Author: Anne Rasa
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book parallels the society of Man and the Dwarf mongoose, examining their high degree of mutual caring and division of labour also as individuals these animals are rather weak and helpless, but together, acting as a group, there are not many enemies that can stand against them.
Mongoose Watch
Author: Anne Rasa
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book parallels the society of Man and the Dwarf mongoose, examining their high degree of mutual caring and division of labour also as individuals these animals are rather weak and helpless, but together, acting as a group, there are not many enemies that can stand against them.
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book parallels the society of Man and the Dwarf mongoose, examining their high degree of mutual caring and division of labour also as individuals these animals are rather weak and helpless, but together, acting as a group, there are not many enemies that can stand against them.
Sly Mongoose
Author: Tobias S. Buckell
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765358721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Working as a scavenger on a hostile planet, fourteen-year-old Timas finds his life thrown into turmoil by the crash-landing of a mysterious stranger who bears a warning that an alien intelligence is coming to invade the planet.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765358721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Working as a scavenger on a hostile planet, fourteen-year-old Timas finds his life thrown into turmoil by the crash-landing of a mysterious stranger who bears a warning that an alien intelligence is coming to invade the planet.
Abolition
Author: Kevin Andrew
Publisher: BookCountry
ISBN: 1463004923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Publisher: BookCountry
ISBN: 1463004923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
On the Move
Author: Sue Boinski
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226063409
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Getting from here to there may be simple for one individual. But as any parent, scout leader, or CEO knows, herding a whole troop in one direction is a lot more complicated. Who leads the group? Who decides where the group will travel, and using what information? How do they accomplish these tasks? On the Move addresses these questions, examining the social, cognitive, and ecological processes that underlie patterns and strategies of group travel. Chapters discuss how factors such as group size, resource distribution and availability, the costs of travel, predation, social cohesion, and cognitive skills affect how individuals as well as social groups exploit their environment. Most chapters focus on field studies of a wide range of human and nonhuman primate groups, from squirrel monkeys to Turkana pastoralists, but chapters covering group travel in hyenas, birds, dolphins, and bees provide a broad taxonomic perspective and offer new insights into comparative questions, such as whether primates are unique in their ability to coordinate group-level activities.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226063409
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Getting from here to there may be simple for one individual. But as any parent, scout leader, or CEO knows, herding a whole troop in one direction is a lot more complicated. Who leads the group? Who decides where the group will travel, and using what information? How do they accomplish these tasks? On the Move addresses these questions, examining the social, cognitive, and ecological processes that underlie patterns and strategies of group travel. Chapters discuss how factors such as group size, resource distribution and availability, the costs of travel, predation, social cohesion, and cognitive skills affect how individuals as well as social groups exploit their environment. Most chapters focus on field studies of a wide range of human and nonhuman primate groups, from squirrel monkeys to Turkana pastoralists, but chapters covering group travel in hyenas, birds, dolphins, and bees provide a broad taxonomic perspective and offer new insights into comparative questions, such as whether primates are unique in their ability to coordinate group-level activities.
The Lunatic
Author: Anthony C. Winkler
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617750549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This novel reveals that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman. . . . “By far the funniest book I’ve read in a decade” (The Washington Post Book World). In Jamaica, Aloysius is tolerated by his neighbors, but forced to eke out a living by doing odd jobs and use the hospitable woodlands for shelter. Starved of human companionship, he has running conversations with trees and plants. Then love, or a peculiar version of it, comes to Aloysius in the form of a solidly built German lady, Inga Schmidt, who has come to the Caribbean to photograph the flora and fauna. They will embark on a romance and a series of misadventures that may turn the island, and their lives, upside down . . . “Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit.” —Marlon James
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617750549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This novel reveals that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman. . . . “By far the funniest book I’ve read in a decade” (The Washington Post Book World). In Jamaica, Aloysius is tolerated by his neighbors, but forced to eke out a living by doing odd jobs and use the hospitable woodlands for shelter. Starved of human companionship, he has running conversations with trees and plants. Then love, or a peculiar version of it, comes to Aloysius in the form of a solidly built German lady, Inga Schmidt, who has come to the Caribbean to photograph the flora and fauna. They will embark on a romance and a series of misadventures that may turn the island, and their lives, upside down . . . “Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit.” —Marlon James
Warthogs and Mongooses
Author: Janey Levy
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1538266954
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
In the animal world, it's rare for two mammal species to form a mutualistic relationship. It's especially rare for that to happen when neither species is a primate, but that's exactly what happens between warthogs and banded mongooses. Young readers will be thrilled to discover these contrasting creatures and the fascinating bond between them. Accessible text addresses important science concepts and lively images bring this relationship into full focus. Fun facts and a graphic organizer enhance the narrative.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1538266954
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
In the animal world, it's rare for two mammal species to form a mutualistic relationship. It's especially rare for that to happen when neither species is a primate, but that's exactly what happens between warthogs and banded mongooses. Young readers will be thrilled to discover these contrasting creatures and the fascinating bond between them. Accessible text addresses important science concepts and lively images bring this relationship into full focus. Fun facts and a graphic organizer enhance the narrative.
