The soaring majesty of a virgin forest and the intertwined relationships of plant, animal, and man are the subject of Bernd Heinrich's lyrical elegy. Heinrich has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, and now he shares his vast knowledge and reflections on the trees of the Northeast woods and the rhythms of their seasons.From the DNA contained in an apple seed to the great choiring branches far beyond a young boy's reach, Heinrich explores a natural world in scientific and personal terms. Heinrich is a scientist, but his words speak with the power and subtle grace of a poet. He uses this gift, and his intimate knowledge of his 300 acres of Maine forest, to expose the forest's rhythms, and in doing so, illustrates the vital but tenuous link among man, trees, birds, insects, and all the creatures of the forest. Thanks to Bernd Heinrich, readers will finally see the forest and the trees.
Bernd Heinrichs Boeken
Bernd Heinrich is een veelgeprezen auteur wiens werken zich vaak richten op de natuurlijke wereld net buiten onze deur. Door middel van zijn schrijven verkent hij de ingewikkelde relaties tussen organismen en hun omgeving, waarbij hij een diep begrip van biologische processen tot leven brengt. Heinrich's stijl is zowel leerzaam als boeiend, en biedt lezers een fascinerende inkijk in het gedrag van dieren en de wonderen van de natuur. Zijn intieme band met de natuur, gevormd door zijn eigen ervaringen, verleent zijn proza een authentieke en meeslepende stem.



- Winter World- 368bladzijden
- 13 uur lezen
 - From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter.From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter their environment to accommodate our physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions--i.e., radical changes in a creature's physiology take place to match the demands of the environment. Winter provides an especially remarkable situation, because of how drastically it affects the most elemental component of all life: water.Examining everything from food sources in the extremely barren winter landscape to the chemical composition that allows certain creatures to survive, Heinrich's Winter World awakens the largely undiscovered mysteries by which nature sustains herself through the harsh, cruel exigencies of winters 
- Transfersysteme zur Hochleistungskommunikation- 276bladzijden
- 10 uur lezen
 - Im vorliegenden Buch werden Protokolle für die Kommunikation in Hochgeschwindigkeitsnetzen vorgestellt. Das Buch ist daher für den Ingenieur und Wissenschaftler, der mit Fragen der Multimediakommunikation befaßt ist, von Interesse.