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UNINA9911106318703321 |
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Fleming Theodore H |
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Titolo |
A bat man in the tropics : chasing El Duende / / Theodore H. Fleming |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
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9786612759178 |
9781282759176 |
1282759175 |
9780520929487 |
0520929489 |
9781597344807 |
159734480X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Organisms and environments ; ; 7 |
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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 |
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and recounts his many adventures in the field. Fleming weaves 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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UNINA9911136695203321 |
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Autore |
Buckley John D |
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Titolo |
Air power in the age of total war / / John Buckley |
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London, : UCL Press, 1999 |
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1-135-36275-0 |
1-135-36276-9 |
1-280-42871-6 |
9786610428717 |
0-203-00722-0 |
9780203007228 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Air power - History |
Air warfare - History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
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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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminaries; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1 Air power in the age of total war; 2 The birth of air power; 3 The First World War 1914 18; 4 The development of air power doctrine and theory 1918 39; 5 Global air power 1918 39; 6 The war in Europe 1939 45; 7 The war in the Far East 1937 45; 8 Air power and the post war world; 9 Conclusions; Notes; Select bibliography; Index |
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Warfare in the first half of the 20th century was fundamentally and |
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irrovocably altered by the birth and subsequent development of air power. This work assesses the role of air power in changing the face of battle on land and sea. Utilizing late-1990s research, the author demonstrates that the phenomenon of air power was both a cause and a crucial accelerating factor contributing to the theory and practice of total war. For instance, the expansion of warfare to the homefront was a direct result of bombing and indirectly due to the extent of national economic mobilization required to support fi |
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