Download or read book Melidora written by Ryan Z. Dawson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a girl washes onto the beach half-drowned, she wakes with no memory of what's happened to her, how she survived - or even who she is. She soon finds herself caught in the last war of a dying land, fighting desperately to rediscover herself before she and everything she loves is obliterated completely. Enter Melidora, a kingdom in the teeth of a disease that eradicates memory. Learn the secret history of the Halcyon, Melidora's creatrix, and follow the shipwrecked girl's rise to power over the wolf shadows of the Cradle Spire. Can she stand against the Nixian hordes to save Melidora, or will she be swallowed up and forget herself forever?
Download or read book Representing Women and Female Desire From Arcadia to Jane Eyre written by Marea Mitchell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines continuities and changes in narrative strategies deployed to deal with female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early nineteenth-century. By focussing on 'designing women' and the lengths to which they can and should go as agents of their desires, this book investigates the way generic and moral or social issues intersect in the depiction of female subjectivity. The book examines narrative strategies deployed in the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early-nineteenth century, discussing key texts such as Jane Eyre, Pamela, Pride and Prejudice and Arcadia
Download or read book Birds of New Guinea written by Bruce M. Beehler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than 350 are found nowhere else on Earth. This comprehensive annotated checklist of distribution, taxonomy, and systematics of the birds of New Guinea is the first formal review of this avifauna since Ernst Mayr's Checklist, published in 1941. This new book brings together all the systematic, taxonomic, and distributional research conducted on the region's bird families over the last 70 years. Bruce Beehler and Thane Pratt provide the scientific foundation for the names, geographic distributions, and systematic arrangement of New Guinea's bird fauna. All technical information is annotated and a geographic gazetteer and bibliography are included. This book is an ideal complement to the Birds of New Guinea field guide also published by Princeton, and is an essential technical reference for all scientific libraries, ornithologists, and those interested in bird classification. The first complete revision of the New Guinea bird fauna since 1941 Accounts for 75 bird species new to the region Includes a geographic gazetteer, bibliography, and explanations of taxonomic and systematic classifications
Download or read book Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain written by Elizabeth B. Davis and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth analysis of some of the most important epic poems of the Spanish Golden Age, Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain breathes new life into five of these long- neglected texts. Elizabeth Davis demonstrates that the epic must not be overlooked, for doing so creates a significant gap in one's ability to appraise not only the cultural practice of the imperial age, but also the purest expression of its ideology. Davis's study focuses on heroic poetry written from 1569 to 1611, including Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana, undeniably the most significant epic poem of its time. Also included are Diego de Hojeda's La Christiada, Juan Rufo's La Austriada, . Lope de Vega's Jerusalén Conquistada, and Cristóbal de Virués's Historia del Monserrate. Examining these epics as the major site for the construction of cultural identities and Renaissance nationalist myths, Davis analyzes the means by which the epic constructs a Spanish sense of self. Because this sense of identity is not easily susceptible to direct representation, it is often derived in opposition to an "other," which serves to reaffirm Spanish cultural superiority. The Spanish Christian caballeros are almost always pitted against Amerindians, Muslims, Jews, or other adversaries portrayed as backward or heathen for their cultural and ethnic differences. The pro-Castilian elite of sixteenth-century Spain faced the daunting task of constructing unity at home in the process of expansion and conquest abroad, yet ethnic and regional differences in the Iberian Peninsula made the creation of an imperial identity particularly difficult. The epic, as Davis shows, strains to convey the overriding image of a Spain that appears more unified than the Spanish empire ever truly was. An important reexamination of the Golden Age canon, Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain brings a new twist to the study of canon formation. While Davis does not ignore more traditional approaches to the literary text, she does apply recent theories, such as deconstruction and feminist criticism, to these poems, resulting in an innovative examination of the material. Confronting such issues as canonicity, gender, the relationship between literature and Golden Age culture, and that between art and power, this publication offers scholars a new perspective for assessing Golden Age and Transatlantic studies
Download or read book Systema Avium Australasianarum written by Gregory Macalister Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BATTLE written by Hooriya and published by Booksclinic Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We, Hooriya and Safa, now the authors of BATTLE, are two Muslim Indian children. While enjoying the sips of coffee, we planned to utilise our freetime in writing fiction. We made an adventurous story and converted the story into words. After writing the story, we told our parents, teachers and friends about the story. They were very surprised and happy on hearing about the creative ability of 13 year and 10 year old girls. The moment when we held the book battle in our hands, was the best moment.
Download or read book The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum Picari Coraci contin and Halcyones with the families Leptosomatid Coraciid Meropid Alcedinid Momotid Todid and Coliid by R B Sharpe Bucerotes and Trogones by W R Ogilvie Grant 1892 written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enormous undertaking, which, according to one of the prefaces, professes to be a complete list of every bird known at the time of publication, kept growing even as it was being written. The Museum added eagerly to their already vast collections during the decades of publication, acquiring by gift the great collections of A.O. Hume on Asian birds, and those of Sclater and Salvin and Godwin on Neotropical birds, so that the size of the collection nearly tripled between 1874 and 1888. Sharpe originally intended to do all the work himself, but others were called in when this became clearly impossible. The plates are all of birds not previously illustrated. In the decades following its publication this catalogue was universally acclaimed as the most important work on systematic ornithology that has ever been published. (Zimmer, p. 96). And even after one hundred years it remains an essential reference for the serious ornithologist, as it underpins a great deal of modern bird classification. With 387 plates, most hand-coloured lithographs, some chromolithographs, by William Hart, J.G. Keulemans, Joseph and Peter Smit.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum Picari Coraci contin and Halcyones with the families Leptosomatid Coraciid Meropid Alcedinid Momotid Todid and Coliid by R B Sharpe Bucerotes and Trogones by W R Ogilvie Grant written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Picariae written by Osbert Salvin and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taxonomy of the birds of the world written by fotolulu and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you come up with the idea to list all the birds in the world including the subspecies and to give all birds English names? There is a reason for it - my favorite saying, whose author is unknown: "Everyone said that ́s not possible - then there was one who did not know that and just did it!" I am an animal photographer and probably a little bit crazy. Ive built a complete animal database for mammals and birds over the last decade. This facilitates my work in determining and archiving images and assigning keywords, especially among the many subspecies. With this book, I would like to give all birding friends and ornithologists a complete overview in English. For this I have given unique English names to all subspecies. The naming should not meet any scientific requirements. The names are based on translations from the Latin name, geographical distribution areas and the names of the discoverers. The entries consist of the scientific name, the English name, the distribution areas and the author. I wish you a lot of fun with this book, but especially while watching the fascinating birdlife. fotolulu
Download or read book A Monograph of the Alcedinidae Or Family of Kingfishers written by Richard Bowdler Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales written by Linnean Society of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Continuations to Sidney s Arcadia 1607 1867 Volume 1 written by Marea Mitchell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia has held a significant place in literary imagination since its inception over 430 years ago. Our four-volume set presents five re-imaginings of the text, as well as two short supplements that attempt to bridge the gap between Sidney’s original and revised versions of the work.
Download or read book The Living Bird written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
