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Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Wild Design celebrates stunning and functional forms in the world of animals, plants, and other organisms, as well as in earth, stone, and water. This illustrated compendium explores structures as intricate as the microscopic jewel-like diatoms, as flamboyant as the festooned leks of bowerbirds, and as mysterious as the underground fungal networks that shape the grand design of forests"--
Author
Publisher
H.N. Abrams
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A four page statistical introduction, "The Earth In Numbers," is followed by 365 full-page spreads, from January 01 through December 31, featuring aerial photographs of the earth's surface accompanied by a descriptive paragraph, with an emphasis on ecology and the impact of human culture on the Earth.
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. Evolution: A Visual Record transports readers from the near-mystical (human ancestors) to the historic (the famous 'finches' Darwin collected on the Galápagos Islands that spurred his theory); the recently understood (the link between dinosaurs and modern birds) to the simply astonishing."...
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Extraordinary images by master macro photographer Levon Biss capture a vanishing world of insects from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This joint project of photographer Levon Biss and the American Museum of Natural History contains indelible images of 40 extinct or endangered species in the museum's collection, selected from its vast holdings by a team of scientists. All were sent to Biss's studio, where he...
