The humble House Sparrow, common everywhere, was surprisingly poorly researched and his work soon provided interesting insights into this successful and adaptable little bird. As new opportunities to travel opened up, his interest blossomed to take in the genus Passer as a whole. His travels would ultimately lead to his study of all but one of the group, found only in deepest Turkestan, and to the publication of his authoritative monograph on sparrows in 1988.
Many people think that animal liberation would require a fundamental transformation of basic beliefs. We would have to give up "speciesism" and start viewing animals as our equals, with rights and moral status. And we would have to apply these beliefs in an all-or-nothing way.
In this charming memoir, one woman proves how the devastating diagnosis of cancer turned out to be her new leash on life. Teresa Rhyne was excited to begin her new life with her new man...and a new dog? As luck would have it, the unruly beagle Seamus found his way into her home just when they needed each other most.
Ancient people observed the night sky. They needed to know when the seasons would change so they would know when to plant their crops. They noticed that the Sun, the Moon, and the stars moved in regular patterns. The patterns were visible at the same time each year. Calendars were made based on these patterns.
The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years. In a pioneering amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd Division set out to prove him wrong, overcoming serious planning errors to fight a 76-hour battle of unprecedented savagery. The cost would be more than 3000 Marine casualties at the hands of a garrison of some 3700. The lessons learned would dispel forever any illusions that Americans had about the fighting quality of the Japanese.
