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Author : Kenneth White
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Bird Path written by Kenneth White and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Ackerman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735223033
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Bird Way written by Jennifer Ackerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries –– What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species—ours—but parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669375005
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (693 download)
Download or read book Summary of Jennifer Ackerman's The Bird Way written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-31T22:59:00Z with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Birds are the great communicators of the animal world. They speak with their voices, their bodies, and their feathers. They may not have the facial musculature we primates use to express ourselves, but they can powerfully communicate their inner states with head and body movements. #2 The quelea bird’s facial plumage is extremely variable, and scientists have struggled to find any correlation between fitness and color. However, the birds know who they are, and they know who is trustworthy, so they can stop harassing one another and get down to the business of nest building. #3 The dawn chorus is a baffling behavior that occurs in the dark hours before dawn, when many birds sing at the same time. It may be because cool temperatures, calm air, and less ambient noise from insects allow their songs to travel farther. #4 bird songs and calls range from the odd comical cluck and rattle of the willow ptarmigan to the elfin chucklings of Leach’s storm petrels. They are a tapestry of vocal behaviors that helps birds coexist and become the wildly successful and diverse group they are.
Author : Kenneth White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140586602
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (866 download)
Download or read book The Bird Path written by Kenneth White and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. Willow Wilson
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146848
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Bird King written by G. Willow Wilson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR’s 50 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Decade: A fifteenth-century palace mapmaker must hide his powers in the time of the Inquisition . . . Award-winning author G. Willow Wilson’s debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year and established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King, an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Fatima is a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain. Her dearest friend, Hassan, the palace mapmaker and the one man who doesn’t leer at her with desire, has a secret—he can draw maps of places he’s never seen and bend the shape of reality. When representatives of the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan’s surrender, Fatima befriends one of the women, not realizing that she will see Hassan’s gift as sorcery and a threat to Christian Spanish rule. With their freedoms at stake, what will Fatima risk to save Hassan and escape the palace walls? As the two traverse Spain with the help of a clever jinn to find safety, The Bird King asks us to consider what love is and the price of freedom at a time when the West and the Muslim world were not yet separate. “Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic, and the kind of smart, honest writing mind that knits together and bridges cultures and people.” —Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology “A triumph . . . one of the best fantasy writers working today.” —BookPage “A treasure-house of a novel, thrilling, tender, funny, and achingly gorgeous. I loved it.” —Lev Grossman, author of the Magicians trilogy
Author : Tim Bird
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300154585
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan written by Tim Bird and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines why the West has failed to achieve its objectives in Afghanistan, discussing the country's drug trade, political corruption, troubled relations with Pakistan, and harsh terrain, and the lessons about nation building that can be learned from the experience.
Author : Rodney Stotts
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831743
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Bird Brother written by Rodney Stotts and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bird Brother, Rodney Stotts shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America's few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up in Washington, D.C. during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration affecting the lives of everyone he knew. He was no exception, but he was also employed by the newly founded Earth Conservation Corps, helping to restore and conserve the polluted Anacostia River. This work eventually sent his life in a different direction, as he began to train to become a master falconer and to develop his own raptor education program and sanctuary. Eye-opening, witty, and moving, Bird Brother is a testament to the healing power of nature, and a reminder that no matter how much heartbreak we've endured, we still have the capacity to give back to our communities and follow our dreams.
Author : Gregory Colbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933632513
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Ashes and Snow: The bird path written by Gregory Colbert and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Burks
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545512352
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Bird & Squirrel On the Run!: A Graphic Novel (Bird & Squirrel #1) written by James Burks and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird and Squirrel outwit Cat and become best friends in this zany adventure. Squirrel is afraid of his own shadow. Bird doesn't have a care in the world. And Cat wants to eat Bird and Squirrel. Of course, he'll have to catch them first, and that's not going to be easy. Join this trio as they head south for the winter in a hilarious road trip. But watch out! Cat is waiting around every bend, and he's one pesky feline.
