Download or read book Beautiful Shells written by Henry Gardiner Adams and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Beautiful Broken Shell written by Carol Hamblet Adams and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already a bestseller with more than 100,000 copies sold, Adams' comforting words are now accompanied by D. Morgan's exquisite watercolors that summon the very sounds and scents of the ocean. Words of wisdom and peaceful images bring encouragement to those buffeted by life's storms.
Download or read book Beautiful Shells their nature structure and uses familiarly explained etc written by Henry Gardiner ADAMS and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beautiful Shells Their Nature Structure and Uses Familiarly Explained written by Henry Gardiner Adams and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beautiful Shells of New Zealand written by E. G. B. Moss and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Beautiful Shells of New Zealand by E. G. B. Moss
Download or read book Beautiful Shells of New Zealand written by Edward George Britton Moss and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautiful Shells of New Zealand" is an illustrated manual for amateur collectors of sea shells, compiled and written by Edward George Britton Moss. The book gives an exhaustive guide into the types and classification of shells, contains a lot of information about their dwellers, and provides instructions on how to clean the seashells to store them properly for a collection.
Download or read book The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells written by Hans Meinhardt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pigment patterns on tropieal shells are of great beauty and diversity. They fas cinate by their mixture of regularity and irregularity. A partieular pattern seems to follow partieular mIes but these mIes allow variations. No two shells are identical. The motionless patterns appear to be static, and, indeed, they consist of calcified material. However, as will be shown in this book, the underlying mechanism that gene rates this beauty is eminently dynamic. It has much in common with other dynamie systems that generate patterns, such as a wind-sand system that forms large dunes, or rain and erosion that form complex ramified river systems. On other shells the underlying mechanism has much in common with waves such as those commonly observed in the spread of an epidemie. A mollusc can enlarge its shell only at the shell margin. In most cases, only at this margin are new elements of the pigmentation pattern added. Therefore, the shell pattern preserves arecord in time of a process that took place in a narrow zone at the growing edge. A certain point on the shell represents a certain moment in its history. Like a time machine one can go into the past or the future just by turning the shell back and forth. Having this complete historieal record opens the possibility of decoding the generic principles behind this beauty. My interest in these patterns began with a dinner in an Italian restaurant.
Download or read book The Book of Shells written by M.G. Harasewych and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who among us hasn’t marveled at the diversity and beauty of shells? Or picked one up, held it to our ear, and then gazed in wonder at its shape and hue? Many a lifelong shell collector has cut teeth (and toes) on the beaches of the Jersey Shore, the Outer Banks, or the coasts of Sanibel Island. Some have even dived to the depths of the ocean. But most of us are not familiar with the biological origin of shells, their role in explaining evolutionary history, and the incredible variety of forms in which they come. Shells are the external skeletons of mollusks, an ancient and diverse phylum of invertebrates that are in the earliest fossil record of multicellular life over 500 million years ago. There are over 100,000 kinds of recorded mollusks, and some estimate that there are over amillion more that have yet to be discovered. Some breathe air, others live in fresh water, but most live in the ocean. They range in size from a grain of sand to a beach ball and in weight from a few grams to several hundred pounds. And in this lavishly illustrated volume, they finally get their full due. The Book of Shells offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most intriguing mollusk shells, each chosen to convey the range of shapes and sizes that occur across a range of species. Each shell is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the shell’s range, distribution, abundance, habitat, and operculum—the piece that protects the mollusk when it’s in the shell. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each shell and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait. The Matchless Cone, for instance, or Conus cedonulli, was one of the rarest shells collected during the eighteenth century. So much so, in fact, that a specimen in 1796 was sold for more than six times as much as a painting by Vermeer at the same auction. But since the advent of scuba diving, this shell has become far more accessible to collectors—though not without certain risks. Some species of Conus produce venom that has caused more than thirty known human deaths. The Zebra Nerite, the Heart Cockle, the Indian Babylon, the Junonia, the Atlantic Thorny Oyster—shells from habitats spanning the poles and the tropics, from the highest mountains to the ocean’s deepest recesses, are all on display in this definitive work.
Download or read book Seashells written by Budd Titlow and published by . This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have done time as jewelry and tools, as medicines, currency, and symbols of industry--and they have intrigued people, from beach-combing toddlers to serious scientists, since time began. Native interest meets natural history in this exquisitely illustrated account of the science and culture of seashells. With closeup photography and basic explanations of different shell types--univalves, bivalves, and cephalopods--how they are formed, what mollusks inhabit them, their morphology and life cycles, and much more, this is the book for anyone with an interest in seashells. This book includes information on the bewildering array of shell shapes, colors, sizes, and types, and describes where the different shells can be found throughout the world. As informative as it is visually arresting, the book will appeal to amateur and expert, collector and casual beachcomber.
Download or read book The World s Most Beautiful Seashells written by Leonard Hill and published by Carmichael Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents photographs of shells collected from around the world, chosen on the basis of their beautiful colors or forms, and includes explanatory text and captions
Download or read book Houses from the Sea written by Alice E. Goudey and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Shells of Goa written by Sangeeta M. Sonak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique introduction to the study of shells and molluscs for all those who take pleasure in shells, the treasure of the sea. However, unlike other shell albums, compendiums or guides, the central focus of this book is on shells and not molluscs. Therefore, in addition to the classification and identification of shells, the book also addresses aspects including the shell art and shell craft of Goa, the importance of shells, and literary works related to shells and their writers. The book also describes various shell habitats of Goa. The primary objective of this book is to introduce readers to the concept of shell heritage and to spark curiosity and scientific interest, not just among conchologists but also local and visiting beachgoers. Accordingly, it primarily uses straightforward, non-technical language. The book will also appeal to those readers without any previous knowledge of the subject, helping them to understand and appreciate the shells that they collect from the seashores of Goa.
Download or read book Shells written by Joyce Tenneson and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce Tenneson,s detailed photographic studies of luminous sea shells adrift on a velvet-soft background remind us that startling beauty exists even in the most ordinary places. These surprising images give us a unique window into these secret lives of the sea. Short selected quotes from literature illuminate these ethereal portraits.
Download or read book Popular Conchology Or The Shell Cabinet Arranged According to the Modern System written by Agnes Catlow and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Shells and their uses A lecture written by Peter Lund Simmonds and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
