Author : David Cabot
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0007412495
This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds – the first book on the natural history of British and Irish terns since 1934.
Author : David Wilkinson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0008293643
Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain’s ecosystems to illustrate each point.
Author : Jonathan Mullard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0008112819
This lushly illustrated and fully comprehensive book about the wildlife, landscapes and history of Pembrokeshire is a much-anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series, and reveals the incredible wealth of biodiversity present in the region.
Author : Jeremy Biggs
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0008453233
Ponds and pools are a common feature of our landscape – there are at least ten times as many ponds as lakes in the UK – and they are also important wildlife habitats. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed account of these freshwater habitats.
Author : David Cabot
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0008412723
An easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide to the birds of Ireland
Author : David Cabot
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0008183805
The Burren is one of those rare and magical places where geology, glacial history, botany, zoology and millennia of cultural history have converged to create a unique landscape of extraordinary natural history interest. It is without equal to any other area in Ireland or Britain.
Author : Colin G. Butler
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 1975-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780800839246
Author : Tim Burt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1108625878
Notwithstanding the importance of modern technology, fieldwork remains vital, not least through helping to inspire and educate the next generation. Fieldwork has the ingredients of intellectual curiosity, passion, rigour and engagement with the outdoor world - to name just a few. You may be simply noting what you see around you, making detailed records, or carrying out an experiment; all of this and much more amounts to fieldwork. Being curious, you think about the world around you, and through patient observation develop and test ideas. Forty contributors capture the excitement and importance of fieldwork through a wide variety of examples, from urban graffiti to the Great Barrier Reef. Outdoor learning is for life: people have the greatest respect and care for their world when they have first-hand experience of it. The Editors are donating all royalties due to them to the environmental charity, The Field Studies Council, to support student fieldwork at the Council's field centres.
Author : Scott E. Giltner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1421402378
This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the post–Civil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wealthy white men from Southern cities and the industrial North traveled to the hunting and fishing lodges of the old Confederacy—escaping from the office to socialize among like-minded peers. These sportsmen depended on local black guides who knew the land and fishing holes and could ensure a successful outing. For whites, the ability to hunt and fish freely and employ black laborers became a conspicuous display of their wealth and social standing. But hunting and fishing had been a way of life for all Southerners—blacks included—since colonial times. After the war, African Americans used their mastery of these sports to enter into market activities normally denied people of color, thereby becoming more economically independent from their white employers. Whites came to view black participation in hunting and fishing as a serious threat to the South’s labor system. Scott E. Giltner shows how African-American freedom developed in this racially tense environment—how blacks' sense of competence and authority flourished in a Jim Crow setting. Giltner’s thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmen’s recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspective on the African-American struggle for independence from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.
Author : Gary R. Mullen
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080919693
Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Second Edition, has been fully updated and revised to provide the latest information on developments in entomology relating to public health and veterinary importance. Each chapter is structured with the student in mind, organized by the major headings of Taxonomy, Morphology, Life History, Behavior and Ecology, Public Health and Veterinary Importance, and Prevention and Control. This second edition includes separate chapters devoted to each of the taxonomic groups of insects and arachnids of medical or veterinary concern, including spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. Internationally recognized editors Mullen and Durden include extensive coverage of both medical and veterinary entomological importance. This book is designed for teaching and research faculty in medical and veterinary schools that provide a course in vector borne diseases and medical entomology; parasitologists, entomologists, and government scientists responsible for oversight and monitoring of insect vector borne diseases; and medical and veterinary school libraries and libraries at institutions with strong programs in entomology. Follows in the tradition of Herm's Medical and Veterinary Entomology The latest information on developments in entomology relating to public health and veterinary importance Two separate indexes for enhanced searchability: Taxonomic and Subject New to this edition: Three new chapters Morphological Adaptations of Parasitic Arthropods Forensic Entomology Molecular Tools in Medical and Veterinary Entomology 1700 word glossary Appendix of Arthropod-Related Viruses of Medical-Veterinary Importance Numerous new full-color images, illustrations and maps throughout
