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av: Bruce L. Stinchcomb

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
In this second book on Paleozoic fossils, over 840 all new specimens from this period are provided, organized by biologic (taxonomic) position. It is a real eye candy feast for fossil enthusiasts. Come and explore the fossil evidence for a world that was ancient and long gone when the dinosaurs ruled the earth.…
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Isbn: 9780764340307

Utgivningsår:20120730

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Robert J. Lauf

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Garnet, with its many color varieties, is a favorite of both mineral collectors and gemologists. Superb examples are found at many locales worldwide, in both igneous and metamorphic rocks. Other members of the group are prized by species collectors and micromount enthusiasts. Over 120 color photos of these beautiful…
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Isbn: 9780764340031

Utgivningsår:20120413

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av:Stuart Schneider

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Seeing fluorescent minerals up close for the first time is an exciting experience. The colors are so pure and the glow is so seemingly unnatural, that it is hard to believe they are natural rocks. Hundreds of glowing minerals are shown, including Aragonite, Celestine, Feldspar, Microcline, Picropharmacolite, Quartz,…
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Isbn: 9780764336195

Utgivningsår:20110113

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Myrna Garrison

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Updated values and text revisions have been made to this popular and thorough guide to Candlewick crystal, one of the most popular lines of glass produced by the Imperial Glass Corporation of Bellaire, Ohio, which was introduced in 1936 and manufactured until the company’s closing in 1984. Today this pattern,…
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Isbn: 9780764321368

Utgivningsår:20041027

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Bruce L. Stinchcomb

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
560 color photos and engaging text take readers on a journey back to a world first of tropical climates and then plunging into an Ice Age. It covers the Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene Epochs, and includes a dazzling array of fossils, including plants, mollusks, sharks, insects, mammoths, and mastodons.…
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Isbn: 9780764335808

Utgivningsår:20101112

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av:Robert J., Phd. Lauf

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Over 140 color photos, diagrams, and text reveal the crystal structures, habits, names, and changing family relationships of silicate crystals. This thorough guide provides an introduction to crystallography, the current classification of silicate structures, and reviews orthosilicates, disilicates, chain silicates,…
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Isbn: 9780764335792

Utgivningsår:20101130

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Pierre-Henry Fontaine

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Provided here is a detailed picture of the lives and environments of whales and seals, including chapters on anatomy, adaptation to aquatic life, nutrition, migration, reproduction, and paracites and enemies. The interaction of man with these marine animals is also explored, as is their paleontology. New information…
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Isbn: 9780764327919

Utgivningsår:20070628

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Dick Sing

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
World-renowned woodturner Dick Sing takes you through all the steps needed to create delightful and decorative miniature birdhouses. Starting with a basic birdhouse, Dick illustrates how to set up and turn the body, roof, perch, and finial. Clear, step-by-step instructions show wood preparation, proper use of equipment…
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Isbn: 9780764320804

Utgivningsår:20040622

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Kevin T. Karlson

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
New Jersey’s southern Cape is host to huge annual bird migrations, making Cape May one of the best bird-watching locations in the world. Over 400 species have been spotted here. See exquisite photographs that present shore, prey, and song birds commonly seen at Cape May in lively action and flight themes. Birds…
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Isbn: 9780764335341

Utgivningsår:20100720

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BB

av: Bruce L. Stinchcomb

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Over 650 vivid color photos reveal the geo-collectible fossils and minerals associated with the first two billion years of earth’s history. The engaging text explores the geology of shield areas and their associated rocks and minerals. Also examined are pegmatites and their associated minerals, including attractive…
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Isbn: 9780764338809

Utgivningsår:20120106

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Robert J. Lauf

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Beryl in its many color varieties is a favorite of both mineral collectors and gemologists. Superb examples are found at many locales worldwide, mainly in pegmatites and schists. Other members of the group are prized by species collectors and micromount enthusiasts. This book explains how beryl is formed and the unique…
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Isbn: 9780764338786

Utgivningsår:20110921

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av:Peter Trull

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Over 140 beautifully rendered color illustrations of common Cape Cod birds with species accounts that include locations where they may be found by birders. The informative text provides helpful advice on the best bird watching techniques and six field trips focusing on different environments and the species that…
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Isbn: 9780764338779

Utgivningsår:20111010

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Tricia Veasey

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
This new photographic study continues the series begun by Tricia Veasey with her Geese and Mallards books in 1988. The excellent color photos of these interesting varieties of waterfowl in their natural settings provide study material for bird enthusiasts, artists and all manner of hobbyists who need factual visual…
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Isbn: 9780887401541

