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Birds
Relaunched in a stunning boxed set that comes with a richly illustrated book and thirty-six framable prints, this landmark book will fascinate anyone interested in birds, natural history, and art. With an outstanding selection of the most important and vibrant bird images from the unrivaled collection at the Natural History Museum in London, it includes works by some of the most famous natural-history artists ever published, including Audubon, Lear, MacGillivray, and Gould. Birds tells the remarkable story of the development of ornithological art through the ages, from the earliest images of birds in the Renaissance, through the Age of Exploration, to the present day. Brilliantly reproduced ...
Birds
Eleven year-old Ursula Neilsen never believed NASA's verdict that carelessness caused the death of her older sister, an astronaut on a routine mission to a crippled satellite, but there wasn't much a kid could do about it. Years later, she finds herself the target of someone who's trying to kill her because she knows too much. Seeking help from a disgruntled former NASA engineer, she learns the space agency is covering up the presence of an alien her sister made contact with. It's a secret that seems about to cost her her life.
Birdsong
A bird identification book with a sound module carrying the voices of 150 species of British birds. Delve into the text and photographs of each bird while listening to their songs and calls. The sounds you will hear include the cries of birds of prey, gulls, garden birds and migrants.
Atlas of Bird Migration
Discusses how birds migrate and provides information on migrations in each region of the world and on the migrating habits of hundreds of species of birds.
The Handbook of Bird Families
What's the difference between a swallow and a swift? How many species of ducks, penguins, owls or thrushes are there? Which is the rarest parrot or the most endangered hummingbird? What do toucans eat? Discover all the key facts about the world's orders and families of birds with this ultimate handbook. Expert ornithologist Jonathan Elphick provides a comprehensive survey of every one of the 36 orders and 234 families of birds, revealing their remarkable diversity, appearance, behaviour and lifestyle. With clear, lively text, informative fact boxes that include the latest research and data, and special photography from award-winning wildlife photographers such as David Tipling, The Handbook of Bird Families belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in birds.
Mammal
Be an eyewitness to the lives of your remarkable relatives, the mammals - from hedgehogs and bats to elephants and bushbabies. See how newborn mice develop Discover why a wallaby has a pouch Find out how to recognise mammal footprints
Birds
Explore the avian world with this comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to every aspect of bird life. From anatomy, plumage, calls and songs, to breeding, habitats, migration, flight techniques, food and feeding, ornithologist Jonathan Elphick explains each of the significant elements of bird biology and behavior.
RSPB Pocket Birds
New edition of this pocket-sized guide to birds from the experts at the RSPB From the Sandwich Tern to the Short-toed Eagle discover over 320 species of bird found in the UK and Europe with RSPB Pocket Birds. Close-up photographs and notes on distinguishing features will help you identify different species of bird in the field. Learn all about them from their calls and feeding behaviour to nesting habits and habitats. Maps showing regions where each species can be found at what time of year will help you find the birds you are most interested in. Fits easily into a pocket, RSPB Pocket Birds is perfect for taking out in the field.
Burning the Books
A Wolfson History Prize Finalist A New Statesman Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year “Timely and authoritative...I enjoyed it immensely.” —Philip Pullman “If you care about books, and if you believe we must all stand up to the destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage, this is a brilliant read—both powerful and prescient.” —Elif Shafak Libraries have been attacked since ancient times but they have been especially threatened in the modern era, through war as well as willful neglect. Burning the Books describes the deliberate destruction of the knowledge safeguarded in libraries from Alexandria to Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets to the torching of the Li...
