A Bat Man In The Tropics

Author : Theodore Fleming
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520929489
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bat Man in the Tropics written by Theodore Fleming and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the world’s leading bat biologists, wonderfully conveys the thrill of scientific discovery. Theodore Fleming’s work to document the lives and ecological importance of plant-visiting bats has taken him to the tropical forests of Panama, Costa Rica, and Australia, and to the lush Sonoran Desert of northwest Mexico and Arizona. This book tells the story of his fascinating career and recounts his many adventures in the field. Fleming weaves autobiographical reflections together with information on the natural history and ecology of bats and describes many other animals and plants he has encountered. His book details the stresses and rewards of life in scientific field camps, gives portraits of prominent biologists such as Dan Janzen and Peter Raven, and traces the development of modern tropical biology. A witness to the destruction and development of many of the forests he has visited throughout his career, Fleming makes a passionate plea for the conservation of these wild places.

Author : Tessa Laird
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780239378
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bat written by Tessa Laird and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bats have been maligned in the West for centuries. Unfair associations with demons have seen their leathery wings adorn numerous evil characters, from the Devil to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. But these amazing animals are ecological superheroes. Nectar-feeding bats pollinate important crops like agave; fruit-eating bats disperse seeds and encourage reforestation; and insect-eating bats keep down mosquito populations and other pests, saving agricultural industries billions of dollars. Ranging in size from a bumblebee to creatures with a wingspan the length of an adult human, found on all continents except Antarctica, and displaying extraordinary abilities like echolocation—a built-in sonar system that enables many bats to navigate in the dark—these incredibly diverse mammals are as surprising as they are misunderstood. In Bat, Tessa Laird challenges our preconceptions as she combines fascinating facts of bat biology with engaging portrayals of bats in mythology, literature, film, popular culture, poetry, and contemporary art. She also provides a sobering reminder of the threats bats face worldwide, from heatwaves and human harassment to wind turbines and disease. Illustrated with incredible photographs and artistic representations of bats from many different cultures and eras, this celebration of the only mammals possessing true flight will enthrall batty fans, skeptics, and converts alike.

Author : Alfred Searcy
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Australian Tropics written by Alfred Searcy and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner. This book was released on 1907 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott Snyder
Publisher : DC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Batman (2011-2016) #33 written by Scott Snyder and published by DC. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zero Year part 13. It's been one hell of a year in Gotham City, and it all comes down to this: Batman vs. The Riddler in the extra-sized finale of the Batman early-years epic!

Author : Dustin Nguyen
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1434297357
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tropical Getaway and Bird Watching written by Dustin Nguyen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred thinks Bruce could use a break, so he sends The Dark Knight on a strange and wonderful vacation!

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Publisher : BookPOD
ISBN 13 : 0992290414
Total Pages : 893 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BUCKLEY, BATMAN & MYNDIE: Echoes of the Victorian culture-clash frontier written by and published by BookPOD. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOUNDING 3 begins with Echo 34: DERRIMUTT THE GO-BETWEEN. This clan head of the Bunurong people was the traditional ‘owner’ of the town site that became Melbourne’s CBD on the western side of the river. Bible-bashing Protector Thomas’s journals of camping with the natives at what is now the Botanic Gardens is eye-opening and reveals mind-bending mysteries and misery with grog and gun-control issues that resonate on up to today. This Sounding personalises many local Kulin identities such as Polierong aka Billy Lonsdale and Yabbee aka Billy Hamilton who name-swapped with the early leading townsmen and squatters on their ‘country’. Next follow snippets from Mick Woiwod’s fictional but faithful novel The Last Cry, along with his Yarra Valley anthropology and reconciliatory vision. Surveying and selling off the Yarra and Diamond Valley ‘badlands’ stringybark forest leads into discussions on sorcery, smallpox and culture-collapse into fringe-dwelling. The frontier moves on north, west and east and the tone changes to academic, political and biographic studies of Aboriginal workers and surviving kooris including the life and times of Wurundjeri clan heads Billibellary, Simon Wonga and William Barak. In the decades after World War 2, academic historical analysis led to the politicized ‘history wars’ as reaction to the racist colonial ‘white Australia policy’ lies, fears and distortions cloaked by denial and patriotism. Echo 49: THE NATIVE POLICE – Turncoats or adaptation [?] is the largest echo in this Sounding and the question is posed in five parts, the last being Irish observer Claire Dunne on applying the bloody colonial lessons of Port Phillip to frontier Queensland and beyond to Central Australia’s mass-murderer Constable Willshire and the cultural logic of settler nationalism. Echoes follow on re-visioning Aboriginal / white history and historical geography research of ‘high country’ clans and language groups in my unsatisfied search of a supposed ‘superior tribe’ in the Alps who reportedly ‘dwelt in stone houses all year round’. Sounding 3 ends with echoes titled COLONIAL OBSERVATIONS OF HIGH SOCIETY EMIGRANTS containing Georgina and her son George McCrae’s journals of Yarra-side and pioneering the Mornington peninsula in the 1840s along with early 1860s photographs of native people collected by gentleman squatter John Hunter Kerr.

Author : Rafael Carrión-Arias
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040046010
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Batman and the Shadows of Modernity written by Rafael Carrión-Arias and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and well-known materials seen in a new light. This is a multidisciplinary work aimed at both the specialist and the global reader, bringing together comic studies, philosophical criticism, and literary criticism in a debate on the fate of our current global civilization.

Author : Julia E. Fa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107117577
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting Wildlife in the Tropics and Subtropics written by Julia E. Fa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive review of all topics related to the use and overuse of wildlife for their meat.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom King
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Batman (2016-) #78 written by Tom King and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first part of a “City of Bane” interlude, Batman receives help from an ally he thought he had lost for good: Catwoman! Still recovering from the beatings he took from Bane and Flashpoint Batman, the Dark Knight readies himself for a return to Gotham City, and it’s Selina Kyle who holds the key. She knows how Bane is fueling his regime, and she’ll help Batman shut down the supply line-but first she has to whip the battered hero into shape.