Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Peregrine Falcons
de Candace C. Savage(Ed. Sierra Club Books for Children) Isbn : 0871565048
28.5 €
"On the wings of her two magnificent books about grizzly bears and wolves, the Canadian naturalist Candace Savage presents Peregrine Falcons with her usual solid science writing and poignant, powerful photos. The resurrection of this predator by captive breeding and careful release after the DDT crisis nearly wiped out the species stands as one of the great triumphs of conservation."-- The Chicago Tribune"Striking...[the] photos and detailed text provide vivid insight into these fascinating raptors."-- San Francisco Chronicle"[Candace Savage] relates man's long, turbulent relationship with the peregrine, a love-hate relationship that nearly spelled extinction of the bird."-- Spokane Review

Peregrine Falcons
de Candace C. Savage(Ed. Sierra Club Books for Children) Isbn : 0871564610
19 €
"On the wings of her two magnificent books about grizzly bears and wolves, the Canadian naturalist Candace Savage presents Peregrine Falcons with her usual solid science writing and poignant, powerful photos. The resurrection of this predator by captive breeding and careful release after the DDT crisis nearly wiped out the species stands as one of the great triumphs of conservation."-- The Chicago Tribune"Striking...[the] photos and detailed text provide vivid insight into these fascinating raptors."-- San Francisco Chronicle"[Candace Savage] relates man's long, turbulent relationship with the peregrine, a love-hate relationship that nearly spelled extinction of the bird."-- Spokane Review

Bird News: Vagrants and Visitors on a Peculiar Island
de E. Vernon Laux(Ed. Da Capo Press) Isbn : 1568581130
19 €
"Most birds undertake perilous migrations with no guides, maps, or experienceAit is a wonder that any survive," opines Laux, an ornithologist. A bird's life, as he describes it, is a nearly constant frenetic round of athletic activity. After heavy rains, innumerable young birdsAnot yet fully featheredAget soaked and freeze, or else starve. Laux writes with rare passion, knowledge and insight about birds, finely tuned biological marvels honed by millennia of evolving and surviving. Attractively designed and complemented by b&w photographs and sketches, this unusual book melds Laux's crisp essays with his "Bird News" columns for the Martha's Vineyard Gazette into an informal year-round log of birdwatching on Martha's Vineyard, the popular Massachusetts tourist spot and birders' island paradi...

Mesozoic Birds â€' Above the Heads of Dinosaurs
de Luis M Chiappe(Ed. University of California Press) Isbn : 0520200942
85.05 €
"Mesozoic Birds is the first book to bring together world-renowned specialists on fossil birds and their importance to avian origins and, more importantly, it stresses a unified approach (cladistics) and presents the most anatomically detailed analyses available to date. No other study or collection of studies has ever done so much. How could the project not be welcomed by its audience of paleontologists, ornithologists, and evolutionary biologists!"-David Weishampel, editor of The Dinosauria "This is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to the relationships and evolution of the birds that lived during the Age of Dinosaurs. Its wealth of information and its diversity of viewpoints will ensure that this indispensable volume is used and discussed for many years to come."-Kevin Padian, Un...

Washington Starwatch: The Essential Guide To Our Night Sky
de Mike Lynch(Ed. Voyageur Press Inc) Isbn : 0896587223
25.6 €
"Make the Stars Your Old Friends!" . . . with Mike Lynch, America's Master Stargazing instructor Mike has led stargazing classes for over 30 years and has instructed 1000s of would-be backyard astronomers (and maybe a few would-be professional astronomers!) Now with "Washington StarWatch" you can easily pick up what beginning and advanced stargazers ages 12 and up have learned in his popular stargazing classes. -Use the detailed seasonal constellation charts to quickly identify their main stars and find "celestial goodies" such as star clusters, nebulae, and other galaxies. -Enjoy the stories and mythology of characters for whom the constellations are named, including Orion the Hunter, Cassiopeia the Queen, and Perseus the Hero. -Locate the most prominent seasonal constellations with easy-...

