Author: Val Plumwood
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1922144177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile’s jaws. She crawled for hours through swamp with appalling injuries before being rescued. The experience made her well placed to write about cultural responses to death and predation. The first section of The Eye of the Crocodile consists of chapters intended for a book on crocodiles that remained unfinished at the time of Val’s death. The remaining chapters are previously published papers brought together to form an overview of Val’s ideas on death, predation and nature.
The Eye of the Crocodile
Author: Val Plumwood
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1922144177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile’s jaws. She crawled for hours through swamp with appalling injuries before being rescued. The experience made her well placed to write about cultural responses to death and predation. The first section of The Eye of the Crocodile consists of chapters intended for a book on crocodiles that remained unfinished at the time of Val’s death. The remaining chapters are previously published papers brought together to form an overview of Val’s ideas on death, predation and nature.
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1922144177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile’s jaws. She crawled for hours through swamp with appalling injuries before being rescued. The experience made her well placed to write about cultural responses to death and predation. The first section of The Eye of the Crocodile consists of chapters intended for a book on crocodiles that remained unfinished at the time of Val’s death. The remaining chapters are previously published papers brought together to form an overview of Val’s ideas on death, predation and nature.
There's a Crocodile Under My Bed!
Author: Ingrid Schubert
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781932425482
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The crocodile under Peggy's bed ends up being her playmate.
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781932425482
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The crocodile under Peggy's bed ends up being her playmate.
Solomon Crocodile
Author: Catherine Rayner
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529049415
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Poor Solomon is looking for some fun but no one wants to play. The dragonflies tell him to buzz off, the storks get in a flap, and the hippo? Well, the less said about the hippo, the better! But then somebody else starts causing trouble . . . and for once it is NOT Solomon. Could it be the perfect pal for a lonely crocodile? Solomon Crocodile is a snappy, happy, fun story with stunning artwork from the Kate Greenaway award-winning Catherine Rayner.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529049415
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Poor Solomon is looking for some fun but no one wants to play. The dragonflies tell him to buzz off, the storks get in a flap, and the hippo? Well, the less said about the hippo, the better! But then somebody else starts causing trouble . . . and for once it is NOT Solomon. Could it be the perfect pal for a lonely crocodile? Solomon Crocodile is a snappy, happy, fun story with stunning artwork from the Kate Greenaway award-winning Catherine Rayner.
The Crocodile Bird
Author: Richard Turner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760361044
Category : Crocodiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the alleged symbiotic relationship between crocodiles and Egyptian plovers in rhyming verse.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760361044
Category : Crocodiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the alleged symbiotic relationship between crocodiles and Egyptian plovers in rhyming verse.
The Crocodile
Author: Maurizio de Giovanni
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 1405519533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he's marking time, waiting out an awkward scandal. But when the bloodied bodies of teenagers start appearing around the city, victims of a strange and sinister killer whom police and locals take to calling The Crocodile, it soon becomes clear to Lojacono that the killings are more than simple Mafia hits, and that the labyrinthine streets of Naples are more deadly than he'd dared imagine. Can he catch the assassin in time to save the city's innocents? A bestseller in Italy, The Crocodile is a dark, bloody story of murder and revenge that will grip and thrill you.
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 1405519533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he's marking time, waiting out an awkward scandal. But when the bloodied bodies of teenagers start appearing around the city, victims of a strange and sinister killer whom police and locals take to calling The Crocodile, it soon becomes clear to Lojacono that the killings are more than simple Mafia hits, and that the labyrinthine streets of Naples are more deadly than he'd dared imagine. Can he catch the assassin in time to save the city's innocents? A bestseller in Italy, The Crocodile is a dark, bloody story of murder and revenge that will grip and thrill you.
Can You Tell an Alligator from a Crocodile?
Author: Buffy Silverman
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0761378464
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Looks at the ways that alligators and crocodiles are different, as well as how they are similar, looking at their physical features, behavior, and where they live.
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0761378464
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Looks at the ways that alligators and crocodiles are different, as well as how they are similar, looking at their physical features, behavior, and where they live.
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: C & R Crime
ISBN: 178033446X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!
Publisher: C & R Crime
ISBN: 178033446X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!
Notes of a Crocodile
Author: Qiu Miaojin
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 168137076X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan’s most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 168137076X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan’s most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.
Crocodile Tears
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399250565
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399250565
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.
Never Smile at a Crocodile
Author: Jack Lawrence
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760152598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
You should never smile at Mr Crocodile! Sing along with Jay Laga'aia's wonderful recording of the classic song, marvel at the delightful illustrations, and play with the cuddly plush toy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760152598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
You should never smile at Mr Crocodile! Sing along with Jay Laga'aia's wonderful recording of the classic song, marvel at the delightful illustrations, and play with the cuddly plush toy.