Its the literary equivalent of buried treasure
- seven newly-discovered stories by Dr. Seuss! The first new Seuss stories to emerge
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This beautifully illustrated bingo game features 64 species of birds from around the world. Spot all kinds of birds from the robin to the puffin & the kookaburra to the splendid fairywren gathers them together to complete your set & bingo! Bird Bingo" brings a fun & educational twist to the traditional game as players learn the names & colorings of both their favorite species & weird & wonderful exotic birds. This title contains 64 superbly illustrated bingo chips 1 board 12 bingo cards & brightly colored counters for you to mark up your card as well as a leaflet containing basic information & a few quirky traits for all of the birds featured. (Carries EU Toy Safety Directive 'CE' logo)." ...

It begins for Basil ' Banger' Peyton-Crumbe the day he dies in a pheasant-shooting incident. A tragic accident thinks the local constable but Banger's gundogs & Buck the police dog exhibiting a level of intelligence vastly superior to that of their owners suspect murder. & for Basil proud slayer of over 41 000 birds with the cheap old 12-bore he's had since childhood things go from bad to very bad. ...

Annie Proulx one of Americas finest writers invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched unspoilt prairie & her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. Bird Cloud is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands & prairie & 400 foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans bald eagles golden eagles great blue herons ravens scores of bluebirds harriers kestrels elk deer & a dozen antelope. She knew she had to purchase the land then owned by the Nature Conservancy & she knew what she would build on it
- a house in harmony with her work her appetites & her character
- a library surrounded by bedrooms & a kitchen. Proulxs first non-fiction in more than twenty years Bird Cloud is the story of building that house
- solar panels a Japanese soak tub a concrete floor elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets
- & an enthralling natural history & archeology of the region inhabited for millennia by Ute Arapaho & Shoshone Indians. It is also a family history going back to nineteenth century Mississippi river boat captains & Canadian settlers & an illuminating autobiography. Proulx a writer with extraordinary powers of observation & compassion turns her lens on herself. We understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by wilderness with shelves for thousands of books & long worktables on which to heap manuscripts research materials & maps & how she came to be one of the great American writers of her time.



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Bird Friendly Nest Boxes & Feeders" offers ten simple & classic designs for building traditional birdhouses & feeders plus valuable insights on creating the perfect backyard bird environment. More than just a set of plans it covers how to attract the right kinds of birds & ensure that they will keep coming back. This book

Includes:: complete plans for making basic practical bird welcoming structures accompanied by patterns illustrations & full colour photographs. Each project is perfect for individuals striving to create the most natural bird environment possible. Woodworkers from beginner to expert will find projects appropriate for their skill level. This book stands out from ordinary birdhouse titles with technical detail on subjects like cavity size proper hole size & the ideal distance from hole to cavity floor."

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What is it like to be a swift flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? & what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings & how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these & many more by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment & to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of shared senses
- vision & hearing
- but how exactly do their senses compare with our own? & what about a birds sense of taste or smell or touch or the ability to detect the earths magnetic field? Or the extraordinary ability of desert birds to detect rain hundreds of kilometres away
- how do they do it? Bird Sense is based on a conviction that we have consistently underestimated what goes on in a birds head. Our understanding of bird behaviour is simultaneously informed & constrained by the way we watch & study them. By drawing attention to the way these frameworks both facilitate & inhibit discovery it identifies ways we can escape from them to seek new horizons in bird behaviour. There has never been a popular book about the senses of birds. No one has previously looked at how birds interpret the world or the way the behaviour of birds is shaped by their senses. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of observation & an understanding of birds & their behaviour that is firmly grounded in science.


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What is it like to be a swift flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? & what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings & how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these & many more by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment & to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of shared senses
- vision & hearing
- but how exactly do their senses compare with our own? & what about a birds' sense of taste or smell or touch or the ability to detect the earth's magnetic field? Or the extraordinary ability of desert birds to detect rain hundreds of kilometres away
- how do they do it? Bird Sense is based on a conviction that we have consistently underestimated what goes on in a bird's head. Our understanding of bird behaviour is simultaneously informed & constrained by the way we watch & study them. By drawing attention to the way these frameworks both facilitate & inhibit discovery it identifies ways we can escape from them to seek new horizons in bird behaviour. There has never been a popular book about the senses of birds. No one has previously looked at how birds interpret the world or the way the behaviour of birds is shaped by their senses. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of observation & an understanding of birds & their behaviour that is firmly grounded in science.


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The Bird That Never Flew follows in the dangerous footsteps of a major figure in Glasgow underworld. It tells of how John & his older brother Jim became legends to rival the notorious James boys & why they became heroes in prison. Preceded there by the reputation of his safeblower father Steele's rebellious nature led him to defy a brutal system that prized the breaking of the human spirit above the breaking of old habits. Violence & deprivation were the principle weapons of the prison authorities: rehabilitation just another word in the dictionary. & so he rebelled meeting violence with violence leading riots & planning dramatic escapes. All his life ' Johnnyboy' Steele has been running. First it was from an abusive father then it was from the rigours of approved school & borstal & finally it was from the harshness of prison life. The book details how the brothers staged the most daring breakout that Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison had ever seen & recounts what happens when their younger brother Joseph was falsely accused of the greatest mass murder in Scottish legal history. If Johnny had wings he would have flown to help his family but he would have to wait for freedom to use his expertise to publicise young Joe's miscarriage of justice. The Bird That Never Flew is a compelling often shocking & uncompromisingly honest account of how the human spirit can survive against almost crushing odds. It is a story of family love friendship & ultimately a desire for justice. ...

It was Felix who named it The Birdcage
- the tall house in Bristol where Miss Pidgeon lived with her tenant the beautiful & talented
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This stylish & practical fabric notebook will make a great gift for an avid writer or student. It's elegant birdcage design combined with it's extensive writing space make this notebook a must buy. Features include: pink page marker & linen birdcage notebook with lined A5 paper. ...