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Homing

Author : Jon Day
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 147363539X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Homing written by Jon Day and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 'Rich and joyous ...The book's quiet optimism about our ability to change, and to learn to love small things passionately, will stay with me for a long time' Helen Macdonald 'Big-hearted and quietly gripping' Guardian 'I love Jon Day's writing and his birds. A marvellous, soaring account' Olivia Laing '[A] beautiful book about unbeautiful birds' Observer 'This is nature writing at its best' Financial Times 'Awash with historical and literary detail, and moving moments ... Wonderful' Telegraph 'Every page of this beautifully written book brought me pleasure' Charlotte Higgins 'A vivid evocation of a remarkable species and a rich working-class tradition. It's also a charming defence of a much-maligned bird, which will make any reader look at our cooing, waddling, junk-food-loving feathered friends very differently in future' Daily Mail 'Endlessly interesting and dazzlingly erudite, this wonderful book will make a home for itself in your heart' Prospect As a boy, Jon Day was fascinated by pigeons, which he used to rescue from the streets of London. Twenty years later he moved away from the city centre to the suburbs to start a family. But in moving house, he began to lose a sense of what it meant to feel at home. Returning to his childhood obsession with the birds, he built a coop in his garden and joined a local pigeon racing club. Over the next few years, as he made a home with his young family in Leyton, he learned to train and race his pigeons, hoping that they might teach him to feel homed. Having lived closely with humans for tens of thousands of years, pigeons have become powerful symbols of peace and domesticity. But they are also much-maligned, and nowadays most people think of these birds, if they do so at all, as vermin. A book about the overlooked beauty of this species, and about what it means to dwell, Homing delves into the curious world of pigeon fancying, explores the scientific mysteries of animal homing, and traces the cultural, political and philosophical meanings of home. It is a book about the making of home and making for home: a book about why we return.

The Homing Instinct

Author : Bernd Heinrich
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547523637
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Homing Instinct written by Bernd Heinrich and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history” (Kirkus Reviews). Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same places. Every year since boyhood, the acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has done the same, returning to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. Which led him to wonder: What is the biology in humans of this primal pull toward a particular place, and how is it related to animal homing? In The Homing Instinct, Heinrich explores the fascinating mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory; how scent trails are used by many creatures to locate their homes with pinpoint accuracy; and how even the tiniest of songbirds are equipped for solar and magnetic orienteering over vast distances. And he reminds us that to discount our human emotions toward home is to ignore biology itself. “A graceful blend of science and memoir . . . [Heinrich’s] ability to linger and simply be there for the moment when, for instance, an elderly spider descends from a silken strand to take the insect he offers her is the heart of his appeal.” —Julie Zickefoose, The Wall Street Journal “Deep and insightful writing.” —David Gessner, The Washington Post

Homing Instincts

Author : Sarah Menkedick
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101871423
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Homing Instincts written by Sarah Menkedick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-Listed for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Sarah Menkedick spent her twenties trekking alone across South America, teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Reunion Island, picking grapes in France and camping on the Mongolian grasslands; for her, meaning and purpose were to be found on the road, in flight from the ordinary. Yet the biggest and most transformative adventure of her life might be one she never anticipated: at 31, she moves into a tiny 19th-century cabin on her family's Ohio farm, and begins the journey into motherhood. In eight vivid and boldly questioning essays, Menkedick explores the luminous, disorienting time just before and after becoming a mother. As she reacquaints herself with the subtle landscapes of the Midwest, and adjusts to the often surprising physicality of pregnancy, she ruminates on what this new stage of life means for her long-held concepts of self, settling, and creative fulfillment. In “Millie, Mildred, Grandma Menkedick,” she considers the nature of story through the life of her tough German grandmother, who raised two boys as a single mother in the 1950s and then spent her seventies traveling the world with her best friend Marge; in “Motherland,” on a trip back to Oaxaca, Mexico to visit her husband’s family, she finally embraces her Midwestern roots; in “The Milk Cave,” she discovers in breastfeeding a new appreciation for the spiritual and artistic potential of boredom; and in “The Lake,” she revisits her childhood with her father, whose relentless optimism and mystical streak she sees anew once she has a child of her own. A story of a traveler come home to the farm; of becoming a mother in spite of reservations and doubt; and of learning to appreciate the power and beauty of the quotidian, Homing Instincts speaks to the deepest concerns and hopes of a generation.

Homing Instinct

Author : John Connell
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780070123465
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Homing Instinct written by John Connell and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For true hands-on builders and armchair architects--a fully illustrated guidebook to every aspect of planning, designing, and constructing a home, written by the visionary co-founder of the Yestermorrow Design/Building School. Includes questionnaires that help readers identify "sequences" of their lives. Illustrated.

The Homing

Author : John Saul
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0449223795
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Homing written by John Saul and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1995 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of living in Los Angeles, pretty young widow Karen Spellman and her two daughters are returning to the lush, verdant countryside of Karen's childhood, where she plans to marry her high-school sweetheart. But something sinister awaits the Spellmans. Something so hideous it seems not earthly, but spawned in Hell. Now Karen must protect her daughters from a malign, preternatural force that must satisfy its gruesome thirst for unsuspecting prey . . . .

Animal Homing

Author : F. Papi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401115885
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Animal Homing written by F. Papi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homing phenomena must be considered an important aspect of animal behaviour on account of their frequent occurrence, their survival value, and the variety of the mechanisms involved. Many species regularly rely on their ability to home or reach other familiar sites, but how they manage to do this is often uncertain. In many cases the goal is attained in the absence of any sensory contact, by mechanisms of indirect orientation whose complexity and sophistication have for a long time challenged the skill and patience of many researchers. A series of problems of increasing difficulty have to be overcome; researchers have to discover the nature of orienting cues, the sensory windows involved, the role of inherited and acquired information, and, eventually, how the central mechanisms process information and control motory responses. Naturally, this book emphasizes targets achieved rather than areas unexplored and mysteries unsolved. Even so, the reader will quickly realize that our knowledge of phenomena and mechanisms has progressed to different degrees in different animal groups, ranging from the mere description of homing behaviour to a satisfactory insight into some underlying mechanisms. In the last few dacades there have been promising developments in the study of animal homing, since new approaches have been tried out, and new species and groups have been investigated. Despite this, homing phenomena have not recently been the object of exhaustive reviews and there is a tendency for them to be neglected in general treatises on animal behaviour.

Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm

Author : Hans G. Wallraff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540264329
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm written by Hans G. Wallraff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How migratory birds can navigate home from their wintering grounds to their breeding sites over hundreds and thousands of kilometres has been an admired mystery over more than a century. Profound advances towards a solution of this problem have been achieved with a model bird, the homing pigeon. This monograph summarizes our current knowledge about pigeon homing, about the birds' application of a sun compass and a magnetic compass, of a visual topographical map within a familiar area and -- most surprisingly -- of an olfactory map using atmospheric chemosignals as indicators of position in distant unfamiliar areas.

Homing Endonucleases and Inteins

Author : Marlene Belfort
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540852353
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (523 download)

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Book Synopsis Homing Endonucleases and Inteins by : Marlene Belfort

Download or read book Homing Endonucleases and Inteins written by Marlene Belfort and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first and only comprehensive description and detailed summary of the genetics, structure, function, mechanisms of action, evolution and engineering of homing endonucleases and inteins. These two unique protein superfamilies, which are tied together through their frequent fusion and coevolution, have generated considerable excitement for their fundamental, structural, and functional properties, their evolution as parasitic elements, and their widespread applications as gene targeting agents and as instruments for the generation of modified proteins and novel protein combinations.

Homing

Author : Ji-Yeon O. Jo
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824872517
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Homing written by Ji-Yeon O. Jo and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of ethnic Koreans have been driven from the Korean Peninsula over the course of the region’s modern history. Emigration was often the personal choice of migrants hoping to escape economic and political hardship, but it was also enforced or encouraged by governmental relocation and migration projects in both colonial and postcolonial times. The turning point in South Korea’s overall migration trajectory occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the nation’s increased economic prosperity and global visibility, along with shifting geopolitical relationships between the First World and Second World, precipitated a migration flow to South Korea. Since the early 1990s, South Korea’s foreign-resident population has soared more than 3,000 percent. Homing investigates the experiences of legacy migrants—later-generation diaspora Koreans who “return” to South Korea—from China, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the United States. Unlike their parents or grandparents, they have no firsthand experience of their ancestral homeland. They inherited an imagined homeland through memories, stories, pictures, and traditions passed down by family and community, or through images disseminated by the media. When diaspora Koreans migrate to South Korea, they confront far more than a new living situation: they must navigate their own shifting emotions as their expectations for their new homeland—and its expectations of them—confront reality. Everyday experiences and social encounters—whether welcoming or humiliating—all contribute to their sense of belonging in the South. Homing addresses some of the most vexing and pressing issues of contemporary transnational migration—citizenship, cultural belonging, language, and family relationships—and highlights their affective dimensions. Using accounts gleaned through interviews, author Ji-Yeon Jo situates migrant experiences within the historical context of each diaspora. Her book is the first to analyze comparatively the migration experiences of ethnic Koreans from three diverse diaspora, whose presence in South Korea and ongoing relationships with diaspora homelands have challenged and destabilized existing understandings of Korean peoplehood.

