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鳥類傳說：從羽翼到寓意，鳥的神話、象徵、生態奧祕與人類千年想像

Birds: Myth, Lore and Legend

de 瑞秋．華倫．查德, Rachel Warren Chadd, 瑪麗安．泰勒, Marianne Taylor ...

Traducido por 顏冠睿 ...

Series series Sense
傳說與知識巧妙交織，各種鳥事，有圖為證。貓頭鷹象徵智慧，觀鳥帶來新生；鶴寓意恆久忠誠，鴛鴦訴說婚姻美滿；蜂鳥是戰神的化身，笑翠鳥的笑聲喚醒諸神；教堂尖塔上常見公雞佇立守望……鳥類為何承載了如此豐富多樣的情感？被寄託人性的想望，甚至神性的光芒？完美融合自然、科學與文化歷史，搭配豐富攝影與藝術插圖，以輕快節奏與嶄新視角，帶你走入鳥類的奇幻世界。遊隼、夜鶯、知更鳥、燕子、雲雀、天堂鳥、奇異鳥……本書集結八十餘種來自世界各地的鳥類傳說、神話、寓言與生態特徵，呈現人類與這些擁有恐龍血統的羽毛生物之間深厚的古老連結，除了作為糧食、藥材、生活用品的材料與日常裝飾，鳥類的行為、聲音與外貌，<... ... Leer más

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傳說與知識巧妙交織，各種鳥事，有圖為證。貓頭鷹象徵智慧，觀鳥帶來新生；鶴寓意恆久忠誠，鴛鴦訴說婚姻美滿；蜂鳥是戰神的化身，笑翠鳥的笑聲喚醒諸神；教堂尖塔上常見公雞佇立守望……鳥類為何承載了如此豐富多樣的情感？被寄託人性的想望，甚至神性的光芒？完美融合自然、科學與文化歷史，搭配豐富攝影與藝術插圖，以輕快節奏與嶄新視角，帶你走入鳥類的奇幻世界。遊隼、夜鶯、知更鳥、燕子、雲雀、天堂鳥、奇異鳥……本書集結八十餘種來自世界各地的鳥類傳說、神話、寓言與生態特徵，呈現人類與這些擁有恐龍血統的羽毛生物之間深厚的古老連結，除了作為糧食、藥材、生活用品的材料與日常裝飾，鳥類的行為、聲音與外貌，<...
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High Performance Spark

Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark

de Holden Karau, Adi Polak, Rachel Warren ...

Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven't seen the performance improvements you expected or still don't feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau, Adi Polak, and Rachel Warren walk you through the secrets of the Spark code base and demonstrate performance optimizations that will help your data pipelines run ... Leer más

$41.99 USD

Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven't seen the performance improvements you expected or still don't feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau, Adi Polak, and Rachel Warren walk you through the secrets of the Spark code base and demonstrate performance optimizations that will help your data pipelines run
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The Lives of Moths

A Natural History of Our Planet's Moth Life

de Andrei Sourakov, Rachel Warren Chadd ...

Series series The Lives of the Natural World
A richly illustrated look at the natural history of mothsMoths are among the most underappreciated insects on the planet, yet they make up the majority of some 180,000 known species of Lepidoptera. Filled with striking images, The Lives of Moths looks at the remarkable world of these amazing and beautiful creatures.While butterflies may get more press than moths, Andrei Sourakov and Rachel Warren ... Leer más

$21.99 USD

A richly illustrated look at the natural history of mothsMoths are among the most underappreciated insects on the planet, yet they make up the majority of some 180,000 known species of Lepidoptera. Filled with striking images, The Lives of Moths looks at the remarkable world of these amazing and beautiful creatures.While butterflies may get more press than moths, Andrei Sourakov and Rachel Warren
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Birds: Myth, Lore and Legend

de Rachel Warren Chadd, Ms Marianne Taylor ...