Oregon Starwatch: The Essential Guide To Our Night Sky
de Mike Lynch(Ed. Voyageur Press Inc) Isbn : 0896587215
25.6 €
"Make the Stars Your Old Friends!" . . . with Mike Lynch, America's Master Stargazing instructor Mike has led stargazing classes for over 30 years and has instructed 1000s of would-be backyard astronomers (and maybe a few would-be professional astronomers!) Now with "Oregon StarWatch" you can easily pick up what beginning and advanced stargazers ages 12 and up have learned in his popular stargazing classes. -Use the detailed seasonal constellation charts to quickly identify their main stars and find "celestial goodies" such as star clusters, nebulae, and other galaxies. -Enjoy the stories and mythology of characters for whom the constellations are named, including Orion the Hunter, Cassiopeia the Queen, and Perseus the Hero. -Locate the most prominent seasonal constellations with easy-to-u...

Montana Starwatch
de Mike Lynch(Ed. Voyageur Press) Isbn : 0896587320
25.6 €
"Make the Stars Your Old Friends!" . . . with Mike Lynch, America's Master Stargazing instructor Mike has led stargazing classes for over 30 years and has instructed 1000s of would-be backyard astronomers (and maybe a few would-be professional astronomers!) Now with "Montana StarWatch" you can easily pick up what beginning and advanced stargazers ages 12 and up have learned in his popular stargazing classes. -Use the detailed seasonal constellation charts to quickly identify their main stars and find "celestial goodies" such as star clusters, nebulae, and other galaxies. -Enjoy the stories and mythology of characters for whom the constellations are named, including Orion the Hunter, Cassiopeia the Queen, and Perseus the Hero. -Locate the most prominent seasonal constellations with easy-to-...

Dakota Starwatch: The Essential Guide To Our Night Sky
de Mike Lynch(Ed. Voyageur Press Inc) Isbn : 0896587339
25.6 €
"Make the Stars Your Old Friends!" . . . with Mike Lynch, America's Master Stargazing instructor Mike has led stargazing classes for over 30 years and has instructed 1000s of would-be backyard astronomers (and maybe a few would-be professional astronomers!) Now with "Dakota StarWatch" you can easily pick up what beginning and advanced stargazers ages 12 and up have learned in his popular stargazing classes. -Use the detailed seasonal constellation charts to quickly identify their main stars and find "celestial goodies" such as star clusters, nebulae, and other galaxies. -Enjoy the stories and mythology of characters for whom the constellations are named, including Orion the Hunter, Cassiopeia the Queen, and Perseus the Hero. -Locate the most prominent seasonal constellations with easy-to-u...

Heron Conservation
de James A. Kushlan, Heinz Hafner(Ed. Poyser) Isbn : 0124301304
59.06 €
"Kushland and Hafner, the editors of Heron Conservation, have produced an up-to-date, informative review of current knowledge on this subject, but more importantly, they have created a functional tool with which to shape the future conservation of these birds. ...this book will for the foreseeable future be the definitive reference for everybody working on herons."--Francesco Pezzo in IBIS (2001)"...This book is meant to summarize what has been learned about the world's herons, particularly in the roughly 15 years since the last synthesis in The Herons Handbook...This is truly a worldwide cooperative effort with contributions from 19 ornithologists from all continents (except Antarctica)...Anyone with even a modest interest in herons or conservation should have this book. The nearly 1,350 ...

Wildlife Sanctuaries and the Audubon Society: Places to Hide and Seek
de John "Frosty" Anderson(Ed. University of Texas Press) Isbn : 0292704984
42.76 €
"John M. 'Frosty' Anderson was one of the National Audubon Society's great 'living legends.' . . . No one has done more for wildlife than this modest man with the best sense of humor ever to come down the pike." --from the Foreword National Audubon Society sanctuaries across the United States preserve the unique combinations of plants, climates, soils, and water that endangered birds and other animals require to survive. Their success stories include the recovery of the common and snowy egrets, wood storks, Everglade kites, puffins, and sandhill cranes, to name only a few. In this book, Frosty Anderson describes the development of fifteen NAS sanctuaries from Maine to California and from the Texas coast to North Dakota. Drawn from the newsletter Places to Hide and Seek, which he edited dur...