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The reception of the natural history 9780521491037. Foreword by gerald durrell joyce edited by pope on. Pliny the elders natural history the empire in the encyclopedia oxford. Encyclopedia of natural resources twovolume set crc press book with unprecedented attention on global change, the current debate revolves around the availability and sustainability of natural resources and how to achieve equilibrium between what society demands from natural environments and what the natural resource base can provide. A treatise on domestic pigeons, comprehending all of the different species known in england. The encyclopedia of natural medicine third edition. This is an idea reference for anyone interested in snakes. Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. The ultimate visual guide to everything on earth smithsonian hardcover october 4, 2010. Who wrote an encyclopedia on natural history answers. The most comprehensive and practical guide available to the extraordinary healing powers of natural medicine.
It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover all ancient knowledge. His nephew pliny the younger gives an indication how devoted his uncle was to reading and studying, which was like working to him. As you browse the titles and you see a book that interests you please mark it with a check mark in the box to the left of the title a mouse click will do it. History is quite unlike anything else that survives from antiquity, its author is a. The story follows roy hobbs, a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked when he is shot by a woman whose motivation remains mysterious.
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Who is the author world book encyclopedia 2002 edition. Naturalis historia is a book about the whole of the natural world in latin by pliny the elder, a roman author and naval commander who died in 79 ad. A natural history and identification guide to beetles, flies, bees, wasps, mayflies, dragonflies, cockroaches, mantids, earwigs, ants, and many more. This website was designed for professional landscape designers, horticulturists, nurserymen, home gardeners, natural history buffs and anyone interested in improving the ecology of local environments for future generations of people, plants and animals. She has published articles on pliny the elder and his natural history and on. This barcode number lets you verify that youre getting exactly the right version or edition of a book.
Encyclopedia of natural resources twovolume set crc. Encyclopedia of islands by rosemary gillespie, david clague. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Pliny the elder, roman savant and author of the celebrated natural history, an encyclopedic work of uneven accuracy that was an authority on scientific matters up to the middle ages. In the subtitle, i use the word cultural to imply a double meaning. A person who studies natural history is called a naturalist or natural historian. Like a charmed gift passed through the ages, encyclopedias are slowly eclipsed. Each treatment in the encyclopedia covers both the growing or.
Jewel of the pacific northwest brings together new research and a new way of seeing our own backyard. This book examines responses to pliny the elders natural history over the last two millennia, making. The bold author whose work sought to encompass all knowledge must therefore not seem to be rising above his emperor, and plinys preface in particular was crafted with care to dispel any such impression. The torah encyclopedia of the animal kingdom is a rich and accurate source of zoological information from a torah perspective. These writers introduce and explain each geological and. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Popular natural history books goodreads share book. Its three volumes comprise overviews of hundreds of topics, events, places, people, human cultures, animals, and environments, ranging from geological history, exploration, the cultures and livelihoods of indigenous peoples. Pliny the elder, the natural history john bostock, m. I wish id had it onboard my vessel, the sorcerer ii, during our circumnavigation. In the 1940s and 1950s, the study of natural historyan intimate science predicated on the timeconsuming collection and naming of lifeformsgave way to microbiology, theoretical and commercial.
Subject, natural history, ethnography, art, sculpture, mining, mineralogy. Drawing on ancient and recent religious sources as well as the most uptodate scientific knowledge, the encyclopedia is very readable and highly informative. Ancient history encyclopedia receives a small commission for each book sold through our affiliate partners. Plinys encyclopedia provides a good overview of the natural history s form and. Native plants pnw an encyclopedia of the cultural and. Books one and two of pliny the elders natural history. A natural history of skull island is an informational book detailing the various ecosystems both seen and unseen in 2005s king kong written by dan falconer. Margaret mead, american anthropologist whose great fame owed as much to the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific work. In the longer term, his encyclopedia enjoyed undreamtof success. This book examines responses to pliny the elders natural history over the last two millennia, making a major contribution not only to the study of the work itself, which has usually been characterised as an encyclopedia, but also to our understanding of the reception of classical literature and ideas since antiquity.
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Encyclopedia of natural history durrell, gerald on. We also have a collection of sporting, hunting and fishing titles as well as new york state regional accounts. This singlevolume encyclopedia comprises 500 short to mediumlength articles, all written by experts in the field, on the development of science and medicine in the united states. The childrens encyclopedia of natural history book, 1986. Plinys natural history became a model for later encyclopedias and scholarly.
Natural history was a 37volume encyclopedia that covered topics ranging from anthropology, astronomy, and mineralogy to geography, botany, and zoology. Natural history is more than a compendium of knowledge. In this book, dr doody examines this concept and its applicability to the work, paying. Like a charmed gift passed through the ages, encyclopedias are slowly eclipsed by the. David is also a former winner of the aventis prize for science books.
The natural is a 1952 novel about baseball by bernard malamud, and is his debut novel. Watkins natural history books abebooks dolgeville, ny, u. We specialize in used and out of print natural history books including ornithology, herpetology, ichthyology, botany and mammalogy. Originally published by the university of utah press. Although only one of his works, natural history, has survived, pliny the elder became famous for that work. Natural remedies encyclopedia by vance ferrell 2010. She was best known for her studies of the nonliterate peoples of oceania, especially with regard to various aspects of psychology and culture.