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“mark carnall”

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  • Conversation Pieces

    Inspirational objects in UCL’s historic collections

    by Mark Carnall ...
    This book, beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned photography, is a celebration of UCL's unique collections, with leading academics from the university invited to select and write about an object each found inspiring. From a jar of moles to an Egyptian unguent spoon, a finger X-ray to some prehistoric cereal grains, their choices were often surprising, their responses always ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

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  • The Curator's Handbook: Museums, Commercial Galleries, Independent Spaces

    by Adrian George ...
    A step-by-step guide to every aspect of putting on an art exhibition, with tips from a range of influential curators.The Curator’s Handbook is the essential handbook for curators and curatorial students, mapping every stage of the process of putting on an exhibition, no matter how traditional the venue, from initial idea to final installation.An introduction explores curatorial work from its ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads

    The Culture of Natural History Museums

    by Stephen T. Asma ...
    The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together. But as Stephen Asma shows in Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, there is more going on in these great institutions than just smart fun. Asma takes us on a wide-ranging tour of natural ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Soils

    Genesis and Geomorphology

    by Michael L. Thompson, Randall J. Schaetzl ...
    In its first edition, Soils established itself as the leading textbook in the fields of pedology and soil geomorphology. Expanded and fully updated, this second edition maintains its highly organized and readable style. Suitable as a textbook and a research-grade reference, the book's introductory chapters in soil morphology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics and organisms prepare the reader for the ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • Himachal Pradesh - Blue Guide Chapter

    by Sam Miller ...
    Series series from Blue Guide India
    Discerning, user-friendly guide to the sights and monuments of Himachal Pradesh, with maps, full background information on Indian history, culture and religions, and eating and accommodation tips.This is a chapter from Blue Guide India: the best guide for the independent traveller to India's art, architecture and history. According to William Dalrymple, who wrote the foreword: "I can vouch for its ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Napa Valley & Lake Tahoe Travel Guide

    Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay

    by Oliver Bell ...
    Vineyards dot California’s Napa Valley (Wine Country) and tourists flock to the United States’ premier wine-growing region, with its year round sunshine and quaint Napa Valley towns like Calistoga and Napa. This is a lovely area to visit the attractive and diverse wineries, while tasting fine wines to your heart’s content. Lake Tahoe’s crystal clear waters have long been a recreational retreat for ... Read more

    $5.45 USD

  • How the Earth Turned Green

    A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants

    by Joseph E. Armstrong ...
    This "amazing and wonderful book" explores the evolutionary history of photosynthesis in a grand story of how the world became the verdant place we know ( Choice).On this blue planet, long before dinosaurs reigned, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paleobotany

    The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants

    by Thomas N. Taylor, Edith L. Taylor, Michael Krings ...
    This book provides up-to-date coverage of fossil plants from Precambrian life to flowering plants, including fungi and algae. It begins with a discussion of geologic time, how organisms are preserved in the rock record, and how organisms are studied and interpreted and takes the student through all the relevant uses and interpretations of fossil plants. With new chapters on additional flowering ... Read more

    $123.29 USD

  • Plant Variation and Evolution

    by S. Max Walters, David Briggs ...
    We are in the midst of a biological revolution. Molecular tools are now providing new means of critically testing hypotheses and models of microevolution in populations of wild, cultivated, weedy and feral plants. They are also offering the opportunity for significant progress in the investigation of long-term evolution of flowering plants, as part of molecular phylogenetic studies of the Tree of ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • The Vegetation of Antarctica through Geological Time

    by David J. Cantrill, Imogen Poole ...
    The fossil history of plant life in Antarctica is central to our understanding of the evolution of vegetation through geological time and also plays a key role in reconstructing past configurations of the continents and associated climatic conditions. This book provides the only detailed overview of the development of Antarctic vegetation from the Devonian period to the present day, presenting ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Dynamical Paleoclimatology

    Generalized Theory of Global Climate Change

    by Barry Saltzman ...
    Series Book 80 - International Geophysics
    The book discusses the ideas and creates a framework for building toward a theory of paleoclimate. Using the rich and mounting array of observational evidence of climatic changes from geology, geochemistry, and paleontology, Saltzman offers a dynamical approach to the theory of paleoclimate evolution and an expanded theory of climate. Saltzman was a distinquished authority on dynamical meteorology ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Forensic Botany

    A Practical Guide

    by Jason Byrd, David W. Hall ...
    Series Book 4 - Essentials of Forensic Science
    FORENSIC BOTANYA PRACTICAL GUIDEForensic Botany: A Practical Guide is an accessible introduction to the way in which botanical evidence is identified, collected and analysed in criminal cases. This form of evidence is becoming increasingly important in forensic investigation. This book is intended to show how useful simple collection methods and standard plant analysis can be in the course of such ... Read more

    $70.00 USD