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Book Still the Same Hawk

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Waldman
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2012-12-17
  • ISBN : 0823249905
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book Still the Same Hawk written by John Waldman and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection draws on natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics to consider New York City’s complex relationship to nature. How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Why does a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the community? What makes the presence of a community garden or an empty lot ripple so differently through the surrounding neighborhood? Is the city an oasis or a desert for biodiversity? Does nature even matter to New Yorkers, who choose to live in a concrete jungle? Still the Same Hawk examines these questions with a rich mix of creative nonfiction that ranges from analytical to anecdotal and humorous. John Waldman’s sharp, well-crafted introduction presenting dualism as the defining quality of urban nature is followed by compelling contributions from Besty McCully, Christopher Meier, Tony Hiss, Kelly McMasters, Dara Ross, William Kornblum, Phillip Lopate, David Rosane, Robert Sullivan, Anne Matthews, Devin Zuber, and Frederick Buell. Together these pieces capture a wide range of viewpoints, including the myriad and shifting ways New Yorkers experience and consider the outdoors, the historical role of nature in shaping New York’s development, what natural attributes contribute to New York’s regional identity, the many environmental tradeoffs made by urbanization, and even nature’s dark side where “urban legends” flourish.

Book Still the Same Hawk

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Waldman
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2012-12-17
  • ISBN : 0823249913
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Still the Same Hawk written by John Waldman and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new book, Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on the relationship between nature and America’s most prominent city. The volume’s title derives from a telling observation in Robert Sullivan’s contribution that considers how a hawk in the city is perceived so much differently from a hawk in the countryside. Yet it’s still the same hawk. How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Or a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the community? Why does the presence of a community garden or an empty lot ripple so differently through the surrounding neighborhood? Is the city an oasis or a desert for biodiversity? Why does nature even matter to New Yorkers, who choose to live in the concrete jungle? Still the Same Hawk examines these questions with a rich mix of creative nonfiction that ranges from analytical to anecdotal and humorous. John Waldman’s sharp, well-crafted introduction presenting dualism as the defining quality of urban nature is followed by compelling contributions from Besty McCully, Christopher Meier, Tony Hiss, Kelly McMasters, Dara Ross, William Kornblum, Phillip Lopate, David Rosane, Robert Sullivan, Anne Matthews, Devin Zuber, and Frederick Buell. Together these pieces capture a wide range of viewpoints, including the myriad and shifting ways New Yorkers experience and consider the outdoors, the historical role of nature in shaping New York’s development, what natural attributes contribute to New York’s regional identity, the many environmental tradeoffs made by urbanization, and even nature’s dark side where “urban legends” flourish. Still the Same Hawk intermingles elements of natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics, providing fresh insights into nature and the urban environment on one of the world’s great stages for the clash of these seemingly disparate realms—New York City.

Book Learning Little Hawk s Way of Storytelling

Download or read book Learning Little Hawk s Way of Storytelling written by Frank Domenico Cipriani and published by Findhorn Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the teachings of Kenneth Little Hawk, the renowned Mi’Kmaw First Nation storyteller, this book uses stories to explain how to tell stories. Each of the practical skills needed for storytelling is clearly illustrated through relevant stories from native tribes—“What the Fire Taught Us” teaches special effects, “Our Many Children” shows voice modulation, and “Little Thunder’s Wedding” offers techniques for formal stories. Business people looking to enhance their public speaking, librarians wanting to enliven children’s programs, and teachers trying to instill a love of story in their students will find the entertaining and educative methods in this guide both inspiring and effective.

Book Lady Hawk s Folly

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amanda Scott
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2013-05-07
  • ISBN : 1480415294
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Lady Hawk s Folly written by Amanda Scott and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVWhen her husband returns from war, the Marchioness of Hawkstone battles for her independence/divDIV Less than two weeks after their wedding, Gavin Colporter, Marquess of Hawkstone, left his lovely wife Mollie at home and went off to war with Lord Wellington. Four years later, Mollie has become accustomed to running the estate and doing as she pleases. It’s quite a shock when Hawkstone returns and immediately begins to assume his rights and responsibilities as lord of the manor. Can she learn to submit to his authority? What will he say when he hears certain scandalous rumors about her activities in his absence? And can these two near-strangers actually learn to live together as husband and wife?/div/div

Book Where the Great Hawk Flies

Download or read book Where the Great Hawk Flies written by Liza Ketchum and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after a violent New England raid by the Redcoats and their Revolutionary War Indian allies, two families, one that suffered during that raid and one with an Indian mother and Patriot father, become neighbors and must deal with past trauma and prejudices before they can help each other in the present. Based on the author's family history. Includes historical notes and notes on the Pequot Indians.

