La scrittura di Marie Winn approfondisce l'intricato rapporto tra l'umanità e il mondo naturale, in particolare attraverso la lente della natura e del birdwatching. La sua prosa è caratterizzata da un'acuta osservazione e da un profondo apprezzamento per le complessità dell'ambiente. Winn esplora le profonde connessioni che ci legano alla terra, spesso evidenziando la bellezza e la meraviglia spesso trascurate che ci circondano. La sua prospettiva incoraggia i lettori a interagire in modo più ponderato con ciò che li circonda.
A true-life mystery of a pair of red-tailed hawks who, in the spring of 1992, built a nest on a high ledge of a building on New York City's Fifth Avenue. It chronicles the adventures not only of the hawks, but also of Central Park's other wildlife residents and of the birdwatchers.
This updated edition reflects on significant developments and insights gained over a decade. It revisits key themes and arguments, incorporating new research and perspectives that enhance the original content. Readers will find fresh examples and updated statistics that illustrate the evolution of the subject matter. This edition not only serves as a retrospective but also as a guide for future exploration, making it relevant for both new and returning readers.
Traces the lives of ordinary people in Nazi-occupied Prague. In this ironic pageant of crossing and recrossing lives, death wins all the battles but ultimately loses the war, defeated by the fragile flowering of courage and defiance.
This account of one man’s tempestuous relationship with the hawk he trained is at once a comedy of errors, a classic of nature writing, and one of the best glimpses into the world of falconry. The predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, T. H. White’s nature writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: what is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence—“the bird reverted to a feral state”—seized his imagination and he immediately wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient of depriving him of sleep. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love. White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.
Exploring the influence of electronic media on children's perceptions of reality, Marie Winn examines the effects of television on familial relationships and child development. This updated classic addresses contemporary issues, including the impact of computers, video games, and control devices like the V-Chip. It also covers topics such as programming for infants, the relationship between television and physical health, and strategies for managing media consumption in the household.
