Beaches are the most dynamic places on Earth, offering an infinite variety of patterns and geological land formations. This book celebrates and solves the mysteries of the fascinating and frequently abstract beauty of gravitational effects at the water’s edge. Lovers of natural history will appreciate the images…
In this tie-in to their popular ’The Skeptics Guide to the Universe’ podcast, Steven Novella, along with ’Skeptical Rogues’ Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella and Evan Bernstein explain the tenets of skeptical thinking and debunk some of the biggest scientific myths, fallacies and…
This is the first published guide to Herkimer diamonds, striking quartz crystals, that includes all important aspects of interest to anyone curious about this unique form of the mineral quartz. Over 210 vivid color images of important specimens, associated minerals, and field shots illustrate the informative text and…
Kategorier: Biologi och biovetenskap Djur och natur Ethology & animal behaviour Livsstil, hobby och fritid Matematik och naturvetenskap Zoologi
Hur låter valars kärlekssång? Hur kan en hund lära sig namnet på över tusen föremål? Hur fungerar fågelsångens grammatik? Och vad menar fladdermössen med sitt surrande i sommarnatten?
Djurens sätt att kommunicera var länge ett mysterium, men på senare år har vetenskapen tagit stora steg mot att verkligen förstå…
Texas is known worldwide as a rich resource for the intricate Cretaceous-age echinoids widely sought by professional and amateur paleontologists. With much of the scientific literature on Texas Cretaceous echinoids decades old, here is an updated and detailed guide for identifying this rich fossil fauna. After a brief…
When newly paired American bald eagles nested in a tulip poplar tree at the United States National Arboretum, the American Eagle Foundation partnered with the Department of Agriculture and the National Arboretum to launch the DC Eagle Cam Project. With 63 million views from 100 countries during 2016, the raptor parents…
Kategorier: Biologi och biovetenskap Förhistoriska människor Humanbiologi Matematik och naturvetenskap
Vilka är vi människor egentligen? Och hur kan vi veta säkert?
I en grotta i Filippinerna hittades år 2003 kvarlevorna från en människoliknande varelse. Homo floresiensis, som den kom att kallas, blev snabbt en världsnyhet ett arkeologiskt fynd från en tidigare okänd gren på mänsklighetens släktträd. Men var det…
The Ozarks highland region of the Midwest, located in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, contains beautiful mineral specimens for those with sharp eyes and a keen interest to discover minerals. Over 500 images represent the collectible minerals of the western Ozarks tristate district and Missouri’s Viburnum…
From common toads and turtles to sea horses, cephalopods, and triggerfish, Tim Phelps’s mandalas cast an artistic eye on the real and imagined micro-architecture of animals. Vibrant illustrations and an engaging narrative invite the reader to wonder at nature’s seemingly endless variety of forms, from the…
Project Mercury was America’s entry into the manned spaceflight program. When the program began in 1958, the Soviet Union was far ahead of the US in the race for supremacy in space. With immense effort, and in record time, NASA, the newly created spaceflight organization, developed a space transport system with…
In just two-and-a-half years, beginning in 1964, two unmanned and ten manned flights took place in the Gemini program. This program was the turning point in the space race with the USSR; from then on the Americans took the lead. Flights lasting two weeks, into the Van Allen Belt, the first extravehicular activities,…
The moon landing remains the most astonishing and impressive accomplishment of manned space travel to this day. In July 1969, just eight years after President John F. Kennedy announced the bold plan, the first astronaut set foot on another celestial body. While Project Apollo: The Early Years covered the exciting…
A beautiful waterfowl source book for carvers, taxidermists, ornithologists, and waterfowl enthusiasts. Close-up photographs show detailed feather patterns, color, and species information. Full species descriptions accompany these beautiful and important illustrations. A comprehensive state-by-state guide for observing…
Mica is a broad term encompassing about forty minerals, ranging from the common to the rare, many at times forming excellent crystals jewelers use. This book feaures examples recently described among the 115 striking color photos and electron micrographs that illustrate the text. A detailed entry for each type includes…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Biologi och biovetenskap Essäer Konst Konst: teman och motiv Matematik och naturvetenskap Särskilda konstnärer Zoologi
Fredrik Sjöberg fick 2004 sitt stora litterära genombrott med Flugfällan. Tillsammans med Flyktkonsten (2006) och Russinkungen (2009) bildar den en halvt självbiografisk trilogi, befolkad av äventyrliga naturforskare och glömda konstnärer, däribland Kamtjatkaresenären René Malaise, akvarellmålaren Gunnar Widforss och…
Over 90 striking color photos display minerals of the epidote group, well known to mineral collectors for their rich colors and the many interesting minerals with which they occur. Lapidary artists also value epidote, particularly in the form of unakite, and precious or semiprecious varieties of the related mineral…
Vår värld är en en oerhört vacker plats, men världens skönhet blir än mer slående – menar Brian Cox – när vi lär oss att förstå krafterna bakom den.
