Darryl Jones, author of Feeding the Birds at Your Table**, reveals the not-so-secret lives of the most common birds that share our towns and cities.**Despite the noise, heat, dust and fumes, the ceaseless movement, light and toxins, many birds successfully live their lives among us. And not just furtively in the shadows. Ibis steal our lunch, brush-turkeys rearrange gardens and magpies chase us from near their nest.From blackbirds ...

Can our interactions with wildlife help answer life's big questions?In (Be)wilder, acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones explores how people around the world interact with wildlife. He spends time with bearded pigs in Borneo, rock ptarmigans in the Arctic, birdwatchers in Iowa and conservationist farmers in Australia's Snowy Mountains.Along the way, Jones asks, is it possible for farming and conservation to work together? How can urban landscapes ...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and yet there are thousands of books, films, games, and other forms of entertain...

*Shortlisted for the 2020 ABIA Small Publisher's Adult Book of the Year*The Courier-MailPeople'sChoiceQueenslandBook of the YearAward Finalist 2020Feeding the Birds at Your Table is designed to provide detailed, comprehensive advice and suggestions for people wishing to feed wild birds in Australia from their own backyards and balconies.Millions of Australians feed wild birds in their gardens. Yet ...

Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers,scatter the crumbs or seeds, or leave the picnic scraps behind for the birds.Here, Jones takes us on a wild flight through the history of bird feeding as he ponders this odd but seriously popular form of interaction between humans and wild animals. Jones digs at the deeper issues and questions of the practice of bird feeding, as he raises our a...

Ya sea con vampiros, fantasmas, hombres lobo, científicos locos, satanistas o psicópatas asesinos en serie, la liberación catártica que supone dar rienda suelta a una de nuestras emociones más primarias como es el miedo ha estado presente en nuestra cultura desde Shakespeare hasta los memes de internet. Este libro examina los rostros cambiantes del género hasta hoy y cómo se ha utilizado el horror para articular los temores y tabúes de cada generación.

Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and yet there are thousands of books, films, games, and other forms of entertainment designed to do exactly that. As Darryl Jones shows, the horror genr...

A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road is an eye-opening introduction to the ecological impacts of roads. Drawing on over ten years of active engagement in the field of road ecology, Darryl Jones sheds light on the challenges roads pose to wildlife—and the solutions taken to address them.One of the most ubiquitous indicators of human activity, roads typically promise development and prosperity. Yet they carry with them the threat of d...

Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and yet there are thousands of books, films, games, and other forms of entertainment designed to do exactly that.Ranging from vampires, ghosts, and werewolves to mad scientists, Satanists, and deranged serial killers, the cathartic release of scaring ourselves has made its appearance in everythin...

「恐怖」有等級之分嗎？越可怕人們越愛看？恐怖作品探索的是「道德界線」還是「人體與心智的極限」？恐怖是有益健康、是儀式感的享受？！恐怖是一種極端的情緒反應，這種不確定且未知的情緒制約了人類的思緒，迫使我們在面對自己可容忍的極限時，思考真實的本質是什麼：房子裡真的只有我一個人嗎？那是什麼聲音？門應該是關上的吧？為何肩膀上一直感覺有東西？有人在跟蹤我嗎？我可以逃到哪裡？打開牛津大學出版社最受歡迎通識讀本，用最簡明的方式一探恐怖的演變。恐怖的類型龐大且多元，從吸血鬼、鬼魂、狼人、瘋狂科學家、撒旦、怪物、超自然到連續殺人犯，呈現出各式各樣的人格特質與用途，暗示...

A definitive annotated edition of one of the greatest of Terry Pratchett’s multi-million-bestselling Discworld novels'A master storyteller' A.S. Byatt‘Both comic and dark, blending high fantasy, twisted storytelling and all manner of wordplay ... a fine place to start reading Pratchett’ The New York Times Book ReviewCommander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is in hot pursuit of a serial killer. The...

'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.' In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, an army doctor home on sick leave, for the first time. Through Watson we learn a little about the eccentric figure who is his new room-mate at 221B Baker Street, before they encounter their ...