How did efforts to control wild animals affect colonization? Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the closing of the frontier, the benefits of abundant wild animals—from beavers and wolves to fish, deer, and bison—appeared as a recurring theme in colonizing discourses. Explorers, travelers, ...(展开全部)

西顿（1860-1946）出生在英国，六岁时和一家人一起来到加拿大。他从小就热爱大自然，悉心观察、研究大自然里的飞禽走兽。他是个博物学家、社会活动家和作家，他尤其欣赏印第安人的政治组织机构。他的《我所知道的野生动物》于1898年出版后获得了极大的成功。这本书使他在经济上获得了独立，并使他赢得了美国总统西奥多·罗斯福的友谊。据说英国作家吉卜林的《莽林之书》也是在这本书的启发之下才写成的。 如同传统悲剧描写的都是重要人物的重大事件一样，西顿动物故事的主人公也是“天赋不凡的个体”，因为这种悲剧性的受害者才能引起读者的同情。这种不凡的个体往往是体格出众、才智超群的天生的领袖，是一个代表悲剧命运的最合适的主人公。通观《我所知道的野生动物》，那里有可怜的老英雄、号称喀伦坡之王的老狼洛波，他比其他的狼个头大，智谋多；乌鸦“银斑”是群鸦中最聪明、最强壮、最勇敢的；白...(展开全部)

西顿（1860-1946）出生在英国，六岁时和一家人一起来到加拿大。他从小就热爱大自然，悉心观察、研究大自然里的飞禽走兽。他是个博物学家、社会活动家和作家，他尤其欣赏印第安人的政治组织机构。他的《我所知道的野生动物》于1898年出版后获得了极大的成功。这本书使他在经济上获得了独立，并使他赢得了美国总统西奥多·罗斯福的友谊。据说英国作家吉卜林的《莽林之书》也是在这本书的启发之下才写成的。 如同传统悲剧描写的都是重要人物的重大事件一样，西顿动物故事的主人公也是“天赋不凡的个体”，因为这种悲剧性的受害者才能引起读者的同情。这种不凡的个体往往是体格出众、才智超群的天生的领袖，是一个代表悲剧命运的最合适的主人公。通观《我所知道的野生动物》，那里有可怜的老英雄、号称喀伦坡之王的老狼洛波，他比其他的狼个头大，智谋多；乌鸦“银斑”是群鸦中最聪明、最强壮、最勇敢的；白...(展开全部)

In Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, author Maggie Macnab takes you on an intimate and eclectic journey examining the unending versatility of nature, showing how to uncover nature's ingenuity and use it to create beautiful and compelling designed communications. Written for designers and creative thinkers of all types, this book will guide you t...(展开全部)

In Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, author Maggie Macnab takes you on an intimate and eclectic journey examining the unending versatility of nature, showing how to uncover nature's ingenuity and use it to create beautiful and compelling designed communications. Written for designers and creative thinkers of all types, this book will guide you t...(展开全部)

The familiar call of the common cuckoo, “cuck-oo,” has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation to solve an enduring puzzle: how does the cuckoo get away with laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and tricking them into raising young cu...(展开全部)

Beloved as the herald of spring, cuckoos have held a place in our affections for centuries. The oldest song in English celebrates the cuckoo's arrival, telling us that 'Sumer is icumen in'. But for many other birds the cuckoo is a signal of doom, for it is Nature's most notorious cheat. Cuckoos across the world have evolved extraordinary tricks to manipulate other species into ...(展开全部)

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. With "Wild Justice", Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce unequivocally challenge this long-held view. Marrying years of behavioral and cognitive research with compelling and moving anecdotes,...(展开全部)

Animals possess a sense of morality that allows them to tell the difference between right and wrong [according to] scientists studying animal behaviour. Species ranging from mice to primates are governed by moral codes of conduct in the same way as humans. Until recently, humans were thought to be the only species to experience complex emotions and have a sense of morality. But...(展开全部)

Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes nature's best ideas -- spider silk and prairie grass, seashells and brain cells -- and adapts them for human use. Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus takes us into the lab and out in the field with the maverick researchers who are applying nature's ingenious solutions to the problem of human survival: stirring vats o...(展开全部)