Download or read book The Eye of the Lynx written by David Freedberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some years ago, David Freedberg opened a dusty cupboard at Windsor Castle and discovered hundreds of vividly colored, masterfully precise drawings of all sorts of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds. Coming upon thousands more drawings like them across Europe, Freedberg finally traced them all back to a little-known scientific organization from seventeenth-century Italy called the Academy of Linceans (or Lynxes). Founded by Prince Federico Cesi in 1603, the Linceans took as their task nothing less than the documentation and classification of all of nature in pictorial form. In this first book-length study of the Linceans to appear in English, Freedberg focuses especially on their unprecedented use of drawings based on microscopic observation and other new techniques of visualization. Where previous thinkers had classified objects based mainly on similarities of external appearance, the Linceans instead turned increasingly to sectioning, dissection, and observation of internal structures. They applied their new research techniques to an incredible variety of subjects, from the objects in the heavens studied by their most famous (and infamous) member Galileo Galilei—whom they supported at the most critical moments of his career—to the flora and fauna of Mexico, bees, fossils, and the reproduction of plants and fungi. But by demonstrating the inadequacy of surface structures for ordering the world, the Linceans unwittingly planted the seeds for the demise of their own favorite method—visual description-as a mode of scientific classification. Profusely illustrated and engagingly written, Eye of the Lynx uncovers a crucial episode in the development of visual representation and natural history. And perhaps as important, it offers readers a dazzling array of early modern drawings, from magnificently depicted birds and flowers to frogs in amber, monstrously misshapen citrus fruits, and more.
Download or read book The Missing Lynx written by Ross Barnett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's lynx are missing, and they have been for more than a thousand years. Why have they gone? And might they come back? Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago – home to lions, lynx, bears, wolves, bison and many more megafauna. But as its climate changed and human populations expanded, most of early Britain's largest mammals disappeared. Will advances in science and technology mean that we can one day bring these mammals back? And should we? In The Missing Lynx, palaeontologist Ross Barnett uses case studies, new fossil discoveries and biomolecular evidence to paint a picture of these lost species and to explore the ecological significance of their disappearance. He discusses how the Britons these animals shared their lives with might have viewed them and investigates why some species survived while others vanished. Barnett also looks in detail at the realistic potential of reintroductions, rewilding and even of resurrection in Britain and overseas, from the successful return of beavers in Argyll to the revolutionary Pleistocene Park in Siberia, which has already seen progress in the revival of 'mammoth steppe' grassland. As widespread habitat destruction, climate change and an ever-growing human population lead us inexorably towards the sixth extinction, this timely book explores the spaces that extinction has left unfilled. And by helping us to understand why some of our most charismatic animals are gone, Ross Barnett encourages us to look to a brighter future, one that might see these missing beasts returned to the land on which they once lived and died.
Download or read book The Largest Avian Radiation written by Jon Fjeldså and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the latest phylogenetic studies, this book reveals the remarkable new history of how passerines diversified and dispersed across the entire world.
Download or read book Weakest Lynx written by Fiona Quinn and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20-year-old Lexi Sobado is a woman with a psychic gift caught in the middle of a sinister web of crime and corruption. The victim of a stalker, Lexi finds herself romantically entangled with the special agent charged with protecting her. Thing is, Lexi herself has worked for the intelligence community in the past. What she hides, what she reveals and what she keeps trying to uncover become the juggling act our heroine deals with as she tries to save her own life and stop the killer.
Download or read book The Third Lynx written by Timothy Zahn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former government agent Frank Compton foiled a plot to enslave the galaxy in Night Train to Rigel. But the Modhri, an ancient telepathically linked intelligence, has walkers, unwilling hosts that can be anywhere, anything...and anyone. And Compton is the only man who knows how to fight them, as they wage a secret war against the galactic civilizations linked by the Quadrail, the only means of intra-galactic transit. Accompanied by Bayta, a woman with strange ties to the robot-like Spiders who run the Quadrail, and dogged by special agent Morse who suspects him of murder, Compton races the Modhri from station to station to acquire a set of valuable sculptures from a long-dead civilization. What the Modhri wants with them is anybody's guess, but if Compton can't outwit it, the whole galaxy will find out the hard way.
Download or read book WTF Evolution written by Mara Grunbaum and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have our off days. Why should Evolution be any different? Maybe Evolution got carried away with an idea that was just a little too crazy—like having the Regal Horned Lizard defend itself by shooting three-foot streams of blood from its eyes. Or maybe Evolution ran out of steam (Memo to Evolution: The Irrawaddy Dolphin looks like a prototype that should have been left on the drawing board). Or maybe Evolution was feeling cheeky—a fish with hands? Joke’s on you, Red Handfish! Or maybe Evolution simply goofed up: How else to explain the overgrown teeth of the babirusas that curl backward over their face? Oops. Mara Grunbaum is a very smart, very funny science writer who celebrates the best—or, really, the worst—of Evolution’s blunders. Here are more than 100 outlandish mammals, reptiles, insects, fish, birds, and other creatures whose very existence leaves us shaking our heads and muttering WTF?! Ms. Grunbaum’s especially brilliant stroke is to personify Evolution as a well-meaning but somewhat oblivious experimenter whose conversations with a skeptical narrator are hilarious. For almost 4 billion years, Evolution has produced a nonstop parade of inflatable noses, bizarre genitalia, and seriously awkward necks. What a comedian!
