The Human Nature of Birds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Human Nature of Birds write by Theodore Xenophon Barber. This book was released on 1994-06. The Human Nature of Birds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A provocative new study of birds, humans, and the deepest prejudices of Western science--developed from six years of independent research by a behavioral scientist. In the spirit of the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Dogs. Color photos.
Humans, Nature, and Birds
Humans, Nature, and Birds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humans, Nature, and Birds write by Darryl Wheye. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Humans, Nature, and Birds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual "gallery” where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display. These are works in a genre the authors term Science Art--that is, art that says something about the natural world and how it works. Darryl Wheye and Donald Kennedy show how these works of art can advance our understanding of the ways nature has been perceived over time, its current vulnerability, and our responsibility to preserve its wealth. Each room in the gallery is dedicated to a single topic. The rooms on the first floor show birds as icons, birds as resources, birds as teaching tools, and more. On the second floor, the images and their captions clarify what Science Art is and how the intertwining of art and science can change the way we look at each. The authors also provide a timeline linking scientific innovations with the production of images of birds, and they offer a checklist of steps to promote the creation and accessibility of Science Art. Readers who tour this unique and fascinating gallery will never look at art depicting nature in the same way again. Published with assistance from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Public Understanding of Science and Technology Program.
The Annihilation of Nature
The Annihilation of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Annihilation of Nature write by Gerardo Ceballos. This book was released on 2015-09-30. The Annihilation of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book shows us the face of Earth’s sixth great mass extinction, revealing that this century is a time of darkness for the world’s birds and mammals. In The Annihilation of Nature, three of today’s most distinguished conservationists tell the stories of the birds and mammals we have lost and those that are now on the road to extinction. These tragic tales, coupled with eighty-three color photographs from the world’s leading nature photographers, display the beauty and biodiversity that humans are squandering."--Book jacket.
Nature All Around: Birds
Nature All Around: Birds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature All Around: Birds write by Pamela Hickman. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Nature All Around: Birds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The perfect resource for budding bird-watchers. Because birds can be found in every neighborhood, and in all seasons, they’re an excellent choice for piquing children’s interest in wildlife. Here’s a comprehensive guide to birds that makes the perfect starting point. Beautiful pages explore many different bird species and their fascinating and unique characteristics, from feathers to eggs and nests. A year in the life of birds explains what to look for, season by season. And the beginning bird-watcher section helps kids get started in the field. Birds of a feather? More like, birds of every feather here! Kids will be grabbing their binoculars to spot them all around!
The Life of the Skies
The Life of the Skies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of the Skies write by Jonathan Rosen. This book was released on 2008-02-19. The Life of the Skies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As a boy, Teddy Roosevelt learned taxidermy from a man who had sailed up the Missouri River with Audubon, and yet as president presided over America’s entry into the twentieth century, in which our ability to destroy ourselves and the natural world was no longer metaphorical. Roosevelt, an avid birder, was born a hunter and died a conservationist. Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality—historical and literary, spiritual and scientific—to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve. Rosen argues that bird-watching is nothing less than the real national pastime—indeed it is more than that, because the field of play is the earth itself. We are the players and the spectators, and the outcome—since bird and watcher are intimately connected—is literally a matter of life and death.
