วันจันทร์ที่ 1 เมษายน พ.ศ. 2556
Birdbooker Report 264 | @GrrlScientist
ceiling Books to heaven
my pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
have a long beard by the time they read.
~ Arnold Lobel [1933-1987] author of many popular books for children.
- Compiled by Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, the
- Birdbooker Report
- is a weekly report that was published online for years, indicating the wide variety of nature, natural history, ecology, animal behavior, science and history books that have been recently released or published in North America and the United Kingdom. The books listed here were received by Ian during the previous week courtesy of various publishing houses.
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- Crossley, Richard, Jerry Liguori and Brian Sullivan. Crossley ID Guide Raptors. 2013. Books Crossley and Princeton University Press. Flexicover: 286 pages. Price: U.S. $ 29.95 / € 19.95. [Guardian bookshop Amazon UK, Amazon U.S.]. SUMMARY: A part of the revolutionary Crossley ID Guide is the first guide to birds of prey with realistic scenes composed from several photographs - scenes that allow you to identify birds of prey like the experts. Experienced ornithologists have used more easily observed and consistent - pattern size, shape, behavior, probability, and the overall color. The book of 101 scenes - including 35-2, layouts - provide a complete picture of how these elements are related. Even the lighting effects and other real-world conditions are illustrated and explained. Detailed accounts and concise two of the greatest experts in North America Raptors Jerry Liguori and Brian Sullivan, highlight the main features of identification. This overview allows everyone, from beginners to experts to understand and appreciate what he sees on the ground. The mystical bird identification is removed, allowing even novice birders identify birds of prey easily and quickly.
- complete and reliable, the book covers all 34 species of diurnal raptors in North America (all species except owls). Each species is presented in beautiful color plates that show men and women in a wide range of ages and colorways, is near and far, in flight and at rest, and from multiple angles, each of them trapped in their typical habitats. There are also comparative photographs of scenes and mysteries of multiple species that allow readers to test their identification skills, as well as answers and explanations right in the back of the book. In addition, the book includes an introduction, 34 color maps accompany the dishes.
If you are a beginner or an expert, this guide one-of-a-kind show a new way of seeing all these spectacular birds. This book includes:
The most comprehensive guide North American raptors, written by some of the greatest experts
The first guide to birds of prey with Richard Crossley acclaimed, innovative composite images showing birds, because it actually looks on the ground 101 magnificent color plates - including thirty-five two layouts - consisting of thousands of photographs plates comparative multi-species and species of mystery photographs that allow readers to test their identification skills growth with an introduction, 34 color maps, and detailed species accounts
IAN
RECOMMENDATION: If you liked The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds, you'll love this book!Aa> New and recent titles:
IAN
RECOMMENDATION:. An interesting collection of birds and birding questionnaires.
ABSTRACT: First published in 2003, Birds, scythes and combines provides a historical perspective on changes in populations of farmland birds in Britain in the last 250 years. Despite the magnitude of changes in agricultural practices and habitat of birds late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries show that the initial farmland birds were little affected.
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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 31 มีนาคม พ.ศ. 2556
Gold and poaching bring murder and misery to Congolese wildlife reserve
powerful supporters of the security forces accused of complicity in the brutal attacks of the militia of the Democratic Republic of Congo
early Sunday morning last summer, residents Epulu awakened by the sound of gunshots and screaming. In the eastern parts of the DRC, which can often mean a new round of ethnic violence and murder is ongoing. In this case, however, something more terrible was going on.
The village was attacked by a militia feared. In this case, the gunmen were motivated not by tribal rivalries, but by land, gold and ivory. The village is located in a nature reserve in the Ituri Forest, an area of ??5,000 square miles, which is supposed to be beyond the reach of hunters and prospectors. The militia, led by former poacher Sadala an elephant named Paul, has terrorized communities within the reserve since 2012, employing brutal methods horrific, even by the standards of this part of the world.
"The attacks were absolutely horrible," said Justin Oganda, a representative of the residents who remain displaced Epulu Mambasa, about 50 miles away. At the end of that day in June, the militants had killed, raped, burned people alive and even ate the flesh and the heart of one of his victims. "After killing so many people, burn them alive, cannibalism ... Mentally can not be normal, "he added Oganda.
As always with the Congo, and not just a simple story of victims and villains. Sadala, who goes by the nom de guerre of Morgan and Morgan "Mai-Mai" gunmen are believed to have powerful allies in the security forces who allow their lucrative illegal ivory smuggling and gold. Some local people with an eye on gold for the earth beneath your feet tacitly supporting Morgan, who also unlikely likes to be called Chuck Norris.
"There is complicity between [Morgan] and elements of the army," said Jefferson penis Mbaka Abdallah, Vice Mambasa. "With the support of the military authorities determined [Mai Mai Morgan] increased poaching. Ivory sale is organized by the figures of the army. "Many in the region believe that soldiers have orders not to arrest Morgan.
