Author: Lucy Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993204357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Rhino is looking for a companion, but where to look? Should he take the advice of his jungle friends or follow his heart? And what cheeky plan does his friend Monkey have in store? Join Rhino and Monkey as they discover that maybe not everyone agrees on what is best. A perfect read aloud book for younger readers with colourful illustrations.
Rhino Wants a Wife
Author: Lucy Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993204357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Rhino is looking for a companion, but where to look? Should he take the advice of his jungle friends or follow his heart? And what cheeky plan does his friend Monkey have in store? Join Rhino and Monkey as they discover that maybe not everyone agrees on what is best. A perfect read aloud book for younger readers with colourful illustrations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993204357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Rhino is looking for a companion, but where to look? Should he take the advice of his jungle friends or follow his heart? And what cheeky plan does his friend Monkey have in store? Join Rhino and Monkey as they discover that maybe not everyone agrees on what is best. A perfect read aloud book for younger readers with colourful illustrations.
The Animal Wife
Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544129601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Set in prehistoric Siberia, a “psychologically acute and soaringly imaginative” novel by a New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). In this novel by the author of Reindeer Moon, set in the Paleolithic age, Kori lives among his hunter-gatherer people, guilty with the knowledge that his unborn child is being carried by his shaman father’s new wife. Then, Kori impulsively seizes another woman, from a different tribe, after seeing her swimming in a pond—putting his group in danger. He calls the woman Muskrat, and her customs, beliefs, and language are utterly alien to him. And their relationship may bring either joy or bloodshed . . . From an author and anthropologist known for both her fiction and her nonfiction—including the bestsellers The Hidden Life of Dogs and The Tribe of Tiger—this is a compelling tale “likely to appeal to Clan of the Cave Bear fans” (Library Journal).
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544129601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Set in prehistoric Siberia, a “psychologically acute and soaringly imaginative” novel by a New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). In this novel by the author of Reindeer Moon, set in the Paleolithic age, Kori lives among his hunter-gatherer people, guilty with the knowledge that his unborn child is being carried by his shaman father’s new wife. Then, Kori impulsively seizes another woman, from a different tribe, after seeing her swimming in a pond—putting his group in danger. He calls the woman Muskrat, and her customs, beliefs, and language are utterly alien to him. And their relationship may bring either joy or bloodshed . . . From an author and anthropologist known for both her fiction and her nonfiction—including the bestsellers The Hidden Life of Dogs and The Tribe of Tiger—this is a compelling tale “likely to appeal to Clan of the Cave Bear fans” (Library Journal).
Rhinoceros Success
Author: Scott Alexander
Publisher: Ramsey Press
ISBN: 1937077152
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Go get the life you want. Be a Rhinoceros! There is something dangerous about this book. Something big. Something full of power, energy and force of will. It could be about you. You could become three tons of thick-skinned, snorting hard-charging rhinoceros. It is time to go get the life you want.
Publisher: Ramsey Press
ISBN: 1937077152
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Go get the life you want. Be a Rhinoceros! There is something dangerous about this book. Something big. Something full of power, energy and force of will. It could be about you. You could become three tons of thick-skinned, snorting hard-charging rhinoceros. It is time to go get the life you want.
Chizi's Tale
Author: Jack Jones
Publisher: Peek-A-Boo Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781943154074
Category : Black rhinoceroses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An orphaned baby black rhino is taken in by the manager of the local national park, who names him Chizi and raised him along with his own children. As Chizi grows, he becomes a big part of the family. Chizi's Tale teaches that all of us can, and should, show mercy and compassion.
Publisher: Peek-A-Boo Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781943154074
Category : Black rhinoceroses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An orphaned baby black rhino is taken in by the manager of the local national park, who names him Chizi and raised him along with his own children. As Chizi grows, he becomes a big part of the family. Chizi's Tale teaches that all of us can, and should, show mercy and compassion.
The Mystery of the Black Rhino
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689855982
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Hunters in Nairobi are threatening more than a few animals.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689855982
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Hunters in Nairobi are threatening more than a few animals.
