Elephant On Main Street

Author : B A Kilpatrick
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781528947770

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Elephant on Main Street by B A Kilpatrick Pdf

This is this story of Eamon, a little boy growing up in Northern Ireland in the sixties, before he succumbed to Leukaemia, a few months short of his seventh birthday. The book describes specific aspects of his short but remarkable life, all written from his perspective. Each chapter has a footnote which charts the history of the conquest of childhood leukaemia which commenced during his lifetime. The book is based around actual events and things which Eamon said and did which have been passed down. Eamon has the benefit of perspective, so he can describe events that have yet to happen which have a bearing on the life of his family.

Author : National Trust for Historic Preservation,Amanda B. West
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0471192902

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Main Street Festivals by National Trust for Historic Preservation,Amanda B. West Pdf

Main Street America is kicking up its heels--and you're invited tothe party! Goodbye sprawl-and-mall--hello downtown! Long-neglected towncenters are coming to life once again, and the buzz is back on mainstreets all across the country. Come celebrate their rebirth withthis one-of-a-kind guide to over 700 local festivals and eventsnationwide. From the weird and wacky to the wild and wonderful, thefun starts with Main Street Festivals. Which will you dofirst? Enter a rubber duck race . . . Join a "walk of art" scavenger hunt. . . Find hot-rod heaven . . . Play cow patty bingo . . . See antiques and heirloom displays . . . Discover "bullistic" bull riding . . . Go to a hog slopping contest. . . Eat black dirt cake . . . Hear blues, bluegrass, and brass bands .. . Watch a Little Miss National Peanut Pageant . . . Inside you'll also learn where to find: an onion rodeo, cornstalkshooting, a beautiful baby bagel contest, arts and craftsdemonstrations, the perfect-pierogie cookoff, a slugburger fest,quilting exhibitions, farmer olympics, and more. . . . There'ssomething for everyone in Main Street Festivals.

Author : Joyce Grant
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781525304514

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Can You Believe It? by Joyce Grant Pdf

Everything kids need to know to tell facts from “fake news” on the internet. Here’s a comprehensive guide to how real journalism is made, what “fake news” is and, most importantly, how to spot the difference. It provides practical advice, thought-provoking examples, and loads of explanations, definitions and useful context. Never judgmental, it encourages young people to approach what they find online with skepticism and helps them hone their critical-thinking skills to make good choices about what to believe and share. It’s a must-read book on a topic that couldn’t be more important in today’s online world. Sure, kids know how to look for things on the internet. Now they’ll know how to look at them, too.

Author : George Brant
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573698156

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Elephant's Graveyard by George Brant Pdf

"Elephant's Graveyard is the unfortunately true story of Mary, an elephant who went berserk during a parade through the middle of a small town in Tennessee in 1916. The townspeople demanded justice for her actions, which led to a very unfortunate set of circumstances. The play combines historical fact and legend, exploring the deep-seated American craving for spectacle, violence and revenge."--George Brant's interview answer to Adam Szymkowicz in "I Interview Playwrights Part 48: George Brant" by Adam Szymkowicz.

Author : Ellen Greene Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781476687797

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Elephants by Ellen Greene Stewart Pdf

Elephants are a keystone species and have been a part of the magic of the thickly forested land of South Africa for millennia. This book focuses on the history and work of Knysna Elephant Park, a leading South African elephant research facility that has been home to more than 40 elephants in 25 years. Unfortunately, all the mystique of the Knysna elephant has been reduced to a single elephant left alive. Exploring a wide range of topics, this book covers the impact of elephants' interactions with tourists, how they recover from trauma and even their relevance in human healthcare. Renowned elephant researchers explain the majesty of the elephant brain, which has the largest temporal lobe devoted to communication, language, spatial memory and cognition. To this effect, the book emphasizes the threat of poaching to these gentle giants, which has almost forced them to extinction. Perhaps if humans pay attention to how elephants symbolize our relationship with nature, we can learn important lessons about humanity itself.

Author : Chester Liebs
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801850959

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Main Street to Miracle Mile by Chester Liebs Pdf

"Traces the transformation of commercial development as it has moved from centralized main streets, out along the street car lines, to form the "miracle miles" and shopping malls of today ... Also explores the evolution of roadside buildings."--Back cover.

