Название: Биосимметрика
Автор: Заренков Н.А.
Издательство: М.: Либроком
Год: 2009
Cтраниц: 320 с.: ил.
Формат: pdf
Размер: 15 мб
Язык: русский

В настоящей книге для объяснения симметрий биоморф привлечен принцип Пьера Кюри и использованы понятия относительной поверхности и топологической размерности в связи с движением и перемещением в пространстве. Они позволяют рассматривать симметрии биоморф, включая организмы, как средство осуществления обмена веществ в условиях обособленных фаз вещества, сложившихся на Земле. Приведены примеры межорганизменных симметрий.

Название: The Green Planet: The Secret Life of Plants
Автор: Simon Barnes
Издательство: BBC Books
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 149 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Accompanying a major BBC series from the team behind Planet Earth II and presented by David Attenborough, a fascinating exploration of the hidden life of plants. Plants live secret, unseen lives—hidden in their magical world and on their timescale. From the richest jungles to the harshest deserts, from the snowiest alpine forest to the remotest steaming swamp, Green Planet travels from one great habitat to the next, showing us that plants are as aggressive, competitive, and dramatic as the animals on our planet. You will discover agents of death, who ruthlessly engulf their host plant, but also those that form deep and complex relationships with other species, such as the desert cacti who use nectar-loving bats to pollinate. Although plants are undoubtedly the stars of the show, a fascinating new light will be shed on the animals that interact with them. Using the latest technologies and showcasing over two decades of new discoveries, Green Planet reveals the strange and wonderful life of plants like never before—a life full of remarkable behavior, emotional stories, and surprising heroes.

Название: Биология : для поступающих в вузы
Автор: Заяц Р.Г., Бутвиловский В.Э., Давыдов В.В., Рачковская И.В.
Издательство: Вышэйшая школа
Год: 2019 - 6-е изд., исправл.
Cтраниц: 640
Формат: pdf
Размер: 80 мб
Язык: русский

Содержит программный материал по биологии за курс общее образовательной школы, примеры решения задач по молекулярной биологии, генетике, эволюции и экологии, а также задачи для самоконтроля с ответами. Предыдущее издание вышло в 2015 г. Для абитуриентов учреждений высшего и среднего специального образования. Будет полезно слушателям подготовительных курсов и учащимся учреждений общего среднего образования.

Название: Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres
Автор: Alison Pouliot
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 51 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet’s power and fragility. What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Splitting time between the northern and southern hemispheres, ecologist Alison Pouliot ensures that she experiences two autumns per year in the pursuit of fungi—from Australia’s deserts to Iceland’s glaciers to America’s Cascade Mountains. In Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms, we journey alongside Pouliot, magnifiers in hand, as she travels the world. With Pouliot as our guide, we smell fire-loving truffles that transform their scent after burning to lure mammals who eat them and, ultimately, spread their spores. We spot the eerie glow of the ghost fungus, a deceptive entity that looks like an edible oyster mushroom but will soon heave back out—along with everything else in your stomach—if you take a bite. And we crawl alongside vegetable caterpillars, which are neither vegetable nor caterpillar but a fungus that devours insects from the inside out.

Название: Tits, Boobies and Loons: And Others Birds Named by People Who Clearly Hate Birds
Автор: Stu Royall
Издательство: HarperCollins
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 63 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From the monotonous lark to the rough-faced shag, these poor birds have us all asking: ARE ORNITHOLOGISTS OK? Some people will literally name all the birds instead of going to therapy, and this book exposes all the weird and wonderful monikers these poor feathered creatures have been tarred with. From the go-away-bird and the common loon to the sad flycatcher and the sombre tit, we seriously have to wonder why such disturbed ornithologists even went into this line of work. Tits, Boobies and Loons is for all fans of birds, language and rude words. Or anyone who secretly considers themselves a bit of a red-rumped bush tyrant.

Название: American Architecture (World of Art), 2nd edition
Автор: David P. Handlin
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Размер: 152 Мб
Язык: английский / English

America has always presented a unique challenge to architects: should they emulate the Old World or respond to the demands of the New? David Handlin tells the complex story with lucidity and insight. Almost from its seventeenth-century beginnings, American architecture was subject to two apparently contradictory processesthe practical and the grandiose. The first comes through in the vernacular buildings of rural America, the innovations of Jefferson, Bulfinch's fine civic buildings, the offices and factories of the Industrial Age, and the comfortable domestic tradition that lies behind the houses of the Greene Brothers and Frank Lloyd Wright. The second is seen in the unprecedented daring of the Chicago Schoolgreat engineers like Adler united with great designers like Sullivan; in the majestic state capitols, exhibition halls, and public buildings by firms such as McKim, Mead & White; in the luxury of Fifth Avenue mansions; and in the exuberance of commercial Manhattan.The revised edition ends with a lively account of recent developmentsvirtual architecture, the revival of historical styles (including modernism), the thirst for striking originality, and a new interest in the local, with figures including Stern, Meier, Gehry, and Mockbee.

Название: Биология (Они растут, цветут и пахнут)
Автор: Ловягин С.Н., Вахрушев А.А., Раутиан А.С.
Издательство: М.: Баласс
Год: 2012
Cтраниц: 144
Формат: pdf
Размер: 19 мб
Язык: русский

Учебник посвящён знакомству с широко распространёнными на нашей планете покрытосеменными, или цветковыми, растениями. Строение растений рассматривается с точки зрения их приспособления к выполнению жизненно важных функций в экосистеме. Ученики познакомятся с отличительными чертами цветковых растений, их значением в природе и жизни человека. Изучение основных семейств цветковых растений позволит школьникам ориентироваться в природе и применять на практике полученные знания.

Название: Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
Автор: Bruno David, Julian Thomas
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment’s impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, over 80 archaeologists from three continents attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global framework. As a basic reference volume for landscape archaeology, this volume will be the benchmark for decades to come. All royalties on this Handbook are donated to the World Archaeological Congress.

Название: The Oceans Atlas: A Pictorial Guide to the World's Waters
Автор: DK Children
Издательство: DK Children
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 33 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Delve beneath the world’s oceans to discover their physical features, wildlife, and threats to their future. How do waves form? Where is the deepest part of the ocean? What is a black smoker? What would the ocean floor look like without water? What lives in a coral reef? If you find yourself seeking the answers to these questions, then this may be the book for you! Introducing The Oceans Atlas – a beautifully illustrated guide to Earth’s oceans for kids aged 9-12. Explore key features of the oceans from seafloor to surf, including tides and trenches, currents and coastline, volcanoes and vents. Discover the variety of marine life from the biggest sharks and whales to the tiniest invertebrates and polyps. Find out the human impact on our seas and how we can create a healthier and cleaner future.

Название: Capturing the Stars: Astrophotography by the Masters
Автор: Robert Gendler
Издательство: Voyageur Press
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Размер: 100 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Portraits of the deep sky and of local astronomical phenomena taken by the world’s renowned astrophotographers—with a foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson. To gaze at the stars is one thing; to capture that gaze in photographs is something else, a tantalizing scientific art that many attempt and few master. That rare mastery is on full display in this beautiful volume of space photography from thirty of the most accomplished astrophotographers in the world, both professional and amateur. Galaxies, star clusters, nebulae, and other deep-sky treasures fill the pages. Along with the marvels of the night sky—the Andromeda and Whirlpool galaxies, the Pleiades and the Praesepe, the Orion and Crab nebulae, and many more—each section features a profile of the photographer’s work, techniques, philosophy, and experiences.