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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824815059
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Why Snails Have Shells written by and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty traditional tales from such ethnic groups in China as Mongol, Tibetan, Yao, Han, and Miao.
Author : Thom van Dooren
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547341
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book A World in a Shell written by Thom van Dooren and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the trails of Hawai‘i’s snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction. In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet snails are disappearing faster than any other species. In A World in a Shell, Thom van Dooren offers a collection of snail stories from Hawai‘i—once home to more than 750 species of land snails, almost two-thirds of which are now gone. Following snail trails through forests, laboratories, museums, and even a military training facility, and meeting with scientists and Native Hawaiians, van Dooren explores ongoing processes of ecological and cultural loss as they are woven through with possibilities for hope, care, mourning, and resilience. Van Dooren recounts the fascinating history of snail decline in the Hawaiian Islands: from deforestation for agriculture, timber, and more, through the nineteenth century shell collecting mania of missionary settlers, and on to the contemporary impacts of introduced predators. Along the way he asks how both snail loss and conservation efforts have been tangled up with larger processes of colonization, militarization, and globalization. These snail stories provide a potent window into ongoing global process of environmental and cultural change, including the largely unnoticed disappearance of countless snails, insects, and other less charismatic species. Ultimately, van Dooren seeks to cultivate a sense of wonder and appreciation for our damaged planet, revealing the world of possibilities and relationships that lies coiled within a snail’s shell.
Author : Robert Cameron
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008203490
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Slugs and Snails (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 133) written by Robert Cameron and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however, are the gastropods, animals originally with a single foot and a single coiled shell.
Author : Holly Beaumont
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1543599605
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Why Do Snails and Other Animals Have Shells? written by Holly Beaumont and published by Capstone. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out all about shells and how they help snails to stay safe and survive. Discover how shells are different on different animals and the different jobs they do.
Author : Helen Scales
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472911377
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Spirals in Time written by Helen Scales and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautifully written story of shells and their makers, and our relationships with them. Seashells are the sculpted homes of a remarkable group of animals: the molluscs. These are some of the most ancient and successful animals on the planet. But watch out. Some molluscs can kill you if you eat them. Some will kill you if you stand too close. That hasn't stopped people using shells in many ways over thousands of years. They became the first jewelry and oldest currencies; they've been used as potent symbols of sex and death, prestige and war, not to mention a nutritious (and tasty) source of food. Spirals in Time is an exuberant aquatic romp, revealing amazing tales of these undersea marvels. Helen Scales leads us on a journey into their realm, as she goes in search of everything from snails that 'fly' underwater on tiny wings to octopuses accused of stealing shells and giant mussels with golden beards that were supposedly the source of Jason's golden fleece, and learns how shells have been exchanged for human lives, tapped for mind-bending drugs and inspired advances in medical technology. Weaving through these stories are the remarkable animals that build them, creatures with fascinating tales to tell, a myriad of spiralling shells following just a few simple rules of mathematics and evolution. Shells are also bellwethers of our impact on the natural world. Some species have been overfished, others poisoned by polluted seas; perhaps most worryingly of all, molluscs are expected to fall victim to ocean acidification, a side-effect of climate change that may soon cause shells to simply melt away. But rather than dwelling on what we risk losing, Spirals in Time urges you to ponder how seashells can reconnect us with nature, and heal the rift between ourselves and the living world.
Author : Joseph Heller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319154524
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Sea Snails written by Joseph Heller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book presents the diversity and natural history of sea snail groups. By integrating aspects of morphology, ecology, evolution and behaviour, it describes how each group copes with problems of defence, locomotion, nutrition, reproduction and embryonic development. First come general characteristics of the Mollusca, to which snails belong; and next, characteristics by which snails (Gastropoda) differ from other molluscs. Then a broad, panoramic view of all major sea snail groups, from the primitive to the more advanced, is presented, including both the more abundant and some remote ones of special interest. In detailing primitive sea snails, first limpets (Patellogastropoda) are described, followed by brush snails (Vetigastropoda: top-shells, turbans and allies) and nerites (Neritimorpha), a small group with remarkably high variation in shell colour and in habitats. In looking at advanced-snails (Caenogastropoda), it details the herbivorous grazers and filter-feeders and the many voracious predators, some which use venomous darts. The book also covers sea slugs (Opisthobranchia), which have shifted from mechanical to chemical defence; some are herbivores, some use their food to harness solar energy, others are predators that gain stinging cells and poisonous compounds from their food. In addition, readers will learn about aspects of sea snails in human culture, including use as sacred artefacts and objects of magic and money, as a source of the royal and sacred dyes of purple and blue and as holy ceremonial trumpets. The text, in which scientific terms are accompanied by parallel common ones, is accompanied by over 200 illustrations (mostly in colour). This comprehensive, insightful portrait of sea snails will appeal to marine biologists, zoology lecturers and students, biology teachers, field-school instructors, nature reserve wardens, amateur naturalists, as well as to lecturers and learners of human culture.
