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Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520266858
Presents a cultural, historical, and pictorial history of giraffes, describing their biology and behavior and demonstrating their grace and elegance through over one hundred photographs.
Author : Anne Innis Dagg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107034860
An up-to-date portrait of the giraffe, summarising current knowledge on their biology and behaviour along with current conservation efforts.
Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520942943
Elephant Reflections brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illuminate one of nature's greatest and most original works of art: the elephant. The photographs move from the purely aesthetic to the informative, depicting animals who are at once enigmatic, individual, mysterious, elusive, and iconic. In riveting prose, Peterson introduces the work of field scientists in Africa and explains their recent astonishing discoveries. He then explores the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and discusses the politics of ivory. Elephant Reflections is a book that could change the way the world thinks about elephants while we still have some measure of control over their fate.
Author : Lucie Papineau
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07
Category : Animals
ISBN : 1404812911
To keep warm while searching for her spots blown away by the North Wind, Gilda the giraffe tries on the coats of several of her animal friends, but still longs for her pretty, funny spots.
Author : Sharman Apt Russell
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781524747251
An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it. A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one-fourth of the world’s children are stunted physically and mentally due to a lack of food or nutrients. These children do not die but endure a lifetime of diminished potential. During the past thirty years, says Sharman Russell, we have seen a revolution in how we treat these sick children and in how—with a new understanding of the human body and approach to nutrition, and new ways to reach out to hungry mothers and babies—we have gone from unwittingly killing severely malnourished children to bringing them back to health through the “miracle” of ready-to-eat therapeutic food. Intertwined with stories of scientists and nutrition experts on the front lines of finding ways to end malnutrition for good, Russell writes of her travels to Malawi, one of the poorest and least-developed countries in the world and also the site of pathbreaking, cutting-edge research into childhood malnutrition. (Eighty percent of Malawians are farmers subsisting on less than an acre of land and coping with erratic weather patterns due to global warming; fifty percent live below the poverty line; and forty-two percent of Malawi’s children are affected by a lack of food or nutrients.) As she writes of her personal exploration of new friendships and insights in a country known as “the warm heart of Africa,” Russell describes the programs that are working best to reduce childhood stunting and explores how malnutrition in children is connected to climate change, how vitamins and minerals are preventing these harmful effects, why the empowerment of women is the single most effective factor in eliminating childhood malnutrition, and what the costs of ending childhood malnutrition are. Sharman Russell, much-admired writer of luminous prose and humane heart, whose writing has been called, “elegant” (The Economist) and “extraordinarily well-crafted, far-reaching, and heart-wrenching” (Booklist), winner of the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing, has written an illuminating, inspiring book that makes clear the promise of what is today, gratefully, within our grasp.
Author : Tanya Anderson
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541532380
The survival of giraffes in the wild in threatened. Between 1985 and 2015, the overall population of giraffes in the wild has plummeted by 40 percent. Anderson shows how climate change, illegal hunting, wars, habitat loss, and habitat fragmentation are the main threats to their survival, and suggests ways that readers can alert their community to the dangers facing Earth's tallest creature. -- adapted from jacket
Author : Gloria Loughman
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607053897
Thread, Paint & Inspiration — the Sky’s the Limit! • Create unique and impressive landscape quilts from photos you take — includes tips on taking good pictures, how to combine elements of several photos into one design, and how to use color effectively • Yes, you can create stunning pictorial effects using step-by-step techniques! • Learn how to paint your own fabrics and create striking silhouettes Let your inner artist out! Capture the glory of a sunrise or sunset, the stark outline of a tree against the sky, the placid surface of the ocean. Gloria has assembled a repertoire of techniques to give all your pictorial quilts breathtaking impact, from working with photographs to painting fabric, creating silhouettes, constructing backgrounds, and embellishing with stitching. Try one of three projects, or use the techniques in your own designs.
Author : Mary Rasch
Publisher : Lark Books (NC)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fleece (Textile)
ISBN : 1454703547
Provides instructions on how to make fleece hats with tools and materials, templates, and more than twenty-five projects with fun adaptations, including curious cat, tall giraffe, little ladybug, monster mash, and more.
