Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Nage Birds: Classification and symbolism among an eastern Indonesian people
de Gregory Forth(Ed. Routledge) Isbn : 0415318270
112.22 €
This unusual book is the story of the relationship between the Nage people of central Indonesia and the birds alongside which they live.

The Audubon Reader
de John James Audubon(Ed. Everyman's Library) Isbn : 1400043697
26.12 €
This unprecedented anthology of John James Audubon’s lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness reintroduces the great artist and ornithologist as an exceptional American writer, a predecessor to Thoreau, Emerson, and Melville.Audubon’s award-winning biographer, Richard Rhodes, has gathered excerpts from his journals, letters, and published works, and has organized them to appeal to general readers. Rhodes’s unobtrusive commentary frames a wide range of selections, including Audubon’s vivid “bird biographies,” correspondence with his devoted wife, Lucy, journal accounts of dramatic river journeys and hunting trips with the Shawnee and Osage Indians, and a generous sampling of brief narrative episodes that have long been out of print&mdash...

The ROM Field Guide to Birds of Ontario
de Janice Hughes, Royal Ontario Museum(Ed. McClelland Stewart) Isbn : 0771076509
28.49 €
This unique publication, produced in association with the Royal Ontario Museum, is the guide Ontario birders have been waiting for #8230 ; The ROM Field Guide to Birds of Ontario is researched and written specifically for the Ontario bird watcher. It is the most authoritative, easy to use, and beautifully designed guide to Ontario birds available.This landmark publication features : #8226 ; Detailed and clearly written descriptions of more than 300 migrant and resident Ontario bird species and...

The Stokes Birdfeeder Book: An Easy Guide to Attracting, Identifying and Understanding Your Feeder Birds
de Donald Stokes, Lillian Stokes(Ed. Little, Brown and Company) Isbn : 0316817333
13.29 €
This unique guide helps readers learn how to attract more birds, become experts at identifying birds, and better understand bird behavior. The authors write a regular column that appears in Bird Watcher's Digest and Living Bird.

Lives of North American Birds
de Kenn Kaufman(Ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Isbn : 0618159886
27.02 €
This unique book is a by-product of the CD-ROM Peterson Multimedia Guides: North American Birds. In producing this CD-ROM, the compilers discovered that there was no book that gave the life histories of birds in general. To remedy this, Kaufman expanded the descriptions of birds' lives that he developed for the Multimedia Guides to produce this beautifully organized book for the layperson. As he states in his acknowledgements, "Although there have been many multimedia products based on books, probably few books besides this one have started off in CD-ROM form."Bird-watchers have relied on the Peterson Guides over the years to identify birds, giving names, habitat, descriptions, and distribution information. However, no guide has gone that additional step to describe what the bird is doing ...

Lives of North American Birds
de Kenn Kaufman(Ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Isbn : 0395770173
33.26 €
This unique book is a by-product of the CD-ROM Peterson Multimedia Guides: North American Birds. In producing this CD-ROM, the compilers discovered that there was no book that gave the life histories of birds in general. To remedy this, Kaufman expanded the descriptions of birds' lives that he developed for the Multimedia Guides to produce this beautifully organized book for the layperson. As he states in his acknowledgements, "Although there have been many multimedia products based on books, probably few books besides this one have started off in CD-ROM form."Bird-watchers have relied on the Peterson Guides over the years to identify birds, giving names, habitat, descriptions, and distribution information. However, no guide has gone that additional step to describe what the bird is doing ...

The Harris Hawk: Management, Training and Hunting
de Lee William Harris(Ed. Swan Hill Press) Isbn : 1840371463
35.38 €
This unique book covers essential information on the Harris hawk in the wild, the relationship they have with man, and their biological facts.

Comparative Avian Nutrition
de Kirk Klasing(Ed. CABI Publishing) Isbn : 0851992196
64.97 €
This unique book covers all aspects of bird nutrition, bringing together research from such diverse fields as ecology, poultry production, zoo biology and biomedical science. It provides in-depth discussions of the physical and biochemical processes of digestion, the metabolic functions of nutrients, and the evolutionary adaptations to accommodate their wide ranging diets. The book emphasizes the quantitative nature of nutrition and the practical dietary requirements of captive and wild bird...

Primer Taller sobre la Caza de Aves Acuaticas: Hacia una Estrategia para el Uso Sustentable de los Recursos de los Humedales
de D.E. Blanco, J. Beltra, V.de la Balze(Ed. Wetlands International) Isbn : 9058829820
19 €
This title provides an Argentinian study on the conservation of that country's wetland birds, which are under pressure as game.

Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling: Integrated Studies of Agroecosystems
de Ronald J. Kendall, Thomas E. Lacher(Ed. CRC Press) Isbn : 0873715918
170.96 €
This timely reference brings together the world's leading scholars and researchers to integrate wildlife toxicology and population modeling and to advance the field of ecological risk assessment of agricultural-chemical use. The book examines the foundation of ecological modeling and its application in assessing the ecological risk of agricultural chemical use. State-of-the-art techniques and methods of ecological modeling have been compiled to provide insight into what must be done to minimize the impact of agricultural chemicals and other toxic substances on the environment. Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling is encyclopedic in coverage, presenting useful tools for environmental decision making and the latest in the theory and application of the science.