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Author : Patricia Wrightson
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 0345294866
Tribal elders urge a young Australian Aborigine to investigate the strange events occurring in the interior of their vast continent.
Author : Thomas King
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443403252
With a plethora of superb reviews and upcoming publication in the US, Thomas King’s latest work affirms him as one of our wittiest and wisest writers. Truth & Bright Water is the tale of two young cousins and one long summer. Tecumseh and Lum live in Truth, a small American town, and Bright Water, the reserve across the border and over the river. Family is the only reason most of the people stay in the towns, and yet old secrets and new mysteries keep pulling the more nomadic residents back to the fold. Monroe Swimmer, famous Indian artist, returns to live in the old church with the hope of painting it into the prairie landscape and re-establishing the buffalo population. Tecumseh’s Aunt Cassie has come back too, already arguing with his mother. Why has his mother given Cassie a suitcase full of baby clothes? And why is Lum interested only in winning the Indian Days race? Tecumseh has more questions than anyone will answer, until the Indian Days festival arrives and the mysteries of the summer collide in love, betrayal and reconciliation. Equally plainspoken and poetic, comic and poignant, Truth & Bright Water is a crackling good story that resonates with universal truths.
Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141927206
Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - he named his home Camusfearna and settled there with the otters Mij, Edal and Teko. Ring of Bright Water chronicles Gavin Maxwell's first ten years with the otters and touched the hearts of readers the world over, brilliantly evoking life with these playful animals in this natural paradise. Two further volumes followed bringing the story full circle telling of the difficult last years and the final abandonment of teh settlement. For the first time the entire trilogy is available in a single narrative in this beautifully presented book.
Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781567924848
This volume weaves together the Scottish otter stories from Gavin Maxwell's three non-fiction books, Ring of Bright Water (1960), The Rocks Remain (1963), and Raven Meet Thy Brother (1969). Maxwell was both an extraordinarily evocative writer and a highly unusual man. While touring the Iraqi marshes, he was captivated by an otter and became a devoted advocate of and spokesman for the species. He moved to a remote house in the Scottish highlands, co-habiting there with three otters and living an idyllic and isolated life – at least for a while. Fate, fame, and fire conspired against this paradise, and it, too, came to an end, though the journey was filled with incident and wonder. Maxwell was also talented as an artist, and his sinuous line drawings of these amphibious and engaging creatures, and the homes they occupied, illustrate his story. This book stands as a lasting tribute to a man, his work, and his passion. It was received and has endured as a classic for its portrait not only of otters but also of a man who endured heartaches and disappointments, whose life embodied both greatness and tragedy. He writes with rare eloquence about his birth, his devotion to the beloved Scottish highlands, and the wildlife he loved, while refusing to ignore the darker aspects of his nature and of nature in its larger sense.
Author : Patricia Wrightson
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015022187036
Tribal elders urge a young Australian Aborigine to investigate the strange events occurring in the interior of their vast continent.
Author : Brighter Writers
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781291973242
On the promenade of a small Lancashire seaside town stands the Bright Water Hotel. It is a strangely familiar place. Behind the faded grandeur of its Victorian façade, the lives of guests, visitors and staff intersect, overlap, inter-connect. People arrive from many different places, and their histories, expectations and experiences are laid bare in this selection of 13 short stories. For some, the Bright Water Hotel is a place of hope but for others the past present and the future collide in unexpected ways. In these stories, the spaces between the comings and goings of a rich cast of characters are explored.Unlikely encounters, destructive passions, secrets, memories and revelations jostle side by side. The Bright Water Hotel is a place where everyone has something to hide.
Author : Gábor Horváth,Dezsö Varju
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662093870
The subject of this volume is two-fold. First, it gathers typical polarization patterns occurring in nature. Second, it surveys the polarization-sensitive ani mals, the physiological mechanisms and biological functions of polarization sensitivity as weIl as the polarization-guided behaviour in animals. The monograph is prepared for biologists, physicists and meteorologists, espe cially for experts of atmospheric optics and animal vision, who wish to under stand and reveal the message hidden in polarization patterns of the optical environment not directly accessible to the human visual system, but measur able by polarimetry and perceived by many animals. Our volume is an attempt to build a bridge between these two physical and biological flelds. In Part I we introduce the reader to the elements of imaging polarimetry. This technique can be efflciently used, e. g. in atmospheric optics, remote sens ing and biology. In Part 11 we deal with typical polarization patterns of the natural optical environment. Sunrise/sunset, clear skies, cloudy skies, moonshine and total solar eclipses all mean quite different illumination conditions, wh ich also affect the spatial distribution and strength of celestial polarization. We pre sent the polarization patterns of the sky and its unpolarized (neutral) points under sunlit, moonlit, clear, cloudy and eclipsed conditions as a function of solar elevation. The polarization pattern of a rainbow is also shown. That part of the spectrum is derived in which perception of skylight polarization is optimal under partly cloudy skies.
