Natural History
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Natural History Museum Dinosaurs Annual 2024Author: Natural History Museum, FarshorePublisher: FarshorePublished: 09/26/2023Pages: 72Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 11.26h x 8.50w x 0.39dISBN: 9780008591144Audience: Ages 4-8
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Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural HistoryA compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the field of natural history and its ecological afterlives Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they raised thwarted human efforts to...
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Hornyheads, Madtoms, and Darters: Narratives on Central Appalachian FishesA collection of essays on nature, naturalists, and the natural history of fishes in central Appalachia. A nature lover's paradise, central Appalachia supports a diversity of life in an extensive network of waterways and is home to a dazzling array of fish species. This...
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What in the World?: Numbers in NatureDiscover nature by the numbers in this gorgeous, innovative counting book. The natural world is full of sets of numbers: from birds' wings in twos and clover leaves in threes to deer hooves in fours and octopus arms in eights. This book uses playful...
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WormA richly illustrated celebration of the mysterious world of worms in science and culture. This book celebrates the mysterious world of worms from gardens to toothaches and beyond. Kevin Butt introduces all manner of worms, including many that bear only superficial resemblance to our...
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Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside - Finding Home in an English Country GardenWinner of the Nan Shepherd Prize, moving between Trinidad and an idyllic English country garden, this lyrical and reflective book is about the search for homeWhat is home?It's a question that has troubled Marchelle Farrell for her entire life. A longed-for career in psychiatry...
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Physics 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science's Key ConceptsGet to grips with the essential topics in physics today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words. Physics: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand the...
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Math 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science's Key ConceptsGet to grips with the essential topics in maths today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words. Math: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your mathematical curiosity and helping you to understand the...
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Alaska -The Great Country"Alaska, the Great Country" is a 1908 novel by E. Higginson. Ella Rhoads Higginson (1862 - 1940) was an prominent American author famous for her award-winning poetry, fiction, and essays set in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. She was a prolific...
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Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave TradeCashews from Africa's Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica--in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era's explosion of...
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The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human CreatureA riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species' unique form of intelligence. What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung...
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Chinese Cymbidium Orchid: A Gentleman of Noble VirtueThe cultivation of Chinese cymbidiums has a long history in China dating back to more than a thousand years ago. Chinese cymbidiums are commonly known as 'Lan' (兰) or 'Guo Lan' (国兰) in China.Lan has a special appeal and meaning to the Chinese as...
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Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and RiverbankThe elusive lives of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels and more are rendered in John Lister-Kaye's enchanting lyrical styleFootprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye's account of a year spent observing the comings and goings of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels and pine martens. This family...
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The Lives of Seaweeds: A Natural History of Our Planet's Seaweeds and Other AlgaeAn engaging and richly illustrated exploration of the natural history of seaweeds and other algae As photosynthetic organisms, seaweeds and other algae transfer billions of tons of carbon globally from the atmosphere to the deep ocean each year. Coming in all manner of colors,...
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Thomas Jefferson and the Mammoth Hunt: The True Story of the Quest for America's Biggest BonesIn this rhyming, hilarious romp about a little-known facet of American history, Thomas Jefferson tries to disprove a French theory that those in the New World are puny and wussy by going in search of mammoth bones. In the New World called America big...
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Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier LivesAuthor: Steven N. AustadPublisher: MIT PressPublished: 08/15/2023Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90dISBN: 9780262547178About the AuthorSteven N. Austad is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the inaugural holder of the UAB Protective Life Endowed Chair...
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High Vistas:: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, Volume II, 1900-2009High Vistas is the first anthology devoted to nature and descriptive writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, inclusive of the Tennessee side of the present day Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Arranged chronologically with annotations, the twenty-one selections in this...
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Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and EvolvesThis timely and original book lays out the latest scientific understanding of mass extinction on our planet. Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction. This compelling...
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The Way of Natural HistoryIn this eclectic anthology, more than 20 scientists, nature writers, poets, and Zen practitioners, attest to how paying attention to nature can be a healing antidote to the hectic and harrying pace of our lives. Throughout this provocative and uplifting book, writers describe their...
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Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history For as long as humans have lived, we have lived beneath the stars. But under the glow of today's artificial lighting, we have lost the intimacy our ancestors once shared with the...
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