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Book Animalia

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  • Author : Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
  • Publisher : Grove Press
  • Release : 2019-09-10
  • ISBN : 0802147585
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Animalia written by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “lyrically descriptive [novel] traces the terrible evolution of rural ways of life into cruelty and abuse via the history of one unhappy family.” —Kirkus Reviews 1898: In the small French village of Puy-Larroque, Éléonore is a child living with her father, a pig farmer whose terminal illness leaves him unable to work, and her God-fearing mother, who runs both farm and family with an iron hand. Éléonore passes her childhood with little heat and no running water, sharing a small room with her cousin Marcel, who does most of the physical labor on the farm. When World War I breaks out and the village empties, Éléonore gets a taste of the changes that will transform her world as the twentieth century rolls on. In the second part of the novel, which takes place in the 1980s, the untamed world of Puy-Larroque seems gone forever. Éléonore has aged into the role of matriarch, and the family is running a large industrial pig farm, where thousands of pigs churn daily through cycles of birth, growth, and death. Moments of sublime beauty and powerful emotion mix with the thoughtless brutality waged against animals that makes the old horrors of death and disease seem like simpler times. A dramatic and chilling tale of man and beast that recalls the naturalism of writers like Émile Zola, Animalia traverses the twentieth century as it examines man’s quest to conquer nature, critiques the legacy of modernity and the transmission of violence from one generation to the next, and questions whether we can hold out hope for redemption in this brutal world. From a Goncourt Prize winner, this “lyrical novel depicting a century on a French family farm emphasizes the earthy and the cruel [and] provocatively dissects our conflicted relationship with the rest of the living world”(Booklist). “[Animalia] invites readers to connect the tangled web of violence, against people and animals—and face the brutality in which all of us are complicit.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Book Animalia   11th Hour

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  • Author : Graeme Base
  • Publisher : ABRAMS
  • Release : 1994-09-01
  • ISBN : 9780810931374
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Animalia 11th Hour written by Graeme Base and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Animalia, a journey through the alphabet features such characters as "Lazy lions lounging in the local library," while in Eleventh Hour, Elephant's birthday party is marked by a stolen feast and cryptic clues to the culprit's identity.

Book Animalia

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  • Author : Antoinette Burton
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-09
  • ISBN : 1478012811
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Animalia written by Antoinette Burton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals—domestic, feral, predatory, and mythical—whose relationship to imperial authorities and settler colonists reveals how the presumed racial supremacy of Europeans underwrote the history of Western imperialism. Victorian imperial authorities, adventurers, and colonists used animals as companions, military transportation, agricultural laborers, food sources, and status symbols. They also overhunted and destroyed ecosystems, laying the groundwork for what has come to be known as climate change. At the same time, animals such as lions, tigers, and mosquitoes interfered in the empire's racial, gendered, and political aspirations by challenging the imperial project’s sense of inevitability. Unconventional and innovative in form and approach, Animalia invites new ways to consider the consequences of imperial power by demonstrating how the politics of empire—in its racial, gendered, and sexualized forms—played out in multispecies relations across jurisdictions under British imperial control. Contributors. Neel Ahuja, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Utathya Chattopadhyaya, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Peter Hansen, Isabel Hofmeyr, Anna Jacobs, Daniel Heath Justice, Dane Kennedy, Jagjeet Lally, Krista Maglen, Amy E. Martin, Renisa Mawani, Heidi J. Nast, Michael A. Osborne, Harriet Ritvo, George Robb, Jonathan Saha, Sandra Swart, Angela Thompsell

Book Kingdom Animalia

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  • Author : Aracelis Girmay
  • Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
  • Release : 2011-09-20
  • ISBN : 1934414689
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Kingdom Animalia written by Aracelis Girmay and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay's lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth, and language. These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time here on earth. Aracelis Girmay's debut collection won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. A Cave Canem Fellow, she is on the faculty at Drew University and Hampshire College. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Book Animalia Americana

