Author: John S. LangleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781975911065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Orvid the Orang-utan
Author: John S. LangleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781975911065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Olivia the Orangutan
Author: Felicia LawPublisher:
ISBN: 9781607549178
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Olivia loves to help her friends, even though that means she doesn't have time to play and hang around like the other orangutans. When she takes on one job too many, Olivia gets a helper of her own, and finds that the work goes twice as fast.
Where Hornbills Fly
Author: Erik JensenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857719270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Once headhunters under the rule of White Rajahs and briefly colonised before independence within Malaysia, the Iban Dayaks of Borneo are one of the world's most extraordinary indigenous tribes, possessing ancient traditions and a unique way of life. As a young man Erik Jensen settled in Sarawak where he lived with the Iban for seven years, learning their language and the varied rites and practices of their lives. He was also witness to the great and often shattering changes they faced then and continue to face today. The plentiful harvests, abundant game and rivers teeming with fish of their remembered past have long since disappeared - destroyed by restrictions on settlement and, ironically, by forest conservation. The Iban's animist beliefs are slowly being replaced by the imported religions of Christianity and Islam and their traditional ways by modern schooling and medicine. In this compelling and beautifully-wrought memoir, Erik Jensen reveals the challenges facing the Iban as they adapt to another century, whilst fighting to preserve their identity and singular place in the world. Haunting, yet hopeful, Where Hornbills Fly opens a window onto a vanishing world and paints a remarkable portrait of this fragile tribe, which continues to survive deep in the heart of Borneo.
Britain’s Game Fishes
Author: Mark EverardPublisher: Pelagic Publishing
ISBN: 1907807365
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Game fishes, particularly those of the salmon family, are critical indicators of the health of those ecosystems upon which we now know we are dependent. As the authors of this important environmental book argue, “Our game fishes [then] serve as more than merely an indicator of healthy waters. Instead, they can be regarded as iconic of the ecosystems in which they occur.” Moreover, “the quality requirements of different types of fish population have formed the backbone of a great deal of water management in the UK, Europe and the USA over several decades.” With sections on how and why Britain’s game fishes are under pressure from changes in land use, agriculture, housing needs, etc. – and their concomitant pollution effects – this book assesses how our knowledge of these game fishes reflect the changing values we place on our surrounding wildlife.
Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies
Author: Robert WoklerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400842409
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of less prominent debates, including those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social role of music and the origins of the human sciences in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship between humans and the great apes. These essays also explore Rousseau's relationships to Rameau, Pufendorf, Voltaire and Marx; reflect on the work of important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, including Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine the influence of the Enlightenment on the twentieth century. One of the central themes of the book is a defense of the Enlightenment against the common charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth-century and the Holocaust.
The New American Encyclopedic Dictionary
Author: Robert HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
The Imperial Encyclopaedic Dictionary
Author: Robert HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Author: Robert HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
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