berkeley university of california press 2008 (20 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like-new. First Edition. 219 Pages. First Edition by the Numbers. This is a very interesting and gripping book on the sources of pet food and the contaminants that were in it. The dust jacket, exterior and interior book are all in like-new condition with no visible damages, all print well-preserved and good and tight bindings. This book will be carefully wrapped up and boxed and then shipped right away to you from here in New Jersey and comes with our total appreciation for your order.

PAPERBACK, like new. NADKARNI, NALINI. Between earth and sky our intimate connections to trees. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, 1st printing number line ending in 1, 338pp., . World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In Between Earth and Sky, a rich tapestry of personal stories, information, art, and photography, she becomes our captivating guide to the leafy wilderness above our heads. Through her luminous narrative, we embark on a multifaceted exploration of trees that illuminates the profound connections we have with them, the dazzling array of goods and services they provide, and the powerful lessons they hold for us. Nadkarni describes trees' intricate root systems, their highly evolved and still not completely understood canopies, their role in commerce and medicine, their existence in city centers and in extreme habitats of mountaintops and deserts, and their important place in folklore and the arts. She explains tree fundamentals and considers the symbolic role they have assumed in culture and religion. In a book that reawakens our sense of wonder at the fascinating world of trees, we ultimately find entry to the entire natural world and rediscover our own place in it. - CONTENTS: Introduction: View from the Top -- ONE. What Is a Tree? -- TWO. Goods and Services -- THREE. Shelter and Protection -- FOUR. Health and Healing -- FIVE. Play and Imagination -- SIX. Connections to Time -- SEVEN. Signs and Symbols -- EIGHT. Spirituality and Religion -- NINE. Mindfulness -- Scientific Names of Trees in the Text -- Notes -- Recommended Readings -- Poetry Credits -- Index. ISBN 9780520261655.

Smail, Daniel Lord. On deep history and the brain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, xiv, 271pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black half-cloth, slightly faded at bottom of spine. When does history begin? What characterizes it? This book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. It lays out a new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history. - CONTENTS: Introduction: toward reunion in history -- The grip of sacred history -- Resistance -- Between Darwin and Lamarck -- The new neurohistory -- Civilization and psychotropy -- Epilogue: Looking ahead. ISBN 9780520252899.

1st Edition in this form. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 151 pages; Description: 151 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Notes: Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1972. Poems in Chinese and English. Subjects: Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 --Translations into English. Summary: Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition), translated and introduced by Willis Barnstone, are expressions of decades of struggle, the painful loss of his first wife, his hope for a new China, and his ultimate victory over the Nationalist forces. Willis Barnstone's introduction, his short biography of Mao and brief history of the revolution, and his notes on Chinese versification all combine to enrich the Western reader's understanding of Mao's poetry. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. First printing. 8vo. Frontispiece photograph. vii, 346 pp. Illustrated in B & W. Original glossy white photographic wrappers. This is a tight, fine book.

1st Edition in this form. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 151 pages; Description: 151 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Notes: Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1972. Poems in Chinese and English. Subjects: Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 --Translations into English. Summary: Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition), translated and introduced by Willis Barnstone, are expressions of decades of struggle, the painful loss of his first wife, his hope for a new China, and his ultimate victory over the Nationalist forces. Willis Barnstone's introduction, his short biography of Mao and brief history of the revolution, and his notes on Chinese versification all combine to enrich the Western reader's understanding of Mao's poetry. 1 Kg.

Condizione: New. New copy. xvi, 367 pages. Hardback in dust jacket.

Octavo,120 pp.,softcover. Provides information on 75 valid species of parasitic wasps.

Quarto,320 pp.,colour photographs, maps, inscription, a fine copy in dustwrapper. Focusing on king penguins in Antarctica, cassowaries in Queensland, cocks-of-the rock in Peru, this gorgeous book describes the one hundred best bird-watching sites on the planet. Introductory sections give an overview of each continent or region, and then each site is listed and ranked on a country-by-country basis. The entries all include a full description, a list of key species, a map, and information on the best time of year to visit. Lavish color photographs capture rare and elusive species as well as some of the world's best avian spectacles, such as the snow goose blizzard at Bosque del Apache and the flocks of lesser flamingos on Africa's Rift Valley lakes. Many birding sites are included for their unique avifauna, endemics, and oddities - the Seychelles, Andasibe in Madagascar, Taveuni in Fiji, and the Alaka'i wilderness in Hawaii, among others. With its truly global coverage - of the huge flocks of wintering geese in Britain and the United States, the cranes in both Japan and France, the 'river of raptors' passage at Veracruz in Mexico, and much more - this book will inform and inspire anyone who plans to visit, or who dreams of visiting, these extraordinary locations.

8vo xi, 420 pages. Paperback with minimal shelf wear. Internally VG. Illustrations and music examples.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo. xviii, 258 pp. Original pictorial wrappers. From the library of noted scholar on sexuality and queer studies, Jonathan Goldberg, whose signature is on the front free endpaper and whose detailed pencil underlining/notes are in the text between pages xiii and 90. Goldberg was (along with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) one of the four academics who launched and was one of the general editors of Duke University Press landmark Series Q which brought a theoretical and interdisciplinary lens to gay and lesbian studies, approaching questions of sexuality from a queer perspective. His Queering the Renaissance was one of the first two books issued by the Press. They were also colleagues at Duke and very close friends. A very nice association copy. Pencil noted, else fine.

Quarto, dustwrapper,360 pp.,colour photographs, maps. Illustrated with maps, colour photographs, and graphics, this reference offers a comprehensive status report on the world's 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas designated as protected areas. It offers an overview of what these protected areas have and have not accomplished and what threats they face., Extensively illustrated with maps, colour photographs, and graphics, this state-of-the-art reference offers a comprehensive and authoritative status report on the world's 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas currently designated as protected areas. Now covering about 12 percent of the Earth's surface, protected areas provide a wide range of valuable ecological benefits: they contribute to biodiversity conservation; supply food, water, and other resources; regulate weather patterns; contain potential medicines; generate income at local, regional, and national levels through tourism; and more. This timely volume offers a benchmark overview of where these protected areas exist worldwide, what they have and have not accomplished, what threats they face, and how they can be better managed to achieve the goals of conserving biodiversity and other natural resources.

8vo 302 pages. Cloth in d/w, backstrip very slightly bumped at head and foot, else VG. Internally VG. Music examples.

Quarto, laminated boards,341 pp.,text illustrations. Describes the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects, including their relationships with host plants and natural enemies. This book focuses on the dynamic relationships between insects and plants from the standpoint of evolutionary change at different levels of biological organization - individuals, populations, species, and clades.

Large octavo, laminated boards,320 pp.,black and white photographs, text illustrations, maps. Archaeological data now show that relatively intense human adaptations to coastal environments developed much earlier than once believed - more than 125,000 years ago. With our oceans and marine fisheries currently in a state of crisis, coastal archaeological sites contain a wealth of data that can shed light on the history of human exploitation of marine ecosystems. In eleven case studies from the Americas, Pacific Islands, North Sea, Caribbean, Europe, and Africa, leading researchers working in coastal areas around the world cover diverse marine ecosystems, reaching into deep history to discover how humans interacted with and impacted these aquatic environments and shedding new light on our understanding of contemporary environmental problems.

271 pp including index, b&w photographic illustrations, fine copy in like, pictorial d/j.

2nd edition softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy octavo xviii + 643 (32)pp., appendix, index, 'Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialised encyclopedia that will inform any reading of "Ulysses'. Some minor annotaion in text o/w a nice copy.

revised edition hardback with dust jacket As New large octavo xiii + 878pp., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Definitive. Inc. full colour annotated maps.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo xxxvi + 192pp., b/w pls., Neat ownership signature & neat ownership label o/w nice copy.

Second printing. XIII, (1), 302, (1) pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Spine ends slightly bumped, dust jacket with minor shelf wear. Condition VG+.