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Название: Beastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us
Автор: Keggie Carew
Издательство: Abrams Press
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From an award-winning nature writer, true stories of our shared planet, all its inhabitants, and the fascinating ways they connect in the net of life. Animals have shaped our minds, our lives, our land, and our civilization. Humanity would not have gotten very far without them—making use of their labor for transportation, agriculture, and pollination; their protection from predators; and their bodies for food and to make clothing, music, and art. And over the last two centuries, humans have made unprecedented advances in science, technology, behavior, and beliefs. Yet how is it that we continue to destroy the animal world and lump its magnificence under the sterile concept of biodiversity?

Название: Stonechats: A Guide to the Genus Saxicola (Helm Identification Guides)
Автор: Ewan Urquhart
Издательство: Helm
ISBN: 0300099703
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 320
Размер: 13,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of the fourteen members of the genus Saxicola―the stonechats and bushchats. The group is distributed throughout the Old World and includes some familiar and widespread species as well as island endemics and extreme rarities. These charismatic birds are eye-catching in both appearance and behavior but are often hard to identify.

Название: Evolutionary Process of a Steep Rocky Reservoir Bank in a Dynamic Mechanical Environment
Автор: Luqi Wang, Wengang Zhang
Издательство: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000927318
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 137
Размер: 18,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

To prevent the collapse of dangerous rock masses on steep rocky reservoir banks which can cause casualties and property loss, it is essential to design and conduct practical experiments to quantify the evolution processes of the reservoir banks and control such dangerous rock masses.

Название: Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna and the Future of Our Oceans
Автор: Karen Pinchin
Издательство: Dutton
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma. In 2004, an enigmatic charter captain named Al Anderson caught and marked one Atlantic bluefin tuna off New England's coast with a plastic fish tag. Fourteen years later that fish - dubbed Amelia for her ocean-spanning journeys - died in a Mediterranean fish trap, sparking Karen Pinchin's riveting investigation into the marvels, struggles, and prehistoric legacy of this remarkable species. Over his fishing career Al marked more than sixty thousand fish with plastic tags, an obsession that made him nearly as many enemies as it did friends. His quest landed him in the crossfire of an ongoing fight between a booming bluefin tuna industry and desperate conservation efforts, a conflict that is once again heating up as overfishing and climate change threaten the fish's fate.

Название: Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark
Автор: Greg Skomal, Ret Talbot
Издательство: William Morrow
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Dr. Greg Skomal, one of the leading great white shark experts in the country, reveals the true nature of these mysterious apex predators, as well as the fascinating story behind their history and startling resurgence. With its quaint villages, local restaurants serving up lobster rolls, and miles and miles of warm, sandy beaches, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is famous for being America’s carefree seaside getaway. But in August 2012, the first confirmed white shark attack in almost eighty years occurred in the region. As shark sightings quickly began to increase on Cape Cod and elsewhere, and large beachside billboards warning about the growing shark population became a common sight, a boogie boarder died after being attacked by a great white shark in Cape Cod’s shallow waters. What had changed to cause news of human-shark interactions to go from being a rarity to being the new normal? As some citizens called for shark culls, nets, drone surveillance, and other extreme solutions, interactions between local residents and scientists, politicians, and those responsible for public safety became tense and frantic.

Название: Shieldbugs (Collins New Naturalist Library)
Автор: Richard Jones
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 106 Мб
Язык: английский / English

An eagerly anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series. The shieldbug is an amazing and beautiful species, rich with diversity in shape, form, size, life history, ecology, physiology and behaviour. But they are not commonly known, outside of specialist circles. Richard Jones’ groundbreaking New Naturalist volume on shieldbugs encourages those enthusiasts who would otherwise be put off by the, to date, rather technical literature that has dominated the field, providing a comprehensive natural history of this fascinating and beautiful group of insects.

Название: Primates: An Introduction
Автор: Alfred L. Rosenberger
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1032189932
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 261
Размер: 18,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to primates. It provides both a survey and synthesis of primate history, biology, and behavior. As a survey, it offers a focused review of living and extinct primates in regional and community frameworks.

Название: The Herons Handbook (Helm Identification Guides)
Автор: James Hancock, James A. Kushlan
Издательство: Helm
ISBN: 1408134962
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 32,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Everything you ever wanted to know about the world's herons. Definitive study of the distribution, migration, habitat and appearance of the heron family with reproductions of color paintings and range maps with migratory paths.

Название: Птицы степной полосы Европейской части СССР
Автор: М.А. Воинственский
Издательство: АН Украинской ССР
Год издания: 1960
Страниц: 293
Язык: Русский
Формат: DjVu
Размер: 11,2 Мб

В монографии дан систематический обзор гнездящихся птиц степной зоны Европы (218 видов). Подробно рассмотрено распространение отдельных элементов орнитофауны и больших фаунистических комплексов, населяющих основные ландшафты, характерные для степной зоны Европы; разбираются вопросы об эндемизме степной орнитофауны и об ее связях с фаунами других зон. Рассмотрена также история орнитофауны степной зоны Европы, начиная с палеогена.

Название: Japan: The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago (Wildlife Explorer Guides)
Автор: Mark Brazil
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691175063
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 384
Размер: 74,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

A comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to Japan's astonishing animals and plants—and the natural forces that have shaped them. This richly illustrated guide is the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary natural history of the Japanese archipelago.