Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

The Wind Birds: Shorebirds of North America
de P. Matthiessen(Ed. Houghton Mifflin (Trade)) Isbn : 1881527379
10.57 €
ReviewsBookwatch, "Fine natural history literature";

The Influence of Binaries on Stellar Population Studies
de D. Vanbeveren(Ed. Springer) Isbn : 0792371046
245.71 €
Reviews recent observations of non-evolved and evolved binary populations in clusters and the field with special emphasis on statistical biases, incompleteness and distribution functions.

Collins Bird Guide: The Most Complete Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe
de Lars Svensson, Peter J. Grant, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterstrom(Ed. Collins) Isbn : 0002197286
29.51 €
Reviews of the prize winning field guideWinner of the British Birds/British Trust for Ornithology Bird Book of the Year and Birdwatch Book of the Yearour standard guide for many years to come - BBC WildlifeAs essential as binoculars - New Scientistit really is a very good book - RSPB BirdsThe richest and most comprehensive of the current guides - The Times

Music of the Birds: A Celebration of Bird Song
de Lang Elliott(Ed. Houghton Mifflin (Trade)) Isbn : 0618006974
23.76 €
Reviewing this book while listening to its accompanying CD was at times a magical experience. It is not so much a scientific study of the biological meaning of birdsong as an introduction to the beauty of birdsong. The aesthetic pleasure of listening to birds sing is often forgotten in popular field guides to identifying birdsong, and the author produced this work to fill that vacuum. The text does not ignore the behavioral elements of birdsong but weaves scientific explanations of the meanings of birdsong with lyrical descriptions of the singing and quotes from poets such as William Wordsworth and Robert Browning and essayists such as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir. Not just celebrating the most accomplished songsters, such as the thrushes and wrens, the author also finds much to appre...

Music of the Birds: A Celebration of Bird Song
de Lang Elliott(Ed. Houghton Mifflin (Trade)) Isbn : 0618006982
33.26 €
Reviewing this book while listening to its accompanying CD was at times a magical experience. It is not so much a scientific study of the biological meaning of birdsong as an introduction to the beauty of birdsong. The aesthetic pleasure of listening to birds sing is often forgotten in popular field guides to identifying birdsong, and the author produced this work to fill that vacuum. The text does not ignore the behavioral elements of birdsong but weaves scientific explanations of the meanings of birdsong with lyrical descriptions of the singing and quotes from poets such as William Wordsworth and Robert Browning and essayists such as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir. Not just celebrating the most accomplished songsters, such as the thrushes and wrens, the author also finds much to appre...

The Bald Eagle
de John E. Becker(Ed. KidHaven Press) Isbn : 0737712791
22.51 €
Reviewed with John E. Becker's The North American Beaver.Gr. 3-6. These compact entries in the new Returning to Wildlife series celebrate species that have made successful comebacks from near-extinction. In Beaver, Becker relates how a rage for beaver hats, the Hudson Bay Company, the French and Indian War, and Ulysses S. Grant played powerful roles in the beaver's fate and looks at contemporary setbacks caused by the increasing beaver population. In Bald Eagle, he again discusses his subject within a historical context, this time blending in a great deal about the bald eagle in Native American ritual and alerting readers to new perils that threaten the bird's success. Full-color photographs and illustrations are plentiful, and each book concludes with a glossary and a bibliography of most...

Theory of Black Hole Accretion Discs
de M. a. Abramowicz, G. Bjornsson, J. E. Pringle(Ed. Cambridge University Press) Isbn : 0521623626
122.85 €
Review of the hardback: '… the editors should be congratulated on assembling a collection of high-quality articles'. Roger Blandford, The Observatory

Restoring Kapiti: Nature's Second Chance
de Kerry Brown(Ed. Otago University Press) Isbn : 1877276669
17.7 €
Restoring Kapiti Established as a nature reserve in 1897, Kapiti Island is one of New Zealand's longest and most exciting restoration stories. This text relays the tale of its rehabilitation - the restoration of the land, sea, and birds. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, charts, and maps, it is academic, but accessible to the general reader. Full description

Compact Stars in Binaries (International Astronomical Union Symposia)
de Jan van Paradijs(Ed. Springer) Isbn : 0792338464
137.76 €
Research on the formation, structure and evolution of binary stars with at least one compact component (i.e. a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole), has in recent years been one of the most active areas in astrophysics. This volume gives an overview of recent progress in this area, with particular emphasis on the evolutionary connection that may exist between these binaries as observed in a variety of wavelength bands, in particular in the radio and X-ray bands. Among the subjects covered are Type Ib/c supernovae and supernovae in binaries; common-envelope evolution, coalescence of binaries and Thorne--Zytkow objects; gravitational waves from compact bodies; binary and millisecond radio pulsars; planets around pulsars; the pulsar velocity distribution; transient X-ray sources and blac...

The National Audubon Society Interactive Cd-Rom Guide to North American Birds
de Guide to North American Birds, Society Audubon(Ed. Alfred A. Knopf) Isbn : 0679760164
42.28 €
Requirements for running this excellent reference include Windows 3. 1 or 95 or a Macintosh, a color monitor, and other relatively modern hardware configurations likely to be included in newer Mac or PC environments: those with such systems who hold an affinity for birds will find this one of the finest multimedia references available. This goes beyond any printed word form, including over 700 bird call examples, videos, photos, maps, and trip planners. The computer environment lends to using life zones and locations to aid in the identification process, while on-line indexing and a glossary of terms are only a keystroke away. This promises hours of interactive birding in a setting far more educational and interactive than a printed bird guidebook could ever offer. Highly recommended.