Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805075571
Introduces young readers to the world of the turkey vulture.
Author : Debbie Blue
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 11,60 MB
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426775903
From biblical times to today, humans have found meaning and significance in the actions and symbolism of birds. We admire their mystery and manners, their strength and fragility, their beauty and their ugliness—and perhaps compare these very characteristics to their own lives in the process. Though admired today, the birds of Scripture are largely unseen and underappreciated. From the well-known image of the dove to the birds that gorge on the flesh of the defeated “beast” in Revelation, birds play a dynamic part in Scripture. They bring bread to the prophets. They are food for the wanderers. As sacrifices, they are the currency of mercy. Highlighting 10 birds throughout Scripture, author Debbie Blue explores their significance in both familiar and unfamiliar biblical stories and illustrates how and why they have represented humanity across culture, Christian tradition, art, and contemporary psyche. With these (usually) minor characters at the forefront of human imaginations, poignant life lessons illuminate such qualities as desire and gratitude, power and vulnerability, insignificance and importance—even as readers gain a better understanding that God’s mysterious grace is sometimes most evident in His simplest of creatures.
Author : Greg Palast
Publisher : Constable
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780336527
The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process-a story that spans the globe and decades. For Vultures' Picnic, investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) and finance. He's built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller-a Swiss multilingual investigator, a punk journalist, and a gonzo cameraman-to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, and lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek and Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption, failed legislation, and, most interestingly, veiled connections between the financial industry and energy titans. Palast shows how the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and Central Banks act as puppets for Big Oil. With Palast at the center of an investigation that takes us from the Arctic to Africa to the Amazon, Vultures' Picnic shows how the big powers in the money and oil game slip the bonds of regulation over and over again, and simply destroy the rules that they themselves can't write-and take advantage of nations and everyday people in the process.
Author : Ian Parsons
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849954570
A Vulture Landscape is more than just a book about vultures, in the same way that these majestic flyers are more than just birds. Vultures are a crucial part of many of the world's ecosystems, and without these specialist environmental cleansers the ecosystems wouldn't work properly. A calendar year in the lives of these gargantuan raptors is explored as they live, breed, feed and fly with effortless ease across the skies of the vulture landscape that is Extremadura in central Spain.There are four species of vulture in Europe, and a fifth that is becoming more of a regular visitor as its own global population plummets. The serious conservation issues faced on a day-to-day basis by these species, and their relatives spread across the globe, are explored, issues that in many cases threaten their very survival. However, this book is a celebration of the vulture and the landscape in which it reigns.Using the latest science, his keen eye and his passion for the birds themselves, the author takes the reader on a journey, introducing readers to the vultures, their lives and their landscape. Along the way, much of the other wonderful wildlife of the vulture landscape, from exotic Bee-eaters and bewitching Montagu's Harriers to rutting Red Stags as well as some very excitable cattle, are included. Ian explains how watching vultures is not only addictive, but that it can often lead to vulture gazing, surely the most relaxing form of bird watching there is!
Author : Paula C. Scardamalia
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1509223509
Samara dreams of a man to love her and give her children. But while she serves as priestess to the goddess of death that will never happen. No man would dare to touch her. No one, that is, until she is rescued from the desert by a man who compels her to lie about what she is. For Darouk, as Maker for the realm of Nehmir, death is his enemy. He's lost too many of his family too soon, including his infant nephew. He'd rather give his care and attention to building roads and buildings that last. He won't risk loving and losing a wife and family. But in order to save the king, the queen, and their chance at happiness, both Samara and Darouk must honor death, then choose love.
Author : Lila Bowen
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 031626430X
"Wake of Vultures will kick your a** up one page and down the other." -- io9 Nettie Lonesome dreams of a greater life than toiling as a slave in the sandy desert. But when a stranger attacks her, Nettie wins more than the fight. Now she's got friends, a good horse, and a better gun. But if she can't kill the thing haunting her nightmares and stealing children across the prairie, she'll lose it all -- and never find out what happened to her real family. Wake of Vultures is the first novel of the Shadow series featuring the fearless Nettie Lonesome. The Shadow seriesWake of VulturesConspiracy of Ravens
Author : Roland Smith
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822530114
Describes the life cycle, behavior, eating habits, and endangered status of vultures.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Mormons
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 1910
Category : New England
ISBN :
Author : Jami Gray
Publisher : Celtic Moon Press
Page : 1253 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1948884666
Instead of ending in a storm of fire and explosions, the world collapsed like slow falling dominoes, until humanity's remnants battle for survival in the harsh new reality known as The Collapse. Enter a new era of warrior mercenaries as Fate’s Vultures rise from the wreckage of The Collapse. Four Vultures – Ruin, Havoc, Vex, and Reaper – live by their own code and are tied together by unbreakable bonds of loyalty, but in the ravaged aftermath of the post-apocalyptic rubble of civilization, these four will find their equals and stop at nothing to claim their future. LYING IN RUINS In a world gone to hell, better to choose the devil you know… On a mission to retrieve a kidnapped child, a woman skilled in secrecy crosses paths with a nomadic vigilante bent on revenge. Despite the unlikely pair's mutual distrust, they join forces to survive the predators picking through the desiccated remains of civilization. Now it's a race to see what will destroy Ruin and Charity first—their suspicions or their enemies? BEG FOR MERCY Choosing a side has never been so dangerous... To trap a cunning and illusive predator, a protector forged in a blood-soaked history must partner with the cynical heart of a betrayed assassin. Can the wary pair forge a bond of loyalty before suspicions and betrayals tear Havoc and Mercy apart? CAUGHT IN THE AFTERMATH Vengeance can leave you blind... Blinded by vengeance, a deadly predator is forced to rely on unexpected allies, only to discover a storm of passion with a woman who threatens to implode his long-term plans. Caught between a looming conflict and the fallout of a brutal betrayal, will Vex and Math survive vengeance’s aftermath? FEAR THE REAPER Hunt the hunter and reap what you sow... To ensure a future for those they’ve sworn to protect, two adversaries must navigate a minefield of past betrayals and broken promises to defeat a common enemy. With bounty hunters sniffing at their heels, can Lilith and Reaper turn their retribution to justice before it all goes to hell? *This is a complete series ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** Dare to find out why readers are binging on this complete post-apocalyptic romance series from Jami Gray! "This is a sexy Mad Max that keeps you turning the pages." - Amazon Review "I'm always looking for a good post-apocalyptic romance to sink my teeth into. This book delivered!" - Amazon Review