Book The Goshawk

    Book Details:
  • Author : T. H. White
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-08-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book The Goshawk written by T. H. White and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Goshawk" by T. H. White. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Chasing the Hawk

Download or read book Chasing the Hawk written by Andrew Sheehan and published by Delta. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I have always chased my father, chased after his love, chased him through his many changes. I chased him even when I thought I was running in the other direction. Today, even though he is gone, I chase him still. I know he is the key to my freedom.” To runners around the world, Dr. George Sheehan, author of the landmark New York Times bestseller Running and Being, was nothing short of a guru — the country’s “greatest philosopher of sport.” But to his son Andrew, who had spent his entire boyhood longing for the attention and approval of an emotionally distant father, he was an incomprehensible paradox: a lifelong loner, who was now sunning himself in the spotlight of the nation’s press; a hero to millions, who seemed to have no time for his own son. The events that transformed George Sheehan from doctor to family man to bestselling author and media magnet began at the depths of what we would now call a midlife crisis, when he rediscovered an old love — running. Twenty-five years after his days on a high school cross-country team, he remembered how running made him feel free, and began beating a solitary path down his suburban streets. With running as his new religion, the formerly quiet, withdrawn man became an unlikely evangelist, converting a sedentary nation to the theology of fitness, and in the process becoming an internationally known figure. But the freedom he found in running was not enough, and one day he left his family, having decided that life was “an experiment of one,” and it was time for him to start living it. Angry and disillusioned after years of enduring his father’s self-absorption, and hurt by his apparent indifference, Andrew had long since begun the search for his own version of freedom, looking first to drugs and later to alcohol. By his twenties he was a confirmed alcoholic. By his thirties his marriage had fallen apart and he was drinking more heavily than ever. It was at that moment that his father threw him a lifeline. Although he was struggling with the cancer that would eventually end his life, Dr. Sheehan was the first to notice his son’s pain, and to reach out to him. In this stunningly candid book, Andrew Sheehan describes the process through which these two men carefully and lovingly rebuilt their relationship. And in the effort to understand and forgive the dark side of his father’s psyche, Andrew shows how he came to understand, and to transcend, his own. A gracefully written paean to the healing power of forgiveness, a memoir that will resonate with any “fallible” parent or child, Chasing the Hawk traces the arduous steps that carry father and son down the hard road to resolution, healing, and love.

Book Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey

Download or read book Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anton Chekhov Short Stories v4

Download or read book Anton Chekhov Short Stories v4 written by Anton Chekhov and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories (54) List A STORY WITHOUT A TITLE SLEEPY THE STEPPE LIGHTS THE BEAUTIES THE PARTY A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN THE SHOEMAKER AND THE DEVIL THE BET THE PRINCESS THE HORSE-STEALERS GUSEV PEASANT WIVES THE WIFE THE GRASSHOPPER AFTER THE THEATRE IN EXILE NEIGHBOURS WARD NO. 6 TERROR AN ANONYMOUS STORY THE TWO VOLODYAS THE BLACK MONK A WOMAN'S KINGDOM ROTHSCHILD'S FIDDLE THE STUDENT THE TEACHER OF LITERATURE AT A COUNTRY HOUSE THE HEAD-GARDENER'S STORY THREE YEARS THE HELPMATE WHITEBROW "ANNA ON THE NECK" THE MURDER ARIADNE AN ARTIST'S STORY MY LIFE PEASANTS THE PETCHENYEG AT HOME THE SCHOOLMISTRESS THE MAN IN A CASE GOOSEBERRIES ABOUT LOVE IONITCH A DOCTOR'S VISIT THE DARLING THE NEW VILLA ON OFFICIAL DUTY THE LADY WITH THE DOG AT CHRISTMAS TIME IN THE RAVINE THE BISHOP BETROTHED

