Author: International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780853010036
Category : Animals
Languages : fr
Pages : 364

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Author: David Bainbridge
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 0711252262
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Humankind’s fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival – differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractable. Since then, our compulsion to catalogue wildlife has played a key role in growing our understanding of the planet and ourselves, inspiring religious beliefs and evolving scientific theories. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists – revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn. Animals were among the first subjects ever drawn by humans. Long before Darwin or Watson and Crick, our ancestors studied the visual similarities and differences between the creatures which inhabit the Earth alongside us. Early savants could sense there was an order, a scheme, which unified all life. The schemes they formulated often tell us as much about ourselves as they do about the animals depicted, highlighting obsessions, fears, revelations and hopes. The human quest to classify living beings has left us with a rich artistic legacy in four great stages—the folklore and religiosity of the ancient and Medieval world; the naturalistic cataloging of the Enlightenment; the evolutionary trees and maps of the nineteenth century; and the modern, computer-hued classificatory labyrinth. The aim of this book is to tell the story of our systematization of the beasts. These charts of the zoological world parallel prevailing artistic trends and scientific discoveries, woven together with philosophical threads that run throughout: animal life as parable, a tree, a maze, a terra incognita, a mirror upon ourselves.

Author: Richard E. Blackwelder
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Author: Diane Schmidt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313058989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Animals have been studied for centuries. But what are the most important and relevant reference and information sources in the zoological sciences? This work is a comprehensive, thoroughly annotated directory filled with hundreds of esteemed resources published in the field of zoology, including indexes, abstracts, bibliographies, journals, biographies and histories, dictionaries and encyclopedias, textbooks, checklists and classification schemes, handbooks and field guides, associations, and Web sites. A complete revision of the award-winning Guide to the Zoological Literature: The Animal Kingdom (1994), this new title includes extensive, up-to-date coverage of invertebrates, arthropods, vertebrates, fishes, amphibians and reptiles, birds, and mammals. In addition, the work features a detailed introduction by the author, as well as thorough subject, title, and author indexes. Students and researchers can now quickly and easily pinpoint works in their field of study. The book is of equal importance to LIS students specializing in science or biology librarianship, as it provides a comprehensive, straight-forward overview of zoological information sources. An essential addition to the core reference collection of public and academic libraries!

Author: Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library
Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Author: Charles Wardell Stiles
Publisher:
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Category : Parasites
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Category : Parasites
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Category : Parasites
Languages : en
Pages : 846

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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Languages : en
Pages : 534

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