Utgivningsår:19970108

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Roger S. Everett

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
After the strong success of Roger Everett’s first book Wading and Shore Birds, we are pleased to offer this new collection: Favorite Songbirds. With over 100 full-color photographs of exquisite beauty, Roger offers images of the birds we know and love the best: cardinals. chickadees, goldfinches, robins, and…
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Isbn: 9780887401510

Utgivningsår:19970106

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Pat Vojtech

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
When Captain John Smith sailed up the Chesapeake Bay in 1608, he discovered a land so rich in wildlife that numbers could not begin to tell the whole story. The abundances of birds blackened the sky. Meat-eating wolves and mountain lions had so much game at their disposal that they didn’t bother the caged livestock.…
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Isbn: 9780870335365

Utgivningsår:20090824

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BB

av: Bruce L. Stinchcomb

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Open this book and take an excursion through the fossil world of the first half of the Cenozoic Era–the Age of Mammals. Over 370 color photos detail the fossil record of this bygone age from small sea creatures to the lumbering rhinoceros, Subhyracodon occidentalis, and rare fossilized bats. The engaging text…
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Isbn: 9780764334245

Utgivningsår:20100218

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Scott Rashid

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
This fascinating and beautiful guide provides detailed information and over 160 striking photos and drawings of four species of small mountain owls found in America’s Rocky Mountains, with special focus on the inhabitants of the Rocky Mountains National Park: the Flammulated Owl, Northern Pygmy-Owl, Northern…
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Isbn: 9780764332821

Utgivningsår:20090603

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BB

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Isbn: 7350035755455

Utgivningsår:20080722

Utgivare: Studentlitteratur AB

Mediatyp: BC

Utgått

Isbn: 9781472939975

Utgivningsår:20190221

Utgivare: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Mediatyp: BC

av:Stanislas Dehaene

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Humanity’s greatest feat is our incredible ability to learn. Even in their first year, infants acquire language, visual and social knowledge at a rate that surpasses the best supercomputers. But how, exactly, do our brains learn? In How We Learn, leading neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene delves into the…
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Isbn: 9780141989303

Utgivningsår:20210128

Utgivare: Penguin Books Ltd.

Mediatyp: BC

av:Arik Kershenbaum

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of ’aliens’ as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations on…
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Isbn: 9780241986844

Utgivningsår:20210701

Utgivare: Penguin Books Ltd.

Mediatyp: BC

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Isbn: 9781787333352

Utgivningsår:20210805

Utgivare: Random House UK

Mediatyp: BC

av:Marcus Chown

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science’s astonishing predictive power.
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Isbn: 9780571366712

Utgivningsår:20210805

Utgivare: Faber & Faber

Mediatyp: BC

av:Stuart Ritchie

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap
’Required reading for everyone’ Adam RutherfordMedicine, education, psychology, economics – wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance.
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Isbn: 9781529110647

Utgivningsår:20210916

Utgivare: Random House UK

Mediatyp: BC

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Isbn: 7350035754816

Utgivningsår:20060522

Utgivare: Studentlitteratur AB

Mediatyp: BC

av:Stephen Hawking

Kategorier: Astronomi, rymd och tid Kosmologi och universum Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap
Har universum några gränser? Hade tiden en början, kan den gå bakåt och kommer den få ett slut? I denna klassiker får komplexa frågor begripliga svar. Med stor berättarglädje djupdyker Stephen Hawking i svarta hål, antimateria, kvantmekanik och Big Bang, och tar läsaren ett steg närmare skapelsens hemligheter. Kosmos…
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Isbn: 9789180021364

Utgivningsår:20220201

Utgivare: Mondial

Mediatyp: BC

av:Robert, Phd Lauf

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
The definitive resource for mineral collectors, this comprehensive book describes the structural relationships among orthosilicate minerals, known for their hardness and brilliant colors, and the geological conditions that create prized specimens. It is illustrated with nearly 500 structure diagrams, color photos, and…
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Isbn: 9780764352867

Utgivningsår:20170428

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BB

av:Eugen Reichl

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Without the mighty Saturn V rocket, the Apollo 11 moon landing would not have been possible in July 1969. Even today, nearly fifty years later, it remains by far the largest and most powerful rocket ever used. Equipped with computers that are easily surpassed today by any mobile phone, the Saturn V was an unprecedented…
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Isbn: 9780764354823

