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Mind of the Raven
Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a …
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
From one of the finest naturalists and writers of our time, a fascinating investigation of Nature's inspiring death-to-life cycle.How does the animal world deal with death? And …
A Year in the Maine Woods
Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich's dream was to focus on the riches of one small place,a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the …
Why We Run: A Natural History
"Each new page is] more spellbinding than the one before--this is surely one of the most interesting books I've ever read."--Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life …
White Feathers
Heinrich is sparked one early spring day by a question: Why does a pair of swallows in a nest-box close to his Maine cabin show an unvarying preference for white feathers - not …
Summer World
Bernd Heinrich is one of our greatest living naturalists in the tradition of Gerald Durrell.A national treasure.Los Angeles TimesSummer World is an intimate, accessible, and …
The Thermal Warriors
All bodily activity is the result of the interplay of vastly complex physiological processes, and all of these processes depend on temperature. For insects, the struggle to keep …
Strafrecht - Allgemeiner Teil
Das Lehrbuch bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Allgemeinen Lehren des Strafrechts. Sein Aufbau ist zweigliedrig. Die für das grundsätzliche Verständnis für den Studienanfänger …
Finite Difference Methods on Irregular Networks: A Generalized Approach to Second Order Elliptic Problems
The Hot-Blooded Insects
"From one man's persistent and elegant probing of the temperature biology of bees, we have been led to a deeper understanding of the whole biology of many insect taxa, and of their …
One Man's Owl
This engaging chronicle of how the author and the great horned owl "Bubo" came to know one another over three summers spent in the Maine woods--and of how Bubo eventually grew into …
One Wild Bird at a Time
Unique encounters with wild birds from the acclaimed scientist and “a dedicated watcher happy to knock down the fourth wall of zoology” (The Wall Street Journal). In his modern …