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Woodrow Wilson

Author : William Barksdale Maynard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300142706
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Woodrow Wilson written by William Barksdale Maynard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton--where he enjoyed four productive years followed by four years of wrangling and intense acrimony--reveal much about the kind of man he was and how he earned a reputation as a fearless crusader. This engrossing book focuses on how Wilson's Princeton years influenced the ideas and worldview he later applied in politics. His career in the White House, W. Barksdale Maynard shows, repeated with uncanny precision his Princeton experiences. The book recounts how Wilson's inspired period of building, expansion, and intellectual fervor at Princeton deteriorated into one of the most famous academic disputes in American history. His battle to abolish elitist eating clubs and establish a more egalitarian system culminated in his defeat and dismissal, and the ruthlessness of his tactics alienated even longtime friends. So extreme was his behavior, some historians have wondered whether he suffered a stroke. Maynard sheds new light on this question, on Wilson's temper, and on other aspects of his strengths and shortcomings. The book provides an unprecedented inside view of a hard-fighting president--a man who tried first to remake a university and then to remake the world.

Crane and Pelican

Author : Novare Lawrence
Publisher : NADA Bindu Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781633070141
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Crane and Pelican written by Novare Lawrence and published by NADA Bindu Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cranes are the tallest birds that can fly. Pelicans are rather goofy-looking birds with big webbed feet and a big floppy throat pouch. Learn all about cranes and pelicans in this book, their behaviors, their activities, and how they compare and interact with other birds and animals in nature. Color photographs capture the beauty and personality of these amazing birds. This book is a great learning and teaching resource for kids 8 to 108. What better way to develop an interest in and appreciation of nature and the world of birds as it intersects with ours, than to share this book?

My Book of Birds

Author : Geraldo Valério
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554988012
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book My Book of Birds written by Geraldo Valério and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning album of some of the most beautiful birds in North America. Geraldo Valério is an artist who loves birds, from majestic Golden Eagles and Snowy Owls to brilliant cardinals and jays to the tiniest of hummingbirds. Here he presents his favorites, with beautiful collage illustrations and brief descriptions that highlight intriguing facts about each one. The illustrations show a variety of feathered creatures in their natural habitats as they hunt for food, impress their mates, nest, and care for their young. The concise, accessible text provides information ranging from clever techniques for finding food to remarkable physical features to fascinating behaviors. But above all, Geraldo Valério shares his passion for birds in this lovingly created album, inspiring young readers with their beauty and the excitement of discovery. Includes an introduction, glossary, index and sources for further information. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.4 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

Perky Pelican

Author : Suzanne Tate
Publisher : Nags Head Art, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781878405135
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Perky Pelican written by Suzanne Tate and published by Nags Head Art, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a pelican reflects the ordinary experiences encountered every day.

The Pelican Chorus

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481470493
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Pelican Chorus written by Edward Lear and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With lavish illustrations, Caldecott Honoree Marcellino brings a decidedly droll vision to three of Lear's classic tales--The New Vestments, The Pelican Chorus, and The Owl and the Pussycat--in this picture book collection. Full color. 11 x 9 1/2.

Remarkable Birds

Author : Mark Avery
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 050077353X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Remarkable Birds written by Mark Avery and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you didn’t know about the avian world: a fascinating compendium showcasing the extraordinary wonders of birds, illuminated with exquisite ornithological illustrations, prints, and drawings Humans share the Earth with more than 10,000 species of birds and have always been enchanted by them. Birds can be a sign of the changing seasons, a symbol of freedom, or simply a breathtaking vision of beauty. Remarkable Birds approaches these fascinating creatures thematically across eight sections covering all aspects of humans’ relationship with birds. “Songbirds” celebrates the greatest bird virtuosi, such as the nightingale, while “Birds of Prey” includes majestic hunters such as the harpy eagle. “Feathered Travelers” describes astounding journeys made by birds including tiny hummingbirds that migrate huge distances. “The Love Life of Birds” illuminates the most brilliant displays upon which different species rely to find a mate—notably the extravagant plumage and dances of birds of paradise. “Avian Cities” explores the spectacular, large colonies of species such as the flamingo, while “Useful to Us” examines the diverse ways we find birds valuable, such as the turkey or the canary. “Threatened & Extinct” describes some species that have been lost forever, and others on the brink. Birds have also had great mystical significance and “Revered & Adored” considers such species as the sacred ibis, believed by the ancient Egyptians to represent the god Thoth.

Urban Ornithology

Author : P. A. Buckley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501719629
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Urban Ornithology written by P. A. Buckley and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Urban Ornithology".

Manual of Ornithology

Author : Noble S. Proctor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300076196
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Manual of Ornithology written by Noble S. Proctor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a volume that has no parallel. . . . A good reference book for those interested in the details of avian anatomy."--Science Books & Films "A gold mine of facts. . . . Every library and biology department, as well as every birder, should have a copy close at hand."--Roger Tory Peterson, from the foreword One of the most heavily illustrated ornithology references ever written, Manual or Ornithology is a visual guide to the structure and anatomy of birds--a basic tool for investigation for anyone curious about the fascinating world of birds. A concise atlas of anatomy, it contains more than 200 specially prepared accurate and clear drawings that include material never illustrated before. The text is as informative as the drawings; written at a level appropriate to undergraduate students and to bird lovers in general, it discusses why birds look and act the way they do. Designed to supplement a basic ornithology textbook, the Manual of Ornithology covers systematics and evolution, topography, feathers and flight, the skeleton and musculature, and the digestive, circulatory, respiratory, excretory, reproductive, sensory, and nervous systems of birds, as well as field techniques for watching and studying birds. Each chapter concludes with a list of key references for the topic covered, with a comprehensive bibliography at the end of the volume.