Running with Rhinos
Author: Ed Warner
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1626342288
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
“Running with rhinos” is not a euphemism—not when you’re ground support for the International Rhino Foundation’s Rhino Conservancy Project. Edward M. Warner, a self-proclaimed radical conservationist, presents his outrageous adventures from more than a decade of collaboration with the veterinarians and biologists who care for endangered rhinos in Africa. Few if any laymen like Warner have been invited to do what amounts to some of the most dangerous volunteer fieldwork around. Fewer than five thousand black rhinos remain in the wilds of sub-Saharan Africa. About five hundred live on private conservancies in Zimbabwe. For Warner, working on the frontlines of rhino conservation not only allowed him to help rhinos, it gave him the opportunity to pursue and refine his emerging philosophy of radical conservationism, to cultivate partnerships between local communities and private landowners in Africa, and to export the lessons about land and wildlife management back home to the United States. In Running with Rhinos: Stories from a Radical Conservationist, Warner takes readers along as he weasels his way into becoming volunteer ground support for the International Rhino Foundation’s Rhino Conservancy Project, or “Rhino Ops,” in Zimbabwe. It is gritty, sweaty, sometimes scary, and exhilarating work. Warner succeeds in telling a remarkable story of the extraordinary bonds between humans—and their dedication to protecting endangered animals—all while weaving eye-opening stories about the flora, fauna, geology, geography, and politics of sub-Saharan Africa.
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1626342288
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
“Running with rhinos” is not a euphemism—not when you’re ground support for the International Rhino Foundation’s Rhino Conservancy Project. Edward M. Warner, a self-proclaimed radical conservationist, presents his outrageous adventures from more than a decade of collaboration with the veterinarians and biologists who care for endangered rhinos in Africa. Few if any laymen like Warner have been invited to do what amounts to some of the most dangerous volunteer fieldwork around. Fewer than five thousand black rhinos remain in the wilds of sub-Saharan Africa. About five hundred live on private conservancies in Zimbabwe. For Warner, working on the frontlines of rhino conservation not only allowed him to help rhinos, it gave him the opportunity to pursue and refine his emerging philosophy of radical conservationism, to cultivate partnerships between local communities and private landowners in Africa, and to export the lessons about land and wildlife management back home to the United States. In Running with Rhinos: Stories from a Radical Conservationist, Warner takes readers along as he weasels his way into becoming volunteer ground support for the International Rhino Foundation’s Rhino Conservancy Project, or “Rhino Ops,” in Zimbabwe. It is gritty, sweaty, sometimes scary, and exhilarating work. Warner succeeds in telling a remarkable story of the extraordinary bonds between humans—and their dedication to protecting endangered animals—all while weaving eye-opening stories about the flora, fauna, geology, geography, and politics of sub-Saharan Africa.
Horn of Darkness
Author: Carol Cunningham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195138805
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The black rhino is nature's tank, feared by all animals. Even lions will break off a hunt to detour around one. And yet the black rhino is on the edge of extinction, its numbers dwindling from 100,000 at the turn of the century, to less than 2,500 today. The reason is that in places like Yemen, China, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, the rhino's horn is more valuable than gold, so valuable that people will risk their lives to harvest it. To deter rhino poachers, African governments have spent millions--on helicopters, paramilitary operations, fences and guard dogs, even relocation to protected areas. Finally, Namibia decided to de-horn its rhino population, in a last ditch effort to stop the slaughter. In 1991, Carol Cunningham and Joel Berger, and their eighteen-month-old daughter Sonja, went to Namibia to weigh the effects of de-horning on rhinos. In Horn of Darkness, they tell the story of three years in the Namib Desert, studying Africa's last sizable population of free-roaming black rhinos. This is the closest most readers will come to experiencing life in the remaining wilds of Africa. Cunningham and Berger, writing nate chapters, capture what it is like to leave the comforts of civilization, to camp for months at a time in a land filled with deadly predators, to study an animal that is reclusive, unpredictable, and highly dangerous. The authors describe staking out water holes in the dead of the night, creeping to within twenty-seven meters of rhinos to photograph them, all the while keeping a lookout for hyenas, elephants, and lions. They recount many heart-pounding escapes--one rhino forces Carol Cunningham up a tree, an unseen lion in hot pursuit of hyenas races right past a frozen Joel Berger--and capture the adrenaline rush of inching closer to a rhino that might flee--or charge--at any moment. They also give readers a clear sense of the careful, patient work involved in studying animals, the frustration of long days without finding rhinos or seeing other people, coping with heat and thirst (the Namib desert is one of the driest on Earth), with dirt and insects, driving hundreds of kilometers in a Land Rover packed to capacity, slowing amassing records on one hundred individual rhinos over the course of several years. And perhaps most important, the authors reveal that the data they collected suggests that the de-horning project might