Download or read book A Cacophony of Crows written by Coral Mirth Walker and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Cacophony of Corvids written by Pete Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds that show empathy, make and use tools, problem solve and recognise faces: no wonder corvids are at the heart of many myths and folk tales.From their role in keeping Britain safe at the Tower of London to the companions of the Viking god Odin; this unique illustrated look at the enigmatic world of ravens, crows, magpies, rooks and their cousins should give you food for thought, and a new understanding of what makes them the most special of birds.From their roles in the mythology of Celtic, Norse, American, Asian and European mythology to the influence that corvids have had upon music, film, popular expressions and even art it becomes evident that there are more to this crow family than meets their beady eye.
Download or read book Cacophony Of Crows written by Xxxzombieboyxxx and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cacophony of Crows is a delightfully spooky short story collection featuring tales of horror and the supernatural with thrills, chills, a bit of camp, and a whole lot of heart.
Download or read book A Murder of Crows written by Anita Klumpers and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a video call, Paulina Deacon watches her friend follow a frenzied murder of crows through the woods. Moments later, Pauli is horrified when John stumbles upon three men and is murdered. In fear for her own life, she drives until she finds herself in the small town of Briar, Wisconsin. She reinvents herself as Polly Madison and is quickly hired to work doing odd jobs at a rehabilitation clinic. Hal Karlsen has poured his life in to the Briar clinic helping people with addictions. When Polly arrives with her secrets, he is equal parts irritated and intrigued. Terror follows Pauli to this small town and grows stronger each day as she finds her place in the tiny, welcoming community. Slowly, she begins to open up to Hal. As they work together to uncover exactly who is after her and why, their friendship deepens. He pledges to keep her safe. She swears to protect the clinic. But can either live up to those promises while the danger increases daily? And will those murderous crows drive her mad before they figure it all out?
Download or read book Only the Salt written by Doug Underhill and published by Broken Jaw Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Handbook of Displacement written by Peter Adey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how displacement is lived, governed, and mediated as an unfolding and grounded process bound up in spatial inequities of power and injustice. The handbook ensures, first, that internal displacements and their everyday (re)occurrences are not overlooked; second, it questions ‘who counts’ by including ‘displaced’ people who are less obviously identifiable and a clearly circumscribed or categorised group; third, it stresses that while displacement suggests mobility, there are also periods and spaces of enforced stillness that are not adequately reflected in the displacement literature; and fourth, it re-evokes and explores the ‘place’ in displacement by critically interrogating peoples’ ‘right to place’ and the significance of placemaking, unmaking, and remaking in the contemporary world. The 50-plus chapters are organised across seven themes designed to further develope interdisciplinary study of the technologies, journeys, traces, governance, more-than-human, representation, and resisting of displacement. Each of these thematic sections begin with an intervention which spotlights actions to creatively and strategically intervene in displacement. The interventions explore myriad meanings and manifestations of displacement and its contestation from the perspective of displaced people, artists, writers, activists, scholar-activists, and scholars involved in practice-oriented research. The Handbook will be an essential companion for academics, students, and practitioners committed to forging solidarity, care, and home in an era of displacement.
Download or read book An Irreverent Curiosity written by David Farley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read David Farley's posts on the Penguin Blog.A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared shocking news with his congregation: the pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen. Some postulated that it had been stolen by Satanists. Some said the priest himself was to blame. Some even pointed their fingers at the Vatican. In 2006, travel writer David Farley moved to Calcata, determined to find the missing foreskin, or at least find out the truth behind its disappearance. Farley recounts how the relic passed from Charlemagne to the papacy to a marauding sixteenth-century German solider before finally ending up in Calcata, where miracles occurred that made the sleepy town a major pilgrimage destination. Blending history, travel, and perhaps the oddest story in Christian lore, An Irreverent Curiosity is a weird and wonderful tale of conspiracy and misadventure.
