Download or read book White Ruff written by Glenn Balch and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ruff written by Johan G. Van Rhijn and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ruff is a fascinating species whose elaborate breeding behaviour has captivated ornithologists for decades. Their communal display grounds, or leks, provide an extreme example of a social system widespread in birds and other animals, in which brilliantly plumaged males seemingly compete for the attention of passing females. In this book, Johan van Rhijn explores this complex and intricate drama, both to lay bare the details of the players' private lives, and to provide a means of exploring the wider variety of wader breeding systems. Strands of evidence for all aspects of the Ruffs life, in and out of the breeding season, come together to give a thought-provoking insight into this important area of biology. Specialists and birdwatchers alike will have much to learn from this intriguing story and the insights it provides. Illustrated by Ian Willis.
Download or read book Meow Ruff written by Joyce Sidman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of concrete poetry where an animal is built out of words on paper.
Download or read book Social Behavior of the Ruff Philomachus Pugnax L written by Alida Johanna Hogan-Warburg and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1966 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lovecraft Country written by Matt Ruff and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now an HBO® Series from J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer of Westworld), Misha Green (Creator of Underground) and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out) The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors—they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours. At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his—and the whole Turner clan’s—destruction. A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.
Download or read book Fool on the Hill written by Matt Ruff and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Lovecraft Country: Myth and reality collide on a college campus “in a comic fantasy of wonderful energy, invention, and generosity of spirit” (Alison Lurie). Stephen Titus George is a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University in upstate New York. A bestselling author in search of a new story, he sees his life as a modern-day fairy tale starring himself as a would-be knight trying to woo a lovely maiden—or, actually, two: the bewitching Calliope and his guiding light, Aurora Borealis Smith. But he’s not quite in control of the narrative. There’s another writer with even greater influence on campus. The unseen Mr. Sunshine is an eternal, semi-retired deity who’s been fashioning his own story for centuries. He has all his characters in place: dragons, sprites, gnomes, and villains. And now, finally, his hero. As Mr. Sunshine’s world comes to fabulous and violent life, how can Stephen decide his own fate if it’s already being plotted by a god? An epic of life and death, good and evil, love and sorcery, Fool on the Hill lands Matt Ruff happily on the shelf between Tom Robbins and J. R. R. Tolkien for every lover of the “funky and fantastical” (New York magazine). “Inspired . . . rich in flavorful language . . . [a] dazzling tour de force.” —San Francisco Chronicle “The plot comes together like a brilliant clockwork toy.” —Locus
Download or read book The Ven Philip Howard Earl of Arundel 1557 1595 written by Philip Howard Earl of Arundel (Saint) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catholic Record Society Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unpublished Documents Relating to the English Martyrs written by John Hungerford Pollen and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications of the Catholic Record Society written by Catholic Record Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 5-7, 9, 11-12, 15, 17-24, 26-41, 48-52 include Report of the Society 1907-1925, 1927-1957/58.
Download or read book Birds of Pakistan written by Richard Grimmett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is a successor to the much acclaimed Birds of the Indian Subcontinent by two of the same authors. Covering Pakistan, the superb plates are accompanied by a succinct text highlighting identification, voice, habitat, altitudinal range, distribution and status. The text is on facing pages to the plates, for easy reference and there are distribution maps for every species. Like previous guides covering Nepal, Bhutan, Northern India and Southern India, this guide is a perfect size for use in the field and will be an essential companion when visiting this region.
Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Costumes and Scenery for Amateurs written by Constance D'Arcy Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels written by John Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vertebrate Zoology of Sind written by James A. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum Striges or nocturnal birds of prey by R B Sharpe written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 378 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.
