Download or read book Still the Same Hawk written by John Waldman and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection draws on natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics to consider New York City’s complex relationship to nature. How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Why does a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the community? What makes the presence of a community garden or an empty lot ripple so differently through the surrounding neighborhood? Is the city an oasis or a desert for biodiversity? Does nature even matter to New Yorkers, who choose to live in a concrete jungle? Still the Same Hawk examines these questions with a rich mix of creative nonfiction that ranges from analytical to anecdotal and humorous. John Waldman’s sharp, well-crafted introduction presenting dualism as the defining quality of urban nature is followed by compelling contributions from Besty McCully, Christopher Meier, Tony Hiss, Kelly McMasters, Dara Ross, William Kornblum, Phillip Lopate, David Rosane, Robert Sullivan, Anne Matthews, Devin Zuber, and Frederick Buell. Together these pieces capture a wide range of viewpoints, including the myriad and shifting ways New Yorkers experience and consider the outdoors, the historical role of nature in shaping New York’s development, what natural attributes contribute to New York’s regional identity, the many environmental tradeoffs made by urbanization, and even nature’s dark side where “urban legends” flourish.

Download or read book Still the Same Hawk written by John Waldman and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new book, Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on the relationship between nature and America’s most prominent city. The volume’s title derives from a telling observation in Robert Sullivan’s contribution that considers how a hawk in the city is perceived so much differently from a hawk in the countryside. Yet it’s still the same hawk. How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Or a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the community? Why does the presence of a community garden or an empty lot ripple so differently through the surrounding neighborhood? Is the city an oasis or a desert for biodiversity? Why does nature even matter to New Yorkers, who choose to live in the concrete jungle? Still the Same Hawk examines these questions with a rich mix of creative nonfiction that ranges from analytical to anecdotal and humorous. John Waldman’s sharp, well-crafted introduction presenting dualism as the defining quality of urban nature is followed by compelling contributions from Besty McCully, Christopher Meier, Tony Hiss, Kelly McMasters, Dara Ross, William Kornblum, Phillip Lopate, David Rosane, Robert Sullivan, Anne Matthews, Devin Zuber, and Frederick Buell. Together these pieces capture a wide range of viewpoints, including the myriad and shifting ways New Yorkers experience and consider the outdoors, the historical role of nature in shaping New York’s development, what natural attributes contribute to New York’s regional identity, the many environmental tradeoffs made by urbanization, and even nature’s dark side where “urban legends” flourish. Still the Same Hawk intermingles elements of natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics, providing fresh insights into nature and the urban environment on one of the world’s great stages for the clash of these seemingly disparate realms—New York City.

Download or read book The Goshawk written by T. H. White and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Goshawk" by T. H. White. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Media Matters written by John Fiske and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske’s classic text Media Matters remains both timely and insightful as an empirically rich examination of how the fierce battle over cultural meaning is negotiated in American popular culture. Media Matters takes us to the heart of social inequality and the call for social justice by interrogating some of the most important issues of its time. Fiske offers a practical guide to learning how to interpret the ways that media events shape the social landscape, to contest official and taken-for-granted accounts of how events are presented/conveyed through media, and to affect social change by putting intellectual labor to public use. A new introductory essay by former Fiske student Black Hawk Hancock entitled ‘Learning How to Fiske: Theorizing Cultural Literacy, Counter-History, and the Politics of Media Events in the 21st Century’ explains the theoretical and methodological tools with which Fiske approaches cultural analysis, highlighting the lessons today’s students can continue to draw upon in order to understand society today.

Download or read book Call Down the Hawk The Dreamer Trilogy Book 1 written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .

Download or read book The Blue Hawk written by Peter Dickinson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ancient kingdom, a boy and his hawk challenge the gods All his life, Tron has been destined to join the priests who rule his strange desert kingdom. When the old king grows sick, a ritual is called for to restore his health: the sacrifice of a blue hawk, the symbol of the god Gdu. For the first time, Tron is chosen to take part in the ritual. Just before the bird is sacrificed, the young priest notices that its eyes are cloudy. The bird is sick, and to give its soul to the king would be to kill him. And so Tron steals the bird away. The priests are enraged at his disruption of the ritual. Some call for his head, but others see Tron’s potential. They give him three months to train the wild bird—three months to save its life and rescue the kingdom from the wrath of the gods. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Peter Dickinson including rare images from the author’s collection.

Download or read book Learning Little Hawk s Way of Storytelling written by Frank Domenico Cipriani and published by Findhorn Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the teachings of Kenneth Little Hawk, the renowned Mi’Kmaw First Nation storyteller, this book uses stories to explain how to tell stories. Each of the practical skills needed for storytelling is clearly illustrated through relevant stories from native tribes—“What the Fire Taught Us” teaches special effects, “Our Many Children” shows voice modulation, and “Little Thunder’s Wedding” offers techniques for formal stories. Business people looking to enhance their public speaking, librarians wanting to enliven children’s programs, and teachers trying to instill a love of story in their students will find the entertaining and educative methods in this guide both inspiring and effective.

Download or read book H Is for Hawk written by Helen Macdonald and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20) The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" (People). H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.

