Author : STANISLAW. LUBIENSKI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1908906367
BIRDS THEY SANG
STANISLAW. LUBIENSKI
Birds They Sang
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And No Birds Sang
Farley Mowat
Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771000307
And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat Pdf
Mowat's gripping account of how a young man, excited by the prospect of battle, is transformed into a war-weary veteran.
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang
Kate Wilhelm
Author : Kate Wilhelm
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466832107
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm Pdf
Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test. Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Later the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and "hard" SF, and won SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is the winner of the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307477729
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Pdf
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.
Why Birds Sing
David Rothenberg
Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0465071368
Why Birds Sing by David Rothenberg Pdf
The astonishing richness of birdsong is both an aesthetic and a scientific mystery. Evolutionists have never been able to completely explain why birdsong is so inventive and why many species devote so many hours to singing. The standard explanations of defending territories and attracting mates don't begin to account for the variety and energy that the commonest birds exhibit. Is it possible that birds sing because they like to? This seemingly naive explanation is starting to look more and more like the truth. Why Birds Sing is a lyric exploration of birdsong that blends the latest scientific research with a deep understanding of musical beauty and form. Drawing on conversations with neuroscientists, ecologists, and composers, it is the first book to investigate the elusive question of why birds sing and what their song means to both avian and human ears. Whether playing his clarinet with the whitecrested laughing thrush in Pittsburgh, or jamming in the Australian winter breeding grounds of the Albert's lyrebird, Rothenberg immerses himself in the heart and soul of birdsong. He approaches the subject as a naturalist, philosopher, musician, and investigator. An intimate look at the mostlovely of natural phenomena, Why Birds Sing is a beautifully written exploration of a phenomenon that's at once familiar and profoundly alien.
Current Literature
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951000902837L
Current Literature by Anonim Pdf
Where the Birds Never Sing
Jack Sacco
Author : Jack Sacco
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062111999
Where the Birds Never Sing by Jack Sacco Pdf
The inspiring story of Joe Sacco and his part in the greatest battles of World War II, from Omaha Beach to the liberation of the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany. In his riveting debut, Where the Birds Never Sing, Jack Sacco recounts the realistic, harrowing, at times horrifying, and ultimately triumphant tale of an American GI in World War II. Told through the eyes of his father, Joe Sacco—a farm boy from Alabama who was flung into the chaos of Normandy and survived the terrors of the Bulge—this is no ordinary war story. As part of the 92nd Signal Battalion and Patton’s famed 3rd Army, Joe and his buddies found themselves at the forefront—often in front of the infantry or behind enemy lines—of the Allied push through France and Germany. After more than a year of fighting, but still only twenty years old, Joe was a hardened veteran, but nothing could have prepared him for the horrors behind the walls of Germany’s infamous Dachau concentration camp. Joe and his buddies were among the first 250 American troops into the camp, and it was there that they finally grasped the significance of the Allied mission. Surrounded and pursued by death and destruction, they not only found the courage and the will to fight, they discovered the meaning of friendship and came to understand the value and fragility of life. Told from the perspective of an ordinary soldier, Where the Birds Never Sing contains first-hand accounts and never-before published photos documenting one man’s transformation from farm boy to soldier to liberator.
The Garden Birds of Feathers Territory
Lorraine Pinder
Author : Lorraine Pinder
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781491879139
The Garden Birds of Feathers Territory by Lorraine Pinder Pdf
On a lovely autumn day in a quiet neighbourhood village, Feathers Territory is formed after some garden birds discover that seeds and nuts have been set out for them in most of the back gardens. This is a welcoming sight for the birds as they are aware that winter is approaching. The winter is very harsh. The garden birds soon learn they have to survive and occupy themselves in the very cold and snowy weather. Their life is never boring. They make use of all the facilities in the gardens and learn how to fend off their unwelcoming enemies. How do the garden birds manage to survive the winter?
The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parents
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Kindergarten
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102793635
The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parents by Anonim Pdf
Why Birds Sing
David Rothenberg
Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 046507135X
Why Birds Sing by David Rothenberg Pdf
The astonishing variety and richness of bird song is both an aesthetic and a scientific mystery. Biologists have never been able to understand why bird song displays are often so inventive and why so many species devote so many hours to singing. The standard explanations, which generally have to do with territoriality and sexual display, don't begin to account for the astonishing variety and energy that the commonest birds exhibit. Is it possible that birds sing because they like to? This seemingly naïve explanation is starting to look more and more like the truth.In the tradition of classic works by Bernd Heinrich, Edward Abbey, and Terry Tempest Williams, Why Birds Sing is a lyric exploration of bird song that blends the latest scientific research with a deep understanding of musical beauty and form. Based on conversations with neuroscientists, ecologists, and composers, it is the first book to investigate why birds sing and how, and what effect their music has on other animals—particularly humans. Whether playing the clarinet with the white-crested laughing thrush in Pittsburgh, or jamming in the Australian winter breeding grounds of the Albert's lyrebird, Rothenberg journeys to the heart and soul of bird song. Why Birds Sing offers an intimate look at the most lovely of natural phenomena—with surprising insights about the origin of music.
Magazine of Natural History
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Natural history
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106375538
Magazine of Natural History by Anonim Pdf
The Monthly Christian Spectator. 1851-1859
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015063625928
The Monthly Christian Spectator. 1851-1859 by Anonim Pdf
Birds and Nature
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Birds
ISBN : UIUC:30112110950497
Birds and Nature by Anonim Pdf
No Birds Sing Here
Daniel V. Meier Jr.
Author : Daniel V. Meier Jr.
Publisher : BQB Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781945448966
No Birds Sing Here by Daniel V. Meier Jr. Pdf
The search for the literary life. Satire at its Best! In this indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time, two young people, Beckman and Malany set out on an odyssey to find meaning and reality in the artistic life, and in doing so unleash a barrage of humorous, unintended consequences. Beckman and Malany's journey reflects the allegorical evolution of humanity from its primal state, represented by Beckman's dismal life as a dishwasher to the crude, medieval development of mankind in a pool hall, and then to the false but erudite veneer of sophistication of the academic world. The world these protagonists live in is a world without love. It has every other variety of drive and emotion, but not love. Do they know it? Not yet. And they won't until they figure out why no birds sing here. Meier's writing is precise and detailed, whether the situation he describes is clear or ambiguous. Fans of Franzen and Salinger will find Meier to be another sharp, provocative writer of our time.
Magazine of Natural History
John Claudius Loudon,Edward Charlesworth,John Denson
Author : John Claudius Loudon,Edward Charlesworth,John Denson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015069282047