Australian Bryozoa Volume 1. Biology, Ecology and Natural History, Hardback - ***

The first of two volumes describing Australia's 1200 known species of bryozoans.Publisher: CSIRO PublishingNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 20...

Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains...

Publisher: Somerset Archaeological and Natural History SocietyAuthor(s): Sue BakerIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 25...

This book explores the most important aspects of the biology, ecology and management of "the world's worst weed". Covering its mode of spread and i...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work w...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): W. Ford DoolittleIllustration(s): 10 halftones, 3 tablesNumber of pages: 136Collection: Conven...

Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology ...

Variation in UV-B radiation is crucial to climate change and crop productivity. This book focuses on its environmental interactions, and how plants...

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Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely tw...

A major advancement in understanding the factors underlying wildlife-habitat relationships, Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology will be an in...

Publisher: Somerset Archaeological and Natural History SocietyAuthor(s): C.Walter HodgesIllustration(s): black and white line drawingsNumber of pag...

An original and revelatory exploration of the hidden world of slime - the substance upon which we and our world depend.Publisher: Granta BooksAutho...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Mark A. McPeekIllustration(s): 94 b/w illus. 6 tables.Number of pages: 468Collection: Monographs in...

Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporar...

Reducere. An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of why our waterways continu...

An introduction to the biology, behaviour and classification of bats.Publisher: The Natural History MuseumAuthor(s): Tony HutsonIllustration(s): Co...

Building on recent developments in social ecology, this book advances a new critical theory of society and nature, exploring social metabolism and ...

DescriptionField naturalists have observed the activities of weasels for centuries. Their descriptions were often accurate but sometimes misinterpr...

Reducere. ``Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.`` --Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists hav...

Moths is a definitive introduction to the biology, lifecycle and natural history of this crucial insect group, which encompasses over 160, 000 spec...

Natural Area Tourism provides a comprehensive description of tourism in natural areas allowing readers to understand the scope of, complexities ari...

Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award``A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation.`` -Wall Stre...

Offers the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate's novels and brings to the fore an unequalled engagement between race ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Judith SumnerWild and cultivated plants have provided humans with cures for thousands of years. Aspirin, for example, the m...

DescriptionWhat are you? Obviously, you are a person with human ancestors that can be plotted on a family tree, but you have other identities as we...

DescriptionThroughout British history rivers have been of profound economic, social and cultural importance--yet as we see with increasing frequenc...

David Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God can be inferred from what i...

Reducere. With climate change in the news, an urban core that has reached boiling point, and many children growing up without role models and with limited dr...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen a titanic explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in 1986, spewing flames and chunks of bur...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): W. Ford DoolittleIllustration(s): 10 halftones, 3 tablesNumber of pages: 136Collection: Conven...

Reducere. Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life p...

Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life p...

Reducere. Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Jeffery Smith was living in Missoula, Montana, working as a psychiatric case manag...

Reducere. Study the relationship between living organisms and our place in God's wondrous creation Learn important words and concepts from different habitats...

A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws.Publisher: John Murray Pr...

In Butterflies leading expert Dick Vane-Wright provides a complete introduction to the biology, natural history and classification of this major gr...

The second volume of the Beni Hassan series is devoted to the recording and study of the only decorated Old Kingdom tombs at the site, the tombs of...

Reducere. As you travel along the Blue Ridge Parkway, hike the Appalachian Trail, or visit the national and state parks scattered throughout the Blue Ridge M...

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of disper...

The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, ...

A lavishly illustrated celebration of each of the world's sixty-eight currently recognized eagle species in all their magnificence and beguiling di...

Reducere. The eighty-nine cetacean species that swim our seas and rivers are as diverse as they are intelligent and elusive, from the hundred-foot-long, two-...

Between 1981 and 2016, thousands of American and Australian Vietnam War veterans returned to Viet Nam. This oral history tells their story and expl...