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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Rare Shells written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Peter Dance
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ISBN 13 : 9780571082179
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Rare Shells written by S. Peter Dance and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M.G. Harasewych
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617705X
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Book of Shells written by M.G. Harasewych and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who among us hasn’t marveled at the diversity and beauty of shells? Or picked one up, held it to our ear, and then gazed in wonder at its shape and hue? Many a lifelong shell collector has cut teeth (and toes) on the beaches of the Jersey Shore, the Outer Banks, or the coasts of Sanibel Island. Some have even dived to the depths of the ocean. But most of us are not familiar with the biological origin of shells, their role in explaining evolutionary history, and the incredible variety of forms in which they come. Shells are the external skeletons of mollusks, an ancient and diverse phylum of invertebrates that are in the earliest fossil record of multicellular life over 500 million years ago. There are over 100,000 kinds of recorded mollusks, and some estimate that there are over amillion more that have yet to be discovered. Some breathe air, others live in fresh water, but most live in the ocean. They range in size from a grain of sand to a beach ball and in weight from a few grams to several hundred pounds. And in this lavishly illustrated volume, they finally get their full due. The Book of Shells offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most intriguing mollusk shells, each chosen to convey the range of shapes and sizes that occur across a range of species. Each shell is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the shell’s range, distribution, abundance, habitat, and operculum—the piece that protects the mollusk when it’s in the shell. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each shell and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait. The Matchless Cone, for instance, or Conus cedonulli, was one of the rarest shells collected during the eighteenth century. So much so, in fact, that a specimen in 1796 was sold for more than six times as much as a painting by Vermeer at the same auction. But since the advent of scuba diving, this shell has become far more accessible to collectors—though not without certain risks. Some species of Conus produce venom that has caused more than thirty known human deaths. The Zebra Nerite, the Heart Cockle, the Indian Babylon, the Junonia, the Atlantic Thorny Oyster—shells from habitats spanning the poles and the tropics, from the highest mountains to the ocean’s deepest recesses, are all on display in this definitive work.
Author : Cathy Moser Marlett
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081654512X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Shells on a Desert Shore written by Cathy Moser Marlett and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mexico’s western Sonoran Desert along the Gulf of California is a place made extraordinary by the desert solitude, the dynamic sea, and the people who live there—the Seris. Central to the lives of these people are the sea and its shores. Shells on a Desert Shore describes the Seri knowledge of mollusks and includes names, folklore, history, uses, and much more. Cathy Moser Marlett’s research of several decades, conducted in the Seri language, builds on work begun in 1951 by her parents, Edward and Becky Moser. The language, spoken by fewer than a thousand people today, is considered endangered. Marlett presents what she has learned from Seri consultants over recent decades and also draws from her own childhood experiences while living in a Seri village. The information from the people who had lived as hunter-gatherers provides a window into a lifestyle no longer recalled from personal experience by most Seris today—and perhaps a window into the lives of other peoples who made the Gulf’s shores their home. The book offers a wealth of information about Seri history, as well as species accounts of more than 150 mollusks from the Seri area on the central Gulf coast. Chapters describe how the people ate mollusks or used them medicinally, how the mollusks were named, and how their shells were used. The author provides several hundred detailed drawings and photographs, many of them archival. Shells on a Desert Shore is a fresh, original presentation of a significant part of the Seri way of life. Unique because it is written from the perspective of a participant in the Seri culture, the book will stand as a definitive, irreplaceable work in ethnography, a time capsule of the Seri people and their connection to the sea.
