Aliens in the Backyard

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611172136
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Book Synopsis Aliens in the Backyard by : John Leland

Download or read book Aliens in the Backyard written by John Leland and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword INDIES 2005 Popular Culture Book of the Year A fresh look at the origins of our iconic immigrant flora and fauna, revealed with wit and reverence for nature Aliens live among us. Thousands of species of nonnative flora and fauna have taken up residence within U.S. borders. Our lawns sprout African grasses, our roadsides flower with European weeds, and our homes harbor Asian, European, and African pests. Misguided enthusiasts deliberately introduced carp, kudzu, and starlings. And the American cowboy spread such alien life forms as cows, horses, tumbleweed, and anthrax, supplanting and supplementing the often unexpected ways "Native" Americans influenced the environment. Aliens in the Backyard recounts the origins and impacts of these and other nonindigenous species on our environment and pays overdue tribute to the resolve of nature to survive in the face of challenge and change. In considering the new home that imported species have made for themselves on the continent, John Leland departs from those environmentalists who universally decry the invasion of outsiders. Instead Leland finds that uncovering stories of alien arrivals and assimilation is a more intriguing—and ultimately more beneficial—endeavor. Mixing natural history with engaging anecdotes, Leland cuts through problematic myths coloring our grasp of the natural world and suggests that how these alien species have reshaped our landscape is now as much a part of our shared heritage as tales of our presidents and politics. Simultaneously he poses questions about which of our accepted icons are truly American (not apple pie or Kentucky bluegrass; not Idaho potatoes or Boston ivy). Leland's ode to survival reveals how plant and animal immigrants have made the country as much an environmental melting pot as its famed melding of human cultures, and he invites us to reconsider what it means to be American.

Alien Invasion in My Backyard

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ISBN 13 : 9781449457099
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Aliens in the Backyard

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ISBN 13 : 9781937530327
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Aliens in the Backyard by : Trish MacGregor

Download or read book Aliens in the Backyard written by Trish MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning hours of March 28, 2011, Charles and Helene Fontaine experienced something that shattered their beliefs about the nature of reality. One evening in 1981, Connie J Cannon was on I-75 with her young son, en route to their new home in Florida, when they suddenly found themselves on a military base, with a man in uniform holding a gun to her head as three Grays stood nearby. In 1979, Diane Fine was on her way from upstate New York to Vermont to see an obstetrics specialist for her high risk pregnancy, and experienced two hours of missing time. When she was finally examined at the clinic, she was told wasn't pregnant. In 1970, pilot Bruce Gernon was chased by something through the Bermuda Triangle and he has been talking about it ever since-to UFO Hunters, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, the History Channel, the Sci-Fi channel, and all their foreign counterparts. These individuals have never met. But they share something significant. In 2003, a Roper Organization survey revealed that 33 million Americans may be abductees. Aliens in the Backyard is their story. "Trish and Rob MacGregor have written a sobering, engaging and important book about the mysterious subject of alien abduction. When I read it, I was reminded of how little we know about this incredible, complex and enigmatic subject, and just how much light this insightful book sheds on it. If we are ever going to understand this phenomenon, books such as this are essential. Read it and wonder: what have we missed about our world? Perhaps the most important thing that has ever happened. Aliens in the Back Yard is a treasure." Whitley Strieber

Alien Invasion in My Backyard

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ISBN 13 : 9781449470951
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Alien Invasion in My Backyard written by Ruben Bolling and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Stuart Tennemeier, and I'm the President of the EMU Club (short for Exploration-Mystery-Unbelievable Club). This is my report for our first mission. Did you ever want to start a club with a friend, but you didn't even know how to find a mystery to solve? Like, how would you even know there was a jewel heist or a haunted shack somewhere in your town? And how could you even begin to investigate it if you did? What if you started a club to solve other kinds of mysteries. Not huge crimes or weird stuff, but everyday mysteries that happen to everyone, like whatever happened to that game controller we lost? There are tons of little mysteries all around us. Sometimes if you look really, really closely at them, you find out some amazing, incredible things. And you just might save the world.

