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30 produkter
Great Auk
Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife - A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR
Av Tim Birkhead
Häftad, 2026
170 kr
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The life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great AukThe great auk was a flightless, goose-sized bird superbly adapted for life at sea. Fat, flush with feathers and easy to capture, the birds were in trouble whenever sailors visited their once-remote breeding colonies. …
Ten Thousand Birds
Ornithology since Darwin
Av Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
477 kr
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Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary …
Great Auk
Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife - A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR
Av Tim Birkhead
Inbunden, 2025
305 kr
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The life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great AukThe great auk was a flightless, goose-sized bird superbly adapted for life at sea. Fat, flush with feathers and easy to capture, the birds were in trouble whenever sailors visited their once-remote breeding colonies. …
Most Perfect Thing
Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg
Av Tim Birkhead
Häftad, 2017
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
198 kr
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'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some …
Birds and Us
A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
Av Tim Birkhead
Häftad, 2023
166 kr
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In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian obsessions with egg …
Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2010
935 kr
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Two species of magpie feature in this book, the Black-billed Magpie, familiar to most Europeans, which occurs throughout much of the northern hemisphere, and the Yellow-billed Magpie, which is confined to California. Magpies are unmistakable in their appearance, voice and extrovert, arrogant …
Great Auk
its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife - a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2025
155 kr
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The life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great Auk The great auk was a flightless, goose-sized bird superbly adapted for life at sea. Fat, flush with feathers and easy to capture, the birds were in trouble whenever sailors visited their once-remote breeding …
Birds and Us
A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2022
136 kr
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Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds. Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art and philosophy, from the ibises …
Birds and Us
A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
Av Tim Birkhead
Ljudbok, 2022
166 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art and philosophy. Looking to the skies above, we have variously worshipped them as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves in their …
Great Auk
its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife - a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2025
159 kr
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The life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great Auk The great auk was a flightless, goose-sized bird superbly adapted for life at sea. Fat, flush with feathers and easy to capture, the birds were in trouble whenever sailors visited their once-remote breeding …
Ten Thousand Birds
Ornithology since Darwin
Av Bob Montgomerie, Jo Wimpenny m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
642 kr
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Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary …
Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2010
906 kr
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Two species of magpie feature in this book, the Black-billed Magpie, familiar to most Europeans, which occurs throughout much of the northern hemisphere, and the Yellow-billed Magpie, which is confined to California. Magpies are unmistakable in their appearance, voice and extrovert, arrogant …
Great Auk Islands; a field biologist in the Arctic
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2010
971 kr
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The story of the author''s research expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, this book is for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology and animal behaviour. The Arctic is one of the world''s last great wildernesses: a place of outstanding beauty, history and extraordinary wildlife in …
Great Auk Islands; a field biologist in the Arctic
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2010
993 kr
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The story of the author''s research expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, this book is for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology and animal behaviour. The Arctic is one of the world''s last great wildernesses: a place of outstanding beauty, history and extraordinary wildlife in …
Great Auk Islands; a field biologist in the Arctic
Av Tim Birkhead
Inbunden, 2010
904 kr
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The story of the author's research expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, this book is for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology and animal behaviour. The Arctic is one of the world's last great wildernesses: a place of outstanding beauty, history and extraordinary wildlife in …
Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies
Av Tim Birkhead
Inbunden, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
852 kr
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Two species of magpie feature in this book, the Black-billed Magpie, familiar to most Europeans, which occurs throughout much of the northern hemisphere, and the Yellow-billed Magpie, which is confined to California. Magpies are unmistakable in their appearance, voice and extrovert, arrogant …
Bird Sense
What it's Like to be a Bird
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2012
184 kr
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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 …
Bird Sense
What It's Like to Be a Bird
Av Tim Birkhead
Häftad, 2013
166 kr
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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 …
Red Canary
The Story of the First Genetically Engineered Animal
Av Tim Birkhead
Häftad, 2014
181 kr
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The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new for in the 1920s an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided to genetically engineer a red canary. Though his experiments failed, they …
Red Canary
The Story of the First Genetically Engineered Animal
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2014
184 kr
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The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new for in the 1920s an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided to genetically engineer a red canary. Though his experiments failed, they …
Most Perfect Thing
Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2016
221 kr
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''I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird''s egg'' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do …
Wonderful Mr Willughby
The First True Ornithologist
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2018
143 kr
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''Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds'' Literary Review Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with his Cambridge tutor John …
Wonderful Mr Willughby
The First True Ornithologist
Av Tim Birkhead
Häftad, 2019
141 kr
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'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary ReviewFrancis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with his Cambridge tutor John Ray, …
What it's Like to be a Bird
Av Tim Birkhead
Inbunden, 2021, 6-9 år
184 kr
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'This beautiful book is one to treasure forever' David Walliams, comedian and children's authorWINNER of The Margaret Mallett Award for Children's Non-Fiction 2022Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly? Or to live high in the tree tops? Or perhaps you’ve wondered what birds do when no …
Die Sinne der Vögel oder Wie es ist, ein Vogel zu sein
Mit Zeichnungen von Katrina van Grouw
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2015
255 kr
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Wie es ist ein Vogel zu sein – ein bahnbrechender Blick auf die Sinneswelt der Vögel Das Buch des britischen Ornithologen Tim Birkhead hat die englische Leserwelt im Sturm erobert –und begeistert nun auch das deutschsprachige Publikum. Fliegen wie ein Vogel – das ist für viele Menschen ein Traum. …
Die Sinne der Vögel oder Wie es ist, ein Vogel zu sein
Mit Zeichnungen von Katrina van Grouw
Av Tim Birkhead
2017
368 kr
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Wie es ist ein Vogel zu sein – ein bahnbrechender Blick auf die Sinneswelt der VögelDas Buch des britischen Ornithologen Tim Birkhead hat die englische Leserwelt im Sturm erobert –und begeistert nun auch das deutschsprachige Publikum.Fliegen wie ein Vogel – das ist für viele Menschen ein Traum. …
THE MOST PERFECT THING Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2019
77 kr
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Ptich''i yajca — vazhnaya sostavlyayushchaya nashej kul''tury, simvol plodovitosti, neot"emlemyj atribut religioznyh verovanij i mifologicheskih predstavlenij. Izdrevle za yajcami ohotilis'' kollekcionery i zachastuyu riskovali zhizn''yu, vzbirayas'' po skalistym sklonam v poiskah unikal''nyh …
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2019
72 kr
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Kak pticy, nahodyas'' v pustyne, uznayut, chto za sotni kilometrov ot nih idet dozhd''? Kak oni orientiruyutsya v prostranstve s pomoshch''yu magnitnogo chuvstva? Avtor etoj knigi, Tim Berkkhed, posvyativshij vsyu zhizn'' izucheniyu pernatyh, obladaet bogatym opytom polevyh issledovanij, …
Los sentidos de las aves
Qué se siente al ser un pájaro
Av Tim Birkhead
E-bok, 2020
102 kr
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"Los sentidos de las aves" se basa en la convicción de que siempre hemos subestimado lo que sucede en la cabeza de un pájaro.Nuestra comprensión del comportamiento de las aves está simultáneamente atravesada y restringida por la forma en que los observamos y estudiamos. Al llamar la atención sobre …
Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635-1672)
Av Tim Birkhead
Inbunden, 2016
3246 kr
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Francis Willughby together with John Ray revolutionized the study of natural history. They were motivated by the new philosophy of the mid 1600s and transformed natural history in to a rigorous area of study. Because Ray lived longer and more of his writings have survived, his reputation …
