Ben A. Minteer, Jonathan B. Losos, Bill Adams, Joel Berger, Susan Clayton, Eileen Crist, Martha L. Crump, Thomas Lowe Fleischner, Harry W. Greene, Hal Herzog...
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Aug-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691228617)
Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human worldThe Heart of the Wild brings together some of todays leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency...Lasīt vairāk
Ben A. Minteer, Jonathan B. Losos, Bill Adams, Joel Berger, Susan Clayton, Eileen Crist, Martha L. Crump, Thomas Lowe Fleischner, Harry W. Greene, Hal Herzog...
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Aug-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691228617)
Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human worldThe Heart of the Wild brings together some of todays leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Sep-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231554145)
Zoos have always had a troubled relationship to what is considered the "e;real"e; wild. Even the most immersive and naturalistic zoos, critics maintain, are inherently contrived and inauthentic environments. Zoo animals diet, care, and repro...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Sep-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231554145)
Zoos have always had a troubled relationship to what is considered the "e;real"e; wild. Even the most immersive and naturalistic zoos, critics maintain, are inherently contrived and inauthentic environments. Zoo animals diet, care, and repro...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Apr-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477326756)
A collection of essays on the ecology, biodiversity, and restoration of the Texas Hill Country.For most of five decades, evolutionary biologist David Hillis has studied the biodiversity of the Texas Hill Country. Since the 1990s, he has worked to res...Lasīt vairāk
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Who was the great tenor of the thomas-kirche? There is no memoria...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Mar-2018, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520967984)
In 1935, an Australian government agency imported 101 specimens of the Central and South American Cane Toad in an attempt to manage insects that were decimating sugar-cane harvests. In Australia the Cane Toad adapted and evolved with abandon, voracio...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Mar-2018, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520967984)
In 1935, an Australian government agency imported 101 specimens of the Central and South American Cane Toad in an attempt to manage insects that were decimating sugar-cane harvests. In Australia the Cane Toad adapted and evolved with abandon, voracio...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520961111)
The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation.Library JournalHarvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas.The GuardianWinner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment Category It started with...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2016, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520961111)
The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation.Library JournalHarvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas.The GuardianWinner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment Category It started with...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520960633)
Many of the findings in the book . . . are classics of ecology. . . . A rare and delightful insight into timely science.Jane Lubchenco,NatureEstess refreshing narrative deftly weaves rigorous science with personal reflection to create an absorbing an...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2016, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520960633)
Many of the findings in the book . . . are classics of ecology. . . . A rare and delightful insight into timely science.Jane Lubchenco,NatureEstess refreshing narrative deftly weaves rigorous science with personal reflection to create an absorbing an...Lasīt vairāk
Dieses Buch handelt von den faszinierenden und gleichzeitig gefĆ¼rchtetsten Geschƶpfen, die die Natur hervorgebracht hat. Seit jeher haben Menschen Schlangen mit Neugier und Angst, aber auch mit Ehrfurcht und Abscheu betrachtet. Schlangen be...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Oct-2013, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520956735)
Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes: The Evolut...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Oct-2013, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520956735)
Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes: The Evolut...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Dec-2012, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780323140461)
The Role of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Nutrient Delivery contains the proceedings of the third annual Bristol-Myers Symposium on Nutrition Research, held on December 1-2, 1983 in Washington, D.C. Contributors focus on the knowledge and research fi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Nov-2009, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520944527)
Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. In a richly drawn, anecdotally driven narrative, Joe C. Truett, a grasslands ecol...Lasīt vairāk
This popular reference facilitates diagnostic and therapeutic decision making for a wide range of common and often complex problems faced in outpatient and inpatient medicine. Comprehensive algorithmic decision trees guide you through more than 250 d...Lasīt vairāk
This popular reference facilitates diagnostic and therapeutic decision making for a wide range of common and often complex problems faced in outpatient and inpatient medicine. Comprehensive algorithmic decision trees guide you through more than 250 d...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Aug-2009, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520943735)
Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world. One of th...Lasīt vairāk
The slave-hire system of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1700s and the 1800s produced a curious object--the slave badge. The badges were intended to legislate the practice of hiring a slave from one master to another, and slaves were required b...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Nov-2003, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520929487)
The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Nov-2003, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520929487)
The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2002, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520925205)
The Baja California peninsula is home to many forms of life found nowhere else on earth. This, combined with the peninsulas rugged and inaccessible terrain, has made the area one of the last true biological frontiers of North America. L. Lee Grismer...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Sep-2002, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520930742)
American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one mans personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed Americas vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Dec-2000, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520925045)
Treeshrews suffer from chronic mistaken identity: they are not shrews, and most are not found in trees. These squirrel-sized, brownish mammals with large, dark, lashless eyes were at one time thought to be primates. Even though most scientists now be...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-May-2000, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520924260)
In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest. Over the subsequent four centuries, cattle, horses, and sheep have created a massive ecological experiment on these arid grasslands, changing the...Lasīt vairāk
