Download or read book The Viking Atlas of Evolution written by Roger Osborne and published by Viking Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical atlas covers the history and evolution of life on earth, taking a geographical approach to illuminate the spread of species and the varieties of evolution on different continents.
Download or read book Perilous Planet Earth written by Trevor Palmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable account of the history of natural disasters throughout history.
Download or read book Northmen written by John Haywood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative volume that places the Vikings in their wider geographical and historical context.
Download or read book Cultural Atlas of the Viking World written by Colleen E. Batey and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life, art, and technology of Vikings and discusses the extent of the travels
Download or read book The Historical Atlas of the Earth written by Roger Osborne and published by Viking Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Amy Elisabeth Fuller and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.
Download or read book Why Elephants Have Big Ears written by Chris Lavers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Elephants Have Big Ears is the result of one man's lifelong quest to understand why the creatures of the earth appear and act as they do. In a wry manner and personal tone, Chris Lavers explores and solves some of nature's most challenging evolutionary mysteries, such as why birds are small and plentiful, why rivers and lakes are dominated by the few remaining large reptiles, why most of the large land-dwellers are mammals, and many more.
Download or read book Pro Tips Techniques for Drawing Animals written by Michiyo Miyanaga and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to draw lifelike versions of 63 different animals! This richly illustrated guide teaches you about the skeletal structures, musculatures and movements of various animals and how to draw them realistically. Each lesson in the book focuses on a different animal and is designed to expand your repertoire and develop your drawing skills. The techniques needed to capture these animals are demonstrated in hundreds of illustrations by 26 professional artists. This comprehensive reference work covers a wide range of different animals: Mammals including dogs, lions, bears, elephants and 25 others Amphibians & Reptiles including snakes, turtles, frogs and crocodiles Aquatic Animals including dolphins, penguins, seals, squid and whales Flying Animals including crows, owls, bats and sparrows Insects & Arthropods including beetles, spiders, dragonflies, butterflies and ladybugs Once you understand the internal structures and movements of each creature, you'll be able to confidently draw it in a more realistic way! This is a reference work that all artists will refer to again and again to explore the entire animal kingdom.
Download or read book The Atlas of Mars written by Kenneth S. Coles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planetary scientist and educator Ken Coles has teamed up with Ken Tanaka from the United States Geological Survey's Astrogeology team, and Phil Christensen, Principal Investigator of the Mars Odyssey orbiter's THEMIS science team, to produce this all-purpose reference atlas, The Atlas of Mars. Each of the thirty standard charts includes: a full-page color topographic map at 1:10,000,000 scale, a THEMIS daytime infrared map at the same scale with features labeled, a simplified geologic map of the corresponding area, and a section describing prominent features of interest. The Atlas is rounded out with extensive material on Mars' global characteristics, regional geography and geology, a glossary of terms, and an indexed gazetteer of up-to-date Martian feature names and nomenclature. This is an essential guide for a broad readership of academics, students, amateur astronomers, and space enthusiasts, replacing the NASA atlas from the 1970s.
Download or read book Mountains Climate and Biodiversity written by Carina Hoorn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity: A comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis for students and researchers Mountains are topographically complex formations that play a fundamental role in regional and continental-scale climates. They are also cradles to all major river systems and home to unique, and often highly biodiverse and threatened, ecosystems. But how do all these processes tie together to form the patterns of diversity we see today? Written by leading researchers in the fields of geology, biology, climate, and geography, this book explores the relationship between mountain building and climate change, and how these processes shape biodiversity through time and space. In the first two sections, you will learn about the processes, theory, and methods connecting mountain building and biodiversity In the third section, you will read compelling examples from around the world exploring the links between mountains, climate and biodiversity Throughout the 31 peer-reviewed chapters, a non-technical style and synthetic illustrations make this book accessible to a wide audience A comprehensive glossary summarises the main concepts and terminology Readership: Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity is intended for students and researchers in geosciences, biology and geography. It is specifically compiled for those who are interested in historical biogeography, biodiversity and conservation.
Download or read book The BIRPS Atlas written by Simon L. Klemperer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BIRPS Atlas presents the 100 deep seismic reflection profiles collected around the British Isles by the BIRPS Group (BIRPS - British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate) at desk-top scale.
Download or read book The Viking World written by James Graham-Campbell and published by Frances Lincoln Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vikings were jewellers, sculptors and poets of great skill and originality as well as famous warriors and accomplished seamen. Every aspect of Viking life is examined in this comprehensive survey containing over 330 photographs, reconstruction drawings and maps. This revised edition of The Viking World brilliantly portrays an essential and rich period in history, showing the beauty and harshness of the natural world in which these people thrived.
Download or read book Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration written by Roger D. Launius and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of space exploration, there have been many leaps for humankind. From the foremost experts at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, here is a complete visual narrative of our journey from Earth to the stars. . . . Although the momentous October 4, 1957, launch of Sputnik 1 was not the beginning of humanity's adventure toward space—our curiosity about the skies has been one of the few constants in history—it was the first true venture into orbit. And when future generations think of the twentieth century, they will undoubtedly judge our movement into space, with both machines and people, as a crowning achievement. As we progress in the new millennium, space exploration is vital to managing our global future, as well as to understanding our past and the creation of Earth. The Atlas of Space Exploration depicts the ever-fascinating history of the space age and humanity's progress in exploring new frontiers. Incredible images from NASA and other sources, visual conceptions of Moon bases, and newly commissioned maps reveal a visual history spanning the earliest eras of the universe, the dawn of the space age, the launch of Sputnik, missions to the Moon, robot landings on the terrestrial planets, and the exploration of the outer solar system. These developments in technology are illuminated by a rich historical context, highlighting how space exploration has changed and expanded our vision of the universe.
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 2362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Download or read book On the Ocean written by Sir Barry Cunliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While the land is familiar, even reassuring, the sea is unknown and threatening. By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy. It has often been perceived to be an alien power teasing and cajoling. The sea may give but it takes. Why, then, did humans become seafarers? Part of the answer is that we are conditioned by our genetics to be acquisitive animals: we like to acquire rare materials and we are eager for esoteric knowledge, and society rewards us well for both. Looking out to sea most will be curious as to what is out there - a mysterious island perhaps but what lies beyond? Our innate inquisitiveness drives us to explore. Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, two contrasting seas -- the Mediterranean without a significant tide, enclosed and soon to become familiar, the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges, an ocean without end. We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete and we end in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Spain, Portugal and England establishing the limits of the ocean from Labrador to Patagonia. The message is that the contest between humans and the sea has been a driving force, perhaps the driving force, in human history.
Download or read book The Vikings in History written by F. Donald Logan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated to include important primary research, archaeological findings and debates from the last decade, this third edition of F. Donald Logan's successful book examines the Vikings and their critical role in history. The author uses archaeological, literary and historical evidence to analyze the Vikings' overseas expeditions and their transformation from raiders to settlers. Focusing on the period from 800–1050, it studies the Vikings across the world, from Denmark and Sweden right across to the British Isles, the North Atlantic and the New World. This edition includes: a new epilogue explaining the aims of the book updated further reading sections maps and photographs. By taking this new archaeological and primary research into account, the author provides a vital text for history students and researchers of this fascinating people.
Download or read book On the Ocean written by Barry W. Cunliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the contest between humans and the sea, played out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from early prehistory until AD 1500.