Author : Anne Innis Dagg
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554586622
In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour. Dagg was one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa (before Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey); her memoir captures her youthful enthusiasm for her journey, as well as her näiveté about the complex social and political issues in Africa. Once in the field, she recorded the complexities of giraffe social relationships but also learned about human relationships in the context of apartheid in South Africa and colonialism in Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Kenya. Hospitality and friendship were readily extended to her as a white woman, but she was shocked by the racism of the colonial whites in Africa. Reflecting the twenty-three-year-old author’s response to an “exotic” world far removed from the Toronto where she grew up, the book records her visits to Zanzibar and Victoria Falls and her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. Pursuing Giraffe is a fascinating account that has much to say about the status of women in the mid-twentieth century. The book’s foreword by South African novelist Mark Behr (author of The Smell of Apples and Embrace) provides further context for and insights into Dagg’s narrative.
Author : John M. Fobanjong
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
What precisely is the state of the African continent today? Depending on one’s perspective, the answer may either dwell on Africa’s recent economic and political accomplishments or focus on the long-standing single-story of failure, disaster and eternal dictatorships. This book provides a nuanced, forceful and balanced assessment of Africa’s political and economic performance since independence. While acknowledging Africa’s tragic pitfalls, dating to the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism, State of the Continent skillfully argues that theories associated with the dependency school are no longer enough to explain the continent’s failures in governance and economic performance. For a continent so richly blessed and endowed with both human and material resources, the blame for Africa’s lackluster performance falls squarely on its leadership. To get things right, Nkrumah’s vision of the primacy of the “political kingdom” must be prioritized whereupon economic gains shall predictably, follow. In lucid and persuasive prose, this volume is an ideal book for scholars as well as students of international studies and African politics.
Author : M. Fobanjong
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781942876366
What precisely is the state of the African continent today? Depending on ones perspective, the answer may either dwell on Africas recent economic and political accomplishments or focus on the long-standing single-story of failure, disaster and eternal dictatorships. This book provides a nuanced, forceful and balanced assessment of Africas political and economic performance since independence. While acknowledging Africas tragic pitfalls, dating to the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism, State of the Continent skillfully argues that theories associated with the dependency school are no longer enough to explain the continents failures in governance and economic performance. For a continent so richly blessed and endowed with both human and material resources, the blame for Africas lackluster performance falls squarely on its leadership. To get things right, Nkrumahs vision of the primacy of the political kingdom must be prioritized whereupon economic gains shall predictably, follow. In lucid and persuasive prose, this volume is an ideal book for scholars as well as students of international studies and African politics.
Author : Samuel Wilson
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173009847933
Focuses on little-known moments in history when two cultures--previously unknown or little known to each other--met, and altered the course of history.
Author : Dylanna Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1647900549
A beautiful adult coloring book of gorgeous giraffe designs. Contains 40 full-page illustrations. Carefully curated designs will provide hours of fun, stress relief, creativity, and relaxation. A variety of styles from simpler to complex allows colorists of all levels to enjoy and create.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780520244061
This lavishly illustrated trade reference to mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and invertebrates features hundreds of glorious photos, masterful illustrations, and informative maps.
Author : Bryce Courtenay
Publisher : Viking
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Authors, Australian
ISBN : 0670078263
Each of us has a place to return to in our minds, a place of clarity and peace, a place to think, to create, to dream. For Bryce Courtenay this place was a waterhole in Africa where he used to escape to as a boy, in search of solitude. One evening, while lingering there, he witnessed the tallest of the great beasts drinking from the waterhole in the moonlight, and was spellbound. Ever since, he drew inspiration from this moment. In short stories and insights, many written in his final months, Bryce reflects on living and dying, and how through determination, respect for others and taking pleasure in small moments of joy, he lived life to the fullest. From practical advice on how to write a bestseller to general inspiration on how to realise your dreams, The Silver Moon celebrates Bryce Courtenay's lifelong passion for storytelling, language and the creative process, and brings us closer to the man behind the bestsellers.