Биология, биофизика, биохимия
6036 кн.
John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History BookPEN/Martha Albrand Award Finalist “[Green’s] prose rings with the elemental clarity of the ice he knows so well.” — PEN Awards Committee citation A classic of contemporary nature writing, the award-winning Water, Ice & Stone is both a scientific and poetic journey into Antarctica, addressing the ecological importance of the continent within the context of climate change. Bill Green has been traveling to this remote and...
| Автор | Bill Green |
Witty commentary and hilarious observations.– Dog Living Let's get this clear right away: I'm a dog. I'm 1'10" and weigh 63 lbs, and although I'm a mutt on the outside, I'm a purebred on the inside. My good nature comes from the Golden Retriever side of the family, while my stubbornness is clearly from my Chowchow bloodlines. I've got Rastafarian ears, a black tongue for licking, and paws that should be on a dog twice my size.I type 60 words a minute. My name...
| Автор | Bo Hoefinger |
Keith Harrison has a PhD in zoology from the University of Nottingham. He is a former Senior Scientific Officer at the Natural History Museum in London and a former programme manager for the UK's Natural Environment Research Council. A Fellow of the Institute of Biology, the Geological Society of London and the Linnean Society of London, Keith's fieldwork has taken him to East Africa and South America, and he has published numerous scientific articles about invertebrate and vertebrate...
| Автор | Dr. Keith Harrison |
When Scottish Ladies Show-Jumping Champion Maggie Nimmo married British Commonwealth Wrestling Champion Andy Robin, she knew that her family would be unusual, for with Andy came a nine-month old grizzly bear . . .Hercules the Bear is a moving story in which love and faith overcome the impossible. Maggie Robin, Hercules’s adopted mother, started writing this account of her family whilst in the depths of despair, during those long hours when her ‘son’ Herc was lost, apparently gone for ever, in...
| Автор | Maggie Robin |
'A CLASSIC OF WILDLIFE WRITING' – THE FIELD<br>Listed as one of its five best nature books – 2010 Country LifeWhen Jonathan Franklin takes two baby tawny owls back to Eton, he has no idea how chaotic the following months will be. The birds show no respect for Etonian routine and tradition. They trash his room and rule his daily life, and are known throughout the school as 'Dum' and 'Dee'<br>. Although a keen naturalist, Jonathan struggles to...
| Автор | Jonathan Franklin |
A look at nature and how to re-evaluate our relationship with itFor many people «nature» means wilderness and wild animals. It is experienced indirectly through magazines and television programs or through visiting the highly managed environments of national parks. Nature, however, is not external, separate from the world of people we live in nature and interact with it daily.In this book, Jacklyn Cock describes how these intricate and complex interconnections, seen and unseen, are often...
| Автор | Jacklyn Cock |
As poverty and unemployment deepen in contemporary South Africa, the burning question becomes, how do the poor survive? Eating from One Pot provides a compelling answer. Based on intensive fieldwork, it shows how many African households are on the brink of collapse. That they keep going at all can largely be attributed to the struggles of older women against poverty. They are the fulcrum on which household survival turns. This book describes how households in two different areas in KwaZulu-Natal...
| Автор | Sarah Mosoetsa |
Horses were key to the colonial economies of southern Africa, buttressing the socio-political order and inspiring contemporary imaginations. Just as they had done in Europe, Asia, the Americas and North Africa, these equine colonizers not only provided power and transportation to settlers (and later indigenous peoples) but also helped transform their new biophysical and social environments. The horses introduced to the southern tip of Africa were not only agents but subjects of enduring...
| Автор | Sandra Swart |
While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South Africa. Plants are not quite historical actors in their own right, but their properties and potential help to shape human history. Plants such as prickly pear tend to be invisible to those who do not use them, or at least on the peripheries of people?s consciousness. This book explains why they were not peripheral to many people in the Eastern Cape and...
| Автор | William Beinart |
Environmental and animal studies are rapidly growing areas of interest across a number of disciplines. Natures of Africa is one of the first edited volumes which encompasses transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media. The volume features new research from East Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the ecocritical and eco-activist ?powerhouses? of Nigeria and South Africa. The chapters engage one another conceptually and...
| Автор | Jonathan Bishop Highfield |
Provides a detailed look at how war affects human life and health far beyond the battlefield Since 2010, a team of activists, social scientists, and physicians have monitored the lives lost as a result of the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan through an initiative called the Costs of War Project. Unlike most studies of war casualties, this research looks beyond lives lost in violence to consider those who have died as a result of illness, injuries, and malnutrition that would not have...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Tim Flannery is a prolific, versatile, and renowned scientist with experience in mammalogy, paleontology and environmental science. Sir David Attenborough described him as being «in the league of all-time great explorers.» He is also a devoted global warming activist and served as the Chief Commissioner of the Climate Commission, a Federal Government body providing information on climate change to the Australian public. Flannery is credited with discovering «more species than Darwin» (Redmond...
