Author : Louisa Waugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4444412178
Hearing Birds Fly B Pbp
Louisa Waugh
Hearing Birds Fly
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Hearing Birds Fly
Louisa Waugh
Author : Louisa Waugh
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0748108572
Hearing Birds Fly by Louisa Waugh Pdf
HEARING BIRDS FLY is Louisa Waugh's passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator, she yearned for the real Mongolia and got the chance when she was summoned by the village head to go to Tsengel far away in the west, near the Kazakh border. Her story completely transports the reader to feel the glacial cold and to see the wonders of the Seven Kings as they steadily emerge from the horizon. Through her we sense their trials as well as their joys, rivalries and even hostilities, many of which the author shared or knew about. Her time in the village was marked by coming to terms with the harshness of climate and also by how she faced up to new feelings towards the treatment of animals, death, solitude and real loneliness, and the constant struggle to censor her reactions as an outsider. Above all, Louisa Waugh involves us with the locals' lives in such a way that we come to know them and care for their fates.
Hearing Birds Fly
Louisa Waugh
Author : Louisa Waugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59362901
Hearing Birds Fly by Louisa Waugh Pdf
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald
Author : Helen Macdonald
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735235519
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald Pdf
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SILVER MEDALIST for the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk, a brilliant and insightful work about our relationship to the natural world Our world is a fascinating place, teeming not only with natural wonders that defy description, but complex interactions that create layers of meaning. Helen Macdonald is gifted with a special lens that seems to peer right through it all, and she shares her insights--at times startling, nostalgic, weighty, or simply entertaining--in this masterful collection of essays. From reflections on science fiction to the true story of an Iranian refugee's flight to the UK, Macdonald has a truly omnivorous taste when it comes to observations of both the banal and sublime. Peppered throughout are reminisces of her own life, from her strange childhood in an estate owned by the Theosophical Society to watching total eclipses of the sun, visits to Uzbek solar power plants, eccentric English country shows, and desert hunting camps in the Gulf States. These essays move from personal experiences into wider meditations about love and loss and how we build the world around us. Whether more journalistic in tone, or literary--even formally experimental--each piece is generous, lyrical, and speaks to one another. Macdonald creates a strong thematic undertow that quietly takes the reader along piece to piece and sets them down, finally, at a place they've never been before.
Peterson Field Guide To Bird Sounds Of Eastern North America
Nathan Pieplow
Author : Nathan Pieplow
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780547905600
Peterson Field Guide To Bird Sounds Of Eastern North America by Nathan Pieplow Pdf
The first comprehensive guide to the sounds of eastern North American birds, featuring an innovative visual index that allows readers to quickly look up unfamiliar sounds in the field. Bird songs and calls are just as important as visual field marks in identifying birds. But until now, the only way to learn them was by memorization. With this groundbreaking book, it’s possible to visually distinguish bird sounds and identify birds using a field guide format. At the core of this guide is the spectrogram, a visual graph of sound. With a brief introduction to five key aspects—speed, repetition, pauses, pitch pattern, and tone quality—readers can learn to visualize sounds, without any musical training or auditory memorization. Picturing sounds makes it possible to search this book visually for a bird song heard in the field. The Sound Index groups similar songs together, narrowing the identification choices quickly to a brief list of birds that sound alike. Readers can then turn to the species account for more information and/or listen to the accompanying audio tracks available online, through Cornell's Lab of Ornithology. Identifying birds by sound is arguably the most challenging and important skill in birding. This book makes it vastly easier to master than ever before.
