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The Masters of Nature Photography: Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Volume Two
Artist/Author: Kidman-Cox, Rosamund, EditorThis stunning book comprises 10 individual portfolios from some of the world’s leading wildlife photographers. Detailing each photographer’s approach, influences and aims, it displays iconic images from each artist, reflecting the spectrum of their work. A breathtaking array of photographs celebrating the beauty and variety of life on Earth, this book would make a beautiful accompaniment to any home.
The master photographers making up The Masters of Nature Photography, Volume Two are Tim Laman (Lexington, MA), Brian Skerry (Uxbridge, MA), Steve Winter (Hoboken, NJ) Art Wolfe (Seattle), Hannu Hautala (Finland), Klaus Nigge (Germany), Thomas P. Peschak (Germany/South Africa), Tui de Roy (New Zealand), Cyril Ruoso (France), and Stefano Unterthiner (Italy). These influential artists provide us with insight into the natural world, from vast, beautiful landscapes and genuinely wild creatures in their natural habitat to spectacular shots of natural phenomena, groundbreaking underwater images and outstanding photojournalism.
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Parasites, People, and Places: Essays of Field Parasitology.
Artist/Author: Esch, Gerald W.Professor Gerald W. Esch is one of the world’s leading ecological parasitologists. Here, he presents a series of essays on classic examples of field parasitology. The essays focus on the significance of the work and its contribution to the field but also on the people and particularly the sites at which the work took place. Taken together, the essays represent a beautifully written account of the development of an entire field of scientific endeavour spanning a period of 50 years or more. The essays are not meant to be academic in a scientific sense, but there is a great deal of science in them. The book will be of great value to all parasitologists and ecologists, but also to anyone interested in how biological field work is carried out and how it contributes to greater understanding of the natural world.
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The World’s Protected Areas: Status, Values, and Prospects in the Twenty-first Century
Artist/Author: Chape, Stuart et al., editors.Illustrated with maps, colour photographs, and graphics, this reference offers a comprehensive status report on the world’s 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas designated as protected areas. It offers an overview of what these protected areas have and have not accomplished and what threats they face., Extensively illustrated with maps, colour photographs, and graphics, this state-of-the-art reference offers a comprehensive and authoritative status report on the world’s 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas currently designated as protected areas. Now covering about 12 percent of the Earth’s surface, protected areas provide a wide range of valuable ecological benefits: they contribute to biodiversity conservation; supply food, water, and other resources; regulate weather patterns; contain potential medicines; generate income at local, regional, and national levels through tourism; and more. This timely volume offers a benchmark overview of where these protected areas exist worldwide, what they have and have not accomplished, what threats they face, and how they can be better managed to achieve the goals of conserving biodiversity and other natural resources.
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The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life (Edition 1)
Artist/Author: Dawkins, Richard (Author), Yan Wong (Additional ResearchThe Ancestor’s Tale is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6 million years in the past, gorillas at 7 million years, orang utans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a growing band. The journey provides the setting for a collection of some 40 tales. Each explores an aspect of evolutionary biology through the stories of characters met along the way or glimpsed from afar – the Elephant Bird’s Tale, the Marsupial Mole’s Tale, the Lungfish’s Tale. Together they give a deep understanding of the processes that have shaped life on Earth: convergent evolution, the isolation of populations, continental drift, the great extinctions. The tales are interspersed with prologues detailing the journey, route maps showing joining lineages, and life-like reconstructions of our common ancestors. The Ancestor’s Tale represents a pilgrimage on an unimaginable scale: our goal is four billion years away, and the number of pilgrims joining us grows vast – ultimately encompassing all living creatures. At the end of the journey lies something remarkable in its simplicity and transformative power: the first, humble, replicating molecules.
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The Jim Corbett Omnibus: Man-eaters of Kumaon, The Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of Kumaon, The man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag.
Artist/Author: Corbett, Jim.Three classic Corbett books within the covers of one hardback volume.
Man-Eaters of Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag, and The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon, the three classic collections of Corbett’s hunting stories, which vividly bring to life the drama and beauty of the jungle and its wildlife are here brought together in a single volume for the first time.
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The Nile.
Artist/Author: Collins, Robert O.The Nile is the longest river in the world. It flows for more that four thousand miles through more than nine courties. The banks on the nile have been home to many peoples, but these huge and varied populations have exerted huge pressure on the river and its environment. From the early canals dug by the Pharaohs to the Aswan High Dam, Robet Collins charts the interplay between man and nature and raises important issues about the future of the Nile.
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Lessons from Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest
Artist/Author: Bierregaard, Jr. Richard O. et al.Deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate in many parts of the world, causing destruction of natural habitat and fragmentation of what remains. Nowhere is this problem more pressing than in the Amazon rainforest, which is rapidly vanishing in the face of enormous pressure from humans to exploit it. This book presents the results of the longest-running and most comprehensive study of forest fragmentation ever undertaken, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia, the only experimental study of tropical forest fragmentation in which baseline data are available before isolation from continuous forest took place.A joint project of Brazil’s National Institute for Research in Amazonia and the U.S. Smithsonian Institution, the BDFFP has investigated the many effects that habitat fragmentation has on plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. The book provides an overview of the BDFFP, reports on its case studies, looks at forest ecology and tree genetics, and considers what issues are involved in establishing conservation and management guidelines.
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