Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Heritage of Mars: Awakening Forever
de Richard C. Hoagland(Ed. North Atlantic Books,U.S.) Isbn : 1883319668
12.3 €
Journalist Richard C. Hoagland, former science adviser to CBS News and a NASA consultant, presents an exciting, detailed overview of evidence that life may exist on Europa, a moon of the planet Jupiter. Hoagland offers a startling body of evidence including the latest Galileo photographs. 30 color photos.

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
de John Burroughs(Ed. IndyPublish.com) Isbn : 1588271420
16.87 €
John Burroughs (1837-1921) was an American naturalist and essayist. He played an important role in the evolution of the U. S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. His extraordinary popularity and popular visibility were sustained by a prolific stream of essay collections, beginning with Wake-Robin in 1871. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan...

The Pileated Woodpecker
de Seliesa Pembleton(Ed. Prentice Hall IBD) Isbn : 0875183921
11.76 €
Introduces the appearance, habitat, and behavior of the pileated woodpecker, discusses the impact humans have had on the bird and its habitat, and describes a year in the life of the woodpecker.

Bizarre Birds
de Doug Wechsler, Visual Resources for Ornithology Organi(Ed. Dutton Children's Books) Isbn : 0525652493
22.57 €
In this companion to Bizarre Bugs (1995) naturalist-photographer Wechsler introduces birds that have unique habits and behaviors. He surveys appearance (gaudy feather displays versus the bald look), food preferences (from beeswax to clay to carrion), flight behavior (and what makes flightless birds so prone to extinction), and nest-building practices. In each case, he offers a scientific explanation for the adaptation. Many crisp, well-chosen photographs, most of which were taken by the author, show the birds engaged in various activities. Clear, succinct text and short chapters add appeal. Although there may not be enough information here for reports on individual birds, the book makes a great introduction to the topic and a good item for browsing. Kay Weisman

The Fall of a Sparrow
de Salim Ali(Ed. OUP India) Isbn : 0195618378
12.05 €
In The Fall of the Sparrow, India's greatest ornithologist Salim Ali recounts his exciting experiences in the outdoors and chronicles his unusual love of birds.

Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas
de Wayne R. Petersen, W. Roger Meservey(Ed. Massachusetts Audubon Society) Isbn : 0932691323
Prix : NC
In 1974, the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife launched a five-year survey to map the distribution of all the birds that breed in the Commonwealth--the first such comprehensive effort in North America. Nearly 600 volunteers spent countless hours in the field collecting data. This landmark volume presents the results of their efforts. The book includes distribution maps showing possible, probable, and confirmed breeding areas for 198 Massachusetts nesting species on a grid of 989 ten-square-mile blocks. Opposite each species map is a summary account giving historical perspective, relative abundance, habitat, seasonal schedule, nest, egg, and song descriptions, clutch size, egg dates, number of broods, and other pertinent details. Each spe...

Birds of Prey: 15 Copy Bin
de W. Smith(Ed. Macmillan) Isbn : 0333690257
Prix : NC
In 1667, Sir Francis Courteney commands his ship off the coast of Africa in England's war against the Dutch. He has groomed his son Hal to succeed him as captain. Birds of Prey chronicles Hal's swift and bloody passage to manhood after his father's torture and death at the hands of the Dutch. Escaping with the remaining crew, Hal makes his way overland to claim his father's hidden treasure and confront the treacherous English captain who betrayed them. Men are hacked apart in sword fights, blown to bits in shipboard battles, mauled by crocodiles, and more in this tale from the prolific author of such historical fare as The Seventh Scroll (LJ 4/15/95). Short on character development and tight plotting, this meandering escapist novel will be relished by those who enjoy swashbuckling tales wi...

Penguins
de Wolfgang Kaehler(Ed. Chronicle Books) Isbn : 0877016372
12.3 €
Here are more than 75 spectacular images of penguins taken by award-winning wildlife photographer Wolfgang Kaehler. Full-color photos.

Duck and Swan
de John Quinn(Ed. Poolbeg Press Ltd) Isbn : 1853713171
7.28 €
Grade 6-8-On a school trip to Dublin, Emer discovers a stowaway on the bus-12-year-old Martin Oduki, a.k.a. Duck. He is a half-Nigerian, half-Irish boy who has escaped from St. Mark's, a home for delinquent boys, where he was sent after his drug-dealing mother's arrest. With Emer's help, he is able to hide out in a barn for a few days. Just when his hiding place is discovered and it looks like he'll have to go on the lam again, he is taken in by an elderly couple, Granny Flynn and Blind Tom, where he is introduced to the game of hurling. Eventually, others find out about Duck's athletic talents and, in spite of their suspicion of him because of the color of his skin, want him to play on the local team. All the while, he is being hunted by "the Beak," a man from St. Mark's. Just before the ...

Owls: Whoo Are They
de Kila Jarvis, D. W. Holt(Ed. Mountain Pr) Isbn : 0878423400
Prix : NC
Gr. 3 -5. Lavish illustrations and clear, concise information mark this attractive introduction to owls. Each spread pairs a page of interesting facts about owl biology or behavior with a handsome painting or line drawing. The conversational text accurately explains owl life in terms that kids can understand. Important terms appear in bold type throughout the text and are included in a glossary at the back. The colorful and instructive illustrations include depictions of all 19 species of owls found in the U.S. and Canada. Casual readers as well as students will be engaged. Leone McDermott