The Falconer Of Central Park

Author : Donald Knowler
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0553342053

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Author : Andrew Blauner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781608197422

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Central Park by Andrew Blauner Pdf

Central Park is perhaps the most well-trod and familiar green space in the county. It is both a refuge from the city and Manhattan's very heart; a respite from the urban grind and a hive of activity all its own. 843 carefully planned acres allow some 37 million visitors each year to come and get lost in a sense of nature. Unsurprisingly, the park also inspires a wealth of great writing, and here Andrew Blauner collects some of the finest fiction and nonfiction-- 20 pieces in all, with classics sprinkled among 13 new ones commissioned from great New York writers. Bill Buford spends a wild night in the park; Jonathan Safran Foer envisions it as a tiny, transplanted piece of a mythical Sixth Borough; and Marie Winn answers definitively Holden Caulfield's question of where the ducks go when the park's ponds freeze over. There are bird sightings and fish sightings; Jackie Kennedy and James Brown sightings; and pieces by Colson Whitehead, Paul Auster, and Francine Prose. This vibrant collection presents Central Park, in all its many-faceted glory, a 51-block swath of special magic.

Author : Roy Rosenzweig,Elizabeth Blackmar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0801497515

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The Park and the People by Roy Rosenzweig,Elizabeth Blackmar Pdf

Delineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale. In tracing the park's history, the writers also give us the history of New York. They explain how squabbles over politics, taxes, and real estate development shaped the park and describe the acrimonious debates over what a public park should look like, what facilities it should offer, and how it should accommodate the often incompatible.

Author : Dana Czapnik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501193248

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The Falconer by Dana Czapnik Pdf

A New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick “A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything.” —Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth “[An] electric debut novel…Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is unapologetic fun, and heartbreak, and awe as well.” —Chloe Malle, The New York Times Book Review In this “frank, bittersweet coming-of-age story that crackles with raw adolescent energy, fresh-cut prose, and a kinetic sense of place” (Entertainment Weekly), a teenaged tomboy explores love, growing up, and New York City in the early 1990s. New York, 1993. Street-smart seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler is often the only girl on the public basketball courts. Lucy’s inner life is a contradiction. She’s by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend and pickup teammate, Percy, the rebellious son of a prominent New York family. As Lucy begins to question accepted notions of success, bristling against her own hunger for male approval, she is drawn into the world of a pair of provocative feminist artists living in what remains of New York’s bohemia. Told with wit and pathos, The Falconer is at once a novel of ideas, a portrait of a time and place, and an ode to the obsessions of youth. In her critically acclaimed debut, Dana Czapnik captures the voice of an unforgettable modern literary heroine, a young woman in the first flush of freedom.

Author : Ann Forsyth,Laura Musacchio
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780471736806

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Designing Small Parks by Ann Forsyth,Laura Musacchio Pdf

Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns provides guidelines for building better parks by integrating design criteria with current social and natural science research. Small parks are too often relegated to being the step-child of municipal and metropolitan open space systems because of assumptions that their small size and isolation limits their recreational capacity and makes them ecologically less valuable than large city and county parks. This manual is arranged around twelve topics that represent key questions, contradictions, or tensions in the design of small parks. Topics cover fundamental issues for urban parks, natural systems, and human aspects. Also included are useful case studies with alternative design solutions using three different approaches for integrating research findings into small urban park design.

Author : United States Air Force Academy. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015082904247

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Special Bibliography Series by United States Air Force Academy. Library Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435055459556

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Special Bibliography Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah Rivel,Kellye Rosenheim
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781611689686

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Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island by Deborah Rivel,Kellye Rosenheim Pdf

This easy-to-use guide gives seasonal information for both popular birding sites and those off the beaten path. Precise directions to the best viewing locations within the region's diverse habitats enable birdwatchers to efficiently explore urban and wild birding hotspots. Over 500 species of birds can be seen in New York City's five boroughs and on Long Island, one of the most densely populated and urbanized regions in North America, which also happens to be situated directly on the Atlantic Flyway. In this fragmented environment of scarce resources, birds concentrate on what's available. This means that high numbers of birds are found in small spaces. In fact, Central Park alone attracts over 225 species of birds, which birders from around the world flock to see during spring and fall migration. Beyond Central Park, the five boroughs and Long Island have numerous wildlife refuges of extraordinary scenic beauty where resident and migratory birds inhabit forests, wetlands, grasslands, and beaches. These special places present an opportunity to see a wide array of songbirds, endangered nesting shorebirds, raptors, and an unprecedented number and variety of waterfowl. Including the latest information on the seasonal status and distribution of more than 400 species, with 39 maps and over 50 photographs, this full-color guide features information essential to planning a birding visit. It will become the go-to book for both the region's longtime birders and those exploring the area for the first time.