Author : H.-J. Biersack,F. Grünwald
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783662046104
- Includes all current diagnostic techniques including FDG-PET and MRI - Second Edition is completely revised to include the latest diagnostic and theraputic concepts - Special section is devoted to medullary thyroid cancer
Author : John J. Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199856503
Apocalypticism arose in ancient Judaism in the last centuries BCE and played a crucial role in the rise of Christianity. It is not only of historical interest: there has been a growing awareness, especially since the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, of the prevalence of apocalyptic beliefs in the contemporary world. To understand these beliefs, it is necessary to appreciate their complex roots in the ancient world, and the multi-faceted character of the phenomenon of apocalypticism. The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature is a thematic and phenomenological exploration of apocalypticism in the Judaic and Christian traditions. Most of the volume is devoted to the apocalyptic literature of antiquity. Essays explore the relationship between apocalypticism and prophecy, wisdom and mysticism; the social function of apocalypticism and its role as resistance literature; apocalyptic rhetoric from both historical and postmodern perspectives; and apocalyptic theology, focusing on phenomena of determinism and dualism and exploring apocalyptic theology's role in ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism. The final chapters of the volume are devoted to the appropriation of apocalypticism in the modern world, reviewing the role of apocalypticism in contemporary Judaism and Christianity, and more broadly in popular culture, addressing the increasingly studied relation between apocalypticism and violence, and discussing the relationship between apocalypticism and trauma, which speaks to the underlying causes of the popularity of apocalyptic beliefs. This volume will further the understanding of a vital religious phenomenon too often dismissed as alien and irrational by secular western society.
Author : Gábor Horváth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642547188
This book covers advances made since the 2004 Springer volume “Polarized Light in Animal Vision” edited by Horvath and Varju, but also provides reviews and synopses of some areas. Part I examines polarization sensitivity across many animal taxa including vertebrates and invertebrates and details both terrestrial and aquatic life. Part II is devoted to the description of polarized light in nature and explores how the physics of light must be taken into account when understanding how polarized light is detected by the visual system. This includes underwater polarization due to scattering; polarization patterns reflected from freshwater bodies; polarization characteristics of forest canopies; normal and anomalous polarization patterns of the skies; skylight polarization transmitted through Snell’s window and both linearly and circularly polarized signals produced by terrestrial and aquatic animals. This Part also examines polarized “light pollution” induced by anthropogenic factors such as reflection off asphalt surfaces, glass panes, car bodies, and other man-made structures that are now known to form ecological traps for polarotactic insects. Part III surveys some of the practical applications of polarization vision including polarization-based traps for biting insects, ground-based polarimetric cloud detectors and an historical examination of the navigational abilities of Viking seafarers using the sky polarization compass. The deterrent qualities of ungulate pelage to polarization-sensitive biting insects is also examined in this section.
Author : John Rowe Townsend
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781461731047
This revised and updated edition provides children's and young adult librarians, teachers, literature classes, and library school classes with an authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript including such recent phenomenons as J.K.Rowling and Philip Pullman. Written for Children traces the development of children's literature from its origins through the beginnings of the multimedia revolution. In effortless and entertaining style, Townsend, a world-renowned authority in the field, examines the changing attitudes toward children and their literature and analyzes the various strands that make up this important field. While examining many well-known American classics, Townsend also looks at British works that American audiences may have overlooked. With illustrations and bibliography.
Author : Deborah O'Keefe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826416490
"O'Keefe examines a wide range of children's fantasy books, and draws on her own experiences as a sympathetic reader as well as on the views of psychologists and social theorists. Readers in Wonderland ranges from William Steig's small picture books to J. R. R. Tolkien's epic series; from utopias like L. Frank Baum's Oz to dystopias like Virginia Hamilton's Dustland; from less-known works like Patricia Wrightson's to the phenomenon that is J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter; from time travel to parallel worlds; and from magical transformations and wishes that come true to lonely journeys and huge battles of good against evil."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Eva Sørensen
Publisher : IChemE
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 0852955057
This work contains the proceedings of the Distillation and Absorption conference, which happens every 5 years. This collection of 100 contributions spanning 23 countries showcase the newest and best distillation and absorption technologies which cover a broad range of fundamental and applied aspects of the technology. To address these aspects, the contributions have been put into seven themes: modelling and simulation (steady-state, dynamic and CFD); energy efficiency and sustainability; equipment design and operation; integrated, hybrid and novel processes; process troubleshooting and handling operational problems; control and operation; and basic data.
Author : Stella Lees
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810820064
Centers on the particular contribution minority groups make to children's literature.
Author : University of Chicago. Center for Children's Books
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1986-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226780600
Designed to aid adults—parents, teachers, librarians—in selecting from the best of recent children's literature, this guide provides 1,400 reviews of books published between 1979 and 1984. This volume carries on the tradition established by Zena Sutherland's two earlier collections covering the periods from 1966 to 1972 and 1973 to 1978. Her 1973 edition of The Best in Children's Books was cited by the American School Board Journal as one of the outstanding books of the year in education.