Category: Animals/Nature

Africa

Price: $60.00

Publisher: teNeues : May 2015

Seller ID: 56702

ISBN-13: 9783832798666

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Minor damage to top front corner.
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Avian Growth and Development: Evolution within the Altricial-Precocial Spectrum (Oxford Ornithology Series, 8)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : February 1998

Seller ID: 77453

ISBN-13: 9780195106084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is the first re-appraisal in 50 years of concepts of development made in birds. This book is a case study in evolutionary diversification of life histories. Although birds have a rather uniform body plan and physiology, they exhibit marked variation in development type, parental care, and rate of growth. Altricial birds are fully dependent on their parents for warmth and nutrition and begin posthatching life in a more or less embryonic condition. At the other extreme, such superprecocial species as the megapodes are independent of all parental care from hatching, and theneonate, able to f...
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Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species: Biological, Social, and Economic Considerations

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Island Press : November 2007

Seller ID: 76507

ISBN-13: 9781597261654

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Some ecosystem management plans established by state and federal agencies have begun to shift their focus away from single-species conservation to a broader goal of protecting a wide range of flora and fauna, including species whose numbers are scarce or about which there is little scientific understanding. To date, these efforts have proved extremely costly and complex to implement. Are there alternative approaches to protecting rare or little-known species that can be more effective and less burdensome than current efforts? Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species represents the first c...
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Farming with Nature: The Science and Practice of Ecoagriculture

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Island Press : July 2007

Seller ID: 75150

ISBN-13: 9781597261272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Pristine.
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Habitat Management for Migrating and Wintering Waterfowl in North America

Price: $99.00

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press : January 1989

Seller ID: 6857

ISBN-13: 9780896722040

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For more than a half century, breeding grounds have been the foci of attention in waterfowl management and research. Only during the last decade, however, have researchers begun to analyze how winter and migration habitats affect the bird's survival.Addressing the needs of managers, researchers, ecologists, and students, Habitat Management for Wintering and Migrating Waterfowl in North America presents the first comprehensive overview of management strategies for nonbreeding waterfowl throughout North America. Each contribution comprises incisive review, previously unpublished reports, and her...
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Imprint Training of the Newborn Foal - Book - by Robert M. Miller, DVM

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 81533

ISBN: 660813014955

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

La Selva: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Rain Forest

Price: $3.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : March 1994

Seller ID: 78231

ISBN-13: 9780226039527

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

La Selva, a nature reserve and field station in Costa Rica, is one of the most intensively studied and best-understood tropical field sites in the world. For over thirty years, La Selva has been a major focus of research on rainforest ecology, flora, and fauna. This volume provides the first comprehensive review of this research, covering La Selva's geographical history and physical setting, its plant and animal life, and agricultural development and land use. Drawing together a wealth of information never before available in a single volume, La Selva offers a substantive treatment of the ecol...
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Questions and Answers About Ants

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Uncle Milton Industries, Inc.

Seller ID: 74330

ISBN: B001NK0NLW

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Dinosaurs : A Fantastic New View of a Lost Era

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mallard Press : January 1981

Seller ID: 76508

ISBN-13: 9780792453574

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The Ecology and Biology of Mammal-Like Reptiles

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Smithsonian : December 1986

Seller ID: 77851

ISBN-13: 9780874745245

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clean, tightly bound copy. Jacket has some slight tears -- on near the spine (approx 1/4 inch) and two on the lower back (approx 2 inches and 1 1/2 inch).
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The National Parks: Our American Landscape

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Earth Aware Editions : August 2009

Seller ID: 76505

ISBN-13: 9781601090454

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

America's national parks and historical sites embody the American spirit. They are windows to our past, homes to some of our rarest plants and animal species, and places where every American can go to find inspiration, peace, and open space. From the iron rails of Steamtown, Pennsylvania to the wilds of Yellowstone, America s natural parks preserve our culture in as much as they shield our natural world from our own encroachment. "The National Parks: Our American Landscape" presents a wonderfully updated photographic survey of one of America s greatest national treasures. Seen through the eyes...
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The Only World We've Got: A Paul Shepard Reader

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Sierra Club Books : June 1996

