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Author: Keila Vall de la Ville Publisher: ISBN: 9781736565025 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A woman's story of movement as a both a lifestyle and a rite of passage, The Animal Days follows Julia's journey of love and rock-climbing across three continents. In this fast-paced novel, joy is linked to self-destruction, love is inseparable from death, freedom is twinned with unbearable solitude, and life is worth only as much as a given moment. The taste for risk and vertigo never stop: they feed each other as the abyss approaches. Julia, determined to never look back, lives perpetually on the brink, even if it means shedding her own skin in the process.
Author: Keila Vall de la Ville Publisher: ISBN: 9781736565025 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A woman's story of movement as a both a lifestyle and a rite of passage, The Animal Days follows Julia's journey of love and rock-climbing across three continents. In this fast-paced novel, joy is linked to self-destruction, love is inseparable from death, freedom is twinned with unbearable solitude, and life is worth only as much as a given moment. The taste for risk and vertigo never stop: they feed each other as the abyss approaches. Julia, determined to never look back, lives perpetually on the brink, even if it means shedding her own skin in the process.
Author: Debbie Harter Publisher: Barefoot Books ISBN: 9781846867163 Category : Animals Languages : en Pages : 0
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In the jungle, the animals' toes are twitching, their bodies are wiggling, and their wings are flapping, as they teach children how to do the Animal Boogie.
Author: David Kherdian Publisher: ISBN: 9781648720017 Category : Languages : es Pages : 38
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Avaliable now for the first time ever in Spanish. Experience a timeless tale of mindfulness, compassion, and understanding told by Newbery winner David Kherdian and illustrated by two-time Caldecott Medalist Nonny Hogrogian. Ver la belleza de nuestro planeta con ojos frescos... Un visitante llega a la Tierra desde un planeta lejano y queda absolutamente impresionado por la belleza de la naturaleza. Una zanahoria, un pájaro y un diente de león; él ama todo. Pronto se encuentra con un grupo de animales (un león, un cocodrilo, un elefante, un ganso, un zorro y un avestruz) que simplemente no entienden lo que él ve en estos objetos tan cotidianos. Después de pasar más tiempo juntos, los amigos pronto entienden la diferencia entre ver algo y realmente mirarlo. Muy pronto, logran apreciar verdaderamente la vida que fluye a través de todo el mundo natural. Un libro infantil realmente único del premiado matrimonio conformado por David y Nonny El ganador del premio Newbery, David Kherdian, y la dos veces medallista de Caldecott, Nonny Hogrogian, han creado un clásico atemporal sobre la atención plena, la reflexión y la meditación. Las bellas ilustraciones complementan de forma perfecta la prosa elegantemente simple mientras que un grupo de amigos reflexionan sobre la belleza de la naturaleza.
Author: Daniel E. Bender Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674972767 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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The spread of empires in the nineteenth century brought more than new territories and populations under Western sway. Animals were also swept up in the net of imperialism, as jungles and veldts became colonial ranches and plantations. A booming trade in animals turned many strange and dangerous species into prized commodities. Tigers from India, pythons from Malaya, and gorillas from the Congo found their way—sometimes by shady means—to the zoos of major U.S. cities, where they created a sensation. Zoos were among the most popular attractions in the United States for much of the twentieth century. Stoking the public’s fascination, savvy zookeepers, animal traders, and zoo directors regaled visitors with stories of the fierce behavior of these creatures in their native habitats, as well as daring tales of their capture. Yet as tropical animals became increasingly familiar to the American public, they became ever more rare in the wild. Tracing the history of U.S. zoos and the global trade and trafficking in animals that supplied them, Daniel Bender examines how Americans learned to view faraway places and peoples through the lens of the exotic creatures on display. Over time, as the zoo’s mission shifted from offering entertainment to providing a refuge for endangered species, conservation parks replaced pens and cages. The Animal Game recounts Americans’ ongoing, often conflicted relationship with zoos, decried as anachronistic prisons by animal rights activists even as they remain popular centers of education and preservation.
