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Fleming Theodore H |
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A bat man in the tropics [[electronic resource] ] : chasing El Duende / / Theodore H. Fleming |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
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1-282-75917-5 |
9786612759178 |
0-520-92948-9 |
1-59734-480-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Collana |
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Organisms and environments ; ; 7 |
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Soggetti |
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Bats - Tropics |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) and indexes. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Up a Quebrada without a Paddle -- 2. Year of the Marmosa -- 3. Along the Río Corobici -- 4. El Duende -- 5. Three Hundred Nights of Solitude -- 6. Anastasio's Last Stand -- 7. Vampyrum -- 8. Fooling Around with Flying Foxes -- 9. Tracy's Hypothesis -- 10. Along the Nectar Trail -- 11. In the Blink of an Eye -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. A Brief Overview of Bat Diversity -- Appendix 2. Some Common and Scientific Names Used in the Text -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index |
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The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the world's leading bat biologists, wonderfully conveys the thrill of scientific discovery. Theodore Fleming's work to document the lives and ecological importance of plant-visiting bats has taken him to the tropical forests of Panama, Costa Rica, and Australia, and to the lush Sonoran Desert of northwest Mexico and Arizona. This book tells the story of his fascinating career and recounts his many adventures in the field. Fleming weaves |
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autobiographical reflections together with information on the natural history and ecology of bats and describes many other animals and plants he has encountered. His book details the stresses and rewards of life in scientific field camps, gives portraits of prominent biologists such as Dan Janzen and Peter Raven, and traces the development of modern tropical biology. A witness to the destruction and development of many of the forests he has visited throughout his career, Fleming makes a passionate plea for the conservation of these wild places. |
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UNINA9910788324603321 |
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Autore |
Feldman Glenn |
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The irony of the solid south [[electronic resource] ] : Democrats, Republicans, and race, 1865-1944 / / Glenn Feldman |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Political parties - History - 20th century |
Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950 |
Southern States Race relations History 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The "Reconstruction syndrome" and the calcification of conservative culture -- Elements of Democratic solidarity and discontent: industry, economics, Calvinist religion, and Jim Crow -- For Blacks only: the perversion of Alabama progressivism -- Race over rum, romans, and Republicans -- Placing culture on hold: the New Deal coalition, its first cracks, and the "great melding" takes shape -- Splitting the New Deal coalition open -- The "liberal south" and the central tragedy of southern politics -- Cheap labor, the FEPC, and Frank Dixon as knight-errant of the South -- Racial challenge, white reaction, and Chauncey Sparks as the new champion -- Race, religion, and the "status quo society" -- Liberals, friends of the Negro, and charging hell with a toothpick -- Epilogue: since 1944. |
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The Irony of the Solid South examines how the south became the "Solid South" for the Democratic Party and how that solidarity began to crack with the advent of American involvement in World War II. Relying on a sophisticated analysis of secondary research-as well as a wealth of deep research in primary sources such as letters, diaries, interviews, court cases, newspapers, and other archival materials-Glenn Feldman argues in The Irony of the Solid South that the history of the solid Democratic south is actually marked by several ironies that involve a co |
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