Combining art and science, this beautiful photography journal highlights the longest living creatures on Earth. Artist Sussman took photographs of living organisms 2,000 years and older because she wanted to start at the calendar year zero, challenging the concept of time. The book is arranged geographically with a photograph of the organism along with its age, location, nickname, common name, and Latin name; noticeably missing is a scale reference. Accompanying the photos is a story, which can range from one of Sussman's adventures to the interesting people she encountered to additional information on the organism.

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338 p., 10 color plates (photographs of adults), 10 monochrome plates (photographs of male antennae), 116 figs. Treats 47 genera (4 described as new) and 218 species (22 described as new), with many new combinations. Includes the economically important genus Dioryctria and the mostly diurnal genus Pyla.

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Each volume in the very well known series The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland contains special introductory chapters on important aspects of the study of British Lepidoptera; keys to families and species; a systematic section consisting of a full description, details of the life history, and a distribution map for each species, as well as structural drawings where necessary. In addition, all species and significant variants are illustrated in colour.

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When people think of bugs, “nuisance” is one of the first words that come to mind. Sure, some insects transmit infectious diseases, cause crop damage, and inflict irritating bites and painful stings. In fairness though, these ubiquitous creatures are extraordinary pollinators, soil aerators, recyclers, and food sources, and they comprise around sixty percent of all recognized animal species. Enthusiastic entomologist Klein concentrates on the hefty influence teensy insects have on human culture.

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Volume 19.2A presents valuable nomenclatural and biological facts on the syncarids, isopods, tanaidaceans and other minor peracarid orders of Crustacea known from Australia. It offers full taxonomic information for 89 families, 351 genera and 1076 described species, with the original literature as well as museum data on the type specimens.

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Shark Week expert, Dr. Greg Skomal, returns with a new shark handbook offering you a thorough exploration of the most fearsome and misunderstood shark on Earth. Discover the great white's astonishing evolutionary adaptations, common misconceptions, and the ways these magnificent creatures are integral to marine ecosystems. Written by a premier shark expert and marine biologist, this illuminating book will take you beyond the dramatic representations in media and pop culture and allow you to appreciate the power and beauty of these remarkable cold-blooded carnivores.

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This volume inaugurates a complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's letters are available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. The first volume of the edition contains the letters of the years 1821-1836. They begin with one written to Darwin at the age of twelve and continue through his school days at Shrewsbury, his two years as a medical student at Edinburgh, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and his five years of exploration and learning during the voyage of the Beagle.

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This book utilizes a multidisciplinary perspective to analyze and discuss the various opportunities and challenges of restoring tree and forest cover. It examines forest restoration commitments, policies and programs, their implementation at different scales and contexts, and how forest restoration helps to mitigate environmental, societal, and cultural challenges. The text explores how restoration affects forest ecosystem services, contributes to biodiversity conservation, and generates benefits and synergies, while recognizing the considerable costs, tradeoffs, and variable feasibility of its implementation.

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The Age of Melt is a thought-provoking scientific narrative investigating ice patch archaeology and the role of glaciers in the development of human culture. It explores what these artifacts reveal about culture, wilderness, and what we gain when we rethink our relationship to the world and its most precious and ephemeral substance--ice.

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This important reference book provides standard sampling methods recommended by the American Fisheries Society for assessing and monitoring freshwater fish populations in North American ponds, reservoirs, natural lakes, and streams and rivers containing cold and warmwater fishes.

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