Aliens Crashed in My Back Yard

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ISBN 13 : 9780971411401
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Aliens Crashed in My Back Yard written by Mike Van Horn and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 of a trilogy.This is sci fi, and it's also kind of a love story between a human and an alien.One evening an alien space ship crashes on the hill behind the home of pop star Selena M, up along the Northern California coastline. Selena decides to nurse the surviving alien-a very non-human creature-back to health, and repair its space ship to send it home.The government thinks otherwise. Whose space ship is it, anyway? Does it belong to Selena, on whose property it crashed? Or to the Feds, who crave the technology? And what about the poor alien?The alien, whom she nicknames Breadbox, communicates via singing. It had fled its home world because it didn't want to sing the music mandated by the Elders. Selena also has become bored with her singing. But Selena and Breadbox inspire each other to sing their most meaningful songs, and to recapture the soul of their singing.But when the Feds finally discover the crashed alien vessel, they drag it off to the desert and "sequester" Selena in case she has some dreaded alien disease. But really, they just want to dissect the vessel-and the alien corpses-to see what makes them tick.Selena discovers that the robotic cylinder that belonged to Breadbox has many unexpected powers. For one, it is guiding the space ship to repair itself. Selena sees that she could take it back from the government and fly off into space. This crazy idea grows on her. She could at least return the vessel with the remains of Breadbox to the home world. Why does Selena even want to keep the spaceship? Would she give up her singing career for this?At the end of Book 1, Selena makes the space ship take off from the desert and go into orbit around the Moon.Book 2. My Spaceship Calls Out to MeBook 3. Space Girl Yearning

Mario and the Aliens

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Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607656779
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Mario and the Aliens by : Carolina Zanotti

Download or read book Mario and the Aliens written by Carolina Zanotti and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fun tale, a little boy must learn to step away from electronics and play with traditional toys if he wants his new alien friends to stick around. Mario hears loud hissing and beeping noises in the backyard. Then, he sees the flashing lights of a real spaceship! Now Mario has three new alien friends who want to play. It’s up to him to show these friendly creatures how children play on Earth. They are looking for new games and fun toys, and Mario wants to make them happy so that they return. But the aliens are tired of computers and electronic stuff. What will Mario do? “At just the right length for a great good-night book, Mario and the Aliens is a fun, fast paced book that kids will learn from, without being preached to.” —Daddy Mojo “Mario and the Aliens by Carolina Zanotti and Thai My Phuong [(Tamypu)] is an enjoyable short read about the importance of taking breaks from electronic screens around us.” —The Geekiary This is a fixed-format ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book

Alien Invasion in My Backyard

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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449469728
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Book Synopsis Alien Invasion in My Backyard by : Ruben Bolling

Download or read book Alien Invasion in My Backyard written by Ruben Bolling and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Stuart Tennemeier, and I’m the President of the EMU Club (short for Exploration-Mystery-Unbelievable Club). This is my report for our first mission. Did you ever want to start a club with a friend, but you didn’t even know how to find a mystery to solve? Like, how would you even know there was a jewel heist or a haunted shack somewhere in your town? And how could you even begin to investigate it if you did? What if you started a club to solve other kinds of mysteries. Not huge crimes or weird stuff, but everyday mysteries that happen to everyone, like whatever happened to that game controller we lost? There are tons of little mysteries all around us. Sometimes if you look really, really closely at them, you find out some amazing, incredible things. And you just might save the world.

The Believer

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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826362311
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis The Believer by : Ralph Blumenthal

Download or read book The Believer written by Ralph Blumenthal and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened. Nothing in Mack's four decades of psychiatry had prepared him for the otherworldly accounts of a cross section of humanity including young children who reported being taken against their wills by alien beings. Over the course of his career his interest in alien abduction grew from curiosity to wonder, ultimately developing into a limitless, unwavering passion. Based on exclusive access to Mack's archives, journals, and psychiatric notes and interviews with his family and closest associates, The Believer reveals the life and work of a man who explored the deepest of scientific conundrums and further leads us to the hidden dimensions and alternate realities that captivated Mack until the end of his life.

Confessions of an Alien Hunter

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426204337
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Book Synopsis Confessions of an Alien Hunter by : Seth Shostak

Download or read book Confessions of an Alien Hunter written by Seth Shostak and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aliens are big in America. Whether they’ve arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they’ve been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they’ve fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years. About half of us believe that aliens really exist, and millions are convinced they’ve visited Earth. For twenty-five years, SETI has been looking for the proof, and as the program’s senior astronomer, Seth Shostak explains in this engrossing book, it’s entirely possible that before long conclusive evidence will be found. His informative, entertaining report offers an insider’s view of what we might realistically expect to discover light-years away among the stars. Neither humanoids nor monsters, says Shostak; in fact, biological intelligence is probably just a precursor to machine beings, enormously advanced artificial sentients whose capabilities and accomplishments may have developed over billions of years and far exceed our own. As he explores what, if anything, they would tell us and what their existence would portend for humankind and the cosmos, he introduces a colorful cast of characters and provides a vivid, state-of-the-art account of the past, present, and future of our search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Porcher's Creek

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 164336121X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Book Synopsis Porcher's Creek by : John Leland

