Author: David Cabot
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007412495
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds – the first book on the natural history of British and Irish terns since 1934.
Terns (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 123)
Author: David Cabot
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007412495
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds – the first book on the natural history of British and Irish terns since 1934.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007412495
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds – the first book on the natural history of British and Irish terns since 1934.
The New Naturalists
Author: Peter Marren
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780007308576
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A history of the most successful, significant and long-running natural history series in the world. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com A history of the most successful, significant and long-running natural history series in the world. In 1995 Collins published the 82nd volume in the New Naturalist series to coincide with its 50th anniversary. Ten years on, Peter Marren has revised this fascinating account of the series. He covers the illustrious careers of its authors, how each title was conceived and received, and includes plates of the sketches and roughs of the jackets. It also gives behind-the-scenes details of the also-rans and the books-that-never-were. This will appeal to the collector's market - it has a lengthy appendix dedicated to collecting the series with advice on how to spot a good edition, and a star rating according to scarcity - and will mark the 60th anniversary of the publication of the first new naturalist title. Peter Marren is a trained ecologist who worked as a woodland scientist, conservation officer and author-editor with the Natural Conservancy Council between 1977 and 1992. He has written numerous book and articles and contributes regularly to British Wildlife.
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780007308576
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A history of the most successful, significant and long-running natural history series in the world. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com A history of the most successful, significant and long-running natural history series in the world. In 1995 Collins published the 82nd volume in the New Naturalist series to coincide with its 50th anniversary. Ten years on, Peter Marren has revised this fascinating account of the series. He covers the illustrious careers of its authors, how each title was conceived and received, and includes plates of the sketches and roughs of the jackets. It also gives behind-the-scenes details of the also-rans and the books-that-never-were. This will appeal to the collector's market - it has a lengthy appendix dedicated to collecting the series with advice on how to spot a good edition, and a star rating according to scarcity - and will mark the 60th anniversary of the publication of the first new naturalist title. Peter Marren is a trained ecologist who worked as a woodland scientist, conservation officer and author-editor with the Natural Conservancy Council between 1977 and 1992. He has written numerous book and articles and contributes regularly to British Wildlife.
Ecology and Natural History (Collins New Naturalist Library)
Author: David Wilkinson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008293643
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain’s ecosystems to illustrate each point.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008293643
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain’s ecosystems to illustrate each point.
Pembrokeshire (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 141)
Author: Jonathan Mullard
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008112819
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
This lushly illustrated and fully comprehensive book about the wildlife, landscapes and history of Pembrokeshire is a much-anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series, and reveals the incredible wealth of biodiversity present in the region.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008112819
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
This lushly illustrated and fully comprehensive book about the wildlife, landscapes and history of Pembrokeshire is a much-anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series, and reveals the incredible wealth of biodiversity present in the region.
Butterflies (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 1)
Author: E. B. Ford
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007406010
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
A scientific study that keeps in mind the needs of butterfly collectors and of all those who love the country in the hope that it may increase their pleasure by widening the scope of their interests. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007406010
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
A scientific study that keeps in mind the needs of butterfly collectors and of all those who love the country in the hope that it may increase their pleasure by widening the scope of their interests. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com
The Burren (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 138)
Author: David Cabot
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008183805
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
The Burren is one of those rare and magical places where geology, glacial history, botany, zoology and millennia of cultural history have converged to create a unique landscape of extraordinary natural history interest. It is without equal to any other area in Ireland or Britain.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008183805
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
The Burren is one of those rare and magical places where geology, glacial history, botany, zoology and millennia of cultural history have converged to create a unique landscape of extraordinary natural history interest. It is without equal to any other area in Ireland or Britain.
Slugs and Snails (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 133)
Author: Robert Cameron
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008203490
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however, are the gastropods, animals originally with a single foot and a single coiled shell.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008203490
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however, are the gastropods, animals originally with a single foot and a single coiled shell.
Irish Birds
Author: David Cabot
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008412723
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
An easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide to the birds of Ireland
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008412723
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
An easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide to the birds of Ireland
Lost Libraries
Author: J. Raven
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230524257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230524257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
The Experience of Nature
Author: Rachel Kaplan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521349390
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521349390
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description