Download or read book Hawk Knight written by Nacaveva and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawk Knight takes place in the mayan land, shortly after the olmecas, the toltecas and the teotihuacanos had vanished, destroyed by the Akabil, messenger from the Nine Dark Lords that want the world disappearing the humanity, trying to run over the Knights of Kukulkn, Order founded by the very god to teach in the city-school of Chichn Itz, where the Knights train their chosen apprentices to create new Knights. Now a new apprentice had arrived along a new ascention of the Akabil, a Knight apostatize the Order and his Master looks for eliminate him, the young Florid Field has decisions to take and his Master tries to fi nd out the new champion of the order.

Download or read book Hawk Migration Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hawk s Redemption written by Kathryn Thomas and published by E-Book Publishing World Inc.. This book was released on with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawk's Redemption is book 3 and the finale of The Caged Kings MC trilogy! HAWK WANTS MY BODY… AND I’M ABOUT TO LET HIM HAVE IT. He looked like a bad boy. Turns out, he was worse than I ever imagined. Violent, angry, a criminal, a killer. But when he stares me down, all I want is to submit to his darkest desires. Letting myself fall for him was the worst mistake I could have made. But how could I say no? He was sexy. He was dark. He was everything I’d ever dreamed of, wrapped in a leather jacket and seductive smile. And when he showed me the person inside that grizzly exterior, I knew there was no going back. But this one-way road might lead straight to hell. After all, Hawk isn’t the only one with shadows in his past. I’ve got demons, too. And just when it seems like I’ve finally escaped them, The bastards come roaring back into the picture. This time, they might not let me out alive. And they might damn Hawk to the grave with me.

Download or read book Victory of the Hawk written by Angela Highland and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As war rages across Adalonia, their only hope is a sword named Moonshadow, the weapon that first saved the elves from the Anreulag. Julian Julian yearns to confess his love to Faanshi, the elven healer who captivated him since their first chance encounter. Though he fears she and Kestar share a deep connection, he must thrust such worry aside as danger descends upon them and their uneasy elven allies… Faanshi Faanshi's connection to Kestar is inexplicable, born of her magic and their shared elven blood. She knows his every thought and desire, but her heart lies with Julian. She'll have to find a way to tell him soon, even in the midst of rebellion… Kestar Though he knows not why—only that it involves his own recently discovered elven heritage—Kestar has risked the lives of everyone around him. For the Anreulag, the Voice of the Gods, has been freed of Her magical prison and will kill all in Her path until he is found. Book three of Rebels of Adalonia 95,000 words

Download or read book Parrots Parakeets Cockatoos Lories Hawks Falcons and Owls How to Rear and Manage Them With Twenty five Engravings from Designs by H Weir and Two Coloured Illustrations by the Same Artist written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Hawk in the Sun written by Leon R. Powers and published by DIMI PRESS. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hawk in the Sun brilliantly shows the passion of a true scientist. The research was of the nesting and other habits of the ferruginous hawk-an extremely shy and difficult-to-study bird that is the largest hawk in North America. The reader will be emotionally involved from the fight between a pair of hawks and a coyote through the author's description of Penelope, the stay-at-home mom, to the poignant death of a hawk chick. Book jacket.

Download or read book St Hawk s Medical A Box Set written by Willa Okati and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Hawk's Medical - the complete box set 1 - Take Heart A gentle hippie with a new heart, a hellion making good, and a rebel doctor discover together how healing takes more than just medicine. 2 - Give Chase Declan's always been careful to guard his heart, but Isaac's catching up at last. Some things are worth fighting for, even when they're running fast. 3 - Breathe Deep A golden-hearted mountain man. A nursing tech with a secret. Life and death are on the line - and they're running out of time. When the heart needs healing as much as the body, the lucky ones find their way to St. Hawk's Medical in Blue Creek. It can be hard to convince the stubborn ones that they need help and treatment isn't always by the book—but for those who are willing, there's a second chance at life and love waiting for them in the foothills.

Download or read book Hawk s Flight Book 1 of the Wheeler Chronicles written by Ronald E. Holtman and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Wheeler, a US Army Ranger, returns from Vietnam with the mission of visiting his severely injured comrade in Broken River, Oklahoma. But he is too late; the full-blood Cherokee has taken his own life. In his place, George finds Hawk, an angry young man struggling with his brother’s suicide, his mother’s abandonment, and his father’s alcoholism. Thrown together to deal with the pain and trauma of their pasts, they begin to build a new future. Then Hawk’s mother returns, bringing violence in her wake, and when the unthinkable happens, Hawk is forced to run as far as he can. George is desperate to bring the teen back—and home—but first, he has to find him…

Download or read book Hawk s Prey written by Carole Mortimer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer Independent and with a successful career, Whitney Morgan is on a mission to get the manshe's been in love with for years to notice her… She has a lot to thank millionaire Hawkfor; without him she wouldn't have anything. But Hawk still seems to think of her as hisbest friend's child who he'd agreed to care for when her father died. Whitney has growninto so much more than that and is determined to make Hawk see her as the woman she'sbecome… Originally published in 1986