Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Bernd Heinrich
yhteensä 107 hakutulosta
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
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 "raven …
Ravens in Winter
"One of the most interesting discoveries I've seen in animal sociobiology in years." --E.O. Wilson Why do ravens, generally understood to be solitary creatures, share food between …
Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime
An award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetimePart memoir, part …
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 World of Insects
As we follow the path of a giant water bug or peer over the wing of a gypsy moth, we glimpse our world anew, at once shrunk and magnified. Owing to their size alone, insects’ …
IT-Recht und Medienstrafrecht
Technical advances are currently playing a prominent role in media law. The terms of use for media products have …
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 …
Geometric Modeling for Scientific Visualization
Geometric Modeling and Scientific Visualization are both established disciplines, each with their own series of workshops, conferences and journals. But clearly both disciplines …
Risk Habitat Megacity
Megacity development and the inherent risks and opportunities for humans and the environment is a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century. Focusing on Latin America where …
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 …
Use of Survey Data for Industry, Research and Economic Policy
This text offers a comprehensive collection of selected papers from the 24th Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (CIRET) conference. Areas selected …
Mathematik für Physiker 2
Mathematik für Physiker stellt in zwei Bänden eine gelungene Einführung dar. Das bewährte Lehrbuch enthält auf CD-ROM über 1500 interaktive Lehr- und Übungsschritte, die in der …