Bird Sense
Tim Birkhead
Author : Tim Birkhead
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781408830543
Bird Sense by Tim Birkhead Pdf
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise?Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of shared senses - vision and hearing - but how exactly do their senses compare with our own? And what about a birds' sense of taste, or smell, or touch or the ability to detect the earth's magnetic field? Or the extraordinary ability of desert birds to detect rain hundreds of kilometres away - how do they do it?Bird Sense is based on a conviction that we have consistently underestimated what goes on in a bird's head. Our understanding of bird behaviour is simultaneously informed and constrained by the way we watch and study them. By drawing attention to the way these frameworks both facilitate and inhibit discovery, it identifies ways we can escape from them to seek new horizons in bird behaviour.There has never been a popular book about the senses of birds. No one has previously looked at how birds interpret the world or the way the behaviour of birds is shaped by their senses. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of observation and an understanding of birds and their behaviour that is firmly grounded in science.
Kinds, Things, and Stuff
Francis Jeffry Pelletier
Author : Francis Jeffry Pelletier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190452377
Kinds, Things, and Stuff by Francis Jeffry Pelletier Pdf
A generic statement is a type of generalization that is made by asserting that a "kind" has a certain property. For example we might hear that marshmallows are sweet. Here, we are talking about the "kind" marshmallow and assert that individual instances of this kind have the property of being sweet. Almost all of our common sense knowledge about the everyday world is put in terms of generic statements. What can make these generic sentences be true even when there are exceptions? A mass term is one that does not "divide its reference;" the word water is a mass term; the word dog is a count term. In a certain vicinity, one can count and identity how many dogs there are, but it doesn't make sense to do that for water--there just is water present. The philosophical literature is rife with examples concerning how a thing can be composed of a mass, such as a statue being composed of clay. Both generic statements and mass terms have led philosophers, linguists, semanticists, and logicians to search for theories to accommodate these phenomena and relationships. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume study the nature and use of generics and mass terms. Noted researchers in the psychology of language use material from the investigation of human performance and child-language learning to broaden the range of options open for formal semanticists in the construction of their theories, and to give credence to some of their earlier postulations--for instance, concerning different types of predications that are available for true generics and for the role of object recognitions in the development of count vs. mass terms. Relevant data also is described by investigating the ways children learn these sorts of linguistic items: children can learn how to sue generic statements correctly at an early age, and children are adept at individuating objects and distinguishing them from the stuff of which they are made also at an early age.
When Do Birds Fly?
Clara Green
Author : Clara Green
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9798886935806
When Do Birds Fly? by Clara Green Pdf
Five-year-old Dove is ecstatic about everything around her, particularly the forest near her home. In her town, however, nature is outlawed from praise and exploration. She gets sent away for 10 long years when the King finds out she is fascinated by nature. He considers this to be a spell of insanity and a risk to the entire town. Later in this exile, her little sister gets banished to the forest where she finds Dove. They stay together until the King sends for Dove, but she doesn’t know why. A mission is set that Dove and her friends and family struggle to complete. Dove must help the same man who forced her out of her home, hoping her “sickness” would not spread. The children must help him, or their city will fall apart. They must accept the challenge and take a journey they may or may not survive.
What It's Like to Be a Bird
David Allen Sibley
Author : David Allen Sibley
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780525520290
What It's Like to Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley Pdf
The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing—and why: "Can birds smell?"; "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?"; "Do robins 'hear' worms?" "The book's beauty mirrors the beauty of birds it describes so marvelously." —NPR In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds—blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees—it also examines certain species that can be fairly easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin. David Sibley's exacting artwork and wide-ranging expertise bring observed behaviors vividly to life. (For most species, the primary illustration is reproduced life-sized.) And while the text is aimed at adults—including fascinating new scientific research on the myriad ways birds have adapted to environmental changes—it is nontechnical, making it the perfect occasion for parents and grandparents to share their love of birds with young children, who will delight in the big, full-color illustrations of birds in action. Unlike any other book he has written, What It's Like to Be a Bird is poised to bring a whole new audience to David Sibley's world of birds.