Download or read book Missing Lynx written by Eve Langlais and published by Eve Langlais. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His happiness isn’t complete until he finds the missing lynx. Kodiak Point is a place where shapeshifters can hide and heal. No one needs that more than Rilee. She’s not a people person. Heck, most of the time, she’s running around on four feet. She’s had it with the world and isn’t interested in the big, brash man who thinks she should smile more. If he pushes the issue, her claws will come out. Mateo’s been banished to small-town Alaska while a certain situation settles down. The sleepy town is a change of pace from his overbearing mother, especially after he meets his perfect mate. Better woo her quick, because once his mother arrives, she’s sure to sabotage his plans. Before he can seduce his mate, danger arrives in the form of poachers looking to score a furry trophy. Rilee and Mateo will have to rely on each other to survive. And when the snowflakes settle, maybe fall in love. genre: shapeshifter romance, tiger romance, lynx romance, alaskan romance, romantic comedy, paranormal suspense, paranormal thriller
Download or read book Eye in the Sky written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wry look at how different people see the world, told in the caustically fun style of award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.
Download or read book Cabin Fever written by Elizabeth Lynx and published by Elizabeth Lynx. This book was released on with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a grumpy mountain man’s life is interrupted by a smart-mouthed beauty in a wedding dress? Olivia Love was living the perfect life, until one moment changed everything. On the day of her destination wedding, with the mountains as her romantic backdrop, she catches her fiancée with another woman and does the only thing she can think of - she runs. In her wedding dress. In the middle of nowhere. But when she stumbles upon a cabin in the woods, she finds more than shelter - a daunting mountain man, Carter Fitzwilliam, turns her world upside down. Can these two opposites attract, or will they push each other over the mountain.
Download or read book Hyper Lynx written by Fiona Quinn and published by Fiona Quinn. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outsider written by Colin Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individet på den forkerte hylde søger at hævde sig gennem overkreativitet
Download or read book Missing Lynx written by Fiona Quinn and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Missing Lynx we follow Lexi from her home in suburban Washington D.C., to a prison in Honduras. There she must use all of her skills to escape the clutches of Maria Rodriguez, a long time enemy who wants to use Lynx as a pawn in her deadly game. Can Strike Force find her in time to save her life?
Download or read book Birding in Venezuela written by Mary Lou Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely revised and up-dated edition of the acclaimed Audubon Guide. Includes all you need to know about visiting the main Venezuelan locations for observing birds, including how to get to the sites, lodging, list of species in the area and maps.
Download or read book Birds of the West Indies written by Guy M. Kirwan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surprising the Billionaire with a Baby written by Elizabeth Lynx and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never meant to get stuck in a dark closet, naked, at the holiday gala.As a self-made billionaire and head of my tech company, the last thing I thought would happen was being pranked by my brother at an expensive gala. Instead of mingling among the crowd of potential investors, I was cold and alone with only some holiday string to keep me company. But then a Christmas miracle happened...The door opened and a beautiful woman appeared. My savior. Until she stepped inside, the door swinging closed and automatically locking behind her.Now she's trapped with me. All we had was time. Might as well get to know each other.I took the coat check job because it was a paycheck, but then I struck gold... a naked hottie stuck in a closet with me.I may not be one of those "career-minded" adults you read about, but I was responsible enough to pay my bills. When my sister told me about an easy coat check job that paid, I was happy to spend one night in a closet.But I swore that fancy, old hotel where the gala took place was haunted. Why? Because I heard the rumblings of an unsettled spirit back in the deep recesses of a hidden room next to the coat closet.I went in that room to face the spirit, but then something crazy happened. He wasn't a ghost, but a man. Not just a man but a naked one with a very large, uh, package.All I had to say was, thanks Santa, for bring me exactly what I wished.
Download or read book All the Birds of the World written by Josep del Hoyo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago written by James A. Eaton and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ornithological field guide covering the vast chain of the Indonesian archipelago, with over 2,500 illustrations, describes all 1,417 bird species known to occur in the region, including 601 endemics, 98 vagrants, eight introduced species and 18 species yet to be formally described. Together these represent over 13% of global bird diversity. In addition, all subspecies from the region are described. The guide fully encompasses the biogeographic regions of the Greater Sundas (Sumatra, Borneo, Java and Bali) and Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas and the Lesser Sundas), plus all satellite islands. This region spans an arc of over 4,000 km along the Equator, including Brunei, East Timor, the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak and most of the territory of the Republic of Indonesia. The authors' vast experience and knowledge of the region's birds brings together the latest taxonomic insights, knowledge of distribution, field identification features, vocalisations and more to create an indispensable reference for anyone with an interest in the avifauna of this fabulously diverse region.
