A Bird Watcher's Adventures in Tropical America. Illustrations by Dana Gardner
Author: Alexander Frank Skutch
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Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780598029836
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Author: Alexander Frank Skutch
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Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780598029836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven L. Hilty
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Published: 2000-06-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780788192807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy are tropical birds like parrots and quetzels so much more colorful than birds of temperate lands? How can a vulture soaring thousands of feet above the canopy spot a dead rodent no bigger than a mouse on the rainforest floor? What permits sparrow-sized antbirds to thrive among hordes of army ants that devour every other living thing in their path? Hilty has led birding tours to the American Tropics for over 20 years. By providing answers to the hundreds of questions asked by participants of these expeditions, he has produced a natural history of the bird life of the New World Tropics that is as practical, accurate and fascinating as the species it reveals.
Author: Scot Peacock
Publisher: Contemporary Authors New Revis
Published: 2002-02
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780787646134
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Author: Melanie Ann Miller
Publisher: Scholarly Title
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 926
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexander Frank Skutch
Publisher: Comstock Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Skutch combines his personal knowledge of pigeons that he has watched near his Costa Rican home with a masterful summary of the published literature on Columbids of the world. . . . The doves and pigeons of the world are a fascinating lot. Alexander Skutch, aided by Dana Gardner, captures the essence of their life and presents it in an easily digestible form. Although scientists may be exasperated by some of the elements of the presentation, any student of birds will be enlightened and entertained by reading Life of the Pigeon.'--Ornithological Literature
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 1282
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).
Author: Roy H. May
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2015-10-21
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 149822525X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthics in the West too often equates morality with universal moral principles, thus imposing lifestyles and moral criteria that do not respect differences and local histories. Even Christianity proposes ethics that is based on eternal, absolute and universal truths or principles, independent of sociocultural and historical contexts. The problem is that these universal moral laws become a means of social control to exclude those who are different: non-Christian religions, nonwhite races, non-Western cultures, and poor and marginalized social classes everywhere. To these can be added minorities marginalized because of sexual orientation, physical handicaps, and women of all sectors and cultures. Another kind of ethics is urgent. For these reasons, Christians in Latin America and other parts are seeking innovative ways of envisioning ethics from their marginalized and discriminated social locations in order to find another possible ethics, an ethics that is not universal and not based on eternal truths or principles, but rather is contextual and historical and that takes into account real-life realities. Only an ethics that does this will be liberative. Important steps toward this other possible ethics have been taken by the theology of liberation by developing a contextual and intercultural morality.
Author: University of Texas Press
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis three-volume set presents a "best of the best" selection from the University of Texas Press's first half-century.
Author: Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.). College Library
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 278
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