Author: Richard SchoddePublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9780643060371
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Zoological Catalogue of Australia
Author: Richard SchoddePublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9780643060371
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Extinct Birds
Author: Julian P. HumePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472937457
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
A comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Extinct Birds has become the standard text on this subject, covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from travellers' tales. This second edition is expanded to include dozens of new species, as more are constantly added to the list, either through extinction or through new subfossil discoveries. The book is the result of decades of research into literature and museum drawers, as well as caves and subfossil deposits, which often reveal birds long-gone that disappeared without ever being recorded by scientists while they lived. From Great Auks, Carolina Parakeets and Dodos to the amazing yet almost completely vanished bird radiations of Hawaii and New Zealand via rafts of extinction in the Pacific and elsewhere, this book is both a sumptuous reference and astounding testament to humanity's devastating impact on wildlife.
Patronage of British Art
Author: John PyePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
In the autumn of 1846 a correspondence was opened in 'The Times' on the subject of the cleaning and restoration of the national pictures. The Keeper of the Gallery, Mr. Charles Eastlake, was accused of restoring good pictures and purchasing bad ones. The attack was led by the picture-dealer and former artist, Mr. Morris Moore, writing first under the pseudonym of "Verax" and later his own name.--Cf. Ruskin.
Railway Engineering; or, Field work preparatory to the construction of railways, etc
Author: Thomas Baker (C.E.)The Arithmetic of Annuities and Life Assurance, Or, Compound Interest Simplified ...
Author: Edward BaylisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Annuities
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Railway Engineering; or, Field work preparatory to the construction of railways, etc
Author: Thomas Baker (Civil engineer)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Correspondence of John, Fourth Duke of Bedford Selected from the Originals at Woburn Abbey with an Introduction by Lord John Russel
Author: John BedfordJaenisch's Chefs Preceptor, a New Analysis of the Openings of Games
Author: C. F. de JaenischThe Lives of Twelve Eminent Judges of the Last and of the Present Century
Author: William C. TownsendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Organization of Industry
Author: Thomas Charles BanfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description