Author : Jonathan White
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781595347879

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Talking on the Water by Jonathan White Pdf

During the 1980s and 1990s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and artists from a broad array of disciplines. Over a period of ten years, White conducted interviews with the writers, scientists, environmentalists, and poets who gathered on board to explore our relationship to the wild. The interviews are gathered in this sparkling collection. Some of these visionaries are still making history, while others have passed away, making this legacy especially vital to the narrative about our planet. White describes the conversations in Talking on the Water as the "roots" of an integrated community. "While at first these roots may not appear to be linked, a closer look reveals that they are sustained in common ground. Whether we are talking to a poet, a biologist, a science fiction writer, or an ex-Dominican priest, all of these people share a deep and longstanding concern for their relationship with nature." Beloved fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin discusses the nature of language, microbiologist Lynn Margulis contemplates Darwin's career and the many meanings of evolution, and anthropologist Richard Nelson sifts through the spiritual life of Alaska's native people. Rounding out

Author : Chris Grabenstein
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781480459946

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The Explorers' Gate by Chris Grabenstein Pdf

In New York City’s Central Park, remarkable things happen after the sun goes down Nikki Van Wyck knows everything about Central Park. She can tell you how many benches it has, how many acres it is—and exactly where to find an adventure after dark. When she teams up with a few new friends to track down a treasure in the park, her expert knowledge comes in handy. But the place she thought she knew is transformed before her eyes as the statues begin to come to life! It turns out that Central Park has secrets that can’t be found in any guidebook. Magical secrets. And what Nikki thought was just a scavenger hunt is actually much more. Now she’s about to embark on an incredible adventure that will uncover the hidden enchantments in the park she loves—and reveal surprising things about herself, as well.

Author : Emma Ford
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Falconry
ISBN : 9781428993013

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Falconry. by Emma Ford Pdf

Author : Željka Flegar,Jennifer M. Miskec
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003835080

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Children’s Literature in Place by Željka Flegar,Jennifer M. Miskec Pdf

Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture is an edited collection dedicated to individual, international, and interdisciplinary considerations of the places and spaces of children’s literature, media, and culture, from content to methodology, in fictional, virtual, and material settings. This volume proposes a survey of the changing landscapes of children’s culture, the expected and unexpected spaces and places that emerge as and because of children’s culture. The places and spaces of children’s literature are varied and diverse. By making place studies a guiding principle, this book builds on the impressive body of international research on place in children’s literature, media, and culture to bring together and provide a comprehensive overview of how to study place in children’s and young adult literature. This volume provides a wide range of approaches and international perspectives of place in children’s literature, media, and culture and contributes to this growing and relevant field by showcasing various scholarly aspects and approaches to children’s literature, and the place of children’s literature in the context of international scholarship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780292785687

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Chasing Warblers by Anonim Pdf

Known to many as "the butterflies of the bird world," wood warblers allure even the most experienced and discriminating birders. Their annual migrations to and from nesting areas in the United States and Canada draw thousands of birders to places such as High Island, Texas; Crane Creek, Ohio; and Point Pelee, Ontario, where warblers stop to rest and feed during the long journey. There birders have a chance to see and photograph these colorful, elusive songbirds whose quick, darting flight among high branches and thick cover makes them some of the most challenging birds to observe and identify. In this entertaining, beautifully illustrated book, Bob Thornton recounts his and Vera Thornton's cross-continent adventures in finding and photographing all 52 species of wood warblers that nest in the United States. In addition to describing where and how they photographed each species, Thornton tells marvelous stories of the colorful characters they encountered along the way. He also touches on the current human threats to wood warblers that come from loss of habitat.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435023263361

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Appletons' Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89089199368

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Appletons' Journal of Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf