Author: Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Pacific Coast Avifauna
Author: Extinct Birds
Author: Julian P. HumePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472937465
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 609
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.
Museums as Cultures of Copies
Author: Brita BrennaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351106473
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Few institutions are warier of copies than museums. Few fields of knowledge are more prone to denounce copies as fake than the heritage field. Few discourses are as concerned with authenticity, aura, originals and provenance as those concerning exhibiting and collecting. So why is it that these are institutions, fields and discourses where copies proliferate and copying techniques have thrived for hundreds of years? Museums as Cultures of Copies aims to make the copying practices of museums visible and to discuss, from a range of interrelated perspectives, precisely what function copies fulfil in the heritage field and in museums today. With contributions from Europe and Canada, the book interrogates the meaning of copies and presents copying as a fully integrated part of museum work. Including chapters on ethnographic mannequins, digitalized photos, death masks, museum documentation and mechanical models, contributors consider how copying as a cultural form changes according to time and place and how new forms of copying and copy technologies challenge and expand museum work today. Arguing that copying is at the basis of museum practice and that new technologies and practices have been taken up and developed in museums since their inception, the book presents both heritage work and copies in a new light. Museums as Cultures of Copies should be of great interest to academics, scholars and postgraduate students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, as well as visual studies, cultural history and archaeology. It should also be essential reading for museum practitioners.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Author: Harvard University. Museum of Comparative ZoologyPublisher:
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Avifauna of Micronesia, Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution
Author: Rollin H. BakerPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The Avifauna of Micronesia, Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution is a book by Rollin H. Baker. It examines the birdlife of Micronesia from a historical viewpoint and takes a look at its evolution into current biological trends.
Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae and Impennes in the Collection of the British Museum
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of ZoologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divers (Birds)
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names
Author: James A. JoblingPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408133261
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A comprehensive dictionary of the meaning and derivation of scientific bird names. Many scientific bird names describe a bird's habits, habitat, distribution or a plumage feature, while others are named after their discoverers or in honour of prominent ornithologists. This extraordinary work of reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the case of eponyms brief biographical details are provided for each of the personalities commemorated in the scientific names. This fascinating book is an outstanding source of information which will both educate and inform, and may even help to understand birds better.
A Distributional List of the Birds of British Columbia
Author: Allan BrooksPublisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Cooper Ornithological Club
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University LibraryPublisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description