Author: Anne Raeff
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820349895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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Stories about embracing the world though the world contains everything we fear.

Author: Robert Kagan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525521666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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"An incisive, elegantly written, new book about America’s unique role in the world." --Tom Friedman, The New York Times A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world--and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward. Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe. American sentiment seems to be leaning increasingly toward withdrawal in the face of such disarray. In this powerful, urgent essay, Robert Kagan elucidates the reasons why American withdrawal would be the worst possible response, based as it is on a fundamental and dangerous misreading of the world. Like a jungle that keeps growing back after being cut down, the world has always been full of dangerous actors who, left unchecked, possess the desire and ability to make things worse. Kagan makes clear how the "realist" impulse to recognize our limitations and focus on our failures misunderstands the essential role America has played for decades in keeping the world's worst instability in check. A true realism, he argues, is based on the understanding that the historical norm has always been toward chaos--that the jungle will grow back, if we let it.

Author: Beatrix Beisner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922758
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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"Nature All Around Us is an unprecendented field guide to the ecology of the urban environment that invites us to look at our towns, cities, and even our backyards through the eyes of an ecologist"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN: 9781592702305
Category : Rain forest ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Out of the morning mist a vast ocean of leaves appears. What lies beneath--the varied and teeming life of animals and plants--is vividly portrayed through the cycle of day and night in the jungle world. Considered Helen Borten's masterpiece,The Jungle was inspired by a trip to Guatemala in 1967, when few others were going there--let alone a woman--to seek out images and stories to share with children back in the US.

Author: Upton Sinclair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: Ian Cunliffe
Publisher: Caterpillar Books
ISBN: 9781848572560
Category : Jungle animals
Languages : en
Pages : 10

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Ideal for toddlers learning about different actions, Follow Me in the Jungle is a beautiful, bright lift-the-flap book full of favourite jungle animals and first numbers. Children will love following Butterfly as she flutters around the sunny jungle, visiting the friendly jungle animals. Watch Butterfly as she finds out what actions each jungle animal makes and see if your toddler can do the actions too! This delightful book has five giant fold-out flaps for little hands and a surprise ending.

Author: Marianne Berkes
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1584691689
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Learning is fun while discovering one of the most beautiful ecosystems in the world! Begin to appreciate the adorable baby animals in and around jungles like butterflies that flit, parrots that squawk, and sloths that creep. Explore the world around you, and inspire a bond with nature through curiosity and wonder! Parents, teachers and gift givers will find: a book filled with baby animals from jungle habitats. educational backmatter about this habitat and the animals that live there. a nature book to explore new and beautiful habitats! The creative art will inspire many projects at home and at school! Kids will explore the jungle habitat and learn about baby animals like boas, dart frogs, and more creatures around the jungle habitat in this bestselling book for young explorers!

Author: Upton Sinclair
Publisher: Ten Speed Graphic
ISBN: 1984856499
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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A compelling graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's seminal protest novel that brings to life the harsh conditions and exploited existences of immigrants in Chicago's meatpacking industry in the early twentieth century. Long acclaimed around the world, Upton Sinclair's 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle remains a powerful book even today. Not many works of literature can boast that their publication brought about actual social and labor change, but that's just what The Jungle did, as it led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. In today's society, where labor and safety of the food we eat remain key concerns for all, Sinclair's shocking story still resonates. Bringing new life and energy to this classic work, adapter and illustrator Kristina Gehrmann takes Sinclair's prose and transforms it through pen and ink, allowing you to discover (or rediscover) this book and see it from a whole new perspective.

Author: Roger D. Abrahams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351523201
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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With the growth of interest in folklore, it becomes increasingly evident that the presentation of a collection needs some rationale more than the fact that traditional materials have been collected and properly annotated. Much has been gathered and is now accessible through journals, archives, and lists. If a corpus of lore is not presented in some way, which bears new light on the process of word-of-mouth transmission, on traditional forms or expressions, or on the group among whom the lore was encountered, there is little reason to present it to the public. This work represents an attempt to present a body of folklore collected among one small group of Black Americans in a neighborhood in South Philadelphia. The author's approach toward collection and presentation has been intensive. He has tried to collect "in depth," and to recreate in his presentation the social background in which the lore was found, and to relate the lore with the life and the values of the group. Abraham's work is a departure from any past methods of analyzing folklore, and therefore a description of the author's point of view and his method will be given first. The majority of this work was written before his methodology was actually formulated. However throughout the project û the object was to illuminate as fully as possible the lore of one small group of African Americans from urban Philadelphia. The methodology, which developed, did so because of this objective more than anything else. Though the formulation of this theory may seem ex post facto, it is included because it clarified much during the rewritings of this book, and more importantly, because it will clarify many matters for the lay reader and for the professional folklorist.

Author: Matt Doeden
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429673494
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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"Describes the fight for survival in the jungle"--Provided by publisher.