The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology, Paperback - Bernd Heinrich

Reducere. Although Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his "old-fashioned" father, becom...

Reducere. From the acclaimed scientist and writer, essays collected for the first time in book form, on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, an...

Reducere. Winner of the New England Book Award Best Nonfiction Award and the Franklin Fairbanks Award of the Fairbanks Museum In a book destined to become a ...

Reducere. "A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history."...

Reducere. Description Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self-portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on bo...

The Land of the Anka Bird: A Journey Through the Turkic Heartland is a reflective visual essay introducing the powerful photographs of Ergun ağatay...

Reducere. We knew we were in trouble when we started getting calls from the neighbors saying Carson was at the top of the tallest tree on the street. He was ...

Reducere. Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich's dream was to focus on the riches of one small place--a few green acres along...

Reducere. From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutiona...

Reducere. "Bernd Heinrich is one of the finest naturalists of our time. Life Everlasting shines with the authenticity and originality that are unique to a li...

Reducere. Bob and Sue Ann Varner live in a small town in Northern Missouri where they raised their two sons and a daughter. They have shared their journey an...

Reducere. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IS A TOUR DE FORCE, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold...

Reducere. After many years of watching people's disbelief when recounting her personal adventures, tragedies, and survival about life in Jamaica, the author ...

Reducere. Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ...

Reducere. For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for th...

Could a community without a central government avoid descending into chaos and rampant criminality? Could its economy grow and thrive without the i...

Reducere. DescriptionDo I Know You? is the account of one woman's slide into advanced senility. Mary Solomon moved to Florida after her husband died, and muc...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Robin AndersenNumber of pages: 350Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. A true story told through the memoirs of Victor Kramchaninova and his family, these memoirs are a 20th Century Ukrainian odyssey that spans both Wo...

In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from continuing investigations over...

Reducere. When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook. When he learned that two...

This new eighth edition has been fully updated to reflect recent progress in the fields of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry. Now with over 5, ...

Reducere. There's a Leak in My Boat! is a gripping personal tale about all the things that contributed to the author's chronic illnesses, shared in the hopes...

Reducere. DescriptionThis captivating, true story, pushes the limits of what we all have believed to be true. As Medium Ashley Dawn helps a grieving family c...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Rowing upon the Tigris River to enjoy a summer campfire on the tiny islands that emerged every summer, teenaged Joseph Samuels never could have ima...

Reducere. Concepts of Biology is designed for the introductory biology course for nonmajors taught at most two- and four-year colleges. The scope, sequence, ...

This is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to...

Worried about your maternal effect or biological clock? Need to know a rhizoid from a rhizome? Think you're going to fail your zoology or botany ex...

"Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved, " Darwin famously concluded The Origin of Species, and for conf...

Reducere. Trianon, Trianon! A Century of Political Revisionist Mythology There is still enough space on the globe for everyone to live in peace. We are the l...

A Century of Grand Prix Motor Racing - Anthony Pritcard

Reducere. Travel with Sarah Pauly through family relationships and into the inner spiritual planes as she tells her story of spiritual awakening. Her unusual...

Reducere. See ISBN 9781680922202 for a new version. Concepts of Biology is designed for the introductory biology course for nonmajors taught at most two- and...

Kino and Kinder tells the fascinating, poignant but inspiring story of one family's survival as the Nazi party's anti-Semitic policies unfolded thr...

Reducere. Mountains and a Mustard Seed: A Family's Journey of Hope is the real-life story of the Allen family. No detail has been spared as the reader is giv...

Reducere. DescriptionJoin the Carmitchell sisters on an unexpectedly funny and fearlessly frank journey through the 78 cards in the tarot deck. Annie Carmitc...

He was a brawny, blue-eyed, Irish-American religious convert who became a holy warrior in the name of Islam -- until the holy war began to change. ...

Reducere. This is the true story of eight children who started off in a normal family but had an abusive father. Eventually, constant marital fights and the ...

Autopoint mechanical pencils, first introduced a century ago, were manufactured by the millions and remain a common sight at antique shows and flea...

Wonderful photographs published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Preston buses in January 2022.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): Mi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. After another call from the fertility clinic reporting negative test results, Brett Russo started to panic. Unrecognizable to herself after countle...

Have you been recently diagnosed with a mental illness or do you have a loved one who has a mental illness diagnosis? This book will help you under...

Reducere. On the 50th anniversary of America's deadliest prison riot comes a prison-guard daughter's quest to uncover the truth about her father's murder dur...

Description1917 saw one of the most dramatic revolutions in world history when the workers of Russia united to throw out their tsar and aristocracy...