The Hyena Valley

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Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435891916
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Book Synopsis The Hyena Valley by : Kwasi Koranteng

Download or read book The Hyena Valley written by Kwasi Koranteng and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hyenas have always lived in the valley, but one day, lions come and threaten to steal their home.

Notes from the Hyena's Belly

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Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466893249
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Notes from the Hyena's Belly by : Nega Mezlekia

Download or read book Notes from the Hyena's Belly written by Nega Mezlekia and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Governor General's Award A Library Journal Best Book of 2001 Part autobiography and part social history, Nega Mezlekia's Notes from the Hyena's Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the 1970s and '80s, an era of civil war, widespread famine, and mass execution. "We children lived like the donkey," Mezlekia remembers, "careful not to wander off the beaten trail and end up in the hyena's belly." His memoir sheds light not only on the violence and disorder that beset his native country, but on the rich spiritual and cultural life of Ethiopia itself. Throughout, he portrays the careful divisions in dress, language, and culture between the Muslims and Christians of the Ethiopian landscape. Mezlekia also explores the struggle between western European interests and communist influences that caused the collapse of Ethiopia's social and political structure—and that forced him, at age 18, to join a guerrilla army. Through droughts, floods, imprisonment, and killing sprees at the hands of military juntas, Mezlekia survived, eventually emigrating to Canada. In Notes from the Hyena's Belly he bears witness to a time and place that few Westerners have understood.

Hyena Nights & Kalahari Days

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Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 1770098119
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Hyena Nights & Kalahari Days by : M. G. L. Mills

Download or read book Hyena Nights & Kalahari Days written by M. G. L. Mills and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating account of scientific study among forbidding wilderness, a husband-and-wife team describe their trek to the Kalahari to study the little-known brown hyena. The details of the scientific inquiry are provided while the daily challenges of living with children 420 kilometers from the nearest town are described. Despite the hardships, the couple becomes so enchanted by these intelligent animals that they stay for 12 years, documenting many hyena clans and observing behavior only a handful of people have ever seen.

Hyena

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Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861899416
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Book Synopsis Hyena by : Mikita Brottman

Download or read book Hyena written by Mikita Brottman and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyenas are almost universally regarded as nasty, scheming charlatans that skulk in the back alleyways of the animal kingdom. They have been scorned for centuries as little more than scavenging carrion-eaters, vandals, and thieves. Here to restore the Hyena’s reputation is Mikita Brottman, who offers an alternate view of these mistreated and misunderstood creatures and proves that they are complex, intelligent, and highly sociable animals. Investigating representations of the hyena throughout history, Brottman divulges that the hyena, though shrouded in taboo, has been the source of talismanic objects since the ancient Greek and Roman empires. She discovers that many cultures use parts of the hyena—from excrement and blood to genitalia and hair—to make charms that both avert evil and promote fertility. Brottman also considers representations of hyenas in today’s popular fiction, including The Lion King and The Life of Pi,where they are often depicted as villains, cowardly henchmen, or clowns, while ignoring their more noble qualities. Rightly returning hyenas to their proper place in the animal pantheon, this richly illustrated book will be enjoyed by any animal lover with an interest in the unusual and offbeat.

Johnson's Natural History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Johnson's Natural History by : Samuel Griswold Goodrich

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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom ...

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Total Pages : 782 pages
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Download or read book Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom ... written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Humans and Hyenas

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000360563
Total Pages : 181 pages
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Book Synopsis Humans and Hyenas by : Keith Somerville

Download or read book Humans and Hyenas written by Keith Somerville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans and Hyenas examines the origins and development of the relationship between the two to present an accurate and realistic picture of the hyena and its interactions with people. The hyena is one of the most maligned, misrepresented and defamed mammals. It is still, despite decades of research-led knowledge, seen as a skulking, cowardly scavenger rather than a successful hunter with complex family and communal systems. Hyenas are portrayed as sex-shifting deviants, grave robbers and attackers of children in everything from African folk tales through Greek and Roman accounts of animal life, to Disney’s The Lion King depicting hyenas with a lack of respect and disgust, despite the reality of their behaviour and social structures. Combining the personal, in-depth mining of scientific papers about the three main species and historical accounts, Keith Somerville delves into our relationship with hyenas from the earliest records from millennia ago, through the accounts by colonisers, to contemporary coexistence, where hyenas and humans are forced into ever closer proximity due to shrinking habitats and loss of prey. Are hyenas fated to retain their bad image or can their amazing ability to adapt to humans more successfully than lions and other predators lead to a shift in perspective? This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the environmental sciences, conservation biology, and wildlife and conservation issues.

