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Author : Michael McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo written by Michael McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael McCarthy
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo written by Michael McCarthy and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2010 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In luminous prose, British writer McCarthy addresses the cultural significance of mitratory songbirds, from nightingales to turtle doves to the European Cuckoo, on the heart and soul....A stunning and profound book that will make readers realize how very much these amazing winged creatures matter. --Colleen Mondor, Booklist
Author : Nick Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620409534
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Cuckoo written by Nick Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted biologist's careful and beguiling study of why cuckoos have got away with tricking other birds into hatching and raising their young for thousands of years. The familiar call of the common cuckoo, “cuck-oo,” has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation to solve an enduring puzzle: how does the cuckoo get away with laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and tricking them into raising young cuckoos rather than their own offspring? Early observers who noticed a little warbler feeding a monstrously large cuckoo chick concluded the cuckoo's lack of parental care was the result of faulty design by the Creator, and that the hosts chose to help the poor cuckoo. These quaint views of bad design and benevolence were banished after Charles Darwin proposed that the cuckoo tricks the hosts in an evolutionary battle, where hosts evolve better defenses against cuckoos and cuckoos, in turn, evolve better trickery to outwit the hosts. For the last three decades, Davies has employed observation and field experiments to unravel the details of this evolutionary “arms race” between cuckoos and their hosts. Like a detective, Davies and his colleagues studied adult cuckoo behavior, cuckoo egg markings, and cuckoo chick begging calls to discover exactly how cuckoos trick their hosts. For birding and evolution aficionados, The Cuckoo is a lyrical and scientifically satisfying exploration of one of nature's most astonishing and beautiful adaptations.
Author : Caroline Overington
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1460713850
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Cuckoo's Cry written by Caroline Overington and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compulsively gripping lockdown thriller by the bestselling author of The One Who Got Away On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a pretty girl with pink-tipped hair, claiming to be his granddaughter. She needs help and has nowhere else to go. He welcomes her in, and so begins a mystery set in unprecedented times: with the virus raging outside their home, the girl cannot be asked to leave, but what does he risk by having her stay? As Don and the girl start to forge a bond, Don's adult daughter has her own suspicions about what the newcomer is after. But, unable to travel, how can she protect Don and discover if the girl really is who she claims to be? 'You won't put The Cuckoo's Cry down. It's an addictive, read-in-one-sitting book with some surprisingly tender moments, a compelling relationship between the two main protagonists, and an unexpected twist at the end.' Better Reading Praise for Caroline Overington: 'Deft, dramatic and psychologically astute' Saturday Age 'Overington keeps you guessing until the last' Daily Telegraph 'Caroline Overington has an ability to home in on the darker, unsettling sides of life, seizing upon topics you might see headlining the news and spinning them into gripping page-turners.' Hannah Richell, Australian Women's Weekly
Author : Michael McCarthy
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681370417
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Moth Snowstorm written by Michael McCarthy and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths “would pack a car’s headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,” is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm is unlike any other book about climate change today; combining the personal with the polemical, it is a manifesto rooted in experience, a poignant memoir of the author’s first love: nature. McCarthy traces his adoration of the natural world to when he was seven, when the discovery of butterflies and birds brought sudden joy to a boy whose mother had just been hospitalized and whose family life was deteriorating. He goes on to record in painful detail the rapid dissolution of nature’s abundance in the intervening decades, and he proposes a radical solution to our current problem: that we each recognize in ourselves the capacity to love the natural world. Arguing that neither sustainable development nor ecosystem services have provided adequate defense against pollution, habitat destruction, species degradation, and climate change, McCarthy asks us to consider nature as an intrinsic good and an emotional and spiritual resource, capable of inspiring joy, wonder, and even love. An award-winning environmental journalist, McCarthy presents a clear, well-documented picture of what he calls “the great thinning” around the world, while interweaving the story of his own early discovery of the wilderness and a childhood saved by nature. Drawing on the truths of poets, the studies of scientists, and the author’s long experience in the field, The Moth Snowstorm is part elegy, part ode, and part argument, resulting in a passionate call to action.
Author : Ami Amara
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847538274
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)
Download or read book One Flew Under the Cuckoo's Nest written by Ami Amara and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEE BOOK TRAILER: http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bFV8sG0un
Author : Cynthia Chris
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789149681
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Cuckoo written by Cynthia Chris and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and wide-ranging romp through the cultural history of a peculiar bird. The cuckoo is peculiar for inspiring such divergent ideas: a symbol of foolishness to both Aristophanes and Cocoa Puffs, a reliable harbinger of spring and the hours of a cuckoo clock, and the source of innumerable innuendos inspired by a habit of laying eggs in others’ nests. In this short, entertaining book, Cynthia Chris explores both the natural and cultural history of the cuckoo as well as the many stories told throughout the centuries about this fascinating bird.
Author : Margaret Thompson
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
ISBN 13 : 1927366305
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (273 download)
Download or read book The Cuckoo's Child written by Margaret Thompson and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her forties, Livvy Alvarsson hopes to be a bone marrow donor for her much-loved younger brother, Stephen. Instead, she discovers she has no idea who she is. This is the second great loss she has suffered, for eleven years earlier her four-year-old son, Daniel, disappeared. Armed with a few clues from wartime England, she embarks on a search for her birth family. The narrative takes the reader from small-town British Columbia to London, the English countryside, and back. It is a story about loss and grief, and secrets and guilt, but it is also about restoration and balance. As Livvy confides her story to her dying brother, she reveals not only an identity enriched by experience, but also the transcendent importance of family and love. The Cuckoo’s Child is a compelling and remarkable evocation of a woman’s search for her family history.
