Название: Mesozoic Sea Dragons: Triassic Marine Life from the Ancient Tropical Lagoon of Monte San Giorgio
Автор: Olivier Rieppel, Beat Scheffold
Издательство: Indiana University Press
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 340
Размер: 10 Mb
Язык: English

Told in rich detail and with gorgeous color recreations, this is the story of marine life in the age before the dinosaurs. During the Middle Triassic Period (247–237 million years ago), the mountain of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland was a tropical lagoon. Today, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it boasts an astonishing fossil record of marine life from that time. Attracted to an incredibly diverse and well-preserved set of fossils, Swiss and Italian paleontologists have been excavating the mountain since 1850.

Название: The World's Most Ridiculous Animals
Автор: Bunting, Philip
Издательство: Quarto Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 82
Размер: 12,3 Mb
Язык: English

This witty, quirky, colorfully illustrated book features some of the most absurd and flamboyant animals on the planet! The second title in the series from the hilarious Philip Bunting is filled with facts about some of the weirdest creatures in the natural world. The antagonist voice (speaking though cheeky annotations) points out the apparent ridiculousness of each creature's features , while the narrator's voice describe the evolutionary reasons or advantages for each animal's extraordinary characteristics.

Название: Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
Автор: Seirian Sumner
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 34 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Where bees and ants have long been the darlings of the insect world, wasps are much older, cleverer and more diverse. They are the bee’s evolutionary ancestors – flying 100 million years earlier – and today they are just as essential for the survival of our environment. A bee, ecologist Professor Seirian Sumner argues, is just a wasp that has forgotten how to hunt. For readers of Entangled Life, Other Minds and The Gospel of Eels, this is a book to upturn your expectations about one overlooked animal and the wider architecture of our natural world. With endless surprises, this book might teach you about the wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig, about stinging wasps, about parasitic wasps, about wasps that turn cockroaches into living zombies, about how wasps taught us to make paper.

Название: Диагностика минералов
Автор: Буланов В.А., Сизых А.И.
Издательство: ИГУ
Год: 1991
Cтраниц: 250
Формат: pdf
Размер: 60 мб
Язык: русский

Учебное пособие является справочником - определителем главнейших минералов, в котором их основные диагностические признаки сведены в таблицы, выполненные отдельно для каждой группы. особенно выделены характерные диагностические различия. Использование принципа набора цифровых сочетаний позволяет по таблице экспрессной диагностики быстро произвести предварительное определение минерала.

Название: Байесовские интеллектуальные технологии в задачах моделирования закона распределения в условиях неопределенности
Автор: Прокопчина С.В.
Издательство: М.: Научная библиотека
Год: 2020
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 292
Размер: 71 mb
Язык: Русский

В монографии выдвигаются и защищаются следующие основные положения. Аппроксимация плотности вероятности СВ или СЭСП должна производиться с заданной точностью и надежностью, в соответствии с априорной и апостериорной информацией о виде исследуемой ПВ. Разработанный на основе байесовского решающего правила алгоритм аппроксимации ПВ отвечает поставленным требованиям. Для обеспечения заданных точности и надежности аппроксимации ПВ при организации процесса аппроксимации средствами ЭЦВМ и ГВК.

Название: Кибернетика. Вопросы теории и практики
Автор: Глушков В.М.
Издательство: Наука
Год: 1986
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 479
Размер: 45 мб
Язык: русский

В книге выдающегося советского ученого академика В. М. Глушкова определяется место и значение развивающейся области знаний - кибернетики. Раскрывается взаимодействие и связь кибернетики с другими науками. Большое внимание уделяется методологии и инструментарию научного исследования, которые порождает кибернетика.

Название: Snakes (Collins Gem): From the Deadliest to the Largest on Earth
Автор: Chris Mattison
Издательство: Collins
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 19 Мб
Язык: английский / English

An easy-to-use and authoritative guide to over 220 species of snake from around the world, each entry specially selected to show the diversity of size, shape and colour of these respected creatures. There are about 2,500 species of snakes in the world, and the majority of these can be found in warmer parts of Europe, North America, southern Africa, southeast Asia and Australia. Of these often beautiful creatures, about 400 are some of the most venomous creatures in the world, and over 100 of them are deadly to humans. Each entry is illustrated with a full-colour photograph, and there is an ID factfile to help enable quick and accurate idenitification. Packed full of fascinating information, Collins Gem Snakes is the perfect introduction for any budding herpatologist.

Название: Horses in Australia: An Illustrated History
Автор: Nicolas Brasch
Издательство: NewSouth
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Размер: 67 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The horse has been an integral part of Australian history since the First Fleet brought the first horse to the country’s shores. From the resilient workhorses of colonial Australia and the determined stockhorses rounding up livestock, to the champion racehorses that capture the country’s imagination at every Melbourne Cup, horses have contributed to many of the great human feats in our history. Here, alongside 150 stunning images, Nicolas Brasch explores why horses have long been appreciated by Australians from all walks of life—and how they have been captured so strikingly by our photographers and artists.

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?