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Author | : Dale Peterson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2013-09-09 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520266854 |
Presents a cultural, historical, and pictorial history of giraffes, describing their biology and behavior and demonstrating their grace and elegance through over one hundred photographs.
Author | : Dale Peterson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013-09-09 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520956966 |
The most comprehensive book on giraffes to appear in the last fifty years, this volume presents a magnificent portrait of a group of animals who, in spite of their legendary elegance and astonishing gentleness, may not entirely survive this century. Dale Peterson’s text provides a natural and cultural history of the world’s tallest and second-biggest land animals, describing in detail their biology and behavior. He offers a new perspective on the giraffes’ place in our world, and argues for the stronger protection of these imposing yet endangered creatures and their elusive forest relatives, the okapis. Some 120 stunning photographs by award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann capture the grace and elegance of Giraffa camelopardalis. Both beautiful and informative, the images document giraffes’ complex interactions with each other and their environment.
Author | : Anne Innis Dagg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014-01-23 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1107034868 |
An up-to-date portrait of the giraffe, summarising current knowledge on their biology and behaviour along with current conservation efforts.
Author | : Graham Mitchell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0197571190 |
This is a comprehensive overview of wild and free-living giraffes. Graham Mitchell combines nearly every piece of published research about this species into the pages of this book, making it an incredibly useful book for researchers, scientists, and naturalists studying a single species.
Author | : Anne Innis Dagg |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0773599754 |
When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvellous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behaviour of wild apes. In Smitten by Giraffe the noted feminist reflects on her scientific work as well as the leading role she has played in numerous activist campaigns. On returning home to Canada, Anne married physicist Ian Dagg, had three children, published a number of scientific papers, taught at several local universities, and in 1967 earned her PhD in biology at the University of Waterloo. Dagg was continually frustrated in her efforts to secure a position as a tenured professor despite her many publications and exemplary teaching record. Finally she opted instead to pursue her research as an independent “citizen scientist,” while working part-time as an academic advisor. Dagg would spend many years fighting against the marginalization of women in the arts and sciences. Boldly documenting widespread sexism in universities while also discussing Dagg’s involvement with important zoological topics such as homosexuality, infanticide, sociobiology, and taxonomy, Smitten by Giraffe offers an inside perspective on the workings of scientific research and debate, the history of academia, and the rise of second-wave feminism. A new preface relates Dagg’s experience as the subject of the documentary The Woman Who Loves Giraffes.
Author | : Samuel Wilson |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1999-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Focuses on little-known moments in history when two cultures--previously unknown or little known to each other--met, and altered the course of history.
Author | : Dianne Hofmeyr |
Publisher | : Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-09 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9781847806611 |
This is the astonishing true story of Zeraffa, a giraffe who was sent as a gift from Egypt to France in 1826. A young boy, Atir, takes care of Zeraffa on her epic journey and the sailors sing songs as she gazes down at them. In France, Atir leads her through the countryside, and thousands of people marvel at Zeraffa. Paris falls in love with Zeraffa. The King builds her a special house in the Jardin des Plantes. On warm nights, the young princess visits, while Atir whispers stories to Zeraffa of a hot land far away. The amazing story by an award-winning author of a giraffe's extraordinary voyage from Africa to Paris.
Author | : Tanya Anderson |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books (Tm) |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2019-10 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1541532384 |
The survival of giraffes in the wild in threatened. Between 1985 and 2015, the overall population of giraffes in the wild has plummeted by 40 percent. Anderson shows how climate change, illegal hunting, wars, habitat loss, and habitat fragmentation are the main threats to their survival, and suggests ways that readers can alert their community to the dangers facing Earth's tallest creature. -- adapted from jacket
Author | : Mary Ruefle |
Publisher | : Wave Books |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2023-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... —New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act—the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle’s work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play that’s vital and welcome, that doesn’t make writing poetry sound anything but wild, strange, life-enlargening fun. -The Kenyon Review Profound, unpredictable, charming, and outright funny...These informal talks have far more staying power and verve than most of their kind. Readers may come away dazzled, as well as amused... —Publishers Weekly This is a book not just for poets but for anyone interested in the human heart, the inner-life, the breath exhaling a completion of an idea that will make you feel changed in some way. This is a desert island book. —Matthew Dickman The accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry, aesthetics and literature... —San Francisco Examiner Over the course of fifteen years, Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. Collected here for the first time, these lectures include "Poetry and the Moon," "Someone Reading a Book Is a Sign of Order in the World," and "Lectures I Will Never Give." Intellectually virtuosic, instructive, and experiential, Madness, Rack, and Honey resists definition, demanding instead an utter—and utterly pleasurable—immersion. Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. Mary Ruefle has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.
Author | : Jamie Sams |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1999-07-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780312204914 |
The best-selling divination system--over 1,000,000 copies sold worldwide--revised and expanded for the first time.