Download or read book The Soul of an Octopus written by Sy Montgomery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year “Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.” —New Statesman, UK “One of the best science books of the year.” —Science Friday, NPR Another New York Times bestseller from the author of The Good Good Pig, this “fascinating…touching…informative…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) book explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. In pursuit of the wild, solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism. From New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, she has befriended octopuses with strikingly different personalities—gentle Athena, assertive Octavia, curious Kali, and joyful Karma. Each creature shows her cleverness in myriad ways: escaping enclosures like an orangutan; jetting water to bounce balls; and endlessly tricking companions with multiple “sleights of hand” to get food. Scientists have only recently accepted the intelligence of dogs, birds, and chimpanzees but now are watching octopuses solve problems and are trying to decipher the meaning of the animal’s color-changing techniques. With her “joyful passion for these intelligent and fascinating creatures” (Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick), Montgomery chronicles the growing appreciation of this mollusk as she tells a unique love story. By turns funny, entertaining, touching, and profound, The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about the meeting of two very different minds.
Download or read book Flora Ulysses written by Kate DiCamillo and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Tale of Despereaux.
Download or read book Dodo s Daughter A Sequel to Dodo written by Эдвард Бенсон and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dodo s Daughter A Sequel to Dodo written by E. F. Benson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is philosophical in its exploration of the nature and challenges of finding and being worthy of love. The lead characters are Princess Dodo, a beautiful, youthful middle-aged woman, and her serious-minded daughter. Dodo, who is optimistic, has survived two turbulent marriages to finally find true love in middle age. The story also revolves around Dodo's daughter Nadine and her inability to experience true love, as well as how she deals with two suitors who are both madly in love with her. Will Nadine finally experience true love?
Download or read book The Hollywood Dodo written by Geoff Nicholson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of The Food Chain and Footsucker comes a sophisticated comedy about three people caught in the Hollywood machine. Following the death of his wife, Henry Cadwallader, an English doctor, insists on accompanying his aspiring actress daughter, Dorothy, on a trip to Hollywood. He fears she will fall prey to corruption and sleaze, but finds that it is actually he who is being corrupted at every turn. On the flight to LA, they meet 'auteur of the future' Rick McCartney. Rick's trying to get the backing to make a costume drama set in seventeenth-century England about a man who owns what he fears is the last dodo on earth. Dorothy Cadwallader's quest for fame begins badly and goes downhill from there. Meanwhile Henry becomes involved with a former actress turned estate agent. The lives of Henry and Dorothy once again intersect with that of Rick McCartney to dramatic effect as the characters find themselves drawn to the brink, where dreams die and extinction threatens. Sharp humor and keen observation drive Geoff Nicholson's satisfyingly oblique look at America's obsession with stardom.
Download or read book Dodo s Daughter written by Edward Frederic Benson and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oogy written by Laurence M. Levin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, Levin and his twin sons, Dan and Noah, took their terminally ill cat to the Ardmore Animal Hospital outside Philadelphia to have the beloved pet put to sleep. What would begin as a terrible day suddenly got brighter as the ugliest dog they had ever seen--one who was missing an ear and had half his face covered in scar tissue--ran up to them and captured their hearts.
Download or read book Dodo s Daughter written by E. F. Benson and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dodo, who is well-known from E.F. Benson’s bestseller carrying the same name, is now settled down. But Dodo has new problems in her life. Dodo’s daughter Nadine is only eighteen years old but despite that she is already a self-confident woman – some would say that she is even quite full of herself! But is smoking cigarettes and chatting with friends enough to be the main content of one’s life? ‘Dodo’s daughter’ is an intriguing novel about upper-class society youth in the 1910's. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a British archeologist and author, who wrote under the pen name E. F. Benson. Originally from Berkshire, he studied at Cambridge University and published his first novel "Dodo" in 1893. It was an instant success. He was a prolific novelist, and wrote in a blend of satire, science-fiction, supernatural and romantic melodramas, and has been admired by later authors such as H. P. Lovecraft. He was also a reputed memoirist, and wrote amongst others a biography of Charlotte Brontë. Benson was a very discreet character but it is widely assumed that he was homosexual, of which traces can be found in the circles he kept as well as in his fiction. He never married and passed away in 1940 at age 72.
Download or read book THE COMPLETE DODO TRILOGY Dodo A Detail of the Day Dodo s Daughter Dodo Wonders written by E. F. Benson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Dodo Trilogy is composed of three novels by E.F. Benson. His very first novel, Dodo: A Detail of the Day (1893), which featured a portrait of the composer and militant suffragette Ethel Smyth (which she "gleefully acknowledged", according to actress Prunella Scales) was back then fashionably controversial and became an instant success. He repeated the success of Dodo, with the same cast of characters a generation later: Dodo the Second (1914), "a unique chronicle of the pre-1914 Bright Young Things" and Dodo Wonders (1921), "a first-hand social history of the Great War in Mayfair and the Shires. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. He started his novel writing career in 1893 with the fashionably controversial Dodo, which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, with sequels to this novel, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series consisting of six novels and two short stories. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories. Table of contents: Dodo; A Detail of the Day Dodo's Daughter or Dodo the Second Dodo Wonders
Download or read book Munsey s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions written by Susan Cannon Harris and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s. Drawing on original archival research, the study reconstructs the engagement of Yeats, Shaw, Wilde, Synge, O'Casey, and Beckett with socialists and sexual radicals like Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Florence Farr, Bertolt Brecht, and Lorraine Hansberry.
Download or read book DoDo written by Rebeca De Vries and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman has trouble sleeping, so she decides to search for the magic of fairy tales to nourish her mind with beautiful images that make her fall asleep again. On this tour, she discover the most important lessons of the great masters of the major initiation schools of all times: As above, so below, as within so without. This is the story of her encounter with all the secrets that has inside. We are beings of: light, love and sound, earth, water, air and fire. We are a tiny universe integrated and interacting with the great universe. In a world of duality where the opposite finds its contrary, she plunges into a new dimension where she is separated from the struggle of good against evil. She is carried away and flows to discover their inner wisdom and get conscious of all that it has. Stop looking outside because everything is within it, to be part of a wonderful, wise and infinite unity. Everything is alive, everything is energy. She is part of the whole. Each meeting gives her a lesson. She will take you on a fantastic journey where everything vibrates with life and resonates with the love that holds the universe together.
Download or read book Woman s World written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dodo written by E.F Benson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Dodo by E.F Benson
Download or read book The Review of Reviews written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature 1830 1865 written by Deborah C. De Rosa and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deborah C. De Rosa examines the multifaceted nature of domestic abolitionism, a discourse that nineteenth-century women created to voice their political sentiments when cultural imperatives demanded their silence. For nineteenth-century women struggling to find an abolitionist voice while maintaining the codes of gender and respectability, writing children's literature was an acceptable strategy to counteract the opposition. By seizing the opportunity to write abolitionist juvenile literature, De Rosa argues, domestic abolitionists were able to enter the public arena while simultaneously maintaining their identities as exemplary mother-educators and preserving their claims to "femininity." Using close textual analyses of archival materials, De Rosa examines the convergence of discourses about slavery, gender, and children in juvenile literature from 1830 to 1865, filling an important gap in our understanding of women's literary productions about race and gender, as well as our understanding of nineteenth-century American literature more generally.
Download or read book Blue Moon A Literary Sonata written by Hal Andress and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
