Download or read book Air bird in the Water written by Mildred Davis Harding and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, author Mildred Davis Harding rescues from undeserved neglect Pearl Craigie, the American-born English author "John Oliver Hobbes" (1867-1906) and her works.
Download or read book Vesper Flights written by Helen Macdonald and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.
Download or read book Modelling the Flying Bird written by C.J. Pennycuick and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2008-08-23 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the principles of flight, of birds in particular. It describes a way of simplifying the mechanics of flight into a practical computer program, which will predict in some detail what any bird, real or hypothetical, can and cannot do. The Flight program, presented on the companion website, generates performance curves for flapping and gliding flight, and simulations of long-distance migration and accounts successfully for the consumption of muscles and other tissues during migratory flights. The program is effectively a working model of a flying bird (or bat or pterosaur) and is the skeleton around which the book is built. The book provides a wider background and then explains how Flight works and shows how to set up and test hypotheses generated by the program. The book and the program are based on adapting the conventional (and well-tested) thinking of aeronautical engineers to the biological problems of bird flight. Their primary aim is to convince biologists that this is the appropriate way to handle problems that involve flight, to make the engineering background accessible to biologists, and to provide a tool kit in the shape of the Flight program, which they can use to solve practical problems involving bird flight and migration. In addition, the book will be readily accessible to engineers who want to know how birds work, and should be of interest to the ever-growing community working on flapping "micro air vehicles" (MAVs). The program can be used to predict the flight performance and capabilities of reconstructed fossil birds and pterosaurs, flying in ancient atmospheres that differ from present conditions, and also, of course, to predict and account for the results of experiments and observations on living birds and bats. * An up to date work by the world's leading expert on bird flight * Examines the biology and biomechanics of bird flight with added reference to the flight of bats and pterosaurs. * Uses proven aeronautical principles to help solve biological issues in understanding and predicting the flight capabilities of birds and other vertebrates. * Provides insights into the evolution of flight and the likely capabilities of extinct birds and reptiles. * Gives a detailed explanation of the science behind, and use of, the author's predictive bird flight simulation program - Flight - which is available on a companion website. * Presents often difficult concepts in easily understood language.
Download or read book The how and why Library written by Eleanor Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Animal Locomotion or walking swimming and flying written by James Bell Pettigrew and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Animal Locomotion" is a book about nature, mechanics, and types of animal movement. The book considers the kinds of movement of fish, birds, animals, and insects. It also describes the morphology of fins, wings, paws, muscles, and other moving organs. It is an excellent resource for studies, as relevant now as it was at the time of publishing.
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bird on Water Street written by Elizabeth O. Dulemba and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elizabeth Dulemba seamlessly melds a coming-of-age story to the reality of life in a single-industry town. This is a book that sings." — Betsy Bird, School Library Journal blog A Fuse #8 Production Living in Coppertown is like living on the moon. Everything is bare—there are no trees, no birds, no signs of nature at all. And while Jack loves his town, he hates the dangerous mines that have ruined the land with years of pollution. When the miners go on strike and the mines are forced to close, Jack's life-long wish comes true: the land has the chance to heal. But not everyone in town is happy about the change. Without the mines, Jack's dad is out of work and the family might have to leave Coppertown. Just when new life begins to creep back into town, Jack might lose his friends, his home, and everything he's ever known. Dulemba paints a vivid picture of life in the Appalachia in this beautiful story about a boy looking for new beginnings while struggling to hold on to the things he loves most.
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Day Otis Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trespassers showing how the inhabitants of earth air and water are enabled to trespass on domains not their own written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112047793085 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 2002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica Evangelical Church Francis Joseph written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.
Download or read book Bird Migration written by Thomas Alerstam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird migration is one of the most astonishing feats in the natural world. Millions of birds migrate, often over very large distances, to benefit from seasonal resource surpluses and to avoid predators and competitors. The aim of this study is to survey the phenomena.
Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 2006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inner Bird written by Gary W. Kaiser and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds are among the most successful vertebrates on Earth. An important part of our natural environment and deeply embedded in our culture, birds are studied by more professional ornithologists and enjoyed by more amateur enthusiasts than ever before. However, both amateurs and professionals typically focus on birds' behaviour and appearance and only superficially understand the characteristics that make birds so unique. The Inner Bird introduces readers to the avian skeleton, then moves beyond anatomy to discuss the relationships between birds and dinosaurs and other early ancestors. Gary Kaiser examines the challenges scientists face in understanding avian evolution - even recent advances in biomolecular genetics have failed to provide a clear evolutionary story. Using examples from recently discovered fossils of birds and near-birds, Kaiser describes an avian history based on the gradual abandonment of dinosaur-like characteristics, and the related acquisition of avian characteristics such as sophisticated flight techniques and the production of large eggs. Such developments have enabled modern birds to invade the oceans and to exploit habitats that excluded dinosaurs for millions of years. While ornithology is a complex discipline that draws on many fields, it is nevertheless burdened with obsolete assumptions and archaic terminology. The Inner Bird offers modern interpretations for some of those ideas and links them to more current research. It should help anyone interested in birds to bridge the gap between long-dead fossils and the challenges faced by living species.
