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In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a hummingbird or studying the slug, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary ...

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Varsavia, 1939. Antonina ?abi?ska e suo marito, il dottor Jan ?abi?ski, gestiscono lo storico zoo della città con cura e dedizione. Quando la Polonia viene invasa dai nazisti, però, oltre ai bombardamenti e all'occupazione la coppia è costretta a sottostare anche al nuovo capo zoologo nominato dal Reich, Lutz Heck, che prevede un programma di allevamento selettivo per la struttura. Reagendo allo sgomento, i due coniugi si impegnano prima a sal...

Varsavia, 1939. Antonina ?abi?ska e suo marito, il dottor Jan ?abi?ski, gestiscono lo storico zoo della città con cura e dedizione. Quando la Polonia viene invasa dai nazisti, però, oltre ai bombardamenti e all'occupazione la coppia è costretta a sottostare anche al nuovo capo zoologo nominato dal Reich, Lutz Heck, che prevede un programma di allevamento selettivo per la struttura. Reagendo allo sgomento, i due coniugi si impegnano prima a sal...

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Ho fatto solo il mio dovere. Se puoi salvare la vita di qualcuno, è tuo dovere provarci." Con questa semplicità disarmante Jan Zabiriski, direttore dello zoo di Varsavia negli anni della seconda guerra mondiale, ha parlato della straordinaria impresa grazie alla quale lui e la moglie Antonina sottrassero alla furia nazista più di trecento ebrei. È il 1939, i bombardamenti tedeschi devastano lo storico zoo della capitale polacca: Jan e Antonina...

In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawn---drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping. As a patient and learned observer of animal and human physiology and behavior, she introduces us to varieties of bird music and other signs of avian intelligence, while she herself "migrates...

You're now about to become addicted to Diane Ackerman.' Jared Diamond'Fascinating.' Washington Post'In this amazingly illuminating book, Diane Ackerman explains our future with her typically intoxicating blend of scholarship, wisdom, grace and humour.' Siddhartha Murkherjee'A ferociously inspiring, mind-expanding survey of Planet Earth and humanity's central place on it.' Seattle TimesIn The Human Age award-winning science writer Diane Ackerma...

Award-winning nature writer Diane Ackerman confronts the fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the planet and takes us on an exciting journey to understand this bewildering new reality.

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Eine wahre und rührende Geschichte Während der Zweite Weltkrieg tobt, wird der Warschauer Zoo Schauplatz einer dramatischen Rettungsaktion, die über 300 Juden vor dem sicheren Tod bewahrt. Jan und Antonina Zabinski, der Zoodirektor und seine Frau, schmuggeln Juden aus dem Warschauer Ghetto auf das brachliegende Zoogelände, wo sie die Todgeweihten in den leeren Tierkäfigen vor den Nazis verstecken und ihnen damit das Leben retten. Eine wahre Ge...

Eine wahre Geschichte aus dem Zweiten WeltkriegWährend der Zweite Weltkrieg tobt, wird der Warschauer Zoo Schauplatz einer dramatischen Rettungsaktion, die über 300 Juden vor dem sicheren Tod bewahrt. Als Jan und Antonina Zabinski, der Zoodirektor und seine Frau, mitansehen, wie die Nazis in Polen einmarschieren, ist ihr Entsetzen groß. Die jüdische Bevölkerung wird im Warschauer Ghetto zusammengepfercht. Zeitgleich beginnen die Nazis den Zoo ...

Everyone who cherishes the gift of language will cherish Diane Ackerman's narrative masterpiece, an exquisitely written love story and medical miracle story, one that combines science, inspiration, wisdom, and heart. One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. When he regained awareness he was afflicted with aphasia-loss of language-and could utter only a single syllab...

Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary it offers. Written in sensuous, lyrical prose, this is a hymn to nature and its pleasures.

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