MOON RHYTHMS IN NATURE: How Lunar Cycles Affect Living Organisms.

full color photo illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. first english edition. first printing (FPu2002 & nap). first published in german 1997. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~.300p.+ list of publisher's other titles. 17 glossy full color plates. 38 b&w figures. species catalogue. references. index of authors. index of species. subject index. biology. astronomy. botany. zoology. ~ This fascinating study brings together a wide range of observations of lunar influences on living organisms from plants to humans. For the reader without specialist knowledge, it offers an introduction to the complex subject of lunar influences on the Earth's biosphere. A brief introduction to the Moon and its rhythms in astronomical terms is followed by a study of the tides and complex ocean movements with which numerous organisms are connected in their life processes. Selected organisms are described in detail with a chapter on the spectrum of human rhythms leading into a description of the whole concept of time. Dr Wolfgang Schad, born in 1935, studied biology, chemistry, physics and education. Since 1962 he worked as a Waldorf School teacher and as a lecturer at the Waldorf Teachers College in Stuttgart. Dr. Klaus~Peter Endres, born in 1958, studied biology in Erlange and graduated from the Max~Planck Institute for Medical Research at Heidelberg. He was a Member of the Max~Planck Working Group on structural molecular biology in Hamburg, then at the educational research centre for the Federation of Waldorf Schools in Stuttgart. Both authors lecture at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology at the University of Witten~Herdecke, Germany.…