Landscape And Song Illustrated Edition Dodo Press

Edith Nesbit's classic selection of children's poems to delight children everywhere, together with tranquil illustrations.

Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) was a British artist and writer. Brooke was born on Sept. 24, 1862, in Birkenhead, England. His skillful and witty illustrations in Andrew Langa€(TM)s Nursery Rhyme Book (1897) established his reputation as a leading childrena€(TM)s book illustrator of pen-andink line drawings and watercolors. His works include: Johnny Crowa€(TM)s Garden: A Picture Book (1903), The Golden Goose Book (1904), The Three Little Pigs (1904), Tom Thumb (1904), Johnny Crowa€(TM)s Party: Another Picture Book (1907), Ring Oa€(TM) Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book (1922), Johnny Crowa€(TM)s New Garden (1935) and Little Bo-Peep (? ).

Thirty years ago, two young biologists named Robert MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson triggered a far-reaching scientific revolution. In a book titled The Theory of Island Biogeography, they presented a new view of a little-understood matter: the geographical patterns in which animal and plant species occur. Why do marsupials exist in Australia and South America, but not in Africa? Why do tigers exist in Asia, but not in New Guinea? Influenced by MacArthur and Wilson's book, an entire generation of ecologists has recognized that island biogeography - the study of the distribution of species on islands and islandlike patches of landscape - yields important insights into the origin and extinction of species everywhere. The new mode of thought focuses particularly on a single question: Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our own age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into islandlike fragments by human activity, the implications of island biogeography are more urgent than ever. Until now, this scientific revolution has remained unknown to the general public. But over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed its threads on a globe-circling journey of discovery. In Madagascar, he has considered the meaning of tenrecs, a group of strange, prickly mammals native to that island. On the island of Guam, he has confronted a pestilential explosion of snakes and spiders. In these and other places, he has prowled through wild terrain with extraordinary scientists who study unusual beasts. The result is The Song of the Dodo, a book filled with landscape, wonder, and ideas. Besides being a grand outdoor adventure, it is, above all, a wake-up call to the age of extinctions.

Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.

This is a theoretical and practical guide on how to undertake and navigate advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.