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Palm Crows

Author : Virgil Su‡rez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816520992
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Palm Crows written by Virgil Su‡rez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hibiscus, banyan trees, and royal palms. Mango jam, white slices of sugarcane, and oxtail stew. Childhood games with fireflies and snail shells. These are images of a Cuba that many remember and others have never known, captured here in the powerful poems of Virgil Suárez. Born in Havana in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, Suárez is now one of more than a million Cubans living in the United States. In Palm Crows Suárez offers a compelling canción of loss, longing, and memory as he explores the meaning of exile. In poems that range from playful and fantastic to elegiac and meditative, he writes about “the in-betweenness of spirit” of those who have left their home and must try to forge a new one in the United States. Invoking water, song, earth, and darkness, he seeks to create his place in the world—a place for his family and his spirit to call home. He constructs a slippery camouflage of animals: fish-beings, turtles, chupacabras, birds. As Suárez’s poem-stories drift from one form and species to another, these creatures reincarnate and retell their lives to each other and to us. Like the crows of Hialeah, Virgil Suárez sings of exile, of absence, of captured cities, lost love, and claimed lives. Palm Crows shows us an almost mythical Cuba, offering a compelling testament both to the immigrant experience and to our own search for home.

Crows and Jays

Author : Steve Madge
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408135272
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Crows and Jays written by Steve Madge and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crows and Jays is a combination of scientifically accurate information and an identification guide, planned to give anyone, whether a birdwatcher or biologist, a greater understanding of the lives of these beautiful, yet very complex, group of birds. 120 species of crows, jays and their allies exist in the world today. Many are exceedingly beautiful in colour, grace and form, whereas others are black and somewhat sinister in appearance. In no other group of perching birds has evolution produced such a degree of variation, from the tiny Hume's Ground-Jay of the steppe-highlands of Tibet to the huge Thick-billed Raven of the mountains of Ethiopia. Some have had a long association with people and appear in tales of mythology and superstition, while others have been regarded as agricultural pests. The great majority, however, remain largely unknown, their only contact with humanity being the destruction of their specialised habitats. As a consequence, more than 20 species are now regarded as internationally endangered, some of which are very poorly known. The 30 superb colour plates by Hilary Burn in this book depict them all; each plate is accompanied by an informative caption page summarising the criteria required to identify the species, alongside colour world distribution maps. Some of these birds, bearing such evocative names as the Banggai Crow, Mesopotamian Crow and Flores Crow, have never been illustrated before. The authoritative text by Steve Madge treats each species in depth, summarising identification techniques and concisely reviewing all aspects of corvid behaviour, distribution, population and taxonomy. The author has had first-hand experience of most of the species during his travels throughout the world, travels in which he gradually became fascinated by this very special, but somewhat ignored, group of birds. This will surely be a standard work of reference for many years to come.

In the Company of Crows and Ravens

Author : John M. Marzluff
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300135262
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book In the Company of Crows and Ravens written by John M. Marzluff and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”—from the Preface From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence crow culture, ecology, and evolution as well. John Marzluff and Tony Angell examine the often surprising ways that crows and humans interact. The authors contend that those interactions reflect a process of “cultural coevolution.” They offer a challenging new view of the human-crow dynamic—a view that may change our thinking not only about crows but also about ourselves. Featuring more than 100 original drawings, the book takes a close look at the influences people have had on the lives of crows throughout history and at the significant ways crows have altered human lives. In the Company of Crows and Ravens illuminates the entwined histories of crows and people and concludes with an intriguing discussion of the crow-human relationship and how our attitudes toward crows may affect our cultural trajectory.

Crows and Ravens

Author : Rick de Yampert
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738764248
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Crows and Ravens written by Rick de Yampert and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring history, folklore, mythology, and science, this book gives you a unique look at two of the most popular magical creatures of all time. The crow and his cousin, the raven, are featured players in many cultures throughout the world, including Norse, Celtic, Jewish, and Indigenous traditions. This guide teaches you how to welcome these highly intelligent birds into your own spiritual practice, whether you follow Wicca, Heathenry, Druidry, or any other path. Crows and Ravens presents rituals, meditations, and exercises that help you discover the magic and mystery of corvids. Learn about crow and raven divination, create your own crow-raven talisman, uncover the shadowy side of corvids, and more. Found in nearly all urban and wild environments, these birds present you with magical opportunities and life lessons wherever you go.

Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Crow and the Common Raven

Author : Lawrence Kilham
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890964668
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book The American Crow and the Common Raven written by Lawrence Kilham and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own experiences in Florida and New England, with reference to published literature, Kilham describes many hitherto unknown aspects of the behavior of crows and ravens. He particularly emphasizes the cooperation in food gathering (some call it theft) and storage, breeding, nesting, and defense. Includes wonderful drawings by Joan Waltermire. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Birds of the West Indies Second Edition

Author : Herbert A. Raffaele
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691180512
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Birds of the West Indies Second Edition written by Herbert A. Raffaele and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the acclaimed field guide to the spectacular birds of the West Indies Birds of the West Indies is the first field guide that covers and depicts all birds known to occur in the region, including infrequently occurring and introduced forms. Now fully updated and expanded, this stunningly illustrated book features detailed accounts of more than 600 species, describing identification field marks, range, status, voice, and habitat. There are more than 100 beautiful color plates that depict plumages of all species—including those believed to have recently become extinct—as well as distribution maps, a color code for endemic birds, and an incisive introduction that discusses avifaunal changes in the West Indies in the past fifteen years and the importance of conservation. Covers more than 60 new species, including vagrants, introductions, and taxonomic splits Updates the status of every species Features illustrations for all new species and improved artwork for warblers and flycatchers Color codes endemic species confined to one or just a few islands Includes many new and enhanced maps Provides bird weights for each species Compact and easy to use in the field

Happy

Author : Celina Baljeet Basra
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1662602308
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Happy written by Celina Baljeet Basra and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in Punjab to pursue his dreams—a formally daring debut novel set against the global migration crisis. In a rural village of Punjab, India, a moony young man crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near his family’s cabbage farm. His name is Happy Singh Soni, and he’s watching YouTube clips of his favorite film, Bande à Part by Jean-Luc Godard. In fact, Happy is often compared to a young Sami Frey by the imaginary journalists that keep him company while he uses the outhouse. Pooing, as he says, “en plein air.” When he’s not sleeping among the cabbages and eating his mother’s sugary rotis, Happy dreams of becoming an actor, one who plays the melancholy roles—sad, pretty boys, rare in Indian cinema. There are macho leads and funny boys en masse, but if you’re looking for depth and vulnerability, you must make your own heroes. Then comes Wonderland, an eccentric facsimile of Disneyland that steadily buys up the local farms, rebranding the community’s traditional way of life. Happy works a dead-end job at the amusement park, biding his time and saving money for a clandestine journey to Europe, where he’ll finally land a breakout role. Little does he know that his immigration is being coordinated by a transnational crime syndicate. After a nightmarish passage to Italy, Happy still manages to find relief in food and fantasy, even as he is forced into ever-worsening work conditions over a debt he allegedly accrued in transit. But his daydreams grow increasingly at odds with his bleak reality, one shared by so many migrant workers disenfranchised by the systems that depend on their labor. At turns funny and poetic, sunny and tragic, Happy is a daring feat of postmodern literature, a polyphonic novel about the urgent, lovely coping mechanisms created by generations of diasporic people. Set against the enmeshed crises of global migration and the politics of labor within the food industry, Celina Baljeet Basra’s luminous debut argues for the things that are essential to human survival: food, water, a place to lay one’s head, but also pleasure, romance, art, and the inalienable right to a vivid inner life.

The Theory of Flight

Author : Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 141521011X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Flight written by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Imogen Zula Nyoni, aka Genie, lies in a coma in hospital after a long illness, her family and friends struggle to come to terms with her impending death. Genie has gifts that transcend time and space, and this is her story. It is also the story of her forebears – Baines Tikiti, who, because of his wanderlust, changed his name and ended up walking into the Indian Ocean; his son, Livingstone Stanley Tikiti, who, during the war, took as his nom de guerre Golide Gumede and who became obsessed with flight; and Golide’s wife, Elizabeth Nyoni, a country-and-western singer self-styled after Dolly Parton, blonde wig and all. With the lightest of touches, and with an overlay of magical-realist beauty, this novel sketches, through the lives of a few families and the fate of a single patch of ground, decades of national history – from colonial occupation to the freedom struggle, to the devastation wrought by the sojas, the hi virus, and The Man Himself. By turns mysterious and magical, but always honest, The Theory of Flight dwells not on what was lost and what went wrong in a nation’s history, but on the personal triumphs and why they matter.

