Author: Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Natural History Miscellanea
Author: A Natural History of the Chicago Region
Author: Joel GreenbergPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226306496
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
"In A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg takes you on a journey that begins with European explorers and settlers and hasn't ended yet. Along the way he introduces you to the physical forces that have shaped the area from southeastern Wisconsin to northern Indiana and Berrien County in Michigan; the various habitat types present in the region and how European settlement has affected them; and the insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, and mammals found in presettlement times, then amid the settlers and now amid the skyscrappers. In all, Greenberg chronicles the development of nineteen counties in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin across centuries of ecological, technological, and social transformations."--BOOK JACKET.
A Few Streets More to Kensington
Author: Alex SheremetPublisher: Crossroad Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
As a child, Artem escaped the Chernobyl disaster in the hope of finding solid ground. As an adult, he must now unearth it, and learn to disentangle his past from the trick of memory we must all succumb to. In this remembrance—real or imagined?—he will befriend hoodlums, indulge the sage advice of a local pimp, and betray and face betrayals before settling on his true goal: to become an artist in order to recreate a world that's disappearing with his childhood. Set against turn-of-the-milllennium New York, A Few Streets More to Kensington deals with classic trops of boyhood-nostalgia, curiosity, and the wars of self—now tranposed to the streets of Brooklyn, and examined through an artist's reluctant gaze. Rich, melancholy, and contemplative, the tale subsists on the magic of the 1990s—even as it aims to transcend it, too.
Elements of the Natural History of the Animal Kingdom: Comprising the Characters of the Whole Genera, and of the Most Remarkable Species, Particularly Those that are Natives of Britain, Etc. The Second Edition
Author: Charles STEWART (Member of the Linnæan Society, London.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
System 6
Author: Hugh W. ReynoldsCatalogue of Works on Natural History, Physics, Mathematics, and Other Sciences
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Pleistoannelida, Errantia II
Author: Günter PurschkePublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110645335
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1105
Book Description
This book is the fourth in a series of 4 volumes in the Handbook of Zoology series about morphology, anatomy, reproduction, development, ecology, phylogeny and systematics of Annelida. It covers the most typical polychaetes, Phyllodocida, together with certain smaller taxa placed incertae sedis. This volume completes the polychaetous Annelida. Phyllodocida are often vagile, possess well-developed parapodia. Due to their broad and flat cirri these parapodia look like leaves in some taxa and leading to the name of the entire group. Many of its members are macrophagous and often predators. Accordingly most species possess elaborate sense structures such as sensory palps, antennae, eyes and nuchal organs. In certain species the eyes comprise thousands of photoreceptor cells and lenses most likely allowing forming true images. Phyllodocida typically possess an axial muscular pharynx called proboscis functioning as a kind of suction pipe allowing them to swallow and ingest their prey or other food. This pharynx may be armed with cuticular jaws and some species even possess venom glands. The probably most popular and important polychaete model organism, Platynereis dumerilii, belongs to this interesting group. Phyllodocida fall into two to three higher clades comprising about 25 families which represent more than one fourth of the polychaete diversity. One of these families, Syllidae, comprises about 700 valid species of mainly small size and may, therefore, represent one of the most complex and somehow difficult polychaete families on Earth.
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Author: David QuammenPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393333604
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This work is a revised and expanded edition of Quammen's first book of nonfiction, and reprints some of his best-loved "Natural Acts" columns, which first appeared in "Outside" magazine in the early 1980s.
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Author: Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-TynePublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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