The Popular Science Monthly
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Science
ISBN : HARVARD:HC4DFN
The Popular Science Monthly by Anonim Pdf
Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America
Frank Michler Chapman
Author : Frank Michler Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Birds
ISBN : HARVARD:HXDC3F
Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America by Frank Michler Chapman Pdf
Learning to Talk; Speech, Hearing, and Language Problems in the Pre-school Child
National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke
Author : National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Children
ISBN : IND:30000090352877
Learning to Talk; Speech, Hearing, and Language Problems in the Pre-school Child by National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Pdf
My Awesome Field Guide to North American Birds
Mike Graf
Author : Mike Graf
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781648763557
My Awesome Field Guide to North American Birds by Mike Graf Pdf
Help kids become birdwatchers with this guide for ages 8 to 12 Get ready to watch and listen to the hidden world of birds! My Awesome Field Guide to North American Birds is a complete handbook for young birders. Kids will learn all about the birds that live around them—from Chimney Swifts to Horned Larks—and find step-by-step guidance on how to identify them. With clever bird-watching tips and tons of beautiful photos, they'll discover the habitats where different species thrive and start planning their own birding adventures. 150 amazing birds—Kids will meet a whole bunch of bird species that are native to North America, with pictures that show off what makes them unique, like their size, shape, and coloring. Spot birds everywhere—Once kids know what to look for, they'll be able to recognize birds anywhere they go, even if it's just in the backyard or on the way to school. Your own field notebook—This bird book for kids includes 50 blank field log pages so kids can keep track of which birds they've encountered and where. Kids will identify and catalog dozens of birds with this fascinating field guide that has everything they need to get started.
Birds by Night
Graham Martin
Author : Graham Martin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781408137697
Birds by Night by Graham Martin Pdf
This book examines many examples of the nocturnal behaviour of birds. For many people, watching and studying birds is exclusively a day time activity. However, for many birds twilight and night time are not a barrier to useful activity. It is true that very few birds are exclusively nocturnal, but many birds which are active by day also conduct limited, and often crucial, activities after dusk. Examples range from the occasional night feeding of wildfowl and shorebirds to the night singing and night migration of certain passerines, and from the location of nest sites by sea birds to the nocturnal foraging of owls and nightjars. The special cases of flightless nocturnal birds and those birds which dwell in lightless caves are also considered. Throughout, this survey considers not only what it is that birds do at night but also discusses how these nocturnal activities are possible. It brings together studies in field ornithology, sensory science, ecology and physics and involves comparisons of the sensory capacities of other animals, including man. It is shown how the senses of hearing, smell and touch, as well as vision, play a crucial role in many of the night time activities of birds. However, these senses are not always adequate for fully explaining how nocturnal behaviours are executed. To achieve this we must look at the complex of relationships between behavioural and sensory adaptations and the particular environments which birds inhabit from dusk to dawn.
The Tiger Queens
Stephanie Thornton
Author : Stephanie Thornton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101607688
The Tiger Queens by Stephanie Thornton Pdf
In the late twelfth century, across the sweeping Mongolian grasslands, brilliant, charismatic Temujin ascends to power, declaring himself the Great, or Genghis, Khan. But it is the women who stand beside him who ensure his triumph.... After her mother foretells an ominous future for her, gifted Borte becomes an outsider within her clan. When she seeks comfort in the arms of aristocratic traveler Jamuka, she discovers he is the blood brother of Temujin, the man who agreed to marry her and then abandoned her long before they could wed. Temujin will return and make Borte his queen, yet it will take many women to safeguard his fragile new kingdom. Their daughter, the fierce Alaqai, will ride and shoot an arrow as well as any man. Fatima, an elegant Persian captive, will transform her desire for revenge into an unbreakable loyalty. And Sorkhokhtani, a demure widow, will position her sons to inherit the empire when it begins to fracture from within. In a world lit by fire and ruled by the sword, the tiger queens of Genghis Khan come to depend on one another as they fight and love, scheme and sacrifice, all for the good of their family...and the greatness of the People of the Felt Walls.