Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park
de Marie Winn(Ed. Thorndike Pr) Isbn : 0783803737
27.5 €
Enchanting. —The New York Review of Books An amazing drama, as good as any soap opera and all the more remarkable since it is a true wildlife story. — Birding A sublime lesson in adaptability, hope, and wild-bred devotion. It'll make you look to the skies, no matter where you live. —Carl Hiaasen, Mirabella Astonishing. . . . If you don't believe that the Central Park of Stuart Little has always existed, read this book and open your eyes. —Mary Tyler Moore Engaging . . . Dr. Zhivago with feathers. . . . That such simple pleasures can be savored today, in the heart of frantic New York City, is a bit of a miracle. —The Boston Globe 'Give your heart to the hawks,' the poet Robinson Jeffers wrote. Marie Winn certainly has, and so will readers of this delightful boo...

Red-Tails in Love: PALE MALE'S STORY--A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park
de Marie Winn(Ed. Vintage) Isbn : 0679758461
15.16 €
Enchanting. —The New York Review of Books An amazing drama, as good as any soap opera and all the more remarkable since it is a true wildlife story. — Birding A sublime lesson in adaptability, hope, and wild-bred devotion. It'll make you look to the skies, no matter where you live. —Carl Hiaasen, Mirabella Astonishing. . . . If you don't believe that the Central Park of Stuart Little has always existed, read this book and open your eyes. —Mary Tyler Moore Engaging . . . Dr. Zhivago with feathers. . . . That such simple pleasures can be savored today, in the heart of frantic New York City, is a bit of a miracle. —The Boston Globe 'Give your heart to the hawks,' the poet Robinson Jeffers wrote. Marie Winn certainly has, and so will readers of this delightful boo...

Bird, Egg, Feather, Nest
de Maryjo Koch(Ed. Stewart, Tabori Chang Inc) Isbn : 1556702612
17.7 €
Enchanting watercolor images and handwritten text describe remarkable facts about birds from all over the world, including migration, courtship patterns, and evolutionary adaptations as well as details about specific birds.

Falconry
de Emma Ford(Ed. Shire Publications) Isbn : 0852636679
3.48 €
Emma Ford has been flying hawks since she was eight. In 1982 she and her husband established the British school of Falconry, which now has branches in Scotland and Vermont, USA. She is a member of the Scottish Hawk Board, the government advisory panel on captive hawks. She has written five other books on falconry, as well as a humorous autobiography and Countrywoman, based on a television series in which she was the subject of one programme.

A Little Bird Told Me So: Birds in Mythology and History
de Eleanor Stickney(Ed. Rutledge Books) Isbn : 1887750673
14.2 €
Eleanor Stickney's enthusiasm for birds hatched from her great, great uncle, who was one of the founders of the American Ornithologists Union, and her grandfather, who was an amateur ornithologist. Mrs. Stickney majored in ornithology at Sarah Lawrence College and worked at the American Museum of Natural history. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, she founded the Peabody Museum Associates and was its first President. She also spent 30 years as Collections Manager of the Bird Department at Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History. Mrs. Stickney, now retired, still gives frequent, sought after lectures on ornithology. She and her husband presently reside in Essex, Connecticut.

Atlas Estelar Cambridge
de WIL TIRION(Ed. Cambridge University Press) Isbn : 8483233320
18.6 €
El Atlas estelar Cambridge abarca todo el firmamento, tanto de latitudes boreales como australes, en un formato atractivo y adecuado tanto para principiantes como para observadores experimentados. Contiene una serie de mapas celestes mensuales seguidos de un atlas de todo el cielo dispuesto en 20 cartas a todo color que se superponen entre sí. Las cartas muestran estrellas magnitud hasta 6.5, además de unos 900 objetos no estelares, como cúmulos y galaxias, visibles con prismáticos o telescopios pequeños. También incluye un mapa completo de la superficie lunar en el que se señalan los nombres de cráteres y otros accidentes.

Unveiling the Edge of Time: Black Holes, White Holes, Wormholes
de John Gribbin(Ed. Harmony Books) Isbn : 051758591X
24.27 €
Einstein's relativity theory changed forever the way science conceives space and time and remains the source of some of the most exotic concepts of theoretical physics. Among them are intriguing ideas that cosmic objects called "wormholes" connect remote parts of the universe and might be traversable, making it possible to journey through time to distant galaxies, perhaps even to other universes. These two books by scientists both provide substantively similar accounts of the emerging theories and speculate on what it would mean to humanity if travel through space-time should become possible. The styles of the two presentations, however, are quite different. Gribbin, who with the death of Isaac Asimov is probably the most prolific science popularizer today, begins with Isaac Newton and sho...

Birds' Eggs
de Michael P. Walters(Ed. Dorling Kindersley) Isbn : 1564581756
17.06 €
Eggs of over 500 bird species are listed with photographs, bird illustrations, and descriptions.

Birds' Eggs
de Michael Walters, Mark B. Robbins(Ed. Dk Pub) Isbn : 1564581780
28.46 €
Eggs of over 500 bird species are listed with photographs, bird illustrations, and descriptions.

The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World
de Edward C. Dickinson(Ed. Helm) Isbn : 071366536X
35.44 €
Edward C. Dickinson is the author of three books, including "A Field Guide to the Birds of South-east Asia" and "A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines". He is currently Research Associate with the National Museum of Natural History of the Netherlands, Leiden.