The Bird's Nest

Author: Shirley Jackson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143107038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Shirley Jackson's third novel, a chilling descent into multiple personalities Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, and with Jackson’s characteristic chill, we learn that Elizabeth is not just one girl—but four separate, self-destructive personalities. The Bird’s Nest, Jackson’s third novel, develops hallmarks of the horror master’s most unsettling work: tormented heroines, riveting familial mysteries, and a disquieting vision inside the human mind. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Bird Builds a Nest

Author: Martin Jenkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406382709
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
A beautifully illustrated picture book introducing young children to the concept of forces. Bird is building her nest. She pushes and pulls twigs into place until she's made a cosy cup, ready and waiting ... can you guess what for? This beautiful picture book is the perfect introduction to forces and the concept of pushing and pulling, and is the third in the Science Story Book series from Walker Books. Bird Builds a Nest is illustrated by up-and-coming talent Richard Jones and written by author Martin Jenkins, the award-winning author of Can We Save the Tiger? and Ape. The third book in Walker's Science Story Book series, introducing scientific concepts to young children. The main narrative tells the story of a bird building her nest. The smaller captions point out and explain the scientific concepts behind the story - forces, pushing, pulling, weight, strength and gravity. Complete with an index and an experiment to get children thinking about the science behind the story

Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City

Author: Barbara Bash
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316083126
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Find out about the birds that make their homes in the heart of the city and how they have adjusted to such a harsh urban environment.

The Girl with the Bird's-nest Hair

Author: Sarah Dyer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780747599982
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
No one really likes brushing their hair, but the girl in this delightfully anarchic tale finds out the hard way just what it means to ignore your mother's pleading to 'brush your hair'! First there is one little bird making the hair hard to brush, then another and another, and soon the girl and her mother find their day becomes an avian nightmare.

Avian Architecture

Author: Peter Goodfellow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069114849X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
Examines the nests that birds build around the world, including illustrations of each nest type's construction, descriptions of the materials and techniques used during the process, and case studies on specific birds' habitats.

Birds' Nests: Business and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia

Author: Kasem Jandam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786162151675
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
Southeast Asia is renowned for birds' nests and the bird's nest trade. A bird's nest is often referred to as "White Gold" or "the Caviar of the East." In Birds' Nests: Business and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia, Kasem Jandam explores the history of using birds' nests and outlines key aspects of the business: consumption and its impact on ecology and the environment, market innovations, and the legal system related to public, private, community, and nonexclusive economic nesting resources. This book also discusses the trade and relationships among ethnic groups and the influence of Hong Kong's bird's nest market on the bird's nest business in Thailand and Southeast Asia.

Bird Nests

Author: Stan Tekiela
Publisher: Adventure Publications
ISBN: 9781591934684
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Coffee-table book filled with unparalleled photography and small blocks of fascinating text about bird nests: nature's most amazing dwelling places.

Eastern Birds' Nests

Author: Hal H. Harrison
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395936092
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
Covers nest of bird species of all 26 states east of the Mississippi.

Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour

Author: Mike Hansell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139429085
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour provides a broad view of our understanding of the biology of the nests, bowers and tools made by birds. It illustrates how, among vertebrates, the building abilities of birds are more impressive and consistent than for any other builders other than ourselves, yet birds seem to require no special equipment, and use quite uncomplicated behaviour. In doing so, the book raises general issues in the field of behavioural ecology including the costs of reproduction, sexual selection and the organisation and complexity of behaviour. Written for students and researchers of animal behaviour, behavioural ecology and ornithology, it will nevertheless make fascinating reading for architects and engineers interested in understanding how structures are created by animals.

Even an Ostrich Needs a Nest

Author: Irene Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823421022
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An introduction to the many different types of nests that birds build.