Author: Niko Tinbergen
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: naturalists, curious
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1984-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0870234560
ISBN-13: 9780870234569

Author: James B. Nardi
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: gardeners, naturalists, guide, soil, life
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-10-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226568520
ISBN-13: 9780226568522

Leonardo da Vinci once mused that “we know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot,” an observation that is as apt today as it was five hundred years ago. The biological world under our toes is often unexplored and unappreciated, yet it teems with life. In one square meter of earth, there lives trillions of bacteria, millions of nematodes, hundreds of thousands of mites, thousands of insects and worms, and hundreds of snails and slugs. But because of their location and size, many of these creatures are as unfamiliar and bizarre to us as anything found at t

Authors:Karen Stray Nolting, Jonathan Latimer,
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: guides�, naturalists, field, peterson, birds, backyard
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1999-04-26
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0395922763
ISBN-13: 9780395922767

This new series is designed with the beginner in mind. Featuring the original art of celebrated naturalist Roger Tory Peterson; incorporating the Peterson Identification System, the most effective method for bird identification; and using a straightforward design. This series makes field guides accessible and appealing to children. Roger Tory Peterson was the inventor of the modern field guide. Known as the father of modern bird watching, he has been called "the greatest conservationist who ever walked this planet" (ornithologist Chandler S. Robbins). More than anyone else in the twentieth cen

Authors:Karen Stray Nolting, Jonathan Latimer,
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: guides, naturalists, field, peterson, prey, birds
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1999-04-26
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0395922771
ISBN-13: 9780395922774

This new series is designed with the beginner in mind. Featuring the original art of celebrated naturalist Roger Tory Peterson; incorporating the Peterson Identification System, the most effective method for bird identification; and using a straightforward design. This series makes field guides accessible and appealing to children. Roger Tory Peterson was the inventor of the modern field guide. Known as the father of modern bird watching, he has been called "the greatest conservationist who ever walked this planet" (ornithologist Chandler S. Robbins). More than anyone else in the twentieth cen

Authors:Karen Stray Nolting, Jonathan Latimer,
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: guides, naturalists, field, peterson, birds, bizarre
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1999-04-26
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0395922798
ISBN-13: 9780395922798

This new series is designed with the beginner in mind. Featuring the original art of celebrated naturalist Roger Tory Peterson; incorporating the Peterson Identification System, the most effective method for bird identification; and using a straightforward design. This series makes field guides accessible and appealing to children. Roger Tory Peterson was the inventor of the modern field guide. Known as the father of modern bird watching, he has been called "the greatest conservationist who ever walked this planet" (ornithologist Chandler S. Robbins). More than anyone else in the twentieth cen

Author: Suzanne Le-May Sheffield
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: women, naturalists, science, victorian, three, new, worlds, revealing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-08-10
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0415270693
ISBN-13: 9780415270694

Victorian women certainly recognized that male naturalists were not always willing to welcome them warmly into their inner sanctum of scientific work, honor and prestige. This book examines the ability of women to understand themselves and respond to their needs as complex human beings. Within a framework of socially and scientifically constructed norms, these Victorian women used science as a path to self awareness and intellectual accomplishment.