Author : Sean McKeever
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599612171
Spider-Man tries to retrieve a stolen mask from Vulture, but Kraven the Hunter wants it as well.
Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805075571
Introduces young readers to the world of the turkey vulture.
Author : Michael O'Neal Campbell
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1482223627
This book reexamines current knowledge on the evolution, ecology, and conservation biology of both New World vultures (Cathartidae) and Old World vultures (Accipitridae) and seeks answers to past and present regional extinctions, colorizations, and conservation questions. Extinct species of both families are examined, as is the disputed evidence fo
Author : Greg Palast
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1101551216
An enhanced eBook featuring fifteen videos from investigative reporter Greg Palast’s globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation—including extraordinary footage of pre-dawn stake-outs of billionaire financial vultures, narrowly avoiding prison in Azerbaijan (shot with a spy-pen camera), exploring the inside a whale carcass in the Arctic and trekking deep in the Amazon rainforest. Watch as Palast connects the dots of corruption between the oil industry, the financial sector, and the government. On April 20, 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men and spilling million of barrels of crude oil into the water. Days later, a confidential cable arrives on investigative reporter Greg Palast’s desk from a terrified insider. He has the real, hushed-up facts of the disaster––facts that can only be found buried in the files of a Central Asian dictatorship. Taking him and his team of journalist-detectives from the streets of Baku, where Palast searches for a brown valise full of millions, to a small Eskimo village where he hears first hand of the depth of deceit and heartbreaking environmental devastation, to a burnt out nuclear reactor in Japan to Chevron's operations in the Amazon jungle, Vultures’ Picnic charts the course of Palast’s quest to bring the truth of the BP disaster to light. Along the way, we see the many other crimes perpetrated by the energy giants of the worlds, the banks that fund their lies, and the governments that turn a blind eye. Like a page-turning spy thriller, full of mystery, intrigue, and featuring a reporter with the guts to get arrested, chase down insiders, or stakeout a Vulture in the still of a winter morning, Vultures’ Picnic is pulp non-fiction at its best. It’s a journey into the corrupt heart of Big Oil, and behind it, Bigger Finance, exposing once and for all the corporate vultures that feed on the weak, and poison our planet.
Author : Greg Palast
Publisher : Constable
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 16,55 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 : Reg. D. Lyons
Publisher : S.A.G. A. Publications A Div. of Movie Manga Arts Company
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
SAVE NOW MORE THAN 60% OFF Our SUPER AWESOME HOLIDAY POST BLACK FRIDAY to BLACK CHRISTMAS BEYOND UNTIL THE END OF CYBER MONDAY MIDNIGHT!! ORDER NOW!! What are you waiting for? ORDER NOW and Save More than 60 % off the Reg. Price. Victor DeBeers is a big game hunter, known in famous hunting circles around the globe as 'the Flying Dutchman' ,a ladies man,he has no idea of how his world is about to come crashing down when he goes after the rare subspecies male White Lion of South Africa. Victor believes in what he can see and kill! Not some village legend about it being a Ghostly Guardian of the Jungle. Terence Ababa i s a direct descendant of the bush people who also warns Victor of the legend and curse which goes unheeded. Now, back in his home in Manhattan, New York, the Flying Dutchman must race against time to prove his innocence to a striking aggressive female F.B.I. agent and find a cure to his terrible blood lust before it’s too late and more women are attacked and murdered in the Big Apple.
Author : Katie Fallon
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1684580331
Few animals have a worse reputation than the vulture. But is it deserved? With Vulture, Katie Fallon offers an irresistible argument to the contrary, tracing a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. Turkey vultures, also known as buzzards, are the most widely distributed and abundant scavenging birds of prey on the planet, found from central Canada to the southern tip of Argentina and nearly everywhere in between. Deftly drawing on the most up-to-date scientific papers and articles and weaving those in with interviews with world-renowned raptor and vulture experts and her own compelling natural history writing, Fallon examines all aspects of the bird’s natural history: breeding, incubating eggs, raising chicks, migrating, and roosting. The result is an intimate portrait of an underappreciated bird—one you’ll never look at in the same way again.
Author : William E. Cook
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 364260353X
Unlike mammals, birds are not particularly well suited to desert life. Among the few types of birds that have successfully adapted to the desert ecosystem are the predators. With individual chapters devoted to each of the different species, the book explores those attributes which make this group suited to desert life, and how they have developed their abilities to cope with the prevailing harsh conditions. This readily accessible volume collates a substantial amount of the latest research on this fascinating subject.
Author : Tilawan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1468585916
Inspiring, entertaining, intriguing, and thrilling. He had a smooth and great command of the English language that left one in no doubt of the type of education he had. I was not particularly elated about getting a male caller. The men have a way of drawing you to their problems, which often had to do with their business deals or financial difficulties, and you would end up giving the same advice all over again, and thus turning the show to be a boring repetition of talks. But with the ladies, you are sure to bounce on an interesting topic that reveals a lot of a sleazy life history. It was not that the men had no history of scandals of theirs to reveal, but it was the ladies that normally were more imminent on their life stories. Hello, DJ SST! he said. He was definitely not a regular caller, probably not even a first caller. My buddies on the show were all used to calling me with just SST! Yeah, you are welcome to the motivation dance club on Peoples FM, and what dance steps do you have for us today? I asked in my usual polite and rehearsed manner of speaking to a new caller. Really, sir, this is my first time, he said rather apologetically. I was right. He was a first-time caller! And he was coming with this sir stuff that I haven't heard on the show for such a long time. Since I became a buddy and household name to my callers in Lagos, everybody was quick to address me just as SST. There was no sir or Mr. for me now! For a caller not to call me with my familiar initials could imply he was a new person on the sho' as I call it. And nobody wants to be seen as a new person on the show in Lagos! Anyway, I think I like the guy. He sounded a little cultured and might even turn out to be a gentleman! A gentleman in Lagos? Well, why not? You never know as they say! OK, you are welcome to the motivation dance club, and as you know, I am DJ SST, and we dont need introduction on the motivation dance club in Lagos. We just need more people to move on to our dance floor and show us their dancing steps! I was trying to loosen the tension that he exhibited in his voice. Yes, thanks, sir! he said.
Author : Roshni Rajaram, Ayodhya Prasad
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 164546475X
Media persons, once referred to as the torch bearers of the fourth pillar of the democracy, are being trolled and tagged as ‘presstitutes’ these days. “Do journalists really need serious introspection?” So, what happens when Alisha- a commercial sex worker tells a reporter Shailesh, “You are a bigger dhandhebaaj than us.” When a reporter decides to expose his universe, the result comes out as a compilation of stories. They bring out the murkiness not only of the media world but also of the universe around it. This book is a compilation of stories of the storytellers. The stories of the reporters who dig, hunt, innovate, create and spin stories for you.
