Author : Emmanuelle Laborit
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781563680861
Emmanuelle Laborit chronicles her life and discusses what it was like growing up deaf, why her parents were instructed to avoid using sign language, how she worked to further the rights of deaf people in France, and other related topics.
Author : Emmanuelle Laborit
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
By chance, her father discovered sign language and its value to deaf people while listening to a radio interview of a deaf American named Alfredo Corrado. Emmanuelle's father took her to meet Alfredo Corrado and his interpreter Bill Moody in Vincennes, outside of Paris. There, for the first time, she met an adult who was deaf, who didn't wear hearing aids, and who communicated by using his hands and facial expressions.
Author : Adam Nicolson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1250134196
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land." A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the ten birds in this book, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of the seabird colony, rolling around the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become little but a memory. Seabirds have always entranced the human imagination and NYT best-selling author Adam Nicolson has been in love with them all his life: for their mastery of wind and ocean, their aerial beauty and the unmatched wildness of the coasts and islands where every summer they return to breed. The seabird’s cry comes from an elemental layer in the story of the world. Over the last couple of decades, modern science has begun to understand their epic voyages, their astonishing abilities to navigate for tens of thousands of miles on featureless seas, their ability to smell their way towards fish and home. Only the poets in the past would have thought of seabirds as creatures riding the ripples and currents of the entire planet, but that is what the scientists are seeing now today.
Author : H. A. Hopgood
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1666725927
To Every Thing There Is a Season is a collection of original poetry that draws inspiration from Nature and Christian faith. Often these themes combine as the author reflects on the relation of Nature to its Creator or joins with Creation in praising God. The poems are divided into four sections, each dedicated to a season of the year--spring, summer, autumn, and winter. In addition to poems investigating the particular joys of the season, each section also includes poems on the Christian holidays celebrated during that season. With poems ranging from serious to humorous, challenging to delightful, this collection offers opportunities for reflection and relaxation.
Author : Marianne Taylor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0691210861
A uniquely personal meditation on Britain's gulls by one of today's leading wildlife writers From a distance, gulls are beautiful symbols of freedom over the oceanic wilderness. Up close, however, they can be loud, aggressive and even violent. Yet gulls fascinate birdwatchers, and seafarers regard them with respect and affection. The Gull Next Door explores the natural history of gulls and their complicated relationship with humans. Marianne Taylor grew up in an English seaside town where gulls are ever present. Today, she is a passionate advocate for these underappreciated birds. In this book, Taylor looks at the different gull species and sheds light on all aspects of the lives of gulls—how they find food, raise families, socialize and migrate across sea, coastland and countryside. She discusses the herring gull, Britain's best-known and most persecuted gull species, whose numbers are declining at an alarming rate. She looks at gulls in legend, fiction and popular culture, and explains what we can do to protect gull populations around the world. The Gull Next Door reveals deeper truths about these remarkable birds. They are thinkers and innovators, devoted partners and parents. They lead long lives and often indulge their powerful drive to explore and travel. But for all these natural gifts, many gull species are struggling to survive in the wild places they naturally inhabit, which is why they are now exploiting the opportunities of human habitats. This book shows how we might live more harmoniously with these majestic yet misunderstood birds.
Author : Robert Kemp Philp
Publisher :
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : Waldemar Jochelson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 3942883872
Since the 18th century, researchers and scientists have traveled the peninsula of Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. Many of them were of German origin and had been commissioned by the Russian government to perform specific tasks. Their exhaustive descriptions and detailed reports are still considered some of the most valuable documents on the ethnography of the indigenous peoples of that part of the world. These works inform us about living conditions and particular ways of natural resource use at various times, and provide us with valuable background information for current assessment. As the first profound anthropological descriptions of that region, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. They represented a shift of the already existing transnational research networks toward North America. Jochelson’s work The Koryak was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the North Pacific rim.
Author : Lily Prellezo
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2010-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0813037417
There was a time in Miami when it seemed impossible to go through a week without news coverage of the men, women and children escaping Cuba and being pulled off of makeshift rafts in the middle of the Florida Straits. One out of four did not survive the dangerous journey; the others barely hung on with little food and water. Most of the lucky ones were saved by a group of volunteers who called themselves Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR). Seagull One is the never-before-told story of the men and women representing nineteen nationalities who came together to fly in rickety Cessnas over the Florida Straits to search for rafters fleeing Communist Cuba. It is a fascinating account of how José Basulto, a Cuban exile and Bay of Pigs veteran, founded BTTR with the humanitarian mission of saving the lives of the desperate souls willing to brave the ocean in pursuit of freedom. The group’s tactics were sometimes controversial, including protests against both the Cuban and U.S. governments, yet the organization managed to save over 4,200 people they would seldom, if ever, meet. Seagull One also records the infiltration of two spies, one who was a double agent working for the FBI. Together these two volunteers collaborated with the Castro government in planning the shoot down over international waters of two unarmed Cessnas flying a humanitarian mission on February 24, 1996. The cold-blooded murder of four innocent men (three American citizens and one legal resident) led to significant changes in U.S.-Cuba relations. Over one hundred people were interviewed for Seagull One. Their stories come to life in this nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel.
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Page : 546 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Amateur journalism
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Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 1875
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