Magnificent Birds

Author : Narisa Togo
Publisher : Walker Studio
ISBN 13 : 9781406377880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book Magnificent Birds written by Narisa Togo and published by Walker Studio. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bird-of-paradise that performs its extravagantly colourful courtship dance, to the godwit that flies thousands of miles across the ocean without stopping, explore the world of magnificent birds.

Brown Pelican

Author : Rien Fertel
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807178802
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Brown Pelican written by Rien Fertel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling book, Rien Fertel tells the story of humanity’s complicated and often brutal relationship with the brown pelican over the past century. This beloved bird with the mythically bottomless belly—to say nothing of its prodigious pouch—has been deemed a living fossil and the most dinosaur-like of creatures. The pelican adorns the Louisiana state flag, serves as a religious icon of sacrifice, and stars in the famous parting shot of Jurassic Park, but, most significantly, spotlights our tenuous connection with the environment in which it flies, feeds, and roosts—the coastal United States. In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated the first national wildlife refuge at Pelican Island, Florida, in order to rescue the brown pelican, among other species, from the plume trade. Despite such protections, the ubiquity of synthetic “agents of death,” most notably DDT, in the mid-twentieth century sent the brown pelican to the list of endangered species. By the mid-1960s, not one viable pelican nest remained in all of Louisiana. Authorities declared the state bird locally extinct. Conservation efforts—including an outlandish but well-planned birdnapping—saved the brown pelican, generating one of the great success stories in animal preservation. However, the brown pelican is once again under threat, particularly along Louisiana’s coast, due to land loss and rising seas. For centuries, artists and writers have portrayed the pelican as a bird that pierces its breast to feed its young, symbolizing saintly piety. Today, the brown pelican gives itself in other ways, sacrificed both by and for the environment as a bellwether bird—an indicator species portending potential disasters that await. Brown Pelican combines history and first-person narrative to complicate, deconstruct, and reassemble our vision of the bird, the natural world, and ourselves.

Poetry Unbound

Author : Mike Chasar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548087
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Poetry Unbound written by Mike Chasar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry. Poetry, they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new media technologies. In Poetry Unbound, Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies in complex, unexpected, and powerful ways. Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, Chasar follows poetry’s travels off the page into new media formats, including silent film, sound film, and television. Mass and nonprint media have not stolen poetry’s audience, he contends, but have instead given people even more ways to experience poetry. Examining the use of canonical as well as religious and popular verse forms in a variety of genres, Chasar also traces how poetry has helped negotiate and legitimize the cultural status of emergent media. Ranging from Citizen Kane to Leave It to Beaver to best-selling Instapoet Rupi Kaur, this book reveals poetry’s ability to find new audiences and meanings in media forms with which it has often been thought to be incompatible. Illuminating poetry’s surprising multimedia history, Poetry Unbound offers a new paradigm for understanding poetry’s still evolving place in American culture.

How to Know the Birds

Author : Ted Floyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1426220030
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book How to Know the Birds written by Ted Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.

Everyday Reading

Author : Mike Chasar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231158645
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Reading written by Mike Chasar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers. He shows how American poetry in the first half of the twentieth century and its reception helped set the stage for the dynamics of popular culture and mass media today. Poetry was then part and parcel of American popular culture, spreading rapidly as the consumer economy expanded and companies exploited its profit-making potential. Poetry also offered ordinary Americans creative, emotional, political, and intellectual modes of expression, whether through scrapbooking, participation in radio programs, or poetry contests. Reenvisioning the uses of twentieth-century poetry, Chasar provides a richer understanding of the innovations of modernist and avant-garde poets and the American reading public's sophisticated powers of feeling and perception.

A Pelican at Blandings

Author : P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 140906350X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Pelican at Blandings written by P.G. Wodehouse and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blandings is now a major BBC One television series starring Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall. Unwelcome guests are descending on Blandings Castle - particularly the overbearing Duke of Dunstable, who settles in the Garden Suite with no intention of leaving, and Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's sister and a lady of firm disposition, who arrives unexpectedly from New York. Skulduggery is also afoot involving the sale of a modern nude painting (mistaken by Lord Emsworth for a pig). It's enough to take the noble earl on the short journey to the end of his wits. Luckily Clarence's brother Galahad Threepwood, cheery survivor of the raffish Pelican Club, is on hand to set things right, restore sundered lovers and even solve all the mysteries.

Red Knot

Author : Nancy Carol Willis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966276152
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Red Knot written by Nancy Carol Willis and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 20,000-mile annual migration of a shorebird called a Red knot, from the tip of South America to the Arctic tundra nesting grounds and back.

What Kind of Bird is That?

Author : Mirra Ginsburg
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780517502556
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book What Kind of Bird is That? written by Mirra Ginsburg and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An envious goose trades his various features for those he admires on other animals until he becomes a strange, unrecognizable bird.

Bright Wings

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231150873
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Bright Wings written by Billy Collins and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty, escape, transcendence, and divine expression. Here, in this substantial anthology, more than one hundred contemporary and classic poems are paired with close to sixty original, ornithologically precise illustrations. Part poetry collection, part field guide, part art book, Bright Wings presents verbal and visual interpretations of the natural world and reminds us of our intimate connection to the "bright wings" around us. Each in their own way, these poems and pictures honor the enchanting creatures that have been, and continue to be, longtime collaborators with the poet's and painter's art. Poet and bird pairings include: Wallace Stevens and the Blackbird; Emily Dickinson and the Robin; Marianne Moore and the Frigate Pelican; Thomas Hardy and the Goldfinch; Sylvia Plath and the Pheasant; John Updike and the Seagull; Walt Whitman and the Eagle; Billy Collins and the Sparrow.