Nature Notes

Author : Peter Brookes
Publisher : Little Brown Uk
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0316648566

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Nature Notes by Peter Brookes Pdf

In 1996, Peter Brookes launched a series of cartoons in The Times called "Nature Notes." It includes Boris Yeltsin as a Muscovy (lame) duck; Ian Paisley as an Orange-utan ('Devours all greenery'); and Baroness Thatcher as a rabid old bat. This second volume brings together over fifty new illustrations, with each cartoon taking as its theme a news story of the time, from Tory in-fighting to Monicagate. Both a revealing commentary on the first years of the New Labour government and a hilarious succession of merciless character studies, this book is essential reading for the politically informed.

Author : Michael R. Canfield
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674072060

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Field Notes on Science and Nature by Michael R. Canfield Pdf

Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world. John James Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1838, was one. Roger Tory Peterson’s 1934 Field Guide to the Birds was another. How does such insight into nature develop? Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions. What did George Schaller note when studying the lions of the Serengeti? What lists did Kenn Kaufman keep during his 1973 “big year”? How does Piotr Naskrecki use relational databases and electronic field notes? In what way is Bernd Heinrich’s approach “truly Thoreauvian,” in E. O. Wilson’s view? Recording observations in the field is an indispensable scientific skill, but researchers are not generally willing to share their personal records with others. Here, for the first time, are reproductions of actual pages from notebooks. And in essays abounding with fascinating anecdotes, the authors reflect on the contexts in which the notes were taken. Covering disciplines as diverse as ornithology, entomology, ecology, paleontology, anthropology, botany, and animal behavior, Field Notes offers specific examples that professional naturalists can emulate to fine-tune their own field methods, along with practical advice that amateur naturalists and students can use to document their adventures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127869217

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Yosemite Nature Notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Edward Comerford Casey
Publisher : Signal Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 1902669835

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Riviera Nature Notes by George Edward Comerford Casey Pdf

The spread of the towns, the disforesting of the hills, and other causes are conspiring to destroy many of the conditions which made the Riviera of former days so happy a resort for the lovers of Nature. But there will always be much to observe and much to study in so favoured a region. Quirky, erudite and eminently readable, the fifty-four essays comprising Riviera Nature Notes give an astonishingly clear picture of plant and animal life in the South of France at the turn of the twentieth century--not to mention a fascinating insight into the social mores of the time. A hundred years later the book is as fresh, topical and inviting as when it was first published. Preferring to remain anonymous as a naturalist, not only out of modesty but to guard the integrity of his liturgical writings, its clergyman author speaks of olives and pines, myrtles and figs, mosquitoes and rare butterflies--to name but a few of his subjects--with such passion and verve as to bring the land from the Ligurian coastline to the Maritime Alps vividly alive. gardens at La Mortola, Italy and benefactor of the Royal Horticultural Society's sixty-acre estate at Wisley, a second edition incorporated photographs taken by the temperamental and extravagant heiress Ellen Wilmot, in many ways a greater figure in the plant world than her close contemporary Gertrude Jekyll. Our anonymous author moved in the best horticultural and botanical circles, wore his learning lightly, and unusually for the time, spoke to the common man and the general reader on equal terms. With an engaging, sometimes acerbic, always entertaining and informative voice speaking effortlessly across the years, he will once again garner admirers among nature lovers, gardeners and travellers alike.

Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah)
ISBN : UOM:39015013710994

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Zion-Bryce Nature Notes by United States. National Park Service Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Natural history
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123788999

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Grand Canyon Nature Notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123789096

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Lassen Nature Notes, 1932-1936, and Hawaii Nature Notes, 1931-1933, a General Index by United States. National Park Service Pdf

Author : Ed Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 163085008X

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Nature Notes from Maine: Puffins, Black Bears, Raccoons & More by Ed Robinson Pdf

A collection of stories and images to celebrate the natural world around us. This book makes a great gift for anyone who loves Maine wildlife. It was written by Harpswell's Ed Robinson. All proceeds from the sale of the book will benefit the work of Harpswell Heritage Land Trust to preserve special places in Harpswell and educate and engage our community.

Author : Penny Olsen
Publisher : National Library of Australia
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780642278609

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Louisa Atkinson's Nature Notes by Penny Olsen Pdf

Nineteenth-century writer and journalist Louisa Atkinson was a remarkable woman. She was the author, at the age of 23, of the first novel penned by a native-born woman to be published in Australia. She was also a keen naturalist, whose close observations and detailed knowledge of the natural world found expression in the articles she wrote for Sydney newspapers. Yet Louisa Atkinson also created many artworks of the flora and fauna around her home in the Blue Mountains, most of which went unpublished during her lifetime. Presented in the style of a sketchbook, and organised by season, Louisa Atkinson’s Nature Notes teams Louisa’s beautiful drawings and paintings of Australian plants, animals and birds with short extracts from her nature writings. The book includes an essay about Louisa Atkinson’s life and milieu by nature and science writer Penny Olsen. In Louisa Atkinson: Nature Notes Louisa’s beautiful sketches of Australian plants and wildlife are brought together with her articles from the Sydney newspapers in a reimagining of one of her sketchbooks. The result is a season-by-season account of nature in the Australian bush, observed by one who had a great respect and love for even the smallest of creatures. Perfect for dipping into, Louisa Atkinson’s Nature Notes is a nostalgic coffee-table book for anyone who loves art, nature or history. An ideal Mother’s Day or Christmas gift. The selection of Louisa’s writings was edited and chosen by natural history author, Penny Olsen, who has also contributed a short lively biography at the back of the book.

Author : James R. Gilbert,Jim Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Minnesota
ISBN : 1932472681

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Jim Gilbert's Minnesota Nature Notes by James R. Gilbert,Jim Gilbert Pdf

"For more than thirty years Jim Gilbert has been observing the changing Minnesota seasons with the accuracy of a trained biologist and the rapt attention of a poet, while also keeping in touch with events in remote corners of the state through friendships developed during his weekly WCCO Radio call-in program. Now Jim shares the fruits of this experience with us in a series of brief essays and remarks focused on each passing week of the year"--Back cover

Author : Joy Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781493023714

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Ill Nature by Joy Williams Pdf

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution - related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she sounds the alarm over the general disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created. The culling of elephants, electron-probed chimpanzees, and the vanishing wetlands are just some of her subjects. Razor-sharp, controversial, scathingly opinionated, and refreshingly unafraid of conflict, Williams refuses to compromise as she lashes out at the greed of Americans and decries our own turpitude. It is not enough to mourn the passing of the natural world, Ill Nature shouts. Get out of our homes and our cars and our cubicles and do something...now.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0908452454

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Nature notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Wildlife conservation
ISBN : LOC:00028958390

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Federal Wildlife Conservation Activities by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Birds
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110084451

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Federal Wildlife Conservation Activities, 1948 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations Pdf

Author : Tommy Pico
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781941040645

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Nature Poem by Tommy Pico Pdf

A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview, and more. Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face. He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant—bratty, even—about his distaste for the word “natural,” over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the “natural world,” he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice.