Weather Bird

Author : Gary Giddins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199882622
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weather Bird written by Gary Giddins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-15 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time in this superb collection of essays, reviews, and articles. Weather Bird is a celebration of jazz, with illuminating commentaryon contemporary jazz events, today's top muscicians, the best records of the year, and on leading figures from jazz's past. Readers will find extended pieces on Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner, Benny Carter, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Billie Holiday, Cassandra Wilson, Tony Bennett, and many others. Giddins includes a series of articles on the annual JVC Jazz Festival, which offers a splendid overview of jazz in the 1990s. Other highlights include an astute look at avant-garde music ("Parajazz") and his challenging essay, "How Come Jazz Isn't Dead?" which advances a theory about the way art is born, exploited, celebrated, and sidelined to the museum. A radiant compendium by America's leading music critic, Weather Bird offers an unforgettable look at the modern jazz scene.

Author : Robert William Chambers
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465608729
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue-Bird Weather written by Robert William Chambers and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was now almost too dark to distinguish objects; duskier and vaguer became the flat world of marshes, set here and there with cypress and bounded only by far horizons; and at last land and water disappeared behind the gathered curtains of the night. There was no sound from the waste except the wind among the withered reeds and the furrowing splash of wheel and hoof over the submerged causeway. The boy who was driving had scarcely spoken since he strapped Marche's gun cases and valise to the rear of the rickety wagon at the railroad station. Marche, too, remained silent, preoccupied with his own reflections. Wrapped in his fur-lined coat, arms folded, he sat doubled forward, feeling the Southern swamp-chill busy with his bones. Now and then he was obliged to relight his pipe, but the cold bit at his fingers, and he hurried to protect himself again with heavy gloves.

Author : Norman Elkins
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408128225
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weather and Bird Behaviour written by Norman Elkins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic Poyser title, now in its third revised edition, discusses in depth the various ways in which weather conditions influence bird behaviour. Weather conditions affect food and water availability, decisions about when and how to migrate, timing and success of reproduction, flight style, and physical comfort. Birds display many adaptations in form and behaviour that help them to cope with changing weather conditions, and this fascinating book uses a great variety of examples to explore the subject in depth. The text is enhanced throughout with evocative line drawings, there are many useful tables and figures, and there is also an 8pp colour photograph section.

Author : Robert William Chambers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue-bird Weather written by Robert William Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Giddins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195304497
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weather Bird written by Gary Giddins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to the landmark Visions of Jazz collects more than 140 writings celebrating jazz, with commentary on everything from modern jazz events and the current top musicians, to studies on the leading jazz figures of the past.

Author : Thomas Alerstam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521448222
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird Migration written by Thomas Alerstam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird migration is one of the most astonishing feats in the natural world. Millions of birds migrate, often over very large distances, to benefit from seasonal resource surpluses and to avoid predators and competitors. The aim of this study is to survey the phenomena.

Author : Peter Berthold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198507871
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird Migration written by Peter Berthold and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years have passed since the first edition of this book. During that time the field of bird migration has experienced many advances which are reflected in this second edition. No other book exists to bring together the vast amount of information currently available on the subject of bird migration. Includes discussion of evolution and history of bird migration, physiology, orientation mechanisms and threats to migrations and is accessible to experts as well as amateurs.

Author : Eberhard Gwinner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642745423
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird Migration written by Eberhard Gwinner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. GWINNER! The phenomenon of bird migration with its large scale dimensions has attracted the attention of naturalists for centuries. Worldwide billions of birds leave their breeding grounds every autumn to migrate to areas with seasonally more favor able conditions. Many of these migrants travel only over a few hundred kilo meters but others cover distances equivalent to the circumference of the earth. Among these long-distance migrants are several billion birds that invade Africa every autumn from their West and Central Palaearctic breeding areas. In the Americas and in Asia the scope of bird migration is of a similar magnitude. Just as impressive as the numbers of birds are their achievements. They have to cope with the enormous energetic costs of long-distance flying. particularly while crossing oceans and deserts that do not allow replenishment of depleted fat reserves. They have to appropriately time the onset and end of migrations. both on a daily and annual basis. And finally. they have to orient their migratory movements in space to reach their species- or population-specific wintering and breeding grounds, irrespective of the variable climatic conditions along their migratory routes.

Author : Ajit C Puri
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9788120733510
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird Flu written by Ajit C Puri and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird Flu is the latest scare that has dominated news headlines and caused havoc in the recent past. The deadly virus has leapt across national boundaries to infect birds like chicken, geese, water fowl and ducks and the world is struggling to eradicate or control this disease. This book explains what bird flu is, how it spreads and why H5N1 might become a human pandemic. It traces the way bird flu has swept through various countries like Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and Thailand, prompting large-scale culling of birds and causing unimaginable losses. The book also provides valuable information on the vaccines and anti-viral drugs available and how they work. Preventive measures and tests for the detection of the presence of the virus have been outlined, which will help spread awareness of this dreaded disease and educate readers on how to prevent or control it.

Author : Robert William Chambers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue-bird Weather [eBook - NC Digital Library] written by Robert William Chambers and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: