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UNINA9910462640803321 |
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Autore |
Masseti Marco |
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Titolo |
Atlas of terrestrial mammals of the Ionian and Aegean islands [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Marco Masseti |
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Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, c2012 |
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1-283-85654-9 |
3-11-025458-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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599.0939/1 |
599.09391 |
599.09495 |
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Soggetti |
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Mammals - Greece - Ionian Islands - Geographical distribution |
Mammals - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - Geographical distribution |
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. [237]-297) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Preface / Vigne, Jean-Denis -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and methods -- 3 The natural setting -- 4 The island endemics. The mammals of the Upper Pleistocene -- 5 The disappearance of the endemics. Holocene relics of a vanished world -- 6 Atlas of the non-volant mammals of the Ionian and the Aegean islands. The species account. 6.1-6.14 -- 6 Atlas of the non-volant mammals of the Ionian and the Aegean islands. The species account. 6.15-6.29 -- 6 Atlas of the non-volant mammals of the Ionian and the Aegean islands. The species account. 6.30-6.44 -- 7 Species dubiously and/or erroneously recorded from the Ionian and Aegean islands -- 8 Archaeozoological evidence of the diffusion of mammalian species of different and/or exotic origin or durable parts of them -- 9 Biogeographical remarks -- 10 A weighty legacy: concluding remarks -- Appendix A. Native domestic breeds -- Appendix B. Chiroptera reported from the Ionian and Aegean islands -- Appendix C. Cetaceans reported from the Ionian sea and the Aegean Seas -- Appendix D. The monk seal, Monachus monachus Hermann, 1779 -- |
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The goal of this book is to foster better knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Mediterranean islands. The atlas presents the current state of knowledge of the past and present distribution of the non-flying terrestrial mammals of the Ionian and Aegean islands. It provides a distribution map for each species with extensive references and a description of all the mammalian taxa. The book also focuses on the important role of human beings in the redefinition of the insular ecological equilibrium, as well as on the environmental impact of biological invasions. The protection and study of this fauna can provide an opportunity for testing a range of different evolutionary theories. |
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UNINA9910149058403321 |
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Titolo |
Queen Victoria: a life of contradictions |
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DennisonMatthew |
CorbettClare |
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Musica |
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A fresh, witty, accessible life of Queen Victoria. Not since Lytton Strachey has the irony, contradictions and influence of this Queen been treated with such flourish or biographical insight.'Queen Victoria had a very complicated and psychologically fascinating personality and only a very talented biographer could get to the key of her character. Fortunately in Matthew Dennison's pithy, well-researched, beautifully written and very accessible book, she has found one' Andrew RobertsQueen Victoria is Britain's queen of contradictions. In her |
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combination of deep sentimentality and bombast; cultural imperialism and imperial compassion; fear of intellectualism and excitement at technology; romanticism and prudishness, she became a spirit of the age to which she gave her name.Victoria embraced photography, railway travel and modern art; she resisted compulsory education for the working classes, recommended for a leading women's rights campaigner 'a good whipping' and detested smoking. She may or may not have been amused.Meanwhile she reinvented the monarchy and wrestled with personal reinvention. She lived in the shadow of her mother and then under the tutelage of her husband; finally she embraced self-reliance during her long widowhood. Fresh, witty and accessible, Queen Victoria is a compelling assessment of Victoria's mercurial character and impact, written with the irony, flourish and insight that this Queen and her rule so richly deserve. |
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