Download or read book In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson written by Bette Bao Lord and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless classic that will enchant readers who love Jennifer L. Holm and Thanhhà Lại, about an immigrant girl inspired by the sport she loves to find her own home team—and to break down any barriers that stand in her way. Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle happens: baseball! It's 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is a superstar. Suddenly Shirley is playing stickball with her class and following Jackie as he leads the Brooklyn Dodgers to victory after victory. With her hero smashing assumptions and records on the ball field, Shirley begins to feel that America is truly the land of opportunity—and perhaps has also become her real home.
Download or read book The Golden Bristled Boar written by Jeffrey Greene and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild boar appears to us as something straight out of a myth. But as Jeffrey Greene learned, these creatures are very real, living by night and, despite shrinking habitats and hordes of hunters, thriving on six continents. Greene purchased an eighteenth-century presbytery in a region of ponds and forests in northern Burgundy between the Loire and Seine Rivers of France. He soon discovered he'd moved to one of the most densely populated boar areas in Europe. Following the gift of a side of boar from a neighbor, and a dramatic early-morning encounter with a boar-hunting party and its prey, Greene became fascinated with the animal and immersed himself in the legend and the reality of the wild boar. Although it has no natural enemies, the boar is in constant conflict with humans. Most societies consider it a pest, not only wreaking havoc on crops and livestock, but destroying golf-course greens in search of worms, even creating a hazard for drivers (hogs on the roads cause over 14,000 car accidents a year in France). It has also been the object of highly ritualized hunts, dating back to classical times. The animal's remarkable appearance--it can grow larger than a person, and the males sport prominent tusks, called "whetters" and "cutters"--has inspired artists for centuries; its depictions range from primitive masks to works of high art such as Pietro Tacca's Porcellino and paintings by Vel?zquez and Frans Snyders. The boar also plays a unique role in myth, appearing in the stories of Hercules and Adonis as well as in the folktale Beauty and the Beast. The author's search for the elusive animal takes him to Sardinia, Corsica, and Tuscany; he even casts an eye to the American South, where he explores the boar's feral-pig counterparts and descendents. He introduces us to a fascinating cast of experts, from museum curators and scientists to hunters and chefs (who share their recipes) to the inhabitants of chateaux who have lived in the same ancient countryside with generations of boars. They are all part of a journey filled with wonders and discoveries about these majestic animals the poet Robinson Jeffers called "beautiful monsters."
Download or read book Tiny Fox and Great Boar Book One written by Berenika Kolomycka and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gentle and beautifully illustrated children's story of friendship between a tiny fox and a great boar. One beautiful fall day, as Tiny Fox relaxes under his favorite tree, he meets a new friend: Great Boar! Great Boar loves to explore the beauty of nature and the changing seasons, but Tiny Fox thinks adventuring can be scary...but so is the idea of being without his new pal! What will Tiny Fox do? See how two friends help each other and learn to be brave in this beautiful watercolor book for children by award-winning Polish artist Berenika Kolomycka.
Download or read book The Boar Named Bob written by Cole Barker and published by Brown Books Kids. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob is a boar who loves to play in the mud. When Bob meets Freddy the frog, there is even more fun to be had in the mud with his new friend. That is, until Bob smells corn, and gets caught in a hog trap! Bob and Freddy learn about teamwork, friendship, and overcoming obstacles in The Boar Named Bob.
Download or read book The Pig Book written by Citizens Against Government Waste and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
Download or read book Meet Wild Boars written by Meg Rosoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is very hard to be friends with wild boars because they are dirty and smelly, bad-tempered, and rude.
Download or read book The Boar s Head Playhouse written by Herbert Berry and published by Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1986 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boar's Head Playhouse, Herbert Berry. The Boar's Head playhouse was built at virtually the same time as the famous Globe. This book traces its history, explains much of the way it operated in its heyday, and shows many of its physical characteristics. Illustrated.
Download or read book The Boar s Head Theatre Routledge Revivals written by C. J. Sisson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boar’s Head Theatre, first published in 1972, provides an account of one of the Elizabethan inn-yard theatres. It is a reconstruction of considerable importance in our understanding of the performance conditions affecting Elizabethan drama, the mode of presentation and the nature of the audience. C. J. Sisson (1885-1966) was known especially for his research into Elizabethan court cases and the light they can throw on the literature and drama of the period. His discoveries included material on the Elizabethan inn-yard theatres which provides unquestionable evidence of great importance in relation to the evolution of the theatre in England. This book, which has been edited for publication by Stanley Wells, was to have been his major work on the subject. Historians of the theatre of this period will find this book indispensable, and those with a more general interest in the greatest age of English drama will be engrossed by the detailed and intimate glimpses of the theatre world which this story affords.
Download or read book The Boar s Head XVth Century written by Arnold Bax and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boar Reproduction written by Sergi Bonet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latent knowledge in the field of pig reproduction is vast but scattered, making it difficult to take in all information at a glance. Moreover, nascent branches in biotechnology cannot grow if deprived of roots. The book Boar Reproduction: Fundamentals and New Biotechnological Trends links the past, the present and the emerging scientific research fields on reproductive biotechnology, offering a rigorous but easy to follow compilation of topics, from “old favorites” to the latest advances. The book is organized in three parts. The chapters of the first and second part cover various biological aspects of boar spermatozoa within the male, and within the female environments, respectively. The most common laboratory and artificial insemination techniques are discussed in the third part. As an additional feature, some chapters focus on the basis of a technology transfer to bring research expertise from basic science to the market, making the information provided in this book suitable for academic, research and other professional applications.
Download or read book The Boar Hog Woman written by Cleo Overstreet and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art written by Hope B. Werness and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.
Download or read book In the Shape of a Boar written by Lawrence Norfolk and published by . This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's "rides" and the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution.
Download or read book Wild Boar in Europe written by Konemann and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harris on the Pig written by Joseph Harris and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ijapa the Lion and the Boar written by Olaiya E. Aina and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often said among the Yorubas of Nigeria that "charity begins at home." Dr. Aina grew up in a village with his parents and grandparents. He was very close to his grandmother so it is no surprise that his given name depicts her status in their community. Olaiya, which means "the honor, the wealth or the riches of the mother," was a symbol of their closeness. His grandmother and his Dad used to tell stories every night, and especially on moonlit nights. The series of children's stories that he knows best today were mostly told by them. In other words, he grew up with these stories and he is pleased to be able to share one of them with you now, Ijapa, the Lion, and the Boar, the story of a turtle, a lion, and a boar and how they came to be enemies. Once upon a time, Ijapa, the lion, and boar met to talk about how they could make peace between their groups of animals. This was Ijapa's idea because he was fed up with all the village gossip about him. Ijapa, the lion, and the boar decided that they must be friendly to each other first, so they could set an example for the other animals...
Download or read book The Complete Book of Wild Boar Hunting written by Todd Triplett and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything the hog hunter needs to know for the next wild chase and beyond.
