Author: Rachel Head
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1035834111
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
What do we dream of when we sleep, what journeys do we take? Do we dream of faraway lands, beautiful creatures? Go on an adventure around Australia and discover the beautiful colourful birds of a variety of regions. This book is designed to grow with your child, offering not only an imaginative story but also educational information about the fascinating birds featured within its pages. As your little one develops, you can explore the factual tidbits together, nurturing their curiosity and love for the natural world.
When I Sleep, I Dream of Australian Birds
Author: Rachel Head
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1035834111
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
What do we dream of when we sleep, what journeys do we take? Do we dream of faraway lands, beautiful creatures? Go on an adventure around Australia and discover the beautiful colourful birds of a variety of regions. This book is designed to grow with your child, offering not only an imaginative story but also educational information about the fascinating birds featured within its pages. As your little one develops, you can explore the factual tidbits together, nurturing their curiosity and love for the natural world.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1035834111
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
What do we dream of when we sleep, what journeys do we take? Do we dream of faraway lands, beautiful creatures? Go on an adventure around Australia and discover the beautiful colourful birds of a variety of regions. This book is designed to grow with your child, offering not only an imaginative story but also educational information about the fascinating birds featured within its pages. As your little one develops, you can explore the factual tidbits together, nurturing their curiosity and love for the natural world.
The Bird Way
Author: Jennifer Ackerman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735223033
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries –– What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species—ours—but parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735223033
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries –– What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species—ours—but parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.
Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines
Author: W. Ramsay Smith
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486427096
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
For many of their campfire tales, the aboriginal people of Australia looked to the skies, where they found a twinkling text of morals and stories within their own version of the zodiac. Today, the starry birds, fishes, and dancing men that provided a backdrop to life Down Under for thousands of years have found a new popularity beyond Australia. With this colorful compilation of oral traditions, readers can savor the tales as they were told by their aboriginal narrators. Footnotes throughout the text clarify occasional obscurities, providing background on aboriginal life and customs as the need for explanation arises. For the most part, however, the author allows the myths to speak for themselves, without any attempt to support or disprove anthropological theories. The myths range in nature and tone from reverent recountings of the origins of the world and human life, to legends about the roots of religious and social customs, to fanciful and humorous animal fables. Unabridged republication of Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, Ballantyne Press-Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd., London, n.d., ca. 1930. Index. 63 black-and-white illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486427096
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
For many of their campfire tales, the aboriginal people of Australia looked to the skies, where they found a twinkling text of morals and stories within their own version of the zodiac. Today, the starry birds, fishes, and dancing men that provided a backdrop to life Down Under for thousands of years have found a new popularity beyond Australia. With this colorful compilation of oral traditions, readers can savor the tales as they were told by their aboriginal narrators. Footnotes throughout the text clarify occasional obscurities, providing background on aboriginal life and customs as the need for explanation arises. For the most part, however, the author allows the myths to speak for themselves, without any attempt to support or disprove anthropological theories. The myths range in nature and tone from reverent recountings of the origins of the world and human life, to legends about the roots of religious and social customs, to fanciful and humorous animal fables. Unabridged republication of Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, Ballantyne Press-Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd., London, n.d., ca. 1930. Index. 63 black-and-white illustrations.
The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams
Author: Patrick McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009208853
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams provides comprehensive coverage of the basic neuroscience of both sleep and dreams for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It details new scientific discoveries, places those discoveries within evolutionary context, and links established findings with implications for sleep medicine. This second edition focuses on recent developments in the social nature of sleep and dreams. Coverage includes the neuroscience of all stages of sleep; the lifespan development of these sleep stages; the role of non-REM and REM sleep in health and mental health; comparative sleep; biological rhythms; sleep disorders; sleep memory; dream content; dream phenomenology, and dream functions. Students, scientists, and interested non-specialists will find this book accessible and informative.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009208853
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams provides comprehensive coverage of the basic neuroscience of both sleep and dreams for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It details new scientific discoveries, places those discoveries within evolutionary context, and links established findings with implications for sleep medicine. This second edition focuses on recent developments in the social nature of sleep and dreams. Coverage includes the neuroscience of all stages of sleep; the lifespan development of these sleep stages; the role of non-REM and REM sleep in health and mental health; comparative sleep; biological rhythms; sleep disorders; sleep memory; dream content; dream phenomenology, and dream functions. Students, scientists, and interested non-specialists will find this book accessible and informative.
The Australian Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Fieldings Australia
Author: Zeke Wigglesworth
Publisher: Fielding Worldwide
ISBN: 9781569520970
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher: Fielding Worldwide
ISBN: 9781569520970
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A Modern Dictionary of the English Language
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Friends and Foes in the Australian Bush
Author: Edward Sorenson
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
"Friends and Foes in the Australian Bush" is a short story collection by Edward Sorenson, an Australian writer, and poet. As a young man, he wandered throughout the country, prospecting for gold, working on sheep stations, and dreaming about a writing career. These journeys gave him a rich source of topics for exciting short stories about the life in Australia.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
"Friends and Foes in the Australian Bush" is a short story collection by Edward Sorenson, an Australian writer, and poet. As a young man, he wandered throughout the country, prospecting for gold, working on sheep stations, and dreaming about a writing career. These journeys gave him a rich source of topics for exciting short stories about the life in Australia.
Chatterbox
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Australian Book Review
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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