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1) Chaos: Making a new science

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The author describes how scientists studying the growth of complexity in nature are discovering order and pattern in chaos. He explains concepts such as nonlinearity, the Butterfly Effect, universal constants, fractals, and strange attractors, and examines the work of scientists such as Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Edward Lorenz, and Benoit Mandelbrot.

2) Bear attacks : their causes and avoidance

Author

Herrero, Stephen

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What causes bear attacks? When should you play dead and when should you fight an attacking bear? What do we know about black and grizzly bears and how can this knowledge be used to avoid bear attacks? And, more generally, what is the bear's future? Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching landmark study of the attacks made on men and women by the great grizzly and the occasionally deadly black bear. This is a book for everyone who hikes, camps,...

3) Atomic habits: an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones

Author

Clear, James

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NYT - Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous
NYT - Business

Formats

Book, CD, eBook

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James Clear, an expert on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. He draws on proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.

4) A comparative study of some social communication patterns in the Pelecaniformes

Author

van Tets, Gerard Frederick

Publisher

American Ornithologists' Union

Pub. Date

1965

5) Buffleheads

Author

Erskine, Anthony J

Publisher

Ottawa : Information Canada

Pub. Date

1971

6) Competition and hostile behaviors of blue-winged and cinnamon teal in western Montana

Author

Dwyer, Gerald L

Publisher

Missoula, MT : Univer. of Montana

Pub. Date

1976

7) Studies in the life history of the song sparrow

Author

Nice, Margaret M

Publisher

New York, NY : Dover Publications, Inc

Pub. Date

1964

Edition

pbk.

8) Behavioural ecology : an evolutionary approach

Author

Krebs, J. R

Publisher

London : Blackwell Scientific Publications

Pub. Date

1978

9) Winter world: the ingenuity of animal survival

Author

Heinrich, Bernd

Publisher

Ecco

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Explores the winter survival tactics of animals, including flying squirrels, grizzly bears, torpid turtles, and insects, revealing how these animals alter and adapt to an array of extraordinary conditions.

10) Behaviour of wolves, dogs, and related canids

Author

Fox, Michael W

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

c1971

Edition

1st U.S. ed.

11) The life of birds

Author

Welty, Joel Carl

12) Handbook of waterfowl behavior

Author

Johnsgard, Paul A

Publisher

Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univer. Press

Pub. Date

1965

Edition

2nd printing

13) Lighted collars to aid night observations of mule deer

Author

Carpenter, Len H

Publisher

Fort Collins, CO : US Forest Serv Rocky Mtn. Forest & Range Exp Stn

Pub. Date

1977

14) The American crow and the common raven

Author

Kilham, Lawrence

Publisher

College Station, TX : Texas A & M Univ. Press

Pub. Date

1989

15) Behavioral monitoring and reinforcement program

Series

Blueprints promising programs fact sheet volume FS-BPP02

Publisher

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder

Pub. Date

[2006]

16) A field guide to animal tracks

Author

Murie, Olaus Johan

Series

The Peterson field guide series 9

Description

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This edition includes 100 color photographs of tracks and sign, more than 1,000 line drawings, and updated nomenclature for all the mammals of North America. The text includes descriptions of habits, habitats, tracks, signs, and ranges and is filled with natural history stories.