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Download or read book Elephant Trails written by Nigel Rothfels and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have elephants—and our preconceptions about them—been central to so much of human thought? From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of confiscated tusks, our thoughts about elephants tell a story of human history. In Elephant Trails, Nigel Rothfels argues that, over millennia, we have made elephants into both monsters and miracles as ways to understand them but also as ways to understand ourselves. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including municipal documents, zoo records, museum collections, and encounters with people who have lived with elephants, Rothfels seeks out the origins of our contemporary ideas about an animal that has been central to so much of human thought. He explains how notions that have been associated with elephants for centuries—that they are exceptionally wise, deeply emotional, and have a special understanding of death; that they never forget, are beloved of the gods, and suffer unusually in captivity; and even that they are afraid of mice—all tell part of the story of these amazing beings. Exploring the history of a skull in a museum, a photograph of an elephant walking through the American South in the early twentieth century, the debate about the quality of life of a famous elephant in a zoo, and the accounts of elephant hunters, Rothfels demonstrates that elephants are not what we think they are—and they never have been. Elephant Trails is a compelling portrait of what the author terms "our elephant."
Download or read book The Elephant written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gnats of Knotty Pine by : Bill Peet
Download or read book The Gnats of Knotty Pine written by Bill Peet and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1984-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The smallest creatures of Knotty Pine Forest avert the horrors of the hunting season in a very "sportsgnatlike" way.
Download or read book The Ant and the Elephant written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1972 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many creatures are helped when two animals refuse to conform to the laws of the jungle. Of all the animals the elephant rescues, only the tiny ant returns the favour.
Book Synopsis Experimental Phenomenology by : Don Ihde
Download or read book Experimental Phenomenology written by Don Ihde and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1986-06-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental Phenomenology has already been lauded for the ease with which its author explains and demonstrates the kinds of consciousness by which we come to know the structure of objects and the structure of consciousness itself. The format of the book follows the progression of a number of thought experiments which mark out the procedures and directions of phenomenological inquiry. Making use of examples of familiar optical illusions and multi-stable drawings, Professor Ihde illustrates by way of careful and disciplined step-by-step analyses, how some of the main methodological procedures and epistemological concepts of phenomenology assume concrete relevance. Such formidable fare as epoche, noetic and noematic analysis, apodicticity, adequacy, sedimentation, imaginative variation, field, and fringe are rendered into the currency of familiar examples from the everyday world.
Download or read book Bait written by Nick Brownlee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping mystery that strips away Kenya's tourist glitz, exposing the country's dark and treacherous side, "Bait" introduces a new and unique crime-busting double act--ex-Scotland Yard cop Jake Moore and Mombasa detective Daniel Jouma.
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Download or read book The Elephant, Principally Viewed in Relation to Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ecstasies of Willaert by : Joseph Harry Silber
Download or read book The Ecstasies of Willaert written by Joseph Harry Silber and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian Leverkühn Cincinnatus Lycurgus Willaert has one thousand souls, four lovers, three loves, two borrowed pistols, and a melon-shaped head. Read herein the accounts of his travels.
Download or read book The Saturday Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comic Sections written by Des MacHale and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Memory of Elephants by : Boman Desai
Download or read book The Memory of Elephants written by Boman Desai and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spurned by his first love, Homi Seervai, the Parsi genius from Bombay, creates a machine that lets him scan his brain for memories of the time he spent with her. The machine malfunctions, propelling him instead into his collective unconscious where he encounters ancestors and relatives, both dead and alive. In this wildly inventive book—available for the first time in the United States—Homi, blessed with the memory of elephants, discovers the splendor of his heritage as well as hope for the future.
