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Author : John R. Cooley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0472065378
An essential collection of criticism on the leading nature writers of today.
Author : Ph. D Pankratz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781633886698
Mysteries and Secrets Revealed uncovers the reality behind mysteries of nature and secrets of frauds that eluded common understanding. The journey begins in the ancient Greek city of Delphi, where priests claimed the gift of a priceless gold lion was an acknowledgement of their clairvoyant powers. But their concocted story concealed an embarrassing blunder. Those sufficiently savvy to catch the lie became aware of even deeper problems. Author Loren Pankratz then guides us through the conflicts of Renaissance scholars, including Galileo who explained things in ways that enraged philosophers and infuriated priests. Galileo's methods of investigation were perpetuated by the meticulous work of the Academy of Experiment, and Bernard Fontenelle's enthralling dialogue enabled common people to accept life in the rearranged sun-centered universe. Clairvoyants in a mesmeric trance claimed they could visit distant planets and endure brutal surgical procedures. If any of this was real, how was it possible? One nineteenth century mesmeric savant, Alexis Didier, was so convincing that someone claimed no case of clairvoyance could be made for anyone if his accomplishments were not real. This unchallenged declaration is now unraveled here for the first time through information gleaned from uncommon documents and rare antiquarian pamphlets. The surprising manifestations of modern spiritualism quickly escalated into a psychic arms race that included mysterious tipping and turning of tables. Scientist Michael Faraday devised ingenious experiments to show how subtle muscle reactions outside of awareness created these manifestations. On the other hand, explanations for table levitations and mysterious writing on slates could only be solved by individuals with acute observational skills and acquainted with the methods of trickery. Each story in Mysteries and SecretsRevealed captures the tension of conflict, the thrill of discovery, and the strategies of science that unmasked frauds, fakes, false belief, and the enigmas of our natural world.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1602 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357250
Author : Caleb Compton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1528944658
Author : Philip Bunting
Publisher : Quirky Creatures
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711262393
The World’s Most Pointless Animals is a witty, quirky, colorfully-illustrated book featuring fascinating facts about some very silly animals…who we find are perhaps not so pointless after all. From familiar animals like giraffes (who don’t have any vocal cords) through to those that surely should not even exist, such as the pink fairy armadillo (absurdly huge front claws, super tough protective shell in baby pink, particularly susceptible to stress), our planet is full of some pretty weird and wonderful animals. For example: Koalas spend up to 18 hours a day asleep! Pandas are born bright pink, deaf, and blind. Dumbo octopuses flap their big fin-like ears to move around. A Narwhal’s tusk grows through its upper lip—ouch! With hilarious text throughout and bright, contemporary illustrations, this guide to absurdly awesome animals contains funny labelled diagrams and some excellent made-up Latin names (n.b. the jellyfish’s scientific name is not actually wibblious wobblious ouchii). Carrying an important message of celebrating diversity and differences, The World’s Most Pointless Animals inspires a drive to conserve our amazing planet and the creatures we’re lucky enough to share it with. Quirky Creatures is a series dedicated to seeking out the weird and wonderful denizens of the natural world and explaining why they are so strange, from the ridiculous to the truly terrifying. Also available in this series is The World's Most Ridiculous Animals and The World's Most Atrocious Animals.
Author : William Wilson Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : OXFORD:600074910
Author : Reader's Digest
Publisher : Reader's Digest Association
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1969-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0895770490
A collection of 72 animal stories.
Author : Igor Siwanowicz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756656034
Zoom in on the world’s most incredible creatures If your child could be pint-sized like a pipistrelle bat, or see eye-to-eye with a housefly they’d encounter a miniature world of strange body shapes, weird and wonderful behaviour, and some jaw-dropping insights into life for the very small. Thanks to nature photographer Igor Siwanowicz’s incredible photographs, they can do just that. With these astonishing images, they’ll see in eye-popping close up detail how tiny creatures hunt, feed, move, survive and thrive. There are familiar creatures like flies and beetles to look at, along with exotic birds, reptiles, amphibians and rodents. Discover what makes them different and how they cope with living in highly varied habitats. With Igor’s behind the scenes guide on how to photograph such tiny beasts, this is an awesome view of nature in miniature.
Author : Dan Flores
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781324006176
One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America. In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America’s known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent’s evolutionary richness. Distinguished author Dan Flores’s ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the “wild new world” of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before. The arrival of humans precipitated an extraordinary disruption of this teeming environment. Flores treats humans not as a species apart but as a new animal entering two continents that had never seen our likes before. He shows how our long past as carnivorous hunters helped us settle America, initially establishing a coast-to-coast culture that lasted longer than the present United States. But humanity’s success had devastating consequences for other creatures. In telling this epic story, Flores traces the origins of today’s “Sixth Extinction” to the spread of humans around the world; tracks the story of a hundred centuries of Native America; explains how Old World ideologies precipitated 400 years of market-driven slaughter that devastated so many ancient American species; and explores the decline and miraculous recovery of species in recent decades. In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America’s animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Eons in scope and continental in scale, Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animal-human story in America.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OXFORD:555020469
Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781504081719
The classic nature memoir of Cape Cod in the early twentieth century, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune). When Henry Beston returned home from World War I, he sought refuge and healing at a house on the outer beach of Cape Cod. He was so taken by the natural beauty of his surroundings that his two-week stay extended into a yearlong solitary adventure. He spent his time trying to capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to. In The Outermost House, Beston chronicles his experiences observing the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing summer sky. Beston argued: “The world today is sick to its thin blood for the lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.” Nearly a century after publication, Beston’s words are more true than ever.
Author : Jon Mooallem
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143125372
"Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it. With propulsive curiosity and searing wit, and without that easy moralizing and nature worship of environmental journalism's older guard, [Jon] Mooallem merges reportage, science, and history into a humane and endearing meditation on what it means to live in, and bring life into, a broken world."--Back cover.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Gardening
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030033907751
Author : David Barrie
Publisher : The Experiment
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781615196692
“Just astonishing . . . Our natural navigational capacities are no match for those of the supernavigators in this eye-opening book.”—Frans de Waal, The New York Times Book Review Publisher's note: Supernavigators was published in the UK under the title Incredible Journeys. Animals plainly know where they’re going, but how they know has remained a stubborn mystery—until now. Supernavigators is a globe-trotting voyage of discovery alongside astounding animals of every stripe: dung beetles that steer by the Milky Way, box jellyfish that can see above the water (with a few of their twenty-four eyes), sea turtles that sense Earth’s magnetic field, and many more. David Barrie consults animal behaviorists and Nobel Prize–winning scientists to catch us up on the cutting edge of animal intelligence—revealing these wonders in a whole new light.
Author : Ross Piper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02
Category : Animal diversity
ISBN : 0500291659
"With vivid, prismatic photos, zoologist Piper offers encounters with dozens of improbable-looking but beautiful organisms you've never heard of." --Entertainment Weekly
