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Chasing the Albino Pygmy Giraffe

Author : Charles Haddad
Publisher : Barking Dogwood Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Albino Pygmy Giraffe written by Charles Haddad and published by Barking Dogwood Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Chasing the Albino Pygmy Giraffe” is a laugh aloud yet insightful parody about how little Chinese and Americans understand one another. The story unfolds as a college professor leads a group of American and Chinese students 3,500 miles across the heart of Western China down the fabled Silk Road. Along the way, the travelers brave everything from squat toilets and donkey meat to insurrection and the Red Army. Author Charles Haddad is eminently qualified to spoof Chinese and Americans alike. Not only has he seen more of China than most Chinese themselves. Haddad speaks Chinese and is well versed in Chinese history and culture. While fiction, Haddad’s tale rings true. It offers great insight for those worrying about the future of Sino-American relations. And worry they should, suggests this humorous adventure story.

Pity the Poor Reader

Author : Charles Haddad
Publisher : Barking Dogwood Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pity the Poor Reader written by Charles Haddad and published by Barking Dogwood Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider “Pity the Poor Reader” as an un-textbook, an irreverent “Elements of style.” Like Elements, it’s designed to compliment textbooks. Pity is concise, memorable and portable. Under 300 pages, Pity serves as an aspiring writer’s keepsake. Concision lies at the heart of Pity. The key concepts of writing well are distilled into irreverent, memorable lines and axioms. Many of them are organized as lists that are easily printed and taped to a wall or a computer. Indeed, in testing the book with my university students, I’ve found that many of them did print out its list of axioms to keep handy while writing. I’ve also overheard students quoting Pity’s axioms to their friends. While similar to “Elements” in spirit, Pity differs greatly in style, material and organization. My book draws on current events, history, student anecdotes and my own 30 years of experience as a writer - anything to make its lessons real and relevant. It’s written in a style that skewers all pretense and officiousness when it comes to the teaching of writing. The opening chapter about craft is titled “The Tao of Writing Poorly.” It parodies the poor way that writing is taught in many high schools and colleges. Pity tries to teach whenever possible through humor. It helps to make any lesson memorable.

The White Giraffe

Author : Lauren St. John
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440638640
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The White Giraffe written by Lauren St. John and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Martine’s home in England burns down, killing her parents, she must go to South Africa to live on a wildlife game preserve, called Sawubona, with the grandmother she didn’t know she had. Almost as soon as she arrives, Martine hears stories about a white giraffe living in the preserve. But her grandmother and others working at Sawubona insist that the giraffe is just a myth. Martine is not so sure, until one stormy night when she looks out her window and locks eyes with Jemmy, a young silvery-white giraffe. Why is everyone keeping Jemmy’s existence a secret? Does it have anything to do with the rash of poaching going on at Sawubona? Martine needs all of the courage and smarts she has, not to mention a little African magic, to find out. First-time children’s author Lauren St. John brings us deep into the African world, where myths become reality and a young girl with a healing gift has the power to save her home and her one true friend.

Pity the Poor Reader

Author : Charles Haddad
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981951253
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Pity the Poor Reader written by Charles Haddad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alas, the poor reader. Ever pelted with a heavy rain of words. Junk mail and Spam, E-mail and blogs; E-zines and streaming news. Preached at and scolded, befuddled and misled. Tortured with unpronounceable words and bored with cliché. Is it any wonder that people grow ever weary of reading? I undertook this book not just to help aspiring writers, but to help myself and my dwindling brethren: We who still love words. For us, few joys surpass a sentence that moves one to tears or laughter. That's true whether it's found in a book, a magazine, a song, on a blog or over a urinal. Such love borders on sickness. It's a disease I intend to spread. I aspire to be a one-man epidemic. If I can help raise a better crop of wordsmiths, then we poor readers may have more that's worth reading.