The Complete Birds of the World

Author : Norman Arlott
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691193924
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Birds of the World written by Norman Arlott and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book like no other--the only truly comprehensive, one-volume illustrated guide to all of the world's birds, covering the complete International Ornithological Congress World Bird List. Featuring more than 300 stunning large-format, full-color plates, this accessible and authoritative encyclopedic reference presents incredibly detailed, accurate, and beautiful paintings of more than 10,700 species by some of the world's best bird artists, led by the legendary Norman Arlott and Ber van Perlo. In addition, The Complete Birds of the World provides detailed but concise identification information about each species on facing pages--including facts about voice, habitat, and geographic distribution. The result is a visual and verbal feast that captures the astonishing variety of bird life around the planet--and that will be cherished by any birder." -- Amazon.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art

Author : Hope B. Werness
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826419132
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art written by Hope B. Werness and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.

Camino del Sol

Author : Rigoberto González
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816550786
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Camino del Sol written by Rigoberto González and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1994, the Camino del Sol series has been one of the premier vehicles for Latina/o literary voices. Launched under the auspices of Chicana/o luminary Ray Gonzalez, it quickly established itself in both the Latina/o community and the publishing world as it garnered awards for its outstanding writing. Featuring both established writers and first-time authors, Camino del Sol has published poetry and prose that convey something about the Latina/o experience—works that tap into universal truths through a distinct cultural lens. This volume celebrates fifteen years of books by bringing together some of the series’ best work, such as poetry from Francisco X. Alarcón, fiction from Christine Granados, and nonfiction from Luis Alberto Urrea. These voices echo the entire spectrum of Latina/o writing, from Chicana/o to Puerto Rican to Brazilian-American, and take in themes ranging from migration to gender. Awards bestowed upon Camino del Sol titles include the PEN/Beyond Margins Award to Richard Blanco’s Directions to the Beach of the Dead; Before Columbus Foundation American Book Awards to Diana García’s When Living Was a Labor Camp and Luis Alberto Urrea’s Nobody’s Son; International Latino Book Awards to Pat Mora’s Adobe Odes and Kathleen Alcalá’s The Desert Remembers My Name; the Premio Aztlán literary prize to Sergio Troncoso’s The Last Tortilla; and the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award to Kathleen de Azevedo’s Samba Dreamers. All of these works are represented in this outstanding collection. In a short span of time, Camino del Sol has cultivated an admirable and sizeable list of distinguished contemporary authors—and even garnered the first National Book Critics Circle Award for a Chicana/o for Juan Felipe Herrera’s Half of the World in Light. Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing is a benchmark for the series and a wonderful introduction to the world of Latina/o literature.

Crows, Jays, Ravens and Their Relatives

Author : Sylvia Bruce Wilmore
Publisher : TFH Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crows, Jays, Ravens and Their Relatives written by Sylvia Bruce Wilmore and published by TFH Publications. This book was released on 1979 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Birds of the West Indies

Author : Herbert A. Raffaele
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069111319X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Birds of the West Indies written by Herbert A. Raffaele and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated, easy to use, and completely up-to-date, Birds of the West Indies is the only field guide that covers all of the bird species known to occur in the region--including migrants and infrequently occurring forms. Each species is represented by a full description that includes identification field marks, status and range, habitat, and voice. A map showing the bird's distribution accompanies many species accounts, and plumages of all species are depicted in ninety-three beautifully rendered color plates. Bird lovers, vacationing tourists, local residents, and "armchair travelers" will all want to own this definitive field guide to the birds of the West Indies. Includes all species recorded in the region Features ninety-three color plates with concise text on facing pages for quick reference and easy identification Species accounts cover identification, voice, status and habitat, and range Color distribution maps

Wildlife Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wildlife Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies

Author : James Bond
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618002108
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies written by James Bond and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptions of more than 400 species of birds found in the islands of the West Indies include local names of birds, notes on migrants and winter residents -- as well as birds that breed there -- and voice, habitat, and range information. More than 340 illustrations aid in identification.

Beats of Loneliness & Other Stories

Author : Misfit
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482818981
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Beats of Loneliness & Other Stories written by Misfit and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book brings to light the sentiment of loneliness in its varied manifestations.The quiet existence of the aged, the solitary hours spent by the homemakers, the idle moments of an officegoer during vacations, all find an echo in these stories. Reclusive life led by people belonging to the disadvantaged sections of the society as also those pursuing their goals with single-minded devotion is portrayed very effectively. The thoughts,emotions,fears,obsessions,anxieties and eccentricities accompanying people left on the remote shores of mankind forms the subject matter of the work. Role of nature as an indifferent observer, as a healer as well as a friend is intertwined into the very fabric of each story.