Fables of the Amazon
Fables of the Amazon

Author: Alan J. Hesse

Publisher: Bublish, Inc.

Published: 2020-02-10

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 1647040760

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“Fables of the Amazon delivers important forest lessons, animal facts, and moral tales through humorous stories and vivid images that will broaden children’s minds to the unique world of the Amazon.” — Readers’ Favorite Natural history and ecology are fascinating but complex subjects. What better way to discover them than through a comic that is both funny and scientifically accurate? A perfect learning resource for nature-loving kids and adults, as well as a perfect classroom book for science teachers! Written by conservation scientists, this comic features facts about jungle animals drawn from actual field observations from the Amazon Jungle. What you will discover: - Eleven comic strip short fables featuring a wide array of South American jungle animals. Each fable comes with an ecology lesson. - An intimate look at the secret lives of wild guinea pigs, rare macaws, jaguars, leaf-cutter ants, the elusive Maned Wolf, and many others. - The authors' own natural history notes from the field with photos and cartoons. - Meet the quirky and unique animal characters of the mighty Amazon forest by buying this book! A word about the authors: Conservation scientists Dr. Louise Emmons and Alan J. Hesse have decades of field experience in the jungles of South America. Their unique, personal knowledge of wild animals and the secrets of the tropical forest is revealed in these short stories, brought to life by the humour of cartoons.

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age

Author: Naomi Conn Liebler

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1350155004

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In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period and across geographic, political, and social references. They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Second Tolstoy
Second Tolstoy

Author: Steve Hickey

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-11-12

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1725285371

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Very few if any have devoted more years to practicing and teaching others to practice the precepts of Jesus's Sermon on the Mount than Leo Tolstoy. He stands apart in the history of interpretation and has had enormous influence on others and other countries. Yet, Gandhi or others often get the glory. Tolstoy is remembered as a great writer, but his religious and philosophical works are by and large unknown or disparaged, even in scholarly Tolstoyan circles. His contribution is substantially under-appreciated and misunderstood. In Second Tolstoy: The Sermon on the Mount as Theo-tactics, Steve Hickey captures the particulars and dynamics of Tolstoy's interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount from a deliberately sympathetic vantage point. Underlying this project is shared belief with Tolstoy that the Sermon on the Mount is liveable and to be lived. While from the vantage point of traditional orthodoxy Tolstoy got much wrong, there remains a lack of appreciation for what he got right--radical obedience to the teachings of Jesus. A new vocabulary is proposed to more precisely capture Tolstoyan lived theology, namely the political and social expressions of Tolstoyan Christianity, with the hope that these theories and practices will gain a wider consideration, understanding, and following.