Author: Elaine Campbell
Publisher: Three Continents
ISBN: 9780894104107
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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An anthology by women writers from the Caribbean. Haiti's Edwidge Danticat contributes Night Women, a story about prostitutes, and Jamaica's Carmen Tipling contributes Lunchtime Revolution, a play on a coup d'etat by amateurs.
Author: Elaine Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781685859374
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Whistling Bird celebrates what were until recently the little-heard voices of women writers from the Caribbean. The anthology includes short stories, poetry, drama, and excerpts from novels--all rich, melodic works written with clarity and conviction.
Author: Laura Goering
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
ISBN: 1934359300
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Marcel the swan stays behind when his family migrates for the winter, but soon finds he cannot find food and shelter the way other animals do in the winter.
Author: Les Beletsky
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9781932855616
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Introduces two hundred birds from six continents with brief descriptions, color illustrations, and audio recordings of songs and calls which can be played with the attached digital audio player.
Author: Donna Tabbert Long
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9780915024957
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Tells the story behind the food, people, and places that have become Minnesota institutions.
Author: Jennifer Bjork
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1664238085
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Shai, the ten-year-old son of a Galilean fisherman, deeply desires his father’s pride and respect. The frustrated, sometimes angry, boy is challenged by jealousy and competes for attention from a blood relative, his older brother, Ezra. Maturing into adolescence, Shai and his best friend each seek a girlfriend, even doing something ridiculous to gain their attention. Brutality surrounds Shai, ranging from a school bully to Roman torture. The term ‘payment or punishment’ spreads quickly as the unyielding Roman rulers enforce market taxes in Capernaum. Everything is about to change when Shai befriends a stranger from Nazareth one day while bathing in the waters of the Galilee. While his rabbi teaches him to become a man and to abide by Hebrew laws, Yeshua (Jesus) teaches loving care through action. Confused, Shai is faced with conflicting choices, one after another. As Yeshua reveals his power and destiny, people in Shai’s life react differently to his friend’s messages. Shai’s relationships evolve and change as his choices transform not just his life, but also the lives of others.
Author: Daniel Lewis
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300183453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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"Long forgotten, the Smithsonian Institution's first curator of birds, Robert Ridgway, is one of America's most important scientists. This book centers itself around a biographical treatment of Ridgway, but even more important considers what it meant to be a professional and an amateur in biology in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and shows how the field of ornithology was professionalized as evolutionary theory made its mark on the study of birds"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Percy Algernon Taverner
Publisher: National Museum of Canada, 1928 (Ottawa : F. A. Acland, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty)
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Author: Charles Conrad Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Author: Donald Kroodsma
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547344872
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 501
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Listen to birds sing as you’ve never listened before, as the world-renowned birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma takes you on personal journeys of discovery and intrigue. Read stories of wrens and robins, thrushes and thrashers, warblers and whip-poor-wills, bluebirds and cardinals, and many more bird. Learn how each acquires its songs, how songs vary from bird to bird and place to place, how some birds' singing is especially beautiful or ceaseless or complex, how some do not sing at all, how the often quiet female has the last word, and why. Hear a baby wren and the author’s own daughter babble as each learns its local dialect. Listen to the mockingbird by night and by day and count how many different songs he can sing. Marvel at the exquisite harmony in the duet of a wood thrush as he uses his two voice boxes to accompany himself. Feel the extraordinary energy in the songs just before sunrise as dawn’s first light sweeps across this singing planet. Hear firsthand the unmistakable evidence that there are not one but two species of marsh wrens and two species of winter wrens in North America. Learn not only to hear but to see birds sing in the form of sonagrams, as these visual images dance across the pages while you listen to the accompanying audio. Using your trained ears and eyes, you can begin your own journeys of discovery. Listen anew to birds in your backyard and beyond, exploring the singing minds of birds as they tell all that they know. Join Kroodsma not only in identifying but in identifying with singing birds, connecting with nature’s musicians in a whole new way. Please note: this ebook includes embedded audio files. You will only be able to access these files from a device that supports embedded audio.
