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Author : Suzy Wall
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 9781410842213
Perform this script about how the only dodo bird left in the world saves himself from extinction.
Author : Randall Kramer,Carel van Schaik,Julie Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195357332
During the past century, tropical rain forests have been reduced to about half of their original area, with a consequent loss of biodiversity. This book takes a close look at how this has happened and what the consequences may be, with an emphasis on those strategies that have proven successful in stemming the loss of plant and animal inhabitants. It describes the use of protected areas such as sacred groves, royal preserves, and today's national parks, which have long served to shield the delicate forest habitats for countless species. Although programs for protecting habitats are under increasing attack, this book argues that a system of protected areas must in fact be the cornerstone of all conservation strategies aimed at limiting the inevitable reduction of our planet's biodiversity. Written by leading experts with years of experience, the book integrates ecological, economic and political perspectives on how best to manage tropical forests and their inhabitants, throughout the world. In addition to conservationists, policy makers, and ecologists, the book will serve as a useful text in courses on tropical conservation.
Author : Konrad Korzack
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644248935
As with all great stories, this is a tale of good versus evil, love and sacrifice. Men of courage and men with none caught up in the fury of terrible events. Cowards and heroes, good men and bad, all bound together in the wild thunder of their times. John Ray Author had been a man of action and adventure. A horrific accident confronted him with great challenges and the need to make a new life for himself. He became the world's foremost expert on what he called the precataclysmic age. Other researchers were beginning to follow his lead. With prestigious degrees in archeology, ancient history, and the physical sciences, he was a modern Renaissance man. John was a passionate champion of the Constitution of the United States and its guarantee of personal freedom and liberty. It was late in his middle years when the dreams began. Dreams of physical prowess no longer his. Dreams of incredible adventure so real he remembered the wind blowing on his face, pine-scented forest, and song from a world only dreamed of. The visions continued, waxing more vivid with each passing night. The large, heavy crate arrived from England without return address or documentation. The contents, a large beautiful, ornamented rectangular box constructed of rare woods, fine carvings, dominated by a white ivory cross. Day by day, the ornamentation on the box and even its physical size changed. John felt himself rising once again to the clarion call of adventure.
Author : Philip Hoare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628727630
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year that Sir Ian McKellen called “a shocking tale of heroes and villains—illuminating and upsetting in equal measure.” The first production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in 1918, with American exotic dancer Maud Allan dancing lead, ignited a firestorm in London spearheaded by Noel Pemberton Billing, a member of Parliament and self-appointed guardian of family values. Billing attacked Allan in the right-wing newspaper Vigilante as a member of the “Cult of the Clitoris,” a feminine version of the “Cult of the Wilde,” a catchall for the degeneracy and perversion he was convinced had infected the land. He claimed that a black book was in the hands of their enemies the Germans, a book that contained the names of thousands of the British establishment who without doubt were members of the cult. Threat of exposure was costing England the war. Allan sued Billing for libel, and the ensuing trial, brought to life in this authoritative, spellbinding book, held the world in thrall. Was there or was there not a black book? What names did it contain? The trial was both hugely entertaining and deadly serious and raised specters of hysteria, homophobia, and paranoia that, like Oscar Wilde himself, continue to haunt us. As in Wilde’s own trial in 1895, libel was hardly the issue; the fight was for control over the country’s moral compass. In Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand, biographer and historian Philip Hoare gives us the full drama of the Billing trial, gavel to gavel, and brings to life this unique, bizarre, and fascinating event. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Helen Simonson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408809327
Major Ernest Pettigrew is perfectly content to lead a quiet life in the sleepy village of Edgecombe St Mary, away from the meddling of the locals and his overbearing son. But when his brother dies, the Major finds himself seeking companionship with the village shopkeeper, Mrs Ali. Drawn together by a love of books and the loss of their partners, they are soon forced to contend with irate relatives and gossiping villagers. The perfect gentleman, but the most unlikely hero, the Major must ask himself what matters most: family obligation, tradition or love? Funny, comforting and heart-warming, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand proves that sometimes, against all odds, life does give you a second chance.
Author : Michael Charles Tobias,Jane Gray Morrison
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783030645267
This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism. The ecological paradox suggests that the human biological–and from an insular perspective, successful–struggle to exist has come at the price of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem services, and far too much of the biodiversity with which we find ourselves at crisis-level odds. It is a paradox dating back thousands of years, implicating millennia of human machinations that have been utterly ruinous to biological baselines. Those metrics are examined from numerous multidisciplinary approaches in this thoroughly original work, which aids readers, particularly natural history students, who aspire to grasp the far-reaching dimensions of the Anthropocene, as it affects every facet of human experience, past, present and future, and the rest of planetary sentience. With a Preface by Dr. Gerald Wayne Clough, former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and President Emeritus of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Foreword by Robert Gillespie, President of the non-profit, Population Communication.
Author : David Quammen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439124963
“Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, Audubon A brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific theory, and history, David Quammen examines the mysteries of evolution and extinction and radically alters our understanding of the natural world and our place within it. In this landmark of science writing, we learn how the isolation of islands makes them natural laboratories of evolutionary extravagance, as seen in the dragons of Komodo, the elephant birds of Madagascar, the giant tortoises of the Galapagos. But the dark message of island studies is that isolated ecosystems, whether natural or human-made, are also hotbeds of extinction. And as the world’s landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, are carved into pieces by human activity, the implications of this knowledge are more urgent than ever. An unforgettable scientific adventure, a fascinating account of an eight-year journey of discovery, and a wake-up call for our time, David Quammen’s The Song of the Dodo is an exquisitely written book that takes the reader on a globe-circling tour of wild places and extraordinary ideas.
Author : Katherine Scraper
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 9781410842114
Perform this script about a boy who always guesses what is inside his present, and how his friends are able to trick him.
Author : D. R. Andersen
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 9781410842169
Perform this script about the Matter Marvel Superheroes as they save the world from Auntie Matter.
Author : Candice and Alan Kramer
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 9781410842220
Perform this script about a class that travels back in time to meet Isaac Newton.
Author : Bryon Cahill
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 9781410842206
Perform this script about a family that is infected with a mysterious, itchy rash as they prepare to move from the space station to Mars.
Author : Kitty Higgins
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 9781410842138
Perform this script about a class clown who hiccups throughout a lesson on the respiratory system.
Author : Bryon Cahill
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 9781410842152
Perform this script about a Hawaiian tour guide who takes children on a journey through time to teach them about the goddess Pele.
Author : Dori Butler
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9781410842176
Perform this script about a group of animals who must choose a location for the Southern Hemisphere Animal Club's annual conference.
Author : Katherine Scraper
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9781410842145
Perform this script about a group of seventh graders who fight to save the lives of Australia's fairy penguins.