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With Wings Extended

Author : Greg Hoch
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781609386955

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A century ago, many people had given up on the wood duck, dooming it to extinction along with the passenger pigeon and Carolina parakeet. Today, it’s one of the most familiar and most harvested ducks in the eastern half of the country, and one of America’s great conservation success stories. In With Wings Extended, Minnesota conservationist Greg Hoch introduces readers to a duck they probably recognize but may not know well. This book shows how almost anyone can get involved in conservation and do something for wildlife beyond writing checks to conservation organizations. Hoch illustrates the complexities of wildlife and habitat management that landowners as well as state and federal wildlife agencies deal with on a daily basis, and takes readers through the life stages of what is largely considered the most beautiful duck in the world. In this fascinating and practical read, Hoch blends the historical literature about the species with modern science, and also shows how our views of conservation have changed over the last century.

On Extended Wings

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015018297088

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On Extended Wings by Helen Vendler Pdf

Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Helen Hennessy Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. Stevens' central theme--the worth of the imagination--remained with him all his life, and Mrs. Vendler therefore proposes that his development as a poet can best be seen, not in description--which must be repetitive--of the abstract bases of his work, but rather in a view of his changing styles. The author presents here a chronological account of fourteen longer poems that span a thirty-year period, showing, through Stevens' experiments in genre, diction, syntax, voice, imagery, and meter, the inventive variety of Stevens' work in long forms, and providing at the same time a coherent reading of these difficult poems. She concludes, "Stevens was engaged in constant experimentation all his life in an attempt to find the appropriate vehicle for his expansive consciousness; he found it in his later long poems, which surpass in value the rest of his work."

The Boy With Wings

Author : Sir Lenny Henry
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524888237

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The Boy With Wings by Sir Lenny Henry Pdf

It's Tunde's twelfth birthday and he's in for a surprise . . . he sprouts wings! Along with his friends, Tunde must save the world. Readers will adore Lenny Henry's first middle grade book, The Boy with Wings, that's packed with captivating illustrations by Keenon Ferrell. Plus, it includes an exclusive comic book adventure illustrated by Mark Buckingham! An ordinary kid is about to become an EXTRAORDINARY hero! Wings? Check. A super-cool, super-secret past? Check. An impossible mission to save the world from a fur-ocious enemy? Check. When Tunde sprouts wings and learns he’s all that stands between Earth and total destruction, suddenly school is the least of his problems. Luckily, his rag-tag group of pals have got his back, and with his new powers, Tunde is ready to fly in the face of danger. So what if he can’t even stand up to the school bully? He’s the boy with wings – this is his destiny. No pressure then. . . This illustrated book also includes an exclusive comic in the back!

Interavia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1966-07
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015011167601

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The Feather Bender's Flytying Techniques

Author : Barry Ord Clarke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781510751514

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The Feather Bender's Flytying Techniques by Barry Ord Clarke Pdf

A comprehensive, lavishly illustrated guide to tying popular trout flies. This book is aimed at all fly tyers, from those with modest experience to those with more advanced skills. The author’s intention is to focus on certain important elementary techniques, and then share some of his favorite contemporary twists on old, tried-and-true techniques. Many of the flies in this book are based in his own techniques and patterns, ones that he has developed in more than thirty-five years of tying. The book is arranged in sections to give readers the opportunity to easily locate the pattern or technique they are looking for. Patterns are not grouped alphabetically, but by technique. For example, the section on dry flies has categories demonstrating a particular dry fly style or technique such as mastering the use of deer hair, parachute, CDC, and so on. If you are fairly new to fly tying, the opening chapters on materials and special techniques and tricks will familiarize you with some basics and help you get started. Seasoned tyers will similarly find information here to help them raise their tying skills to a new level. Each pattern is listed with a recipe, recommended hook style, size, and materials. They are listed in the order that that author uses them, and illustrated by the book’s step-by-step images. This will help you plan each pattern and assemble materials your beforehand. Included are lushly illustrated photos for such well-known trout flies as: Pheasant tail nymph Klinkhamer Humpy Deer Hair Irresistible CDC Mayfly Spinner And much more. A special feature of this one-of-a-kind books is that its the first tying book to have a video link for all the patterns featured. Watch the author tying online, then turn to the matching chapter in the book to follow the step-by-step instructions so that you can tie your own fly in your own time. Author Barry Ord Clarke will respond online to your questions.

Air Pictorial

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015317790

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1842 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000064094960

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Conversations on Natural Philosophy

Author : Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : CHI:18721436

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Conversations on Natural Philosophy by Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) Pdf

The Birds of Africa: Volume IV

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781472986542

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The Birds of Africa: Volume IV by Anonim Pdf

Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-contributor reference work, with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings of all species and numerous subspecies, hundreds of informative line drawings, detailed range maps, and extensive bibliographies. Each volume contains an Introduction that brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in African ornithology, including the evolution and biogeography of African birds. Diagnoses of the families and genera, often with superspecies maps, are followed by the comprehensive species accounts themselves. These include descriptions of range and status, field characters, voice, general habits, food, and breeding habits. Full bibliographies, acoustic references, and indexes complete this scholarly work of reference. This fourth volume in the series deals comprehensively with broadbills, pittas, larks, swallows and martins, wagtails, pipits and longclaws, cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, waxwings, dippers, wrens, accentors, and chats. The editors and artists have worked closely with other authors - all acknowledged experts in their field - to produce a superb reference in which comprehensive texts on every species are complemented by accurate and detailed paintings and drawings of the birds themselves.

The Iron Age

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1434 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Hardware
ISBN : MINN:31951000662638C

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The Internal Work of the Wind

Author : Samuel Pierpont Langley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046929241

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The Internal Work of the Wind by Samuel Pierpont Langley Pdf

A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language

Author : Cyrus Byington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Choctaw language
ISBN : UCSD:31822017291550

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A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language by Cyrus Byington Pdf

A dictionary of the Choctaw language based on orginal artifcats, transcripts and primary source material.

Flutter Analysis of Rectangular Wings of Very Low Aspect Ratio

Author : Robert William Fralich,John M. Hedgepeth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Aerofoils
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024832557

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Flutter Analysis of Rectangular Wings of Very Low Aspect Ratio by Robert William Fralich,John M. Hedgepeth Pdf

A flutter analysis, employing slender-body aerodynamic theory and thin-plate theory, is made for rectangular wings of very low aspect ratio with a constant thickness. The spanwise variation of wing deflection is assumed to be given by a parabola, and the chordwise variation is allowed complete freedom. The results show the vsriation of flutter speed and male shape with aspect ratio. Comparisons are made with additional resuits obtained by approximating the chordwise deflection shape by use of parabolic or cubic curves. The analysis shows that the cubic approximation gives good resuits for a ratio of chord to semispan less than 3.