Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by soundWhat is the meaning of a birds song, a baboons bark, an owls hoot, or a dolphins clicks? In The Voices of Nature,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Mar-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691239248)
The astonishing story of how animals use medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselvesAges before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of natures pharmacy to heal themselves. Doctors by...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Feb-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691259963)
A wide-ranging account of how birds spend the quiet half of their lives Birds at Rest is the first book to give a full picture of how birds rest, roost, and sleep, a vital part of their lives. It features new science that can measure what is happeni...Daugiau...
How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awarenessSince the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjectshumans, infants, animals, and robotsin front of mirrors in order...Daugiau...
Justin Marshall, Thomas Cronin, Sönke Johnsen, Ron Douglas, Anya Hurlbert, Jane Boddy, Fabio Cortesi
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Nov-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691258614)
A marvelously illustrated guide to color in the natural worldRecent years have seen tremendous strides in the fields of vision, visual ecology, and our own multilayered experience of color in life and the world. These advances have...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Nov-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691215914)
How scientists are unravelling one of the most tantalizing questions in paleontologyOur understanding of dinosaur behavior has long been hampered by the inevitable lack of evidence from animals that went extinct more than sixty-five...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691259895)
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of dinosaursPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any dinosaur lover. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691260129)
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the worlds whalesPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated thro...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Sep-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691241081)
An enchanting, fact-filled treasury for the dog lover in all of us, from A to ZDogpedia is your gateway into the astonishing world of dogs. Featuring dozens of alphabetical entries on topics ranging from the wonders of dog evolution to the intricate...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Apr-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691237695)
Thomas Seeley has spent his career unraveling the mysteries of honey bee behavior. His goal has been to understand how the 30,000 or so bees in a colony work together as a unit to accomplish such things as finding and occupying a snug nest cavity, f...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Feb-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691255460)
The essential illustrated guide to how birds design and build their nestsnow fully revised and expandedBirds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Describing how...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691244297)
A stunningly illustrated guide to these extraordinary creatures from a world-renowned paleontologistPaleobiology has advanced from a speculative subject to a cutting-edge science. Today, researchers are applying the latest forensic...Daugiau...
A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive mindthe power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Jun-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691236759)
What messages do animals send to each other using sound? How can we decipher them? What lessons might these messages offer for understanding the origins and workings of our own communication? Scientists who study bioacoustics try and answer these qu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Mar-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691215297)
An authoritative, accessible, and gorgeously illustrated exploration into the lives of these remarkable animalsLions are the only social cat. They hunt together, raise cubs together, and defend territories together against neighbors...Daugiau...
A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other speciesThe Human Evolutionary Transition offers a unified view of the evolution of intelligence, presenting a bold and provocative new account of ho...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691240756)
A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other speciesThe Human Evolutionary Transition offers a unified view of the evolution of intelligence, presenting a bold and provocative new account of ho...Daugiau...
In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Inde...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Nov-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691237251)
How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awarenessSince the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjectshumans, infants, animals, and robotsin front of mirrors in order...Daugiau...