| Автор | Tim Flannery |
From one of the country's foremost experts on shotgunning comes the all new Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to Shotguns . Rich in history and filled with information useful for every shotgun owner from beginner to expert, this book explores the makers, the uses and the trends in shotguns past and present. Inside you'll find information on: The shotgun through history, from its humble beginnings to its iconic status today. A complete examination of shotgun and shotshell types. Advice...
| Автор | Terry Wieland |
The long shot: Art plus science equals success! The long shot. It's a challenge that both thrills and intimidates. Now, with Wayne van Zwoll's newest Gun Digest book, Mastering the Art of Long-Range Shooting , you can tackle the shots you've always wanted to with confidence and accuracy. Inside you'll find: The rifles, ammunition, optics, and tools that make shots beyond the 500-yard mark reality. Bullet trajectory and drift dissected. Reading, shading, and clicking the...
| Автор | Wayne van Zwoll |
Whether you're a first-time rifle buyer or an experienced rifle owner looking for formal, comprehensive training, Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to Rifle Marksmanship delivers the foundational marksmanship training you need. In this information-packed volume, you will find: Complete and simple explanations that teach the fundamental skills and techniques required to perform well. Practice drills with step-by-step instructions that show you how to perform the techniques properly, and...
| Автор | Peter Lessler |
Welcome to the world of the AR-15! Without a doubt, the AR-15 and AR-10 rifles are two of America's most popular semi-auto long guns. Every day, new shooters are exploring these durable, reliable, and accurate rifles and finding new and fun ways to use them. Now, in the Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to the AR-15 , author Richard Mann examines what has truly become the most versatile rifle in America. Inside you'll find: Gas impingement vs. piston systems–which one's right for...
| Автор | Richard A. Mann |
Whether for practical application or tricking out your gun, today's AR accessories are a world unto themselves. Gun Digest Guide to Customizing Your AR-15 examines the dizzying array of options and makes recommendations for today's growing crowd of AR owners.Exhaustive insights into a broad spectrum of parts, accessories, and brandsFrom stocks to suppressors, and everything in betweenBonus coverage of «other» black guns: FAL and AKSpecial Section: Full-color photo gallery of custom...
| Автор | Kevin Muramatsu |
The long-range game has changed! It's been seven years since ballistics expert L.P. Brezny wrote the first edition of Gun Digest Book of Long-Range Shooting . Much has changed in the distance game in that time, and Brezny covers it all in this completely updated 2nd Edition. Inside you'll find: Best new guns going long New calibers and loadings Big-bore heavy-hitters for 1,000 yards and beyond The lowdown on Rifle Golf, the hottest new long-range game The hottest optics, props,...
| Автор | L.P. Brezny |
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT REPAIR, MAINTENANCE AND CUSTOMIZATION! Working on your own guns can be both fun and economical, and in this all-new fourth edition of Gunsmithing Pistols & Revolvers , certified master gunsmith and best-selling gun writer Patrick Sweeney shows you how to avoid costly repairs and improve your handgun’s performance. Hundreds of photographs give step-by-step instructions on how to perform basic maintenance and repairs on a variety of popular...
| Автор | Patrick Sweeney |
Arthritis is common in dogs and increasingly prevalent in cats. In this comprehensive, up-to-date resource, a practicing vet equips pet owners with the knowledge they need to recognize and treat this debilitating condition. An expert on holistic pet care, Messonnier helps caregivers blend the most effective conventional and alternative therapies, including acupuncture for pain relief, nutritional supplements, diet, and exercise. Readers also learn how best to prevent arthritis and how to get the...
| Автор | Shawn Messonnier, DVM |
Think you know rifle shooting? You will after reading ABCs of Rifle Shooting by David Watson! With this comprehensive look at the elements you need to connect with your target, you'll get not only the ABCs, but the Ds through Zs, too! Inside, you'll find: Getting accurate–bolts to bullets, barrels to breathing, no detail is missed. Optics, accessories, why and when they help. Beyond windage: spin-drift, the Coriolis effect, atmospheric pressures and more explained. And much, much...
| Автор | David Watson |
Examines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United States Care for America’s growing elderly population is increasingly provided by migrants, and the demand for health care labor is only expected to grow. Because of this health care crunch and the low barriers to entry, new African immigrants have adopted elder care as a niche employment sector, funneling their friends and relatives into this occupation. However, elder care puts care workers into racialized,...
| Автор | Cati Coe |
Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s,significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami.Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants inAmerica, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as morerecently arriving immigrants from Haiti, have diversified socioeconomically.Together, they have made South Florida home to the largest population ofnative-born Haitians and diasporic Haitians outside of the Caribbean and one...
| Автор | Terry Rey |
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him “clean and articulate,” he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where people have lived, where people...
| Автор | Carl A. Zimring |