Natural History
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Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar OrnithologyAs a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology focuses on the political aspects of highly mobile Japanese explorer-scientists, or cosmopolitan gentlemen of science, circulating between Japanese and British/American spaces in the transwar period from the 1920s to...
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Science, Religion and Deep TimeThis book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current major religions are only centuries or millennia old, our volume discusses the origins and development of human religious practice and belief...
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Vertebrate Evolution: From Origins to Dinosaurs and BeyondThe first vertebrate animals appear in the fossil record over 520 million years ago. These lineages diversified and eventually crept ashore leading to further evolutionary divergence and the appearance of the familiar charismatic vertebrates of today. From the tiniest fishes, diminutive salamanders, and miniaturized...
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Adirondack Hard Times: Evolution of a Rich Man's ParadiseNorthern New York's Adirondack Mountains and the six million acres of the Adirondack Park evolved from a rugged, forested wilderness into a playground for the wealthy. Great camps where out-of-state tourists stay in luxury stand alongside economically struggling communities. Although some look to the...
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Anasazi Painted Pottery In Field Museum Of Natural History (Volume 5)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...
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The Conestoga River: A HistoryThe Conestoga River meanders for sixty miles through the fertile farmlands of Lancaster County. From early Native American inhabitants to the European settlers who made the Conestoga Valley their home, the river has provided sustenance and transportation for generations. Victorian-era resorts and hotels were...
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Cabinet of Curiosities, A: The Myth, Magic and Measure of MeteoritesHurtling through the atmosphere, in a blaze of light and reverberating percussions, the arrival of a meteorite on Earth is a magical, rare, and precious sight. These characteristics have accordingly ensured a long, yet often controversial history. For all this, meteorites are cosmic messengers....
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The Art of Science: The Interwoven History of Two DisciplinesThe Art of Science explores the work of forty artists and artist-scientists whose work has furthered and made visible the relationship between these fields of creativity and discovery. Lavishly illustrated, the book authoritatively explores the age-old affinity between two disciplines whose commonalities are greater...
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Ask an Ocean Explorer'Like Sir David Attenborough, he has the rare ability to be an excellent communicator and has written an engaging book sprinkled with mind-blowing facts about the deep oceans' - Daily Express 'A new informed perspective on the wide, watery world we inhabit' - Coast...
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Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and EvolutionWhat do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive flour by grinding), and milk have each evolved to nourish...
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Home Manufacture Of Furs And Skins (Legacy Edition): A Classic Manual On Traditional Tanning, Dressing, And Preserving Animal Furs For Ornament, ApparA Classic Vintage Handbook on Fur and Skin Tanning and PreservationThis deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of expert taxidermist and furrier Albert Farnham's classic manual Home Manufacture of Furs and Skins is full of classic tips and methods for making your own home-tanned skins...
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The Natural History of Sexuality in Early AmericaIf sexology--the science of sex--came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make meaning out of sex before that point? In The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America, Greta LaFleur demonstrates that eighteenth-century natural history--the...
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The Story of Life in 10 1/2 SpeciesSouvenirs of the planet: Ten (and a half) life forms, each of which explains a key aspect of life on Earth.If an alien visitor were to collect ten souvenir life forms to represent life on earth, which would they be? This is the thought-provoking...
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The Cruise Of The Corwin - Legacy Edition: The Muir Journal Of The 1881 Sailing Expedition To Alaska And The ArcticJournals of John Muir's Adventure on the Corwin To Alaska And The Arctic This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1917 The Cruise Of The Corwin recounts John Muir's 1881 adventure on the sailing ship Corwin along the shores of Alaska and...
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Galápagos: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and CultureIn the mid-1800s, the Galápagos Islands served as Charles Darwin's playground, a volcanic archipelago where he famously worked on his theories of evolution and natural selection. But who actually discovered the islands? Why didn't any country claim them for more than 200 years? And...
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A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf - Legacy Edition: A Great Hike To The Gulf Of Mexico, Florida, And The Atlantic OceanJohn Muir's Great Hike to the Gulf Of Mexico, Florida, and the Caribbean WatersThis deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1916 A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf is part study of natural history, part travel guide of the warm southern waters of...
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A Natural History of the Anza-Borrego Region - Then and NowThis book evolved from a course on the natural history of the Anza-Borrego region that was developed by the authors over a 16-year period and taught at the University of San Diego. It tells a coherent story of how the landscape and features of...
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ShukerNature (Book 2): Living Gorgons, Bottled Homunculi, and Other Monstrous Blog BeastsHere be monsters Following the success of his first ShukerNature book, world-famous cryptozoologist Dr Karl Shuker is now inviting readers to pay a second visit in hard-copy format to his long-running, award-winning blog--which for over a decade has been uniquely uncovering and documenting the...
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Bats of Southern and Central Africa: A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis, Second EditionThis revised edition of a book first published in 2010 supplements the original account of the 116 bat species then known to be found in Southern and Central Africa with an additional eight newly described species. The chapters on evolution, biogeography, ecology and echolocation...
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Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals from Over There That Are Over Here'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands of years of arrivals and escapes, as...
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