Название: Insect Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition
Автор: James L. Nation
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2022
Страниц: 579
Размер: 41.92 МБ
Формат: PDF
Язык: English

Employing the clear, student-friendly style that made previous editions so popular, Insect Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition presents an engaging and authoritative guide to the latest findings in the dynamic field of insect physiology. The book supplies a comprehensive picture of the current state of the function, development, and reproduction of insects.

Название: Handbook of Bird Biology, 3rd Edition
Автор: Irby J. Lovette, John W. Fitzpatrick
Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 148 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This much-anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Bird Biology is an essential and comprehensive resource for everyone interested in learning more about birds, from casual bird watchers to formal students of ornithology. Wherever you study birds your enjoyment will be enhanced by a better understanding of the incredible diversity of avian lifestyles. Arising from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology and authored by a team of experts from around the world, the Handbook covers all aspects of avian diversity, behaviour, ecology, evolution, physiology, and conservation. Using examples drawn from birds found in every corner of the globe, it explores and distills the many scientific discoveries that have made birds one of our best known - and best loved - parts of the natural world. This edition has been completely revised and is presented with more than 800 full color images. It provides readers with a tool for life-long learning about birds and is suitable for bird watchers and ornithology students, as well as for ecologists, conservationists, and resource managers who work with birds.

Название: The Evolution of Beauty
Автор: Richard O. Prum
Издательство: Doubleday
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 433
Размер: 10 Mb
Язык: English

A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences - what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful" - create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.
In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and what features each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature?

Название: The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
Автор: David K. Randall
Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum’s success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, forever changing the world of paleontology, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy.

Название: Таблица царства растений. Для благородных воспитанников Университетскаго пансиона
Автор: Двигубский И. А.
Издательство:Москва. Университетская типография
Год: 1808
Формат:PDF
Страниц:37
Размер:14.45MB
Язык: русский

Растънiе есть тъло органическое, живое, всасывающее питательной сокъ посредствомъ сосудовъ, въ немъ находящихся, и неимъющее произвольнаго движенія. Всъ растънiя раздъляются по ЛИННЕЕВОЙ системъ, ТУНБЕРГОМЪ исправленной на 20 КЛАССОВЪ.

Название: Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History From Cave Art to Conservation
Автор: Tim Birkhead
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 497
Размер: 10 Mb
Язык: English

From award-winning author and ornithologist Tim Birkhead, a sweeping history of the long and close relationship between birds and humans. Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to the Renaissance fascination with woodpecker anatomy―and from the Victorian obsession with egg collecting to today’s fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.

Название: RSPB Spotlight Badgers
Автор: James Lowen
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 116 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Badgers are elusive wanderers of the night and few mammals are as mysterious. Their nocturnal lifestyle meansnot many of us have ever glimpsed their monochrome form as they sniff and bustle their way through woodland or across pasture – yet most of us live far closer to a Badger group than we might think. In Spotlight: Badgers James Lowen explores all aspects of their lives including their communal living, feeding habits, as well as the major threats to and conservation support for Badgers. These iconic omnivores are widely represented in folklore and have permeated our popular culture. Generations of children have been entranced by Badger in Kenneth Grahame's book Wind in the Willows, however these determined yet mostly peaceful animals have also been loathed and persecuted for centuries.

Название: RSPB Spotlight Kingfishers
Автор: David Chandler
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 105 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Usually observed as a flash of blue and orange from a riverbank, most people are aware of Kingfishers, but few of us are familiar with the intricacies of their day-to-day lives. With their long, dagger-like bills, bright blue plumage and characteristic fast, low flight over water, Common Kingfishers are instantly recognisable. The 90 or so species that belong to this colourful family have a cosmopolitan distribution and, in Spotlight Kingfishers, David Chandler celebrates their remarkable existence, studying their unique adaptations and their courtship, breeding and feeding habits. He also investigates historical threats to Kingfishers, considers their future, and offers practical advice on how to find and see these glorious birds.

Название: Swordfish: A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator
Автор: Richard Ellis
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A perfect fish in the evolutionary sense, the broadbill swordfish derives its name from its distinctive bill—much longer and wider than the bill of any other billfish—which is flattened into the sword we all recognize. And though the majesty and allure of this warrior fish has commanded much attention—from adventurous sportfishers eager to land one to ravenous diners eager to taste one—no one has yet been bold enough to truly take on the swordfish as a biographer. Who better to do so than Richard Ellis, a master of marine natural history? Swordfish: A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator is his masterly ode to this mighty fighter. The swordfish, whose scientific name means “gladiator,” can take on anyone and anything, including ships, boats, sharks, submarines, divers, and whales, and in this book Ellis regales us with tales of its vitality and strength.

Название: Ионно-лучевая и ионно-плазменная модификация материалов
Автор: Кадыржанов К.К. и др.
Издательство: МГУ
Год: 2005
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 640
Размер: 19 mb
Язык: Русский

Коллективная монография посвящена современному состоянию бурно развивающегося направления науки и техники - ионной модификации материалов. В монографии рассмотрен широкий круг вопросов ионно-лучевой и ионно-плазменной модификации материалов. Изложены результаты как собственных исследований, так и других исследователей, которые, по мнению авторов, являются наиболее весомыми для развития направления ионной модификации материалов.