Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe
de Bertel Bruun, Hakan Delin, Lars Svensson(Ed. Hamlyn) Isbn : 0600600521
17.7 €
Swooping hawks and graceful swans ; long-legged flamingos ; cooing pigeons and calling cuckoos ; woodpeckers, starlings, sparrows, and waxwings : over 600 species of bird, from sharp-billed buzzards to doves of peace,«fly»through these pages in exquisite artwork. It's a boon for bird-watchers, who will find the process of identification greatly simplified ; they'll also get strategies to improve their chances of sighting that rare bird. Entries include information on breeding sites, migration, appearance, size, flight formation, and other notable features.

Swiftlets of Borneo: Builders of Edible Nests
de Lim Chan Koon, Earl of Cranbrook(Ed. Natural History Publications (Borneo),Malaysia) Isbn : 983812060X
25.93 €
Swiftlets of Borneo: Builders of Edfible Nests

Tracking Desire: A Journey After Swallow-tailed Kites
de Susan Cerulean(Ed. University of Georgia Press) Isbn : 0820326976
23.7 €
Swallow-tailed kites are beautiful, scissor-tailed raptors, whose flight is so buoyant and effortless that they resemble the paper kites for which they are named. Once found from Minnesota to Texas, and Maine to Florida, their numbers declined alarmingly with the arrival of European settlers and their concurrent altering of the natural landscape. Cerulean's first sighting of a kite almost caused her to overturn her canoe, and she knew she had just encountered something essential that connected her to the wilderness. In a lovely series of essays, Cerulean explores the hunger for intimacy, the unnameable longing, that can cause the connection with nature that she found with the kite but can also cause the destruction of the very thing one desires. As she writes of working with field biologis...

Mars
de Peter Cattermole, Don Davis(Ed. Facts On File Inc) Isbn : 0816020477
13.26 €
Surveys what is now known about the planet Mars, discussing its surface features, moons, polar ice caps, and the exploratory missions that helped provide this information.

Birds of Prey
de Jill Bailey(Ed. Facts On File Inc) Isbn : 0816016550
16.68 €
Surveys eagles, hawks, owls, and vultures and depicts how they are useful to humanity and wildlife in general.

Supernovae: The 10th Santa Cruz Summer Workshop in Astronomy and Astrophysics, July 9-21, 1989, Lick Observatory
de (Ed. Springer-Verlag New York Inc.) Isbn : 0387970711
94.06 €
Supernova explosions are not only important to the ecology of the universe, seeding it, among other things, with the heavy elements necessary for the existence of life, but they are also a natural laboratory in which a host of unique physical phenomena occur. While still far from a complete understanding, scientists have made great advances during the last twenty-five years in understanding the nature and conse- quences of supernovae. This book presents the state of supernova studies at the beginning of the 1990's, as reported at a two-week meeting on the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California in July 1989 in- volving 177 astronomers and astrophysicists from 17 nations. The 110 papers contained in this volume report all aspects of the field - observations at all wavelengths from...

Ready-To-Frame Decorative Bird Prints: 6 Self-Matted Full Color Prints for Standard 9X12 Frames
de Leniston(Ed. Dover Publications Inc.) Isbn : 0486265102
3.76 €
Superb reproductions from rare 19th-century prints by Audubon, William Hart, Joseph Wolf, John Gould, others. Splendid, detailed renderings of Prince Rudolph #8217 ; s Bird of Paradise, the Western Tragopan, Lady Amherst #8217 ; s Pheasant, Blue Jay, Lorikeet and Roseate Cockatoo. Descriptive notes.

Birds Tomorrow the Management and Enjoyment of the Birds of North America
de Norval R Barger(Ed. Naturegraph Publishers, Incorporated) Isbn : 0879611936
12.3 €
Sub-titled Their Management and Enjoyment, which is what this book is all about: preserving our birdlife for future generations. We can make nest boxes, create natural bird habitats, have safe feeders and bird baths.

Sturkie's Avian Physiology
de P.D. Sturkie(Ed. Academic Press) Isbn : 0127476059
174.08 €
Sturkie's Avian Physiology is the classic comprehensive single volume on the physiology of domestic as well as wild birds. The Fifth Edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes new chapters on the physiology of incubation and growth. Chapters on the nervous system and sensory organs have been greatly expanded due to the many recent advances in the field. The text also covers the physiology of flight, reproduction in both male and female birds, and the immunophysiology of birds. The...

Albatross
de Cousteau Society(Ed. Little Simon) Isbn : 067186565X
3.76 €
Stunning, close-up action photographs depict the majestic and legendary albatross as it flies for months at a time until it is reunited with its mate.