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古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 A Year In The Maine Woods - Bernd Heinrich (Da Capo) 【紙書籍】 9780201489392

タイトル: A Year In The Maine Woods著者: Bernd Heinrich出版社: Da Capo出版日: 1995年11月08日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Heinrich has developed a wide following with such classics as "Ravens in Winter" and "Bumblebee Economics." "A Year in the Maine Woods" is a more personal book, propelled by the kind of restlessness that usually sends writers trekking across continents. Rather than hitting the open road, though, Heinrich looks for answers to life's questions in the unexpected richness of one small place, a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains, which he intends to discover in exquisite detail.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Army Officer's Guide: 47th Edition - Lawrence P Crocker (Stackpole Books) 【紙書籍】 9780811726658

タイトル: Army Officer's Guide: 47th Edition著者: Lawrence P Crocker出版社: Stackpole Books出版日: 1996年09月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This updated reference is more essential than ever to Army officers throughout their careers.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World - Sarah Stewart Johnson (Crown) 【紙書籍】 9781101904817

タイトル: Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World著者: Sarah Stewart Johnson出版社: Crown出版日: 2020年07月07日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。"Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of Mars in this celebration of human curiosity, passion, and perseverance."--Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD FOR SCIENCE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Times (UK) - Library Journal "Lovely . . . Johnson's prose swirls with lyrical wonder, as varied and multihued as the apricot deserts, butterscotch skies and blue sunsets of Mars."--Anthony Doerr, The New York Times Book Review Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum--on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering find, one that would inspire humankind as much as any discovery in the history of modern science. In this beautifully observed, deeply personal book, Georgetown scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson tells the story of how she and other researchers have scoured Mars for signs of life, transforming the planet from a distant point of light into a world of its own. Johnson's fascination with Mars began as a child in Kentucky, turning over rocks with her father and looking at planets in the night sky. She now conducts fieldwork in some of Earth's most hostile environments, such as the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and the salt flats of Western Australia, developing methods for detecting life on other worlds. Here, with poetic precision, she interlaces her own personal journey--as a female scientist and a mother--with tales of other seekers, from Percival Lowell, who was convinced that a utopian society existed on Mars, to Audouin Dollfus, who tried to carry out astronomical observations from a stratospheric balloon. In the process, she shows how the story of Mars is also a story about Earth: This other world has been our mirror, our foil, a telltale reflection of our own anxieties and yearnings. Empathetic and evocative, The Sirens of Mars offers an unlikely natural history of a place where no human has ever set foot, while providing a vivid portrait of our quest to defy our isolation in the cosmos.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Planting Noah's Garden: Further Adventures in Backyard Ecology - Sara Stein (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 【紙書籍】 9780395709603

タイトル: Planting Noah's Garden: Further Adventures in Backyard Ecology著者: Sara Stein出版社: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt出版日: 1997年04月30日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This is an account of ways in which many people in the USA are redesigning their gardens to encourage the return of birds, butterflies and other creatures driven away by the sterility of a suburban landscape. The book contains advice on a wide range of topics relevant to ecological gardening, including the handling of group wholesale orders, killing invasive plants, collecting and planting wild seeds, starting a tree island, and planting a patio habitat.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Evolution of an Independent Home: The Story of a Solar Electric Pioneer - Paul Fowler (Fowler Enterprises) 【紙書籍】 9780964511170

タイトル: Evolution of an Independent Home: The Story of a Solar Electric Pioneer著者: Paul Fowler出版社: Fowler Enterprises出版日: 1995年08月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This is the story of how one man used local resources, ingenuity, imagination, and patience to create a homestead powered by the sun.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World - Edward D Melillo (Knopf) 【紙書籍】 9781524733216

