Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Birds: The Aerial Hunters
de Martyn Bramwell(Ed. Facts On File Inc) Isbn : 0816019630
18.96 €
Provides brief descriptions of predatory birds.

Birds: The Waterbirds
de Robin Kerrod(Ed. Facts On File Inc) Isbn : 0816019622
23.76 €
Provides brief descriptions of birds that live in or near the water.

The American Eagle: A Photographic Portrait
de John Pezzenti(Ed. Viking/Allen Lane) Isbn : 0670884480
33.26 €
Professional photographer Pezzenti here dramatically displays our national bird in settings from Alaska to Florida. The Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1940 and the listing of the bird as endangered in 1973 reflected the serious decline in populations. In recent years, however, its numbers have increased, and the bald eagle can now be seen in nearly every state and is expected to be "delisted" in 2000. Several books have appeared recently on the bald eagle, but none contain finer quality photography and portraiture of all phases of the bird's life cycle than this coffee-table work. The introduction recounts the story of the bald eagle's population recovery and the author's years of hard work and adventure attempting to document the many faces, moods, and trials of the birds. Highly recommende...

Prodigious Birds: Moas and Moa-Hunting in New Zealand
de Atholl Anderson(Ed. Cambridge University Press) Isbn : 0521543967
39.95 €
Prodigious Birds brings together the entire field of moa-related research, some 150 years of enquiry. The moa was a large flightless bird, hunted into extinction by the Maori tribes of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans. Atholl Anderson brings an historical perspective to the development of moa research and its formative debates, analytical methods and results, reviewing evidence from palaeontology, biology, archaeology, ethnography and history.

The Non-Sleeping Universe: Proceedings of Two Conferences On:"Stars and the Ism", Held from 24-26 November, 1997 and On: "from Galaxies to the Horizon", Held from 27-29
de M. T. V. T. Lago, A. Blanchard(Ed. Springer) Isbn : 0792358775
143.9 €
Proceedings of two conferences on: `Stars and the ISM' held on November 24-26, 1997 and `From Galaxies to the Horizon' held from 27-29 November, 1997 at the Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto, Portugal.

Post-Agb Objects As a Phase of Stellar Evolution: Proceedings of the Torun Workshop Held July 5-7, 2000
de R. Szczerba, S.K. Gorny(Ed. Springer) Isbn : 0792371453
166.95 €
Proceedings of the Torun Workshop held July 5-7, 2000.

Stellar Astrophysics: A Tribute to Helmut A. Abt
de K. S. Cheng, K. C. Leung, T. P. Li(Ed. Springer-Verlag New York Inc.) Isbn : 1402016832
108.48 €
Proceedings of the Sixth Pacific Rim Conference, held in Xi'an, China. Conference date not specified.

Open Issues in Local Star Formation: Proceedings of the Ouro Preto, Brazil, April 5-10-2003
de Jacques Lepine, Jane Gregorio-Hetem(Ed. Springer-Verlag New York Inc.) Isbn : 1402017553
171.93 €
Proceedings of the Ouro Preto Colloquium, Open Issues is Local Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution, held in Brazil from April 5-10, 2003.

White Dwarfs
de Domitilla de Martino, Roberto Silvotti, Jan-Erik S(Ed. Springer-Verlag New York Inc.) Isbn : 1402013639
152.23 €
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on White Dwarfs, held in Naples, Italy, from June 24-28, 2002.

The First Stars: Proceedings of the Mpa/Eso Symposium Held at Garching, Germany, 4-6 August 1999
de A. Weiss, V. Hill, T. G. Abel(Ed. Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH Co. K) Isbn : 3540672222
94.06 €
Proceedings of the MPA/ESO Workshop, held in Garching, Germany, on August 4-6, 1999. Covers research from spectroscopic observations, stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis, structure and galaxy formation.