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UNINA9910571747903321 |
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Cascio Pietro Lo |
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Mainland and insular lacertid lizards : A mediterrean perspective / / Pietro Lo Cascio, Claudia Corti, Marta Biaggini |
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Firenze : , : Firenze University Press, , 2006 |
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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Collana |
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Monografia |
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Lacertid lizards have long been a fruitful field of scientific enquiry with many people working on them over the past couple of hundred years. The scope of the field has steadily increased, beginning with taxonomy and anatomy and gradually spreading so that it includes such topics as phylogenetics, behaviour, ecology, and conservation. Since 1992, a series of symposia on lacertid lizards of the Mediterranean basin have taken place every three years. The present volume stems from the 2004 meeting in the Aeolian Islands. In the volume a wide range of island topics are considered, including the systematics of the species concerned, from both morphological and molecular viewpoints, interaction with other taxa, and conservation. The last topic is especially important, as island lizards across the world have often been vulnerable to extinction, after they came into contact with people and the animals they introduced. The volume also has papers on the more positive aspects of human influence, specifically the benign effects of traditional agriculture on at least some reptile species. Olive trees, cork oaks and the banks and walls of loose rocks that crisscross the Mediterranean scene all often contribute to elevated lizard populations. Nor is more basic biology neglected and there are articles on morphology, reproduction, development and thermoregulation. Finally, it is good to see one paper on non-Mediterranean species is included. For, to fully understand the lacertids of this region, it is necessary to appreciate their close relatives in Africa, Asia and the archipelagos of |
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the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. (From Preface by E. Nicholas Arnold & Wolfgang Böhme). |
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UNINA9910797579203321 |
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Autore |
Johnson Dominic (Professor of Biopolitics) |
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God is watching you : how the fear of God makes us human / / Dominic Johnson |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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0-19-026231-1 |
0-19-989564-3 |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Religion - Philosophy |
Fear of God |
Punishment - Religious aspects |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Why me? -- Sticks and stones -- Hammer of God -- God is great -- The problem of atheists -- Guardian angels -- Nations under God -- God knows. |
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""And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die."" The biblical story of the flood crystalizes--in its terrifying, dramatic simplicity--the universally recognized concept of divine punishment. For millennia human civilizations have relied on such beliefs to create moral order. People who commit crimes or other bad deeds, we are told, will suffer retribution, while rewards--abstract or material--await those who do good. This simple but powerful idea has lon |
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