This breathtaking collection of important and beautiful ornithological art from London’s Natural History Museum traces its development from the Renaissance through the scientific approach favored in the Age of Exploration. Included are brilliantly reproduced artworks by the world’s great naturalists and scientists such as Audubon and Humboldt, along with the legion of Victorian...(展开全部)

蒂姆·伯克黑德，英国皇家学会院士，在谢菲尔德大学任教，讲授动物行为学和科学史。他为《独立报》《新科学家》和《BBC野生动物》撰稿，编著有多部作品，其中《剑桥鸟类百科全书》曾获麦科尔文奖，《鸟类的感官》（中文版于2016年由商务印书馆出版）获2014年英国皇家学会科普奖。

For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in Britain, but throughout the world, and the range of interest runs from the specialist to the beginner. In The Wisdom of Birds, Birkhead takes the reader on a journey that not only tells us about the extr...(展开全部)

What the birds have taught us: a gorgeously rendered and comprehensive history of ornithology, from folklore to facts--the perfect gift for bird enthusiasts everywhere. Leading ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes readers on a journey through the wonderful world of birds: conception and egg, territory and song, breeding and migration. In the process, he reveals how birders have ove...(展开全部)

罗杰•J•莱德尔博士是一位鸟类学家，也是加州州立大学生物科学的名誉教授，他花了40多年的时间研究鸟类并进行相关创作。他的作品包括《爱鸟人士需要知道的拉丁语》（Latin for Bird Lovers）、《鸟之歌》（Bird Songs）、《太平洋海岸的寻鸟者》（Pacific Coast Bird Finder）等等，以及30余篇科学论文。他曾是BBC、国家地理、《名利场》、福克斯电视台、ABC新闻等的鸟类顾问，并定期撰写博客。 译者：刘勇，安徽财经大学教师。已出版译著十余部，主要有《最新天文观测手册》（黑龙江科学技术出版社，2008）、《美文•诗化•哲理》（汉译英）（合译）（国防工业出版社，2008）、《商值》（安徽人民出版社，2013）、《温莎夫人传》（现代出版社，2013）、《活出感性》（湖南科学技术出版社，2015）、《达•芬奇笔记》（湖南...(展开全部)

The Book of the Bird celebrates the bird in art with an elegant, international collection of paintings, illustrations and photographs, featuring all kinds of birds from the smallest tits and wrens to colorful exotics. Interspersed through the illustrations are short texts giving background to the pictures and information on bird species. This is the perfect gift for all bird l...(展开全部)

In Discovering Birds, Paul Lawrence Farber rejects the view that eighteenth-century natural history disappeared with the rise of nineteenth-century biology. In this penetrating case study of the history of ornithology, Farber demonstrates interesting continuities: as natural history evolved into individual sciences (botany, geology, and zoology) and specialties (entomology and...(展开全部)

In Discovering Birds, Paul Lawrence Farber rejects the view that eighteenth-century natural history disappeared with the rise of nineteenth-century biology. In this penetrating case study of the history of ornithology, Farber demonstrates interesting continuities: as natural history evolved into individual sciences (botany, geology, and zoology) and specialties (entomology and...(展开全部)

Of all the animals with which we share the planet, few have captured people's imaginations as thoroughly, or enchantingly, as birds. Symbols of freedom but also of captivity, good fortune but also ill omen, the human spirit and the unknowable animalbirds have delighted and haunted us for millennia.

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight. In The Genius of Birds, acc...(展开全部)