Автор: Carwardine, Mark Название: Field guide to whales, dolphins and porpoises ISBN: 1472969979 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472969972 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 2556.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
Описание: Practical and portable, this is the ultimate field guide to the world's cetaceans. This outstanding new field guide to whales, dolphins and porpoises is the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date guide to these popular mammals. With more than 500 accurate illustrations - complete with detailed annotations pointing out the most significant field marks - Field Guide to Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises covers all 93 species and every subspecies in the world.
Many of the world's most respected whale biologists have collaborated on the concise text, which is packed with helpful identification tips from cetacean expert, Mark Carwardine. Mark's informative text is accompanied by up-to-date distribution maps for each species. Beautifully designed, to ensure critical information is quickly accessible, this is an indispensable resource that every whale-watcher will want to carry out to sea.
Автор: Miskin Ruth Название: RWI Home: Year 1-2 (Ages 5-7): My Reading and Writing Kit ISBN: 0198408145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198408147 Издательство: Oxford Education Рейтинг: Цена: 2374.00 р. 2968.00-20% Наличие на складе: Есть (2 шт.) Описание: A specially developed kit to support your child in becoming an independent reader and writer, based around Ruth Miskin`s successful Read Write Inc. phonics programme. Click the `find out more` link in the related items box for more information about the contents of the pack
Описание: Beautifully presented facsimile reproductions of the drawings and notes of pioneering entomologist Henry Walter Bates documenting his 11-year-long travels in the Amazon in the mid-1850s. This charming book showcases the two journals produced by entomologist Henry Walter Bates during his groundbreaking travels and discoveries in the Amazon from 1848 to 1859, on which his classic work The Naturalist on the River Amazon, was based. It includes facsimile reproductions of stunning illustrated pages taken from his Amazon journals, as well as an essay describing his travels. The journals reveal how a self-taught naturalist and butterfly enthusiast had a profound impact on the science of evolution. Bates, a trusted companion of Alfred Russel Wallace, traveled with him to the Amazon in 1848. There he became fascinated by close similarities in appearance between unrelated butterflies, and discovered a scientific phenomenon we now refer to as Batesian mimicry: species that are highly desirable to predators began evolving to look more like other, more toxic species in order to avoid predation. Bates spent a total of 11 years in the Amazon; when he returned to England, he had collected, by his own estimate, some 14,000 species of insects, of which no less than 8,000 were previously unknown. This beautiful book offers valuable new insight into the scientific implications and findings of Henry Walter Bates's rich and fruitful time in the Amazon, and it is the ideal book for anyone interested in science, scientific history, and science illustrations.
Автор: Bates, Henry-walter Название: Naturalist in the amazon ISBN: 0565094629 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780565094621 Издательство: Quarto Рейтинг: Цена: 2177.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book documents Bates` ground-breaking Amazon exploration, with pages from his illustrated notebooks and excerpts from what Charles Darwin called `the best book of natural history travels ever published`.
Описание: This is a collection from the writings of an eminent North Carolina naturalist. H. H. Brimley for more than sixty years was identified with the study of natural history in the state, both as a sportsman and as curator of the state museum. Brimley's interests included nature's smaller as well as her larger creatures.<BR><BR>A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.<BR>
Описание: Contains new translations of the philosophical writings of Thomas Aquinas from the Summa Theologiae and The Principles of Nature. The texts address the fundamental principles of nature; causality; the existence of God; how God can be known; how language can be used to describe God; human nature; happiness; ethics; and natural law.
