Fauna Britannica
Fauna Britannica

Author: Stefan Buczacki

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9780600613923

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The definitive encyclopedic reference to British natural history, detailing: history, folklore, habitat and characteristics of each species. Foreword by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. An accessible and fascinating text that explores how animals have enriched our culture, from the spider that reputedly influenced Robert the Bruce to the superstitions that robins portend death. Over 3,000 entries from common snails and earthworms to deer and the golden eagle. A luxurious and beautifully illustrated celebration of British wildlife.

Fauna Britannica
Fauna Britannica

Author: Duff Hart-Davis

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2002-08-24

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780304361441

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The definitive new guide to wild and domestic creatures of Britain by acclaimed author and journalist.

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author: Hugh Chisholm

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 1090

ISBN-13:

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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.

Birds Britannica
Birds Britannica

Author: Mark Cocker

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 178474378X

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Unlike any other bird book, and not an identification guide, this handsome cultural study of all the birds in Britain, is a magnificent achievement and a work of huge importance. An attempt to describe the interaction of birds and humans, it captures the essence of why birds matter.

Birds Britannica
Birds Britannica

Author: Mark Cocker

Publisher: Random House UK

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13:

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Birds Britannica covers cultural links; social history; birds as food; ecology; the lore and language of birds; myths, art, literature and music; anecdotes, birdsong and rare facts; modern developments; migration, the seasons and our sense of place. An attempt to describe the interaction of birds and humans, it captures the essence of why birds matter.

Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

Publisher: Seven Books

Published: 2024-09-25

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 3988655856

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.

The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1765-1820 Vol 1
The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1765-1820 Vol 1

Author: Neil Chambers

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-07

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1040235182

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A record of fifty years of intellectual and technological activity. This record provides an insight into the development of science and discovery from the Eighteenth to the early Nineteenth Century. It links British science and society to developments on the continent of Europe, the West Indies, North America and to countries farther afield.

Men, Women, and Ghosts
Men, Women, and Ghosts

Author: Debora Greger

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-09-30

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1440640971

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New from Debora Greger—"a special poet in every sense" (Poetry) In her eighth book of poetry, Debora Greger travels not just the present but the past, looking for some strange place to call home. She takes a taxi to Stonehenge. She writes letters to Li Po and Tu Fu, Shakespeare and Jane Austen, always seeking out the beast that is man and the beast that is woman. She explores both the remoteness of the past (those radioactive fifties that were her childhood), and the weight of it—or, better, the responsibility of it. These modern traveler's tales—musing, insistent, marvelous—place one woman's collection of pasts into a world inhabited by Horace, Chekhov, the bank vault of England, and the giant octopus of Puget Sound.

Animal Breeding, Welfare and Society
Animal Breeding, Welfare and Society

Author: Jacky Turner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-08-12

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1136541888

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The determination of when, how, how often and with whom an animal breeds has moved away from evolutionary pressures towards our own purposes: these include the breeding and use of around 50 billion mammals and birds for food production annually, the breeding of pedigree dogs, cats, racing dogs and horses, specialized laboratory animal strains and the use of reproductive science to breed endangered species in zoos and to attempt to limit unwanted populations of pests and non-native species. This book discusses the methods, the motivations and the consequences of human intervention in animal breeding in terms of what we know about animal behavior and well-being. It sets out to challenge both our practice and our assumptions- those of society as a whole and the many professionals involved in the worldwide animal reproduction business. It explores where we are now and proposes a future where we have more respect for animals as sentient beings and have loosened the reins of reproductive control.

Rivers
Rivers

Author: Paul Raven

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1472958527

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Throughout British history rivers have been of profound economic, social and cultural importance – yet as we see with increasing frequency they have the potential to wreak great destruction. This book describes the natural and not-so-natural changes that have affected British rivers since the last ice age and looks at the many plants and animals that live along, above and within them. Detailed case studies of the Meon, Dee and Endrick illustrate the incredibly varied nature of our river ecosystems, and the natural and human factors that make each one different. Written by two widely respected river ecologists, the book looks not only at rivers as they were and are but also at how they can be managed and cared for. Full of interesting facts and stunning images, Rivers is essential reading for anyone professionally involved in rivers and for the naturalist, conservationist and layman alike. It is the one book you need to understand this singularly important and often contentious feature of the British landscape.