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Displaying records 151 through 160 of 1911 |
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Price: $247.00
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Sale: $95.00
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 660.6
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Publication Date: 1993-03-31
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Reading Level: 524
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Description: The inaugural volume of this new series presents an in-depth examination of the chemical and biological properties of selected natural products that are either currently used or have the potential for useful applications in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $32.94
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Manufacturer: Checkmark Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Checkmark Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.92
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Publication Date: 1985-11
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: This resource is a superb marriage of research, underwater photography, and artwork.
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Price: $109.00
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Sale: $30.00
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 617
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Publication Date: 2005-06-08
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Reading Level: 220
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Description: Unlike the cornea or lens the retina is part of the central nervous system and cannot be replaced. Therefore degeneration of the outer retina is blinding until a device (Retina Implant) proves to be helpful that fuses biology with technology (Bionics). This volume
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $1.89
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Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Louise Riotte
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Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Dewey Decimal Number: 639.8
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Publication Date: 1997-01-04
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Riotte explains siting a pond, maintaining water quality, troubleshooting, stocking with fish, plus plenty of old-time fishing lore and scrumptious fresh fish recipes.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $19.77
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jill Sinclair
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 974.44
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Publication Date: 2009-04-30
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Reading Level: 196
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Description: Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been described as a "landscape loved to death." Certainly it is a landscape that has been changed by its various uses over the years and one to which Cantabridgeans and Bostonians have felt an intense attachment. Henry James returned to it in his sixties, looking for "some echo of the dreams of youth," feeling keenly "the pleasure of memory"; a Harvard student of the 1850s fondly remembered skating parties and the chance of "flirtation with some fair-ankled beauty of breezy Boston"; modern residents argue fiercely over dogs being allowed to run free at the reservation and whether soccer or nature is a more valuable experience for Cambridge schoolchildren. In Fresh Pond, Jill Sinclair tells the story of the pond and its surrounding land through photographs, drawings, maps, plans, and an engaging narrative of the pond's geological, historical, and political ecology.
Fresh Pond has been a Native American hunting and fishing ground; the site of an eighteenth-century hotel offering bowling, food and wine, and impromptu performances by Harvard men; a summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians; a training ground for trench warfare; a location for picnics and festivals for workers and sporting activities for all. The parkland features an Olmsted design, albeit an imperfectly realized one. The pond itself—a natural lake carved out by the retreating Ice Age about 15,000 years ago—was a center of the nineteenth-century ice industry (disparaged by Thoreau, writing about another pond), and still supplies the city of Cambridge with fresh drinking water.
Sinclair's celebration of a local landscape also alerts us to broader issues—shifts in public attitudes toward nature (is it brutal wilderness or in need of protection?) and water (precious commodity or limitless flow?)—that resonate as we remake our relationship to the landscape.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $18.45
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Manufacturer: Texas Tech University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Scott B. Fleenor::Stephen Welton Taber
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Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.76809764
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Publication Date: 2009-05-22
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Price: $70.00
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Sale: $51.43
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Colin Little
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 578
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Publication Date: 2000-06-15
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Reading Level: 264
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Description: This book focuses on marine and estuarine soft sediments as complex and essential habitats for an astonishing variety of animals and plants whose lifestyles are intimately bound up with sediment structure. It discusses sediments as habitats first, then takes in turn the ecosystems found on sandy shores, mudflats and segrass beds, salt marshes and mangrove swamps, and life below the tidemarks. Adaptations of the organisms are fully described, and each chapter ends with a section on techniques. Later chapters discuss estuarine and lagoonal habitats, both of whoch contain primarily soft sediments, but add further complicating characteristics to those found in the sea. A discussion of estuarine food webs emphasizes the ways in which organisms interact. The book ends with a discussion of the ways in which marine and estuarine soft sediments have been abused by man, and some of the opportunities that have been taken to counteract these abuses.
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Price: $8.95
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Sale: $3.83
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Manufacturer: Thomasson Grant & Howell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Coborn
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Publisher: Thomasson Grant & Howell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 745
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Publication Date: 1993-08
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Reading Level: 98
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $24.28
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Manufacturer: Atria Books/Beyond Words
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michele Hall::Howard Hall
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Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words
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Dewey Decimal Number: 578.77
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Publication Date: 1997-11-01
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Reading Level: 175
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Description: A photographic celebration of the spectacular drama of exotic marine creatures' lives and the otherworldly beauty of the deep-sea ecosystems that shelter them. Written and photographed by Emmy award-winning couple Michele and Howard Hall, Secrets of the Ocean Realm is more than just a collection of stunning photographs: it is a revelation of the sea creatures' complex and mysterious cycles and patterns of behavior. The reader is presented with striking images of all manner of marine life--sharks, opalescent squid, molting lobsters, dolphins, giant whales--engaged in the vital activities of mating, threat displays, hunting and feeding. Based on a five-part series of public television specials, the remarkable photographs of Secrets of the Ocean Realm are complemented with fascinating and engaging stories that take the reader behind the scenes and reveal the state-of-the-art equipment and techniques used to capture these exquisite scenes of underwater life.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $2.96
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Manufacturer: Tilbury House Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sarah Stiles Bright
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Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 974.1
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Publication Date: 2002-07
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: "A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is the earth’s eye, looking into which we measure the depth of our own nature," wrote Thoreau. Generations of Americans have enjoyed, celebrated, and been rejuvenated by Maine’s lakes—our densely forested, lake-speckled state contains over 6,000 bodies of water larger than one acre, 2,800 of which are designated "great ponds." With luminous color photographs, thoughtful essays, and a sprinkling of quotes, Maine Lakes invites you to revisit your freshwater childhood memories, to appreciate the beauty and recreation our lakes offer, and to learn what’s being done to preserve this valuable and precious resource. Steeped in reflections of Barnes’s and Bright’s own personal experiences, Maine Lakes, in images and words, touches on what is universally remarkable about our human interaction with the landscape: it needs to be tenderly stewarded while, at the same time, it sustains and heals us.
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Displaying records 151 through 160 of 1911
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