Seller ID: 74191

ISBN-13: 9780871563965

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Selected by the author from his many books, here in one volume is an overview of a brilliant and controversial career. Paul Shepard has long been revered as an elder of the environmental movement, and now the writings that have won such widespread admiration from his peers are available in a single volume. These powerful selections range provocatively from human ecology to environmental perception to the nature of sanity and our relationships with our fellow animals.Shepard has been an ardent voice crying out for the wilderness, as well as for its non-human inhabitants. We need them, he believ...
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The Only World We've Got: A Paul Shepard Reader

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Sierra Club Books : June 1996

Seller ID: 74311

ISBN-13: 9780871563965

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Selected by the author from his many books, here in one volume is an overview of a brilliant and controversial career. Paul Shepard has long been revered as an elder of the environmental movement, and now the writings that have won such widespread admiration from his peers are available in a single volume. These powerful selections range provocatively from human ecology to environmental perception to the nature of sanity and our relationships with our fellow animals.Shepard has been an ardent voice crying out for the wilderness, as well as for its non-human inhabitants. We need them, he believ...
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Visions of a Rainforest: A Year in Australia's Tropical Rainforest

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Ten Speed Press : November 1992

Seller ID: 76518

ISBN-13: 9780898155235

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This is the story of a year-long journey of discovery by one of Australia's most respected natural historians. The book is a personal account of life in one of the richest, most complicated habitats on earth.
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Seashells of North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Golden Field Guide f/St. Martin's Press)

By: Abbott, R. Tucker

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press : April 2001

Seller ID: 76542

ISBN-13: 9781582381251

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Scoop up plentiful Cockles on Eastern beaches. Spy a fabulous Emperor Helmet in Southern Florida. Find a Red Chiton on the Pacific shore. The coasts of North America yield a wondrous variety of shells, from the majestic Conch to tiny Bittium. This beautifully illustrated guide helps both the novice and experienced shell hunter distinguish between similar varieties and find the glorious specimens that become a collection's prize.-Native varieties and important introduced species-Expert tips on cleaning and preservation-Common and scientific names-Convenient measuring rules...and more...
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The Encyclopedia of Animals

By: Alderton, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Chartwell Books, Inc. : October 2013

Seller ID: 67705

ISBN-13: 9780785830801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From big cats to great apes, from penguins to boa constrictors, and from giraffes to termites, The Encyclopedia of Animals is a celebration of the immense diversity of life on Earth, from all creatures great and small. Mammals, birds, insects, amphibians, and reptiles are all featured in this full-color encyclopedia.Profiling more than 400 of the world's most fascinating species, The Encyclopedia of Animals offers a comprehensive overview of creatures from every continent and climate, from the common seal to the leopard, from the field hamster to the duck-billed platypus, from the alpine salam...
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Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journey Of Shackleton's Polar-bound Cat

By: Alexander, Caroline

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury : January 1997

Seller ID: 76543

ISBN-13: 9780747535270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth

By: Alexander, Jane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Knopf : September 2016

Seller ID: 76536

ISBN-13: 9780385354363

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists. From a longtime, much-admired activist, impassioned wildlife proponent and conservationist, former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, four time Academy Award nominee, and Tony Award and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress. In Wild Things, Wild Places, Jane Alexander movingly, with a clear e...
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Optima for Animals: Revised Edition

By: Alexander, R. McNeill

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : November 1996

Seller ID: 18468

ISBN-13: 9780691027982

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Optimization theory is designed to find the best ways of doing things. The structures of animals, their movements, their behavior, and their life histories have all been shaped by the optimizing processes of evolution or of learning by trial and error. In this revised edition of R. McNeill Alexander's widely acclaimed Optima for Animals, we see how extraordinarily diverse branches of biology are illuminated by the powerful methods of optimization theory. What is the best strength for a bone? Too weak a bone will probably break but an excessively stout one will be cumbersome. At what speed sho...
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Aggression in Dogs: Practical Management, Prevention & Behaviour Modification

By: Aloff, Brenda

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Direct Book Service : October 2004

Seller ID: 75184

ISBN-13: 9781929242207

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Brenda Aloff's book has become the bible for identifying, understanding, and resolving aggression problems in dogs. Contains detailed training protocols to use in specific types of aggression situations and how to manage the aggressive dog for his safety and the community's.
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Category: Animals/Nature