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The Okapi

Author : Susan Lyndaker Lindsey
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292747074
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Okapi written by Susan Lyndaker Lindsey and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congo-Zaire contains Africa's largest remaining tracts of intact rain forest, making it one of the most important regions for biodiversity conservation. Its Ituri Forest is home to plants and animals native to nowhere else on earth, including the elusive and little-known okapi. In this popularly written book, three long-time observers of the okapi present a complete, contemporary natural history of this appealing relative of the giraffe. They recount its discovery by European explorers and describe its appearance and life cycle. They also discuss current efforts to preserve the species, both in the wild and at zoos around the world. Illustrated with charming line drawings, The Okapi will be a valuable resource for conservationists and zoo visitors alike-indeed anyone fascinated by the mysterious animal of Congo-Zaire.

Okapi Loves His Zebra Pants

Author : Terri Tatchell
Publisher : Fielding House Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781777286811
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Okapi Loves His Zebra Pants written by Terri Tatchell and published by Fielding House Press Limited. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Okapi loves his striped legs until a naughty chimpanzee teases him for stealing "zebra pants". Suddenly his special stripes don't feel special. They feel terrible! OKAPI loves spending carefree days frolicking in the African Rainforest alongside his best friend AFRICAN GREY PARROT. One day, he meets a CHIMPANZEE who laughs at his striped legs and teases that he's stolen a zebra's pants. OKAPI has never met a ZEBRA and pretends he doesn't care, but the seed is planted, and he soon finds himself questioning the very stripes he used to love. What choice does he have but to set out in search of this strange zebra animal and see for himself if he has in fact accidentally taken its pants. On the surface, "Okapi Loves His Zebra Pants" is about an Okapi dealing with hurt feelings from being teased, but look deeper, and it's a story about resilience, self-acceptance, community, and finding joy in our similarities as well as our differences. Kids love the fact-filled spread at the end of the story where they can learn about okapis, chimpanzees and African grey parrots, ways to help endangered animals, and even how to draw them! Endangered & Misunderstood is an ongoing series of children's picture books that takes a different approach to the serious subject of lesser-known endangered animals, with an emphasis on laughter, adventure, and themes everyone can relate to. Buy and review "Okapi Loves His Zebra Pants" to help the endangered okapi. All proceeds go towards the protection and conservation of okapis.

The Story of the Okapi

Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : Raintree
ISBN 13 : 1474714633
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Okapi written by Anita Ganeri and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how the okapi was discovered, how they live, and where they live.

Poppi the Okapi

Author : Darryl Silver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733498807
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Poppi the Okapi written by Darryl Silver and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A curious Okapi named Poppi goes on a journey of self discovery, meeting many friends along the way.

The Imaginary Okapi

Author : Judy Katschke
Publisher : Golden/Disney
ISBN 13 : 9780736437196
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book The Imaginary Okapi written by Judy Katschke and published by Golden/Disney. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: Disney the Lion guard.

The Photo Ark

Author : Joel Sartore
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426217773
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Photo Ark written by Joel Sartore and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals -- especially those that are endangered. His message: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore intends to photograph every animal in captivity in the world. He is circling the globe, visiting zoos and wildlife rescue centers to create studio portraits of 12,000 species, with an emphasis on those facing extinction. He has photographed more than 6,000 already and now, thanks to a multi-year partnership with National Geographic, he may reach his goal. This book showcases his animal portraits: from tiny to mammoth, from the Florida grasshopper sparrow to the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Paired with the prose of veteran wildlife writer Douglas Chadwick, this book presents an argument for saving all the species of our planet.

The Sloppy Okapi

Author : Keith Bosco
Publisher : Yellow Light Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781947165328
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Sloppy Okapi written by Keith Bosco and published by Yellow Light Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie is a young okapi who wants to be a detective, but his one big flaw causes a big, big problem...he's a very sloppy okapi! Join Charlie as he learns the importance of being neat while discovering that his weakness doesn't determine his destiny.

