A Bird that Flies with Two Wings

A Bird that Flies with Two Wings

Author: Miranda Forsyth

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1921536799

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This book investigates the problems and possibilities of plural legal orders through an in-depth study of the relationship between the state and customary justice systems in Vanuatu. It argues that there is a need to move away from the current state-centric approach to law reform in the South Pacific region, and instead include all state and non-state legal orders in development strategies and dialogue. The book also presents a typology of models of engagement between state and non-state legal systems, and describes a process for analysing which of these models would be most advantageous for any country in the South Pacific region, and beyond.


On the Wing

On the Wing

Author: Dr. David E. Alexander

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0199996776

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"On the Wing is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the evolution of flight in all four groups of powered flyers: insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats."--Book jacket.


Two Wings

Two Wings

Author: Roberta J. Guess

Publisher: America Star Books

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9781456015237

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An animated story of two birds having a broken wing but learning to fly together.


Vesper Flights

Vesper Flights

Author: Helen Macdonald

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0802146694

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The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.


If I Had Two Wings: Stories

If I Had Two Wings: Stories

Author: Randall Kenan

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1324005475

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Finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. In Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high-school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans. Shot through with humor and seasoned by inventiveness and maturity, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations. If I Had Two Wings is a rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit. Kenan’s prose is nothing short of wondrous.


Two Wings to Fly Away

Two Wings to Fly Away

Author: Penny Mickelbury

Publisher: Bywater Books

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1612941508

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In 1856 Philadelphia, runaway slave Genie Oliver uses her dress shop as a front for her work with the Underground Railroad; and reluctant heiress Abby Read runs a rooming house not just because she hates the life of the idle rich society woman, but because she has no intention of ever marrying a man. When the daughter of Abby's free black servant is grabbed by rogue slave catchers, an unlikely group of people come together, first out of necessity, and then, gradually, in friendship. And in the case of Abby and Genie, something much more.


Wings

Wings

Author: Tracey Turner

Publisher: Wheels/Wings

Published: 2021-05-13

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780753445198

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A visually stunning book about all kinds of wings - not just those on aeroplanes!


Baby Birds

Baby Birds

Author: Bobbie Kalman

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780778739500

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Introduces the physical characteristics, behaviors, habitat, and life cycle of a baby bird.