Download or read book In the Company of Crows and Ravens written by John M. Marzluff and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”—from the Preface From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence crow culture, ecology, and evolution as well. John Marzluff and Tony Angell examine the often surprising ways that crows and humans interact. The authors contend that those interactions reflect a process of “cultural coevolution.” They offer a challenging new view of the human-crow dynamic—a view that may change our thinking not only about crows but also about ourselves. Featuring more than 100 original drawings, the book takes a close look at the influences people have had on the lives of crows throughout history and at the significant ways crows have altered human lives. In the Company of Crows and Ravens illuminates the entwined histories of crows and people and concludes with an intriguing discussion of the crow-human relationship and how our attitudes toward crows may affect our cultural trajectory.
Download or read book The Nature of Fear written by Daniel T. Blumstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year A leading expert in animal behavior takes us into the wild to better understand and manage our fears. Fear, honed by millions of years of natural selection, kept our ancestors alive. Whether by slithering away, curling up in a ball, or standing still in the presence of a predator, humans and other animals have evolved complex behaviors in order to survive the hazards the world presents. But, despite our evolutionary endurance, we still have much to learn about how to manage our response to danger. For more than thirty years, Daniel Blumstein has been studying animals’ fear responses. His observations lead to a firm conclusion: fear preserves security, but at great cost. A foraging flock of birds expends valuable energy by quickly taking flight when a raptor appears. And though the birds might successfully escape, they leave their food source behind. Giant clams protect their valuable tissue by retracting their mantles and closing their shells when a shadow passes overhead, but then they are unable to photosynthesize, losing the capacity to grow. Among humans, fear is often an understandable and justifiable response to sources of threat, but it can exact a high toll on health and productivity. Delving into the evolutionary origins and ecological contexts of fear across species, The Nature of Fear considers what we can learn from our fellow animals—from successes and failures. By observing how animals leverage alarm to their advantage, we can develop new strategies for facing risks without panic.
Download or read book The Whispers of Crows written by Dan Foley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Foley, one of the horror genre's best-kept secrets, presents The Whispers of Crows, his collection featuring new and previously published stories. In the author's own words — "A gathering of crows is called a murder. When they gather, they call to each other in loud raucous caws or low gurgling whispers. The whispers of crows in these pages involve murder and so much more. Within them you will meet Nathan, whose destiny requires him to spend his days gathering their secretes — Scooter, who can’t convince his best friend that he’s dead — Gordy, whose dead dad is an unwelcome guest on Father’s Day — and Pete, who keeps an annual Halloween date with a demon named Sam in a New Jersey graveyard. These and twenty-three other tales await you, leave one light on, pull up a chair and enjoy." Stories included in this collection: The Whispers of Crows Roses for My Lady Harold & Emily The Sixth Victim Mr. Buck's Solution Friends Everybody's Here for the Kill Fat Tuesday It's All About the Ears Kneeling at the Altar of Johnny Walker Stolen Memories The Hidden Talking with Robert Father's Day at the Ridgeway Grill Dreams of Love Driving with Dad Sharing Pumpkin Art It's in the Bag Sang Ku's Dilemma Night Dreams Old Men Smell Bad A Window in Reality The Yankee Cap She Bit Me The Winter Coat Of Smoke and Snowflakes The Merchant, the Witch and the Christmas Tree (or the Origin of the Blue Spruce) The Man Who Stole Tomorrow
Download or read book How to Know a Crow written by Candace Savage and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers 9-12, get up close and personal with a clever corvid and discover the fascinating world of crows. Crows are all around us, shouting from lamp posts, poking around on lawns, and generally taking a bright-eyed interest in everything that moves. But most of us don’t know much about their lives. In How to Know a Crow, award-winning author Candace Savage invites us into the fascinating world of these big, brash, and surprisingly brainy birds. From the moment baby crow Oki pokes her egg tooth through her shell and emerges into her nest, we are her constant companions. As we follow her through the seasons of her life, we explore how crows see and sense the world. With How to Know a Crow, uncover the answers to questions such as: Do crows have families? How do crows communicate with one another? Do crows play? How can we interact with them? Featuring gorgeous illustrations from Rachel Hudson, How to Know a Crow is a memorable journey of discovery.