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XL
Author: David Marcum
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1804243590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Featuring Contributions by: Roger Riccard, Tracy Revels (2 stories), Liese Sherwood-Fabre, Brenda Seabrooke (2 stories), Gordon Linzner, Mike Adamson, Hugh Ashton, David Marcum, Jane Rubino, Brett Fawcett, Susan Knight, Alan Dimes, Arthur Hall, Paula Hammond, Tim Newton Anderson, Robert Stapleton, and a poem by Joseph W. Svec III 53 New Traditional Canonical Holmes Adventures Collected in Three Companion Volumes Throughout the original Holmes Canon, there were hints and teases of other intriguing cases - The Tarleton Murders . . . The Grice-Paterson Curse . . . The Abernetty Tragedy. Watson mentions over one-hundred-and-twenty of these, which have collectively come to be known as The Untold Cases. Now, once again MX Publishing brings us fifty-three of these adventures in three simultaneously published volumes, with all royalties going to support the Undershaw school for special needs children, located at one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's former homes. "Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine . . . ." - Dr. John H. Watson So wrote Dr. Watson in "The Problem of Thor Bridge" - and ever since, Sherlockians have been seeking to know more about these tales from the legendary Tin Dispatch Box. While Watson's original Literary Agent only edited the pitifully few sixty stories that make up the original Canon, there have since been literally thousands of traditional adventures about the true Sherlock Holmes - and yet there will never be enough! In 2018, MX Publishing presented Parts XI and XII of this acclaimed and ongoing series, Some Untold Cases, and then in 2020, Parts XXII, XXIII, and XXIV returned to that theme with Some More Untold Cases. Now that concept is revisited with more Sherlock Holmes adventures that further explore those many tantalizing references to some of Holmes's other Untold Cases, as mentioned in The Canon. Join us as we return to Baker Street and discover more authentic adventures of Sherlock Holmes, described by the estimable Dr. Watson as "the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known."
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1804243590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Featuring Contributions by: Roger Riccard, Tracy Revels (2 stories), Liese Sherwood-Fabre, Brenda Seabrooke (2 stories), Gordon Linzner, Mike Adamson, Hugh Ashton, David Marcum, Jane Rubino, Brett Fawcett, Susan Knight, Alan Dimes, Arthur Hall, Paula Hammond, Tim Newton Anderson, Robert Stapleton, and a poem by Joseph W. Svec III 53 New Traditional Canonical Holmes Adventures Collected in Three Companion Volumes Throughout the original Holmes Canon, there were hints and teases of other intriguing cases - The Tarleton Murders . . . The Grice-Paterson Curse . . . The Abernetty Tragedy. Watson mentions over one-hundred-and-twenty of these, which have collectively come to be known as The Untold Cases. Now, once again MX Publishing brings us fifty-three of these adventures in three simultaneously published volumes, with all royalties going to support the Undershaw school for special needs children, located at one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's former homes. "Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine . . . ." - Dr. John H. Watson So wrote Dr. Watson in "The Problem of Thor Bridge" - and ever since, Sherlockians have been seeking to know more about these tales from the legendary Tin Dispatch Box. While Watson's original Literary Agent only edited the pitifully few sixty stories that make up the original Canon, there have since been literally thousands of traditional adventures about the true Sherlock Holmes - and yet there will never be enough! In 2018, MX Publishing presented Parts XI and XII of this acclaimed and ongoing series, Some Untold Cases, and then in 2020, Parts XXII, XXIII, and XXIV returned to that theme with Some More Untold Cases. Now that concept is revisited with more Sherlock Holmes adventures that further explore those many tantalizing references to some of Holmes's other Untold Cases, as mentioned in The Canon. Join us as we return to Baker Street and discover more authentic adventures of Sherlock Holmes, described by the estimable Dr. Watson as "the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known."
