Most Popular Books by Royal Ontario Museum

An exploration of the arctic sky--its constellations, legends and mythology, the sun, moon, planets, and ''shooting stars, '' as well as atmospheric phenomena such as aurora borealis. Combining interviews with the Inuit elders and the historical records of arctic explorers and other keen observers, The Arctic Sky is a guided tour of the arctic universe.

"The present volume attempts to make known in published form the fine ethnological material from New Guinea and adjacent islands held by the Royal Ontario Museum, and the peoples who made these items."--Introduction.

This unique publication, produced in association with the Royal Ontario Museum, is the guide Ontario birders have been waiting for... The ROM Field Guide to Birds of Ontario is researched and written specifically for the Ontario bird watcher. It is the most authoritative, easy to use, and beautifully designed guide to Ontario birds available. This landmark publication features: - Detailed and clearly written descriptions of more than 300 migrant and resident Ontario bird species and accidentals, including notes on Appearance, Voice, Habitat and Behaviour, and Status. - Close to 400 stunning full-colour photographs from Canada''s top wildlife photographers, carefully selected for quick and easy identification in the field. - Over 300 easy-to-read colour distribution maps, showing summer and winter ranges and breeding grounds. - Handy page-per-species format, with photo, description, and range map all in one place. - Glossary, Checklist of Ontario Birds, and Index.

The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is home to Canada''s premier collection of Lalique glass. Déco Lalique showcases the ROM''s collection and, drawing from vintage newspaper and magazine advertisements, chronicles the introduction of Lalique glass into Canada in the 1920s and 1930s. Resourcing the ROM''s collection, Carolyn Hatch explores the roots of the French Modern movement, the art of René Lalique, whose career is examined in a new and innovative light, and the compelling influence of Modernism and Lalique in Canada between the wars.

Throughout history people have been captivated by the exploration of civilizations foreign to their own familiar sights and sounds. Nowhere is this more evident than in the exhibition Silk Roads--China Ships, which unveils objects that chronicle the cultural, economic, political, and social effects of trade between the Orient and the West through nineteen centuries.--pg. vi.

This study presents a detailed description of the structure of the call note system of the Warbling Vireo, Vireo glivus gilvus, in southern Ontario. Properties or attributes used to describe calls are form, context, message, frequency of occurrence, and function. Relationships among calls with respect to each of the attributes and among the attributes are described. Attribute relationships are interdependent, and understanding of form and context relationships is facilitated by use of cluster and principal component analyses.

A joint project by The Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections & The Royal Ontario Museum.

Description of the traditional clothing and lifestyle of Indians who inhabited the North Pacific coast from northern California to southern Alaska.

Describes the traditional lifestyle and clothing of the Plains Indians, who inhabited an area extending from central Alberta almost to the Gulf of Mexico.

"The publication of the final reports of the late Dame Kathleen Kenyon''s excavations of ancient Jerusalem takes a significant step forward with the appearance of this volume. It concentrates on finds outside the walls of the Iron Age city, of which the most important are the enigmatic deposits in Caves I and II on the south-east hill. Itzhak Eshel''s study provides a thorough comparative analysis of the large quantity of pottery found in them, as a basis for establishing their date and purpose. Supplementary studies of the pottery and other material from these caves, not least variations between the deposits found in them, throw further light on their function." "Among the varied information on extramural cemeteries assembled here, the late third millennium cemetery on the Mount of Olives, first discovered over a century ago, particularly adds to our knowledge of Jerusalem in antiquity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Conodonts have been recovered from two sections through the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary beds of the upper Rabbitkettle Formation, near the headwaters of the Broken Skull River, western Mackenzie Mountains. This report contributes towards a biofacies evaluation of Cambrian-Ordovician boundary bed conodonts and illustrates the probable limitations on a highly resolved conodont-based correlation of this interval between strongly constrasting lithofacies.

A case study of the work of D.L. Clark and T.R. Carr in Permian hindeodus and diplognathodus : implications for late paleozoic conodont multielement taxonomy.

Study of the fossil fauna of the Delorme platform facies of dolostone and argillaceous limestone in the Mackenzie mountains of Yukon.