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A comprehensive collection, this trilogy contains the official list of all approximately 56,120 living and 14,700 fossil species of New Zealand's animal, plant, fungi, and microorganism populations. Featuring photographs and illustrations, it demonstrates the value and benefits of taxonomic research in New Zealand and its applications to science, biotechnology, conservation, and biosecurity.

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Talks about the animals that rise when the sun sets and are active throughout the night. This book examines how such animals live and explains their highly developed senses that enable them to survive in the dark, as well as their behaviour and adaptations to avoid sunlight and predators during the day.

"After the Harvard Classics edition, published by P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1909"--Title page verso.

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This volume provides, at research and professional level, an overview of our current understanding of pectin structure and its manipulation, how this relates to pectin function in growing plants, and the industrial applications of pectins.

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Essential for all gardeners, horticulturists and naturalists, this is a practical, highly-illustrated guide to dealing with disorders that affect fruit, vegetables, trees and ornamental garden plants.

A textbook for students and conservationists on the most pertinent plant conservation work.

Annotated catalogue of the plants collected on the Royal Danish Expedition to Egypt and the Yemen 1761-1763, presented with introductory text by I. Friis.

A user friendly, practical guidebook designed for use in the field. It highlights the most important morphological features relevant to the recognition and identification of virtually every rhododendron species currently in cultivation.

Systematic treatment of the South American species of the two genera; with 109 line drawings and 56 distribution maps.

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In 2003, Army Major William Sumner undertook a mission to save the Baghdad Zoo in Iraq, as war raged around it. With a focus on the stories of the abandoned animals, this photo essay details his harrowing mission. Full color.

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents this fully authorized--and timely-biography of the Harvard biologist and naturalist who has become a leading voice on the crucial importance to all life of biodiversity and has worked tirelessly to synthesize the fields of science and the humanities in a fruitful way.

A review of seed banking a key technology in the conservation of domesticated and wild plant species.

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What is the secret to humanitys evolutionary success Could it be our strength, our intellector something much nicer

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The second edition of this monograph has been revised to take account of late-1990s information, and several plates have been revised by the artist.

Includes sixty research papers in separate sections on taxonomy, forests and forestry, phytogeography, ecology, and the conservation and sustainable use of African plants.

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Essays dealing with the life and ideas of Darwin as they relate to human sociobiology.

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The Descent of Man is Darwins second book, first published in 1871. In this edition, Darwin applies evolutionary theory to humans and details his theory of sexual selection.

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An argument that consciousness, more widespread than previously assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack.

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How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brainthe hypothalamusgovern our physiology and behavior.

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Darwin's theory of natural selection is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological inter-relatedness revealing the almost unthinkably complex and mutual inter-dependencies between animal and plant life, climate and physical environment and - by implication - the human world.