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• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 44,9 Mb
• Release Date : 06 June 2024

A Natural History of the New World traces the evolution of plant ecosystems, beginning in the Late Cretaceous period and ending in the present, charting their responses to changes in

• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
• File Size : 49,7 Mb
• Release Date : 29 September 2011

Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 36,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 December 2010

The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the

• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 54,5 Mb
• Release Date : 02 November 2021

A spectacular and exceptionally well-illustrated guide to everything on Earth. From rocks to redwoods and microbes to mammals – this is a dazzling visual introduction to our planet’s treasures. Filled

• Publisher : Hachette UK
• File Size : 34,5 Mb
• Release Date : 20 January 2022

Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues

• Publisher : University Press of Florida
• File Size : 29,8 Mb
• Release Date : 22 August 2019

Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for General Nonfiction International Latino Book Awards, First Place, Best History Book (English) Scholarly and popular attention tends to focus heavily on Cuba’s recent

• Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
• File Size : 25,7 Mb
• Release Date : 12 August 2014

Widely regarded as one of the great classic examples of dystopian fiction (along with Orwell’s 1984), Brave New World is a chilling tale of a world where humanity has given

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 45,5 Mb
• Release Date : 02 March 2017

Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 23,7 Mb
• Release Date : 07 December 2011

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 26,8 Mb
• Release Date : 31 August 2021