Author : John Broadus Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Homing and Related Activities of Birds written by John Broadus Watson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : INC. PETER PAUPER PRESS
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press
ISBN 13 : 9781441333292
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (332 download)
Download or read book All the Birds in the World written by INC. PETER PAUPER PRESS and published by Peter Pauper Press. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a bird a bird? All birds have feathers, wings, and beaks. But birds come in many varieties of colors, shapes, and sizes, with different habits and homes. Take a beautifully illustrated journey -- with an adorable kiwi bird as your guide -- through the vast and colorful world of birds, with its tapestry of textures, sounds, and sights. Even the kiwi chick -- who struggles to see at first how he fits in -- finds that he too belongs to this fascinating family of feathered friends. 32-page full-color picture book with dust jacket. Sturdy hardcover binding. Picture book measures 8-3/4'' wide x 11-1/4'' high. Author/illustrator David Opie holds a BFA and MFA in illustration and lives with his wife in Connecticut.
Author : Leila Aboulela
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802149162
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Bird Summons written by Leila Aboulela and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Muslim women search for freedom and happiness in the Scottish Highlands in this novel of “psychological acuity [and] rich characterization” (Washington Post). When Salma, Moni, and Iman—friends and active members of their local Muslim Women’s group—decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when she’s contacted by her first love back in Egypt; Moni gave up a career in banking to care for her disabled son without the help of her indifferent husband; and Iman, in her twenties and already on her third marriage, longs for the freedom and autonomy she’s never known. When these women are visited by the Hoopoe, a sacred bird from Muslim and Celtic literature, they are compelled to question their relationships to faith and femininity, love, loyalty, and sacrifice.
Author : Christopher Tricker
Publisher : Christopher Tricker
ISBN 13 : 0645488127
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)
Download or read book The cicada and the bird written by Christopher Tricker and published by Christopher Tricker. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chuang Tzu uses grand metaphors and charming parables to help us to stop identifying with this and that thing, and to instead identify with our horizon-spanning field of consciousness and our embodied sense of spirit or energy. This frees us to be present with, and to playfully engage with, whatever things happen to appear before us. His remarkable book, written in Ancient China sometime around 300 BC, has lain hidden for millennia in a sprawling morass misleadingly known as the Chuang Tzu. Now, at last, it has been excavated. Here for the first time in over two thousand years is Chuang Tzu’s actual book: crisp and poetic, structured and elegant. A philosophical and literary work of art.
Author : Andrew Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199912297
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Bird on Fire written by Andrew Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the prospects for sustainability in Phoenix--a city in the bull's eye of global warming--and also the obstacles that stand in the way. Most authors writing on sustainable cities look at places that have excellent public transit systems and relatively high density, such as Portland, Seattle, or New York. But Ross contends that if we can't change the game in fast-growing, low-density cities like Phoenix, the whole movement has a major problem. Drawing on interviews with 200 influential residents--from state legislators, urban planners, developers, and green business advocates to civil rights champions, energy lobbyists, solar entrepreneurs, and community activists--Ross argues that if Phoenix is ever to become sustainable, it will occur more through political and social change than through technological fixes. Ross explains how Arizona's increasingly xenophobic immigration laws, science-denying legislature, and growth-at-all-costs business ethic have perpetuated social injustice and environmental degradation. But he also highlights the positive changes happening in Phoenix, in particular the Gila River Indian Community's successful struggle to win back its water rights, potentially shifting resources away from new housing developments to producing healthy local food for the people of the Phoenix Basin. Ross argues that this victory may serve as a new model for how green democracy can work, redressing the claims of those who have been aggrieved in a way that creates long-term benefits for all. Bird on Fire offers a compelling take on one of the pressing issues of our time--finding pathways to sustainability at a time when governments are dismally failing in their responsibility to address climate change.
Author : Jennifer Yerkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781402280139
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)
Download or read book A Funny Little Bird written by Jennifer Yerkes and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely, invisible bird adorns himself with brightly colored feathers and flowers hoping to attract friends. But after catching the eye of a fox he runs so fast he loses his treasures and learns a lesson about friendship. Full color.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Popular Astronomy written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
