Animals: From Mythology to Zoology (Discovering the Earth) - Hardcover

Allaby, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816061017 ISBN 13: 9780816061013

Publisher: Facts on File, 2010

Synopsis

The new seven-volume Discovering the Earth set examines the efforts made by scientists in the fields of environment, environmental protection, and environmental science. Covering a broad range of topics--including the Earth sciences, atmosphere, oceans, ecology, animals, plants, and exploration--the books in this comprehensive set provide a panorama of brief accounts of particular discoveries and the people who made them. These stories explain the problems that were solved, the ways they were approached, and, in some cases, the dead ends that scientists sometimes reached. Ideal for high school and college students and particularly valuable to students of environmental studies, ecology, biology, geography, geology, and the humanities, the books in the Discovering the Earth set shed light on the way the scientific aspect of Western culture has developed. Written in clear language and requiring no mathematical knowledge, these helpful books feature sidebars where necessary to explain a particular concept as well as full-color photographs, tables, charts, and further resources.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Allaby is an enthusiastic, prolific, award-winning science writer. His "Plants and Plant Life" won the "Booklist" Editor s Choice in 2001. He is the editor of four science dictionaries for Oxford University Press. He lives in the United Kingdom.

About this edition

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0816061017
• ISBN 13: 9780816061013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 209
• Illustrator: Garratt Richard