00822nam a2200241 i 4500991000969879707536 s2002 uk 000 0 eng d0415252229b13300696-39ule_instDip. SSCita741.6The visual cultural reader /edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff2. ed.London ; New York :Routledge,2002XIX, 737 p. :ill. ; 25 cmImmagineMirzoeff, Nicholas.b1330069621-09-0618-04-05991000969879707536LE021 SOC24C2612021000129520le021Spedicato-E0.00-l- 00000.i1405241618-04-05Visual cultural reader1104747UNISALENTOle02118-04-05m- -enguk 4002754nam 2200649 a 450 991096459710332120200520144314.09786612422409978128242240712824224059780226568539022656853910.7208/9780226568539(CKB)1000000000817030(EBL)471895(OCoLC)464682920(SSID)ssj0000339833(PQKBManifestationID)11256699(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339833(PQKBWorkID)10365164(PQKB)10116888(MiAaPQ)EBC471895(DE-B1597)524695(OCoLC)1135611152(DE-B1597)9780226568539(Au-PeEL)EBL471895(CaPaEBR)ebr10333645(CaONFJC)MIL242240(Perlego)1851296(EXLCZ)99100000000081703020061113d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLife in the soil a guide for naturalists and gardeners /James B. Nardi1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780226568522 0226568520 Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-277) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- How to Use This Book -- Preface -- PART ONE. Marriage of the Mineral World and the Organic World -- PART TWO. Members of the Soil Community -- PART THREE. Working in Partnership with Creatures of the Soil -- Collecting and Observing Life of the Soil -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- IndexLeonardo da Vinci once mused that "we know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot," an observation that is as apt today as it was five hundred years ago. The biological world under our toes is often unexplored and unappreciated, yet it teems with life. In one square meter of earth, there lives trillions of bacteria, millions of nematodes, hundreds of thousands of mites, thousands of insects and worms, and hundreds of snails and slugs. But because of their location and size, many of these creatures are as unfamiliar and bizarre to us as anything fSoil biologySoil biology.578.75/7Nardi James B.1948-1127009MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910964597103321Life in the soil4358025UNINA