Resultados para "Families" en Aire libre y naturaleza

At the edge of Houston sits a community like no other: 65 petite, pastel houses inhabited by survivors of Hurricane Katrina and built by one of the most famous people in the world, Oprah Winfrey. The community, funded with $10 million of Oprah's money just a few months after Katrina, is made up of 65 families picked by nonprofit Habitat for Humanity. All pay around $400 a month in mortgage to live there. The houses are nearly identical. Angel Lane is not only a place, but an idea.

While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five engaging and sometimes irreverent vignettes, Yow reveals the fascinating lives of the birds we see nearly every day. Following the seasons, he covers forty-two species, discussing the improbable, unusual, and comical aspects of his subjects' lives.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from Sy Montgomery, “one of our finest chroniclers of the natural world” (The New York Times). For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery—whose The Soul of an Octopus...

Carl Safina, Meeresbiologe und Autor des internationalen Bestsellers "Die Intelligenz der Tiere", nimmt seine Leserinnen und Leser in die Lebenswelten von Tieren mit, die an den wenigen noch verbliebenen wilden Orten der Erde zu Hause sind. In ergreifenden Geschichten erfahren wir, was Tiere tun, warum sie es tun und wie sich das Leben für sie anfühlt. Manche Menschen halten Kultur ausschließlich für eine menschliche Errungenschaft. Doch das ist falsch: Auch Tiere sind nicht allein durch ihre Gene zu dem geworden, was sie sind.