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Author : Henry Francis Nachtrieb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Leeches of Minnesota written by Henry Francis Nachtrieb and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Redmond O'Hanlon
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140073973
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Into the Heart of Borneo written by Redmond O'Hanlon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1985 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The most hilarious travel book in many years' - Standard. Armed with equipment and advice from 22 SAS, Hereford, and accompanied by three trackers, Redmond O'Hanlon, the naturalist, and James Fenton, the poet, set out on a long river voyage into the interior of a tropical jungle hoping to reach the Tiban massif. At once funny and knowledgeable, Redmond O'Hanlon's account of how they battled with insects, discomfort and setbacks is a hugely entertaining and informative adventure story in the best tradition of the world's great travel classics. 'A marvellous book ... a very funny and expert witness' - Edward St Aubyn in the Tatler. 'Consistently exciting, often funny, and erudite without ever being overwhelming' - Punch.
Author : James B. Nardi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226568539
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Life in the Soil written by James B. Nardi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo da Vinci once mused that “we know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot,” an observation that is as apt today as it was five hundred years ago. The biological world under our toes is often unexplored and unappreciated, yet it teems with life. In one square meter of earth, there lives trillions of bacteria, millions of nematodes, hundreds of thousands of mites, thousands of insects and worms, and hundreds of snails and slugs. But because of their location and size, many of these creatures are as unfamiliar and bizarre to us as anything found at the bottom of the ocean. Lavishly illustrated with nearly three hundred color illustrations and masterfully-rendered black and white drawings throughout, Life in the Soil invites naturalists and gardeners alike to dig in and discover the diverse community of creatures living in the dirt below us. Biologist and acclaimed natural history artist James B. Nardibegins with an introduction to soil ecosystems, revealing the unseen labors of underground organisms maintaining the rich fertility of the earth as they recycle nutrients between the living and mineral worlds. He then introduces readers to a dazzling array of creatures: wolf spiders with glowing red eyes, snails with 120 rows of teeth, and 10,000-year-old fungi, among others. Organized by taxon, Life in the Soil covers everything from slime molds and roundworms to woodlice and dung beetles, as well as vertebrates from salamanders to shrews. The book ultimately explores the crucial role of soil ecosystems in conserving the worlds above and below ground. A unique and illustrative introduction to the many unheralded creatures that inhabit our soils and shape our environment aboveground, Life in the Soil will inform and enrich the naturalist in all of us.
Author : Andrew Lane
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330540378
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Red Leech written by Andrew Lane and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Leech, is the second in the Young Sherlock Holmes series in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager – creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original books. Sherlock Holmes knows that Amyus Crow, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn't expect to find a notorious killer, hanged by the US government, apparently alive and well in Surrey – and Crow somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself. And so begins an adventure that will take Sherlock across the ocean to America, to the centre of a deadly web – where life and death are cheap, and truth has a price no sane person would pay . . . Sherlock Holmes. Think you know him? Think again. Continue the investigative adventures with Andrew Lane's Black Ice and Fire Storm.
Author : Robert G. W. Kirk
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780230680
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Leech written by Robert G. W. Kirk and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armed with razor-sharp teeth and capable of drinking many times its volume of blood, the leech is an unlikely cure for ill health. Yet that is exactly the role this worm-like parasite has played in both Western and Eastern medicine throughout history. In this book, Robert G. W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton explore how the leech surfaces in radically different spheres. The ancients used them in humeral medicine to bring the four humors of the body—blood, phlegm, and black and yellow bile—back into balance. Today, leeches are used in plastic and reconstructive surgery to help reattach severed limbs and remove pools of blood before it kills tissue. Leeches have also been used in a nineteenth-century meteorological barometer and a twentieth-century biomedical tool that helped win a Nobel Prize. Kirk and Pemberton also reveal the dark side of leeches as they are portrayed in fiction, film, and popular culture. From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to a video game player’s nemesis, the leech is used to represent the fears of science run amok. Leech shines new light on one of humanity’s most enduring and unlikely companions.
