Download or read book Bird on Fire written by Andrew Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the prospects for sustainability in Phoenix--a city in the bull's eye of global warming--and also the obstacles that stand in the way. Most authors writing on sustainable cities look at places that have excellent public transit systems and relatively high density, such as Portland, Seattle, or New York. But Ross contends that if we can't change the game in fast-growing, low-density cities like Phoenix, the whole movement has a major problem. Drawing on interviews with 200 influential residents--from state legislators, urban planners, developers, and green business advocates to civil rights champions, energy lobbyists, solar entrepreneurs, and community activists--Ross argues that if Phoenix is ever to become sustainable, it will occur more through political and social change than through technological fixes. Ross explains how Arizona's increasingly xenophobic immigration laws, science-denying legislature, and growth-at-all-costs business ethic have perpetuated social injustice and environmental degradation. But he also highlights the positive changes happening in Phoenix, in particular the Gila River Indian Community's successful struggle to win back its water rights, potentially shifting resources away from new housing developments to producing healthy local food for the people of the Phoenix Basin. Ross argues that this victory may serve as a new model for how green democracy can work, redressing the claims of those who have been aggrieved in a way that creates long-term benefits for all. Bird on Fire offers a compelling take on one of the pressing issues of our time--finding pathways to sustainability at a time when governments are dismally failing in their responsibility to address climate change.
Download or read book Bird On Fire written by Jane Wells and published by Read the Spirit. This book was released on 2013-12-08 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hunger Games is on fire. This series of novels and movies is attracting millions. Jane Wells offers an exciting new perspective on novelist Suzanne Collins' complex world. Readers and moviegoers, young and old, continue to cheer for her hero Katniss Everdeen, a teenager fighting forces of injustice in a bleak future version of our world. Now, Jane Wells delves into this dystopian realm from a Christian perspective, exploring themes of social justice, transformation and unlikely heroism.
Download or read book Bird Squirrel On Fire A Graphic Novel Bird Squirrel 4 written by James Burks and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird and Squirrel are finally home, but the adventure isn't over yet! It's been a long, crazy trip around the world. Now the duo is back in their beloved forest, and Bird wants to throw a party! But Squirrel isn't in the mood to celebrate. His house needs a good cleaning, the river has been dammed up by a pesky beaver, and the forest animals are jittery about a growing menace. Will the dam dry out the forest? Will the mysterious new danger ruin the party? Will Bird finally convince Squirrel to let go and just have a good time? Find out in their hilarious new adventure!
Download or read book A bird of fire written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Birds written by Sneed B. Collard and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the work of University of Montana professor Richard Hutto, this book tells the story of how dozens of species of birds use the burn areas of wildfires. At least 15 bird species prefer burned forests to all other habitats.--
Download or read book As Kingfishers Catch Fire written by Gerard Manley Hopkins and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Hopkins' Poems and Prose is available in Penguin Classics.
Download or read book The Bird of Fire written by Maria Moravsky and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broken Bird written by Michael Broad and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken Bird is born with only one wing but he refuses to believe he will never fly. He puts his best foot forward and sets off to explore the world around him from the ground. What waits for him in the city brings him bigger happiness than he could ever have imagined. An inspiring tale with a very happy ending to remind us all not to give up on our dreams.
Download or read book Birds of Paradise written by Tim Laman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling photo essay, Laman and Scholes present gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior.
Download or read book A Home for Bird written by Philip C. Stead and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon the toad takes the silent Bird on a journey in hopes of finding Bird'shome. Full color.
Download or read book The Bird of Fire written by Robert E. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1979-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boo Hoo Bird written by Jeremy Tankard and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bird gets hit on the head while playing ball, his friends have many suggestions to try to make him feel better.
Download or read book Hooray for Birds written by Lucy Cousins and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations and rhyming text invite readers to imagine themselves as brilliant birds.
Download or read book Wild Bird written by Wendelin Van Draanen and published by Ember. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped comes a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness survival camp. 3:47 a.m. That’s when they come for Wren Clemmens. She’s hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who’ve gone so far off the rails, their parents don’t know what to do with them anymore. This is wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn your life around. Yeah, right. The Wren who arrives in the Utah desert is angry and bitter, and blaming everyone but herself. But angry can’t put up a tent. And bitter won’t start a fire. Wren’s going to have to admit she needs help if she’s going to survive. "I read Wild Bird in one long, mesmerized gulp. Wren will break your heart—and then mend it." —Nancy Werlin, National Book Award finalist for The Rules of Survival "Van Draanen’s Wren is real and relatable, and readers will root for her." —VOYA, starred review
Download or read book Lives of North American Birds written by Kenn Kaufman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling natural history of birds, lavishly illustrated with 600 colorphotos, is now available for the first time in flexi binding.
Download or read book Song of a Captive Bird written by Jasmin Darznik and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society's expectations to find her voice and her destiny. "Remember the flight, for the bird is mortal." All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel, gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother's walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café glacé. During the summer of 1950, Forugh's passion for poetry takes flight, and tradition seeks to clip her wings. Forced into a suffocating marriage, Forugh runs away and falls into an affair that fuels her desire to write and to achieve freedom and independence. Forugh's poems are considered both scandalous and brilliant; she is heralded by some as a national treasure, vilified by others as a demon influenced by the West. She perseveres, finding love with a notorious filmmaker and living by her own rules, at enormous cost. But the power of her writing only grows stronger amid the upheaval of the Iranian revolution. Inspired by Forugh Farrokhzad's verse, letters, films, and interviews, and including original translations of her poems, this haunting novel uses the lens of fiction to capture the tenacity, spirit, and conflicting desires of a brave woman who represents the birth of feminism in Iran, and who continues to inspire generations of women around the world.--Amazon.
Download or read book Bird Of Fire written by Homer Solomon, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theophilus (Theo) Parks is headed for superstardom when he receives a piece of "fan" mail from someone who is hell-bent on making sure he never gets there. He questions the intentions of everyone around him, including his close circle of friends. He eventually tucks his anonymous admirer into the back corner of his mind and continues full speed ahead on his journey to fortune and fame. That is, of course, until his biggest fan starts making good on their threats. Bird of Fire is one hell of a roller-coaster! This tale is weaved with sensuality, sabotage, love, betrayal, black boy joy, pain, resilience, self-doubt and a jaw dropping ending. Grab a glass of wine and some popcorn; then buckle up and enjoy the ride.