Book Synopsis Ivory's Ghosts by : John Frederick Walker
Download or read book Ivory's Ghosts written by John Frederick Walker and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The Huffington Post Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker’s Ivory’s Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, and its impact on elephants. Long before gold and gemstones held allure, ivory came to be prized in every culture of the world—from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America to modern Japan—for its beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. But the beauty came at an unfathomable cost. Walker lays bare the ivory trade’s cruel connection with the slave trade and the increasing slaughter of elephants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the 1980s, elephant poaching reached levels that threatened the last great herds of the African continent, and led to a worldwide ban on the ancient international trade in tusks. But the ban has failed to stop poaching—or the emotional debate over what to do with the legitimate and growing stockpiles of ivory recovered from elephants that die of natural causes. “Ivory’s Ghost is essential reading for anyone concerned with conservation and with the tenuous future of one of the most magnificent creatures our earth has ever seen.” —George B. Schaller, author of A Naturalist and Other Beast
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Book Synopsis The Triggerman's Dance by : T. Jefferson Parker
Download or read book The Triggerman's Dance written by T. Jefferson Parker and published by Trident E-Book Distribution Services. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rebecca Harris is murdered in front of the newspaper offices of the "Orange County Journal," she leaves behind friends and co-workers shocked by her violent death. But she also leaves behind two rivals who were in love with her—passionate Joshua Weinstein, and FBI agent she was engaged to marry, and John Menden, the quiet newsman who was her lover. These men knew of each other's part in Rebecca's complex life, each hoping to be ultimately chosen by her. Weinstein solves the murder but he can't get the evidence to make an arrest—the only person who can do that is Menden. Working together in an uneasy alliance, the two men join forces to bring down Rebecca's killer. Weinstein, the lawman, guides Menden, the journalist into a powerful paramilitary organization where his every move will be scrutinized and vetted by dangerous men, and where his body and soul will be tested in the extreme. "A jolting thriller...delivers more than a rush." —The New York Times Book Review "The Triggerman's Dance is a stunning work, so hypnotic and beautiful that when I finished it, I turned to page 1 and read it all over again." —The Washington Post "The Triggerman's Dance has the psychological and moral complexity of a good novel of the American dark." —The New York Times "His best work thus far." —Bookpage "The Triggerman's Dance is at once darkly disturbing and entertaining." —Atlanta Journal Constitution "A Gripping thriller from the author of such topnotch suburban angst items as Little Saigon and Laguna Heat." —Chicago Tribune
Book Synopsis The Brokered World by : Simon Schaffer
Download or read book The Brokered World written by Simon Schaffer and published by Science History Publications/USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays focusing on the roles of intermediaries such as brokers and spies, messengers and translators, missionaries and entrepreneurs, in linking different parts of the ever more densely entangled systems of knowledge production and circulation at a key moment in the development of global scientific, commercial and political systems. The period 1770-1820 was decisive for the reformation of imperial projects in the wake of military catastrophe and politico-economic crisis, both in the Atlantic and the Asian/Pacific spheres -- economic and political worlds dominated by complex trade systems and violent contest. This conjuncture also saw the overhaul of networks and institutions of natural knowledge, whether commercial, voluntary or organs of state. Both the industrial and the second scientific revolutions have been dated to this moment. New and decisive relations were forged between different cultures' knowledge carriers. The authors consider knowledge movements of the epoch that escape simple models of metropolitan centre and remote colonial periphery. They question the immutable character of mediators and agents in knowledge communication.
Download or read book Encore for Eleanor written by Bill Peet and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1981 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor the elephant, a retired circus star, finds a new career as the resident artist in the city zoo. "A tender and funny fantasy, sure to be as popular as his previous books, some twenty-five award winners." -- Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction by : Michael J. Benton
Download or read book The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction written by Michael J. Benton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episodes in that story - from the very origins of life four million years ago to the extraordinary diversity of species around the globe today. Beginning with an explanation of the controversies surrounding the birth of life itself, each following chapter tells of a major breakthrough that made new forms of life possible: including sex and multicellularity, hard skeletons, and the move to land. Along the way, we witness the greatest mass extinction, the first forests, the rise of modern ecosystems, and, most recently, conscious humans. Introducing ideas from a range of scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology and earth history, to geochemistry, palaeontology, and systematics, Michael Benton explains how modern science pieces the evidence in this vast evolutionary puzzle together, to build up an accessible and up-to-date picture of the key developments in the history of life on earth. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
