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Book Synopsis Vultures in the Living Room by : Lula Falcão
Download or read book Vultures in the Living Room written by Lula Falcão and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first translation of Lula Falcão's dystopian, absurdist and sometimes darkly humorous collection of short stories on contemporary Brazilian life. Falcão--the author of critically acclaimed books including one being adapted to screen--writes from the port city of Recife. His writing is unmistakably original, his use of the absurdist method succeeds in explaining Brazil's political, existential conundrums, its current religious schizophrenia, and it provides an entertaining gateway to universal truths. Vultures in the Living Room, like Ionesco's post -war Rhinoceros, is an important reflection on human vulnerability during times of political and social uncertainty. According to editor and author Matt Miller: While some aspects of his work speak specifically to the Brazilian context, the scenarios and characters in Vultures in the Living Room should also resonate with readers in other parts of our increasingly networked and alienated 21st Century global society.
Download or read book Consider the Birds written by Debbie Blue and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From biblical times to today, humans have found meaning and significance in the actions and symbolism of birds. We admire their mystery and manners, their strength and fragility, their beauty and their ugliness—and perhaps compare these very characteristics to their own lives in the process. Though admired today, the birds of Scripture are largely unseen and underappreciated. From the well-known image of the dove to the birds that gorge on the flesh of the defeated “beast” in Revelation, birds play a dynamic part in Scripture. They bring bread to the prophets. They are food for the wanderers. As sacrifices, they are the currency of mercy. Highlighting 10 birds throughout Scripture, author Debbie Blue explores their significance in both familiar and unfamiliar biblical stories and illustrates how and why they have represented humanity across culture, Christian tradition, art, and contemporary psyche. With these (usually) minor characters at the forefront of human imaginations, poignant life lessons illuminate such qualities as desire and gratitude, power and vulnerability, insignificance and importance—even as readers gain a better understanding that God’s mysterious grace is sometimes most evident in His simplest of creatures.
Book Synopsis The Lion in the Living Room by : Abigail Tucker
Download or read book The Lion in the Living Room written by Abigail Tucker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller about how cats conquered the world and our hearts in this “deep and illuminating perspective on our favorite household companion” (Huffington Post). House cats rule bedrooms and back alleys, deserted Antarctic islands, even cyberspace. And unlike dogs, cats offer humans no practical benefit. The truth is they are sadly incompetent mouse-catchers and now pose a threat to many ecosystems. Yet, we love them still. In the “eminently readable and gently funny” (Library Journal, starred review) The Lion in the Living Room, Abigail Tucker travels through world history, natural science, and pop culture to meet breeders, activists, and scientists who’ve dedicated their lives to cats. She visits the labs where people sort through feline bones unearthed from the first human settlements, treks through the Floridian wilderness in search of house cats-turned-hunters on the loose, and hangs out with Lil Bub, one of the world’s biggest celebrities—who just happens to be a cat. “Fascinating” (Richmond Times-Dispatch) and “lighthearted” (The Seattle Times), Tucker shows how these tiny felines have used their relationship with humans to become one of the most powerful animals on the planet. A “lively read that pounces back and forth between evolutionary science and popular culture” (The Baltimore Sun), The Lion in the Living Room suggests that we learn that the appropriate reaction to a house cat, it seems, might not be aww but awe.
Book Synopsis Vultures in Eagle's Clothing by : Lynne Meredith
Download or read book Vultures in Eagle's Clothing written by Lynne Meredith and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vanessa's Rotten Day by : Roberta Carr
Download or read book Vanessa's Rotten Day written by Roberta Carr and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanessa's Rotten Day is a whimsical tale that is based on a true animal rescue story. One hot August morning, Vanessa, a young turkey vulture, is hunting for food when she sports a half-buried dog in a field. She swoops down and enjoys a savory meal. As she flies home, she begins to feel sick. Before long, she falls from the sky and crashes into a stranger's backyard. She's scared, unable to move, and desperately wants her mother. She trembles with fear as a human shadow closes in on her. What made her sick? Will the human harm her? Will she ever see her family again?
Book Synopsis A Kettle of Vultures by : Sabrina Lamb
Download or read book A Kettle of Vultures written by Sabrina Lamb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with humorous abandon by popular satirist, former stand-up comic, and media commentator Sabrina Lamb, A Kettle of Vultures is a fictional romp which exposes the acerbic thoughts of image consultant Iris Chapman, her dysfunctional family, socially maladjusted clients, magical friends, and her adventurous journey toward self-acceptance. Unbeknownst to Iris Chapman, the Atlanta-based image consultant, a kettle of low-flying vultures convenes overhead as she boards the flight home to Opa Locka on the day of her brother’s controversial wedding. Following their customary bear hugs, Iris’ eccentric family launches into the inquisition, the visual and vocal assessment of Iris’ physical appearance. Iris is already attacked daily by her own inquisition, questioning her very existence. Self-acceptance is a long journey and it’s unclear whether or not she’ll get there as she attempts to seduce an uninterested man, moves cities, loses clients, and meets a man she’s not sure she can trust. Will Iris survive the onslaught by the vulturous characters in her life? Will her octogenarian grandmother, her superstitious mother who denunciates anything nappy, her hermit-like father, and irritating clients, push Iris over the edge of her own sanity? Will she learn to accept herself?
