A comprehensive reference to over 700 minerals, rocks, plants and animal fossils from around the globe and how to identify them, with over 2000 photographs and artworks.[...]
This title shows you how to find, identify and collect the world's most fascinating specimens, featuring over 800 stunning photographs and artworks. This is the ultimate visual encyclopedia of rocks and minerals, with a directory of over 300 specimens. It instructs the amateur geologist on how to id[...]
This is a comprehensive reference to 700 minerals, rocks, plants and animal fossils from around the globe and how to identify them, with more than 2000 photographs and illustrations. It is an essential reference book for amateur geologists and palaeontologists, revealing how rocks and fossils form, [...]
In Lee M. Hollander's faithful translation, all of the unknown twelfth-century author's narrative genius and flair for dramatic situation and pungent characterisation is preserved. Hollander was professor emeritus of Germanic languages at the University of Texas at Austin and an authority in Nordic [...]
This title includes expert analysis of the key rock-forming environments of the world, plus full advice on identifying rock types and building a spectacular collection. It features more than 375 beautifully shot photographs and concise artworks. It categorizes rocks in family groups according to the[...]
Seventy per cent of our planet's surface is covered with water, but most conventional atlases focus on the other thirty per cent. This fascinating and beautifully presented survey of the world's oceans and what lives within them is published in association with the Census on Marine Life, a decade-lo[...]
This title lets you follow the development of human civilization around the world, in 1500 illustrations. You can journey through time, from pre-history to the modern world, in this engrossing children's encyclopedia. You can discover how humans populated the world, how food was grown, and how commu[...]
Why can't you light a candle in a spaceship? What books are bad for you? Is nature natural? Every year the Oxford and Cambridge's learned professors pose such curious conundrums to potential students to separate the wheat from the chaff, and the clever from both of them. Deftly exploring the twistin[...]
In full color with striking and informative illustrations and photographs, this is a beautiful and eye-catching book which will stand out on the shelf. Includes familiar names like Galileo Galielei and Albert Einstein, as well as lesser-known scientists such as Dmitri Mendeleyev and Linus Pauling.[...]
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Denne boken gir deg svar på hvordan et røntgenapparat virker, hvordan kaktusen kan overleve i ørkenen, hvilken berømt bygning som ser ut som et seilskip og hvorfor jorden snurrer. Boken er delt inn i kategoriene planeten vår, menneskekroppen, historie, land og folk, moderne maskiner, planter, d[...]
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