The Flight Of The Cuckoo

Author : Wendy Orr
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781761061202

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Cuckoo's Flight by Wendy Orr Pdf

If she had stayed to load the kiln as she should have, she'd never have seen the ship. Mama said the ship still would have been there, so everything had to happen the way it did. But that's not true. Clio saw it, and the world changed. When a raiders' ship appears off the coast, the goddess demands an unthinkable price to save the town - and Clio's grandmother creates a sacred statue to save Clio's life. But Clio is torn between the demands of guarding the statue and caring for her beloved horses. Disabled in an accident, she must try to put aside her own grief at no longer being able to ride - and in the process, save a friend's life and stop a war. Rippling with emotion and drama, war and resistance, fear and determination, this novel is a brilliant companion to the highly acclaimed Dragonfly Song and Swallow's Dance.

Author : J. Alan Brown
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244420796

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The Flight of the Cuckoo by J. Alan Brown Pdf

Author : Ken Kesey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101209042

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Pdf

An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s. In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story’s shocking climax. “BRILLIANT!”—Time “A SMASHING ACHIEVEMENT...A TRULY ORIGINAL NOVEL!”—Mark Schorer “Mr. Kesey has created a world that is convincing, alive and glowing within its own boundaries...His is a large, robust talent, and he has written a large, robust book.”—Saturday Review

Author : Ken Kesey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780670023233

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Pdf

Ken Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the story through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned. Hailed upon its publication as "a glittering parable of good and evil" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them" (Time), Kesey's powerful book went on to sell millions of copies and remains as bracing and insightful today as when it was first released. This new deluxe hardcover edition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication of the novel on February 1, 1962, and will be a must have for any literature lover.

Author : Oldřich Mikulica,Tomás Grim,Karl Schulze-Hagen,Bård G. Stokke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0995567301

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The Cuckoo by Oldřich Mikulica,Tomás Grim,Karl Schulze-Hagen,Bård G. Stokke Pdf

We all know Cuckoos as the harbingers of spring - whose haunting calls proclaim the birds own name across fields and reedbeds. A bird much more often heard than actually seen, and often mistaken for a hawk or falcon when briefly glimpsed in flight. Cuckoos are also well known, perhaps even infamous, for their habit of laying their own eggs into the nests of much smaller species, such as reed warblers, who are then doomed to raise the enormous cuckoo chick rather than their own young, and whose eggs are ruthlessly thrown from the nest by the cuckoo hatchling. But how does this complex behaviour act out in nature, and how did it evolve? What are the cuckoo's special tricks and what counter-measures have the host birds developed to resist the depredations of cuckoos? In this book the authors delve into the stories behind what we see, and into the complex and ever evolving evolutionary arms race by which the nest parasite and its hosts constantly try to leapfrog each other into prime position. The natural history of the cuckoo-host struggle is illuminated with detailed explanations of the results of behavioural and ecological research to provide a comprehensive, but highly readable, account in which an insight into one puzzle constantly reveals a new question begging an answer. The whole story is brought vividly to life through the astonishing photographs of Oldo Mikulica, who has watched cuckoos and their various hosts from hides for almost four decades. The result is a unique and beautiful book which both informs and delights.

Author : Don Llewellyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Female offenders
ISBN : 1904323286

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Flight of the Cuckoo by Don Llewellyn Pdf

Flight of the Cuckoo is inspired by an intriguing episode which has long attracted the interest of local historians in East Glamorgan and the Vale

Author : Charlie Stemp
Publisher : United P.C. Verlag
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3710335280

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The Flight From Cuckoo by Charlie Stemp Pdf

In WW2 did children really enjoy the blackout, bombs, doodlebugs and V2s, being pulled out of bed to sit in the cupboard under the stairs. Why was Cuckoo such a lovely building but such a vile school. What happened to those supposedly thick boys? They succeeded.

Author : Wendy Orr
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781760636470

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Swallow's Dance by Wendy Orr Pdf

I wonder if the first day of Learning is always like this - do the girls on the hill always feel the ground tremble under their feet? Leira is about to start her initiation as a priestess when her world is turned upside down. A violent earthquake leaves her home - and her family - in pieces. And the goddess hasn't finished with the island yet. With her family, Leira flees across the sea to Crete, expecting sanctuary. But a volcanic eruption throws the entire world into darkness. After the resulting tsunami, society descends into chaos; the status and privilege of being noble-born reduced to nothing. With her injured mother and elderly nurse, Leira has only the strength and resourcefulness within herself to find safety. A thrilling Bronze Age survival story from the acclaimed author of Dragonfly Song.

Author : Johannes Erritzøe,Clive F. Mann,Frederik Brammer,Richard A. Fuller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781408142677

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Cuckoos of the World by Johannes Erritzøe,Clive F. Mann,Frederik Brammer,Richard A. Fuller Pdf

WINNER OF THE BIRDWATCH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2012 This authoritative handbook, part of the Helm Identification Guides series, looks in detail at the world's cuckoos, couas and anis - it is the ultimate reference to the cuckoos of the world. Famed as brood-parasites of other birds, the cuckoos include a diverse range of species, from the roadrunners of North America to the spectacular malkohas of southern Asia. This book discusses the biology and identification of these birds on a species-by-species basis, bringing together the very latest research with accurate range maps, more than 600 stunning colour photographs that illuminate age and racial plumage differences, and 36 superb plates by a team of internationally renowned artists.

