Flight Of The Morpho

Author : Roly Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781447763611
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Morpho written by Roly Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1925, Guyana, South America, a land full of undiscovered mysteries, Samuel Jordan a prosperous sporting hero accidentally crushes a Morpho Butterfly. Ancient Amerindian folklore says that killing the Morpho Butterfly invokes a curse. A curse, which will eventually cripple the mind and destroy the soul. Then life for Samuel and his family has to change forever... But how can a beautiful, shy, gossamer creature cause so much pain and destruction in the lives of so many? Or, is the curse simply a metamorphosis of unfortunate life events, which challenges the very soul of the Jordan family in a corrupt, secretive and dangerous society...

Author : Caroline Spector
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250191572
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flight of Morpho Girl written by Caroline Spector and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wild Cards universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years, and "The Flight of Morpho Girl" conjures up an adventurous new tale from the imaginations of acclaimed sci-fi writers Caroline Spector and Bradley Denton. Adesina, known as "Morpho Girl," is used to handling the weird that is her everyday, but life has dealt her a tricky new hand. First, her mom, the crimefighter Amazing Bubbles, has been off since her last mission. Second, Adesina recently aged from ten to sixteen, making everyone think she's even weirder than she already is. On top of everything else, her best friend goes missing. What's a newly-teenaged joker need to do to catch a break? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Sharman Apt Russell
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786740604
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Obsession With Butterflies written by Sharman Apt Russell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary collectors and dedicated scientists who have obsessively catalogued new species of Lepidoptera. A luminous journey through an exotic world of passion and strange beauty, this is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever experienced the enchantment of butterflies.

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Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
ISBN 13 : 1464964823
Total Pages : 1999 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Issues in Ecosystem Ecology: 2011 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 1999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Ecosystem Ecology / 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Ecosystem Ecology. The editors have built Issues in Ecosystem Ecology: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Ecosystem Ecology in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Ecosystem Ecology: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Author : Robert Dudley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691186340
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Biomechanics of Insect Flight written by Robert Dudley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan, winged insects are a conspicuous and abundant feature of life on earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents the first comprehensive explanation of how insects fly. The author relates the biomechanics of flight to insect ecology and evolution in a major new work of synthesis. The book begins with an overview of insect flight biomechanics. Dudley explains insect morphology, wing motions, aerodynamics, flight energetics, and flight metabolism within a modern phylogenetic setting. Drawing on biomechanical principles, he describes and evaluates flight behavior and the limits to flight performance. The author then takes the next step by developing evolutionary explanations of insect flight. He analyzes the origins of flight in insects, the roles of natural and sexual selection in determining how insects fly, and the relationship between flight and insect size, pollination, predation, dispersal, and migration. Dudley ranges widely--from basic aerodynamics to muscle physiology and swarming behavior--but his focus is the explanation of functional design from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. The importance of flight in the lives of insects has long been recognized but never systematically evaluated. This book addresses that shortcoming. Robert Dudley provides an introduction to insect flight that will be welcomed by students and researchers in biomechanics, entomology, evolution, ecology, and behavior.

Author : Ulla M. Lindhe Norberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110904071
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volume 2: The Flight of Bats. Morphologie und Funktion der sensorischen Systeme bei Chiropteren Aktivitätsperiodik der Chiroptera written by Ulla M. Lindhe Norberg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume continues Koopman's book on the systematics of the Chiroptera from 1994 with three further contributions, namely on the Biology of Flight, the Sensory Organs, and on Chronobiology. Written by internationally wellknown authors these contributions present information on their topics in unique breadth and depth, all of them furnished with an extensive bibliography. The language is either English or German; contributions in the German language having an English summary.

Author : William Forsell Kirby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elementary Text-book of Entomology written by William Forsell Kirby and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762799811
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous World of Butterflies written by Peter Laufer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely praised book chronicles Peter Laufer's adventures within the butterfly industry and the butterfly underground. Laufer begins by examining the allure of butterflies throughout history, but his research soon veers into the high-stake realms of organized crime, ecological devastation, museum collections, and chaos theory. His ever-expanding journey of discovery throughout the Americas and beyond offers a rare look into a theater of intrigue, peopled with quirky and nefarious characters—all in pursuit of these delicate, beautiful creatures. Read this book, and your garden—and the world—will never quite look the same.

Author : Stephen Childress
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461439973
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces written by Stephen Childress and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume developed from a Workshop on Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding which was held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota, from June 1-5, 2010. The subject matter ranged widely from observational data to theoretical mechanics, and reflected the broad scope of the workshop. In both the prepared presentations and in the informal discussions, the workshop engaged exchanges across disciplines and invited a lively interaction between modelers and observers. The articles in this volume were invited and fully refereed. They provide a representative if necessarily incomplete account of the field of natural locomotion during a period of rapid growth and expansion. The papers presented at the workshop, and the contributions to the present volume, can be roughly divided into those pertaining to swimming on the scale of marine organisms, swimming of microorganisms at low Reynolds numbers, animal flight, and sliding and other related examples of locomotion.

Author : Harry R. Roegner
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462838790
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Butterfly Trails written by Harry R. Roegner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience remote tropical butterfly collecting locations first hand: topography; politics; jungle; exotic butterflies and their defenses; plus the challenges facing these rare and beautiful insects and the people around them. The books starts with an introduction covering the author's collecting motivation plus observations on some of the amazing elements of butterfly life and behaviour. THe book takes the reader to six collecting areas selected on the basis of great butterflies and significant social events: Peru/Tingo Maria China/The Summer Place Costa Rica/The Osa Peninsula Liberia/Harbel Trinidad/Barcant Ivory Coast/Man The book presents a unique combination of natural science and travel-adventure.