Author : Dance
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004631445
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book A History of Shell Collecting written by Dance and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1986 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Monnier
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ISBN 13 : 9783939767923
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book A Taxonomic Iconography of Living Conidae written by Eric Monnier and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John MAWE
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Voyager's Companion; or Shell Collector's Pilot; with instructions ... where to find the finest shells; also for preserving the skins of animals. Third edition, etc written by John MAWE and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Mawe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Voyager's Companion, Or Shell Collector's Pilot written by John Mawe and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boys' Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1961-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Author : James Leonard Mack
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 080597881X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)
Download or read book My Life, My Country, My World written by James Leonard Mack and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Sloot
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540401970
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Computational Science - ICCS 2003. Part 4. written by Peter Sloot and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four-volume set LNCS 2657, LNCS 2658, LNCS 2659, and LNCS 2660 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2003, held concurrently in Melbourne, Australia and in St. Petersburg, Russia in June 2003. The four volumes present more than 460 reviewed contributed and invited papers and span the whole range of computational science, from foundational issues in computer science and algorithmic mathematics to advanced applications in virtually all application fields making use of computational techniques. These proceedings give a unique account of recent results in the field.
Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393651452
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans written by Cynthia Barnett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year A stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that "will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation" (John Williams, New York Times Book Review). Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable history of our world through an examination of the unassuming seashell. She begins with their childhood wonder, unwinds surprising histories like the origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, and charts what shells and the soft animals that build them are telling scientists about our warming, acidifying seas. From the eerie calls of early shell trumpets to the evolutionary miracle of spines and spires and the modern science of carbon capture inspired by shell, Barnett circles to her central point of listening to nature’s wisdom—and acting on what seashells have to say about taking care of each other and our world.
Author : Michael J. Allen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 178570611X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Molluscs in Archaeology written by Michael J. Allen and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of ‘Molluscs in Archaeology’ has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow’s Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of mollusks in archaeology. It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It aims to be a broad based text book giving readers an insight of how to apply analysis to different present and past landscapes and how to interpret those landscapes. It includes Marine, Freshwater and land snails studies, and examines topics such as diet, economy, climate, environmental and land-use, isotopes and mollusks as artifacts. It aims to provide archaeologists and students with the first port of call giving them a) methods and principles, and b) the potential information mollusks can provide. It concentrates on analysis and interpretation most archaeologists and students can undertake and understand, and to 'review' the 'heavier' science in terms of potential, application and interpretational value.
Author : Pauline Fiene-Severns
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290730X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Seashells written by Pauline Fiene-Severns and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the many kids of tropical seashells with this useful and portable reference book. This handy pocket guide introduces 170 mollusk species found in Southeast Asia. These fascinating shelled animals vary greatly in shape and size, with equally diverse behaviors. As a quick reference to those families of mollusks most frequently encountered, together with the informative text and delightful color photographs for easy identification, this book is a "must" for beachcombers and underwater enthusiasts. Periplus Handy Pocket Guides are practical field guides, useful for identifying various natural objects ranging from plants and animals to gemstones and seashells. Each page of each title throughout the series is filled with clear, precise photographs and informative text. Scientific and local language names are given.
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Total Pages : 620 pages
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Download or read book The Awards of the International Juries Confirmed and Issued by the Commissioners Acting on Behalf of Her Majesty's Government written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book “The” Fisheries Exhibition Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Revelle
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480869104
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Healing House written by Deborah Revelle and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexie Cooke didn’t know her husband, Stan, was a cheater when she married him. Actually, she didn’t know much about him at all. It had been a whirlwind romance. But when she realizes his lying and manipulation is much deeper than sexual affairs, she understands she needs to escape imminent danger. With her three children and her best friend, she hides in a vacant house in the hills of Oahu. The house becomes her refuge. Her fears never leave her, but the house possesses a wonderful healing power for them all. Afraid of being found, she moves her family to Europe. Her instincts always lead her back to the house in Hawaii, where she learns of its history and its previous occupants while also discovering her future. Intense, heartwarming, and full of the culture of Hawaii, China, France, and Switzerland, The Healing House covers six generations of a family, narrating what separates them and what makes them whole again. This novel offers insight into the themes of the power of women, love, and God’s intervention in a person’s life while teaching about following one’s instincts and listening to one’s heart and mind.
