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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Museum Humfredianum
Author: Part I. II. Of A Descriptive Catalogue Of The Lepidopterous Insects Contained In The Museum of the Honourable East-India Company
Author: Thomas HorsfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
History of the American Ambulance Established in Paris During the Siege of 1870-1871
Author: Thomas Wiltberger EvansPublisher:
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Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
History of the American Ambulance Established in Paris During the Siege of 1870-71
Author: Thomas Wiltberger EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ambulances
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 20
Author: Ángel Morillo CerdánPublisher: Ediciones Polifemo
ISBN: 9788496813250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1684
Book Description
This massive three volume set publishes the proceedings of the 2006 Limes conference which was held in Leon, a total of 138 contributions. Naturally these cover a vast range of topics related to Roman military archaeology and the Roman frontiers. The archaeology of the Roman military in Spain, and contributions by Spanish scholars are prominent, whilst other themes include the internal frontiers, the end of the frontiers and the barbarians in the empire, the fortified town in the late Roman period, soldiers on the move and the early development of frontiers . Further sessions had a regional focus. Majority of essays in English, some in Spanish, German and Italian
A Catalogue of the Portland Museum
Author: ... SkinnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Dazzled and Deceived
Author: Peter ForbesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300178964
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world - including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes - have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or their surroundings, nature's fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage and to hide. The advantages of mimicry are obvious - but how does 'blind' nature do it? And how has humanity learnt to profit from nature's ploys? "Dazzled and Deceived" tells the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world. Discovered in the 1850s by the young English naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazonian rainforest, the phenomenon of mimicry was seized upon as the first independent validation of Darwin's theory of natural selection. But mimicry and camouflage also created a huge impact outside the laboratory walls. Peter Forbes' cultural history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics and medical cures across the twentieth century, and charts its intricate involvement with the dispute between evolution and creationism.
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Catalogues
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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