The stories, myths and legends associated with more than 80 kinds of birds from around the world.Why are owls regarded either as wise or as harbingers of doom? What gave rise to the fanciful belief that storks bring babies? Why is the eagle associated with victory or the hummingbird with paradise?The answers are here in this engaging book. By re-telling the many legends, beliefs, proverbs and ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

The stories, myths and legends associated with more than 80 kinds of birds from around the world.Why are owls regarded either as wise or as harbingers of doom? What gave rise to the fanciful belief that storks bring babies? Why is the eagle associated with victory or the hummingbird with paradise?The answers are here in this engaging book. By re-telling the many legends, beliefs, proverbs and
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Look at Me

A Novel

de Jennifer Egan ...

Narrado por Rachel Warren ...

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20 hora

At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied.With the surreal authority ... Leer más

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At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied.With the surreal authority
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The Invisible Circus

de Jennifer Egan ...

Narrado por Madeleine Lambert ...

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11 hora 21 minutos

In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of eighteen-year-old Phoebe O'Connor.Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco ... Leer más

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In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of eighteen-year-old Phoebe O'Connor.Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco
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The Keep

de Jennifer Egan ...

Narrado por Jeff Gurner, Geneva Carr ...

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8 hora 2 minutos

Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in eastern Europe. In an environment of ... Leer más

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Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in eastern Europe. In an environment of
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A Visit from the Goon Squad

Pulitzer Prize Winner

de Jennifer Egan ...

Narrado por Roxana Ortega ...

Completo

10 hora 7 minutos

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of ... Leer más

$20.00 USD

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of
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Alex & Me

How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process

de Irene M. Pepperberg ...

New York Times BestsellerThe remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an African Grey parrot who proved scientists and accepted wisdom wrong by demonstrating an astonishing ability to communicate and understand complex ideas."You be good. I love you," were Alex's final words to his owner, research scientist Irene Pepperberg, before ... Leer más

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New York Times BestsellerThe remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an African Grey parrot who proved scientists and accepted wisdom wrong by demonstrating an astonishing ability to communicate and understand complex ideas."You be good. I love you," were Alex's final words to his owner, research scientist Irene Pepperberg, before
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The Genius of Birds

de Jennifer Ackerman ...

**“Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of ‘bird brains,’ [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . .” —New York Times Book Review“A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence.” —Scientific AmericanAn award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess**Birds are astonishingly ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

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**“Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of ‘bird brains,’ [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . .” —New York Times Book Review“A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence.” —Scientific AmericanAn award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess**Birds are astonishingly
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Fighting for Birds

25 years in nature conservation

de Dr. Mark Avery ...

Devoted to birds and wildlife since childhood, Mark’s early scientific research at Oxford, Aberdeen and the RSPB provided a solid background for his management, ambassadorial, and political lobbying activities which were to follow – and his larger than life, yet quietly humane personality has provided the final tools in his own, unique, nature conservationists’ toolbox.In this book, Mark mixes a ... Leer más

$17.09 USD

Devoted to birds and wildlife since childhood, Mark’s early scientific research at Oxford, Aberdeen and the RSPB provided a solid background for his management, ambassadorial, and political lobbying activities which were to follow – and his larger than life, yet quietly humane personality has provided the final tools in his own, unique, nature conservationists’ toolbox.In this book, Mark mixes a
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The Wonder of Birds

What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future

de Jim Robbins ...

A fascinating investigation into the miraculous world of birds and the powerful—and surprising—ways they enrich our lives and sustain the planetOur relationship to birds is different from our relationship to any other wild creatures. They are found virtually everywhere and we love to watch them, listen to them, keep them as pets, wear their feathers, even converse with them. Birds, Jim Robbins ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

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A fascinating investigation into the miraculous world of birds and the powerful—and surprising—ways they enrich our lives and sustain the planetOur relationship to birds is different from our relationship to any other wild creatures. They are found virtually everywhere and we love to watch them, listen to them, keep them as pets, wear their feathers, even converse with them. Birds, Jim Robbins
... Leer más

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