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Feathery Tribe Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds
ISBN: HB: 9780300175523, Yale University Press, May 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
For many years, ornithology was the province of the wealthy gentleman hunter who shot, stuffed, and preserved his specimens, and of the museum that collected simply to document natural history, not to analyze it. Even as evolutionary theory began to...
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£53,00
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Spider Silk Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating
ISBN: PB: 9780300181463, Yale University Press, February 2012
248 pp., 22.7x14.8 cm, 12 colour illus.
Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wonder...
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£19,00
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Entirely Synthetic Fish How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
ISBN: PB: 9780300140880, Yale University Press, July 2011
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States. Discovered in the remote waters of north...
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£16,99
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Elephants on the Edge What Animals Teach Us about Humanity
ISBN: PB: 9780300167832, Yale University Press, November 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behaviour, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and...
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£16,99
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