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Rapid Marine Biological Assessment of the Bird's Head Seascape, Indonesia RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Volume 68
ISBN: PB: 9781934151587, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, January 2021
110 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, Illustrated throughout
This report contains the findings from a rapid marine biological assessment of Bird's "Head Seascape" in western Indonesia. The scientists researching the area offer detailed accounts of reef communities, as well as information on the flora and fauna...
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Botany of Gin
ISBN: HB: 9781851245536, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2020
112 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 35 colour illus.
From its roots in ancient Greek herbal medicine, the popular spirit we now know as gin was established by the Dutch in the sixteenth century as a juniper-infused tincture to cure fevers. It gained notoriety during the London 'gin craze' in the eighte...
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Curious Creatures on our Shores
ISBN: HB: 9781851245345, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2019
128 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 50 colour illus.
This veritable marine treasure trove of a book is richly illustrated by the author, with fifty of the most beautiful, easily encountered, and sometimes astonishing marine organisms found on British coasts, from seemingly exotic seahorses and starfish...
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Oak Spring Herbaria Herbs and Herbals from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries: A Selection of the Rare Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art in the Collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon
ISBN: HB: 9780965450812, Yale University Press, March 2019
456 pp., 29.1x25.3 cm
This magnificent compendium is the fourth in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection assembled by Mrs. Rachel "Bunny" Lambert Mellon. Herbaria describes sixty-three...
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Culture and the Course of Human Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9780226548524, ISBN: HB: 9780226548494, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes from their first arrival, so quickly develop the capac...
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£56,50
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Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781435167957, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, February 2018
512 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm
"The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla" is the definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern world's most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth century, Tesla blazed the trail that electrical technolog...
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£30,00
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Thoreau's Animals
ISBN: HB: 9780300223767, Yale University Press, May 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 54 black&white illus.
From Thoreau's renowned Journal, a treasury of memorable, funny, and sharply observed accounts of his encounters with the wild and domestic animals of Concord Many of the most vivid writings in the renowned Journal of Henry David Thoreau concern cre...
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Thoreau's Wildflowers
ISBN: HB: 9780300214772, Yale University Press, May 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 217 black&white illus.
Some of Henry David Thoreau's most beautiful nature writing was inspired by the flowering trees and plants of Concord. An inveterate year-round rambler and journal keeper, he faithfully recorded, dated, and described his sightings of the floating wat...
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Body by Darwin How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine
ISBN: HB: 9780226059884, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions – whether it's a cough or an aching back. But the sicknesses and complaints that cause us to seek medical attention actually have deeper origins than the superficial germs and...
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Private Doubt, Public Dilemma Religion and Science Since Jefferson and Darwin
ISBN: HB: 9780300203677, Yale University Press, July 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm
Each age has its own crisis-our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson an...
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£43,00
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