The Emu
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Birds
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Birds
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Author : Jeannie Gray
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0643104704
Australian Bird Names is aimed at anyone with an interest in birds, words, or the history of Australian biology and bird-watching. It discusses common and scientific names of every Australian bird, to tease out the meanings, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! The authors examine every species: its often many-and-varied common names, its full scientific name, with derivation, translation and a guide to pronunciation. Stories behind the name are included, as well as relevant aspects of biology, conservation and history. Original descriptions, translated by the authors, have been sourced for many species. As well as being a book about names this is a book about the history of ever-developing understandings of birds, about the people who contributed and, most of all, about the birds themselves.
Author : Neil Lazarus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1802070664
Into our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is best understood in the light of the worlding of capitalism. The book proposes that a determinative relation exists between changing modes of work and changes in the forms, genres, and aesthetic strategies of the writing that bears witness to them. Two aspects of the ‘worlding’ of modernity, especially, are emphasised. First, an ‘inaugural’ experience of capitalist social relations, whose literary registration sometimes makes itself known through a crisis of representation, as the forms of space- and time-consciousness demanded by life in contexts in which market-oriented commodity production has become the dominant form of social labour are counterposed with inherited ways of seeing and knowing, now under acute pressure if not already obsolete. Second, a moment corresponding to the consolidation, regularisation and global dispersal of capitalist development. Into Our Labours focuses on the naturalisation of capitalist social relations: forms of sociality and solidarity, ideologies of familialism, individualism and work, relations between the sexes and the generations. Arguing that the only plausible term for the vast body of literary work engendered by the worlding of capitalist social relations is ‘modernist’, the book proposes that it is then important to challenge the still-entrenched Eurocentric understandings of modernism. Modernism is neither originally nor paradigmatically ‘Western’ in provenance; and its temporal parameters are much broader than are usually assumed in modernist studies, extending both backward and forward in time.
Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1681373521
A classic survival story by one of India's most acclaimed authors, set in a quiet village outside of Bombay about two siblings who struggle to maintain their family's bond in difficult times Anita Desai’s The Village by the Sea is an exciting and moving story about life in an Indian coastal village and life in the unimaginably big city of Bombay. It is the story of thirteen-year-old Lila and her twelve-year-old brother, Hari. As the book begins, Lila is wading into the sea to bring scarlet hibiscus, sweet-smelling lilies, and butter-yellow allamanda flowers to the sacred rock the fishermen’s wives pray to, just as her mother did before her father had to sell his boat to pay his debts and her mother fell ill. Now Lila and Hari must care for their ailing parents as well as their two younger sisters. Sensing adventure and a chance to save his family, and possibly his village, Hari impulsively joins a group of farmers and fishermen traveling to Bombay to protest the construction of a fertilizer factory that threatens to pollute the coastline and destroy their livelihood. Will the protest succeed? Can Hari survive in the city, and can Lila manage at home without him? Through their own resources, and the kindnesses of strangers, Hari and Lila must find a way to “Adapt! Adapt!” as their ornithologist friend urges, just as the birds and animals must do to survive.
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Fire ecology
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Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415259378
Entry includes attestations of the head word's or phrase's usage, usually in the form of a quotation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
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Page : 828 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Natural history
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Author : Nikki Clarke
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9781868911424
Why don't birds fall out of tress when they sleep? How fast can an ostrich run? Can penguins fly? To find the answers, read 'Find out about Birds'. This book is part of the 'Find Out About' series, which explores topics of special interest in southern Africa.
Author : Ian Fraser
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1486311652
This second edition of Australian Bird Names is a completely updated checklist of Australian birds and the meanings behind their common and scientific names, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! For each species, the authors examine the many-and-varied common names and full scientific name, with derivation, translation and a guide to pronunciation. Stories behind the name are included, as well as relevant aspects of biology, conservation and history. Original descriptions, translated by the authors, have been sourced for many species. As well as being a book about names, this is a book about the history of the ever-developing understanding of birds, about the people who contributed to this understanding and, most of all, about the birds themselves. This second edition has been revised to follow current taxonomy and understanding of the relationships between families, genera and species. It contains new taxa, updated text and new vagrants and will be interesting reading for anyone with a love of birds, words or the history of Australian biology and bird-watching.
Author : W. T. Greene
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Pets
ISBN : 1528761219
This antique book contains a detailed guide to foreign birds commonly kept as pets in cages and aviaries. This book describes the different species that experience has shown to be the most suitable subjects for domestication, indicating the food and treatment necessary for each, and any points connected with their management of value to the reader. The perfect book for prospective and existing bird owners alike, this text constitutes a must-have addition to any collection of avicultural literature. The Chapters of this book include: The Cardinal Family, The Crow Family, The Dove Family, The Finch Family, The Lark Family, The Mannikin Family, The Owl Family, The Parrot Family, The Quail Family, The Robin Family, The Sparrow Family, The Starling Family, The Tanger Family, The Thrush Family, etcetera. This book is proudly republished here complete with a new introduction on aviculture.