An updated, comprehensive guide to the orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean region.Field Guide to the Orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean: Second Edition is a comprehensive photographic guide to the orchids of the region...Lasīt vairāk
This handbook covers British species of the family Dolichopodidae (sometiimes called the long-legged flies). It enables the user to identify the British fauna of about 320 species in 47 genera placed in 12 subfamilies....Lasīt vairāk
Field Guide to the Snakes of Eswatini offers a complete account of all 63 snake species recorded in the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland). Each species is illustrated with stunning photographs, over 300 images in all. The...Lasīt vairāk
Earth in Flames discusses how the dinosaurs died, and how their deaths parallel what might happen to people after a nuclear war. The book reflects on the odds of future asteroid impacts, how to stop them, and what the readers personally and...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674297517)
The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China is the first systematic study of the codification of Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants in the eighteenth century. Bian and Söderblom Saarela show how Qing le...Lasīt vairāk
The investigation of biodiversity, particularly in the hotspots, begins with the identification of living objects the animals, fungi, and plants comprising the ecosystem. In the field conditions, it is important to reveal the attribution of the o...Lasīt vairāk
Humankinds fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractable. Since then, our compulsion to catalogue wildlife has played a key role in growing our unde...Lasīt vairāk
Why is life so diverse? Why are there so many different species? This book explores the origins of biodiversity, its evolution and its continuation, as well as the impact that humans are having on this natural heritage. Richly illustrated,...Lasīt vairāk
The quirky and profound international bestseller - at once a life-affirming memoir on how to live well in a world governed by chaos, and a darkly astonishing scientific biography...Lasīt vairāk
An authoritative account of Compositae. The Flora Zambesiaca series provides comprehensive descriptive accounts of the flowering plants and ferns native and naturalized in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and the Caprivi...Lasīt vairāk
Today molecular data is part of many biological studies, including taxonomic works. Such data is embraced by taxonomists for good reasons. When combined with comparative morphology, palaeontology, and embryology, it creates a rich, integrated over...Lasīt vairāk
This book focuses on plant systematics and evolution, with special interest on the history and philosophy of botanical classification. Tracing the history of how humans have dealt with ordering the plant world is very much a glimpse of how human c...Lasīt vairāk
