Tewkesbury Walks (Record no. 92685)
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| control field | 978-3-319-01544-6 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783319015446 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-3-319-01544-6 |
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| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QH540-549.5 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | PSAF |
| Source | bicssc |
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| Subject category code | SCI020000 |
| Source | bisacsh |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 577 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Michaux, Bernard. |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Tewkesbury Walks |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | An Exploration of Biogeography and Evolution / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | by Bernard Michaux. |
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| -- | Springer International Publishing : |
| -- | Imprint: Springer, |
| -- | 2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | VI, 107 p. 82 illus., 75 illus. in color. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Avon and Severn valleys loop -- Getting acquainted with nature -- Coombe Hill -- Apperley Deerhurst -- Mythe Bridge -- Forthampton -- Bushley -- Tewkesbury Ham -- Oxenton Hill -- Bredon Hill -- Malvern Hills -- Changing Seasons. . |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The book is composed of eight chapters, each of which are organised as walks around the Tewkesbury (UK) countryside, which move from the specific to increasingly broader ideas. So, the MS starts with an individual’s relationship to their environment (Avon and Severn Valleys Loop) that leads to a description of conservation issues at local, national and international levels, and ultimately to a discussion of the importance of Citizen Science (Coombe Hill – Apperley –Deerhurst). The following chapter (Mythe Bridge – Forthampton – Tewkesbury) looks at science as it is actually practiced and its role in modern society by an analysis of the theory of Continental Drift and a biography of Alfred Wegener. This is a story that really deserves a much wider audience, as the idea was, in my opinion, as revolutionary as general relativity or quantum mechanics, and Wegener himself was such a heroic character. The following chapter (Tewkesbury Ham) also uses biography – this time of Alfred Russel Wallace - to investigate his ideas about how animal and plant distributions are inextricably linked to geological change. Wallace was every bit as heroic as Wegener, lived an even more adventurous life, and also deserves to be more widely known and appreciated. 2013 is the centenary of his death and he will be much in the news this year, so it would be timely to publish an account of his life and work suitable for the general public. The chapters on Wegener and Wallace set the scene for a detailed discussion of biogeography. This has been an active area of research for the past 30 years and I think it’s about time that somebody wrote about what has been an intellectually exciting and profoundly significant development in our view of ourselves and the world we live in. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Life sciences. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Ecology. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Evolution (Biology). |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Life Sciences. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Ecology. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Evolutionary Biology. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| 773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY | |
| Title | Springer eBooks |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783319015439 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01544-6 |
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