Author : Maria Popova
Publisher : Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781592703494
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Snail with the Right Heart written by Maria Popova and published by Enchanted Lion Books. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a real scientific event and inspired by a beloved real human in the author's life, this is a story about science and the poetry of existence; about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death, evolution and infinity -- concepts often too abstract for the human mind to fathom, often more accessible to the young imagination; concepts made fathomable in the concrete, finite life of one tiny, unusual creature dwelling in a pile of compost amid an English garden. Emerging from this singular life is a lyrical universal invitation not to mistake difference for defect and to welcome, across the accordion scales of time and space, diversity as the wellspring of the universe's beauty and resilience.
Author : Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064451240
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)
Download or read book What Lives in a Shell? written by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-04-22 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a shell like a house? A house is a home for you, a nest is a home for a bird, and a cave is a home for a bear. But for some animals a shell is a home. Snails and turtles and crabs and clams all have shells that act as their homes and protect them from harm. In this book you'll learn all about these and other crustaceous creatures, for whom a shell is just the right sort of home.
Author : Hans Meinhardt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540440109
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells written by Hans Meinhardt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-01-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating patterns on the shells of tropical sea snails are not only compellingly beautiful but also tell a tale of biological development. The decorative patterns are records of their own genesis, which follows laws such as those of dune formation or the spread of a flu epidemic. Hans Meinhardt has analyzed the dynamical processes that form these patterns and has retraced them in computer simulations. His book is exciting not only for the astonishing scientific knowledge it reveals but also for its fascinating pictures. An accompanying CD-ROM with the corresponding algorithms allows the reader to simulate the natural pattern formation and growth processes.
Author : Michael Elsohn Ross
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
ISBN 13 : 9781575054377
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (543 download)
Download or read book Snailology written by Michael Elsohn Ross and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides instructions for finding, collecting, and keeping snails and suggests how to delve into the secret lives of these shell dwellers.
Author : Norbert Schmidt-Kittler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642761569
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Constructional Morphology and Evolution written by Norbert Schmidt-Kittler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructional morphology explains features of organisms from a constructional and functional point of view. By means of physical analysis it explains the operational aspects of organic structures - how they can perform the activities organisms are expected to fulfil in order to survive in their environment. Constructional morphology also explains options and constraints during the evolution determined by internal constructional needs, ontogenetic demands, inherited organizational preconditions and environmental clues.
Author : Sue Hendra
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 148149032X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell written by Sue Hendra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman, a slug who wants to be a snail, is determined to find something that will work as a shell.
Author : Ronald B. Chase
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195113144
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Behavior & Its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs written by Ronald B. Chase and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a thorough scholarly review of gastropod neurobiology presenting what is known about identified nerve cells, neural circuits, and behavior. Aplysia has been a major early model for work on basic mechanisms of learning and memory, and this model system will be covered in depth as the major focus of the book. There are about six other molluscan models, including Helix, Lymnaea, Limax, Achatina, and Tritonia, and Bulla, in which significant neurobiological research has been done, and they are all covered in appropriate depth. Chase brings a rather rich knowledge of the integrative biology of these systems to this book which should help many neurobiologists to reach a fuller organismal perspective on the behaviors they investiga
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 : David George Haskell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143122940
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Forest Unseen written by David George Haskell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award “Injects much-needed vibrancy into the stuffy world of nature writing.” —Outside, “The Outdoor Books That Shaped the Last Decade” The biologist and author of Sounds Wild and Broken combines elegant writing with scientific expertise to reveal the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each of this book's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals and describing the ecosystems that have cycled for thousands- sometimes millions-of years. Each visit to the forest presents a nature story in miniature as Haskell elegantly teases out the intricate relationships that order the creatures and plants that call it home. Written with remarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Haskell is a perfect guide into the world that exists beneath our feet and beyond our backyards.
Author : Greg Pyers
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 9781410915399
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Snails Up Close written by Greg Pyers and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics, habitats, life cycle, and behavior of snails.
Author : Chris Andrews
Publisher : Interpet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781842862339
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Manual of Fish Health written by Chris Andrews and published by Interpet Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about aquarium fish, their environment and disease prevention.
