The Barnacle Goose - 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 Barnacle Goose write by Jeffrey M. Black. This book was released on 2014-12-18. The Barnacle Goose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Barnacle Goose, a distinctive, handsome black-and-white bird, gets its name from a mediaeval myth that the birds hatched from barnacles – how else to explain their sudden appearance each autumn in northern Britain? We now know, of course, that the birds migrate from Arctic Russia, Norway and Svalbard to winter throughout northern Europe. This book represents a culmination of more than 25 years of Barnacle Goose research. It represents the story of one of Europe's most celebrated long-term behavioral studies, detailing the lives of these social and sociable birds. Chapters include sections on pair formation and bonding, family and population dynamics, brood parasitism, food and feeding, size and shape in different populations, life cycle, survivorship, dispersal, migration, and conservation, with particular regard to climate change. It is a rigorous and thorough examination of the lives of these birds, in fine Poyser tradition.
Wild Goose Dilemmas
Wild Goose Dilemmas - 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 Wild Goose Dilemmas write by Jeffrey M. Black. This book was released on 2007. Wild Goose Dilemmas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Barnacles in Nature and in Myth
Barnacles in Nature and in Myth - 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 Barnacles in Nature and in Myth write by Edward Heron-Allen. This book was released on 1928. Barnacles in Nature and in Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Barnacle Goose
The Barnacle Goose - 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 Barnacle Goose write by Myrfyn Owen. This book was released on 1990. The Barnacle Goose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an introduction to the barnacle goose, describing its characteristics, populations and distribution. It outlines the year of the barnacle goose as it migrates long distances between its breeding and wintering areas, using staging posts on the way.
You Are Now Less Dumb
You Are Now Less Dumb - 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 You Are Now Less Dumb write by David McRaney. This book was released on 2013-07-30. You Are Now Less Dumb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of the bestselling You Are Not So Smart shares more discoveries about self-delusion and irrational thinking, and gives readers a fighting chance at outsmarting their not-so-smart brains David McRaney’s first book, You Are Not So Smart, evolved from his wildly popular blog of the same name. A mix of popular psychology and trivia, McRaney’s insights have struck a chord with thousands, and his blog--and now podcasts and videos--have become an Internet phenomenon. Like You Are Not So Smart, You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality--except we’re not. But that’s okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of fifteen more ways we fool ourselves every day, including: The Misattribution of Arousal (Environmental factors have a greater affect on our emotional arousal than the person right in front of us) Sunk Cost Fallacy (We will engage in something we don’t enjoy just to make the time or money already invested “worth it”) Deindividuation (Despite our best intentions, we practically disappear when subsumed by a mob mentality) McRaney also reveals the true price of happiness, why Benjamin Franklin was such a badass, and how to avoid falling for our own lies. This smart and highly entertaining book will be wowing readers for years to come.
