet after three decades as a natural history curator, Lance Grande found that he still had to explain to people what he does. This book is the answer--and, oh, what an answer it...

Taylors of Welwyn by Robert J Hawker

Thomas Bates Blow was from a working class background and leading a life

with little direction until he was befriended by a member of a leading British

family: with his patronage and much hard work, Thomas laid the foundation of

what was to become the largest business in Europe supplying the requirements

of beekeepers.

This volume charts the history of Taylors of Welwyn, from its birth through

the challenging changes and large expansion in the last two decades of the

nineteenth century...

Nessie the Loch Ness monster (LNM) is not only the premier mystery beast of the United Kingdom, it also vies with the bigfoot or sasquatch as the most famous one anywhere in the world. Little wonder, therefore, that during his many years as a world-renowned cryptozoological researcher and writer, Dr Karl Shuker should have documented it and all manner of aspects relating to it in a wide range of publications

Now, however, for the very first time and in direct response to popular demand, all of Dr Shuker's most significant but previously disparate Nessie-themed writings have finally...

With over 250 breathtaking photographs and stills from the BBC Natural History Unit's spectacular footage, this is an extraordinary new look at the complex life of some of the most amazing places on Planet Earth.

Each chapter reveals an environment - some never-before-seen, some astonishingly familiar - defined by a unique set of rules required for survival. From the...

The second edition of this classic work features updated species names and taxa, new details about parks reclassified by federal and state agencies, new stories about...

The second edition of this classic work features updated species names and taxa, new details about parks reclassified by federal and state agencies, new stories about...