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  • Author : Colleen Glenney Boggs
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-08
  • ISBN : 0231161239
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Animalia Americana written by Colleen Glenney Boggs and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consulting a diverse archive of literary texts, Colleen Glenney Boggs places animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. From the bestiality trials of the seventeenth-century Plymouth Plantation to the emergence of sentimental pet culture in the nineteenth, Boggs traces a history of human-animal sexuality in America, one shaped by sexualized animal bodies and affective pet relations. Boggs concentrates on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson. Engaging with the critical theories of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway and others, she argues that animals are critical to the ways in which Americans enact their humanity and regulate subjects in the biopolitical state. Biopower, or a politics that extends its reach to life, thrives on the strategic ambivalence between who is considered human and what is judged as animal. It generates a space of indeterminacy where animal representations intervene to define and challenge the parameters of subjectivity. The renegotiation of the species line produces a tension that is never fully regulated. Therefore, as both figures of radical alterity and the embodiment of biopolitics, animals are simultaneously exceptional and exemplary to the biopolitical state. An original contribution to animal studies, American studies, critical race theory, and posthumanist inquiry, Boggs thrillingly reinterprets a long and highly contentious human-animal history.

Book Animalia

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  • Author : Barbara Helen Berger
  • Publisher : Tricycle Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781582460123
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Animalia written by Barbara Helen Berger and published by Tricycle Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief tales of wise and holy people who have lived gently with animals, from various countries and cultures, including tales of St. Francis, Buddha, and Siddhartha, and European and Oriental legends.

Book The Rise of Animals

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  • Author : Mikhail A. Fedonkin
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780801886799
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Rise of Animals written by Mikhail A. Fedonkin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential resource for paleontologists, biologists, geologists, and teachers, The Rise of Animals is the best single reference on one of earth's most significant events.

Book Wildhood

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  • Author : Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
  • Publisher : Scribner
  • Release : 2019-09-17
  • ISBN : 1501164694
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Wildhood written by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019 A New York Times Editor’s Pick People Best Books Fall 2019 Chicago Tribune 28 Books You Need to Read Now Booklist’s Top Ten Sci-Tech Books of 2019 “It blew my mind to discover that teenage animals and teenage humans are so similar. Both are naive risk-takers. I loved this book!” —Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human and Animals in Translation A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity. With Wildhood, Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and award-winning science writer Kathryn Bowers have created an entirely new way of thinking about the crucial, vulnerable, and exhilarating phase of life between childhood and adulthood across the animal kingdom. In their critically acclaimed bestseller, Zoobiquity, the authors revealed the essential connection between human and animal health. In Wildhood, they turn the same eye-opening, species-spanning lens to adolescent young adult life. Traveling around the world and drawing from their latest research, they find that the same four universal challenges are faced by every adolescent human and animal on earth: how to be safe, how to navigate hierarchy; how to court potential mates; and how to feed oneself. Safety. Status. Sex. Self-reliance. How human and animal adolescents and young adults confront the challenges of wildhood shapes their adult destinies. Natterson-Horowitz and Bowers illuminate these core challenges through the lives of four animals in the wild: Ursula, a young king penguin; Shrink, a charismatic hyena; Salt, a matriarchal humpback whale; and Slavc, a roaming European wolf. Through their riveting stories—and those of countless others, from adventurous eagles and rambunctious high schooler to inexperienced orcas and naive young soldiers—readers get a vivid and game-changing portrait of adolescent young adults as a horizontal tribe, sharing behaviors and challenges, setbacks and triumphs. Upending our understanding of everything from risk-taking and anxiety to the origins of privilege and the nature of sexual coercion and consent, Wildhood is a profound and necessary guide to the perilous, thrilling, and universal journey to adulthood on planet earth.

Book The Animalia Wall Frieze

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  • Author : Graeme Base
  • Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
  • Release : 1991-03-15
  • ISBN : 9780810924758
  • Pages : 26 pages

Download or read book The Animalia Wall Frieze written by Graeme Base and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1991-03-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wall frieze based on the alphabet book "Animalia", with fantastic and detailed pictures bearing such labels as "Lazy lions lounging in the local library." Also comes with a riddle sheet which contains clues and answers to further objects in the frieze.

