Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America
de Kenn Kaufman(Ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Isbn : 0618574239
20.48 €
Every spring, tens of thousands of bird-watchers migrate across the country in search of vireos, towhees, and violet-crowned hummingbirds; these birders can be recognized by their binoculars, their respect for nature and their frequent stillness and near-silence. By next spring, many of them will be toting this guide. Author and illustrator Kaufman (Lives of North American Birds) has long been one of the birdwatching community's stars. His colorful, practical and very portable book aims to become the new standard in the field. The book is small enough for a big jacket pocket, and can be held in one hand; color-coded tags divide its 16 sections on 16 classes of birds ("Ducks, Geese, Swans," "Chicken-Like Birds," "Medium-Sized Land Birds," "Flycatchers," etc.). Each left-hand page describes ...

Birding by Ear: A Guide to Bird-Song Identification/Eastern/Central
de Richard K. Walton, Robert Lawson(Ed. Houghton Mifflin (Trade)) Isbn : 0395500877
33.26 €
Ever wonder what that trill in the backyard is? Or how to distinguish between all those similar warbler songs? If so, try Birding by Ear. This great resource for birders all over eastern/central North America conveniently packages three cassettes and an accompanying booklet into a single videocassette-like box. Each tape groups bird species according to acoustic similarity in order to help you learn the basics of bird-song identification. Soon you'll know just by listening whether the bird skulking underneath the bushes is an orange-crowned warbler, a chipping sparrow, or a dark-eyed junco.

Birding by Ear: Eastern/Central
de Richard K. Walton, Robert W. Lawson(Ed. Houghton Mifflin Company) Isbn : 0395975247
28.5 €
Ever wonder what that trill in the backyard is? Or how to distinguish between all those similar warbler songs? If so, try Birding by Ear. This great resource for birders all over eastern/central North America conveniently packages three cassettes and an accompanying booklet into a single videocassette-like box. Each tape groups bird species according to acoustic similarity in order to help you learn the basics of bird-song identification. Soon you'll know just by listening whether the bird skulking underneath the bushes is an orange-crowned warbler, a chipping sparrow, or a dark-eyed junco.

Birding by Ear: Eastern/Central
de Richard K. Walton(Ed. Houghton Mifflin Company) Isbn : 0395975239
23.76 €
Ever wonder what that trill in the backyard is? Or how to distinguish between all those similar warbler songs? If so, try Birding by Ear. This great resource for birders all over eastern/central North America conveniently packages three cassettes and an accompanying booklet into a single videocassette-like box. Each tape groups bird species according to acoustic similarity in order to help you learn the basics of bird-song identification. Soon you'll know just by listening whether the bird skulking underneath the bushes is an orange-crowned warbler, a chipping sparrow, or a dark-eyed junco.

Birding by Ear: Eastern/Central : A Guide to Bird-Song Identification
de Richard K. Walton, Robert Lawson(Ed. Houghton Mifflin (Trade)) Isbn : 0395712580
38 €
Ever wonder what that trill in the backyard is? Or how to distinguish between all those similar warbler songs? If so, try Birding by Ear. This great resource for birders all over eastern/central North America conveniently packages three cassettes and an accompanying booklet into a single videocassette-like box. Each tape groups bird species according to acoustic similarity in order to help you learn the basics of bird-song identification. Soon you'll know just by listening whether the bird skulking underneath the bushes is an orange-crowned warbler, a chipping sparrow, or a dark-eyed junco.

Those Funny Flamingos
de Jan Lee Wicker(Ed. Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.) Isbn : 1561642959
9.46 €
Ever wonder about those funny, big, pink birds that stand on one leg and eat upside down ? This book answers 20 questions about flamingos to teach you a lot about those big pink birds. In addition to finally understanding why they stand on one leg and eat upside down, you'll learn the answers to questions like these : How do flamingos stay dry ? Can flamingos salute ? How can flamingos bend their knees backwards ? Why do flamingos have webbed feet ? How many eggs does a flamingo lay ? Are baby flamingos pink ? So come along and let's take a world tour to see where flamingos live and why they do what they do. You'll even learn how to draw them and how to make one from a candy cane.

Theory of Rotating Stars
de Jean-Louis Tassoul(Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691082146
27.76 €
Ever since the first observations of sunspots in the early seventeenth century, stellar rotation has been a major topic in astronomy and astrophysics. Jean-Louis Tassoul synthesizes a large number of theoretical investigations on rotating stars. Drawing upon his own research, Professor Tassoul also carefully critiques various competing ideas. In the first three chapters, the author provides a short historical sketch of stellar rotation, the main observational data on the Sun and other stars on which the subsequent theory is based, and the basic Newtonian hydrodynamics used to study rotating stars. Following a discussion of some general mechanical properties of stars in a state of permanent rotation, he reviews the main techniques for determining the structure of a rotating star and its sta...

The Evolution of Avian Breeding Systems
de J. David Ligon(Ed. OUP Oxford) Isbn : 019854913X
121.08 €
Ever since Darwin, birds have provided much of the stimulus for the study of evolution and natural selection. This volume looks at three of the most fascinating aspects of their reproductive biology: sexual selection, parental care, and mating systems. It provides empirical assessments of the main theories of mate choice by females and examines numerous related topics.

Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
de Christopher Cokinos(Ed. Tarcher) Isbn : 1585420069
23.7 €
Even readers with no special interest in birds will be caught up in this marvelous book, a deeply moving cautionary tale about how we have systematically diminished the planet. In recounting the histories of six extinct North American birds, along with stories of the people who killed them off and those who tried to save them, Cokinos, a professor of English at Kansas State University, transforms each extinction into a deeply disturbing tragedy--both for the species itself, and for human civilization. Relentless, wanton hunting, more than ecosystem pressures, obliterated Cokinos's feathered protagonists, including the Carolina Parakeet, which once colored the skies with its green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage; the hardy Passenger Pigeon, flying for hours at a time in endless flocks be...

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
de Christopher Cokinos(Ed. Grand Central Publishing) Isbn : 0446677493
13.26 €
Even readers with no special interest in birds will be caught up in this marvelous book, a deeply moving cautionary tale about how we have systematically diminished the planet. In recounting the histories of six extinct North American birds, along with stories of the people who killed them off and those who tried to save them, Cokinos, a professor of English at Kansas State University, transforms each extinction into a deeply disturbing tragedy--both for the species itself, and for human civilization. Relentless, wanton hunting, more than ecosystem pressures, obliterated Cokinos's feathered protagonists, including the Carolina Parakeet, which once colored the skies with its green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage; the hardy Passenger Pigeon, flying for hours at a time in endless flocks be...