Homing Pigeons

Author : Alfred R. Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Homing Pigeons written by Alfred R. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Homing pigeons have wonderful ability to return to their homes, which is made use of for messenger service as well as for sport, Remarkable records of endurance and speed have been made by such pigeons. Pigeons kept for messenger service or racing should be carefully bred from a line of record performers. In selecting birds for a race or flight only those in prime condition and perfect feather development especially in wings should be used. Thorough training is an essential is as breeding in the successful management of homing pigeons. Only a little training should be given at a time and this thoroughly learned before longer flights are attempted. The distance that pigeons will fly in one day depends on the weather as well as on their breeding. Yong birds in good weather will fly about 300 miles in from seven to nine hours and flights of 600 miles in one day have been made by old birds. Squabs are raised only during the natural breeding season, in the spring. Matings are made about February 1 and broken up about June 1, the males and females being kept separate during the rest of the year." -- p. ii

Homing and Related Activities of Birds

Author : John Broadus Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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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:

The Homing Pigeon

Author : Edgar Chamberlain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Homing Pigeon written by Edgar Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Migration and Homing of Lymphoid Cells

Author : Alan J. Husband
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000697487
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Migration and Homing of Lymphoid Cells written by Alan J. Husband and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988: This comprehensive set is crucial to the basic understanding of the immune system and is an essential component of the design and implementation of improved immunization strategies. Contains authoritative reviews of cell migration research and addresses the is-sues of lymphocyte recirculation leading to inductive interactions, and the subsequent migration and homing of effector cells generated from these responses. Systemic migration of cells from the central and peripheral lymphoid organs, the dichotomy of behavior between systemic and mucosal lymphoid cell pools, and explanations sought for mechanisms mediating selectivity of migration and homing are covered. This set is of interest to problem oriented scientists.

The Homing Pigeon

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Homing Pigeon written by United States. War Department and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Homing Pigeon' is an informative guide to the world of messenger pigeons compiled by the United States Army Signal Corps and War Department. These birds, selectively bred for their innate homing ability, were used for centuries to carry messages before the advent of telephones. This comprehensive volume includes detailed descriptions of the bird's physical characteristics, care, breeding, and training, as well as information on diseases and medicines.

The Belgian Homing Pigeon

Author : John Lane Burgess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Belgian Homing Pigeon written by John Lane Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adhesion in Leukocyte Homing and Differentiation

Author : Dominique Dunon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642782531
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Adhesion in Leukocyte Homing and Differentiation written by Dominique Dunon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology was planned in parallel with an EM BO workshop on cell-cell Interactions in Leukocyte Homing and Differentiation held at the Basel Institute for Immunology in November 1992, and many of the workshop speakers have contributed to it. Cell adhesion is one of the most dynamic fields of biological research and presented in this book is the current knowledge on the structure and function of the major families of cell adhesion molecules-the integrins, the selectins, the immunoglobulin superfamily, and CD44. Complex interactions between the members of these families mediate diverse adhesion functions, including leukocyte-leukocyte interactions, lymphocyte homing, inflammation, and lymphocyte-stromal cell interaction during hematopoiesis. A great deal of emphasis is placed on the regulatory elements that control the expression and function of adhesion molecules. Cytokines not only induce the expression of certain adhesion molecules, but may also modify their functional status. For instance, the integrins exist in either an inactive nonfunctional form or an active functional form, and a number of intracellular or extracellular stimuli modify integrin function. This is particularly important during leukocyte binding to endothelium and transendothelial migration, which proceeds through a cascade of adhesion events. Although cell adhesion molecules play an important role in many processes, this book concentrates on their role within the immune system. A number of chapters discuss the migration of lymphocytes between hematopoietic organs such as the thymus, lymph nodes, Peyer's patches, and spleen.

Lymphocyte Homing to the Skin

Author : Wolf-Henning Boehncke
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420019643
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Lymphocyte Homing to the Skin written by Wolf-Henning Boehncke and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, enormous progress in the understanding of T-cell homing has made it possible to identify the multitude of molecules involved, such as cytokines, chemokines, and adhesion molecules, and to unravel their complex interactions resulting in controlled, non-random T-cell recirculation. These insights are now being explored therapeut