Название: Evolution of Land and Life in Oman: an 800 Million Year Story
Автор: Mohammed Hilal Al Kindi
Издательство: Springer
ISBN: 3319601512
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 230
Размер: 32,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book takes readers on a fascinating journey to discover the story of land and ancient life evolution in Oman since at least 800 million years ago. Oman is well known for its marvelous geology. What tectonics affected this part of the world and what organisms lived there? The book thoroughly reconstructs this land and ancient life evolution and offers readers an understanding on how land, climate and life have proceeded and developed in Oman through the millions of years.

Название: Гнездование и привлечение птиц в сады и парки
Автор: Благосклонов К.Н.
Издательство: М.: МГУ
Год: 1991
Cтраниц: 251
Формат: pdf
Размер: 41 мб
Язык: русский

Книга написана одним из ведущих специалистов в области прикладной орнитологии и является итогом многолетней экспериментальной и практической работы автора. В ней изложены результаты многочисленных экспериментов в природе. Поднят широкий круг вопросов, связанных с изучением гнездового поведения птиц.

Название: Termites of the Gods: San Cosmology in Southern African Rock Art
Автор: Siyakha Mguni
Издательство: Wits University Press
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 35 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In Termites of the Gods, Siyakha Mguni narrates his personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as ‘formlings’. Formlings are a painting category found across the southern African region, including South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, with its densest concentration in the Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe. Generations of archaeologists and anthropologists have wrestled with the meaning of this painting theme in San cosmology without reaching consensus or a plausible explanation. Drawing on San ethnography published over the past 150 years, Mguni argues that formlings are, in fact, representations of flying termites and their underground nests, and are associated with botanical subjects and a range of larger animals considered by the San to have great power and spiritual significance. This book fills a gap in rock art studies around the interpretation and meaning of formlings.

Название: Моря СССР
Автор: Добровольский А.Д., Залогин Б.С.
Издательство: М.: Изд-во МГУ
Год: 1982
Cтраниц: 192 с.: ил.
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11 мб
Язык: русский

В учебнике рассматриваются наиболее существенные черты природы морей Аральского, Каспийского, Азовского, Черного, Балтийского, Белого, Баренцева, Карского, Лаптевых, Восточно-Сибирского, Чукотского, Берингова, Охотского и Японского. Главное внимание уделяется гидрометеорологическим процессам в этих морях.

Название: Orca: The Whale Called Killer
Автор: Erich Hoyt
Издательство: Firefly Books
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Hoyt's passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries ...with grace, insight, wit--and a comprehensiveness that might satisfy even Herman Melville."("Discover Magazine") Star performers in aquariums and marine parks, killer whales were once considered to be too dangerous to approach in the wild. Erich Hoyt and his colleagues spent seven summers following these intelligent and playful creatures in the waters off northern Vancouver Island, intent on dispelling the killer myth. Orca: The Whale Called Killer is Hoyt's exciting account of those summers of adventure and discovery, and the definitive, classic work on the orca or killer whale.

Название: Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea's Monsters and the World They Live In
Автор: Erich Hoyt
Издательство: Firefly Books
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 24 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In this updated and expanded edition of Creatures of the Deep, award-winning nature and science writer Erich Hoyt gives readers a glimpse of the amazing variety of creatures found in the deepest parts of the ocean. Weaving together details from the latest scientific research about sharks, giant squid, dragonfish, huge tube worms, clams and tiny microbes of the deep-sea vents, Hoyt embarks on a magical journey roaming across the abyssal plains and descending into deep-sea trenches more than 20,000 feet down. Hoyt unravels the complex predator-prey relationships, from "killer" copepods to battles between giant squid and sperm whales, presenting compelling portraits of animals that are superbly adapted denizens of a dark high-pressure world. There are life forms, independent of sunlight and photosynthesis, which flourish around the hot, sulfurous deep-sea vents in the magnificent rift valley of the mid-ocean ridge, the world's longest mountain range. Surviving in conditions that appear to be close to the very soup of primordial Earth, these microbes have become the basis for the latest research into Earth's origins. Fully illustrated with fantastic underwater imagery.

Название: The Readable Darwin: The Origin of Species Edited for Modern Readers
Автор: Jan A. Pechenik
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 29 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Darwin's The Origin of Species is one of the most influential books ever written. It is essential reading for anyone interested in biology, evolution, the natural world, or the history of scientific thought. However, the book can be difficult to follow. The sentences and paragraphs are lengthy, and Darwin often references people and ideas unfamiliar to contemporary readers. The Readable Darwin translates the sixth and final edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species (1872) into clear, engaging prose. Whereas the first edition of The Readable Darwin includes the first eight chapters of Darwin's book, this new edition presents all fifteen chapters of The Origin of Species and features over 100 illustrations.

Название: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Автор: Peter Frankopan
Издательство: Knopf
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 38 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time. Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of the Moche civilization in South America that came about because of the cyclical pressures of El Niño to volcanic eruptions in Iceland that affected Egypt and helped bring the Ottoman empire to its knees, climate change and its influences have always been with us.

Название: Insoluble Proteins: Methods and Protocols, 2nd edition
Автор:Fruitós E.G., Giral A.A.
Издательство: New York: Humana Press
Год: 2022
Формат:PDF
Страниц: 526
Размер: 14,4 МБ
Язык: English

This volume serves to aid researchers working in the recombinant protein production field by describing a wide number of protocols and examples.

Название: Home Waters: Discovering the submerged science of Britain's coast
Автор: David Bowers
Издательство: Adlard Coles
ISBN: 1472990684
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 289
Размер: 12,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

A fascinating and original look at how the sea has defined Britain - and decided the course of its history - for thousands of years. Being an island nation is a core part of the British identity. An estimated two thirds of the world's population have never seen the sea, but in the UK that drops to under 10 per cent.