タイトル: Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World著者: Edward D Melillo出版社: Knopf出版日: 2020年08月25日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。A fascinating, entertaining dive into the long-standing relationship between humans and insects, revealing the surprising ways we depend on these tiny, six-legged creatures. Insects might make us shudder in disgust, but they are also responsible for many of the things we take for granted in our daily lives. When we bite into a shiny apple, listen to the resonant notes of a violin, get dressed, receive a dental implant, or get a manicure, we are the beneficiaries of a vast army of insects. Try as we might to replicate their raw material (silk, shellac, and cochineal, for instance), our artificial substitutes have proven subpar at best, and at worst toxic, ensuring our interdependence with the insect world for the foreseeable future. Drawing on research in laboratory science, agriculture, fashion, and international cuisine, Edward D. Melillo weaves a vibrant world history that illustrates the inextricable and fascinating bonds between humans and insects. Across time, we have not only coexisted with these creatures but have relied on them for, among other things, the key discoveries of modern medical science and the future of the world's food supply. Without insects, entire sectors of global industry would grind to a halt and essential features of modern life would disappear. Here is a beguiling appreciation of the ways in which these creatures have altered--and continue to shape--the very framework of our existence.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Mushrooms of North America in Color: A Field Guide Companion to Seldom-Illustrated Fungi - Alan Bessette (Syracuse University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780815603238

タイトル: Mushrooms of North America in Color: A Field Guide Companion to Seldom-Illustrated Fungi著者: Alan Bessette出版社: Syracuse University Press出版日: 1995年08月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This volume is the first guide to identify mushroom species not commonly classified or illustrated elsewhere in current literature. The book, which will serve as a companion to other popular field guides, shows how to distinguish lesser-known mushrooms from other common fungi. Found in a variety of habitats in North America, each species has an accurate and up-to-date description, a color illustration, and detailed information on its distinctive species characteristics. The book is written for the amateur and professional mycologist alike. Anyone, however, who is interested in collecting mushrooms will find it a valuable contribution to the field.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy - Stephen Hawking (Running Press Adult) 【紙書籍】 9780762416981

タイトル: On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy著者: Stephen Hawking出版社: Running Press Adult出版日: 2003年12月25日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。World-renowned physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking presents a revolutionary look at the momentous discoveries that changed our perception of the world with this first-ever compilation of seven classic works on physics and astronomy. His choice of landmark writings by some of the world's great thinkers traces the brilliant evolution of modern science and shows how each figure built upon the genius of his predecessors. On the Shoulders of Giants includes, in their entirety, On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus; Principia by Sir Isaac Newton; The Principle of Relativity by Albert Einstein; Dialogues Concerning Two Sciences by Galileo Galilei with Alfonso De Salvio; plus Mystery of the Cosmos, Harmony of the World, and Rudolphine Tables by Johannes Kepler. It also includes five critical essays and a biography of each featured physicist, written by Hawking himself.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World - Peter Nichols (Harper) 【紙書籍】 006008877X

タイトル: Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World著者: Peter Nichols出版社: Harper出版日: 2003年10月07日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Evolution's Captain is the story of a visionary but now forgotten English naval officer but for whom the "Darwinian Revolution" would never have occurred. When Captain Robert FitzRoy, the twenty-six-year-old captain of the H.M.S. Beagle, set out for Tierra del Fuego in the fall of 1831, he invited a young naturalist to accompany him. That twenty-two-year-old gentleman was Charles Darwin, and perhaps no single voyage in history had a greater impact on how we would come to understand the world -- in both religious and scientific terms.When the Beagle's first captain committed suicide while at sea in 1828, he was replaced by a young naval officer of a new mold. Robert FitzRoy was the most brilliant and scientific sea captain of his age. He used the Beagle, a survey vessel, as a laboratory for the new field of the natural sciences. But his plan to bring four "savages" home to England to civilize them as Christian gentlefolk backfired when scandal loomed over their sexual misbehavior at the Walthamstow Infants School. FitzRoy needed to get them out of England fast, and thus was born the second and most famous voyage of the Beagle.FitzRoy feared the loneliness of another long voyage -- with madness in his own family, he was haunted by the fate of the Beagle's previous captain -- so for company he took with him the young amateur naturalist Charles Darwin. Like FitzRoy, Darwin believed, at the beginning of the voyage, in the absolute word of the Bible and the story of man's creation. The two men spent five years circling the globe together, but by the end of their voyage they had reached startlingly different conclusions about the origins of the natural world.In naval terms, the voyage was a stunning scientific success. But FitzRoy, a fanatical Christian, was horrified by the heretical theories Darwin began to develop. As these began to influence the profoundest levels of religious and scientific thinking in the nineteenth century, FitzRoy's knowledge that he had provided Darwin with the vehicle for his sacrilegious ideas propelled him down an irrevocable path to suicide.This true story -- part biography, part sea drama, and a subtle study of one of the defining moments in the history of science -- reads like the finest historical fiction. It is a chronicle of the remarkable chain of events without which Darwin would most likely have lived and died an obscure English country parson with a fondness for collecting beetles.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Veterinary Dentistry for the Nurse and Technician - Cecilia Gorrel (Butterworth-Heinemann) 【紙書籍】 9780750652865

