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The Story of Life

By: Sir Richard Southwood

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In this attractively illustrated volume, eminent biologist Sir Richard Southwood offers a remarkable survey of life in all its forms, ranging from the earliest single-celled bacteria, to the evolution and extinction of animals such as the dinosaurs, to the variety of life today. The book follows the major geological periods--such as the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian--explaining how great planetary changes such as the movement of the continents, the rising and falling of sea level, and the periods of glaciation, affected the forms of life on Earth. Beginning with the earliest and simplest forms of life, Southwood discusses such amazing creatures as bacteria that live around geysers and thermal vents and can survive in boiling water. He explains how the development of skeletons triggered the Cambrian Explosion, when animals such as trilobites, sea scorpions, shellfish, cephalopods first spread around the earth. He also examines such landmarks of evolution as the appearance of eggs in shells and of insects in flight. We read about the great dinosaurs and the arrival of the mammals and the primates, and the great extinctions, including the Permian (the largest in fossil history, wiping out 95% of animals) and the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) extinction (the one that wiped out the dinosaurs). Southwood concludes by examining the impact of humanity on Earth, considering if we ourselves might not unleash the next major extinction. Southwood's love for his subject, for the life he describes so vividly, shines through this carefully crafted story. Generously illustrated with line drawings showing the fauna and flora of the Earth, both past and present, The Story of Life will enthrall anyone interested in nature and natural history.

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0198607865

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9780198607861

Ecological Methods

With Particular Reference to the Study of Insect Populations

By: Sir Richard Southwood

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Ecological Methods

With Particular Reference to the Study of Insect Populations

By: Sir Richard Southwood

Introduction to the study of animal populations. The sampling programme and the measurement and description of dispersion. Absolute population estimates using marking techniques. Absolute population estimates by sampling a unit of habita - air, plant, plant products and vertebrate hosts. Absolute population estimates by sampling a unit of habita - soil and litter. Absolute population estimates by sampling a unit of habitar-fresh-water habitats. Relative methods of population measurement and the derivation of absolute estimates. Estimates based on products and effects in insects. Observational and experimental methods for the estimation of natality, mortality and dispersal. The construction, description and analysis of age-specific life-tabbles. Age-grouping of insects and time-specific life-tables. Experimental component analysis of population processes. The measurement of association between species and the description of a fauna. The estimation of productivity and the construction of an energy budget.

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414

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0412107600

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9780412107603

The Architect's Engineer

Memoir of a Life in Building Engineering and Restorative Development

By: Sir Nigel Thompson

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The Architect's Engineer

Memoir of a Life in Building Engineering and Restorative Development

By: Sir Nigel Thompson

Sir Nigel Thompson walked to school around the bomb craters of the London Blitz--it made him want to build things, rather than knock them down. After studying structural engineering in Africa, he worked on hospitals and theaters in London, and later headed the team that designed University of Qatar. He went on to design Embankment Place, a massive office complex built over London's Charing Cross railway station. Turning from building to rebuilding, he explored construction opportunities for British firms during the Gulf War, in Kuwait's still-burning oil fields. Following the 1999 bombing of Serbia and Kosovo, he led a reconstruction task force in Kosovo at the request of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, for which he was knighted. Thompson's memoir details his long career in architectural design and construction, and in restorative development.

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McFarland

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1476685894

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The Story of Life

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Ecological Methods

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