Author: Albert Goodwill Spalding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.
America's National Game
Author: Albert Goodwill Spalding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.
Galactic Pot-healer
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679752978
Category : Life on other planets
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679752978
Category : Life on other planets
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.
Radio Free Albemuth
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Voyager
ISBN: 9780006482857
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
As America gasps in a stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars. Will the agents of ominiscent Valis succeed in their mission of liberation? Or will the tactics of President Freemont extend the grip?
Publisher: Voyager
ISBN: 9780006482857
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
As America gasps in a stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars. Will the agents of ominiscent Valis succeed in their mission of liberation? Or will the tactics of President Freemont extend the grip?
Fauna of the Venezuelan Llanos
Author: Cristina Ramo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Contributions to the History of Herpetology
Author: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Publisher: Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles
ISBN:
Category : Herpetologists
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher: Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles
ISBN:
Category : Herpetologists
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Whose Bird?
Author: Bo Beolens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300103595
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Is Bonaparte's Gull named after Napoleon Bonaparte? Is the Pallas' Sandgrouse named for the same individual as the Pallas' Warbler? This entertaining book provides for the first time a mini-biography of every person after whom a bird has been named in the English vernacular--some 1,400 individuals. Featuring 150 illustrations, Whose Bird? is arranged in the style of an encyclopedia with entries indexed both by relevant individual and by bird. The book concentrates on the people--heroes, romantics, fanatics, and many others. Entries explain who the people were, when and where they traveled, what else they did and were famous for, with whom they were connected, what they wrote and published, and how birds came to be named after them. Filled with fascinating stories about the lives and times of naturalists over the centuries, this accessible reference volume will intrigue readers at every level of interest in ornithology.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300103595
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Is Bonaparte's Gull named after Napoleon Bonaparte? Is the Pallas' Sandgrouse named for the same individual as the Pallas' Warbler? This entertaining book provides for the first time a mini-biography of every person after whom a bird has been named in the English vernacular--some 1,400 individuals. Featuring 150 illustrations, Whose Bird? is arranged in the style of an encyclopedia with entries indexed both by relevant individual and by bird. The book concentrates on the people--heroes, romantics, fanatics, and many others. Entries explain who the people were, when and where they traveled, what else they did and were famous for, with whom they were connected, what they wrote and published, and how birds came to be named after them. Filled with fascinating stories about the lives and times of naturalists over the centuries, this accessible reference volume will intrigue readers at every level of interest in ornithology.
Lizards of Borneo
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789838120807
Category : Lizards
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789838120807
Category : Lizards
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Seaside Studies in Natural History
Author: Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cnidaria
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cnidaria
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Lizards of Iran
Author: Steven C. Anderson
Publisher: Society for the Study of
ISBN: 9780916984496
Category : Lizards
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher: Society for the Study of
ISBN: 9780916984496
Category : Lizards
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A Notable Success in the Breeding of Black Bears
Author: Arthur Benoni Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black bear
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black bear
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description