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Describes and illustrates various bird species of Mongolia. This book features 83 color plates, facing-page species descriptions, and maps.

Southeast Asia is home to more than 500 mammal species. This guide presents a reference to mammals known to exist in mainland Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, peninsular Malaysia, and Singapore. It describes key identification features, ecology, habitat, distribution, and status.

A collection of essays that analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries.

Have we become beauty-blind? This title not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. It offers a manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms.

Covers the birds of all western African countries, from Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Chad and the Central African Republic and south to Congo. This book describes 1,285 species, representing the entire avifauna of the region. It also features color distribution maps for over 1,100 species.

A field guide to the birds of the West Indies, it covers 564 bird species known to occur in the region. It features various species, each represented by a description that includes identification field marks, local names, status, habitat, voice, range, and comments about the bird. It is intended for local residents as well as vacationing tourists.

A photographic guide to North American diurnal birds of prey. Written by well-known experts, it provides a guide to the variations in the species, allowing for recognition of key identification points. It contains 365 photographs, each with an explanatory caption and supporting text describing 43 species of diurnal raptors found in North America.

Colorful, musical, graceful, easily observed - birds have always fascinated amateur and professional naturalists alike. This book tells the story of ornithology from ancient times. Featuring paintings, drawings, photographs, and diagrams, it offers a chronological account of the personalities and milestones that have shaped this science.

Takes us on a tour of the world of boas, pythons, and basal snakes - from primitive blindsnakes to the mighty anaconda. In more than one hundred detailed species accounts, this title examines snakes as different as the cryptically patterned Madagascan Ground Boa and Australasia's beautiful Green Tree Python.

A guide to the birds of Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. It also covers a range of species found in the Indian subcontinent, China, Taiwan, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, and the Philippines. It covers the identification, voice, habitat, behavior, and range of all the region's species.

Features the seminars that are based on a series of 30 dreams of a male patient of C G Jung's.

Beginning with C G Jung's earliest correspondence to associates of the psychoanalytic period and ending shortly before his death, this title collects the 935 letters that offer a commentary on his creativity.

Offers an approach to understanding the evolution of abstractionism by looking at the personal artistic development of seven of its practitioners. This book explores the works and concerns of three European abstract painters - Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky - and then those of their American successors - Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still.

A field guide to Peru that features various Peru's 1,817 bird species. It features detailed species accounts, including a full-color distribution map.

Covering resident, migrant, and vagrant birds of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, this guide describes and illustrates 1,388 species. It includes: maps and accounts describing identification, status, range, habits, and voice for each species; and introductory sections that provide notes on how to use the species accounts.

Brings together a comprehensive review of the world's pheasants, partridges, quails, grouse, turkeys, guineafowl, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and the enigmatic Plains-wanderer - over 250 species in all. This book concentrates on detailed identification and distribution, but also highlights conservation issues where relevant.

In no other group of perching birds has evolution produced such a degree of variation as in the 120 species of crows and jays. This guide details all species of corvid, combining text which treats each species in depth, summarizing identification techniques and reviewing all aspects of corvid behavior, distribution, population, and taxonomy.

Provides fresh insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Thomas Mann's life and into his writing - the only realm in which he ever felt free. This book shows how love, death, religion, and politics were not merely themes in "Buddenbrooks", "The Magic Mountain", and other works, but were woven into the fabric of his existence.