Download or read book Elsevier s Dictionary of Mammals written by Murray Wrobel and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-11-18 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative dictionary has been compiled with the aim of giving an overview of the English, German, French and Italian names of mammals. The Basic Table contains, in alphabetical order, the scientific names of families, genera, species and sub-species and synonyms with the identified names detailed in all four languages. These are given in the singular for species and sub-species and in the plural for other terms. The synonyms and subspecies are offered in detail. The editor offers numerous alternative spellings of vernacular names. This dictionary is an outstanding guide for every researcher in mammalogy.

Download or read book Carbon written by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in nature as it has roles in human life on earth. And yet it rarely makes the headlines as anything other than the villain of our fossil-based economy, feeding an addiction which is driving dangerous levels of consumption and international conflict and which, left unchecked, could lead to our demise as a species. But the impact of CO2 on climate change only tells part of the story, and to demonize carbon as an element which will bring about the downfall of humanity is to reduce it to a pale shadow of itself. In this major new history of carbon, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Sacha Loeve show that this omnipresent element is at the root of countless histories and adventures through time, thanks to its extraordinary versatility. Carbon has a long and prestigious CV: its work and achievements extend far beyond the burning of fossil fuels. The fourth most abundant element in the universe and the second most abundant element in the human body, carbon is the chemical basis of all known life. Carbon chemistry has a long history, with applications ranging from jewellery to heating, underpinning developments in metallurgy, textiles, pharmaceuticals, electronics, nanoscience and green technologies. A biography of carbon transgresses the boundaries between chemical and social existence, between nature and culture, forcing us to abandon the simplified image of carbon as the anti-hero of human civilization and enabling us to see instead the great diversity of carbon’s modes of existence. With scientific precision and literary flair, Bensaude-Vincent and Loeve unravel the surprising ways in which carbon has shaped our world, showing how unrecognizable the earth would be without it. Uncovering the many hidden lives of carbon allows us to view our own with fresh eyes.

Download or read book Bulletin written by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Fairy Tales of Madame D Aulnoy written by Aulnoy (Madame d', Marie-Catherine) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love Power and Gender in Seventeenth Century French Fairy Tales written by Bronwyn Reddan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses' scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the "right" way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.

Download or read book Fairy Tales written by Aulnoy (Madame d', Marie-Catherine) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Old time stories written by Robinson Perrault and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This present volume comprises eleven tales. The first eight are from the master-hand of Charles Perrault. Charles Perrault (1628-1703) enjoyed much distinction in his day and is familiar to students of French literature for the prominent part that he played in the famous Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, which so keenly occupied French men of letters in the latter part of the seventeenth century. But his fame today rests upon his authorship of the traditional Tales of Mother Goose; or Stories of Olden Times, and so long as there are children to listen spellbound to the adventures of Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, and that arch rogue Puss in Boots, his memory will endure. To the eight tales of Perrault, three others have been added here. 'Beauty and the Beast,' by Mme Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1781), has a celebrity that warrants its inclusion, however inferior it may seem, as an example of the storyteller's art, to the masterpieces of Perrault. 'Princess Rosette' and 'The Friendly Frog' are from the prolific pen of Mme d'Aulnoy (1650-1705), a contemporary of Perrault, whom she could sometimes rival in the invention, if never in dramatic power.

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Download or read book Old Time Stories written by Charles Perrault and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Old-Time Stories" is a collection of amazing anecdotes and funny stories by Charles Perrault. Here's one example: "When the husband finally died, his wife put the usual death notice in the paper, but added that he died of gonorrhea. No sooner were the papers delivered when a friend of the family phoned and complained bitterly, "You know very well that he died of diarrhea, not gonorrhea." Replied the widow, "I nursed him night and day, so of course, I know he died of diarrhea, but I thought it would be better for posterity to remember him as a great lover rather than the big shit he always was."

Download or read book Old Time Stories Told by Master Charles Perrault Illustrated by W Heath Robinson written by A. Johnson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Old Time Stories Told by Master Charles Perrault’ is translated from the original French by A. E. Johnson, and presented alongside the captivating illustrations of William Heath Robinson. It includes such classics of the fairy tale genre as: ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Cinderella’, ‘Bluebeard’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘Tom Thumb’, and many more. Charles Perrault (1628 – 1703), was among the first writers to bring magical children’s stories into the literary mainstream, proving to his original seventeenth century readers that such works were important, enjoyable, as well as thought-provoking. They remain as popular today, as they were then. William Heath Robinson (1872 – 1944), was an English cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines – for achieving deceptively simple objectives. Such was (and is) his fame, that the term ‘Heath Robinson’ entered the English language during the First World War, as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance. Appearing alongside the text, his illustrations further refine and elucidate Jackson and Perrault’s masterful storytelling. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.

Download or read book The New Woman and Other Poems written by John Bunyan Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tales of Passed Times written by Charles Perrault and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book TALES OF TIMES PASSED 11 of our most popular Fairy Tales written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herein are 11 of the most popular children’s stories taken from the world of Fairydom retold by master storyteller, Charles Perrault. The first nine are well known with the last two perhaps less well-known. The stories are further enhanced by the twelve woodcuts by Charles Robinson. These stories have purposely been put into a shortened form which gives younger children the opportunity to gain a full comprehension of the story before they fall asleep. In addition most stories have been suffixed by a moral set in verse. Herein are the stories of: The Sleeping Beauty In The Wood Little Red Riding-Hood Blue Beard Master Cat; Or, Puss In Boots The Fairies Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper Riquet With The Tuft Little Thumbling Beauty And The Beast The Benevolent Frog Princess Rosette We invite you to curl up with this unique sliver of fairy culture not seen in print for over a century; and immerse yourself in the tales and fables of yesteryear. YESTERDAY'S BOOKS FOR TODAY'S CHARITIES 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. ================= KEYWORDS/TAGS: fairy tales, folklore, myths, legends, children’s stories, children’s stories, bygone era, fairydom, fairy land, classic stories, children’s bedtime stories, fables, sleeping beauty, in the wood, little red riding-hood, blue beard, master cat, puss in boots, the fairies, cinderella, little glass slipper, riquet, tuft. Tufty riquet, little thumbling, beauty and the beast, benevolent frog, princess rosette