Relicts of a Beautiful Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relicts of a Beautiful Sea write by Christopher Norment. This book was released on 2014. Relicts of a Beautiful Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World
Relicts of a Beautiful Sea
Relicts of a Beautiful Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relicts of a Beautiful Sea write by Christopher Norment. This book was released on 2014-09-29. Relicts of a Beautiful Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes unique to the desert West. All are anomalies: amphibians and fish, dependent upon aquatic habitats, yet living in one of the driest places on earth, where precipitation averages less than four inches per year. In this climate of extremes, beset by conflicts over water rights, each species illustrates the work of natural selection and the importance of conservation. This is also a story of persistence--for as much as ten million years--amid the changing landscape of western North America. By telling the story of these creatures, Norment illustrates the beauty of evolution and explores ethical and practical issues of conservation: what is a four-inch-long salamander worth, hidden away in the heat-blasted canyons of the Inyo Mountains, and what would the cost of its extinction be? What is any lonely and besieged species worth, and why should we care?
Beautiful is the Sea
Beautiful is the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beautiful is the Sea write by John William Cherry. This book was released on . Beautiful is the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Sleep in a Sea of Stars write by Christopher Paolini. This book was released on 2020-09-15. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now a New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Winner of Best Science Fiction in the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards! To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope . . . The Fractalverse Series To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Fractal Noise At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Strange Beauty
Strange Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strange Beauty write by Cynthia Jean Hahn. This book was released on 2012. Strange Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A study of reliquaries as a form of representation in medieval art. Explores how reliquaries stage the importance and meaning of relics using a wide range of artistic means from material and ornament to metaphor and symbolism"--Provided by publisher.
