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Jennifer Ackerman


Born
January 01, 1959

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Science, Nature


Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestseller, The Genius of Birds, which has been translated into more than twenty languages. Her articles and essays have appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic, The New York Times, and many other publications. Ackerman is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction, a Bunting Fellowship, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her articles and essays have been included in several anthologies, among them Best American Science Writing, The Nature Reader, and Best Nature Writing.

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The Genius of Birds
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What an Owl Knows: The New ...
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The Bird Way: A New Look at...
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Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: ...
3.59 avg rating — 954 ratings — published 2007 — 24 editions
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Birds by the Shore: Observi...
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Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon Life...
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Chance in the House of Fate...
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“AS A HUMAN BEING,â€� Einstein once wrote, “one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.”
― Jennifer Ackerman, The Genius of Birds
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“Being in nature refreshes us by ... allowing us to surrender to involuntary attention: the effortless and often enjoyable noticing of sensory stimuli in our environment.”
― Jennifer Ackerman
tags: space-for-the-soul
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“Each spring the robins nesting in our cherry tree attack the side mirror of our car as if it were a rival, pecking furiously at their own reflections while streaking the door with guano. But who among us hasn’t been toppled by our vanity or made an enemy of our own image?”
― Jennifer Ackerman, The Genius of Birds
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