Skeletons: The Extraordinary Form and Function of Bones - Softcover

Kirk, Andrew

 
9781782404026: Skeletons: The Extraordinary Form and Function of Bones
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1782404023 ISBN 13: 9781782404026
Verlag: The Ivy Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Bone is one of the most extraordinary materials in the natural world – flexible and strong, available in a number of types and densities. Yet we only absorb quite how amazing it is when we look at the range of different jobs it can do, from supporting and shaping a huge and heavy mammal like an elephant to enabling a bat to fly. And looking into the distant past, scientists know what they know about the dinosaurs and their descendents from their fossilized bones, extraordinary reminders of how different our world used to be. Skeletons takes the virtuoso engravings of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and marries them with a contemporary and readable text that brings them right up to date, creating an appealing mix of scientific eye candy and cutting-edge scholarship. 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew Kirk (Liverpool, UK) was educated at Oxford University and worked in publishing for over twenty years before becoming a writer. His previous titles have included books on ancient history and a study of Thoreau. This is his sixth book.

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Bone is one of the most extraordinary materials in the natural world – flexible and strong, available in a number of types and densities. Yet we only absorb quite how amazing it is when we look at the range of different jobs it can do, from supporting and shaping a huge and heavy mammal like an elephant to enabling a bat to fly. And looking into the distant past, scientists know what they know about the dinosaurs and their descendents from their fossilized bones, extraordinary reminders of how different our world used to be. Skeletons takes the virtuoso engravings of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and marries them with a contemporary and readable text that brings them right up to date, creating an appealing mix of scientific eye candy and cutting-edge scholarship.

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Verlag
The Ivy Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1782404023
ISBN 13 
9781782404026
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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