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Author : Pliny (the Elder.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Natural History of Pliny written by Pliny (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Davey
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823287076
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way written by Colin Davey and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of American presidents, New York power brokers, museum presidents, planetarium directors, polar and African explorers, and German rocket scientists. The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City’s most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained here. Located across from Central Park, the sprawling structure, spanning four city blocks, is a fascinating conglomeration of many buildings of diverse architectural styles built over a period of 150 years. The first book to tell the history of the museum from the point of view of these buildings, including the planned Gilder Center, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way contextualizes them within New York and American history and the history of science. Part II, “The Heavens in the Attic,” is the first detailed history of the Hayden Planetarium, from the museum’s earliest astronomy exhibits, to Clyde Fisher and the original planetarium, to Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and it features a photographic tour through the original Hayden Planetarium. Author Colin Davey spent much of his childhood literally and figuratively lost in the museum’s labyrinthine hallways. The museum grew in fits and starts according to the vicissitudes of backroom deals, personal agendas, two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. Chronicling its evolution―from the selection of a desolate, rocky, hilly, swampy site, known as Manhattan Square to the present day―the book includes some of the most important and colorful characters in the city’s history, including the notoriously corrupt and powerful “Boss” Tweed, “Father of New York City” Andrew Haswell Green, and twentieth-century powerbroker and master builder Robert Moses; museum presidents Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Ellen Futter; and American presidents, polar and African explorers, dinosaur hunters, and German rocket scientists. Richly illustrated with period photos, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way is based on deep archival research and interviews.
Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781454912149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Natural Histories written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights 40 masterworks of illustrated scientific art from the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History.
Author : Joel Greenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226306496
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book A Natural History of the Chicago Region written by Joel Greenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg takes you on a journey that begins with European explorers and settlers and hasn't ended yet. Along the way he introduces you to the physical forces that have shaped the area from southeastern Wisconsin to northern Indiana and Berrien County in Michigan; the various habitat types present in the region and how European settlement has affected them; and the insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, and mammals found in presettlement times, then amid the settlers and now amid the skyscrappers. In all, Greenberg chronicles the development of nineteen counties in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin across centuries of ecological, technological, and social transformations."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Stephen Christopher Quinn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Windows on Nature written by Stephen Christopher Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles more than forty habitat dioramas from the American Museum of Natural History, describing each one's contents and creation and presenting full-color photos and archival images.
Author : American Museum of Natural History (New York)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History (New York) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465458921
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)
Download or read book American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to reflect all the latest taxonomic data, American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America is the complete photographic guide to the 657 species of birds found in the United States and Canada. Ideal for the armchair bird enthusiast or dedicated bird watcher, this book includes stunning full-color photographs revealing 657 individual species with unrivaled clarity. The 550 most commonly seen birds are pictured with plumage variations, and images of subspecies and information on similar birds are provided to make differentiation easy, from game birds and waterfowl to shorebirds and swifts to owls, flycatchers, finches, and more. You can even discover which species to expect when and where with up-to-date, color-coded maps highlighting habitation and migratory patterns. Written by a team of more than 30 birders and ornithologists with expertise in particular species or families, and produced in association with the American Museum of Natural History, this updated and refreshed edition of American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America is the ultimate photographic guide to every bird species in the United States and Canada.
Author : Daegan Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633631X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book This Radical Land written by Daegan Miller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. But if you know where to look, you can uncover a different history, one of vibrant resistance, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers, settlers, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom, justice, and progress in the very landscapes around them, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau, the expert surveyor, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener, freer future. At every turn, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent—drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. Working in a tradition that stretches from Thoreau to Rebecca Solnit, Miller offers nothing less than a new way of seeing the American past—and of understanding what it can offer us for the present . . . and the future.
Author : William Temple Hornaday
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656488681
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (886 download)
Download or read book The American Natural History, Vol. 4 written by William Temple Hornaday and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Natural History, Vol. 4: A Foundation of Useful Knowledge of the Higher Animals of North America About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Donald Culross Peattie
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595341676
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book A Natural History of North American Trees written by Donald Culross Peattie and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A volume for a lifetime" is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s. In this one-volume edition, modern readers are introduced to one of the best nature writers of the last century. As we read Peattie's eloquent and entertaining accounts of American trees, we catch glimpses of our country's history and past daily life that no textbook could ever illuminate so vividly. Here you'll learn about everything from how a species was discovered to the part it played in our country’s history. Pioneers often stabled an animal in the hollow heart of an old sycamore, and the whole family might live there until they could build a log cabin. The tuliptree, the tallest native hardwood, is easier to work than most softwood trees; Daniel Boone carved a sixty-foot canoe from one tree to carry his family from Kentucky into Spanish territory. In the days before the Revolution, the British and the colonists waged an undeclared war over New England's white pines, which made the best tall masts for fighting ships. It's fascinating to learn about the commercial uses of various woods -- for paper, fine furniture, fence posts, matchsticks, house framing, airplane wings, and dozens of other preplastic uses. But we cannot read this book without the occasional lump in our throats. The American elm was still alive when Peattie wrote, but as we read his account today we can see what caused its demise. Audubon's portrait of a pair of loving passenger pigeons in an American beech is considered by many to be his greatest painting. It certainly touched the poet in Donald Culross Peattie as he depicted the extinction of the passenger pigeon when the beech forest was destroyed. A Natural History of North American Trees gives us a picture of life in America from its earliest days to the middle of the last century. The information is always interesting, though often heartbreaking. While Peattie looks for the better side of man's nature, he reports sorrowfully on the greed and waste that have doomed so much of America's virgin forest.
Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558592735
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Minerals and Gems written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the American Museum of Natural History's collection, and a concise guide to minerals and gems. The book displays 300 specimens from the museum's collection while also explaining the fundamental properties of minerals and gems.
Author : William T. Hornaday
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267885107
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (851 download)
Download or read book The American Natural History, Vol. 3 written by William T. Hornaday and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Natural History, Vol. 3: A Foundation of Useful Knowledge of the Higher Animals of North America; Birds (Concluded) Whenever, during the hour just before sunset, you see a good-sized bird with dark plumage, long, sharp-pointed wings, and a big white spot on the under surface of each wing, wheeling, soaring, dropping and circling through the air, you may know that it IS a Nighthawk, catching insects. Its flight is graceful and free, and when on the aerial war-path it is a very industrious bird. Some people compare this bird on the wing with bats; but I see no resemblance save the bare fact of semi-nocturnal flight. This bird, and the other mem bers of its Family, are among the very few North American birds that capture winged insects high in mid-air, and for this reason, even if. There were no other, all the Goatsuckers should be most rigidly protected everywhere. The time for shooting the Nighthawk for sport has long gone by, never to return. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Henry Fairfield Osborn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American Museum of Natural History written by Henry Fairfield Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. Lowie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Antropological Papers of the American Museum of National History. Vol. IV, Part 1: The Assiniboine written by Robert M. Lowie and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Temple Hornaday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Hornaday's American Natural History written by William Temple Hornaday and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633922X
Total Pages : 1803 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The History of Cartography, Volume 4 written by Matthew H. Edney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 1803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800. The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volume’s more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the era’s mapping, covering topics both detailed—such as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collecting—and broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.
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Publisher : Union Square Kids
ISBN 13 : 9781454903864
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)
Download or read book ABC Animals written by and published by Union Square Kids. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the alphabet with twenty-six favorite animal friends.