backfire--that in the four years after de-horning began, calf survival was down (the evidence suggests that hyenas might be preying on calves and the horn less mothers couldn't defend their offspring). They also describe the dark side of scientific work, from the petty jealousy of other scientists--outside researchers were often seen as ecological imperialists--to the controversy that erupted after the authors published their findings, as furious officials of the Namibian conservation program denounced their findings and through delays and other tactics effectively withheld a permit to allow the couple to continue their study. Weaving together the historical accounts of other naturalists, a vividly detailed look at life in the wild, and a behind-the-scenes glimpse of scientific work and the dark side of the conservation movement, Horn of Darkness is destined to be a classic work on the natural world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195138805
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The black rhino is nature's tank, feared by all animals. Even lions will break off a hunt to detour around one. And yet the black rhino is on the edge of extinction, its numbers dwindling from 100,000 at the turn of the century, to less than 2,500 today. The reason is that in places like Yemen, China, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, the rhino's horn is more valuable than gold, so valuable that people will risk their lives to harvest it. To deter rhino poachers, African governments have spent millions--on helicopters, paramilitary operations, fences and guard dogs, even relocation to protected areas. Finally, Namibia decided to de-horn its rhino population, in a last ditch effort to stop the slaughter. In 1991, Carol Cunningham and Joel Berger, and their eighteen-month-old daughter Sonja, went to Namibia to weigh the effects of de-horning on rhinos. In Horn of Darkness, they tell the story of three years in the Namib Desert, studying Africa's last sizable population of free-roaming black rhinos. This is the closest most readers will come to experiencing life in the remaining wilds of Africa. Cunningham and Berger, writing nate chapters, capture what it is like to leave the comforts of civilization, to camp for months at a time in a land filled with deadly predators, to study an animal that is reclusive, unpredictable, and highly dangerous. The authors describe staking out water holes in the dead of the night, creeping to within twenty-seven meters of rhinos to photograph them, all the while keeping a lookout for hyenas, elephants, and lions. They recount many heart-pounding escapes--one rhino forces Carol Cunningham up a tree, an unseen lion in hot pursuit of hyenas races right past a frozen Joel Berger--and capture the adrenaline rush of inching closer to a rhino that might flee--or charge--at any moment. They also give readers a clear sense of the careful, patient work involved in studying animals, the frustration of long days without finding rhinos or seeing other people, coping with heat and thirst (the Namib desert is one of the driest on Earth), with dirt and insects, driving hundreds of kilometers in a Land Rover packed to capacity, slowing amassing records on one hundred individual rhinos over the course of several years. And perhaps most important, the authors reveal that the data they collected suggests that the de-horning project might backfire--that in the four years after de-horning began, calf survival was down (the evidence suggests that hyenas might be preying on calves and the horn less mothers couldn't defend their offspring). They also describe the dark side of scientific work, from the petty jealousy of other scientists--outside researchers were often seen as ecological imperialists--to the controversy that erupted after the authors published their findings, as furious officials of the Namibian conservation program denounced their findings and through delays and other tactics effectively withheld a permit to allow the couple to continue their study. Weaving together the historical accounts of other naturalists, a vividly detailed look at life in the wild, and a behind-the-scenes glimpse of scientific work and the dark side of the conservation movement, Horn of Darkness is destined to be a classic work on the natural world.
The Rhino Records Story
Author: Harold Bronson
Publisher: SelectBooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1590791355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
"Co-founder of Rhino Records label, which he ran with his partner for twenty-four years, charts the course of the company started by two music fans in the back of their record store and has frequently won the award for label of the year. Author profiles many of the label's artists, including the Monkees, Turtles, and Tommy James"--Provided by publisher
Publisher: SelectBooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1590791355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
"Co-founder of Rhino Records label, which he ran with his partner for twenty-four years, charts the course of the company started by two music fans in the back of their record store and has frequently won the award for label of the year. Author profiles many of the label's artists, including the Monkees, Turtles, and Tommy James"--Provided by publisher
Milking the Rhino
Author: Chris Rush
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740789619
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