What You Can See from Here

Author : Mariana Leky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720630
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book What You Can See from Here written by Mariana Leky and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I loved this novel truly, madly, deeply.” —Nina George, bestselling author of The Book of Dreams and The Little Paris Bookshop In this international bestseller by the award-winning novelist Mariana Leky, a heartwarming story unfolds about a small town, a grandmother whose dreams foretell a coming death, and the young woman forever changed by these losses and her loving, endearingly oddball community On a beautiful spring day, a small village wakes up to an omen: Selma has dreamed of an okapi. Someone is about to die. Luisa, Selma’s ten-year-old granddaughter, looks on as the predictable characters of her small world begin acting strangely. Though they claim not to be superstitious, each of her neighbors newly grapples with buried secrets and deferred decisions that have become urgent in the face of death. Luisa’s mother struggles to decide whether to end her marriage. An old family friend, known only as the optician, tries to find the courage to tell Selma he loves her. Only sad Marlies remains unchanged, still moping around her house and cooking terrible food. But when the prophesied death finally comes, the circumstances fall outside anyone’s expectations. The loss forever changes Luisa and shapes her for years to come, as she encounters life’s great questions alongside her devoted friends, young and old. A story about the absurdity of life and death, a bittersweet portrait of small towns and the wider world that beckons beyond, this charmer of a novel is also a thoughtful meditation on the way loss and love shape not just a person but a community. Mariana Leky’s What You Can See from Here is a moving tale of grief, first love, reluctant love, late love, and finding one’s place in the world, even if that place is right where you started.

The Tourist Trail

Author : John Yunker
Publisher : Ashland Creek Press
ISBN 13 : 1618220020
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Tourist Trail written by John Yunker and published by Ashland Creek Press. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout the book, the passions and sincerity of animal advocates are captured with immense respect…the story becomes unstoppable." — Animal Legal Defense Fund The Tourist Trail is at once a romance, an adventure story, an environmental polemic, and a keen study of just how animalistic humans are. —Phoebe Literary Journal The Tourist Trail will challenge your perceptions of villains and innocent victims, and make you question whose side you’re on as each character grapples with his or her own authenticity, with what’s worth fighting for, and faces the realization that no matter how fast you run, you can never escape from yourself. — IndieReader Throughout the book, the passions and sincerity of animal advocates are captured with immense respect…the story becomes unstoppable. — Animal Legal Defense Fund Biologist Angela Haynes is accustomed to dark, lonely nights as one of the few humans at a penguin research station in Patagonia. She has grown used to the cries of penguins before dawn, to meager supplies and housing, to spending most of her days in one of the most remote regions on earth. What she isn’t used to is strange men washing ashore, which happens one day on her watch. The man won’t tell her his name or where he came from, but Angela, who has a soft spot for strays, tends to him, if for no other reason than to protect her birds and her work. When she later learns why he goes by an alias, why he is a refugee from the law, and why he is a man without a port, she begins to fall in love—and embarks on a journey that takes her deep into Antarctic waters, and even deeper into the emotional territory she thought she’d left behind. Against the backdrop of the Southern Ocean, The Tourist Trail weaves together the stories of Angela as well as FBI agent Robert Porter, dispatched on a mission that unearths a past he would rather keep buried; and Ethan Downes, a computer tech whose love for a passionate animal rights activist draws him into a dangerous mission.

The Storm

Author : Akeem Balogun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838044107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book The Storm written by Akeem Balogun and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introduction to Information Retrieval

Author : Christopher D. Manning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139472100
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Information Retrieval written by Christopher D. Manning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using examples and figures, making it perfect for introductory courses in information retrieval for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science. Based on feedback from extensive classroom experience, the book has been carefully structured in order to make teaching more natural and effective. Slides and additional exercises (with solutions for lecturers) are also available through the book's supporting website to help course instructors prepare their lectures.