Touched By Venom
Author: Janine Cross
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101099909
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Like her half-breed mother, young Zarq Darquel can’t always hold her tongue. A peasant on a large dragon estate, she goes unnoticed by the Temple of the Dragon—until she accidentally captures the attention of an eccentric and dangerous dragonmaster, unleashing a storm of tragedy. Her clan is plunged into destitution, her beautiful sister, Waivia, sold into slavery, and her mother lost to madness. Desperate to find Waivia, Zarq and her delirious mother flee through the underworld of their land. Consumed with the desire for revenge, Zarq develops a taste for the highly addictive venom of the dragons she has been taught to revere—and with this poison, she imbibes their memories and glimpses a plot for social revolution. But to achieve it, she must defy not just sexual taboos and patriarchal conventions, but the Emperor who rules her nation.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101099909
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Like her half-breed mother, young Zarq Darquel can’t always hold her tongue. A peasant on a large dragon estate, she goes unnoticed by the Temple of the Dragon—until she accidentally captures the attention of an eccentric and dangerous dragonmaster, unleashing a storm of tragedy. Her clan is plunged into destitution, her beautiful sister, Waivia, sold into slavery, and her mother lost to madness. Desperate to find Waivia, Zarq and her delirious mother flee through the underworld of their land. Consumed with the desire for revenge, Zarq develops a taste for the highly addictive venom of the dragons she has been taught to revere—and with this poison, she imbibes their memories and glimpses a plot for social revolution. But to achieve it, she must defy not just sexual taboos and patriarchal conventions, but the Emperor who rules her nation.
Birds of Prey
Author: Wilbur Smith
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466857722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
It is 1667 and the Dutch and the English are at war. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Henry 'Hal' Courtney, in their fighting caravel Lady Edwina, are on patrol off the Agulhas Cape of Southern Africa: lying in wait for one of the galleons of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with treasure to fall into their net. It is the beginning of the quest that will sweep them from the new settlement of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa to the Great Horn of Ethiopia far to the north. The bloody capture of the Dutch merchantman, and three valuable hostages, launches Hal into a perilous adventure which only the bravest will survive... Along the way Hal will encounter many enemies. A dangerous mutineer, sworn to extract to revenge. A fellow Knight Templar, now his father's betrayer. And the most dangerous adversary on the African continent, the Dutch swordsman Schreuder. His spirit will also be tested by love. For the rich and pampered Dutch heiress, Katinka. For the beautiful slave girl, Sukeena. And for a woman whose unstinting courage will outshine them all... From the dungeons of Good Hope to the uncharted wilderness of the Dark Continent and then to the fatal narrows of the Red Sea, Hal's faith will lead him to his destiny. To the defense of the final Christian stronghold in Africa. The kingdom of Prester John, historic guardian of the priceless Holy Grail... Birds of Prey is a Courtney Family Adventure from bestselling author Wilbur Smith.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466857722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
It is 1667 and the Dutch and the English are at war. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Henry 'Hal' Courtney, in their fighting caravel Lady Edwina, are on patrol off the Agulhas Cape of Southern Africa: lying in wait for one of the galleons of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with treasure to fall into their net. It is the beginning of the quest that will sweep them from the new settlement of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa to the Great Horn of Ethiopia far to the north. The bloody capture of the Dutch merchantman, and three valuable hostages, launches Hal into a perilous adventure which only the bravest will survive... Along the way Hal will encounter many enemies. A dangerous mutineer, sworn to extract to revenge. A fellow Knight Templar, now his father's betrayer. And the most dangerous adversary on the African continent, the Dutch swordsman Schreuder. His spirit will also be tested by love. For the rich and pampered Dutch heiress, Katinka. For the beautiful slave girl, Sukeena. And for a woman whose unstinting courage will outshine them all... From the dungeons of Good Hope to the uncharted wilderness of the Dark Continent and then to the fatal narrows of the Red Sea, Hal's faith will lead him to his destiny. To the defense of the final Christian stronghold in Africa. The kingdom of Prester John, historic guardian of the priceless Holy Grail... Birds of Prey is a Courtney Family Adventure from bestselling author Wilbur Smith.
French Blue
Author: Philip Hammond
Publisher: Brunswick House Press
ISBN:
Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher: Brunswick House Press
ISBN:
Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description