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A brilliantly written dual timeline narrative with a mystery that will keep you reading late into the night." --Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London, on The Codebreaker's Secret An extraordinary story, inspired by real events, of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific, perfect for fans of Great Circle and Her Last Flight. 1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a ...

The call to holistic preaching has many dimensions. Are we called to preach the Good News of God's grace? Advocate for justice? Is preaching worship? A prophetic act? "Yes, " Ackerman answers--to all of the above. Through personal stories, biblical examples, and concrete advice, readers will learn how to join gospel and justice in community"--

A brilliantly written dual timeline narrative with a mystery that will keep you reading late into the night." --Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London, on The Codebreaker's Secret An extraordinary story, inspired by real events, of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific, perfect for fans of Great Circle and Her Last Flight. 1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a ...

Take flight with the secret life of owls.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific exploration of owls, the most elusive group of birds, and an investigation into why these remarkable and yet mysterious animals exert such a hold on human imaginationFor centuries, owls have captivated and intrigued us. Our fascination with these mysterious birds was first documented over 30, 000 years ago, in the Chauvet cave paintings i...

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Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common Cold because Americans suffer up to a billion colds each year, resulting in 40 million days of missed work and school and 100 million doctor visits. They've also learned over the past decade much more about what cold viruses are, what they do to the human body, and how symptoms can be addressed. In this ode to the odious cold, Jennifer Ackerman sifts through the chatter about treatments--what w...

»Großartig und faszinierend: eine neue Sicht auf die Vögel.« Sy Montgomery  Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse über unsere Vögel stellen vieles auf den Kopf, was wir von ihnen dachten. Wir wissen nun mehr darüber, wie sie leben, denken und agieren. Vögel können vieles, was wir vom Menschen kennen: Täuschung, Manipulation, Entführung etwa, aber auch kluge Kommunikation, Zusammenarbeit, Altruismus, Spiel. Manche Vögel machen Geschenke, manche ...

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Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common Cold because Americans suffer up to a billion colds each year, resulting in 40 million days of missed work and school and 100 million doctor visits. They've also learned over the past decade much more about what cold viruses are, what they do to the human body, and how symptoms can be addressed. In this ode to the odious cold, Jennifer Ackerman sifts through the chatter about treatments--what w...

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the 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." But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for ...

Jennifer Ackerman knows what she's talking about... Her knack for catching the personalities of different species in gorgeous, playful prose further collapses comfortable barriers between the human and the birdlike' Daily Telegraph From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds.Rece...

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Eines der beeindruckendsten Naturbücher der letzten Jahre! Vögel sind erstaunlich intelligente Wesen: Sie überqueren Kontinente, ohne nach dem Weg zu fragen. Sie erinnern sich an die Vergangenheit und planen für die Zukunft. Sie beherrschen die Grundprinzipien der Physik. Wie zahlreiche neue Studien zeigen, stehen die kognitiven Fähigkeiten vieler Vogelarten denen von Primaten in nichts nach. Und nicht nur ihre technische Kompetenz ist größer...

From the bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, the revised and reissued edition of her beloved book of essays describing her forays along the Delaware shoreFor three years, Jennifer Ackerman lived in the small coastal town of Lewes, Delaware, in the sort of blue-water, white-sand landscape that draws summer crowds up and down the eastern seaboard. Birds by the Shore is a book about discovering the natural life at the ocean's edge: the hab...

Se dovessimo classificare il mondo animale secondo il criterio dell'intelligenza, dovremmo inserire gli uccelli tra i "geni". Per decenni, invece, se ne è scritto come di animali guidati solo dall'istinto, dotati di un cervello primitivo, capace dei più elementari processi mentali. Ma non è affatto così. Tante ricerche scientifiche recenti ci hanno insegnato che gli uccelli sono molto, molto più intelligenti di quanto supponessimo: sono in gra...