The Rotarian

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1952-05 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

Savage Theories

Author : Pola Oloixarac
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616957360
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Savage Theories written by Pola Oloixarac and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac’s wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded." —Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears and Gods Without Men A debut novel of seduction and madness, hate and love, set in the world of Argentine academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein, Rousseau, Nabokov and Bolaño Rosa Ostreech, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires, dabbling in ketamine, group sex, video games, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors—animals, who, in the process of becoming human, spent thousands of years as prey. Savage Theories wryly explores fear and violence, war and sex, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible, visionary theories, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world.

Microbe Hunters

Author : Paul De Kruif
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Microbe Hunters written by Paul De Kruif and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1927.

Animal Death

Author : Jay Johnston
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743326998
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Animal Death written by Jay Johnston and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal death is a complex, uncomfortable, depressing, motivating and sensitive topic.

Navy & Army Illustrated

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navy & Army Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Environmental education in the schools creating a program that works.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428927603
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Environmental education in the schools creating a program that works. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dictionary of the British English Spelling System

Author : Greg Brooks
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783741074
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of the British English Spelling System written by Greg Brooks and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters ) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.

Spirit of the Times and the New York Sportsman

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit of the Times and the New York Sportsman written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Origin of Species Illustrated

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book On the Origin of Species Illustrated written by Charles Darwin and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),[3] published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.[4] Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.

The Rotarian

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1636 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics of Species

Author : Raymond Corbey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107424380
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Politics of Species written by Raymond Corbey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The assumption that humans are cognitively and morally superior to other animals is fundamental to social democracies and legal systems worldwide. It legitimises treating members of other animal species as inferior to humans. The last few decades have seen a growing awareness of this issue, as evidence continues to show that individuals of many other species have rich mental, emotional and social lives. Bringing together leading experts from a range of disciplines, this volume identifies the key barriers to a definition of moral respect that includes nonhuman animals. It sets out to increase concern, empathy and inclusiveness by developing strategies that can be used to protect other animals from exploitation in the wild and from suffering in captivity. The chapters link scientific data with normative and philosophical reflections, offering unique insight into controversial issues around the ethical, political and legal status of other species"--

Man and His Symbols

Author : Carl G. Jung
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307800555
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Man and His Symbols written by Carl G. Jung and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred images that break down Carl Jung’s revolutionary ideas “What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and to our general understanding of man in society.”—The Guardian “Our psyche is part of nature, and its enigma is limitless.” Since our inception, humanity has looked to dreams for guidance. But what are they? How can we understand them? And how can we use them to shape our lives? There is perhaps no one more equipped to answer these questions than the legendary psychologist Carl G. Jung. It is in his life’s work that the unconscious mind comes to be understood as an expansive, rich world just as vital and true a part of the mind as the conscious, and it is in our dreams—those personal, integral expressions of our deepest selves—that it communicates itself to us. A seminal text written explicitly for the general reader, Man and His Symbolsis a guide to understanding the symbols in our dreams and using that knowledge to build fuller, more receptive lives. Full of fascinating case studies and examples pulled from philosophy, history, myth, fairy tales, and more, this groundbreaking work—profusely illustrated with hundreds of visual examples—offers invaluable insight into the symbols we dream that demand understanding, why we seek meaning at all, and how these very symbols affect our lives. By illuminating the means to examine our prejudices, interpret psychological meanings, break free of our influences, and recenter our individuality, Man and His Symbols proves to be—decades after its conception—a revelatory, absorbing, and relevant experience.

To No Nameless End - A Memoir

Author : Gordon S. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976188902
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book To No Nameless End - A Memoir written by Gordon S. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for enrapturing listeners with his traveller?s tales, Gordini (as he?s known to friends around the world) has finally committed some of them to paper. From his stories of voodoo rites in 1960s Haiti to his encounter with an ancient adventuress in Timbuktu, from his breakdown in the desert of Sudan to his travels with a Bulgarian madcap in Madagascar, the adventures of Gordon S. Brown over 84 years have inspired powerful artwork and sustained his zest for living while enriching the lives of his grateful friends.