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A scientific tour de force Dr Becky Smethurst Highly recommended Tristan Gooley Extravagantly entertaining warmly informative Lev Parikian A fascinating look at the strange and alien side of space Dr Lucy Rogers The BBC presenter of Sky at Night and Gresham Professor of Astronomy Chris Lintott takes us on an astonishing tour of bizarre accidents big characters and human error to tell the story of some of the most important astronomical events of the past hundred years Our first views of the earliest galaxies were brought to us by the Hubble Space Telescope when it was pointed at absolutely nothing The ice covered Enceladus one of Saturn s nearly one hundred moons was revealed as a possible habitat for life after a by chance fly by of NASA s Cassini probe on a mission elsewhere Pulsars the spectacular remnants of long dead massive stars were discovered as scruff in the data for measurements of the twinkling of possible radio stars As new telescopes are built on mountaintops and in deserts around the world aiming to transform our view of t

Have you ever wondered what your dog is really thinking?In his latest book, top dog behaviouralist, Graeme Hall, reveals the secrets to understanding what your furry companion is trying to say and how they see the world. Drawing on years of experience training over 5,000 dogs, and backed up with scientific evidence, he shows you how to interpret your dog''s body language and use that knowledge to build a stronger, more rewarding relationship.Sharing his own personal stories and practical tips, Graeme demonstrates how to turn everyday experiences into valuable learning opportunities, and how to avoid common mistakes. Whether you''re a seasoned dog owner or a new pup parent, this book will change the way you think about your four-legged friend.

How an iconic bird s final days exposed the reality of human caused extinctionThe great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844 Gisli Palsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species Palsson vividly recounts how British ornithologists John Wolley and Alfred Newton set out for Iceland to collect specimens only to discover that the great auks were already gone At the time the Victorian world viewed extinction as an impossibility or trivialized it as a natural phenomenon Palsson chronicles how Wolley and Newton documented the fate of the last birds through interviews with the men who killed them and how the naturalists Icelandic journey opened their eyes to the disappearance of species as a subject of scientific concern and as something that could be caused by humans Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology anthropology and Palsson s own North Atlantic travels The Last of I

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A deeply personal master class on how to read a natural landscape and unravel the clues to its unique ecological history

The New Wild Garden combines new approaches to a more naturalistic design with the practical side of growing wildflowers and shows how to incorporate wildflowers real meadows and a looser prarie style planting into gardens and wild spaces

A revolutionary account of Earth as a living organism a finely tuned planetary network made up of all living and non living things which provides an unusual degree of hope for its future

There is much to love between this book s covers There are many eureka moments in Life Sculpted and some truly beautiful ones Eugenia Bone Wall Street Journal Meet the menagerie of lifeforms that dig crunch bore and otherwise reshape our planet Did you know elephants dig ballroom sized caves alongside volcanoes Or that parrotfish chew coral reefs and poop sandy beaches Or that our planet once hosted a five ton dinosaur crunching alligator cousin In fact almost since its fascinating start life was boring Billions of years ago bacteria algae and fungi began breaking down rocks in oceans a role they still perform today About a half billion years ago animal ancestors began drilling scraping gnawing or breaking rocky seascapes In turn their descendants crunched through the materials of life itself shells wood and bones Today such bioeroders continue to shape our planet from the bacteria that devour our teeth to the mighty moon snail always hunting for food as evidenced by tiny snail made boreholes in clams and other moon snails There is no better guide to these lifeforms than Anthony J Martin a popular science author paleontologist and co discoverer of the first known burrowing dinosaur Following the crumbs of lichens sponge

Guide to Lizards is your essential reference to the lizards of the world. Inside you will find entries on more than 300 species of lizards, from the commonplace to the very rare. The species are arranged according to their region of origin, making this book a handy tool for ecotourists while also providing useful insights to pet lizard keepers. A photograph accompanies each entry for easy identification, with additional photos for some entries showing males and females, juvenile appearance, or related species. This guide is an indispensible resource for anyone interested in these fascinating reptiles.

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems were proved and results found in a hundred years than in all of previous history. In The Mathematical Century, Piergiorgio Odifreddi distills this unwieldy mass of knowledge into a fascinating and authoritative overview of the subject. He concentrates on thirty highlights of pure and applied mathematics. Each tells the story of an exciting problem, from its historical origins to its modern solution, in lively prose free of technical details.Odifreddi opens by discussing the four main philosophical foundations of mathematics of the nineteenth century and ends by describing the four most important open mathematical problems of the twenty-first century. In presenting the thirty problems at the heart of the book he devotes equal attention to pure and applied mathematics, with applications ranging from physics and computer science to biology and economics. Special attention is dedicated to the famous "23 problems" outlined by David Hilbert in his address to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900 as a research program for the new century, and to the work of the winners of the Fields Medal, the equivalent of a Nobel prize in mathematics.This eminently readable book will be treasured not only by students and their teachers but also by all those who seek to make sense of the elusive macrocosm of twentieth-century mathematics.

La Enciclopedia Ilustrada Everest de los Animales ofrece una exhaustiva muestra de la asombrosa diversidad zoológica que se puede dar entre los vertebrados. El presente tomo está dedicado a los reptiles, anfibios y peces. estos últimos constituyen más de la mitad de las especies de vertebrados existentes y exhiben una inmensa variedad de formas especializadas. Reptiles y anfibios son los supervivientes de un complejo proceso evolutivo que comenzó hace millones de años.

The perfect photographic guide to the avifauna of Bail, Sumatra and Java.The islands of Bali, Sumatra and Java, covering some 613,000 square kilometres, are home to an extensive and varied list of recorded avifauna of roughly 700 species. They are a haven for birdwatchers and a frontrunning biodiversity hotspot.Birds of Bali, Sumatra and Java is a concise and easy-to-use guide to more than 300 of these islands' most interesting and spectacular birds, with each species illustrated with full colour photographs alongside key information on identification, habitat and distribution.Portable yet authoritative, this book is the ideal guide - great for nature-loving travellers and birdwatchers alike.