Author : Hugh L. Keegan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Blood Sucking Asian Leeches of Families Hirudidae and Haemadipsidae, written by Hugh L. Keegan and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yi-Te Lai
Publisher : 國立臺灣大學出版中心
ISBN 13 : 9789860227604
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (276 download)
Download or read book 臺灣蛭類動物志:Leech Fauna of Taiwan-Biota Taiwanica written by Yi-Te Lai and published by 國立臺灣大學出版中心. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham C. Kearn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402029268
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Leeches, Lice and Lampreys written by Graham C. Kearn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-05 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many different kinds of animals have adopted a parasitic life style on the skin and gills of marine and freshwater fishes, including protozoans, flatworms, leeches, a range of crustaceans and even some vertebrates (lampreys). There is a parasitic barnacle, described first in the 19th century by Charles Darwin, fish lice that change sex and bivalve molluscs parasitic only when young. This book explores for the first time in one volume, the remarkable biology of these little known and frequently bizarre animals. The following closely interwoven themes are considered for each group of parasites: how they find their hosts, how they attach, feed and reproduce, the damage they inflict and how the host’s immune system retaliates. Based on the British fauna, but extending where appropriate to examples from North America, Australia and elsewhere, the book is essential reading, not just for the professional parasitologist, but also for anyone interested in fishes and in this neglected field of British natural history. With the enquiring naturalist in mind, terms and concepts are explained as they arise, backed up by a glossary, and the text is liberally illustrated. An introductory chapter on fish biology sets the scene and common fish names are used throughout, as well as scientific names.
Author : Zhu XiaoSenDaShu
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1648843611
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Legend of Shi'En written by Zhu XiaoSenDaShu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Hongwu period, the Beastmen race, known as the "External Demons", came with unpredictable weapons. Thus, a war broke out between the armies of the Ming Dynasty and the outer demons. The folk martial artists and the martial artists of the martial arts world all formed their own sects to participate in the battle between the outer demons. After the Great Ming Royal Family witnessed the powerful strength of the external devil, they eventually bowed their heads to the external devil and gave up on the other sects. Signing unequal treaties with foreign devils without authorization...
Author : Holly Grant
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0385370105
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The League of Beastly Dreadfuls Book 1 written by Holly Grant and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A creepy Victorian house, secretive aunties, and a great escape combine in this debut that is part Mysterious Benedict Society, part Roald Dahl, and all quirky, smart, hilarious storytelling. Join the League. . . . Anastasia is a completely average almost-eleven-year-old. That is, UNTIL her parents die in a tragic vacuum-cleaner accident. UNTIL she’s rescued by two long-lost great-aunties. And UNTIL she’s taken to their delightful and, er, “authentic” Victorian home, St. Agony’s Asylum for the Criminally Insane. But something strange is going on at the asylum. Anastasia soon begins to suspect that her aunties are not who they say they are. So when she meets Ollie and Quentin, two mysterious brothers, the three join together to plot their great escape! BONUS: Includes an excerpt of Viola Snodgrass’s Etiquette Manual for the Prim and Proper Sort! * “Concocting an eerie setting positively made for Unfortunate Events, Grant threads her narrative with direct addresses to Readers and delicious turns of phrase. . . . A yummy debut.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “Just the right mix of humor, magic, maliciousness, and suspense.” —Booklist “This adventure is filled with enough mystery and humor to keep readers wondering what will happen next. A solid debut reminiscent of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.” —School Library Journal “Wonderfully witty. It reminds me of Roald Dahl’s The Twits only in an insane asylum.” —Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
Author : Donna Andrews
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312939588
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos written by Donna Andrews and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reenactment of the siege of Yorktown features a crafts fair, so ornamental blacksmith Meg Langslow dresses in costume and peddles her wares. An entrepreneur working with Meg's brother comes to near-blows with several craftspeople--including Meg, who has hidden a dozen modern pink flamingos under her counter. When the man is killed by one of Meg's birds, Meg is determined to find the culprit. Martin's Press.
