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Author : Douglas George Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780911461152
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Mister Zoo written by Douglas George Myers and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisa Uddin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452941610
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Zoo Renewal written by Lisa Uddin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic enclosures. She argues that reform belongs to the story of cities and feelings toward many of their human inhabitants. In Zoo Renewal, Uddin demonstrates how efforts to make the zoo more natural and a haven for particular species reflected white fears about the American city—and, pointedly, how the shame many visitors felt in observing confined animals drew on broader anxieties about race and urban life. Examining the campaign against cages, renovations at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. and the San Diego Zoo, and the cases of a rare female white Bengal tiger and a collection of southern white rhinoceroses, Uddin unpacks episodes that challenge assumptions that zoos are about other worlds and other creatures and expand the history of U.S. urbanism. Uddin shows how the drive to protect endangered species and to ensure larger, safer zoos was shaped by struggles over urban decay, suburban growth, and the dilemmas of postwar American whiteness. In so doing, Zoo Renewal ultimately reveals how feeling bad, or good, at the zoo is connected to our feelings about American cities and their residents.
Author : Tracy McDonald
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773558160
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Zoo Studies written by Tracy McDonald and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do both the zoo and the mental hospital induce psychosis, as humans are treated as animals and animals are treated as humans? How have we looked at animals in the past, and how do we look at them today? How have zoos presented themselves, and their purpose, over time? In response to the emergence of environmental and animal studies, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, theorists, literature scholars, and historians around the world have begun to explore the significance of zoological parks, past and present. Zoo Studies considers the modern zoo from a range of approaches and disciplines, united in a desire to blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman animals. The volume begins with an account of the first modern mental hospital, La Salpêtrière, established in 1656, and the first panoptical zoo, the menagerie at Versailles, created in 1662 by the same royal architect; the final chapter presents a choreographic performance that imagines the Toronto Zoo as a place where the human body can be inspired by animal bodies. From beginning to end, through interdisciplinary collaboration, this volume decentres the human subject and offers alternative ways of thinking about zoos and their inhabitants. This collection immerses readers in the lives of animals and their experiences of captivity and asks us to reflect on our own assumptions about both humans and animals. An original and groundbreaking work, Zoo Studies will change the way readers see nonhuman animals and themselves.
Author : Arnold Lobel
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060239909
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (399 download)
Download or read book A Zoo for Mister Muster written by Arnold Lobel and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1962-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story about finding a zoo for Mister Muster who loves all the animals in the zoo.
Author : Vincent O. Carter
Publisher : Steerforth
ISBN 13 : 1586422235
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Such Sweet Thunder written by Vincent O. Carter and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and ’30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a remarkable boy, Amerigo Jones. This vivid portrait of an era marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices is nonetheless rendered with love and longing for a time and place that was enriched by a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential African American culture and a fierce feeling for family and community.
Author : Elizabeth Hanson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691186243
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Animal Attractions written by Elizabeth Hanson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape immersion exhibit. Born in Africa, Willie B. had been captured by an animal collector and sold to a zoo. During the decades he spent in a cage, zoos stopped collecting animals from the wild and Americans changed the ways they wished to view animals in the zoo. Zoos developed new displays to simulate landscapes like the Amazon River basin and African forests. Exhibits similar to animals' natural habitats began to replace old-fashioned animal houses. But such displays are only the most recent effort of zoos to present their audiences with an authentic experience of nature. Since the first zoological park opened in the United States in Philadelphia in 1874, zoos have promised their visitors a journey into the natural world. And for more than a century they have been popular places for education and recreation: every year more than 130 million Americans go to zoos to look at the animals and enjoy a day outdoors. The first book-length history of American zoos, Animal Attractions examines the meaning of nature in the city by looking at the ways zoos have assembled and displayed their animal collections. Situated literally and culturally in the American middle landscape, zoos are concrete expressions of longstanding tensions between wildness and civilization, science and popular culture, education and entertainment. In their efforts to promote nature appreciation, they reveal much about how our culture envisions the natural world and the human place in it and how these ideas have changed.
Author : Linda S Katz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317951638
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Animals are the Issue written by Linda S Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply your library with the best collection of resources on animal issues! Animals are the Issue: Library Resources on Animal Issues is a guide to books, journals, and Web sites on historic and modern animal treatment. Expert librarians and scholars provide helpful resources showing what ideals and practical solutions exist in animal rights and welfare debates. With this book, students, philosophers, and politicians can find the best of written and electronic resources about the protection and ethical use of animals by humankind. Animals are the Issue stands alone as a source for locating materials on animal protection and welfare. This valuable guide will help librarians save time and money in locating diverse areas of information regarding animal consumption and exploitation. The authors have noted what they consider to be the most essential resources for library collections. This book offers references that discuss the utilization of animals by humans: as companions in sports and entertainment in religion in science and education in industry in hunting Animals Are the Issue explores how animals are seen, viewed, and used by humans. With bibliographies, annotated lists, and short commentaries by the authors on nearly every item, you’ll be able to supply your patrons with a highly effective animal rights/welfare collection.
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156627801
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Mister Palomar written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1985 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italo Calvino's last fictional work is a witty, elegant, fantastic rendering of the ultimate observer, whose name, Mr. Palomar, deliberately evokes the famous telescope. "Beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination" (The New York Times Book Review). Calvino is the acclaimed author of Difficult Loves and Invisible Cities.
