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.

Название: Falcons (Collins New Naturalist Library)
Автор: Richard Sale
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 137 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Falcons have been a source of inspiration to writers, artists, historians and naturalists alike. In a much-anticipated volume on one of Britain’s most fascinating group of birds, Richard Sale draws on a wealth of experience and research, providing a comprehensive natural history of the four British breeding falcons. The book takes each of the four breeding species in turn (Kestrel, Merlin, Hobby and Peregrine Falcon), exploring its form, habitat, breeding biology and status, along with a chapter on the hunting techniques of each species.

Название: Атлас мира
Автор: коллектив авторов
Издательство: М.: Федеральное агентство геодезии и картографии
Год: 2007
Cтраниц: 73
Формат: djvu
Размер: 17 мб
Язык: русский

В атлас включены политические карты континентов и государств, в т.ч. Российской Федерации и субъектов РФ, и справочный материал, представляющие современную информацию о политическом устройстве мира.

Название: Наглядная биохимия
Автор: Кольман Я., Рём К.-Г.
Издательство: Лаборатория знаний
Год: 2019 - 6-е изд., перераб. и допол.
Cтраниц: 514, цвет. и ч/б ил.
Формат: pdf (ocr)
Размер: 37 мб
Язык: русский

Существенно переработанное и дополненное справочное издание в наглядной форме — в виде цветных схем — описывает все биохимические процессы. Рассмотрены биохимически важные соединения, их строение и свойства, основные процессы с их участием, а также механизмы и биохимия важнейших процессов в живой природе.