Author : Rose George
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 162779638X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Nine Pints written by Rose George and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A “compelling chronicle” of the science, politics, and business of blood (The Wall Street Journal). Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don’t even know their own blood type. And for all its ubiquitousness, the few tablespoons of blood discharged by 800 million women are still regarded as taboo: menstruation is perhaps the single most demonized biological event. Rose George, author of The Big Necessity, takes us from ancient practices of bloodletting to the breakthrough of the “liquid biopsy,” which promises to diagnose cancer and other diseases with a simple blood test. She introduces Janet Vaughan, who set up the world’s first system of mass blood donation during the Blitz, and Arunachalam Muruganantham, known as “Menstrual Man” for his work on sanitary pads for developing countries. She probes the lucrative business of plasma transfusions, in which the US is known as the “OPEC of plasma.” And she looks to the future, as researchers seek to bring synthetic blood to a hospital near you. Spanning science and politics, individual’s stories and global epidemics, Nine Pints reveals our life’s blood in an entirely new light. One of Bill Gates’ Recommended Summer Reading Titles “Stellar . . . An informative, elegant, and provocative exploration of the life-giving substance . . . A wondrously well-written work.” —Booklist (starred review) Both fascinating and informative . . . George packs her book with the kinds of provocative, witty, and rigorously reported facts and stories sure to make readers view the integral fluid coursing through our veins in a whole new way.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “George charges down wholly unexpected avenues of medical history and global injustice, leaving the reader by turns giddy and appalled. And always, always in awe of the writing.” —Mary Roach, author of Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War “A very good book.” —The New York Times
Author : Dwight D. Bowman
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323543979
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Georgis' Parasitology for Veterinarians E-Book written by Dwight D. Bowman and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Veterinary Medicine* Georgis' Parasitology for Veterinarians, 11th Edition provides the most current information on all parasites commonly encountered in veterinary medicine, including minor or rare parasites to assist in the diagnosis of difficult cases. While primarily focused on parasites that infect ruminants, horses, pigs, dogs, and cats, this comprehensive text also covers organisms that commonly infect laboratory animals and exotic species. More than 600 high-quality, color photographs and illustrations help you learn how to easily identify and treat parasites of every kind. - The most comprehensive parasitology content available, written specifically for veterinarians, provides complete information on all parasites commonly encountered in veterinary medicine, as well as information about minor or rare parasites. - High-quality color photographs and illustrations make the process of identifying and treating parasites more accurate and efficient. - NEW! Updated vaccines chapter keeps you up to date with what's currently happening in the field, as well as future prospects. - NEW! Sections on new compounds in antiparasitic drugs provide coverage of the latest developments. - NEW! Updated chapter on vector-borne diseases offers more in-depth detail on this topic. - NEW! Enhanced eBook on Student Consult contains chapter review questions and answers, flashcards, and canine and feline parasite posters to help increase your retention of difficult subject matter. - NEW! Updated chapter on parasite diagnostics includes new pictures and plates. - NEW! Updated drug tables offer the most current information on drugs, vaccinations, and parasiticides.
Author : Irfan A. Karowalia
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796001198
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)
Download or read book God’s Headquarter written by Irfan A. Karowalia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for the truth about a creator is as old as time itself. Is God real or is this deity only a legend passed down through time – a mere figment of our inherited imaginations? It’s age-old question, asked by millions over the centuries. Intelligent and curious Aydin is no ordinary 18 year-old. A science student Aydin struggles with what he has been taught and the strong religious beliefs, which run through his very veins. He starts to mediate in earnest in the hope it will bring him closer to the answer – can science and religion be juxtaposed? Why should we have to believe in one or the other and not both working together? Not in a million years would this curious teenager imagine that the very questions he asked were about to be answered in the most awe-inspiring fashion. He has kept to his strict mediation schedule and now it’s time for bed – another sleepless night perhaps? Since these questions have been plaguing him, Aydin has not been able to rest easy. Suddenly Aydin feels himself rising off the bed and bathed in blinding light. As the light dims, he sees two egg-shaped objects coming straight towards him. His journey is about to begin. A supernatural being emerges. This dimension traveller introduces himself as Ridz the Creators chief Li-Bot who is here to take Aydin on a journey of enlightenment. Aydin