Описание: "This book is for those inhabited by the same desires that drove the early naturalists afield, who yearn to know wilder territory. We read it voraciously, as if in the understanding of how they loved we might also begin to do so, as if in the reliving of their lives we might recapture some vanishing part of the human psyche that must know wilderness."-- Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood "Like the naturalists she profiles, Gail Fishman takes us on an odyssey through a time when the extraordinary diversity of the southeastern United States was first being explored and described. . . . Entertaining."-- Steve Gatewood, executive director, Society for Ecological Restoration, Tucson"Fishman modernizes the men and their explorations by retracing the terrain that they explored, wrote about, drew and painted. The result is an intriguing and appealing lesson in biographical and scientific history and a literary reading experience that will appeal to a wide audience."-- William W. Rogers, professor of history emeritus, Florida State UniversityFollowing the original steps of pioneering naturalists, Gail Fishman profiles thirteen men who explored North America's southeastern wilderness between 1715 and the 1940s, including John James Audubon, Mark Catesby, John and William Bartram, John Muir, and Alvan Wentworth Chapman. The book is also Fishman's personal travelogue as she experiences the landscape through their eyes and describes the changes that have occurred along the region's trails and streams.Traveling by horseback, boat, and foot, these naturalists--dedicated to their task and blessed with passion and insatiable curiosity--explored gentle mountains, regal forests, and shadowy swamps. Their interests ran deeper than merely cataloging plants and animals. They identified the continent's foundations and the habits and histories of the flora and fauna of the landscape. Fishman tells us who they were and what compelled them to pursue their work. She evaluates what they accomplished and measures their importance, also pointing out their strengths and failings. And she paints an engaging picture of what America was like at the time.Fishman combines natural history and American history into a series of portraits that recapture the American Southeast as it was seen by those who first tramped through the wilderness and whose voices from the beginning urged the preservation of wild places.Gail Fishman, a freelance writer who lives in Tallahassee, has worked for the Florida Defenders of the Environment, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Audubon Society. She is a volunteer for the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge and helped form the St. Marks Refuge Association.
180-PAGE BOOK FOR CHILDREN 3-6 YEARS OF AGE. IT TEACHES STEP BY STEP THE FIRST LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET FROM A TO Z THROUGH PREGRAPHICS, GAMES AND DRAWINGS. The path is developed according to the level of difficulty in learning the first letters and words, starting with pregraph exercises that help the child to develop eye-hand activities and following, with the help of directional arrows, the lines and curves to be traced.
The proposed activities:
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This step introduces the child to the manual tracing exercise in order to learn to coordinate and develop the ability to focus and pay attention while holding the marker correctly.
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In this step, the child will begin to see and trace all the letters of the alphabet for the first time. There are three pages for each letter. On the first page, the child needs to trace the largest letter by following the directional arrows, on the second page, he/she has to trace the same letter but in a smaller format, and finally, on the third page, he/she has to trace a funny cartoon shaped letter just for fun.
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The tracing exercise continues with lowercase letters where the children can start to become familiar with them.
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In addition to the hands-on exercise, the children will be able to rewrite the words in the empty spaces in capital letters and then color the drawing as they wish.
Step 5
This section of the book is completely dedicated to games to be completed such as connecting the dots, spotting the differences, mazes, puzzles, and finally, in the last 13 pages, the children will have to trace in black the names of animals and paired objects, and color each image accordingly.
Автор: Allison M. Johnson Название: The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans ISBN: 0807177466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807177464 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5016.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans collects and annotates a unique and little-known body of Civil War literature: narrative sketches, accounts, and poetry by veterans who lost the use of their right arms due to wounds sustained during the conflict and who later competed in left-handed penmanship contests in 1865 and 1866. Organized by William Oland Bourne, the contests called on men who lost limbs while fighting for the Union to submit "specimens" of their best left-handed "business" writing in the form of personal statements. Bourne hoped the contests would help veterans reenter the work force and become economically viable citizens. Following Bourne's aims, the contests commemorated the sacrifices made by veterans and created an archive of individual stories detailing the recently ended conflict. However, the contestants and their entries also present visible evidence—in the form of surprisingly elegant or understandably sloppy handwriting specimens—of the difficulties veterans faced in adapting to life after the war and recovering from its traumas. Their written accounts relate the chaos of the battlefield, the agony of amputation, and the highs and lows of recovery. Editor Allison M. Johnson organizes the selections thematically in order to highlight issues crucial to the experiences of Civil War soldiers, veterans, and amputees, offering invaluable insights into the ways in which former fighting men understood and commemorated their service and sacrifice. A detailed introduction provides background information on the contests and comments on the literary and historical significance of the veterans and their writings. Chapter subjects include political and philosophical treatises by veterans, amateur but poignant poetic testaments, and graphic accounts of wounding and amputation. The Left-Armed Corps makes accessible this archive of powerful testimony and creative expression from Americans who fought to preserve the Union and end slavery.
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