Название: Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres
Автор: Alison Pouliot
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 51 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet’s power and fragility. What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Splitting time between the northern and southern hemispheres, ecologist Alison Pouliot ensures that she experiences two autumns per year in the pursuit of fungi—from Australia’s deserts to Iceland’s glaciers to America’s Cascade Mountains. In Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms, we journey alongside Pouliot, magnifiers in hand, as she travels the world. With Pouliot as our guide, we smell fire-loving truffles that transform their scent after burning to lure mammals who eat them and, ultimately, spread their spores. We spot the eerie glow of the ghost fungus, a deceptive entity that looks like an edible oyster mushroom but will soon heave back out—along with everything else in your stomach—if you take a bite. And we crawl alongside vegetable caterpillars, which are neither vegetable nor caterpillar but a fungus that devours insects from the inside out.

Название: Tits, Boobies and Loons: And Others Birds Named by People Who Clearly Hate Birds
Автор: Stu Royall
Издательство: HarperCollins
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 63 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From the monotonous lark to the rough-faced shag, these poor birds have us all asking: ARE ORNITHOLOGISTS OK? Some people will literally name all the birds instead of going to therapy, and this book exposes all the weird and wonderful monikers these poor feathered creatures have been tarred with. From the go-away-bird and the common loon to the sad flycatcher and the sombre tit, we seriously have to wonder why such disturbed ornithologists even went into this line of work. Tits, Boobies and Loons is for all fans of birds, language and rude words. Or anyone who secretly considers themselves a bit of a red-rumped bush tyrant.

Название: Inshore Fishes of Britain and Ireland (Wild Nature Press)
Автор: Lin Baldock, Frances Dipper
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691249016
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 289
Размер: 437,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

A beautifully illustrated photographic identification guide to the common marine fish found around Britain and Ireland--ideal for divers, snorkellers, and natural history enthusiasts. Fish are a colourful and important part of inshore marine life, much admired by divers and snorkellers. But it can be difficult to accurately identify and record these quick-moving animals underwater. This authoritative, beautifully illustrated photographic guide offers a practical, easy-to-use approach for identifying the fish species commonly seen in the waters around Britain and Ireland, as well as a few vagrant and interesting rare species.

Название: Биология (Они растут, цветут и пахнут)
Автор: Ловягин С.Н., Вахрушев А.А., Раутиан А.С.
Издательство: М.: Баласс
Год: 2012
Cтраниц: 144
Формат: pdf
Размер: 19 мб
Язык: русский

Учебник посвящён знакомству с широко распространёнными на нашей планете покрытосеменными, или цветковыми, растениями. Строение растений рассматривается с точки зрения их приспособления к выполнению жизненно важных функций в экосистеме. Ученики познакомятся с отличительными чертами цветковых растений, их значением в природе и жизни человека. Изучение основных семейств цветковых растений позволит школьникам ориентироваться в природе и применять на практике полученные знания.

Название: Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
Автор: Bruno David, Julian Thomas
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment’s impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, over 80 archaeologists from three continents attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global framework. As a basic reference volume for landscape archaeology, this volume will be the benchmark for decades to come. All royalties on this Handbook are donated to the World Archaeological Congress.

Название: The Feminist Bird Club's Birding for a Better World: A Guide to Finding Joy and Community in Nature
Автор: Sydney Anderson, Molly Adams
Издательство: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 179722333X
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 160
Размер: 45,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

A celebration of birding as an inclusive activity for everyone, from organizing members of the Feminist Bird Club. Birding is for everyone. That is the sentiment on which the Feminist Bird Club (FBC) was founded in 2016 and the spirit that is celebrated in this original and timely book.

Название: Owls of the World (Helm Identification Guides), 2nd Edition
Автор: Friedhelm Weick, Jan-Hendrik Becking Claus Konig
Издательство: Helm
ISBN: 0300142277
Год: 2008
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 528
Размер: 67,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

An indispensable guide to every species of owl in the world, with highly detailed descriptions and illustrations for each. Active only at twilight or in the dark of night, most species of owl are seldom seen. Even the most zealous birders rarely encounter owls, and attempts to identify them are complicated by the number of species that are almost indistinguishable by plumage alone.

Название: The Oceans Atlas: A Pictorial Guide to the World's Waters
Автор: DK Children
Издательство: DK Children
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 33 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Delve beneath the world’s oceans to discover their physical features, wildlife, and threats to their future. How do waves form? Where is the deepest part of the ocean? What is a black smoker? What would the ocean floor look like without water? What lives in a coral reef? If you find yourself seeking the answers to these questions, then this may be the book for you! Introducing The Oceans Atlas – a beautifully illustrated guide to Earth’s oceans for kids aged 9-12. Explore key features of the oceans from seafloor to surf, including tides and trenches, currents and coastline, volcanoes and vents. Discover the variety of marine life from the biggest sharks and whales to the tiniest invertebrates and polyps. Find out the human impact on our seas and how we can create a healthier and cleaner future.

Название: Capturing the Stars: Astrophotography by the Masters
Автор: Robert Gendler
Издательство: Voyageur Press
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Размер: 100 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Portraits of the deep sky and of local astronomical phenomena taken by the world’s renowned astrophotographers—with a foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson. To gaze at the stars is one thing; to capture that gaze in photographs is something else, a tantalizing scientific art that many attempt and few master. That rare mastery is on full display in this beautiful volume of space photography from thirty of the most accomplished astrophotographers in the world, both professional and amateur. Galaxies, star clusters, nebulae, and other deep-sky treasures fill the pages. Along with the marvels of the night sky—the Andromeda and Whirlpool galaxies, the Pleiades and the Praesepe, the Orion and Crab nebulae, and many more—each section features a profile of the photographer’s work, techniques, philosophy, and experiences.

Название: Falcons (Collins New Naturalist Library)
Автор: Richard Sale
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 137 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Falcons have been a source of inspiration to writers, artists, historians and naturalists alike. In a much-anticipated volume on one of Britain’s most fascinating group of birds, Richard Sale draws on a wealth of experience and research, providing a comprehensive natural history of the four British breeding falcons. The book takes each of the four breeding species in turn (Kestrel, Merlin, Hobby and Peregrine Falcon), exploring its form, habitat, breeding biology and status, along with a chapter on the hunting techniques of each species.