Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Attracting Birds to Your Backyard: 536 Ways to Create a Haven for Your Favorite Birds
de Sally Roth(Ed. Rodale Books) Isbn : 0875968929
20.89 €
Anyone can create a beautiful and colorful backyard that will attract many different species of birds. This comprehensive, A-to-Z guide will help serious and casual gardeners alike choose the specific plants, flowers, shrubs, and trees for attracting some of the best-loved backyard birds, including bluebirds, warblers, goldfinches, and cardinals. Readers will discover top plants for birds, profiles of more than fifty common backyard birds, special bird feeding and planting tips to attract...

What Bird Did That?: A Driver's Guide to Some Common Birds of North America
de Burton Silver(Ed. Ten Speed Press) Isbn : 0898154278
9.46 €
Another bizarrely humorous book from the delightfully eccentric mind of Burton Silver and company, perhaps best known for their Why Cats Paint series and related books. The full-color illustrations of splattered bird droppings in this handy glove compartment guide enable the motorist to identify quickly which species created which display on the windshield. The excreta of a wide variety of avian species are fully described with detailed notes on the animal's food, geographic location, and the best methods of starting a collection. An invaluable companion for all those who wish to learn more about birds and what they do. Inhabitants of Europe may wish to search their used bookstores for a copy of The Comprehensive Field Guide to the Ornithological Dejecta of Great Britain and Europe which i...

An Introduction to Radiative Transfer: Methods and Applications in Astrophysics
de Annamaneni Peraiah(Ed. Cambridge University Press) Isbn : 0521770017
165.38 €
Annamaneni Peraiah obtained his doctorate in radiative transfer from Oxford University. He was formerly a Senior Professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India. He has held positions in India, Canada, Germany and The Netherlands. His research interests include developing solutions to the radiative transfer equation in stellar atmospheres, and line formation in expanding atmospheres with different physical and geometrical conditions.

Watching Birds: Reflections on the Wing
de Ann Taylor(Ed. iUniverse) Isbn : 0595291155
18.68 €
Ann Taylor is a Professor of English at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts, where she teaches courses in English Literature, Essays, Arthurian Literature, and Poetry. She has written two books on college composition, academic and free-lance essays, and poetry. She lives with her husband, Frances Blessington, and their two children, Geoffery and Julia.

Watching Birds: Reflections on the Wing
de Ann Taylor(Ed. TAB Books Inc) Isbn : 0071348662
18.96 €
Ann Taylor is a Professor of English at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts, where she teaches courses in English Literature, Essays, Arthurian Literature, and Poetry. She has written two books on college composition, academic and free-lance essays, and poetry. She lives with her husband, Frances Blessington, and their two children, Geoffery and Julia.

Birds: Their Habits and Skills
de Gisela Kaplan(Ed. Allen Unwin) Isbn : 1865083763
27.92 €
An unusual collection of curious facts about our feathered friends, this book describes the fascinating behaviors and physiology of birds of all shapes and sizes-from the birds in cities to the wild birds in rainforests, deserts, plains, and coastal regions. Topics discussed include bird evolution and why some came to be flightless, why some birds have well-developed senses and memory, the wide diversity of courtship rituals and territorial displays, and the art of nest building. In short, Birds...

Helping and Communal Breeding in Birds: Ecology and Evolution
de J. L. Brown(Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691084475
56.7 €
An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical and empirical studies and summarizes the wide array of results and interpretations made by others. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access ...

Cormorants, Darters, and Pelicans of the World
de Paul A. Johnsgard(Ed. Smithsonian Books) Isbn : 1560982160
45.18 €
An ornithological reference provides a summary of the biology, status, taxonomy, zoogeography, behavior, population and breeding dynamics, phylogeny, and other information about each bird species. By the author of Crane Music.

Birds
de Dean Morris(Ed. Heinemann/Raintree) Isbn : 0817232036
16.45 €
An introduction to various kinds of birds with emphasis on their behavior in migration, food gathering, and nest building.

Eagles
de Cindy Kendall(Ed. Dial Books) Isbn : 0803712758
4.7 €
An introduction to this large, powerful bird known for its sharp vision and graceful flight.