Download or read book Homewreckers written by Aaron Glantz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[I] can’t recommend this joint enough. ... An illuminating and discomfiting read.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates "Essential reading." —New York Review of Books A shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class—among them, Donald Trump and his inner circle. Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Donald Trump looked forward to a crash: “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy,” he said. But our future president wasn’t alone. While millions of Americans suffered financial loss, tycoons pounced to heartlessly seize thousands of homes—their profiteering made even easier because, as prize-winning investigative reporter Aaron Glantz reveals in Homewreckers, they often used taxpayer money—and the Obama administration’s promise to cover their losses. In Homewreckers, Glantz recounts the transformation of straightforward lending into a morass of slivered and combined mortgage “products” that could be bought and sold, accompanied by a shift in priorities and a loosening of regulations and laws that made it good business to lend money to those who wouldn’t be able to repay. Among the men who laughed their way to the bank: Trump cabinet members Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, Trump pal and confidant Tom Barrack, and billionaire Republican cash cow Steve Schwarzman. Homewreckers also brilliantly weaves together the stories of those most ravaged by the housing crisis. The result is an eye-opening expose of the greed that decimated millions and enriched a gluttonous few.
Download or read book Flight Ways written by Thom van Dooren and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world—the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world.
Book Synopsis The Vulture Project by : Frank E Darrow
Download or read book The Vulture Project written by Frank E Darrow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vulture Project is a fast paced bio-medical thriller that will keep you turning the pages as Trish Morgan, a bio-chemist working for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) becomes entangled in a sinister plot of greed, corruption, and murder as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Calvin Wright, her best friend's husband who has been working undercover on a highly classified experiment for an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company called Bio-Med as she risks her own life following the clues left behind by Calvin. Time is running out for Trish as she tries to figure out what sinister force has been unleased on the small Colorado resort town of Mt. Wellingtion.
Book Synopsis The Universe Next Door by : T. Holt Russell
Download or read book The Universe Next Door written by T. Holt Russell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Universe Next Door is a collection of short stories that addresses issues such as alienation, alternate universes, spirits and questionable realities.
Book Synopsis Emergent Strategy by : adrienne maree brown
Download or read book Emergent Strategy written by adrienne maree brown and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.
Book Synopsis The Pagan Book of Living and Dying by : Starhawk
Download or read book The Pagan Book of Living and Dying written by Starhawk and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-10-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RITUALS AND RESOURCES FOR HONOURING DEATH IN THE CIRCLE OF LIFE Birth,growth,death,and rebirth are a cycle that forms the underlying order of the universe. This is the core of Pagan belief – and the heart of this unique resource guide to de
Download or read book The Veldt written by Ray Bradbury and published by Tale Blazers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Bradbury [RL 6 IL 7-12] The nursery of the Hadleys ultra- modern Happylife Home transforms itself into a sinister African veldt. Theme: technology out of control. 42 pages. Tale Blazers.
Book Synopsis Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion by : Maturia Murray Ballou
Download or read book Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion written by Maturia Murray Ballou and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Flourishing Tree by : Hope Squires
Download or read book The Flourishing Tree written by Hope Squires and published by Lulu. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books taps into the powerful imagery of trees to suggest ways that one may sink roots into God's Word and grow strong branches that bear the fruits of faith.
Book Synopsis The Himalayan Letters of Gypsy Davy and Lady Ba by : Robert LeMoyne Barrett
Download or read book The Himalayan Letters of Gypsy Davy and Lady Ba written by Robert LeMoyne Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ecopharmacovigilance by : Leobardo Manuel Gómez-Oliván
Download or read book Ecopharmacovigilance written by Leobardo Manuel Gómez-Oliván and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indiscriminate use of medications and their inadequate disposal have resulted in them being released into the environment via municipal, hospital and industrial discharges. This volume critically examines the presence of pharmaceuticals in aquatic ecosystems, the hazards they entail, and how to minimize their impact on the environment. The topics covered include: historical findings that have made the development of the discipline ecopharmacovigilance possible; the main exposure routes, fate and life cycle of pharmaceuticals in water; occurrence data and the impact on biodiversity; methods used for the detection, analysis and quantification of pharmaceuticals in water and for their removal; current legislation on the presence of emerging contaminants in water; biosensors for environmental analysis and monitoring; and the measures needed to reduce the existing problems. This book is aimed at students, academics and research workers in the fields of toxicology, ecology, microbiology and chemistry, as well as those in the pharmaceutical industry, health sector professionals, and members of government bodies involved in environmental protection and legislation.