Download or read book Porcher's Creek written by John Leland and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thanksgiving and lament for life on the South Carolina coast "Columbus knew no greater thrill than I, a ten-year-old discovering new creeks and branches and islands and mainland hideaways....I resolved to make my living as an explorer and said so in school when we were all asked what we planned to do upon our growing up." John Leland lived a Huckleberry Finn sort of boyhood that most children would envy. A fifth-generation lowcountry native, he grew up fishing, swimming, and hunting arrowheads on a tidal creek just north of Charleston, South Carolina. With admirable freedom, he poled his bateau through the maze of oyster banks and the tangle of salt waterways known as Porcher's Creek. He spent years learning where the conchs congregated, where the clams kept secret rendezvous, and which hole hid the sweetest crabs. He became a naturalist by studying heron, frogs, and porpoises. Leland's existence was so intertwined with Porcher's Creek that he lived, slept, and ate by its tides and seasons—until exiled by family misfortune and suburban encroachment. Leland combines nature writing and reminiscence with a heartfelt examination of change along the South Carolina coast. He celebrates Porcher's Creek as a watery refuge that links him to his childhood and ancestry, weaving together his family's story with that of the creek. He chronicles both the geographic dispersal of his family and the abandonment of traditional lowcountry ways of life. Leland takes his readers back to a time not so long ago, before golf courses, concrete, and speedboats transformed Porcher's Creek. With eloquence and humor, he dissects the life histories of its creatures—fiddler crabs, alligators, marsh hens, and more—and threads through the narrative of his own life history. On the surface a nature-lover's elegy, Porcher's Creek is in fact Leland's treatise on mankind's ambiguous place in the natural world.

Witness

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Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Witness written by Susan Hiller and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pocket atlas of Suffolk, giving comprehensive and detailed coverage of the region. The mapping is produced by the Ordnance Survey to Philip's specification and gives the user complete coverage of all urban and rural areas. The mapping is at a standard scale of 2.5 inches to one mile and is complete with postcode boundaries.

Saving America's Wildlife

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691006130
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis Saving America's Wildlife by : Thomas R. Dunlap

Download or read book Saving America's Wildlife written by Thomas R. Dunlap and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed.

Aliens in the Backyard - UFOs, Abductions, and Synchronicity

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Publisher : Panta Rei Press
ISBN 13 : 9781952979354
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Aliens in the Backyard - UFOs, Abductions, and Synchronicity written by Rob MacGregor and published by Panta Rei Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions, & Synchronicity In the early morning hours of March 28, 2011, Charles and Helene Fontaine experienced something that shattered their beliefs about the nature of reality. One evening in 1981, Connie J Cannon was on I-75 with her young son, en route to their new home in Florida, when they suddenly found themselves on a military base, with a man in uniform holding a gun to her head as three Grays stood nearby. In 1979, Diane Fine was on her way from upstate New York to Vermont to see an obstetrics specialist for her high risk pregnancy, and experienced two hours of missing time. When she was finally examined at the clinic, she was told wasn't pregnant. In 1970, pilot Bruce Gernon was chased by something through the Bermuda Triangle and he has been talking about it ever since - to UFO Hunters, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, the History Channel, the Sci-Fi channel, and all their foreign counterparts. These individuals have never met. But they share something significant. In 2003, a Roper Organization survey revealed that 33 million Americans may be abductees. Aliens in the Backyard is their story. "Trish and Rob MacGregor have written a sobering, engaging and important book about the mysterious subject of alien abduction. When I read it, I was reminded of how little we know about this incredible, complex and enigmatic subject, and just how much light this insightful book sheds on it. If we are ever going to understand this phenomenon, books such as this are essential. Read it and wonder: what have we missed about our world? Perhaps the most important thing that has ever happened. Aliens in the Back Yard is a treasure." Whitley Strieber

Dancing with an Alien

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Publisher : HarperTeen
ISBN 13 : 9780064472098
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Dancing with an Alien by : Mary Logue

Download or read book Dancing with an Alien written by Mary Logue and published by HarperTeen. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tonia meets Branko, an alien who was sent to earth to bring a female back to his planet, her life is forever changed as their unusual relationship develops over one magical summer. Reprint.

I'm an Alien and I Want to Go Home

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544442970
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (444 download)

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Book Synopsis I'm an Alien and I Want to Go Home by : Jo Franklin

Download or read book I'm an Alien and I Want to Go Home written by Jo Franklin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel has nothing in common with his family or classmates and has only two friends. He feels so alienated that he might as well be an alien. When he learns that his mom has saved a newspaper clipping about a meteor that landed nearby on his birthday, he embraces his alien heritage and launches a mission to return to his home planet. Despite mishaps, mixups, and a crisis at every turn, Daniel and his mission team—friends Eddie and Gordon the geek—energetically pursue their goal. But when Mom and Dad are drawn into danger as a result, Daniel may have to rethink his plan. This is a fast-paced illustrated page-turner with a laugh on every page.

Somewhere in the Skies

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ISBN 13 : 9781954528031
Total Pages : pages
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Aliens Stole My Underpants

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Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781447201694
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Aliens Stole My Underpants by : Brian Moses

Download or read book Aliens Stole My Underpants written by Brian Moses and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: poetry & poets.