Parrots Don't Live in the City!
Author: Lucy Reynolds
Publisher:
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781999770402
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Hedgehog
Author: Hugh Warwick
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2014-06-15
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1780233159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Romans who viewed the hedgehog as a weather prophet to modern gardeners who depend on the creature to keep gardens pest-free, the small, spiny animal has had a close connection with humans since the dawn of civilization. A creature of fascination, endearment, and cultural significance, it is one of the few wild animals that people can approach without the fear of attack or it running away. Exploring how this and other characteristics of the hedgehog have propelled it to become one of people’s favorite animals, this book examines the natural and cultural history of these symbolic creatures. Following the hedgehog as it spreads through Europe and Asia to the foot of Africa, Hugh Warwick describes its evolution, behavior, habitat, and diet, as well as its current endangered status. He also looks at the animal’s appeal, accessibility, and status as a pet in many countries, considering its appearance in advertising, films, children’s books, and games. Casting new light on the ancestors of Sonic and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Hedgehog is a fascinating look at these prickly, admirable animals.
The Hedgehog and the Fox
Author: Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-06-02
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 1400846633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system. Applied to Tolstoy, the saying illuminates a paradox that helps explain his philosophy of history: Tolstoy was a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog. One of Berlin's most celebrated works, this extraordinary essay offers profound insights about Tolstoy, historical understanding, and human psychology. This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, English translations of the many passages in foreign languages, a new foreword in which Berlin biographer Michael Ignatieff explains the enduring appeal of Berlin's essay, and a new appendix that provides rich context, including excerpts from reviews and Berlin's letters, as well as a startling new interpretation of Archilochus's epigram.
Justice for Hedgehogs
Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-05-03
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 0674071964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are different aspects of the same large question. He develops original theories on a great variety of issues very rarely considered in the same book: moral skepticism, literary, artistic, and historical interpretation, free will, ancient moral theory, being good and living well, liberty, equality, and law among many other topics. What we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument we find compelling about the rest. Skepticism in all its forms—philosophical, cynical, or post-modern—threatens that unity. The Galilean revolution once made the theological world of value safe for science. But the new republic gradually became a new empire: the modern philosophers inflated the methods of physics into a totalitarian theory of everything. They invaded and occupied all the honorifics—reality, truth, fact, ground, meaning, knowledge, and being—and dictated the terms on which other bodies of thought might aspire to them, and skepticism has been the inevitable result. We need a new revolution. We must make the world of science safe for value.
Our Friend Hedgehog
Author: Lauren Castillo
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1524766712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a Caldecott Honor-winning artist comes a cozy classic-in-the-making about finding your friends and sticking together through thick and thin. "Our Friend Hedgehog feels like a modern-day Winnie the Pooh. It's so warm and full of joy and love. It's got classic written all over it." --Victoria Jamieson, Newbery Honor-winning author of Roller Girl Sometimes you make a friend, and it feels like you have known that friend your entire life. . . . Hedgehog lives on a teeny-tiny island with only her stuffed dog, Mutty, for company. When a great storm carries Mutty away, she embarks on a quest to find her friend. Following the trail of clues Mutty left behind, brave Hedgehog meets a wiggly Mole, a wordy Owl, a curmudgeonly Beaver, a scatterbrained Hen and Chicks, and a girl who's new to the neighborhood, Annika May. With bravery and teamwork, there's nothing that can stop these seven from finding Mutty, but along the way they discover something even more important: each other. The first book in a new series from Caldecott Honor winner Lauren Castillo, Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us has the feel of a timeless classic, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters who will star in many more adventures to come.
The New Hedgehog Book
Author: Pat Morris
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781873580714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first 'Hedgehogs' book was published in 1983, and was a bestseller. However, much has happened in the last 20 years, which is included here: a worrying decline in hedgehog numbers, the North Ronaldsay saga and the Uist problem. The book also critically evaluates designer hedgehog homes.
Hedgehog Book
Author: Hugh Warwick
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Published: 2020-08-11
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1913733556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA welcome visitor heard rustling through our hedges or spotted shuffling across our lawns, hedgehogs are a celebrated addition to every garden and their proper care and conservation valuable to numerous other species. Through informative chapters ranging from the physiological and environmental to the inclusion of the hedgehog in myth, legend, art and literature, The Hedgehog Book is an ideal guide to its subject for all nature lovers, beautifully illustrated throughout with new photography and artwork. Chapters include: Hedgehog Life Threats to Hedgehogs The Hedgehog in Myth and Legend The Hedgehog in Art and Literature
The Hedgehog
Author: Hilda Doolittle
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780811210690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiving with her mother in Switzerland during the time of World War II, Madge moves from the concerns of childhood to the edge of the more adult woes of love and loss, separation and community.
Hedgehog Wisdom
Author: Carolyn Parker
Publisher: Rock Point
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 0760361282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe hedgehog is about to dethrone the cat and dog domination of the internet with a little Hedgehog Wisdom†‹! So, cuddle up with this book, and a hedgie of your own if you have one, sit back, and relax. Let's get quilly! Based on the popular Instagram, Huffy Hedgehogs, Hedgehog Wisdom brings you page after page of photographs of the most adorable prickly, snouty, curious pets you've ever seen. You'll fall in love with these adorable little hedgies as they dress up, chow down, and make you laugh out loud with their quirky antics. The best part? They do it all while promoting positive thinking and good vibes. Who wouldn't love to see a hedgie lounging in a teacup and reminding you, "Be yourself and smile at the people who love you for everything that you are." or tucked in a hat and telling you, "Whoever said it was good to get out of your comfort zone obviously didn't have a cozy enough blanket." Perfect as a gift for animal lovers or to page through when you're cozy on the couch, Hedgehog Wisdom will never fail to bring a smile to your face.
Hedgehogs, Killing, and Kindness
Author: Laura McLauchlan
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2024-05-14
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0262548100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow our understanding of and relationship to hedgehogs reveals the complex interactions between culture, technology, bodies, conservation, and care for other animals. Across the globe, the bumbling hedgehog has been framed in a variety of ways throughout history—as a symbol of both good and bad luck, of transformation, of vengeance, and of wit and reincarnation. In recent years, it has also, in different parts of the world, been viewed as a pest for its predation on ground-nesting birds and has thus become a target for culling. In Hedgehogs, Killing, and Kindness, Laura McLauchlan explores how human actors have interacted with hedgehogs and other species through time and attends to the questions these interactions raise when it comes to ending and preserving life in the name of species conservation and wildlife rehabilitation. Grounded in rich empirical material and careful critique, Hedgehogs, Killing, and Kindness traces the author’s own more-than-human transformative experience and elucidates how care is shaped by and shapes various cultural and material forces. McLauchlan urges us to rethink and reflect on how cares are normalized, and at what and whose expense; what it might mean to care in more responsive ways; and finally, whether it is possible to kill with kindness in this rapidly changing and conflicting world. A valuable addition to the understanding and practices of multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, and the broader environmental humanities, this book sheds a necessary light on the fraught space between caring for and killing to care for other-than-human animals on our one precious planet.
