Kingdom Animalia

Author : Aracelis Girmay
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781934414682

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Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay Pdf

The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay's lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth, and language. These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time here on earth. Aracelis Girmay's debut collection won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. A Cave Canem Fellow, she is on the faculty at Drew University and Hampshire College. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Author : Mikhail A. Fedonkin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 0801886791

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The Rise of Animals by Mikhail A. Fedonkin Pdf

An essential resource for paleontologists, biologists, geologists, and teachers, The Rise of Animals is the best single reference on one of earth's most significant events.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780191620492

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The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Holland Pdf

The animal world is immensely diverse, and our understanding of it has been greatly enhanced by analysis of DNA and the study of evolution and development ('evo-devo'). In this Very Short Introduction Peter Holland presents a modern tour of the animal kingdom. Beginning with the definition of animals (not obvious in biological terms), he takes the reader through the high-level groupings of animals (phyla) and new views on their evolutionary relationships based on molecular data, together with an overview of the biology of each group of animals. The phylogenetic view is central to zoology today and the volume will be of great value to all students of the life sciences, as well as providing a concise summary for the interested general reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Kathryn Whyman
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 081725885X

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The Animal Kingdom by Kathryn Whyman Pdf

Examines the similarities and differences between the five classes of vertebrates, or animals with backbones: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Author : Julian S. Huxley
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262045377

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The Individual in the Animal Kingdom by Julian S. Huxley Pdf

The groundbreaking first book by a major evolutionary biologist, published in 1912, that anticipated current thinking about organismal complexity. Julian Huxley’s The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, published in 1912, is a concise and groundbreaking work that is almost entirely unknown today. In it, Huxley analyzes the evolutionary advances in life’s organizational complexity, anticipating many of today’s ideas about changes in individuality. Huxley’s overarching system of concepts and his coherent logical principles were so far ahead of their time that they remain valid to this day. In part, this is because his explicitly Darwinian approach carefully distinguished between the integrated form and function of hierarchies within organisms and loosely defined, nonorganismal ecological communities. In The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, we meet a youthful Huxley who uses his commanding knowledge of natural history to develop a nonreductionist account of life’s complexity that aligns with seminal early insights by Darwin, Wallace, Weismann, and Wheeler. As volume editors Richard Gawne and Jacobus Boomsma point out, this work disappeared into oblivion despite its relevance for contemporary research on organismal complexity and major evolutionary transitions. This MIT Press edition gives Huxley’s book a second hearing, offering readers a unique vantage point on the discoveries of evolutionary biology past and present.

Author : Wendy A. Wiseman,Burak Kesgin
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781648898488

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Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene by Wendy A. Wiseman,Burak Kesgin Pdf

The authors in ‘Lost Kingdom’ grapple with both the catastrophe of mass animal extinction, in which the panoply of earthly life is in the accelerating process of disappearing, and with the mass death of industrial animal agriculture. Both forms of anthropogenic violence against animals cast the Anthropocene as an era of criminality and loss driven by boundless human exceptionalism, forcing a reckoning with and an urgent reimagining of human-animal relations. Without the sleights of hand that would lump “humanity” into a singular Anthropos of the Anthropocene, the authors recognize the differential nature of human impacts on animal life and the biosphere as a whole, while affirming the complexity of animal worlds and their profound imbrications in human cultures, societies, and industries. Confronting the reality of the Sixth Mass Extinction and mass animal death requires forms of narrativity that draw on traditional genres and disciplines, while signaling a radical break with modern temporalities and norms. Chapters in this volume reflect this challenge, while embodying the interdisciplinary nature of inquiry into non-human animality at the edge of the abyss—historiography, cultural anthropology, post-colonial studies, literary criticism, critical animal studies, ethics, religious studies, Anthropocene studies, and extinction studies entwine to illuminate what is arguably the greatest crisis, for all creatures, in the past 65 million years.

Author : Janis Freegard
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781775581024

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Kingdom Animalia by Janis Freegard Pdf

The poems in this first full collection from New Zealand's Janis Freegard are categorized by Linnaean taxonomy: the six sections Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, and Vermes are interspersed with a seven-part poem on the topic of Carolus Linneaus himself. Here Freegard catalogs the various fantastic and artistic, anthropomorphic and objective, rational and self-serving ways that humans draw on the animal world: as symbol and allegory, food and friend, ravening enemy, and sacred icon. From surreal prose poems to gorgeous lists—featuring a stuffed Maori dog, murderous magpies, and cake-shop cockroaches—Freegard's verse reflects the diversity of the animal kingdom and its light-hearted fancifulness belies a strong commitment to conservation.

Author : Shri Hemant Roy
Publisher : Golden Bells
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8179680568

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Comprehensive MCQs in Biology by Shri Hemant Roy Pdf

Author : Samantha Fowler,Rebecca Roush,James Wise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9888407457

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Concepts of Biology by Samantha Fowler,Rebecca Roush,James Wise Pdf

Concepts of Biology is designed for the single-semester introduction to biology course for non-science majors, which for many students is their only college-level science course. As such, this course represents an important opportunity for students to develop the necessary knowledge, tools, and skills to make informed decisions as they continue with their lives. Rather than being mired down with facts and vocabulary, the typical non-science major student needs information presented in a way that is easy to read and understand. Even more importantly, the content should be meaningful. Students do much better when they understand why biology is relevant to their everyday lives. For these reasons, Concepts of Biology is grounded on an evolutionary basis and includes exciting features that highlight careers in the biological sciences and everyday applications of the concepts at hand.We also strive to show the interconnectedness of topics within this extremely broad discipline. In order to meet the needs of today's instructors and students, we maintain the overall organization and coverage found in most syllabi for this course. A strength of Concepts of Biology is that instructors can customize the book, adapting it to the approach that works best in their classroom. Concepts of Biology also includes an innovative art program that incorporates critical thinking and clicker questions to help students understand--and apply--key concepts.

Author : Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0865058776

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What is the Animal Kingdom? by Bobbie Kalman Pdf

All types of creatures, including insects, mammals, and fish, are covered in this engaging book on the animal kingdom. Young readers will learn all the basics of kingdoms, orders, classes, and species.

Author : Georges baron Cuvier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Animals
ISBN : BSB:BSB10932331

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The animal kingdom by Georges baron Cuvier Pdf

Author : Georges baron Cuvier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
ISBN : STANFORD:36105116264149

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The Animal Kingdom by Georges baron Cuvier Pdf

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199593217

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The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Holland Pdf

Molecular biology has revolutionized our understanding of animals and their evolution. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Holland provides an authoritative summary of the modern view of animal life, its origins, and the new classification resulting from DNA studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9712335631

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E-biology Ii (science and Technology)' 2003 Ed. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul G. Engelkirk,Janet L. Duben-Engelkirk
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0781797012

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Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases by Paul G. Engelkirk,Janet L. Duben-Engelkirk Pdf

Designed for associate-degree MLT/CLT programs and baccalaureate MT/CLS programs, this textbook presents the essentials of clinical microbiology. It provides balanced coverage of specific groups of microorganisms and the work-up of clinical specimens by organ system, and also discusses the role of the microbiology laboratory in regard to emerging infections, healthcare epidemiology, and bioterrorism. Clinical case studies and self-assessment questions show how to incorporate the information into everyday practice. More than 400 illustrations and visual information displays enhance the text. Essentials boxes, chapter outlines, key terms, summaries, and other study aids help students retain information. A bound-in CD-ROM includes additional review questions, case studies, and Web links.