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: 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.

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.

Название: The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs
Автор: Paul, Gregory S.
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 185
Размер: 24,7 Mb
Язык: English

The most up-to-date and authoritative illustrated guide to the marvelous flying reptiles that dominated the skies of the Mesozoic for 160 million years. Once seen by some as evolutionary dead-enders, pterosaurs were vigorous winged reptiles capable of thriving in an array of habitats and climates, including polar winters. The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs transforms our understanding of these great Mesozoic archosaurs of the air. This incredible guide covers 115 pterosaur species and features stunning illustrations of pterosaurs ranging in size from swallows to small sailplanes, some with enormous, bizarre head crests and elongated beaks.

Название: Макроскопическая электродинамика
Автор: Галицкий В.М. и др.
Издательство: Высшая школа
Год: 1988
Формат: pdf, djvu
Страниц: 170
Размер: 10,40 Мб
Язык: русский

В книге с единой точки зрения на основе уравнений Максвелла излагаются различные электромагнитные явления в сплошных средах. Большое место уделено термодинамическим аспектам при исследовании взаимодействия электромагнитного поля с веществом. рассмотрены фазовые переходы в сегнетоэлектриках, ферромагнетиках, сверхпроводниках, электромагнитные волны в изотропных и анизотропных средах.

Название: Алгебраические методы в статистической механике и квантовой теории поля
Автор: Эмх Ж.
Издательство: Наука
Год: 1976
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 431
Размер: 19,55 Мб
Язык: русский

Книга представляет собой первую в мировой литературе монографию по основаниям физики, посвященную применению алгебраических методов чистой математики при построении новейших теорий современной физики. Книга рассчитана на физиков-теоретиков — научных работников, аспирантов и студентов старших курсов университетов. Она представляет интерес также для математиков — алгебраистов, топологов и аналитиков.