"Chris Rush promised that if I gave him a favorable blurb, he would agree to be placed in a secure, isolated neuropsychiatric facility, away from the rest of us. Here goes: 'Chris's book is crammed with good, big, sick belly laughs.' Your turn, Chris." --George Carlin "I first saw Chris Rush thirty years ago, and he killed me. He has a bizarre, funny way of looking at things, and this book is proof of that." --Jay Leno "Chris Rush combines the stream-of-consciousness of a Lenny Bruce, a Monty-Pythonesque appreciation of the surreally absurd, and the mental energy of a Robin Williams." --New York Times "He is universal and intellectual without being elitist." --Variety Comedian Chris Rush was one of the original contributors to National Lampoon magazine. He can be heard on Sirius and XM satellite radio and on the Joey Reynolds radio show every Friday at 1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. In Milking the Rhino, Rush uses a series of unforgettable surreal images to create hilarious verbal cartoons presented in a seductive list form to transport you into a world of nonstop laughter. Lists include: * Seven Examples of Truth in Advertising You Will Never See * Twenty-Five Really Lousy Jobs * The Ten Worst Pickup Lines * Ten Bizarre Hobbies * Fourteen Novelty Items That Never Took Off * Four Things You Shouldn't Do in Zero-Gravity Conditions * Four UFO Incidents That Are Weirder Than Usual
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740789619
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
"Chris Rush promised that if I gave him a favorable blurb, he would agree to be placed in a secure, isolated neuropsychiatric facility, away from the rest of us. Here goes: 'Chris's book is crammed with good, big, sick belly laughs.' Your turn, Chris." --George Carlin "I first saw Chris Rush thirty years ago, and he killed me. He has a bizarre, funny way of looking at things, and this book is proof of that." --Jay Leno "Chris Rush combines the stream-of-consciousness of a Lenny Bruce, a Monty-Pythonesque appreciation of the surreally absurd, and the mental energy of a Robin Williams." --New York Times "He is universal and intellectual without being elitist." --Variety Comedian Chris Rush was one of the original contributors to National Lampoon magazine. He can be heard on Sirius and XM satellite radio and on the Joey Reynolds radio show every Friday at 1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. In Milking the Rhino, Rush uses a series of unforgettable surreal images to create hilarious verbal cartoons presented in a seductive list form to transport you into a world of nonstop laughter. Lists include: * Seven Examples of Truth in Advertising You Will Never See * Twenty-Five Really Lousy Jobs * The Ten Worst Pickup Lines * Ten Bizarre Hobbies * Fourteen Novelty Items That Never Took Off * Four Things You Shouldn't Do in Zero-Gravity Conditions * Four UFO Incidents That Are Weirder Than Usual
Nevada Falls Black
Author: Joseph Brytte
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1619966859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Choices. In this age, we make hundreds if not thousands of choices every day. Do we eat healthy or grab something quick on the run? When you see a yellow traffic light, do you speed up and drive through it or do you prepare to stop? We make so many choices on a daily basis that we almost do it subconsciously. The most important choices that we make could have a significant impact on our lives for years to come, and yet, even these choices are often done subconsciously. Survival and time take precedence now, while our consequences are delayed. John St Cyr is just such a person. He is a sportswriter who lives just outside of Chicago with his wife, Sera, and his young daughter, Gabby. John and his wife are trying to stay afloat financially like so many of us. Outwardly, they are living the American dream, but on the inside, their life is a nightmare. There are stacks of bills and mortgage payments that can't be paid, and every day that goes by, they become deeper in debt. Addictions, infidelity, and bad habits get fed, as John tries to make sense of his life. On an unseasonably warm day in February, John takes a trip to Las Vegas to do an article on the Superbowl, and his life is changed forever. A domestic terrorist plot seems to be unfolding, and he may be in the middle of it. His strange dreams of angels and wraiths are haunting him and he knows he must do something. He must find a tall menacing dark man named Euroclydon. But is he too late? John has never been a spiritual man, nor has he been God fearing. That may or may not change. He has an important choice to make.
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1619966859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Choices. In this age, we make hundreds if not thousands of choices every day. Do we eat healthy or grab something quick on the run? When you see a yellow traffic light, do you speed up and drive through it or do you prepare to stop? We make so many choices on a daily basis that we almost do it subconsciously. The most important choices that we make could have a significant impact on our lives for years to come, and yet, even these choices are often done subconsciously. Survival and time take precedence now, while our consequences are delayed. John St Cyr is just such a person. He is a sportswriter who lives just outside of Chicago with his wife, Sera, and his young daughter, Gabby. John and his wife are trying to stay afloat financially like so many of us. Outwardly, they are living the American dream, but on the inside, their life is a nightmare. There are stacks of bills and mortgage payments that can't be paid, and every day that goes by, they become deeper in debt. Addictions, infidelity, and bad habits get fed, as John tries to make sense of his life. On an unseasonably warm day in February, John takes a trip to Las Vegas to do an article on the Superbowl, and his life is changed forever. A domestic terrorist plot seems to be unfolding, and he may be in the middle of it. His strange dreams of angels and wraiths are haunting him and he knows he must do something. He must find a tall menacing dark man named Euroclydon. But is he too late? John has never been a spiritual man, nor has he been God fearing. That may or may not change. He has an important choice to make.