Author: Publisher: Assemblée nationale
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
African Wildlife Laws
Author: Cyrille de KlemmPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782880320911
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1716
Book Description
Author: Zoo
Author: Eric BaratayPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861892089
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Wild animals have fascinated human observers since time immemorial. The story of our interest in collecting, classifying and dominating Nature so that its inner workings could be understood also looms large in the history of science, and thus it is surprising that the history of menageries, zoological gardens and the zoo as we know it today has been so poorly documented. This gap is addressed by Zoo, a comprehensive history of the zoo in the Western world.
Rabies Surveillance
Author: Bulletin
Author: International Office of EpizooticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communicable diseases in animals
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Issued 1931- in two parts: Bulletin and Statistiques; in two volumes, one consisting of regular monthly numbers, the other the Compte rendu of the annual sessions of the Comité de l'office.
Bulletin (United States. Bureau of Animal Industry). no. 69, 1905
Author: Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries
Author: United Nations Environment Programme StaffPublisher: UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN: 9280717553
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
La Sainte Bible
Author: J.F. OstervaldPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5873388199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Author: Strange and Wonderful
Author: Karen Polinger FosterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190672544
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Ever since the creation of the world's first botanical and zoological gardens five thousand years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted plants and animals from lands beyond their everyday experience. Some did so to demonstrate power over distant territories, others to enhance prestige by possessing something no one had seen before. Exotica also satisfied intellectual curiosity, furthered scientific research, and educated and entertained. In addition, exotica, especially their state-sponsored representation, were often instruments of political persuasion, and in turn exerted considerable influence over expansionist policies. More than an account of gardens and menageries from antiquity to the present, Strange and Wonderful explores the imagery of exotic flora and fauna in Western art, seeking answers to certain fundamental and universal questions. How do artists, schooled in traditional modes of rendering the familiar, deal with the new and strange? Why are rare species deliberately introduced into images otherwise devoid of the unusual? What is the pictorialized relationship between exotic reality and artistic imagination? Karen Polinger Foster takes readers on a journey across millennia and around the globe, telling fascinating stories and meeting along the way such characters as Hatshepsut's baboons, Charlemagne's elephant, Dürer's rhinoceros, and Victoria's hippopotamus. What emerges is a sense of just how strong and far-reaching the pull of the unknown and exotic has been across time and space. Ultimately, images of the wonderful reveal as much about the indigenous as they do about the strange, enabling us to glimpse more vividly the power of imagination to mold the unknown to its purposes. This dazzling and richly illustrated volume offers a thoughtful, much-needed inquiry into a very human phenomenon.