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For fifty years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her seventies, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction.

Among the earliest known works on choosing, caring for, and riding horses, this book is still hailed--2,300 years after it was written - as one of the most complete, thoughtful, and accessible guides of its type. Civilization has changed radically in the centuries since it was written, but the equestrian arts have remained essentially the same. Much of what we presently accept as common wisdom about horsemanship derives from this volume.

Joy Adamson is world-famous as the woman who walked with lions. These are the books that brought the story of her work to a public whose imagination was captured by the discovery of this remarkable interaction between man and beast. Born Free was first published in 1960, and tells the story of...

Why Elephants Cry is a fascinating frolic through the literature and evidence surrounding the use of unusual behavior of animals to measure and predict the environment. The role of animals, from the smallest ant to the biggest elephant, as predictors of environmental changes is framed around the climate crisis, which highlights the increasingly important part that animals will have to play in the future. Renowned biologist Professor John T. Hancock collects anecdotal stories and myths along with scientific evidence, demonstrating that observation of animals can be of tangible use.

In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special brand-new audio edition is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than 200 species. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds—blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees—it also examines certain species that can be fairly easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin.

Nützliche Mitbewohnerinnen, Ekelobjekte oder verblüffende Wesen? An Spinnen scheiden sich die Geister. Von manchen bewundert für ihre kunstvollen Netze und das Archaische ihrer Erscheinung, von anderen gefürchtet. Aber warum ist das so? Dieses Buch dringt tief in das Beziehungsgeflecht von Spinnen und Menschen vor. Es zeigt den Einfluss der Spinnen auf unsere Sprache, Wissen, Träume und Geschichte. Warum verglich man Napoleon mit einer Spinne? Wie prägte die christliche Symbolik die Abneigung gegenüber Spinnen? Und wieso wurden gleich drei Weltraummissionen von Spinnen begleitet?

Hühnerhaltung für Einsteiger - das komplette Wissen in einem Hörbuch: Perfekt vorbereitet eigene Hühner halten und mit großer Freude die selbstgeschaffene Idylle genießen! Wollen Sie sich Ihren Traum erfüllen, eigene Hühner zu halten, wissen aber nicht, wie Sie am besten vorgehen sollen? Erfüllt Sie der Gedanke an glückliche Hühner, die voller Harmonie durch Ihren Garten laufen? Möchten Sie einen nachhaltigeren Lebensstil führen und über die Herkunft Ihrer Frühstückseier von nun an bestens Bescheid wissen? Dann haben Sie gerade genau das richtige Hörbuch gefunden.

An unsuspecting family becomes involved in the search for a lost dinosaur in the hills behind their suburban home. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hunt a dinosaur? Come along with us on our quest! Experience the challenge of finding a real, local dinosaur that was forgotten for decades. California’s first dinosaur fossil was collected by a college student in the badlands of Irvine Ranch in 1927. And lost.

Do you want to know about the amazing birds found in Indiana? Do you want to know where to find them and be able to identify them? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you... 50 Things to Know About Birds in Indiana by author Rachel Horon offers an approach to bird watching specifically in Indiana. Most books on birds tell you scientific details about different species. Although there's nothing wrong with that, this book is one that will interest all levels of bird watchers and enthusiasts.

Avoid getting eaten! Do you find yourself wondering: Do bears eat humans? Do birds eat people? Do kangaroos? Could I survive people eating predators of any kind? Perfect for anyone with a fun or morbid interest in wildlife or survivalism, Creatures That Eat People is full of stories of strange animals that eat humans and the situations that lead to it.

From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an “utterly delightful…hugely entertaining” (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history. In the early 1800s the natural...

"Animal communication doesn’t need to resemble human language to be full of meaning and nuance. Arik Kershenbaum delivers an expert overview of the astonishing discoveries made in the last few decades" —Frans de Waal From leading zoologist Arik Kershenbaum, a delightful and groundbreaking...

Ruppel Shell follows the elusive eel from Maine to the Sargasso Sea, stalking riversides, fishing holes, laboratories, restaurants, courtrooms, and America's first commercial eel "family farm." This is an enthralling, globe-spanning look at an animal that you may never come to love, but which will never fail to astonish you.

Una celebración de los perros, de nuestra mágica relación con ellos y de su contribución a la ciencia para hacer de este planeta un lugar mejor para todas las especies. ¿Qué piensan realmente los perros de nosotros? ¿Qué saben del mundo? ¿Sienten emociones como las nuestras? ¿Aman como...

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER High Plains International Book Award Finalist Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year An Amazon Best Book of the Month A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book From New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the...

Der Axolotl ist wohl einer der beliebtesten und zugleich auch einer der geheimnisvollsten Aquarienbewohner überhaupt. Nicht selten wird der Axolotl auch als der lachende Drache im Aquarium bezeichnet und auf diese Weise lässt dieses possierliche Tierchen auch die Herzen zahlreicher Kinder, aber auch unzähliger erwachsener Aquarianer höherschlagen. Zugegeben, auf den ersten Blick mag der Axolotl dem einen oder anderen ein wenig befremdlich erscheinen, dennoch erfreut er die meisten Beobachter über kurz oder lang mit einem dem engelhaften Lächeln gleichenden Anblick.

Das Halten von Schlangen als Haustiere ist ein kontroverses Thema, das oft zu kontroversen Diskussionen führt. Einerseits können Schlangen faszinierende Tiere sein, die einzigartige Einblicke in die Natur und die Welt der Reptilien bieten. Andererseits sind Schlangen auch Raubtiere, die aufgrund ihrer Natur und Größe ein potenzielles Risiko für ihre Besitzer und die Umgebung darstellen können. In dieser Diskussion ist es wichtig, zu beachten, dass nicht alle Schlangen gleich sind.

'Will keep you on the edge of your seat from its first page to its last page' -Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel From ancient megalodons to fearsome Great Whites, this book tells the complete, untold story of how sharks emerged as Earth's ultimate survivors...

Impossible Monsters reveals the central role of dinosaurs and their discovery in toppling traditional religious authority, and in changing perceptions about the Bible, history, and mankind's place in the world.

We are told that in Tartary, each native makes the iron he needs, just as every household would make its own bread. The furnace is a very small affair, not holding more than three pounds of ore. This is filled with ore and charcoal. The bellows are used, and after the charcoal is all burned out, the result is a small piece of spongy iron, which needs only repeated heating and hammering to be made serviceable.