Wakan Tanka

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Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 152557695X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Book Synopsis Wakan Tanka by : John Bennett

Download or read book Wakan Tanka written by John Bennett and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did we come from? Why are we here? Is there a god? In our modern world, many people yearn for answers to these most fundamental of life's questions, having become disillusioned with trite explanations and troubled by narratives that deny their intuitive spirituality. Beginning with some of our most ancient ancestors, Wakan Tanka traces the evolution of humanity through the ages. Citing paleontological and archaeological discoveries, along with recent genetic evidence, it recounts how mankind evolved from the earliest mammals into anatomically and behaviourally modern humans. Wakan Tanka describes how human culture and spirituality evolved in concert with anatomy. Showing how humankind has, since very ancient times, had an instinctual, moral sense, it discusses how our spirituality has given us an appreciation for both the aesthetic and divine aspects of life as reflected in our cultures and artistic endeavours. By comparing philosophical and religious views of creation with modern scientific theory, Wakan Tanka reaches the conclusion that, rather than conflicting, these views are remarkably similar and equally valid ways of describing the same reality. Indeed, our scientific knowledge and spiritual beliefs can be harmonized, providing us with a deeper understanding of ourselves, of creation and of life's purpose.

The Great Safari Adventure

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Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160976482X
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great Safari Adventure by : Kent R. Buckner

Download or read book The Great Safari Adventure written by Kent R. Buckner and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Coleman has always had plenty of imagination. In The Great Safari Adventure, he dreams that if he only has belief and faith, magical things can happen. His tale begins as he is separated from his family and friends in the jungle, making him face his greatest fear: being alone.The little boy enters an exciting world where an ancient and powerful "Blue Lulu" stone can turn ordinary ants and wild animals into human-like creatures. In the midst of a rainforest, desert prairies and the croc swamp, Coleman experiences untold adventure in his dream.With his newfound animal friends, he learns about confidence, strength, patience, and courage. The Great Safari Adventure also teaches Coleman about the value of friendship and trust, which will carry him through many adventures in life.The author hopes to motivate kids to be active and learn the world around them through exploration and physical activity.

The Survey of Western Palestine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Book Synopsis The Survey of Western Palestine by : Claude Reignier Conder

Download or read book The Survey of Western Palestine written by Claude Reignier Conder and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arabic and English Names Lists

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Total Pages : 456 pages
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Book Synopsis Arabic and English Names Lists by : Conder

Download or read book Arabic and English Names Lists written by Conder and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scripture Natural History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Book Synopsis Scripture Natural History by : Henry Chichester Hart

Download or read book Scripture Natural History written by Henry Chichester Hart and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Brief Geographical Account of the Survey of Western Palestine

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Total Pages : 28 pages
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Book Synopsis A Brief Geographical Account of the Survey of Western Palestine by : Trelawney William Saunders

Download or read book A Brief Geographical Account of the Survey of Western Palestine written by Trelawney William Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Animals Mentioned in the Bible

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Total Pages : 250 pages
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Book Synopsis The Animals Mentioned in the Bible by : Henry Chichester Hart

Download or read book The Animals Mentioned in the Bible written by Henry Chichester Hart and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191515140
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond by : Sergey A. Ivanov

Download or read book Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond written by Sergey A. Ivanov and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture who overturn the conventional concept of sainthood. Their conduct may be unruly and salacious, they may blaspheme and even kill - yet, mysteriously, those around them treat them with even more reverence. Such saints are called 'holy fools'. In this pioneering study Sergey A. Ivanov examines the phenomenon of holy foolery from a cultural standpoint. He identifies its prerequisites and its development in religious thought, and traces the emergence of the first hagiographic texts describing these paradoxical saints. He describes the beginnings of holy foolery in Egyptian monasteries of the fifth century, followed by its high point in the cities of Byzantium, with an eventual decline in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. He also compares the important Russian tradition of holy fools, which in some form has survived to this day.

Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine

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Total Pages : 556 pages
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Book Synopsis Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine by : John Murray

Download or read book Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine written by John Murray and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hyenas of the Limpopo

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Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
ISBN 13 : 9176854086
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (768 download)

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Book Synopsis Hyenas of the Limpopo by : Xolani Tshabalala

Download or read book Hyenas of the Limpopo written by Xolani Tshabalala and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasing number of people today cross the Beitbridge border of South Africa and Zimbabwe. This comes with a corresponding growth of creative strategies that seek to aid the crossing of those people and goods that may lack the necessary documentation. Such ‘informal’ border crossings have come to define one of the important economic regions in Southern Africa, the post-1994 Limpopo Valley. This thesis approaches routine acts of facilitating undocumented border crossings as an everyday social politics with deep historical roots. By use of archival and ethnographic methods, the thesis examines the social history and embodied practices of a variety of actors who engage in undocumented border crossings. A particular focus is placed on the role of private transporters (omalayitsha), who represent an important link between an exclusionary and yet fragmentary migration regime and undocumented travellers. In three theoretical and four empirical chapters, and inspired by border studies as well as the critical realist approach in migration studies, the thesis connects border practice to irregular movement and cheap labour within a regional context defined, in part, by dispossession. Through thick interpretations of the lived experience of border practice, the study also connects such political economic processes (e.g. migrant irregularity, labour precarity and economic informality) to questions of social identity and migrant subjectivities. By situating the figure of the hyena at the centre of Southern African border struggles, the thesis invents an analytical concept that serves both an empirical and a theoretical task. Empirically, it enables a synthetic understanding of how everyday contestations around the possibility to work across the border for low-skill migrants have been interacting, through time, with broader processes of capital accumulation to partly shape the region’s migrant labour system. Theoretically, it shows how facilitation of undocumented border crossings calls for new sociological models that can account for processes that escape binary classification (as formal or informal, inclusive or exclusive, legal or illegal, ordered or disordered), thus contributing to a better understanding of the role of migration in the contemporary world. Allt fler människor korsar idag gränsen vid Beitbridge mellan Sydafrika och Zimbabwe. Samtidigt sker en motsvarande ökning av kreativa strategier som gör att även personer och varor som saknar rätt handlingar kan ta sig över gränsen. Dessa ‘informella’ gränsövergångar har kommit att definiera vad som efter 1994 blivit en av de viktigaste ekonomiska regionerna i södra Afrika, Limpopodalen. I denna avhandling betraktas rutinerna vid sådana oregistrerade gränsövergångar som en vardagens politik med djupa historiska rötter. Genom arkivstudier och etnografiska observationer undersöker avhandlingen en samhällshistoria och en mänsklig aktivitet där en rad aktörer är inblandade i en pågående, papperslös migration. En viktig roll i sammanhanget har omalayitsha, dvs. privata transportörer, som ofta är en viktig länk mellan de papperslösa resenärerna och den migrationsregim som å ena sidan stänger dem ute och å andra sidan är så fragmenterad att de tillåts passera igenom. I tre teoretiska och fyra empiriska kapitel, samt med ett angreppssätt hämtat från gränsstudier (border studies) och den kritiskt realistiska skolan inom migrationsstudier, syftar avhandlingen till att förstå gränsövergångens praktik i förhållande till den irreguljära mobilitet och det överskott på billig arbetskraft som sätter sin prägel på en region där många är fattiga och fördrivna. I avhandlingens djuptolkningar av migranternas levda erfarenhet vid gränsen förbinds i sin tur de politiskt-ekonomiska processerna (irreguljär migration, prekära arbetsvillkor och ekonomisk informalitet) med frågor om samhällelig identitet och migrantens subjektivitet. Avhandlingen ser hyenafiguren som central för förståelsen av de ’gränskamper’ (border struggles) som utkämpas i södra Afrika; med hyenan introduceras också ett analytiskt begrepp. Empiriskt sett möjliggör begreppet en syntetisk förståelse av hur vardagliga tvister och problem som präglar arbetsmigrantens försök att jobba på andra sidan gränsen över tid samverkar med större processer av kapitalackumulation, som delvis formar regionens migrantarbetarsystem. I teoretiskt avseende visar begreppet hur förhandlingarna som sker vid gränskontrollen klargör behovet av nya sociologiska modeller som kan redogöra för samhällsprocesser som undflyr varje binär klassificering (som formell eller informell, inkluderande eller exkluderande, legal eller illegal, ordnad eller oordnad), och på så vis bidrar det till en bättre förståelse av migrationens betydelse i dagens värld.