Book Hawk Migration Studies

Download or read book Hawk Migration Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wounded Hawk

Download or read book The Wounded Hawk written by Bud Wainscott and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elisha was faced with making a very big and dangerous decision. His fathers steel traps were used in the forest for trapping large animals. Animals that were trapped by mistake should be freed as quickly as possible. Elisha discovered a beautiful hawk caught in one of the traps. He heard the screams before he went into the forest. In fact, he knew he was not to enter the forest without his father or another adult. Should he try to free the hawk whose leg was almost severed by the steel trap or wait for his father to return home? Elisha made the right decision because the hawk would later repay the deed by saving Elishas life from a very large and mean black bull. So often good deeds we do for others have a way on returning to us. It certainly was a learned lesson for Elisha and his family.

Book Media Matters

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Fiske
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-02-05
  • ISBN : 1317498534
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Media Matters written by John Fiske and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske’s classic text Media Matters remains both timely and insightful as an empirically rich examination of how the fierce battle over cultural meaning is negotiated in American popular culture. Media Matters takes us to the heart of social inequality and the call for social justice by interrogating some of the most important issues of its time. Fiske offers a practical guide to learning how to interpret the ways that media events shape the social landscape, to contest official and taken-for-granted accounts of how events are presented/conveyed through media, and to affect social change by putting intellectual labor to public use. A new introductory essay by former Fiske student Black Hawk Hancock entitled ‘Learning How to Fiske: Theorizing Cultural Literacy, Counter-History, and the Politics of Media Events in the 21st Century’ explains the theoretical and methodological tools with which Fiske approaches cultural analysis, highlighting the lessons today’s students can continue to draw upon in order to understand society today.

Book Hawk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer Dance
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2016-01-23
  • ISBN : 1459731867
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Hawk written by Jennifer Dance and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Red Maple Award — Shortlisted • 2017 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award — Winner, Young Adult Category • CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2016) When a First Nations teen rescues a fish-hawk from a tailings pond in Alberta’s oil sands, he has no idea that soon they will both be fighting for their lives. As a cross-country runner, Adam aims to win gold in the upcoming provincial championship. But when he is diagnosed with leukemia, he finds himself in a different race, one that he can’t afford to lose. He reclaims the name Hawk, given to him by his grandfather, and begins to fight, for his life and for the land of his ancestors and the creatures that inhabit it. With a little help from his grandfather and his friends, he might just succeed.

Book Call Down the Hawk  The Dreamer Trilogy  Book 1

Download or read book Call Down the Hawk The Dreamer Trilogy Book 1 written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .

Book Parrots  Parakeets  Cockatoos  Lories  Hawks  Falcons  and Owls  How to Rear and Manage Them     With Twenty five Engravings from Designs by H  Weir  and Two Coloured Illustrations by the Same Artist

Download or read book Parrots Parakeets Cockatoos Lories Hawks Falcons and Owls How to Rear and Manage Them With Twenty five Engravings from Designs by H Weir and Two Coloured Illustrations by the Same Artist written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book St  Hawk s Medical  A Box Set

    Book Details:
  • Author : Willa Okati
  • Publisher : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
  • Release : 2018-12-18
  • ISBN : 1786517183
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book St Hawk s Medical A Box Set written by Willa Okati and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Hawk's Medical - the complete box set 1 - Take Heart A gentle hippie with a new heart, a hellion making good, and a rebel doctor discover together how healing takes more than just medicine. 2 - Give Chase Declan's always been careful to guard his heart, but Isaac's catching up at last. Some things are worth fighting for, even when they're running fast. 3 - Breathe Deep A golden-hearted mountain man. A nursing tech with a secret. Life and death are on the line - and they're running out of time. When the heart needs healing as much as the body, the lucky ones find their way to St. Hawk's Medical in Blue Creek. It can be hard to convince the stubborn ones that they need help and treatment isn't always by the book—but for those who are willing, there's a second chance at life and love waiting for them in the foothills.

Book The Black Hawk War of 1832

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick J. Jung
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780806138114
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book The Black Hawk War of 1832 written by Patrick J. Jung and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most up-to-date narrative of the Blawk Hawk War