Morganmain objectives is to operate and monitor the Unesco World Heritage recognized heritage known as Okapi Wildlife Reserve, or by its French acronym, RFO. Laws prohibit the hunting of endangered species, especially elephants and okapi, and the exploitation of its gold reserves.
rangers headquarters in Epulu, those targeted in June. "His goal was to kill all the guards, but escaped most of us," said Captain Benjamin Kalimutima Lulimba salon Epulu rangers. "They killed two guards and Badus Son, and the wife of a guardian appointed Amisi. Badus and woman tied Amisi, put in a tire and burned alive. Then cut and ate part of his leg Son, and gives the heart and ate it. "
A militia group then stopped and went to the zoo okapi in the compound of Rangers. The zoo was established 25 years ago to house a small number of species endangered okapi shy and are the familiar image of a varied fauna of Congo. Morgan's men killed 13 of the 14 Okapi there and seriously injured 14, so later died of his injuries. Rosmarie Ruf for, an ecologist with Gilman International Conservation (GIC) and co-founder of the zoo, it was an abrupt end to the work of a lifetime. "Twenty years of work has been done," said Ruf, sitting empty pen okapi feet as the river passed Epulu. "All these efforts, all this money. 'S My life was ... I do not want to ruin, but now I'm standing here in front of the blue."
The suspicion is that at least part of the spoils of Morgan winds up to 280 miles southwest Epulu in the hands of the Congolese army. At the end of 2012, the group of United Nations experts on the Congo issued a report accusing the Congolese general Jean-Claude Kifwa in the provincial capital, Kisangani, to give "weapons, ammunition, uniforms and equipment communication Mai Mai Morgan ivory trade. "
Kifwa has strongly denied any involvement in the militia, but one of the fighters Morgan, captured and imprisoned in the district capital, Bunia, confirmed the trade figures in Kisangani. "Morgan sent gold and ivory in Kisangani and weapons came from there," said Basomaka Abundu, who participated in the attack on Mambasa Morgan in January.
Despite the brutality of these attacks, many residents of the reserve has expressed sympathy for Morgan, and some support, even openly confessing to him. "I'm behind Morgan," said a young man of 18 who lives in a small village not far from Epulu who refused to give his name. "Because this is the ranger Morgan can not control and we are free to digging for gold. But would it support so I came here and burned our houses. "
WCS and ICG guards led to accusations that are partly responsible for the militarization of the conflict. However, Mwinyihali said the biggest problem was the lack of an effective response of the Congolese state, which means that NGOs and the rangers had to fill the roles that should be the responsibility of the government: for example, to armed guards Morgan plot. Iyatshi lyomi Bernard, director of the rangers, complained of the lack of government funding for their anti-poaching.
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วันเสาร์ที่ 30 มีนาคม พ.ศ. 2556
Casanova unveiled: new edition of his book reveals the man who loved liberty as much as women
story of his life give details of the sexual adventures while portraying a complex personality Bored and exiled in the pine forests of rural Bohemia, far from cities and women who loved and left aging Giacomo Casanova spent his last years writing his memoirs. Venice grew ceased to exist. The Paris she loved was in the throes of revolution. Writing was said in the preface, "The only solution I can think of that is not going mad or dying of grief".
The book History of My Life
History of my life
) published two decades after his death, in 1798, would ensure that the man whose name has become synonymous with womanizing not forgotten. Until now, however, the scope and details of sexual exploits of Casanova have been obscured, first by German Puritanism and in the mist of what experts describe as sloppy modern, even "defective" transcription his writings.
However, a new book by French publisher Robert Laffont, released in late April, aims to reveal Casanova in all its splendor. It is based on the original 3682 manuscript pages, acquired by the Biblioth?que Nationale de France in 2010 around € 7.5 million from an anonymous donor.
Jean-Christophe Igalens, professor at the University of Nice and specialist Casanova, who co-produced the book, said the notorious libertine as revealing "a whole lot more that has become clich?. Yes, it was a seducer, but he was impressed too. He loved women, women who had business with. It was not more than a superficial character who took a woman into bed, then left. had sex with rich women, "said Igalens
Observer ." For the reader, Casanova is often identified with the art of reinvention. He was able to change the name, change the country, reinvent a different future. This idea of ??not yielding to a destination is something that speaks to our modern world. "
In 1821, 23 years after Casanova's death, the manuscript
History of My Life
was sold by his nephew to a German publisher interested 18 - century Italian writers. Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus But the unpublishable work judged for immorality and the fact that the French text was sprinkled with Italian. It was published only after the text has been cleaned and removed passages deemed too crude, and for 140 years it was the only version available, while the original is stuck.
Yet seduced French writers, including Henri Beyle, known as Stendhal and Alfred de Musset, the poet and playwright. "In the 19th century, when it was discovered Casanova was indeed a very bourgeois writers, and Stendhal, Musset who reads this was a moral, a moral age was less restrictive than the limited and they lived," Igalens said.
pleasure house called Hotel Roule, managed by a Mrs. Paris.
"In the new transcript with a lot more details, Casanova describes more precisely the women in the 
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