Book Animalia Indica

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Animalia Indica written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My First Animalia

Download or read book My First Animalia written by Graeme Base and published by Viking. This book was released on 2013 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the pages of this book, you may discover, if you look, beyond the spell of written words, a hidden land of beast and birds. But there's so much to find and name - Let's start off with a smaller game. Just four for now - some big, some small. Now off you go to find them all! Animalia was first published in 1986, immediately capturing the imagination of children and adults around the world. It has now achieved classic status with global sales of over three million copies. My First Animalia celebrates the magic of Animalia in a playful introductory format for the very young, specially created by Graeme Base. So turn the pages, lift the flaps and rediscover the world of Animalia through fresh eyes - it's the alphabet as only Graeme Base knows how!

Book The Animal Kingdom  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book The Animal Kingdom A Very Short Introduction written by Peter Holland and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The animal world is immensely diverse, and our understanding of it has been greatly enhanced by analysis of DNA and the study of evolution and development ('evo-devo'). In this Very Short Introduction Peter Holland presents a modern tour of the animal kingdom. Beginning with the definition of animals (not obvious in biological terms), he takes the reader through the high-level groupings of animals (phyla) and new views on their evolutionary relationships based on molecular data, together with an overview of the biology of each group of animals. The phylogenetic view is central to zoology today and the volume will be of great value to all students of the life sciences, as well as providing a concise summary for the interested general reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Book Animalia

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  • Author : Henry Horenstein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780976195528
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Animalia written by Henry Horenstein and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a noted photographer, photography for animal lovers. Accompanies exhibition from Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Book Kingdom Animalia MCQ PDF  Questions and Answers Download   Class 11 12 Biology MCQs Book

Download or read book Kingdom Animalia MCQ PDF Questions and Answers Download Class 11 12 Biology MCQs Book written by Arshad Iqbal and published by Bushra Arshad. This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Kingdom Animalia Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ Quiz) with Answers PDF Download (Class 11-12 Biology PDF Book): MCQ Questions & Practice Tests with Answer Key (Grade 11-12 Kingdom Animalia MCQs PDF: Textbook Notes & Question Bank) includes revision guide for problem solving with solved MCQs. Kingdom Animalia MCQ with Answers PDF book covers basic concepts, analytical and practical assessment tests. "Kingdom Animalia MCQ" Book PDF helps to practice test questions from exam prep notes. The eBook Kingdom Animalia MCQs with Answers PDF includes revision guide with verbal, quantitative, and analytical past papers, solved MCQs. Kingdom Animalia Multiple Choice Questions and Answers (MCQs) PDF Download, an eBook covers solved quiz questions and answers on college biology topics: What is kingdom Animalia, introduction to kingdom Animalia, amphibians, asexual reproduction, cnidarians, development of animals complexity, grade bilateria, grade radiata, mesoderm, nematodes, parazoa, phylum, platyhelminthes, and sponges tests for graduate students and beginners. Kingdom Animalia Quiz Questions and Answers PDF Download, free eBook’s sample covers exam's viva, interview questions and competitive exam preparation with answer key. The Book Kingdom Animalia MCQs PDF includes college level question papers to review practice tests for exams. Kingdom Animalia Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) with Answers PDF digital edition eBook, a study guide with textbook chapters' tests for NEET/Jobs/Entry Level competitive exam. Kingdom Animalia Practice Tests eBook covers problem solving exam tests from life science textbooks.

Book A Materia Medica Animalia

Download or read book A Materia Medica Animalia written by Peter Peyto Good and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book H  Rorarii     quod animalia bruta ratione utantur melius homine  Libri duo   Edited by G  Naud

Download or read book H Rorarii quod animalia bruta ratione utantur melius homine Libri duo Edited by G Naud written by Hieronymus RORARIUS and published by . This book was released on 1648 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fauna Groenlandica  systematice sistens Animalia  Insecta  Vermes  etc   Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata     maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes O  F

Download or read book Fauna Groenlandica systematice sistens Animalia Insecta Vermes etc Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes O F written by Bishop Otto FABRICIUS (the Younger) and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: