Melbourne scribe 2020 (6 Ergebnisse)

paperback in very good condition; 265 pages, b/w photos.

Octavo, paperback,355 pp.From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, here is a radical examination of the bird way of being and of 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.' This is one scientist's pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains- two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and, lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviours. What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, and survive. They're also revealing not only the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, and disturbing abilities we once considered uniquely our own - deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, and infanticide - but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. 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, Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect - in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behaviour - birds vary. It's what we love about them. As E.O. Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.…

Paperback, 15.5x23.5cm, 329pp. Good condition. General light wear and creases. ISBN: 9781925849448.

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo 250pp., This book offers a 'dispassionate and thorough rendition of Pell's evidence at the royal commission into child sexual abuses'. It concludes that 'many myths about the nature of child sexual abuse persist' and seeks 'justice in the age of conservative media'.…

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo 355pp., text ills., reading list, index, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds.

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo 329pp., b/w plates, notes, bibliog., index, 'Fifty years after the event, here is the first full account of an audacious publishing decision that - with the help of booksellers and readers around the country - forced the end of literary censorship in Australia. For more than seventy years, a succession of politicians, judges, and government officials in Australia worked in the shadows to enforce one of the most pervasive and conservative regimes of censorship in the world'.…