Download or read book A Natural History of the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds Birds Fishes Serpents Reptiles and Insects written by Mary Trimmer and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Natural History of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds Birds Fishes Serpents Reptiles and Insects in the Known World written by J. Macloc and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Complete and Universal Natural History of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds Birds Fishes Reptiles and Insects in the Known World written by J. Macloc and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Complete and Universal Natural History of Upwards of Four Hundred Animals Including All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds Birds Fishes Reptiles and Insects in the Known World written by J. Macloc and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Complete and Universal Natural History of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds Birds written by J. Macloc and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birdsong Speech and Poetry written by Francesca Mackenney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the Museums for the Year Ending written by Brooklyn Museum and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report for the Year written by Brooklyn Museum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the Museums written by Brooklyn Museum and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington written by Entomological Society of Washington and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1-3, 5, 14.
Download or read book The Animal Estate written by Harriet Ritvo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with his wild kill, the gentleman farmer with a prize bull. Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations. Victorian England was a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows; an age of Empire and big game hunting; an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal SPCA. Ritvo examines Victorian thinking about animals in the context of other lines of thought: evolution, class structure, popular science and natural history, imperial domination. The papers and publications of people and organizations concerned with agricultural breeding, veterinary medicine, the world of pets, vivisection and other humane causes, zoos, hunting at home and abroad, all reveal underlying assumptions and deeply held convictions—for example, about Britain’s imperial enterprise, social discipline, and the hierarchy of orders, in nature and in human society. Thus this book contributes a new new topic of inquiry to Victorian studies; its combination of rhetorical analysis with more conventional methods of historical research offers a novel perspective on Victorian culture. And because nineteenth-century attitudes and practices were often the ancestors of contemporary ones, this perspective can also inform modern debates about human–animal interactions.
Download or read book The Sea Inside written by Philip Hoare and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yearlong adventure through the world’s oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of The Whale In colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain’s Southampton Water and moving in ever widening circles—like the migration patterns of whales—Hoare explores London, the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and New Zealand. As Hoare brilliantly weaves together literary and natural history, we encounter memorable people as well as the dolphins, whales, and other creatures above and below the water (even one species formerly believed to be extinct). Echoing the fine tradition of W. G. Sebald, but in a voice all Hoare’s own, The Sea Inside is bursting with an endless series of delights and revelations from the ever-changing sea.
Download or read book The Truth About Animals written by Lucy Cooke and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this "surefire summer winner" (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world Humans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals, we've still got a long way to go. Whether we're seeing a viral video of romping baby pandas or a picture of penguins "holding hands," it's hard for us not to project our own values -- innocence, fidelity, temperance, hard work -- onto animals. So you've probably never considered if moose get drunk, penguins cheat on their mates, or worker ants lay about. They do -- and that's just for starters. In The Truth About Animals, Lucy Cooke takes us on a worldwide journey to meet everyone from a Colombian hippo castrator to a Chinese panda porn peddler, all to lay bare the secret -- and often hilarious -- habits of the animal kingdom. Charming and at times downright weird, this modern bestiary is perfect for anyone who has ever suspected that virtue might be unnatural.
Download or read book A Is for Arson written by Campbell F. Scribner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably failed. Vandalism costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year, as students, parents, and even teachers wreak havoc on school buildings. Why do they do it? Can anything stop them? Who should pay for the damage? Underlying these questions are long-standing tensions between freedom and authority, and between wantonness and reason. Property destruction is not simply a moral failing, to be addressed with harsher punishments, nor can the problem be solved through more restrictive architecture or policing. Scribner argues that education itself is a source of intractable struggle, and that vandalism is often the result of an unruly humanity. To understand schooling in the United States, one must first confront the all-too-human emotions that have led to fires, broken windows, and graffiti. A Is for Arson captures those emotions through new historical evidence and diverse theoretical perspectives, helping readers understand vandalism variously as a form of political conflict, as self-education, and as sheer chaos. By analyzing physical artifacts as well as archival sources, Scribner offers new perspectives on children's misbehavior and adults' reactions and allows readers to see the complexities of education—the built environment of teaching and learning, evolving approaches to youth psychology and student discipline—through the eyes of its often resistant subjects.
Download or read book The history of Nantucket ed by W Coffin written by Obed Macy and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books written by Pickering & Chatto and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