タイトル: Veterinary Dentistry for the Nurse and Technician著者: Cecilia Gorrel出版社: Butterworth-Heinemann出版日: 2005年03月01日古本可。かなり摩耗した読み物です。本文にマーキングがある場合があります。製本が割れている可能性がありますが、全ページ揃っています。ダストジャケットは含まれません。図書館から入手することもあります。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証This well-illustrated manual offers veterinary technicians and nurses practical advice on performing basic dental procedures. It covers all key day-to-day scenarios in a small animal practice, including equipment, preventive dentistry, and dental radiography. The authors - one a world authority on veterinary dentistry, the other a listed veterinary nurse - have worked together for more than a decade and have unparalleled experience in animal dentistry and oral surgery.Specifically written for veterinary nurses and techniciansDetails equipment and instrument requirements and maintenanceCovers anesthesia for the dental/oral surgery patientProvides clear instructions for performing common dental proceduresIncludes practical advice on running a dental clinicOffers tips of the trade from an experienced oral care team

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai - John Tayman (Scribner) 【紙書籍】 9780743233002

タイトル: Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai著者: John Tayman出版社: Scribner出版日: 2006年01月09日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In the bestselling tradition of "In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony" reveals the untold history of the infamous American leprosy colony on Molokai and of the extraordinary people who struggled to survive under the most horrific circumstances. In 1866, twelve men and women and one small child were forced aboard a leaky schooner and cast away to a natural prison on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Two weeks later, a dozen others were exiled, and then forty more, and then a hundred more. Tracked by bounty hunters and torn screaming from their families, the luckless were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and most of those who did were not contagious, yet all were caught in a shared nightmare. The colony had little food, little medicine, and very little hope. Exile continued for more than a century, the longest and deadliest instance of medical segregation in American history. Nearly nine thousand people were banished to the colony, trapped by pounding surf and armed guards and the highest sea cliffs in the world. Twenty-eight live there still. John Tayman tells the fantastic saga of this horrible and hopeful place -- at one time the most famous community in the world -- and of the individuals involved. From the very first exile -- a gentle part-time lawyer trapped in an unjust ordeal beyond his imagination -- to the last remaining residents, the narrative is peopled by presidents and kings, cruel lawmen and pioneering doctors, and brave souls who literally gave their lives to help. A stunning cast includes the martyred Father Damien, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Mark Twain, TeddyRoosevelt, John Wayne, and more. The result is a searing tale of survival and bravery, and a testament to the power of faith, compassion, and heroism.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 H Is for Hawk - Helen MacDonald (Grove Press) 【紙書籍】 9780802123411

タイトル: H Is for Hawk著者: Helen MacDonald出版社: Grove Press出版日: 2015年03月03日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearOne of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 YearsON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20)The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" (People). H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish - G Bruce Knecht (Rodale Books) 【紙書籍】 9781594861109