Author : Aziz Ouaarab
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811538360

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Discrete Cuckoo Search for Combinatorial Optimization by Aziz Ouaarab Pdf

This book provides a literature review of techniques used to pass from continuous to combinatorial space, before discussing a detailed example with individual steps of how cuckoo search (CS) can be adapted to solve combinatorial optimization problems. It demonstrates the application of CS to three different problems and describes their source code. The content is divided into five chapters, the first of which provides a technical description, together with examples of combinatorial search spaces. The second chapter summarizes a diverse range of methods used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In turn, the third chapter presents a description of CS, its formulation and characteristics. In the fourth chapter, the application of discrete cuckoo search (DCS) to solve three POCs (the traveling salesman problem, quadratic assignment problem and job shop scheduling problem) is explained, focusing mainly on a reinterpretation of the terminology used in CS and its source of inspiration. In closing, the fifth chapter discusses random-key cuckoo search (RKCS) using random keys to represent positions found by cuckoo search in the TSP and QAP solution space.

Author : Nick Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781620409534

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Cuckoo by Nick Davies Pdf

A gifted biologist's careful and beguiling study of why cuckoos have got away with tricking other birds into hatching and raising their young for thousands of years. The familiar call of the common cuckoo, "cuck-oo,†? has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation to solve an enduring puzzle: how does the cuckoo get away with laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and tricking them into raising young cuckoos rather than their own offspring? Early observers who noticed a little warbler feeding a monstrously large cuckoo chick concluded the cuckoo's lack of parental care was the result of faulty design by the Creator, and that the hosts chose to help the poor cuckoo. These quaint views of bad design and benevolence were banished after Charles Darwin proposed that the cuckoo tricks the hosts in an evolutionary battle, where hosts evolve better defenses against cuckoos and cuckoos, in turn, evolve better trickery to outwit the hosts. For the last three decades, Davies has employed observation and field experiments to unravel the details of this evolutionary "arms race†? between cuckoos and their hosts. Like a detective, Davies and his colleagues studied adult cuckoo behavior, cuckoo egg markings, and cuckoo chick begging calls to discover exactly how cuckoos trick their hosts. For birding and evolution aficionados, The Cuckoo is a lyrical and scientifically satisfying exploration of one of nature's most astonishing and beautiful adaptations.

Author : Bo Xing,Wen-Jing Gao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319034041

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Innovative Computational Intelligence: A Rough Guide to 134 Clever Algorithms by Bo Xing,Wen-Jing Gao Pdf

The first notable feature of this book is its innovation: Computational intelligence (CI), a fast evolving area, is currently attracting lots of researchers’ attention in dealing with many complex problems. At present, there are quite a lot competing books existing in the market. Nevertheless, the present book is markedly different from the existing books in that it presents new paradigms of CI that have rarely mentioned before, as opposed to the traditional CI techniques or methodologies employed in other books. During the past decade, a number of new CI algorithms are proposed. Unfortunately, they spread in a number of unrelated publishing directions which may hamper the use of such published resources. These provide us with motivation to analyze the existing research for categorizing and synthesizing it in a meaningful manner. The mission of this book is really important since those algorithms are going to be a new revolution in computer science. We hope it will stimulate the readers to make novel contributions or even start a new paradigm based on nature phenomena. Although structured as a textbook, the book's straightforward, self-contained style will also appeal to a wide audience of professionals, researchers and independent learners. We believe that the book will be instrumental in initiating an integrated approach to complex problems by allowing cross-fertilization of design principles from different design philosophies. The second feature of this book is its comprehensiveness: Through an extensive literature research, there are 134 innovative CI algorithms covered in this book.

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982189679

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Cloud Cuckoo Land (Large Print Edition) by Anthony Doerr Pdf

Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril.

Author : Charles Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Birds
ISBN : WISC:89097448013

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Rural Bird Life of England by Charles Dixon Pdf

Author : Robert B. Payne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0191513555

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The Cuckoos by Robert B. Payne Pdf

The cuckoos are the most variable birds in social behavior and parental care: a few cuckoos are among the most social of all birds and rear their young in a common nest; most cuckoos are caring parents that rear their own young with some females laying a few eggs in the nests of others; while many cuckoo species are brood parasites who leave their eggs in the nests of other birds to rear, with their young maturing to kill their foster nestmates. In The Cuckoos, Robert B. Payne presents a new evolutionary history of the family based on molecular genetics, and uses the family tree to explore the origins and diversity of their behaviour. He traces details of the cuckoos' biology to their original sources, includes descriptions of previously unpublished field observations, and reveals new comparisons of songs showing previously overlooked cuckoo species. Lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned colour plates and numerous maps, halftones, and line drawings, The Cuckoos provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of this family yet available.