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Author : Lynn Barber
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Heyday of Natural History, 1820-1870 written by Lynn Barber and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1980 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynn Barber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The Hayday of Natural History, 1820-1870 written by Lynn Barber and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynn Barber
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Heyday of Natural History, 1820-1870 written by Lynn Barber and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of the Victorian obsession with natural history incorporates portraits of the most popular naturalists--many of them notorious eccentrics--and examines the attempt to inculcate moral principles through natural theology." -- Amazon.com viewed November 5, 2020.
Author : Elise Virginia Lemire
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812236644
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (366 download)
Download or read book "Miscegenation" written by Elise Virginia Lemire and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sexualizing of race and the racializing of sex have shaped U.S. society in powerful and destructive ways. Lemire's brief, well-researched, and thoughtful book illustrates how key components of this protean process became part of the worldview of nineteenth-century white society."--Choice
Author : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137342404
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture written by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.
Author : Jane Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107191440
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book National Park Science written by Jane Carruthers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the changing philosophies and permutations in research and management of South Africa's national parks during the twentieth century.
Author : A Joseph Henry Press book
Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
ISBN 13 : 0309055849
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Biodiversity II written by A Joseph Henry Press book and published by Joseph Henry Press. This book was released on 1996-10-16 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book before you...carries the urgent warning that we are rapidly altering and destroying the environments that have fostered the diversity of life forms for more than a billion years." With those words, Edward O. Wilson opened the landmark volume Biodiversity (National Academy Press, 1988). Despite this and other such alarms, species continue to vanish at a rapid rate, taking with them their genetic legacy and potential benefits. Many disappear before they can even be identified. Biodiversity II is a renewed call for urgency. This volume updates readers on how much we already know and how much remains to be identified scientifically. It explores new strategies for quantifying, understanding, and protecting biodiversity, including: New approaches to the integration of electronic data, including a proposal for a U.S. National Biodiversity Information Center. Application of techniques developed in the human genome project to species identification and classification. The Gap Analysis Program of the National Biological Survey, which uses layered satellite, climatic, and biological data to assess distribution and better manage biodiversity. The significant contribution of museum collections to identifying and categorizing species, which is essential for understanding ecological function and for targeting organisms and regions at risk. The book describes our growing understanding of how megacenters of diversity (e.g., rainforest insects, coral reefs) are formed, maintained, and lost; what can be learned from mounting bird extinctions; and how conservation efforts for neotropical primates have fared. It also explores ecosystem restoration, sustainable development, and agricultural impact. Biodiversity II reinforces the idea that the conservation of our biological resources is within reach as long as we pool resources; better coordinate the efforts of existing institutionsâ€"museums, universities, and government agenciesâ€"already dedicated to this goal; and enhance support for research, collections, and training. This volume will be important to environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, educators, students, and concerned individuals.
Author : Kim Tolley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135339201
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book The Science Education of American Girls written by Kim Tolley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science Education of American Girls provides a comparative analysis of the science education of adolescent boys and girls, and analyzes the evolution of girls' scientific interests from the antebellum era through the twentieth century. Kim Tolley expands the understanding of the structural and cultural obstacles that emerged to transform what, in the early nineteenth century, was regarded as a "girl's subject." As the form and content of pre-college science education developed, Tolley argues, direct competition between the sexes increased. Subsequently, the cultural construction of science as a male subject limited access and opportunity for girls.
Author : Alan J. A. Stewart
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845932552
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Insect Conservation Biology written by Alan J. A. Stewart and published by CABI. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings contain papers on insect conservation biology that are classified under 3 themes: (1) the current status of insect conservation, and major avenues for progress and hindrances (6 papers); (2) insects as model organisms in conservation biology (6 papers); and (3) future directions in insect conservation biology (6 papers).
Author : Juliet John
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191082104
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture written by Juliet John and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology, Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief, and Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures), the volume is sub-divided into nine sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars.
Author : Barbara T. Gates
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226284446
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (844 download)
Download or read book In Nature's Name written by Barbara T. Gates and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some—like the beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, who produced natural history about hedgehogs as well as fiction about rabbits—are still familiar today. But others have all but disappeared from view. Barbara Gates recovers these lost works and prints them alongside little-known pieces by more famous authors, like Potter's field notes on hedgehogs, reminding us of better known stories that help set the others in context. The works contained in this volume are as varied as the women who produced them. They include passionate essays on the protection of animals, vivid accounts of travel and adventure from the English seashore to the Indian Alps, poetry and fiction, and marvelous tales of nature for children. Special features of the book include a detailed chronology placing each selection in its historical and literary context; biographical sketches of each author's life and works; a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature; and over sixty illustrations. An ideal introduction to women's powerful and diverse responses to the natural world, In Nature's Name will be treasured by anyone interested in natural history, women, or Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Author : Gordon Cook
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080559395
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Tropical Medicine written by Gordon Cook and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superbly illustrated work provides short accounts of the lives and scientific contributions of all of the major pioneers of Tropical Medicine. Largely biographical, the stories discussed enlighten a new generation of scientists to the advances made by their predecessors. Written by Gordon Cook, contributor to the hugely popular Manson’s Tropical Diseases, this report discusses the pioneers themselves and offers a global accounting of their experiences at the onset of the discipline.
Author : North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807849859
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)
Download or read book A Long Look at Nature written by North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a jar of preserved leopard frogs or the articulated skeleton of a beached sperm whale say about the way we understand nature in North Carolina? Margaret Martin explores this question in the story of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sci
Author : Graydon Hilyard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811767612
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Herbert L. Welch written by Graydon Hilyard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herb Welch, the inventor of the still popular streamer pattern, the Black Ghost, is Maine’s first and only celebrity guide to gain international status. With over 200 images including archival black and white and color images by photographer John Swan, this book documents the incredible life and work of a man that excelled in art, sculpture, taxidermy (he was the premiere fish taxidermist of his day), demonstration fly casting at major North American venues, and guiding. In addition, the Hilyards include never before published streamer patterns from the Rangeley region, including nine named streamers originated/adapted and tied by Herbert Welch as well as ten newly identified streamers originated and tied by Carrie Stevens, including her only known early wet fly pattern.
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030788516X
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition written by Bill Bryson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, confronts his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as his territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. The result is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Now, in this handsome new edition, Bill Bryson’s words are supplemented by full-color artwork that explains in visual terms the concepts and wonder of science, at the same time giving face to the major players in the world of scientific study. Eloquently and entertainingly described, as well as richly illustrated, science has never been more involving or entertaining.
Author : Sally Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136716173
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Victorian Britain (Routledge Revivals) written by Sally Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions, topics, groups and artefacts in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901, have been written by authorities in the field and contain bibliographies to provide guidelines for further research. The work is intended for undergraduates and the general reader, and also as a starting point for graduates who wish to explore new fields.
Author : Cannon Schmitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521765609
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Darwin and the Memory of the Human written by Cannon Schmitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how Victorian naturalists transformed their encounters with South America into influential accounts of biological change.