Krafterna som skapat universum styr världen än i dag. Det är egentligen bara en handfull krafter, men de styr allt, inklusive dig. Vad vet du om dessa krafter?
Den här…
The Great Horned Owl is the largest owl found throughout most of North America. Adult owls are between eighteen to 24 inches from head to tail and can have a wing span of more than four feet. Their long ear tufts and cryptic coloration enables them to remain well hidden during the day, often out of sight of sharp-eyed…
For students of geology, this book offers a systematic overview of uranium and thorium minerals, which are known for their intense ultraviolet fluorescence and are critically important as our source of nuclear energy. Learn about the geochemical conditions that produce significant ore deposits and view more than 600…
Nesting along the sandy fringe of the North American coast from Maine to Florida, terns are graceful symbols of our coastal beaches, yet they lead fragile and frantic lives. Join educator, storyteller, and photographer Peter Trull as he describes the physical and behavioral differences among the four types of terns…
Flowers come in an unbelievable array of shapes and
colors. Yet, their leaf and fruit forms surpass even their floral splendor. From Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae, this book features magnificent color portraits of 200 flowering-plant families from around the world. The deconstructed plant parts—flowers, leaves,…
No Victorian parlor was complete without a Staffordshire Spaniel on the mantel. This fascinating text focuses exclusively on these popular Victorian era antiques produced in Staffordshire, England from circa 1840 through the turn of the century. A detailed look at all of the Spaniel variations, along with the history…
This valuable book provides information on fossils, fossil collecting, and price ranges for most specimens illustrated. The comprehensive text begins with the earliest fossil record of life from strata representative of ”deep time,” called the Precambrian by geologists. Foremost in this early record of life…
In recent years, minerals and gems have enjoyed growing renown and popularity. At this time there are some 3,800 different minerals known from all parts of the world that have been deep in the earth for millions of years and grew there over thousands of years.
Learn to identify the most important groups of minerals,…
The Balmat Mining District in southern St. Lawrence County, New York, is a former mining site known among collectors for its highly prized minerals. For more than 100 years, it was one of the world’s most important sources of talc and zinc. Because most of the zinc ore was crushed underground and brought to the…
Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science…
Kategorier: Biologi och biovetenskap Biovetenskap Evolution Geovetenskap Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Paleontologi Populärvetenskap
När vi talar om mänsklighetens historia handlar det alltid om stora ledare, folkvandringar och omvälvande krig. Men hur har själva jorden avgjort människans öde? Hur har planeten vi bor på skapat oss? Hur hänger Himalayas berg ihop med jordens bana och med de brittiska öarnas form? Lewis Dartnell tar oss miljarder år…
Kategorier: Biologi och biovetenskap Botanik Djur och natur Ferns, mosses & liverworts Livsstil, hobby och fritid Matematik och naturvetenskap Träd, vilda blommor och växter
En särpräglad livsform med rik mångfald i Sverige
I svenska skogar och myrmarker kan man inte undgå att lägga märke till vår rika mångfald av mossor. Här kan vi för en gångs skull tävla med tropikerna i artrikedom och det är förstås därför som intresset för mossor är så stort just här. Av jordens cirka 20 000 kända…
Kategorier: Familj och hälsa Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Kost och träning Kost och vikt Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap
”Det här är en bok som verkligen behövs och kan tilltala alla som vill veta mer om dietforskning.” Amina Manzoor, medicinreporter på Dagens Nyheter
”Dietkompassen är en smart vägvisare för den som är vilse i dietdjungeln. Den kan även användas som…
A short, practical, timely guide to the tools you need to understand the numbers we read in the news everyday – and how we often get them wrong
Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it’ll be obvious – ’X people develop…
The inspiring life stories of leading scientists as heard on BBC Radio 4
Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you.
A nation isn’t land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker’s collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America…
The naked truth behind gender in the modern world. In this timely 21st century reboot of the seminal bestseller ’Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’, Tom Whipple travels far and wide – from a gay penguin sanctuary in Germany to the headquarters of the world’s biggest online dating agency in…