Author : Jacob Shell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393247770

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Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants by Jacob Shell Pdf

“No one who loves elephants or how humans interact with wildlife should pass up Jacob Shell’s remarkable book.” —Dan Flores, author of Coyote America Giants of the Monsoon Forest journeys deep into the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India to explore the world of teak logging elephants and their intriguing alliance with humans. Jacob Shell’s narrative vividly depicts elephants’ extraordinary intelligence, and the complicated bond with individual human riders, a partnership that can last for decades. Giants of the Monsoon Forest reveals an unexpected relationship between evolution in the natural world and political struggles in the human one, while considering how Asia’s secret forest culture might offer a way to help protect the fragile spaces both elephants and humans need to survive.

Author : Maria Rachel Hooley
Publisher : Maria Rachel Hooley
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Skunks, Trunks, And Pedro by Maria Rachel Hooley Pdf

What do you get when Andy Griffith meets Night at the Museum? A comedic novel called Skunks, Trunks, and Pedro. Chris Banks, a newly appointed sheriff, is up for a rude awakening as Wallace and Willie Gumble, two backwoods twins with more money than sense, strive to break every stupid law on the books, including whaling…in Oklahoma. All Chris wants to do is propose to Debbie Morgan and settle into small-town bliss. But with a town mayor who dresses up like a skunk, a stuffed buffalo named Pedro making appearances, and a bipolar midget chasing a circus-trained elephant named Trunks, it’s going to take a miracle to get the words, “Will you marry me?” out. There’s also Richard Stone, a close friend who is dying from cancer. Chris is his only option to care for his sixteen-year-old daughter, Shelly. Chris can’t seem to handle the wildlife and isn’t so sure he’s going to fare much better with a teenager, but when life hands you livestock, you just have to join the herd. For Chris, that just might mean a life not only with Debbie but also Shelly.

Author : Maria Rachel Hooley
Publisher : Maria Rachel Hooley
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Witness by Maria Rachel Hooley Pdf

What happens when you witness the unthinkable? For two years, sixteen-year-old Cee Cee Montgomery has had a crush on David Johnson, and she’s been waiting for him to notice her, and he does—at a party that Cee Cee wasn’t supposed to be at. But she is. She’s there when David is stabbed and no one calls for help. She’s one of the silent witnesses who bears the guilt of his death, and it’s tearing her apart. Not even her best friend, Stacy Eddings, can pull her through. Stacy is a silent witness of a different sort. He’s been in love with Cee Cee since he met her, but she never saw past David, and while he doesn’t know she went to that party, he does realize that something is wrong, that sometimes, no matter how painful, the truth has to come out.

Author : Michele Bigley
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581579499

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Explorer's Guide Northern California (Explorer's Complete) by Michele Bigley Pdf

In addition to tourist attractions such as the Fisherman’s Wharf, this guide presents the authentic Northern California experience. Explorer’s Guide Northern California offers the most up-to-date information on the region, from Big Sur to Yosemite, north to the Oregon Border while, urging travelers to understand the impact of their footprint on the land. With detailed descriptions of lodging options, honest reviews of restaurants, from taco trucks to upscale bistros, cultural attractions, natural wonders, recreation, transportation, history scattered throughout each listing, over 100 photos, and maps, readers will feel like they are getting a tour around this beautiful land from an old friend.

Author : Wiley Whitten
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9780557469550

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Champions of Naught Six: The Story of the 1906 Cleburne Railroaders by Wiley Whitten Pdf

This is the story of the Cleburne Railroaders and the 1906 Texas season. Tris Speaker was an 18 year old rookie that season on his way to Baseball's Hall of Fame. Ft. Worth and Dallas battled for the first half flag, but it was Cleburne at season's end that proved to be the best.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1492 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LLMC:NYAACV7GVC04

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Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226264530

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Elephants & Kings by Thomas R. Trautmann Pdf

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.

Author : London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018312768

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The British Metropolis in 1851. A Classified Guide to London, Etc. [With Maps and Plans.] by London Pdf

Author : London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026374891

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London Made Easy, Being a Compendium of “The British Metropolis”: Containing Six Maps, Etc by London Pdf