Convincing Rebel Fighters to Disarm

Author : Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110469774
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Convincing Rebel Fighters to Disarm written by Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the key mission objectives of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) was to disarm and repatriate foreign combatants in the eastern region of the country. To achieve this, MONUC adopted a „push and pull" strategy. This involved applying military pressure while at the same time offering opportunities for voluntary disarmament and repatriation for armed combatants of the elusive but deadly Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) – a predominantly Rwandan Hutu armed group in eastern DRC. As part of its "pull" strategy, MONUC embarked on one of the most sophisticated Information Operations (IO) campaigns in UN history with the core objective of convincing thousands of individual combatants and commanders of the FDLR to voluntarily disarm and join the UN’s Demobilization, Disarmament, Repatriation, Resettlement and Reintegration programme (DDRRR). This book is derived from studies of the narratives, coordination and effectiveness of the UN’s IO in support of DDRRR and how the UN has integrated IO as part of its Mission peace support operations. This book advances contemporary understanding of the relative importance of communication models and their interactions within conflict settings. It provides instruments with which conflict and communication analysts can compare predictions and rationalize Information impacts for future conflicts. About the author Dr. Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob teaches Communications & Media Studies at the American University of Nigeria. He earned his PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Vanishing Animals

Author : Andy Warhol
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468463330
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Animals written by Andy Warhol and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Especially for this book, Andy Warhol has created prints (silkscreen over collage) of some of the most endangered animals in the world. Here they are joined with a stimulating text by Dr Kurt Benirschke affording the reader an opportunity to discover the lives and habits of these animals and what the outlook is for their survival. Extinction, the tragic and permanent loss of entire species of animals, should be a concern for everyone This concern and a strong desire to take action toward preventing the loss of more animals has brought about an unusual collaboration between art and science. The result is this beautiful volume in which artist and scientist have joined efforts to inform and inspire others to take action. It is hoped that these fascinating and striking portrayals will stimulate readers to join their own energies and talents to this important fight against the loss of more species. This book brings some of the less well known endangered animals to the reader's attention. These animals deserve just as much attention as the giant panda or the mountain gorilla about which so much has already been said. Naturally, the animals presented here are very personal choices, having been selected from a virtually endless supply of animals whose last hour is rapidly approaching.

Deep in the Forest

Author : Josef Antòn
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781419723513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Deep in the Forest written by Josef Antòn and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven different scenes in the forest ask readers to locate different animals, hidden in the illustrations.

The Poisonwood Bible

Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061804819
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.

Rataplan, a Rogue Elephant; and Other Stories

Author : Ellen Velvin
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Rataplan, a Rogue Elephant; and Other Stories written by Ellen Velvin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Velvin's book, 'Rataplan, a Rogue Elephant; and Other Stories,' is a collection of captivating tales that seamlessly blend adventure, humor, and moral lessons. The literary style is characterized by vivid descriptions and memorable characters, reminiscent of classic animal fables. Velvin skillfully weaves together narratives that appeal to both young and adult readers, offering a thought-provoking exploration of human nature through the lens of animal protagonists. Set in a fictional animal kingdom, the stories provide a rich tapestry of allegorical themes that invite readers to reflect on societal norms and personal values. As an accomplished wildlife conservationist, Ellen Velvin brings a unique perspective to 'Rataplan, a Rogue Elephant; and Other Stories.' Her firsthand experiences working with animals have undoubtedly influenced the depth and authenticity of the book's animal characters. Velvin's passion for wildlife preservation shines through in her storytelling, making the book not only entertaining but also educational in its advocacy for animal welfare. I highly recommend 'Rataplan, a Rogue Elephant; and Other Stories' to readers who appreciate allegorical fiction and insightful reflections on human behavior. Ellen Velvin's imaginative storytelling and commitment to conservation make this book a compelling read for anyone interested in the intersection of literature and environmentalism.

THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN

Author : Zane Grey
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN written by Zane Grey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zane Grey's novel, The Last of the Plainsmen, is a classic tale of the American West set in the late 19th century. The book follows the adventures of Buffalo Jones, a legendary plainsman who is determined to save the last remaining American bison from extinction. Grey's descriptive writing style vividly captures the rugged landscapes and the harsh realities of the frontier life, making the reader feel as if they are right there alongside the characters. The Last of the Plainsmen is a blend of action, adventure, and environmental conservation, making it a timeless and thought-provoking read. Zane Grey's use of dialogue and character development showcases his mastery of the Western genre, solidifying his place as a prominent author in American literature. The author's personal interest in the American West and his experiences as a fisherman and hunter greatly influenced the themes and setting of the book. Readers who enjoy historical fiction, adventure stories, and tales of the American West will find The Last of the Plainsmen to be a captivating and immersive read.