Download or read book Snowbird written by Ellen D. Ketterson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most familiar North American birds, the snowbird, otherwise known as the Dark-eyed Junco, can be seen darting across forest floors, pecking at suburban birdfeeders, and foraging at the edges of parks, streams, and roads all across the continent. By one estimate, upwards of 630 million Juncos populate North America: twice the number of people living here in the U.S. No Bird Like the Snowbird: Integrative Approaches to Understanding Evolutionary Diversity in the Avian Genus Junco presents diverse expertise not just on the Dark-eyed Junco, but on the Junco genus more broadly. Collectively, the contributors draw on research, methods, and findings from organismal biology and evolutionary biology in order to show how juncos match their physiology and behavior to their environment via endocrine and timing mechanisms, and how Junco evolutionary history can provide insight into population divergence and the formation of new species. In so doing, they not only provide a definitive account of the Junco genus and speak to the its continuing importance as a model organism in a time of rapid global change, they also merge two major biological fields that are typically kept apart, with the goal of offering biologists an integrative framework for further studies into adaptation and population divergence.
Download or read book Voces de Juncos En El Pantano written by Maricela Col Mel Ndez and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voces de Juncos en el pantano es la historia contada por las mujeres de una familia, historias que no se dicen, que se han guardado en secreto como un intento de ayudar al tiempo y al olvido. Pero la memoria obliga a la confesión, la confesión obliga a contar historias y a cambiarle los nombres a nuestra verdad. La fi cción es otro matiz de la realidad. Esta novela captura mis sentidos, sorprende su prosa, el recorrido de los decorados de una vida de dolor y sufrimiento profundo, de grandes abandonos, incluso de tocar las fronteras delicadas de la locura. Camila, Lotis, Iris, son el ramillete de mujeres ligadas por la sangre de la familia Juncos, que aprenden a penetrar todos los obstáculos posibles para recrearnos esta historia de libertad y superación, de supervivencia. No es sólo enfrentar los muros, es penetrarlos, o en el mejor de los casos, volar sobre ellos. Tal aprendizaje lo da una vida llena de sueños, visiones que perseguir. Lotis amó y fue amada, y la vida en su ruta escabrosa, dictó que hay amores que deben esperar llegar al cielo. Una historia que sale de los rincones más pobres de la isla de Puerto Rico, viaja a la gran ciudad de Nueva York, donde en ambas el abuso, la traición, la vida subterránea sumergen al niño en inmensas violencias. Una historia que sólo puede entenderse con el toque de magia de los milagros. Voces de Juncos en el pantano debe ser leída por todo aquel que desee desenmascarar la realidad de la pobreza, niños y mujeres en su diaria lucha por ser libres para educarse, crecer, amar, y reir. Una historia demasiado humana.
Download or read book Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America written by Rick Wright and published by Peterson Reference Guides. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparrows are as complicated as they are common. This is an essential guide to identifying 76 kinds, along with a fascinating history of human interactions with them. What, exactly, is a sparrow? All birders (and many non‑birders) have essentially the same mental image of a pelican, a duck, or a flamingo, and a guide dedicated to waxwings or kingfishers would need nothing more than a sketch and a single sentence to satisfactorily identify its subject. Sparrows are harder to pin down. This book covers one family (Passerellidae), which includes towhees and juncos, and 76 members of the sparrow clan. Birds have a human history, too, beginning with their significance to native cultures and continuing through their discovery by science, their taxonomic fortunes and misfortunes, and their prospects for survival in a world with ever less space for wild creatures. This book includes not just facts and measurements, but stories--of how birds got their names and how they were discovered--of their entanglement with human history.
Download or read book On the Way to Casa Lotus written by Lorena Junco Margain and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1968 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds of America written by Thomas Gilbert Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Myxomycetes of Colorado written by William Codman Sturgis and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature Lovers Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Irascibles written by Daniel Belasco and published by Fondation Juan March. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fact that most modern and contemporary art is produced with the idea of it ending up in a museum seems so natural to us that we can hardly think about the relationship between museums and artists as anything other than a kind of productive symbiosis. We tend to think that artists create, and museums as a matter of course preserve what is created. But in fact modern museums are, above all, filled with art produced against the museum. The Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum (New York, 1950) examines one of the most significant episodes in this historical dialectic between the museum and artists, through the lens of the now iconic Nina Leen photograph published by Life magazine on January 15, 1951: that of the clash between some of the painters of the New York School and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was, according to the artists, hostile to "advanced art." The Irascibles were William Baziotes, James Brooks, Fritz Bultman, Willem de Kooning, Jimmy Ernst, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Weldon Kees, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Theodoros Stamos, Hedda Sterne, Clyfford Still, and Bradley Walker Tomlin, although Bultman, Hofmann, and Kees were unable to attend the shoot. A quick glance at the history of modern art--with its succesion of salonniers and rejects--could lead us to think of this photo as a mere journalistic anecdote. But it is in fact a single frame in a much larger sequence: that of the institutional workings of modern art since the historical avant-gardes, caught in flagrante in one of the most compelling moments of those confrontations with the status quo. The Irascibles knew precisely what they were defending--the new--and they were aware that their demands would end up affecting the perception of the art of their time, and thus of the art that followed. And if they do indeed continue to affect our perception, it is--in what only appears to be a paradox--precisely because of the indisputable presence of their works in the very museum that once rejected them."--
Download or read book Science Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Murrelet written by Frank Stevens Hall and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Northeastern Bird Banding Association written by Northeastern Bird-Banding Association (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industrial Relations written by United States. Commission on Industrial Relations and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birds of El Paso County Colorado written by Charles Edward Howard Aiken and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nominations of Alvarado Hewitt Del Junco Headlee and Mehle written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
