The War of the Birds and the Beasts and Other Russian Tales
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories collected first-hand by Ransome form peasants and soldiers in Russia.
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Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories collected first-hand by Ransome form peasants and soldiers in Russia.
Author: Gerald Durrell
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1504041666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe follow-up to My Family and Other Animals and the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist’s memoir of his family’s time on a Greek island. In the years before World War II, Gerald Durrell’s family left the gloomy shores of England for the sun-drenched island of Corfu. Against this picturesque backdrop, Durrell fondly recalls his family’s disorderly household and outrageous antics, including their interactions with locals of both human and animal varieties. After a boyhood spent studying zoology and acquiring the island’s exotic insects, reptiles, birds, mammals, and sea creatures as pets, Durrell’s budding naturalism would later bloom into a passion for conservation that would last a lifetime. Filled with clever observations, amusing anecdotes, and childlike wonder, Birds, Beasts and Relatives is half nature guide, half coming-of-age tale, and all charmingly funny memoir. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.
Author: David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of short poems, mainly on themes suggested by the natural world.
Author: Norman Douglas
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rachel Mundy
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2018-06-05
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0819578088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music's taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird guides to show how animal song has become the starting point for enduring evaluations of species, races, and cultures. By examining the influential efforts made by a small group of men and women to define human diversity in relation to animal voices, this book raises profound questions about the creation of modern human identity, and the foundations of modern humanism.
Author: Aesop
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne hundred twenty-six best-loved fables of Aesop.
Author: Aesop
Publisher:
Published: 2016-05-04
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ISBN-13: 9781367759220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Aesop's Fable has been re-imagined as part of a social venture project to raise money for literacy charities. DERT works with emerging designers to create unique, customized books. Each DERT book features the design and conceptual artwork created by graphic design students."The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts" is a fable that teaches us the dangers of presenting false identities, for deceit may cause you to lose friends where honesty would have protected you from such loss. Aesop's Fables are a collection of stories credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece from 620 - 560 BC. A keen observer of both animals and people, Aesop used the qualities and natural tendencies of animals to focus on human traits and wisdom within his stories. Each fable has an accompanying moral to be learned from the tale. Far from child-like moral lessons one would expect, these fables are also seen as clever jokes and witty one-liners that result in bite size pieces of wisdom for daily life.
Author: Elizabeth A. Johnson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-16
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1472903757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human being`s relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more than 1,000 times the natural rate, renders this question acutely important. Standard perspectives need to be realigned; theology needs to look out of the window, so to speak as well as in the mirror. Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love leads to the conclusion that love of the natural world is an intrinsic element of faith in God and that far from being an add-on, ecological care is at the centre of moral life.
Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0307952428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the 'New Germany,' she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance - and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler's true character and ruthless ambition.
Author: Joan B. Landes
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012-09-28
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0271061421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and occasions for thought and creativity. History and culture set the terms for this inquiry. As history changes, so do the ways animals participate in culture. Gorgeous Beasts offers a series of discontinuous but probing studies of the forms their participation takes. This collection presents the work of a wide range of scholars, critics, and thinkers from diverse disciplines: philosophy, literature, history, geography, economics, art history, cultural studies, and the visual arts. By approaching animals from such different perspectives, these essays broaden the scope of animal studies to include specialists and nonspecialists alike, inviting readers from all backgrounds to consider the place of animals in history and art. Combining provocative critical insights with arresting visual imagery, Gorgeous Beasts advances a challenging new appreciation of animals as co-inhabitants and co-creators of culture. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Dean Bavington, Ron Broglio, Mark Dion, Erica Fudge, Cecilia Novero, Harriet Ritvo, Nigel Rothfels, Sajay Samuel, and Pierre Serna.