Utgivningsår:20180428

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BB

av:Kevin C. Vaughn

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Sempervivum have long fascinated gardeners and are useful plants for gardening situations in which other plants might fail. Many people are aware of only a single, rather uninteresting green cultivar, but selections from the wild and the work of hybridizers have resulted in over 7,000 cultivars with a range in size…
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Isbn: 9780764355127

Utgivningsår:20180528

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BB

av: Cora Marcus - Libby Kyer

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Gain insight to the current world of Botanical Art and see the work of 65 top artists from throughout America. Gorgeous flowers, leaves, plants, roots, and vegetables have been beautifully drawn and painted and are displayed here. See 220 colorful images that bring modern techniques and a contemporary eye to this…
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Isbn: 9780764329050

Utgivningsår:20080131

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BB

av: Bruce L. Stinchcomb

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Explore the rich fossil record of the Paleozoic Era, from the Cambrian (545 million years ago) through the Permian (almost 300 million years ago) with 650 high quality color photos and detailed, highly readable text. Following his successful work on the earliest fossils, the author now starts at that time in earths…
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Isbn: 9780764329173

Utgivningsår:20080325

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Berndt Feuerbacher

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Fifty years have changed our view of space. The spin-off technologies from the world’s space programs have an ever increasing influence on our daily lives. While early spaceflights were mainly nationalistic demonstrations of power, today a wide range of scientific or technological objectives are carried out in…
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Isbn: 9780764337765

Utgivningsår:20110428

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

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av:Robert J., Phd. Lauf

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Over 115 striking color photos display pyroxene group minerals in all their forms and colors. This group of rock-forming minerals is best known to collectors through well-formed diopside crystals from many localities, including in Canada, the northeastern United States, the Alpine regions of Europe, and through the…
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Isbn: 9780764334047

Utgivningsår:20091230

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av:Bruce W. Halstead

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
What would you do if faced with a school of sharks in a feeding frenzy? Find out in this book, unquestionably the most authoritative compact guide to the world of underwater animals that are poisonous, venomous, and electric. It is an excellent practical handbook for sailors, marine biologists, ecologists, naturalists,…
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Isbn: 9780870334740

Utgivningsår:20090708

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Elton N. Woodbury

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
The late Dr. Elton N. Woodbury had a fascination for butterflies ever since, as a preschooler, he and a friend encouraged the friend’s younger sister to sample a yellow sulphur butterfly—hoping to discover whether it tasted buttery. The toddler ran screaming to her mother, and despite being punished, young Elton…
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Isbn: 9780870334535

Utgivningsår:20090821

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: John Page Williams

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Where do the Chesapeake Bay’s sea turtles come from in the summer, and where do they go in winter? Where do swans come from when they arrive in the region in November? Why do fishermen and sailors consistently see monarch butterflies out over the open bay in late summer? Chesapeake Almanac: Following the Bay through…
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Isbn: 9780870334498

Utgivningsår:20090730

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av:Robert J., Phd. Lauf

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Quartz is prized by both mineral collectors and lapidary artists. Over 130 vivid photographs of these beautiful minerals are presented to show each mineral in its geological context. Superb examples are found in diverse geological settings from pegmatites to Alpine clefts and hydrothermal veins. The silica minerals are…
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Isbn: 9780764341618

Utgivningsår:20120925

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Tasha Unninayar

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Bears are a symbol of strength in many cultures, and the sitting bear is no exception. Carve your own soapstone sitting bear and see its many characteristics come to life. The patterns provided help you design and shape your sitting bear, and illustrated, step-by-step directions offer carving techniques. Chapters…
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Isbn: 9780764341489

Utgivningsår:20121018

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC

av: Will Daniel

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Over 250 photos and eloquent text reveal the majesty of Virginia’s James River. Explore the river from its humble beginnings on private property to the point where it meets one of the nation’s busiest seaports. See Class V rapids in the heart of Richmond as nowhere else in America. The text includes a final…
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Isbn: 9780764337277

Utgivningsår:20110415

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BB

av: Bruce L. Stinchcomb

Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap
Over 500 color images and engaging text provide insight into these interesting collectibles from ”out of this world.” Meteorites link back to the early stages of the Milky Way galaxy and are the oldest items one can touch, some dating back to before the creation of our solar system. Meteorites are also…
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Isbn: 9780764337284

Utgivningsår:20110713

Utgivare: Schiffer Publishing

Mediatyp: BC