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Book Pretty Birds of Passage

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  • Author : Roslynn Griffith
  • Publisher : HarperPrism
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780061081569
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Pretty Birds of Passage written by Roslynn Griffith and published by HarperPrism. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman of independence, Aurelia travels to Italy in the 1890s to study architecture. Two years, a diploma, and a failed love affair later, she returns to Chicago to work with Liam, a brilliant architect. When a killer begins stalking her, Aurelia turns to Liam for protection, but is she falling into the arms of a murderer?

Book Birds of Passage

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  • Author : Robert Solé
  • Publisher : Harvill Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Birds of Passage written by Robert Solé and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The tarboosh, or fez, once as much part of the Egyptian landscape as the Sphinx, becomes for one family the symbol of their love affair with Egypt."--Back cover.

Book Birds of Passage

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  • Author : Mark-Anthony Falzon
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2020-07-01
  • ISBN : 1789207673
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Birds of Passage written by Mark-Anthony Falzon and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird migration between Europe and Africa is a fraught journey, particularly in the Mediterranean, where migratory birds are shot and trapped in large numbers. In Malta, thousands of hunters share a shrinking countryside. They also rub shoulders with a strong bird-protection and conservation lobby. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.

Book Birds of Passage

Download or read book Birds of Passage written by Michael J. Piore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migration ion to urban industrial societies from underdeveloped rual areas. It argues that such migrations are a continuing feature of industrial societies and that they are generated by forces inherent in the nature of industrial economies. It explains why conventional economic theory finds such migrations so difficult to comprehend, and challenges a set of older assumptions that supported the view that these migrations were beneficial to both sending and receiving societies. Professor Piore seriously questions whether migration actually relieves population pressure and rural unemployment, and whether it develops skills necessary for the emergence of an industrial labour force in the home country. Furthermore, he criticizes the notion that in the long run migrant labour complements native labour. On the basis of this critique, he develops an alternative theory of the nature of the migration process.

Book Birds of Paradise

Download or read book Birds of Paradise written by Tim Laman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling photo essay, Laman and Scholes present gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior.

Book Birds of Passage

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  • Author : Mark-Anthony Falzon
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2020-07-01
  • ISBN : 1805393502
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Birds of Passage written by Mark-Anthony Falzon and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird migration between Europe and Africa is a fraught journey, particularly in the Mediterranean, where migratory birds are shot and trapped in large numbers. In Malta, thousands of hunters share a shrinking countryside. They also rub shoulders with a strong bird-protection and conservation lobby. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.

Book Bird of Passage

Download or read book Bird of Passage written by Rudolf Peierls and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudolf Peierls. Born in Germany in 1907, Peierls was indeed a bird of passage," whose career of fifty-five years took him to leading centers of physics--including Munich, Leipzig, Zurich, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, and J. Robert Oppenheimer's Los Alamos. Peierls was a major participant in the revolutionary development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and 1930s, working with some of the pioneers and, as he puts it, "some of the great characters" in this field. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Birds of Passage

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  • Author : Brian Castro
  • Publisher : Untapped
  • Release : 2022-09-27
  • ISBN : 9781761280764
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Birds of Passage written by Brian Castro and published by Untapped. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading fragments of his ancestor's journal Lo Yun Shan gives Australian-born Chinese man Seamus O'Young an odd sensation: familiarity. Their lives are quite different-Shan left China for the goldfields in the mid-19th century-but something links them. As Seamus seeks to understand what it is and what it means his mind begins to unravel in Brian Castro's astonishing debut. First published in 1983 Birds of Passage was joint winner of The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award the previous year.

Book Birds Of Passage

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Birds Of Passage written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Birds of Passage

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  • Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009-03-01
  • ISBN : 9781409948612
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Birds of Passage written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was an American poet. He wrote the first American translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. He established his literary career by submitting poetry and prose to various newspapers and magazines. Between January 1824 and his graduation in 1825, he had published nearly 40 minor poems. About 24 of them appeared in the short-lived Boston periodical The United States Literary Gazette. After graduating in 1825, he was offered a job as professor of modern languages at his alma mater. The story, possibly apocryphal, is that an influential trustee, Benjamin Orr, had been so impressed by Longfellow's translation of Horace that he was hired under the condition that he travel to Europe to study French, Spanish and Italian. When he returned to the United States in 1836, Longfellow took up the professorship at Harvard University. He began publishing his poetry, including Voices of the Night in 1839 and Ballads and Other Poems, which included his famous poem The Village Blacksmith, in 1841. His other works include Paul Revere's Ride, A Psalm of Life, The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline and Christmas Bells.

Book How to Know the Birds

Download or read book How to Know the Birds written by Ted Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.

Book Birds of New Guinea

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  • Author : Thane K. Pratt
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-10-26
  • ISBN : 0691095639
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Birds of New Guinea written by Thane K. Pratt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-26 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous edition by Bruce M. Beehler, Thane K. Pratt, and Dale A. Zimmerman.

Book Birds of the Pacific Northwest

Download or read book Birds of the Pacific Northwest written by John Shewey and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birding in the Pacific Northwest has never been easier! Birds of the Pacific Northwest describes and illustrates more than 400 bird species commonly encountered in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia. This comprehensive, full-color guide is organized to follow the order in which groups and species are presented by the American Union. Range maps for each species provide valuable information for identification.

Book Birds of Pakistan

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  • Author : Richard Grimmett
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2021-01-07
  • ISBN : 1472990315
  • Pages : 257 pages

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.

Book Birds of Passage

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  • Author : M. Blind
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Birds of Passage written by M. Blind and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Birds Of Passage

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  • Author : Brian Castro
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Birds Of Passage written by Brian Castro and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flights of Passage

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  • Author : Mike Unwin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9780300247442
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Flights of Passage written by Mike Unwin and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magnificent. . . . David Tipling's lush photographs stun and delight with every page. . . . Mr. Tipling's skill in telling the birds' stories is broad and unrivaled. Flights of Passage is a privileged look at birds as we've never seen them before."--Julie Zickefoose, Wall Street Journal A visually stunning, photographically driven celebration of bird migration--one of the great marvels of the natural world The vast transcontinental journeys made every year by millions of feathered migrants were not known to naturalists before the late nineteenth century. Even today, while cutting-edge technology such as geolocators and isotope analysis helps us map these journeys in detail, much of the science remains poorly understood. In this luxuriously illustrated volume, celebrated nature writer Mike Unwin and award-winning photographer David Tipling highlight sixty-seven different species of birds from around the world and explore how each has adapted to its migratory cycle. As they bring to life the drama of the Bar-headed Goose's journey over the Himalayas and the amazing sixty-thousand-mile annual round trip taken by the Arctic Tern between the United Kingdom and Antarctica, Unwin and Tipling offer deep insights into the science, mysteries, and wonders of migration.