タイトル: Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish著者: G Bruce Knecht出版社: Rodale Books出版日: 2006年05月02日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and is also an exploration of the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us.Hooked is a story about the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (known to gourmands as Chilean Sea Bass) and is built around the pursuit of the illegal fishing vessel Viarsa by an Australian patrol boat, Southern Supporter, in one of the longest pursuits in maritime history.Author G. Bruce Knecht chronicles how an obscure fish merchant in California "discovered" and renamed the fish, kicking off a worldwide craze for a fish no one had ever heard of - and everyone had to have. And with demand exploding, priates were only too happy to satisfy our taste for Chilean Sea Bass. Knecht - whose previous book The Proving Ground was hailed by Walter Cronkite as "a sailing masterpiece...a tale more thrilling than fiction"--captivates readers by deftly shifting among the story's nail-biting elements: The perilous chase at sea through frenzied winds, punishing waves, and an obstacle course of icebergs; the high-stakes environmental battle and courtroom drama; and the competitive battle among the world's restaurants to serve the perfect, flaky, white-fleshed fish.From the world's most treacherous waters to its most fabulous kitchens, Hooked is at once a thrilling tale and a revelatory popular history that will appeal to a diverse group of readers. Think Kitchen Confidential meets The Hungry Ocean.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Champions of Illusion: The Science Behind Mind-Boggling Images and Mystifying Brain Puzzles - Susana Martinez-Conde (Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 【紙書籍】 9780374120405

タイトル: Champions of Illusion: The Science Behind Mind-Boggling Images and Mystifying Brain Puzzles著者: Susana Martinez-Conde出版社: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux出版日: 2017年10月24日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。A full-color celebration of stunning visual illusions and the science behind themIn Champions of Illusion, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik present a smorgasbord of mystifying images, many selected from their Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Whether it's false motion, tricks of perspective, or shifting colors, Champions of Illusion is packed with adventures in visual perception. If you have ever found yourself face-to-face with an utterly bewildering illusion, you know the powerful effect such images have on the mind. The question we often ask ourselves is, How is that possible? Martinez-Conde and Macknik, who study the intersection of neuroscience, illusions, and stage magic, explain just why we think we see the things we see. The Best Illusion of the Year Contest draws entries from vision scientists, artists, magicians, and mathematicians bent on creating today's most beguiling illusions. Featuring the contest's most bizarre effects and unbelievable mind tricks, along with classic illusions and illuminating descriptions of what is actually going on in your brain when you are deceived by visuals on the page, Champions of Illusion is an electrifying mix of science and magic that you will not soon forget.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance - Atul Gawande (Picador) 【紙書籍】 9780312427658

タイトル: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance著者: Atul Gawande出版社: Picador出版日: 2008年01月22日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In this book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. Gawande's gripping stories of diligence, ingenuity, and what it means to do right by people take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, to labor and delivery rooms in Boston, to a polio outbreak in India, and to malpractice courtrooms around the country. He discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors' participation in lethal injections, examines the influence of money on modern medicine, and recounts the astoundingly contentious history of hand washing. And as in all his writing, Gawande gives us an inside look at his own life as a practicing surgeon, offering a searingly honest firsthand account of work in a field where mistakes are both unavoidable and unthinkable. At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey narrated by "arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around" (Salon). Gawande's investigation into medical professionals and how they progress from merely good to great provides rare insight into the elements of success, illuminating every area of human endeavor.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 DNA: The Secret of Life (Revised) - James D Watson (Arrow Books) 【紙書籍】 9780099451846

タイトル: DNA: The Secret of Life (Revised)著者: James D Watson出版社: Arrow Books出版日: 2004年04月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and author of the international bestseller The Double Helix, tells the story of the amazing molecule since its discovery fifty years ago, following modern genetics from his own Nobel prize-winning work in the fifties to today's Dolly the sheep, designer babies and GM foods. Professor Watson introduces the science of modern genetics, along with its history and its implications, in this magnificent guide to one of the most triumphant achievements of human science.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Elizabeth Kolbert (Picador) 【紙書籍】 9781250062185

タイトル: Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History著者: Elizabeth Kolbert出版社: Picador出版日: 2015年01月06日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Loa #182) - Bill McKibben (Library of America) 【紙書籍】 9781598530209

タイトル: American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Loa #182)著者: Bill McKibben出版社: Library of America出版日: 2008年05月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, provocative, and timely anthology, gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries. Classics of the environmental imagination, the essays of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Burroughs; Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac; Rachel Carson's Silent Spring - are set against the inspiring story of an emerging activist movement, as revealed by newly uncovered reports of pioneering campaigns for conservation, passages from landmark legal opinions and legislation, and searing protest speeches. Here are some of America's greatest and most impassioned writers, taking a turn toward nature and recognizing the fragility of our situation on earth and the urgency of the search for a sustainable way of life. Thought-provoking essays on overpopulation, consumerism, energy policy, and the nature of nature, join ecologists - memoirs and intimate sketches of the habitats of endangered species. The anthology includes a detailed chronology of the environmental movement and American environmental history, as well as an 80-page color portfolio of illustrations.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World - Mark Kurlansky (Penguin Books) 【紙書籍】 9780140275018

タイトル: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World著者: Mark Kurlansky出版社: Penguin Books出版日: 1998年07月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。"Cod" spans a thousand years and four continents. From the Vikings, who pursued the codfish across the Atlantic, and the enigmatic Basques, who first commercialized it in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, and Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in the 1930s, Mark Kurlansky introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs, and of course the fishermen, whose lives have interwoven with this prolific fish. He chronicles the fifteenth-century politics of the Hanseatic League and the cod wars of the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. He embellishes his story with gastronomic detail, blending in recipes and lore from the Middle Ages to the present. And he brings to life the cod itself: its personality, habits, extended family, and ultimately the tragedy of how the most profitable fish in history is today faced with extinction. From fishing ports in New England and Newfoundland to coastal skiffs, schooners, and factory ships across the Atlantic; from Iceland and Scandinavia to the coasts of England, Brazil, and West Africa, Mark Kurlansky tells a story that brings world history and human passions into captivating focus.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Birders Dictionary - Randall T Cox (Falcon Pr Pub Co) 【紙書籍】 9781560444237

タイトル: Birders Dictionary著者: Randall T Cox出版社: Falcon Pr Pub Co出版日: 1996年06月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。A unique pocket reference for birders of all skill levels, or for anyone who needs quick access to ornithological terms -- editors, writers, students.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure - S Chandrasekhar (Dover Publications) 【紙書籍】 9780486604138

タイトル: Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure著者: S Chandrasekhar出版社: Dover Publications出版日: 2010年07月21日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In this monograph a leading modern astrophysicist explores a problem basic to stellar dynamics: What is the relationship between loss of energy, mass, and radius of stars in the steady state?The monograph is divided into two distinct parts. In chapters i-iv, Chandrasekhar presents the "classical" background necessary to his argument: the laws of thermodynamics (from Carathéodory's rigorous axiomatic standpoint), adiabatic and polytropic laws, and the work of Ritter, Emden, Kelvin, and others who developed the applied mathematics of stellar structure. Chapters v-xii discuss modern results: the formal theory of radiation, the equations of radiative equilibrium, the luminosity formula, the theory of stellar envelopes, Gibbs statistical mechanics (the quantum mechanical version), white dwarfs, etc. The closing chapter outlines some general trends in current investigations of the problem.Appendixes cover physical and astronomical constants; the masses of light atoms; the masses, luminosities, and radii of the stars, derived hydrogen contents, central densities and central temperatures, and tables of white dwarf functions."Extremely interesting. It reaches the highest level of scientific merit." -- Bulletin, American Mathematical Society.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Yankee Science in the Making - Dirk J Struik (Dover Publications) 【紙書籍】 9780486269276

タイトル: Yankee Science in the Making著者: Dirk J Struik出版社: Dover Publications出版日: 1992年01月14日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Thoughtful, readable survey explores "flowering" of science in New England from Colonial times to the Civil War. Describes contributions of scientists Benjamin Franklin and Eli Whitney, engineers George Washington Whistler and Cyrus Field, naturalists Gray, Agassiz, and Dana; medical accomplishments of Holmes, Morton and Jarvis, beginnings of Darwinism, much more.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Cottage Water Systems: An Out-Of-The-City Guide to Pumps, Plumbing, Water Purification, and Privies (Revised) - Max Burns (Cottage Life Books) 【紙書籍】 9780969692201

タイトル: Cottage Water Systems: An Out-Of-The-City Guide to Pumps, Plumbing, Water Purification, and Privies (Revised)著者: Max Burns出版社: Cottage Life Books出版日: 1999年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。 If you have a pump, a well, a septic system, or an outhouse ... If you winterize your water system or use it year round ... Or if you simply care about the quality of the water your drink, Cottage Water Systems will save you time, money, and headaches Cottage Water Systems is written specifically with cottages -- and cottage problems -- in mind. It explains in a clear, easy-to-understand style how each component of the water system works, with dozens of tips on installation and repair, as well as troubleshooting guides to help you diagnose what's wrong with your system. Each chapter is accompanied by explanatory diagrams and illustrations. Cottage Water Systems includes: how to choose the pump that's right for your property a guide to water quality and types of water purifiers foolproof methods for priming your pump the ins and outs of composting toilets and other alternatives how to extend the life of your septic system step-by-step instructions for closing a seasonal water system in the fall and opening it in the spring how to build a first-class outhouse ways to get water in winter how to keep the cottage's environmental impact low North American sources for water-system components plus wells, gray water systems, and more.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Assembling California - John McPhee (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 【紙書籍】 9780374106454

タイトル: Assembling California著者: John McPhee出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux出版日: 1993年02月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect--in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth--and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Cancer Journals: The Original Edition - Audre Lorde (Aunt Lute Books) 【紙書籍】 9781879960268

タイトル: Cancer Journals: The Original Edition著者: Audre Lorde出版社: Aunt Lute Books出版日: 1995年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives about a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies - John McPhee (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 【紙書籍】 0374148228

タイトル: Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives about a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies著者: John McPhee出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux出版日: 1971年08月06日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House - Bob Vila (Little Brown & Co) 【紙書籍】 0316177024

タイトル: This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House著者: Bob Vila出版社: Little Brown & Co出版日: 1980年10月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Good Apples: Behind Every Bite - Susan Futrell (University Of Iowa Press) 【紙書籍】 9781609384821

タイトル: Good Apples: Behind Every Bite著者: Susan Futrell出版社: University Of Iowa Press出版日: 2017年09月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Apples are so ordinary and so ubiquitous that we often take them for granted. Yet it is surprisingly challenging to grow and sell such a common fruit. In fact, producing diverse, tasty apples for the market requires almost as much ingenuity and interdependence as building and maintaining a vibrant democracy. Understanding the geographic, ecological, and economic forces shaping the choices of apple growers, apple pickers, and apple buyers illuminates what's at stake in the way we organize our food system. Good Apples is for anyone who wants to go beyond the kitchen and backyard into the orchards, packing sheds, and cold storage rooms; into the laboratories and experiment stations; and into the warehouses, stockrooms, and marketing meetings, to better understand how we as citizens and eaters can sustain the farms that provide food for our communities. Susan Futrell has spent years working in sustainable food distribution, including more than a decade with apple growers. She shows us why sustaining family orchards, like family farms, may be essential to the soul of our nation.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures - Anne Fadiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 【紙書籍】 9780374525644

タイトル: Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures著者: Anne Fadiman出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux出版日: 1998年09月30日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely independent people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors. Lia's pediatricians, Neil Ernst and his wife, Peggy Philip, cleaved just as strongly to another tradition: that of Western medicine. When Lia Lee entered the American medical system, diagnosed as an epileptic, her story became a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick (Penguin Books) 【紙書籍】 9780140092509

タイトル: Chaos: Making a New Science著者: James Gleick出版社: Penguin Books出版日: 1988年12月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。"Chaos" records the birth of a new science. This new science offers a way of seeing order and pattern where formerly only the random, the erratic, the unpredictable--in short, the chaotic--had been observed.