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Magnificent photographs of Alaska’s vast Wood-Tikchik state park reveal an unparalleled wilderness comprising one of the most biologically productive watersheds in the world
With Wood-Tikchik, Robert Glenn Ketchum continues his exploration of Alaska, now focusing on one of the most significant watersheds in the world. The Wood-Tikchik State Park, a wilderness area larger than the state of Washington, is home to moose, grizzly bears, eagles, salmon, and one of the largest species of rainbow trout in the world. Accessible only by boat, plane, or on foot, these wild lands are nevertheless vulnerable to commercial exploitation. Ketchum’s stunning images immerse viewers in the extraordinary detail, color, and scale that define this relatively unknown world of tundra and boreal forests, offering readers the unique experience of understanding the need to preserve this special ecosystem for the future.
In his accompanying essay, Bill Sherwonit provides an excellent account of the historical use of the park and makes a compelling case for protecting one of North America’s most important watersheds from fragmentation and overdevelopment.
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Showcasing the pristine natural areas.......2003-08-10
Wood-Tikchik: Alaska's Largest State Park is an impressive and superbly presented compendium of Robert Glenn Ketchum's magnificent color photography showcasing the pristine natural areas comprising the largest state park in Alaska. A vast, river-laced landscape, Ketchum approached this project with a true artist's eye to visually capture extraordinary photographs of unforgettable Alaska mountain and tundra landscape. Also very highly recommended are Robert Glenn Ketchum's previous master collections of photographic excellence: Rivers of Life: Southwest Alaska, the Last Great Salmon Fishery () and The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest
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Cone Bearing Trees of the Pacific Coast
Nathan Abbott Bowers
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Coniferous Classic.......2007-09-22
From the revered Pacific Press in Palo Alto, California. Useful and informative classic on California conifers.
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This book performs with great thoroughness all the usual functions of a guidebook. But it is much more than a mere inventory of buildings, paintings, sculpture, routes and views, supplemented by appendices packed with practical information. The authors - from their long experience and deep knowledge of the country - are exceptionally well-equipped to draw together into a coherent whole all the threads of history, art, culture and recent developments. They steer you in most rewarding directions, enlivening the hallowed hush of museum or sacristy with an original interpretation of some great painter - El Greco, Goya, Picasso - or an observation which suddenly illuminates the seemingly unexceptional. Madrid, rather than just a political capital at the geographical centre of the country, is revealed as a true metropolis, genuinely representative of all the aspects and regional variations of Spanish life. Its art collections are justly renowned as superb. Add in the cluster of historical cities at an easy distance (including Segovia, Avila and Toledo), to say nothing of the lesser-known treasures and delights secreted in the heartlands of Castile, and you have, within a manageable compass, the core of Spanish civilisation.
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Madrid and Central Spain (Companion Guides)
Alastair Boyd
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Kuma is a Maori girl
Dennis Hodgson
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Essential Animal Behavior provides a comprehensive introduction to all areas of the subject: from the genetic and neurobiological control of behavior to the learning, development, and function of behavior in an evolutionary context. Social behaviour is also covered throughout the text.Written in a concise and engaging style, this new book:includes examples from both marine and terrestrial environments around the worldplaces current research alongside classic examples, andputs the study of animal behavior in an applied context, emphasizing the implications for animal welfare and animal conservation.Carefully designed to meet the needs of students coming to the subject for the first time, the book includes the following features:key concept boxesFocus on boxeschapter summariesguided reading to aid revision and further studycase studies and boxed examples that reinforce essential points, andquestions for discussion.This book is essential reading for degree-level students following modular programs in biology, zoology, marine biology, and psychology.
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Morris turns his anthropological eye to dogs, answering a host of common--and uncommon--questions in his witty style. Companion volume to
Catwatching.
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desmond morris, animal behavior, excellent combination.......2007-07-05
once again desmond morris takes a series of questions this time about dogs, and answers them in a complete and fascinating way
extrememly informative, easy to read, and good for any animal lover
i also reccomend his books on cats and horses
Disappointingly lightweight and outdated.......2005-12-16
Coming as it does from a respected zoologist, this is a surprisingly unscientific collection of canine trivia. I'm a very slow reader, but I finished off the 130 pages in a winter afternoon. Most chapters are very short, so there is blank space at the end of each. The line drawings by Edward Coleridge are nice, but are doubtful at adding useful information, while leaving even less of the scant pages to convey text. "Dogwatching" has the appearance of a book hacked out in a few days. Morris is capable of much better.
The book consists entirely of single-subject chapters, each one answering a question that Desmond Morris selects to ask himself, such as "Why do dogs bark?" and "Why do some breeds have short legs?" For the most part, Morris answers his own questions with far more confidence than proof. There are no footnotes, no bibliography, no index, no references to other works. If you have a question about dogs, you better hope Morris has asked himself the same question. You also better hope that Morris got the answer right, which is far from a foregone conclusion.
Morris uses a breezy style that seems to rely on his personal authority and opinion rather than proof or citations. Since he doesn't attempt to prove his statements, many of his explanations could have been made at least as clearly in a sentence or two, but have been inflated into these mini-chapters.
Morris does seem to sincerely love dogs, giving them full credit as our best friends and supporting their humane treatment. I salute him for that, as well as for writing a sometimes interesting book. There are a few chapters that told me things I did not know about dogs, but I have to remain sceptical about those, since those "facts" are only pinned on Morris' personal authority. A person's reputation should earn him the right to be read, but readers should use care to accept statements from "authority" only with accompanying evidence.
Some of the areas where I think Desmond Morris errs:
Morris sees dogs as essentially being very slightly modified wolves. Much of this book directly explains dog behavior by referring to observed wolf behavior. But recent research has shown that in some very important ways, dogs differ from wolves.
