Download or read book The Remarkable Life of William Beebe written by Carol Grant Gould and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William Beebe needed to know what was going on in the depths of the ocean, he had himself lowered a half-mile down in a four-foot steel sphere to see-five times deeper than anyone had ever gone in the 1930s. When he wanted to trace the evolution of pheasants in 1910, he trekked on foot through the mountains and jungles of the Far East to locate every species. To decipher the complex ecology of the tropics, he studied the interactions of every creature and plant in a small area from the top down, setting the emerging field of tropical ecology into dynamic motion. William Beebe's curiosity about the natural world was insatiable, and he did nothing by halves. As the first biographer to see the letters and private journals Beebe kept from 1887 until his death in 1962, science writer Carol Grant Gould brings the life and times of this groundbreaking scientist and explorer compellingly to light. From the Galapagos Islands to the jungles of British Guiana, from the Bronx Zoo to the deep seas, Beebe's biography is a riveting adventure. A best-selling author in his own time, Beebe was a fearless explorer and thoughtful scientist who put his life on the line in pursuit of knowledge. The unique glimpses he provided into the complex web of interactions that keeps the earth alive and breathing have inspired generations of conservationists and ecologists. This exciting biography of a great naturalist brings William Beebe at last to the recognition he deserves.

Download or read book Galapagos World s End written by William Beebe and published by Wm. Tyrrell & Company. This book was released on 1924 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1835, Charles Darwin observed variations among the Galapagos Islands' species that inspired him to formulate the theory of natural selection. Eighty-eight years later, in 1923, a scientific expedition sponsored by the New York Zoological Society followed in Darwin's wake. Led by the author, a biologist and explorer, the scientists visited the the islands to study and obtain specimens of indigenous plants and animals. This is his personal account of that expedition. He recounts the expedition's productive results, including specimens of 60 species previously unknown to science, and an unparalleled accumulation of data that stimulated many scientific papers and new avenues of naturalistic inquiry.

Download or read book Half Mile Down written by William Beebe and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Download or read book Into the Deep written by David Sheldon and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To be a naturalist is better than to be a king." --William Beebe's journal, December 31, 1893 William Beebe was a pioneer in the field of ecology, the father of deep-sea exploration, and an avid conservationist. This picture-book biography charts the life of this famous naturalist from his childhood studying animals in New Jersey through his later years studying birds at the research station he started in Trinidad. Back matter includes quotes from Beebe, a glossary of terms, and an illustrated cross section of the Bathysphere, which Beebe helped design.

Download or read book The Book of Naturalists written by William Beebe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1988-04-21 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology covers animals, nature, and the history of biology. Reflecting his infectious enthusiasm for "the best natural history," the editor has excerpts from massive sources and intriguing pieces from lesser known authors. Among the naturalists included are Pliny, Frederick II, Linnaeus, White, Bartram, Waterton, Thoreau, Wallace, Huxley, Faber, Theodore Roosevelt, Digby, Seton, and Klingel. Arranged in chronological order, the small masterpieces here range from Aristotle to Rachel Carson. Each excerpt is introduced by an incisive and sometimes humorous description of its author.

Download or read book Otis and Will Discover the Deep written by Barb Rosenstock and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suspenseful, little-known true story of two determined pioneers who made the first dive into the deep ocean. On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere. They knew dozens of things might go wrong. A tiny leak could shoot pressurized water straight through the men like bullets! A single spark could cause their oxygen tanks to explode! No one had ever dived lower than a few hundred feet...and come back. But Otis and Will were determined to become the first people to see what the deep ocean looks like. This suspenseful story from acclaimed author Barb Rosenstock with mesmerizing watercolors by award-winning artist Katherine Roy will put you right in the middle of the spine-tingling, record-setting journey down, down into the deep.

Download or read book Jungle Peace written by William Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book High Jungle written by William Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Zaca Venture written by William Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Monograph of the Pheasants written by William Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bathysphere Boys written by Ted Enik and published by Unhinged History. This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the invention, disasters, and adventures of the first bathysphere--a small, cramped, bare-bones spherical deep-sea submersible that set the world record for deepest dive in 1934. Explorer William Beebe and engineering grad student Otis Barton teamed up despite mismatched personalities and disagreements and changed deep-sea exploration forever. Told through engaging rhyme, this playfully illustrated addition to the Unhinged History series follows their journey from frustrated inventors to international celebrities. The tiny bathysphere was miserable to be in, with terrible lighting, little room to move, stale air, and minuscule portholes--but still the scientist-adventurers went far under the waves to experience the mysterious waters as no one ever had. After near calamities and false starts, Beebe and Barton saw, for the very first time, deep-sea creatures in their home environment, broke world records, and made history.

Download or read book Edge of the Jungle written by William Beebe and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Download or read book Field Book of the Shore Fishes of Bermuda and the West Indies written by William Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pheasant Jungles written by William Beebe and published by New York : Putnam's. This book was released on 1927 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures in Ceylon, Sikhim, Garhwal, Burma, Tibet, Yunnam, Pahang and Borneo while gathering material for a monograph of the pheasants.--Cf. Pref.

Download or read book The Arcturus Adventure written by William Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Origins of Attachment written by Beatrice Beebe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult Treatment addresses the origins of attachment in mother-infant face-to-face communication. New patterns of relational disturbance in infancy are described. These aspects of communication are out of conscious awareness. They provide clinicians with new ways of thinking about infancy, and about nonverbal communication in adult treatment. Utilizing an extraordinarily detailed microanalysis of videotaped mother-infant interactions at 4 months, Beatrice Beebe, Frank Lachmann, and their research collaborators provide a more fine-grained and precise description of the process of attachment transmission. Second-by-second microanalysis operates like a social microscope and reveals more than can be grasped with the naked eye. The book explores how, alongside linguistic content, the bodily aspect of communication is an essential component of the capacity to communicate and understand emotion. The moment-to-moment self- and interactive processes of relatedness documented in infant research form the bedrock of adult face-to-face communication and provide the background fabric for the verbal narrative in the foreground. The Origins of Attachment is illustrated throughout with several case vignettes of adult treatment. Discussions by Carolyn Clement, Malcolm Slavin and E. Joyce Klein, Estelle Shane, Alexandra Harrison and Stephen Seligman show how the research can be used by practicing clinicians. This book details aspects of bodily communication between mothers and infants that will provide useful analogies for therapists of adults. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and graduate students. Collaborators Joseph Jaffe, Sara Markese, Karen A. Buck, Henian Chen, Patricia Cohen, Lorraine Bahrick, Howard Andrews, Stanley Feldstein Discussants Carolyn Clement, Malcolm Slavin, E. Joyce Klein, Estelle Shane, Alexandra Harrison, Stephen Seligman