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Zoos & wildlife parks
Num Pages: 112 pages, 238 b/w & color images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 288 x 17. Weight in Grams: 934.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764338571
- ISBN
- 9780764338571
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 21.47
€ 31.99
€ 21.47
Hardback. Susan Nance investigates modernity for animals through the case of Jumbo the elephant in the 1880s. Jumbo exposed the 'human dilemma' of modern living, wherein people celebrated individual animals to cope or distract themselves from the wholesale slaughter of animals required by modern consumerism. Num Pages: 112 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HPQ; JFFZ; WNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 297.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137562067
- ISBN
- 9781137562067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
Paperback. Since the early days of traveling menageries and staged attractions that included animal acts, balloon ascents, and pyrotechnic displays, zoos have come a long way. This book presents the evolution of zoos and the expectations of their visitors. It reveals the hazards and rewards of running a modern zoo. Num Pages: 320 pages, 58 illus., 8 in color. BIC Classification: WNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231132497
- ISBN
- 9780231132497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.79
€ 25.99
€ 19.79
Paperback. Rothfels provides both fascinating reading and much-needed historical perspective on the nature of our relationship with the animal kingdom. Series: Animals, History, Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 52, 51 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; WNH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801889752
- ISBN
- 9780801889752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.04
€ 40.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 130 Photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; RNKH; WNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Random House Struik
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781431702459
- ISBN
- 9781431702459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.61
€ 26.99
€ 24.61
Paperback. This fascinating history of America's favorite national park shows how tht spirit has endured over Yellowstone's 127- year existence. Num Pages: 146 pages, 80 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWY; WNH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Roberts Rinehart Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570983955
- ISBN
- 9781570983955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.58
€ 22.58
Hardback. Series: Lonely Planet. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; WNH; WTD; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 260 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1359.
- Publisher
- Lonely Planet Global Limited
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786576491
- ISBN
- 9781786576491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.35
€ 26.99
€ 20.35
Hardcover. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; WNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403986245
- ISBN
- 9781403986245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.28
€ 127.28
Paperback. A wonderfully nostalgic memoir detailing the fascinating lives of the working class family behind the phenomenally successful Chester Zoo. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENC; BM; WNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472226365
- ISBN
- 9781472226365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.51
€ 17.99
€ 13.51
Hardback. BIC Classification: BT; WNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- John Blake Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786062796
- ISBN
- 9781786062796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Paperback. Editor(s): Diaz, Janet Winecoff. Num Pages: 105 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: RNCB; RNF; RNT; WNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781536101393
- ISBN
- 9781536101393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.82€ 104.77
€ 137.82
€ 104.77
Paperback. We all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than sixty interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JFFZ; WNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804783583
- ISBN
- 9780804783583
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Chronicles the Baghdad zoo's transformation from bombed-out rubble to peaceful park. This title recounts hair-raising efforts to save a pride of the dictator's lions, close a deplorable black-market zoo, and rescue Saddam's Arabian horses. Num Pages: 256 pages, includes one 8-page colour photo insert. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; WNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312382155
- ISBN
- 9780312382155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.06
€ 20.99
€ 18.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 28 b&w maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; WNH; WSZ; WTHH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Lone Star United States
- Edition
- 1 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589070080
- ISBN
- 9781589070080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.53
€ 20.99
€ 20.53
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252071690
- ISBN
- 9780252071690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.52
€ 26.99
€ 25.52
Paperback. Carl Hagenbeck was the nineteenth century's foremost animal trader and ethnographic showman, known for his enormously popular displays of people, animals, and artefacts gathered from all corners of the globe. This book locates Hagenbeck's myriad enterprises in the context of colonialism and nascent globalization; and ethnography and anthropology. Series: McLellan Endowed Series. Num Pages: 376 pages, 85 illus., 14 in color. BIC Classification: BG; HBJD; JFCA; WNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 255 x 26. Weight in Grams: 940.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988337
- ISBN
- 9780295988337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for conservation. Num Pages: 672 pages, 24 b/w plates, (3 x 8pp), With index. BIC Classification: BG; WNC; WNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 40. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006387305
- ISBN
- 9780006387305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.49
€ 25.99
€ 19.49
Hardback. Offers a study and perspective on the relationship between politics and the art found in American zoos and aquariums. This book examines the ways that zoos and aquariums have successfully served as sculptural gardens for the masses. It also contains art and architecture that convey political messages about both the patrons and the animals. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFKB; WNGF; WNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739111208
- ISBN
- 9780739111208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.05
€ 154.05
Paperback. These national treasures offers an undiscovered haven of natural beauty. This guide is packed with four-season observances; information on hiking trails; and notes on migratory bird patterns, flora and fauna. It also includes: information on natural wonders, directions, activities, and nearby creature comforts for each park. Num Pages: 276 pages, colour photos & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 179 x 22. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780890133064
- ISBN
- 9780890133064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.93
€ 34.99
€ 25.93
Paperback. Following the story of Naomi Rose, a marine biologist and animal advocate at the Humane Society of the US, the author tells the story of the two-decade fight against PR-savvy SeaWorld, which came to a head with the tragic death of trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010. He puts that horrific animal-on-human attack in context. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: PSPM; WNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Griffin Publishing
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250031259
- ISBN
- 9781250031259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.51
€ 26.99
€ 23.51