1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910697002103321

Autore

Turner Daniel D

Titolo

Future force warrior, engineering design event number 4 [[electronic resource] /] / Daniel D. Turner and Christian B. Carstens, Joseph Torre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD : , : Army Research Laboratory, , [2005]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 172 pages) : illustrations

Collana

ARL-TR ; ; 3626

Altri autori (Persone)

CarstensChristian B

TorreJoseph

Soggetti

Armor - United States

Helmets - United States

Helmet-mounted displays - United States

Personal protective equipment - United States

Biological warfare - United States - Equipment and supplies

Chemical warfare - United States - Equipment and supplies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (viewed June 8, 2010).

"October 2005."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 87).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795526003321

Autore

Gill Brian

Titolo

The unburnt egg : more stories of a museum curator / / Brian Gill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wellington, New Zealand : , : Awa Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-927249-30-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 pages)

Disciplina

069.53

Soggetti

Museums - Curatorship - New Zealand - Auckland

Natural history museum curators - New Zealand - Auckland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- A hapaless king penguin -- Secrets of the shining cuckoo -- The unburnt egg -- The man who imagined the moa -- Flight of the long-tailed cuckoo -- Booby eggs and a solar eclipse -- Song of the huia -- Seals in sand dunes -- Ship rats of Big South Cape Island -- Charles McCann's giant flying frogs -- Seeking Pacific skinks -- Rarotonga revisited -- Baden Powell's sea-slug paintings -- Fur, feathers and frogs legs -- Further reflections.

Sommario/riassunto

Natural history museums contain many thousands of zoological specimens and each has a tale to tell an often involving extraordinary people, daring explorations, unquenchable scientific curiosity, and strange coincidences. This perfectly presented book, with its engaging pictures, is rich in stories and unveils many secrets. Read about: the fate of a tortoise given as a gift by Captain Cook - the epic international voyage of the biggest known moa egg - the admiration induced by an ape from the jungles of Borneo - the barn owl of mysterious origins - the unfortunate fate of an angry young elephant - the quest to discover how a New Zealand heron turned up in a Florence museum - the strange arrival of an Australian banjo frog - and many other mind-boggling mysteries.