Author: Gisela Kaplan
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Keywords: australian, natural, history, series, songbird, unusual, magpie, biology, behavior
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0643090681
ISBN-13: 9780643090682

The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognise that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world. Its impressive vocal abilities, its propensity to play and clown, and its willingness to interact with people, make the magpie one of our most well-known birds. This insightful book presents a comprehensive account of the behaviour of one of Australia’s best-loved icons. It reveals the extraordinary capabilities of the magpie, including its complex social behaviour, in a highly readable text. The author brings together much of

Authors:Gisela Kaplan, Lesley J Rogers,
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty LTD
Keywords: skills, habits, birds
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-01-06
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1865083763
ISBN-13: 9781865083766

An unusual collection of curious facts about our feathered friends, this book describes the fascinating behaviors and physiology of birds of all shapes and sizes-from the birds in cities to the wild birds in rainforests, deserts, plains, and coastal regions. Topics discussed include bird evolution and why some came to be flightless, why some birds have well-developed senses and memory, the wide diversity of courtship rituals and territorial displays, and the art of nest building. In short, Birds explains why these creatures do the things that they do, so that people can more fully enjoy and un

Authors:Lesley J. Rogers, Gisela Kaplan,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: primates, primatology, progress, prospects, developments, superior, vertebrate, cognition, comparative, non
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 2003-12-31
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 0306477270
ISBN-13: 9780306477270

This book explores afresh the long-standing interest, and emphasis on, the `special’ capacities of primates. Some of the recent discoveries of the higher cognitive abilities of other mammals and also birds challenge the concept that primates are special and even the view that the cognitive ability of apes is more advanced than that of nonprimate mammals and birds. It is therefore timely to ask whether primates are, in fact, special and to do so from a broad range of perspectives. Divided into five sections this book deals with topics about higher cognition and how it is manifested in dif

Authors:Vijeya Rajendra, Gisela T. Kaplan, Rudi Rajendra,
Publisher: Benchmark Books (NY)
Keywords: world, cultures, iran
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-05
List price: $42.79
ISBN-10: 076141665X
ISBN-13: 9780761416654

Explores the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of Iran.

Authors:Rachel Kaplan, Stephen Kaplan, Robert Ryan,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: everyday, nature, management, design, mind, people
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 1559635940
ISBN-13: 9781559635943

Some parks, preserves, and other natural areas serve people well; others are disappointing. Successful design and management requires knowledge of both people and environments.With People in Mind explores how to design and manage areas of "everyday nature"-parks and open spaces, corporate grounds, vacant lots and backyard gardens, fields and forests-in ways that are beneficial to and appreciated by humans. Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, leading researchers in the field of environmental psychology, along with Robert Ryan, a landscape architect and urban planner, provide a conceptual framewor

Authors:Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: free, mathematics, setting, labyrinth
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0195147448
ISBN-13: 9780195147445

Who hasn’t feared the math Minotaur in its labyrinth of abstractions? Now, in Out of the Labyrinth, Robert and Ellen Kaplan--the founders of The Math Circle, the popular learning program begun at Harvard in 1994--reveal the secrets behind their highly successful approach, leading readers out of the labyrinth and into the joyous embrace of mathematics. Written with the same wit and clarity that made Robert Kaplan’s The Nothing That Is an international bestseller, Out of the Labyrinth offers an engaging and practical guide for parents and educators, and a delight for anyone intereste

Authors:Rachel Kaplan, Stephen Kaplan,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: perspective, psychological, nature, experience
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1989-07-28
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0521341396
ISBN-13: 9780521341394

A study of the natural environment, people, and the relationship between them. The authors offer a research-based analysis of the vital psychological role that nature plays. They try to understand how people perceive nature and what kinds of natural environments they prefer.