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1	Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist Bernd Heinrich, National Book Award nominee for RACING THE ANTELOPE, examines all the ways Nature provides for its species to respond to the rigors of winter. Starting at the molecular level and evolving up to migratory patterns, WINTER WORLD collects the survival stories of creatures from the animal world battling weather that would certainly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist In this accessible and highly entertaining account, illustrated with the author's own illuminating photographs and drawings, a biologist shares his journey to understand the complex behavior patterns of the raven. A New York Times Notable Book for 1999. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Summer World: A Season of Bounty more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist From the bestselling author of "Winter World" comes this highly anticipated, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival during the summer season. color photo insert; line drawings throughout. see all copies from $5.37! new only from $12.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Why We Run: A Natural History more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist In "Why We Run, " biologist, award-winning nature writer, and ultramarathoner Bernd Heinrich explores a new perspective on human evolution by examining the phenomenon of ultraendurance and makes surprising discoveries about the physical, spiritual -- and primal -- drive to win. At once lyrical and scientific, "Why We Run" shows Heinrich's ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Year in the Maine Woods more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist The author took off for a year in a cabin deep in Maine, along with Jack, his pet raven. This is the lively, Thoreauvian journal he kept of the human and natural goings-on there. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.41! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist From the bestselling author of "Winter World" comes the remarkable story of his fathers life, his familys past, and how the forces of history and nature shaped his own life. 16-page b&w photo insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Trees in My Forest more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist In 1975, Bernd Heinrich bought 300 acres of worn-out, overlogged Maine woods and set himself the challenge of reclaiming its ecological diversity. Here he writes about many aspects of the experience the experience, including pines and apple trees, ants and aphids, and the vital role of fungi in the life of trees. see all copies from $7.02! new only from $8.96! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Ravens in Winter more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist Why should ravens--which are usually solitary birds--share valuable food in the dead of winter? How clever are these birds? Do they have a language? These are some of the riddles that noted sociobiologist Bernd Heinrich, author of Bumblebee Economics and winner of the John Burroughs Medal, explores in this intriguing book. 16 pages of drawings. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $736.40! \| first editions
9	One Man's Owl more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist see all copies from $5.55! first editions
10	Ravens in Winter: A Zoological Detective Story more books like this by Bernd Heinrich, Bernard Heinrich add to wishlist In the tradition of Konrad Lorenz, a distinguished zoologist describes his extraordinary winter adventures in the Maine woods, studying hitherto unsuspected behavior patterns in ravens. 16 pages of black-and-white drawings. see all copies from $4.43! first editions
11	The Geese of Beaver Bog more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist Bernd Heinrich, a biology professor who illustrates his own books on subjects that range from bees to ravens, is considered by many to be one of America's finest nature writers. His new book, THE GEESE OF BEAVER BOG, begins in his Vermont back yard, where he watched the hatching of a baby Canada goose. The Heinrich family named her Peep and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Racing the Antelope: What Animals Can Teach Us about Running and Life more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist Combining his knowledge as a Professor of Biology with his life-long experience as a marathoner and ultramarathoner, Berndt Heinrich explores the human capacity to run--our biological likenesses to animals, the role of the imagination in running, and the metaphorical aptness running and racing has for life. see all copies from $9.22! new only from $32.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Bumblebee Economics: , more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist In this landmark study, now a modern classic, Bernd Heinrich writes about, among other things, how insects maintain their body temperature--how, for example, bees manage to fly at below-zero degrees. see all copies from $9.97! new only from $198.34!
14 view cover	One Man's Owl: Abridged Edition more books like this by Bernd Heinrich, Alice Calaprice (Designer) add to wishlist This engaging chronicle of how the author and the great horned owl "Bubo" came to know one another over three summers spent in the Maine woods--and of how Bubo eventually grew into an independent hunter--is now available in an edition that has been abridged and revised so as to be more accessible to the general reader. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.06! \| first editions
15 view cover	Principles of 3D Image Analysis and Synthesis more books like this by Bernd Girod (Editor), Gunther Greiner (Editor), Heinrich Niemann (Editor) add to wishlist Traditionally, three-dimensional image analysis (a.k.a. computer vision) and three-dimensional image synthesis (a.k.a. computer graphics) were separate fields. Rarely were experts working in one area interested in and aware of the advances in the other. Over the last decade, this has changed dramatically, reflecting the growing maturity of each of ... see all copies from $110.19! new only from $122.15! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect Survival more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist All bodily activity is the result of the interplay of vastly complex physiological processes, and all of these processes depend on temperature. For insects, the struggle to keep body temperature within a suitable range for activity and competition is often a matter of life and death. A few studies of temperature regulation in butterflies can be ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $75.00!
17	The Hot-Blooded Insects: Strategies and Mechanisms of Thermoregulation more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist Bernd Heinrich's widely praised Bumblebee Economics (Harvard, 1979) set a high standard for scientifically accurate yet gracefully articulate writing about nature's ingenious patterns, specifically thermoregulation. His Hot-Blooded Insects takes a giant step forward by presenting an overview of what is now known about thermoregulation in all of ... see all copies from $41.00! new only from $121.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Bumblebee Economics: Revised Edition more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist In this landmark study, now a modern classic, Bernd Heinrich writes about, among other things, how insects maintain their body temperature--how, for example, bees manage to fly at below-zero degrees. see all copies from $18.00! new only from $23.49! \| SVS
19 view cover	In a Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist's Life in the Field more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist Part autobiography, part case study in the ways of field biology, this book is an account of a scientist's life and work. For the author, it is an opportunity to report not just his results but the curiosity, humour, error, passion and competitiveness that feed the process of discovery. His stated purpose is to "tell about the natural links forged ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $19.59! \| first editions \| SVS
20	An Owl in the House: A Naturalist's Diary more books like this by Bernd Heinrich, Alice Calaprice add to wishlist A field journal tracking the development of a great horned owlet, rescued in the wild, as it grows into an independent hunter able to survive in its own habitat. see all copies from $1.99!
21	Insect Thermoregulation more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist see all copies from $24.50! new only from $24.50! \| first editions
22	In a Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist's Life in the Field, more books like this by Bernard Heinrich, Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist see all copies from $4.09! first editions
23 view cover	Why Do Bears Sleep All Winter?: A Book about Hibernation more books like this by Mary Englar, Bernd Heinrich (Consultant editor) add to wishlist A brief explanation of hibernation, including what hibernation is, why animals hibernate, and how they do it. see all copies from $15.34! new only from $15.34! \| SVS
24	Texte, Themen Und Strukturen. Grundband Deutsch F¿R Die Oberstufe. F¿R Allgemeinbildende Schulen. (Lernmaterialien) by Heinrich Biermann Bernd Schurf add to wishlist see all copies from $32.76!
25	The hot-blooded insects. more books like this by Bernd Heinrich add to wishlist "From one man's persistent and elegant probing of the temperature biology of bees, we have been led to a deeper understanding of the whole biology of many insect taxa, and of their interactions with ecological and environmental stresses: all who work at the interfaces of physiology, ecology and behaviour have cause to be grateful, and all should ... see all copies from $118.00! new only from $118.00!

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