Download or read book The Linnet s Wings Spring 2014 written by See Contrilbutors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prose, poetry and more
Download or read book The Linnet s Wings Summer 2014 written by See Contributors and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prose, poetry, short stories, art and more
Download or read book Splash written by Laurel Blossom and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of stories, essays, and poems about swimming features the works of Ray Bradbury, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, John Updike, Calvin Trillin, Anne Sexton, A. E. Housman, Jack London, and Dawn Fraser, among others.
Download or read book The World s Rarest Birds written by Erik Hirschfeld and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated survey of the world's most endangered birds This illustrated book vividly depicts the most endangered birds in the world and provides the latest information on the threats each species faces and the measures being taken to save them. Today, 571 bird species are classified as critically endangered or endangered, and a further four now exist only in captivity. This landmark book features stunning photographs of 500 of these species—the results of a prestigious international photographic competition organized specifically for this book. It also showcases paintings by acclaimed wildlife artist Tomasz Cofta of the 75 species for which no photos are known to exist. The World's Rarest Birds has introductory chapters that explain the threats to birds, the ways threat categories are applied, and the distinction between threat and rarity. The book is divided into seven regional sections—Europe and the Middle East; Africa and Madagascar; Asia; Australasia; Oceanic Islands; North America, Central America, and the Caribbean; and South America. Each section includes an illustrated directory to the bird species under threat there, and gives a concise description of distribution, status, population, key threats, and conservation needs. This one-of-a-kind book also provides coverage of 62 data-deficient species.
Download or read book Animals written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Helm Guide to Bird Identification written by Keith Vinicombe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential field guide companion covering species pairs or groups that are difficult to identify. This book covers difficult identification issues by looking at tricky species pairs or groups of birds, and comparing and contrasting their respective features. Designed as a field companion, it supplements the standard field guides and provides much additional information. As well as detailed texts, the books include extensive illustrations of all relevant ages and plummages of the species concerned.
Download or read book Embroidered Stories written by Edvige Giunta and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of creative work by authors of Italian origin and academic essays. The creative works from thirty-seven contributors include memoir, poetry, and visual arts while the collection as a whole explores a multitude of experiences about and approaches to needlework and immigration from a transnational perspective, spanning the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. At the center of the book, over thirty illustrations represent Italian immigrant women's needlework. The text reveals the many processes by which a simple object, or even the memory of that object, becomes something else through literary, visual, performance, ethnographic, or critical reimagining. While primarily concerned with interpretations of needlework rather than the needlework itself, the editors and contributors to Embroidered Stories remain mindful of its history and its associated cultural values, which Italian immigrants brought with them to the United States, Canada, Australia, and Argentina and passed on to their descendants.
Download or read book The Angel in the House written by Coventry Kersey D. Patmore and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Literature written by Victor Shea and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry—from the canon to its extensions and its contexts. Represents the period's major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working-class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers Incorporates recent scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub-sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors Includes a fully annotated companion website for teachers and students offering expanded context sections, additional readings from key writers, appendices, and an extensive bibliography
Download or read book A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals written by Leonard Jenyns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1835 publication meticulously catalogues five classes of native, introduced and extinct British species: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish.
Download or read book The Fascination of Birds written by William Young and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating collection of 99 essays offers a well-researched but easy-to-read look at birds as familiar as the sparrow and as seldom-seen as the albatross, from dancing varieties (crane) to sacred ones (ibis) to those associated with practical jokes and assassinations (snipe). The book combines extensive field experience with reflections drawn from biology, literature, music, history, politics, and other areas.
Download or read book Divided Allegiance written by Elizabeth Moon and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 1988-06-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a sheepfarmer's daughter, now a seasoned veteran, Paksenarrion has proven herself a fighter. Years with Duke Phelan's Company taught her weaponry, discipline, and how to react as part of a military unit. Now, though, Paks feels spurred to a solitary destiny. Against all odds she is accepted as a paladin-candidate by the fellowship of Gird. Years of study will follow, for a paladin must be versed in diplomacy and magic as well as the fighting arts. But before she is fully trained, Paks is called on her first mission: to seek out the fabled stronghold of Luap far to the west. The way is long, the dangers many--and not even the Marshal-General of Gird can say whether glory or ruin awaits. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Download or read book New Croton Review written by Jeanne-Noel Mahoney and published by Croton Council on the Arts. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Croton Review is a journal published quarterly by the Croton Council on the Arts, featuring poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, artwork, and photography from artists and authors worldwide. This is the Summer 2022 issue, and includes 85 works from 72 people.
Download or read book Brigid written by Brian Wright and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brigid of Kildare, Ireland, is uniquely venerated as both a goddess and a saint throughout Ireland, Europe and the USA. Often referred to as Mary of the Gael and considered the second most important saint in Ireland after St Patrick, her widespread popularity has led to the creation of more traditional activities than any other saint; some of which survive to this day. As a result of original historical and archaeological research Brian Wright provides a fascinating insight into this unique and mysterious figure. This book uncovers for the first time when and by whom the goddess was 'conceived' and evidence that St Brigid was a real person. It also explains how she 'became' a saint, her historical links with the unification of Ireland under a High King in the first century and discusses in depth her first documented visit to England in AD 488. Today, Brigid remains strongly connected with the fertility of crops, animals and humans and is celebrated throughout the world via the continuation of customs, ceremonies and relics with origins dating back to pre-Christian times. Using a combination of early Celtic history, archaeology, tradition and folklore from Ireland, Britain and other countries, this comprehensive study unravels the mystery of a goddess and saint previously complicated by the passage of time.
Download or read book Henry Builds a Cabin written by D.B. Johnson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How big does a home really need to be? When Henry decides to build a cabin for himself in the woods, he gets some help and a lot of advice from his friends. But Henry, being Henry, has his own ideas, and he sets about building his house as a bird builds its nest. As he adds everything he thinks his cabin needs, Henry’s new home ends up being a lot bigger than it looks! Inspired by the life of Henry David Thoreau, and illustrated with nature-filled paintings by author and artist D. B. Johnson, Henry Builds a Cabin is a thoughtful and beautiful meditation on what a home can be.
Download or read book Illyrian Spring written by Ann Bridge and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a wife and mother of three, Lady Kilmichael felt her task in the home was finished. As the artist Grace Stanway, she was well-known and successful in her own right. The question now was whether her home or her career would predominate.
Download or read book My Ireland written by Edward John Moreton Dunsany and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage volume contains Lord Dunsany's 1937 novel, "My Ireland". Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (1878 - 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist, most famous for the novels, mostly in the fantasy genre, that he published under the pen name 'Lord Dunsany'. A prolific writer, he published more than eighty books and many hundreds of short stories, as well as numerous plays, novels, and essays. The chapters of this book include: 'A. E., Tara', 'St. Patrick', 'Old Mickey', 'Francis Ledwidge', 'How the Students came to Trim', 'A Lapse of Memory', 'Jack-Snipe', 'Woodcock', 'Gray Lags', 'Business', 'John Watson', 'The State of the Moon', 'Swans', etcetera. Many antiquarian books like this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
