Robert Burton Libri

A comprehensive survey explaining and illustrating the range of animal life, from the single-celled amoeba to the primates, and detailing the behavior, life cycles, anatomies, protective devices, and other features of representative species

Focusing on attracting and observing birds, this guide offers insights into backyard bird feeding and behavior. Produced in collaboration with the National Audubon Society, it features profiles of various bird species, making it a valuable resource for both novice and experienced birdwatchers. The compact format ensures easy portability, allowing enthusiasts to take their birding knowledge anywhere.

A guide to South Georgia that depicts the birds, mammals, insects, flowering plants, and other vegetation found in this part of the world. It features 368 photographs of 180 species, including 65 species of birds, 20 species of sea mammals, nearly 60 species of insects, and more than 40 species of flowering and nonflowering plants.

Text and photographs depict mice feeding, breeding, and interacting with other animals in their natural habitat.

One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries.

'The New Birdfeeder Handbook' contains information on how to attract birds to your garden. The basic elements of a good bird garden are examined systematically, from garden layout and plant selection to the best place to put a nest box. The book also provides answers to common questions about bird behaviour - explaining, for example, why some birds feed in groups and why certain birds have simple songs while others have repertoires of hundreds of phrases. In addition to illustrated features on the very 'bird-friendly' equipment and foodstuffs, this classic guide now provides detailed visual profiles of over 60 of our most common garden visitors - making it the ideal companion for all bird lovers.

Neurologist Robert Burton challenges common notions about how people think about what they know, demonstrating how the feeling of certainty comes from a place beyond knowledge and control and is a mental sensation, not evidence of fact.

This collection of essays offers a panoramic celebration of human behavior from ancient times to the Renaissance, exploring themes such as God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love, and beauty in the context of the human condition.