The award-winning author of Mind of the Raven uses lessons from the animal kingdom to build a training program for runners, emphasizing psychological and physiological factors that give humans an edge. Originally published as Racing the Antelope. Reprint. (view table of contents)

The author uses lessons from the animal kingdom to build a training program for runners, emphasizing psychological and physiological factors that give humans an edge. (view table of contents)

Product Description: When naturalist Heinrich sets out for a year in the wilds of Maine accompanied only by his pet raven, Jack, readers everywhere will want to tag along. Looking for the answers to life's questions in the richness of one small place, he settles into a rustic log cabin...read more

Product Description: All bodily activity is the result of the interplay of vastly complex physiological processes, and all of these processes depend on temperature. For insects, the struggle to keep body temperature within a suitable range for activity and competition is often a matter of life and death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"From one man's persistent and elegant probing of the temperature biology of bees, we have been led to a deeper understanding of the whole biology of many insect taxa, and of their interactions with ecological and environmental stresses: all who work at the interfaces of physiology, ecology and behaviour have cause to be grateful, and all should certainly read this book." (Trends in Ecology & Evolution) "An outstanding source of information, and can be read with profit and satisfaction by the professional biologist and interested amateur alike." (Nature)

One of the world's foremost physiological ecologists discusses his life and work as a scientist and recounts in detail years spent in research in the wild in many parts of the world

Reveals the special bond that forms between a scientist and the newly hatched great horned owlet he trains to survive in the wild