Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319720319)
This book is a distinctively original biography of Galileo Galilei, probably the last eclectic genius of the Italian Renaissance, who was not only one of the greatest scientists ever, but also a philosopher, a theologian, and a man of great litera...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008259372)
In a companion to the new BBC1 TV series, a particle physicist, Royal Society research fellow and professor provides the deepest answers to the simplest questions, revealing some of the most extraordinary phenomena and events on Earth, in the Univers...Loe edasi...
But for those whose call deserts home, the hideous blanks described by explorers are rich in resources and significance. Travelling to five continents over three years, visiting deserts both iconic and little-known, William Atkins discovers a rea...Loe edasi...
In his international bestseller, The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben drew on the latest science to tell us about the amazing networks and social behaviour he has observed between trees. In The Weather Detective he uses the same long experience,...Loe edasi...
****A Sunday Times bestseller*** ***A Times Book of the Year 2017*** WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN BENNETT A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows. James Rebanks, author of The Shepherds Life Cows are as varied as peo...Loe edasi...
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Libby Robin, Jan Zalasiewicz, Anne-Sophie Milon, Mateusz Zalasiewicz, Jan Zalasiewicz, Anne-Sophie Milon, Mateusz Zalasiewicz, Jan Zalasiewicz, Sverker Sorlin
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226395432)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffons The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226559988)
What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desir...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226559841)
What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desir...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: J H Haynes & Co Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781785212475)
Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of cats. Never again confuse a Cornish Rex with a type of pasty, a Turkish Angora with a cardigan, or a LaPerm with a bad hair day. Bask in the admiration of your fel...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: J H Haynes & Co Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781785212437)
Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of canine canniness. Never again confuse your BARF with your bite, your BAER with your bark, or your British bulldog with your Bavarian boarhound. Bask in the admirat...Loe edasi...
Discover the magic of the Pacific Northwest—with kids! Handcrafted for Northwest parents, educators, and caregivers that want to spark a love of nature, 50 Hikes with Kids highlights the most kid-friendl...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive guide to the butterflies of the Pacific Northwest from the region’s foremost butterfly experts. A comprehensive field guide to the butterflies of the Pacific Northwest from a renowned expe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Black Swan, ISBN-13: 9781784161903)
Endlessly fascinating. - Bill Bryson Eye-opening, informative and very funny! - Chris PackhamWell-informed and downright funny - Richard DawkinsHistory is full of strange animal stories invented by the brightest and most influential, from Arist...Loe edasi...
Islands are special places; they can be havens for unique plants and animals and refuges for wildlife. This book investigates the biogeography of butterfly species over the British islands, particularly the factors that influence their presence...Loe edasi...
The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018Amazing .Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peakes personal guide to life in space, based on his historic Principia mission, and the thousands of ques...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107197176)
An introduction to chimpanzee behavior and conservation, synthesizing findings from long-term field studies in the African rainforest belt....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316647561)
An introduction to chimpanzee behavior and conservation, synthesizing findings from long-term field studies in the African rainforest belt....Loe edasi...
Sari: Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820353203)
Pandora’s Garden profiles invasive or unwanted species in the natural world and examines how our treatment of these creatures sometimes parallels in surprising ways how we treat each other. Part essay, part nature writing, pa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820354118)
In this entertaining book, first published in 1992, Thomas Palmer introduces us to a community of rattlesnakes nestled in the heart of the urban Northeast. Recognizing the unexpected proximity of rattlers in our urban environs, he examines the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780773553125)
Naturalists in antiquity worked hard to dispel fanciful ideas about the meaning of living lights, but remained bewildered by them. Even Charles Darwin was perplexed by the chaotic diversity of luminous organisms, which he found difficult to reco...Loe edasi...
Sari: Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820353432)
Using both images and text, Andrew Menard offers a personal meditation on Thoreau’s thought, its originality, and its influence on the modern environmental movement. He places Thoreau in dialogue with contemporary artists and thinkers and assoc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-May-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Pop Press, ISBN-13: 9781785038617)
Capture and treasure your puppys early moments forever. In words and pictures, you can document how your puppy settles in, how he responds to the dreaded B-A-T-H, his favourite food and treats, the journeys you take together and his first Christmas,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-May-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Pop Press, ISBN-13: 9781785038624)
Your memory book to capture and cherish the first year with your new kitten`Time spent with cats is never wasted - Sigmund FreudTheres nothing more special than bringing your kitten home for the first time, watching him explore his new habitat with...Loe edasi...
Meadows, the second volume of a major new series of books on British natural history, provides one of the most wide-ranging and eloquent treatments of this most quintessential British habitat. Yet the flower-rich hay meadows that have inspired...Loe edasi...
Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion an...Loe edasi...
From Sir Winston Churchill to Ellen Terry; Beatrix Potter to Vita Sackville-West: many of the National Trusts former residents were cat-lovers. Cats of the National Trust explores these feline fanatics and the animals (or animal objects) with...Loe edasi...
In the village of Spire, murder is afoot. Wealthy landowner Alexander, Earl of Greengrass is caught with his trousers down in the village graveyard before meeting a gruesome end.Luckily Susie Mahl happens to be on hand. With her artist’s eye for deta...Loe edasi...
****A Sunday Times bestseller*** ***A Times Book of the Year 2017*** WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN BENNETT A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows. James Rebanks, author of The Shepherds Life Cows are as varied as peo...Loe edasi...
In his international bestseller, The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben drew on the latest science to tell us about the amazing networks and social behaviour he has observed between trees. In The Weather Detective he uses the same long experience,...Loe edasi...
But for those whose call deserts home, the hideous blanks described by explorers are rich in resources and significance. Travelling to five continents over three years, visiting deserts both iconic and little-known, William Atkins discovers a rea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008259372)
In a companion to the new BBC1 TV series, a particle physicist, Royal Society research fellow and professor provides the deepest answers to the simplest questions, revealing some of the most extraordinary phenomena and events on Earth, in the Univers...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319720319)
This book is a distinctively original biography of Galileo Galilei, probably the last eclectic genius of the Italian Renaissance, who was not only one of the greatest scientists ever, but also a philosopher, a theologian, and a man of great litera...Loe edasi...
For the fans of Eat, Pray, Love and Marley & Me, a heartwarming story of a 2,000-mile road trip taken by a woman and her dog. For the fans of Eat, Pray, Love and Marley & Me, a heartwarming story of a 2,0...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN-13: 9781250153258)
Showing readers how to take action to create a better world for us and the animals we love, this practical book, which is guaranteed to inspire and empower, reveals how just a few small lifestyle changes can have a huge impact. Original. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: September Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781910463857)
A literary memoir of a summer walk through the remaining snows of the Scottish highlands. Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2017....Loe edasi...
Birders and journalers will delight in this slim and elegant perpetual weekly planner illustrated with original paintings by leading ornithologist and bestselling author David Sibley.This highly designed and colorful planner is the per...Loe edasi...
An exciting account of an activist scientist’s unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft”News media brought the &ldquo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Chelsea Green Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9781603587167)
From apples and oranges to pawpaws and persimmonsHalf of the fruit that grows in yards and public spaces is never picked or eaten. Citrus trees are burdened with misshapen lemons, berries grow in tangled thickets on the roa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226559988)
What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desir...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226559841)
What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desir...Loe edasi...