Download or read book Gestapo Crows written by Louis Brodsky and published by Time Being Books. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, dealing with Holocaust victims, refugees, second-generation "survivors," and today's family, is narrated by an American Jewish poet, son of neither victims nor survivors, who does not presume to speak for the dead but rather to the living -- one human plea for universal peace.
Download or read book The Wake of Crows written by Thom van Dooren and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs and farms. Across these diverse landscapes, many species of crow are doing well: their intelligent and adaptive ways of life have allowed them to thrive amid human-driven transformations. Indeed, crows are frequently disliked for their success, seen as pests, threats, and scavengers on the detritus of human life. But among the vast variety of crows, there are also critically endangered species that are barely hanging on to existence, some of them the subjects of passionate conservation efforts. The Wake of Crows is an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows. Focusing on five key sites, Thom van Dooren asks how we might live well with crows in a changing world. He explores contemporary possibilities for shared life emerging in the context of ongoing processes of globalization, colonization, urbanization, and climate change. Moving among these diverse contexts, this book tells stories of extermination and extinction alongside fragile efforts to better understand and make room for other species. Grounded in the careful work of paying attention to particular crows and their people, The Wake of Crows is an effort to imagine and put into practice a multispecies ethics. In so doing, van Dooren explores some of the possibilities that still exist for living and dying well on this damaged planet.
Download or read book As the Crow Flies written by Craig Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s the scenery—and the big guy standing in front of the scenery—that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson’s lean and leathery mysteries.” —The New York Times Book Review The eighth Longmire novel from the New York Times bestselling author Land of Wolves Embarking on his eighth adventure, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire doesn't have time for cowboys and criminals. His daughter, Cady, is getting married in two weeks, and the wedding locale arrangements have just gone up in smoke signals. Fearing Cady's wrath, Walt and his old friend Henry Standing Bear set out for the Cheyenne Reservation to find a new site for the nuptials. But their expedition ends in horror as they witness a young Crow woman plummeting from Painted Warrior's majestic cliffs. Is it a suicide, or something more sinister? It's not Walt's turf, but he's coerced into the investigation by Lolo Long, the beautiful new tribal police chief.
Download or read book Nordic Joyce written by Mary Lawton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Substitute Ghost Hunter written by Ye XiaoZi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The same was true for terrifying humor. Different methods used to catch ghosts were the same. My name is Bao Yang, a legend with a rooster and a ghost.
Download or read book City Creatures written by Gavin Van Horn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology explores Chicago’s surprisingly diverse wildlife through essays, poetry, paintings, and photographs. We usually think of cities as the domain of humans—but we are just one of thousands of species that call the urban landscape home. While Chicago residents are likely familiar with squirrels, pigeons, and dogs, many would be surprised to learn about the leafhoppers and water bears, black-crowned night herons and bison, beavers and massasauga rattlesnakes that are living alongside them. City Creatures introduces readers these and other creatures through a variety of creative contributions. Contributors bring a story-based approach to this urban safari, taking readers on birding expeditions to the Magic Hedge at Montrose Harbor on the North Side, canoe trips down the South Fork of the Chicago River (better known as Bubbly Creek), and insect-collecting forays or restoration work days in the suburban forest preserves. The book is organized into six sections, each highlighting one type of place in which people might encounter animals in the city and suburbs. For example, schoolyard chickens and warrior wasps populate “Backyard Diversity,” and a chorus of deep-freeze frogs awaits in “Water Worlds.” Its powerful combination of insightful narratives, numinous poetry, and full-color art will help readers see the city—and the creatures who share it with us—in an entirely new light.
