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Flight of the Golden Plover The Amazing Migration Between Hawaii and Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602231511, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
32 pp., 20.5x25.5 cm, colour illus.
The remarkable story of the golden plover's annual migration, this beautifully illustrated nature title for young readers sees the small but mighty plover embark on a six-thousand-mile flight between the frozen Alaska tundra and gentle grassy slopes...
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£9,00
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Amboseli Elephants A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal
ISBN: HB: 9780226542232, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 119 line drawings, 50 tables, 88 halftones
Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant "Nature's greatest masterpiece... The only harmless great thing". Their ivory has been sought after an...
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£65,00
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Biology's First Law The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems
ISBN: PB: 9780226562261, ISBN: HB: 9780226562254, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
184 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 line drawings, 1 table, 2 halftones
Life on earth is characterized by three striking phenomena that demand explanation: adaptation – the marvelous fit between organism and environment; diversity – the great variety of organisms; and complexity – the enormous intricacy of their internal...
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£23,00
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£51,00
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