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Различные книги в жанре БиологияPuppy Training
A positive-training guide to puppy training written by much-loved author and puppy -class instructor Charlotte Schwartz is a “week by week training guide” for all new puppy owners. The late Charlotte Schwartz had trained dogs for over forty years and was a popular, award-winning author, whose no-nonsense style of writing and training comes forth on every page of this best-selling introductory guide. Focusing on the first eight weeks that a puppy spends in the new owner’s home, Puppy Training walks the owner through the lessons to teach one week at a time, offering commonsense solutions to obedience and housetraining problems along the way. Sidebars throughout the text offer useful tips and alternative methods to teach lessons, all of which were originated by Schwartz in her puppy classes over the decades and are illustrated here with color photographs. From the first week, during which the puppy is taught to sit and stand, to the eighth week, devoted to teach the puppy to retrieve and a trick or two, this puppy primer is the best canine educational tool available for under ten dollars!
Puppy Training
The Puppy Training edition of the Smart Owner’s Guides™ contains detailed instructions for how to housetrain and obedience train a puppy. From tips for cratetraining and puppy-proofing the home to instructions for giving basic cues and solving common problem behaviors, Puppy Training offers new dog owners all the information they need to raise a happy and well-behaved best friend.This Smart Owner’s Guide edition coaches owners on how to correctly train their puppies, whether purebred or from shelters or rescue organizations. With the information inside, a dog owner doesn’t have to be a professional trainer to teach their puppy where and when to potty or how to sit, stay, lie down or come on cue. Plus, all of the Smart Owner’s Guides offer access to additional free bonus material available exclusively online at Club Pup™, from interactive forums, downloadable articles and much more.Puppy Training, a Smart Owner’s Guide is supported by the editors at DOG FANCY® magazine, the most widely read dog magazine in the world, and DogChannel.com
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Beagle referred to in «The Voyage of the Beagle» is the HMS Beagle, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on December 27th, 1831 under the command of captain Robert FitzRoy. Also known as Darwin's «Journal of Researches», this book is an exquisite travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific journal in which Darwin makes many observations in the fields of biology, geology, and anthropology; observations that would later lay the groundwork for his theory of evolution by natural selection. A classic scientific work, «The Voyage of the Beagle» provides powerful insight into the observations that led Darwin to his groundbreaking theories.
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
"This book was written to supply a definite need. Its preparation was undertaken at the urgent request of booksellers and others who have felt the lack of a satisfactory medium of introduction to bird life for little children. As such, and in no sense whatever as a competitor with the many excellent books on this subject, but rather to supplement these, this volume has been written. Its primary purpose is to interest the little child in, and to make him acquainted with, those feathered friends he is most likely to see. Because there is no method of approach to the child mind equal to the story, this method of conveying information has been adopted. So far as I am aware the book is unique in this respect. In its preparation an earnest effort has been made to present as far as possible the important facts regarding the appearance, habits and characteristics of our feathered neighbors. It is intended to be at once a story book and an authoritative handbook. While it is intended for little children, it is hoped that children of larger growth may find in it much of both interest and helpfulness. Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, artist and naturalist, has marvelously supplemented such value as may be in the text by his wonderful drawings in full color. They were made especially for this volume and are so accurate, so true to life, that study of them will enable any one to identify the species shown. I am greatly indebted to Mr. Fuertes for his cooperation in the endeavor to make this book of real assistance to the beginner in the study of our native birds. It is offered to the reader without apologies of any sort. It was written as a labor of love—love for little children and love for the birds. If as a result of it even a few children are led to a keener interest in and better understanding of our feathered friends, its purpose will have been accomplished."—From the Preface.
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work of evolutionary biology, «The Origin of Species» introduces the scientific theory of evolution, which posits that species evolve over a period of many generations through a process of natural selection. Considered controversial even to this day because of its contradicting position to creationist theory, Darwin's theories have been widely embraced by the scientific community as fact and have laid the foundation for subsequent major advances in the field of biology. «The Origin of Species» is arguably one of the most important scientific treatises ever written.
Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was a French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, whose third major work, «Creative Evolution», provided an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution. The book focuses on four key steps: that there must be a vital impulse which explains the creation of all living things; that there must also be an impulse accounting for diversity and differentiation; that these tendencies can be defined as instinct and intelligence; and that intuition allows us to place ourselves back in the original vital impulse. Bergson addresses concepts of time, human intelligence and intuition, all of which illustrate his ideas on the meaning of life. The book was very popular in the first half of the 20th Century, and held a significant influence on modernist writers. Today, we read Bergson's work because of its profound contribution to the philosophical discussion of evolution.
HTO
Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Like most cities, though, Toronto has mismanaged its water, from the decades-long transformation of the city’s creeks into sewersheds to the alteration of Toronto’s waterfront. Recently, the trend of fettering Toronto’s water and putting it underground has been countered by persistent citizen-led efforts to recall and restore the city’s surface water. In HTO: Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets, 30 contributors examine the ever-changing interplay between nature and culture, and call into question the city’s past, present and future engagement with water.
Strangers in a Strange Land
Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of “Europe,” at least aspirationally, and yet rarely recognized by others as such, Georgia attempted to forge European style publics as a strong claim to European identity. These attempts also produced a crisis of self-defi nition, as European Georgia sent newspaper correspondents into newly reconquered Oriental Georgia, only to discover that the people of these lands were strangers. In this encounter, the community of “strangers” of European Georgian publics proved unable to assimilate the people of the “strange land” of Oriental Georgia. This crisis produced both notions of Georgian public life and European identity which this book explores.
Mushrooms of the Northwest
Popular, proven format: the first book in the series, Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest (9781591934172), has sold about 25,000 copies Market: Everyone from the casual mushroom-picker to the serious forager Not intimidating: geared toward the average forager with species organized by shape, then color, for beginning to identify common wild mushrooms More than 400 mushrooms with full-page photos and need-to-know details for easy identification Spotlight on edibles that can be safely and easily identified, as well as highly toxic mushrooms Authors with extensive foraging experience—write and lecture on the topic Extreme value: massive information for $16.95 Information applicable to the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Review of similar Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest : “This is an excellent first choice for your mushroom library.” (Illinois Mycological Association, October 2014)
The Monarch
The Monarch showcases this magnificent butterfly with eye-popping photos, fun facts about a monarch’s life cycle, and things to know about the vital role that pollinators play in our ecosystem. Monarch expert and nature blogger Kylee Baumle provides “action” projects for all ages, from planting milkweed and wildflowers to making butterfly watering stations…to volunteer activism.