Author: Charles Taylor Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674970276 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 353
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“We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human.” —John Cottingham, The Tablet In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process. For centuries, philosophers have been divided on the nature of language. Those in the rational empiricist tradition—Hobbes, Locke, Condillac, and their heirs—assert that language is a tool that human beings developed to encode and communicate information. In The Language Animal, Taylor explains that this view neglects the crucial role language plays in shaping the very thought it purports to express. Language does not merely describe; it constitutes meaning and fundamentally shapes human experience. The human linguistic capacity is not something we innately possess. We first learn language from others, and, inducted into the shared practice of speech, our individual selves emerge out of the conversation. Taylor expands the thinking of the German Romantics Hamann, Herder, and Humboldt into a theory of linguistic holism. Language is intellectual, but it is also enacted in artistic portrayals, gestures, tones of voice, metaphors, and the shifts of emphasis and attitude that accompany speech. Human language recognizes no boundary between mind and body. In illuminating the full capacity of “the language animal,” Taylor sheds light on the very question of what it is to be a human being.
Author: Kate B. Jerome Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 0738527653 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 42
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"Read-aloud time is about to get a lot more fun! The South Carolina Wise Animal Handbook offers laugh-out-loud animal kingdom advice for kids of every age! Engaging animal photos entertain while charming read-aloud rhymes help jump-start conversations about practical life solutions. The Read Together/Do Together"!experience continues with pull out coloring pages in the back of the book featuring fun facts about special Palmetto State animals including the Carolina wren and loggerhead sea turtle. Enjoy the opportunity to share your own practical wisdom with your favorite little one as you read-aloud ... and laugh-aloud ... again and again."--Publisher.
Author: David Burnie Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 146542122X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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If you're wild about animals, this visual encyclopedia is the ultimate page-turner, bringing our planet's creatures together in spectacular style. This inspiring children's reference guide welcomes you to the animal kingdom where you can meet more than 1,500 species, ranging from ants to zebras and everything in between. Stunning pictures bring you face to face with giant predators you know and love, including polar bears and tigers, as well as mysterious microscopic life, including amoebas and bacteria. A variety of animal habitats are shown in beautiful detail, while accessible information, additional fact boxes, and amazing galleries complete the stories. A jaw-dropping spectrum of animal types - from fish and birds to reptiles and mammals - provides a learning experience like no other. Whether you're a budding naturalist or simply want to complete a school project, The Animal Book has got it covered.
Author: Alan Mikhail Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199315272 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
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Animals in rural Egypt became enmeshed in social relationships and made possible many tasks otherwise impossible. Rather than focus on what animals represented or symbolized, Mikhail discusses their social and economic functions, as Ottoman Egypt cannot be understood without acknowledging animals as central shapers of the early modern world.
Author: Sandra Markle Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 1338182560 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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If you could have any animal's front teeth, whose would you choose? What If You Had Animal Teeth!? takes children on a fun, informative, and imaginative journey as they explore what it would be like if their own front teeth were replaced by those of a different animal. Featuring a dozen animals (beaver, great white shark, narwhal, elephant, rattlesnake, naked mole rat, hippopotamus, crocodile, and more), this book explores how different teeth are especially adapted for an animal's survival. At the end of the book, children will discover why their own teeth are just right for them. And they'll also get a friendly reminder to take good care of their teeth, because they're the only teeth they'll ever have. Each spread features a photograph of the animal using its specialized teeth on the left and a humorous illustrated image of a child using that animal's teeth on the right.
Author: Andrew A. Robichaud Publisher: ISBN: 067491936X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 353
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American urbanites once lived alongside livestock and beasts of burden. But as cities grew, human-animal relationships changed. The city became a place for pets, not slaughterhouses or working animals. Andrew Robichaud traces the far-reaching consequences of this shift--for urban landscapes, animal- and child-welfare laws, and environmental justice.
Author: Keila Vall de la Ville
Author: Keila Vall de la Ville
Author: Debbie Harter
Author: David Kherdian
Author: Daniel E. Bender
Author: Charles Taylor
Author: Kate B. Jerome
Author: David Burnie
Author: Alan Mikhail
Author: Sandra Markle
Author: Andrew A. Robichaud