Author : Jimmy L. Bryan
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623490901
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book The Martial Imagination written by Jimmy L. Bryan and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martial experiences and the mythologies that surround them have profoundly affected the ways in which Americans think of themselves. Wars identify the heroes who help define national character, provide the stories for the grand narratives of belonging and sacrifice, and serve as markers for essential moments of transformation. However, only in the last several years have scholars begun using the term “cultural history of American warfare” to identify the study of how public discourse formulates these defining myths and narratives. This volume brings together scholarship from diverse fields in a common mission to demonstrate the usefulness and significance of studying the cultural history of American warfare. The Martial Imagination: Cultural Aspects of American Warfare canvasses the American war experience from the Revolution to the War on Terror, examining how it infuses legitimacy and conformity with an urgency that contorts ideas of citizenship, nationhood, gender, and other pliable categories. The multidisciplinary scholarship in this volume represents the varied perspectives of cultural history, American studies, literary criticism, war and society, media studies, and public culture analysis, illustrating the rich dialogues that epitomize the cultural history of American warfare. Bringing together both recognized and emerging scholars, this book is the first anthology to feature essays on this topic, comprising research from twelve authors who represent a wide range of experiences and disciplines. Their work uncovers new and surprising understandings of the American war experience that reveal the ways in which culture makers have grappled with the trauma of war, salvaged meaning from the meaningless, or advanced some ulterior agenda.
Author : Michelle Nijhuis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324001690
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction written by Michelle Nijhuis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson Award One of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021 Named a Top Ten Best Science Book of 2021 by Booklist and Smithsonian Magazine "At once thoughtful and thought-provoking,” Beloved Beasts tells the story of the modern conservation movement through the lives and ideas of the people who built it, making “a crucial addition to the literature of our troubled time" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction). In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the history of the movement to protect and conserve other forms of life. From early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today’s global effort to defend life on a larger scale, Nijhuis’s “spirited and engaging” account documents “the changes of heart that changed history” (Dan Cryer, Boston Globe). With “urgency, passion, and wit” (Michael Berry, Christian Science Monitor), she describes the vital role of scientists and activists such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, reveals the origins of vital organizations like the Audubon Society and the World Wildlife Fund, explores current efforts to protect species such as the whooping crane and the black rhinoceros, and confronts the darker side of modern conservation, long shadowed by racism and colonialism. As the destruction of other species continues and the effects of climate change wreak havoc on our world, Beloved Beasts charts the ways conservation is becoming a movement for the protection of all species including our own.
Author : Daniel Nesquens
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802854400
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Mister H written by Daniel Nesquens and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hippopotamus who's learned to speak English escapes the zoo and sets out for his home in Africa, but finds many distractions along the way.
Author : Lobel
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book ZOO FOR MR MUSTER LB written by Lobel and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1962-01-21 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about finding a zoo for Mister Muster who loves all the animals in the zoo.
Author : Henry Vizi
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0741424061
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Torture the Politician written by Henry Vizi and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Susor
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 164584773X
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Mouse written by Sarah Susor and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Mouse begin at the wonderful zoo. They see many wonderful things and have lots of fun learning about different animals. Their best pal, Savannah, is always tagging along and showing them everything there is to see. Their wonderful journeys are just beginning. There are many more adventures of the Mouse family to come. Who knows where the next adventure will be? Only the Mouse family knows.
Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062397850
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Mister Monkey written by Francine Prose and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tender and artful . . . a gently spiritual celebration of life.” —New York Times Book Review Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical Mister Monkey—a screwball children’s musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee—is the kind of family favorite that survives far past its prime. Margot, who plays the chimp’s lawyer, knows the production is dreadful and bemoans the failure of her acting career. She’s settled into the drudgery of playing a humiliating part—until the day she receives a mysterious letter from an anonymous admirer . . . and later, in the middle of a performance, has a shocking encounter with Adam, the twelve-year-old who plays the title role. Francine Prose’s effervescent comedy is told from the viewpoints of wildly unreliable, seemingly disparate characters whose lives become deeply connected as the madcap narrative unfolds. There is Adam, whose looming adolescence informs his interpretation of his role; Edward, a young audience member who is candidly unimpressed with the play; Ray, the author of the novel on which the musical is based, who witnesses one of the most awkward first dates in literature; and even the eponymous Mister Monkey, the Monkey God himself. With her trademark wit and verve, Prose delves into humanity’s most profound mysteries: art, ambition, childhood, aging, and love. Startling and captivating, Mister Monkey is a breathtaking novel from a writer at the height of her craft.
Author : Fred Rogers Productions
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 1984826212
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Mister Rogers' Neighborhood written by Fred Rogers Productions and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual celebration of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, America’s most beloved children’s television show, including a foreword by Tom Hanks and a peek at the making of the feature film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, in theaters Thanksgiving weekend. Go behind the scenes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood with this unprecedented dive into its storied history. More than fifty years ago, Fred Rogers, a modest television host, revolutionized children’s entertainment with a simple set design, quiet dialogue, and a few hand puppets playing out everyday situations. The effect was extraordinary: Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of young viewers, each of whom felt as if they were visiting with a trusted friend. His radical kindness, acceptance, and empathy created a sacred place where everyone felt safe and valued. Featuring exclusive photographs; a guide to the characters, puppets, and episodes; original interviews; and rare ephemera, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: A Visual History reveals how the show came together to have a deep impact on American culture. Discover wonderful anecdotes from Yo-Yo Ma and Wynton Marsalis as well as the actors, directors, art designers, producers, studio musicians, and more who devoted their careers to working with Fred. Chronicling the show's complete timeline—from its humble beginnings on WQED in Pittsburgh to its commemoration on the big screen in the feature film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks, based on a screenplay written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster and directed by Marielle Heller—this incredibly comprehensive book celebrates both Fred Rogers and the wonderful legacy of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1597802557
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Tails of Wonder and Imagination written by Ellen Datlow and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From legendary editor Ellen Datlow, Tails of Wonder collects the best of the last thirty years of science fiction and fantasy stories about cats.