"Dogwatching" was written in 1986, and (from looking at the copyright page) apparently has not been revised since. A LOT of new knowledge has been discovered about dogs and their canid cousins in the last 19 years.
For instance, it is now known that dogs, and even dog puppies, can read human body language like a book. Yet wolves can't. Nor can even human-fostered wolf cubs learn to "read" people. Even chimps can't read people like a dog can. In the context of dog-human relations, this is a HUGE behavioral difference between wolf and dog.
It is also clear that when he wrote this book, Morris didn't know about the remarkable work with foxes in Russia that created a domesticated fox by breeding for tameness over a few generations.
Morris even seems to think that a wolf can be just like a domestic dog, if only it is raised like one. This could even be a physically dangerous idea -- just ask some of the people who have hand-raised wolves and wolf-dog hybrids. Wolves may be unafraid of people who have raised the from puppies, but they never become "domesticated." "Tame" wolves may, and regularly do, turn on their human keepers, whereas wild wolves give humans a wide berth. Wolves simply lack the empathy that dogs have for the humans in their "pack."
"Dogwatching : Why dogs bark and other canine mysteries explained" may be fine for those who love both dogs and trivia, so long as those readers don't care very much if they get correct answers. Everyone else should save their money.
Barks & Growls Explained........2005-01-05
When Fate put a beautiful puppy on my lap I was delighted and at the same time worried by my bottomless ignorance on "dog care".
So I started a research on books addressing this issue. I found many useful ones and profited from them.
Mr. Morris' "Dogwatching" is very special. It is not a traditional "How to take care of your Dog"; it's constructed as a series of questions & answers including many different topics that neophytes are willing to discover.
Some are serious as "How often do dogs feed?", "Why dogs pant so much?", "At what rate do puppies develop?" or "How does a bitch deal with her newborn puppies?"
Some focus on rather comic issues, but not less important for will be "dog fathers" as "Why do puppies chew slippers?" or "Why do dogs try to sleep on their owners' bed?"
Lots of miscellaneous items are discussed in this very short and entertaining book.
It really gave me an overall picture of the "hows" and "whys" of canine mind and eased my apprehensions.
I recommend this book to anyone who's going to raise a puppy. It's also a fun reading for any pet lover or general public.
Reviewed by Max Yofre.
For beginners or just people who are interested.......2004-06-14
This does answer a lot of puzzling questions, but it is by no means extensive. Some of the information seems outdated, and he seems to make it out that all dogs live happy healthy lives. Which they don't. If you are looking for indepth information on dog behavior, skip this book, I'd recommend The Dog's Mind by Bruce Fogle. If you're looking for some simple answers to simple questions, or just interested, this is a good buy. This would be good for a 10 year old as well.
decent beginner guide.......2004-05-17
This is a slim, question-and-answer style book that deals with some basic, seemingly puzzling, behaviors exhibited by dogs, explaining the biological and psychological reasons behind them in clear understandable language. This is by no means a comprehensive overview of dog behavior, and is best recommended for the reader with a casual interest in the subject.
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Essentials of Animal Behaviour is an introduction to the study of animal behavior that is primarily intended for first- or second-year undergraduates. The book aims to get across the basic principles of the subject as briefly and lucidly as possible with the aid of carefully selected examples from both recent and classic research, together with numerous illustrations. The text will stimulate readers with its active and exciting treatment of the research, and will lay a solid foundation on which further study may be based. Its simple and readable style, helped by an extensive glossary, will make it useful and enjoyable reading for all those with an interest in the subjects of animal behavior, behavioral ecology, and comparative psychology.
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Essential!.......2000-06-08
This is an essential book for anyone interested in Ethology and a great beginning for someone who is descovering animal behaviour. It's light (so you can carry it to the beach!) and it's very fluid writting making it easy to grasp the subjects. It's organized according to the four main questions by Nicolaus Tinbergen, and filled with picturestic descriptions of experiments helping you comprehend the topics and working as a memory aid. Essential!
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Instinct, Environment, and Behaviour (New Essential Psychology)
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This digital document is a journal article from Trends in Ecology & Evolution, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The book contains an overview of the recent progress of research in computational physics and materials science. Particular topics are modelling of traffic flow and complex multi-scale solidification phenomena. The sections introduce novel research results of experts from a considerable diversity of disciplines such as physics, mathematical and computational modelling, nonlinear dynamics, materials sciences, statistical mechanics and foundry technique. The book intends to create a comprehensive and coherent image of the current research status and illustrates new simulation results of transport and interface dynamics by high resolution graphics. Various possible perspectives are formulated for future activities. Special emphasis is laid on exchanging experiences concerning numerical tools and on the bridging of the scales as is necessary in a variety of scientific and engineering applications. An interesting possibility along this line was the coupling of different computational approaches leading to hybrid simulations.
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Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. In addition to introductory chapters on all the main works of fiction and the essays and diaries, there are four chapters examining Mann's oeuvre in relation to major themes. A final chapter looks at the pitfalls of translating Mann into English. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading.
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Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. In addition to introductory chapters on all the main works of fiction, the essays and diaries, there are four chapters examining Mann's oeuvre in relation to major themes. These thematic explorations include his position as a realistic writer concerned with the history of his own times and as a commentator on German and American politics; his controversial reputation as an intellectual novelist; the literary techniques that enabled his challenging fictions to appeal to a wide audience; and the homosexual subtext running through his fiction and diaries. A final chapter looks at the pitfalls of translating Mann into English. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students.
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann.(Book Review)
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Page: 1055-1057
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