Author : Naomi Love
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435713338
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Exit the Cuckoo's Court written by Naomi Love and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exit The Cuckoo's Court" tackles the stereotype of a single mother entangled in the legal system with a clever stalker. The story follows a dysfunctional couple from childhood, as friends, as a couple and finally as adversaries. Kat's ingenious survival techniques help to shield the children from Hal's games but cannot ensure a future for them in Canada.If you want to know what it is like to be cleverly stalked by a subtle con man, and then to get away, read on.
Author : Jane Dews
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479704296
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)
Download or read book The Cuckoo's Song written by Jane Dews and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthea Halliwell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448110777
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Cuckoo's Parting Cry written by Anthea Halliwell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Fidgie, living in pre-war Wales, the long school holiday stretched blissfully ahead. With her new friend Chaz as companion for idyllic summer days by the sea, she was able frequently to escape her edgy mother and her malicious older sister, Cly. Her father, mercifully, was away from home ... Through Fidgie's clear eyes the events of a brief hot spell in August unfold: her family and neighbours become involved in adultery, deception, and other, darker, misdemeanours. The eight-year-old child is an engaging and lively narrator; swept along by her extraordinarily compelling tale, the reader will realise that underlying Fidgie's innocent accounts of family meals, fishing trips round the bay, tree-climbing and playing at May Queens, a very adult sub-text is developing. Its conclusion is both tragic and inevitable. Anthea Halliwell's novel marks the emergence of a delightfully individual voice and a most original storytelling talent.
Author : Marjorie Eccles
Publisher : Severn House/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1780100620
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Cuckoo's Child written by Marjorie Eccles and published by Severn House/ORIM. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman comes of age and discovers her hidden past in this gripping historical mystery set in the north of England. England, 1909. When twenty-one-year-old Laura Harcourt accepts a position in Wainthorpe, a small Yorkshire town, to catalog books in an old manor house owned by wealthy local Ainsley Beaumont, she does not dream that it will change her life forever. But she arrives to find the Beaumont family still torn apart by the death of Ainsley’s son in a disastrous fire twenty years past. Worse still, the damaged wing of the house remains untouched. When a dead body surfaces in the water at Beaumont’s mill, long-buried secrets soon follow—including Laura’s unexpected connection to the Beaumont family. Rendered in exquisite period detail, Cuckoo’s Child is a moving, suspenseful mystery of love, lies, and murder. “Eccles’ latest enjoyably blends historical romance and suspenseful murder mystery in a keep-’em-guessing plot with revealing insights into English society at the time and authentic period ambience. Entertaining reading for fans of British historicals.” —Booklist
Author : ,KTRome
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1685262929
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Happy Campers Songs written by ,KTRome and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Camper Songs When families go on long trips in cars It's time to sing together Caroling parties, hayrides, and walks It's time to sing together Around the living room and campfires It's time to sing together Classrooms and church gatherings It's time to sing together Two or more people can make music together anytime, anywhere. A person with a Happy Camper Songs can lead. All ages as participants or audiences are blessed by music. This collection of songs was led by KTRome in five school districts and churches and camps. She added hand motions, dances, and costumes to add to the fun, and you can too. The purpose and goal are to tap your memories and enjoy sharing the words and tunes. Passing these songs on is a good way to pass happiness.
Author : Robert Galbraith
Publisher : Mulholland Books
ISBN 13 : 0316206865
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Cuckoo's Calling written by Robert Galbraith and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today), the first novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry -- known to her friends as the Cuckoo -- famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.
Author : A. Sethumadhavan (Sethu)
Publisher : Niyogi Books
ISBN 13 : 9389136210
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Cuckoo's Nest written by A. Sethumadhavan (Sethu) and published by Niyogi Books. This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cuckoo’s nest is the story of Madam Agatha, a former devout nun who, after renouncing the order, decides to take up the cudgels for the cause of tolerance and pluralism. She decides to set up a unique institution called ‘nest’ for empowering the hapless girls from all over the country, discarded by society. The paramount condition set by her is that none of the Resident girls are allowed to talk of their religion or caste inside the campus. The novelist attempts to portray the kind of challenges she has to face from vested interests all around while working towards secularism, and how she manages to swim against the tide. The Theme is quite contemporary and topical, and some of the issues treated in this novel are staring Indian society and Polity in the face today. One increasingly comes across certain divisive forces trying to promote othering in order to disturb the cultural and communal harmony in the country. It is significant here that the eternal optimistic Agatha believes strongly that even in this darkest hour, all is not lost. And she continues her fight for what she thinks is right. This novel works like a soothing balm for the human spirit, tired and beaten down by false ideologies.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book BBC Wildlife written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amra Pajalic
Publisher : Amra Pajalic
ISBN 13 : 0645331007
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)
Download or read book The Cuckoo's Song written by Amra Pajalic and published by Amra Pajalic. This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Amra Pajalić showcases her gritty, poignant and sometimes bruising voice in this eclectic short story book of previously published and prize-winning stories. Featuring powerful and moving stories of family dissolution, deprivation of war, tenderness of family and the heart-rending experiences of mental illness. Thriller stories with a twist of vindictiveness and retribution, and love stories that make the heart sing, this collection will delight and entertain. The Cuckoo’s Song—Francesca is ten when a gypsy fortune-teller told her the day and the hour of her death and she has been waiting since. Fragments—Seka and her brother forage for books in a bombed-out school in Srebrenica during the Balkan war. Friends Forever—Two lifelong friends share a room at a nursing home, as well as a secret or two. School of Hardknocks—Amina is a new high school student after migrating from Bosnia and struggles to acclimate to the Aussie way of life. Woman on Fire—A young girl lives with her mother’s boyfriend when her mentally ill mother is admitted into hospital.