finds himself on a breath-taking ride across and up the skies to a world he could never have imagined existed. There are seven levels to God’s Headquarters Ridz tells him and if Aydin had any doubts about this, what this glorious being is telling him is just the tip of the iceberg. Aydin is whisked to the start of the level process, Zoology, where he learns about the delicate Balance of Life and all its mechanisms. There’s “drive libraries” and control desks, containing what proves to be a multitude of dimensions erstwhile unknown to humankind. He encounters a humanoid and dinosaur hybrid equipped with hundreds of unique designs. Hybz, the Li-Bot in charge of hybrid life forms, show him a design capable of moving on either two or four legs with equal ease with a skin like a crocodile, horns like rhinos and a face like a dragon. There are 3D creatures with highly evolved telepathic powers who can twist their heads and limbs at 360 degree angles; others can remove or grow limbs at will, swap wings for fins and shoot horns at the speed of light. He marvels at flying horses like unicorns and the Burrower, a mole-human hybrid with highly evolved powers. It’s like living a fairy tale, Aydin marvels. During the Tour of the Levels he realizes that he is the first human being to be granted this journey of passage through the realms of eternity. “Why me,” Aydin asks. The answer is simple: Aydin’s soul is pure, the colour of a bright white light giving him almost unlimited access to the levels. The emphasis is on “almost” however. As Aydin transcends levels past the level of light and dark forms and the level with the workings of the universe and its ingredients, he asks to visit the ultimate level for an audience with the Creator. This time it is not to be, Ridz tells him. Work on your already advanced state of purity and return for the ultimate tour. When he awakes the next morning, Aydin knows one thing for certain – a supreme Creator does indeed exist, in the most complex and scientific form beyond any human’s wildest imagination. Will anyone ever believe him?
Author : Stanley Cohen
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323675379
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Pathology written by Stanley Cohen and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent advances in computational algorithms, along with the advent of whole slide imaging as a platform for embedding artificial intelligence (AI), are transforming pattern recognition and image interpretation for diagnosis and prognosis. Yet most pathologists have just a passing knowledge of data mining, machine learning, and AI, and little exposure to the vast potential of these powerful new tools for medicine in general and pathology in particular. In Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Pathology, Dr. Stanley Cohen covers the nuts and bolts of all aspects of machine learning, up to and including AI, bringing familiarity and understanding to pathologists at all levels of experience. - Focuses heavily on applications in medicine, especially pathology, making unfamiliar material accessible and avoiding complex mathematics whenever possible. - Covers digital pathology as a platform for primary diagnosis and augmentation via deep learning, whole slide imaging for 2D and 3D analysis, and general principles of image analysis and deep learning. - Discusses and explains recent accomplishments such as algorithms used to diagnose skin cancer from photographs, AI-based platforms developed to identify lesions of the retina, using computer vision to interpret electrocardiograms, identifying mitoses in cancer using learning algorithms vs. signal processing algorithms, and many more.
Author : Andrew Lane
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429961716
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Rebel Fire written by Andrew Lane and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes knows that Amyus Crowe, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn't expect to find John Wilkes Booth, the notorious assassin, apparently alive and well in England—and Crowe somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself. And so begins an adventure that will take Sherlock across the Atlantic, to the center of a deadly web—where a friend is in peril and a defeated army threatens to rise again. Andrew Lane's exciting second case for the teenage Sherlock leads the young detective to America, straight into the heart of a shocking conspiracy.
Author : Kenneth Marsh Mackenthun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Limnological Aspects of Recreational Lakes written by Kenneth Marsh Mackenthun and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Limnological Aspects of Recreational Lakes" considers the many problems associated with the recreational use of lakes, reservoirs, and ponds. These standing-water bodies receive the most concentrated and varied recreational use of any waters, and provide enjoyment to the greatest number of people. Individuals using such areas soon become aware of associated biological problems and often demand remedial measures to alleviate developing nuisances or the prevention of them before they arise. This book is written for the person faced with problems of interpretation and management in dealing with the phenomena of recreational lakes. In most States, a permit or permission must be obtained from an appropriate agency prior to the institution of controls. Then controls are instituted, the recommended controlling agent and its field application must be tempered with a scientist's astute knowledge of both the problem and the ecological ramifications of a control program.
