The Dead Zoo

The Dead Zoo
Author: Peter Donnelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780717189724

Peter Donnelly, author of the award-winning President picture book series, is back with a new character, Mr. Gray: a very serious man in charge of a very old museum filled with stuffed animals. When a real live mouse decides to move into the Dead Zoo, chaos ensues...

The Breathless Zoo

The Breathless Zoo
Author: Rachel Poliquin
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2012-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0271059613

From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? Rachel Poliquin suggests that taxidermy is entwined with the enduring human longing to find meaning with and within the natural world. Her study draws out the longings at the heart of taxidermy—the longing for wonder, beauty, spectacle, order, narrative, allegory, and remembrance. In so doing, The Breathless Zoo explores the animal spectacles desired by particular communities, human assumptions of superiority, the yearnings for hidden truths within animal form, and the loneliness and longing that haunt our strange human existence, being both within and apart from nature.

Dublin Photographs 1963

Dublin Photographs 1963
Author: Alen MacWeeney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-02-10
Genre: Dublin (Ireland)
ISBN: 9781843518266

These 87 black & white photographs taken by Alen MacWeeney in Dublin in 1963/5 are spontaneous images of Dublin and Dubliners in all areas of the city, a street odyssey reflecting a cross section of the people, their habits and behaviour, ten years before Ireland joined the European Union and the wider world.0The text on facing pages is composed of social commentary gleaned from a posting of each of the book's photographs on Dublin social media platform Down Memory Lane, eliciting a flood of 70,000 responses during 2020.0These photographs of Dublin and Dubliners in 1963 have pertinent social and historical value as attested by their placement in numerous US Universities and museums. The text offers a novel way of understanding and appreciating a full gamut of Dublin personalities through their reactions to the posting of these photographs during the current pandemic. The responses ranged from wonder and incredulity to heated derision, offset by the hilarity that characterize Dubliners. The richness of the commentary will be of interest to any Irish person curious to glimpse Dublin life in the '60s and to gauge the reactions of Dubliners today.0MacSweeney's work partakes of the tradition of reportage by Walker Evans, Cartier Bresson, Robert Frank and Richard Avendon, to whom he was apprenticed in Paris during the late fifties.

Double Trouble at the Dead Zoo

Double Trouble at the Dead Zoo
Author: Alan Nolan
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2023-08-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 178849461X

Dublin, 1859 Bram Stoker: Boy seeking adventure (and things to write about) Molly Malone: Part-time sneak thief and full-time Dublin legend! When Bram and his best pal Molly meet a lonely boy called Sanjit in Dublin's Natural History Museum, they can see he needs some friends. So they, along with Molly's gang, The Sackville Street Spooks, take him under their wing. Sanjit tells them the tale of the dread (and very dead) pirate, Captain Lamprey and his links to the Museum. Soon the new shipmates find themselves outwitting vagabonds and villains, hot on the trail of a mysterious long-lost treasure ... the Rajapur Ruby! But little do they know that not everyone they come across is who they claim to be! Where CAN that ruby be?

Natural Curiosity

Natural Curiosity
Author: Lisa Carne
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 178450288X

Natural Curiosity is a warm and contemplative insight into one family's experience of moving from mainstream schooling to home education, and learning through the lens of nature and natural history. Since becoming 'unschooled', the two children have thrived on a diet of self-directed play and learning, amassing life skills, confidence, responsibility, and a vast array of knowledge along the way. This thoughtful book touches upon important themes in education and environmentalism, such as children's rights in schooling, the use and place of technology in learning, and the absence of the natural world in mainstream education. It gives a considered, balanced view of home schooling, interspersed with entertaining tales including constructing life-sized mammoth skeletons and living for a day as historically accurate Vikings. It offers an understanding of how this type of education works and what inspires the choice to pursue it.

Food Information for All People

Food Information for All People
Author: Sharon Jacobs
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1984579142

Hi, I’m writing to tell you, that I’m a New Food Person. And, I was inviting you to be a New Food Person also. I eat fruits and vegetables all new, I don’t eat the seeds of them, not cooked, and drink water. I eat only from the plants and trees, of the land, earth, world, and planet. I like to eat all of my foods, of the farms, new the way that they are made solid, still, quiet, kind, with the soil, rain, air, sunlight, and moonlight, all natural. My favorite fruit is the grapefruit, I like tomatoes for vegetables. They are nice to eat, all new garden and farm foods. I like it nice like that. And, I planted a garden, in the yard. If I ate cooked foods, they are vegan with no animals meat, or animals milk, or animals milk foods, in them. I don't eat any animal meat of: cow, chicken, eggs, pig, turkey, bee honey, fish, shrimp, crab, lobster, oyster, lamb, deer, or other animals. I don't drink or eat any animal dairy from cow or goat of: milk, cheese, butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, ice cream, chocolate, yogurt, ranch, or whey. I don’t wear or use any animal leather, feathers, fur, fake fur, or wool:, shirts, vests, pants, belts, shoes, coats, wallets, purses, sofas, chairs, rugs, pillows, comforters, cars, trucks, or motorcycles seats. I wear cotton, linen, fleece, velvet, and vinyl, clothes and shoes. I was thinking that this information, may save your life, or it may save the life of an animal, and make your life nicer, and make your life, more farm friendly. Now that I know this and do this, what could I do to make it better? Share it with you. This is a Spiritual way of living, and being on earth for life. And I was thinking, could you do the same, with all of this health information? I know this will be nice for me, for you, for we, and for the world. This book is inspirational about not eating cooked foods, animals, and eating new foods.

The Sacrifice

The Sacrifice
Author: William Kienzle
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2013-03-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1449423809

"The clever plot, the subtle clues, and above all, the ideas make this well worth reading." —West Coast Review of Books From William X. Kienzle, author of the classic mystery, The Rosary Murders. When Father George Wheatley decided to convert from the Anglican Church to the Roman Catholic, he thought he had painstakingly considered the sacrifices he would have to make. He knew his celebrity status as a beloved Anglican priest, evidenced by his newspaper column and radio show, would be in jeopardy. He understood the strain the change would put on his wife and children and the challenges he would face to be accepted as a married Roman Catholic priest. He even acknowledged that reactionaries in both camps would oppose such a spiritual changeover. But he never dreamed that his decision would breed such waves of ambition, jealousy, and hatred that the ultimate human sacrifice—murder—would be the result. Nor did he appreciated how much of a sacrifice would be asked of him. In his twenty-third appearance, Father Robert Koesler, a Detroit parish priest with a penchant for being involved in murder, accompanies his friend Father Wheatley through his tortured path to conversion and helps him seek resolution of a crime. With his compassion, knowledge of human nature, and experience, Father Koesler is able to not only resolve a murder mystery, but also to give true understanding to the concept of sacrifice.

Land of the Dead

Land of the Dead
Author: Robert Swartwood
Publisher: RMS Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2024-02-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood comes a post-apocalyptic thriller like you've never seen before. In a dystopian future where the animated dead reign, the few remaining living are feared and pursued. Conrad is a Hunter. He's one of the best. But when he hesitates one night in killing a living child, he soon finds himself in a desperate fight to save his son — and the entire world. Praise for LAND OF THE DEAD: “One of the smartest, most exciting zombie novels in many years. I absolutely loved it.” —Brian Keene, bestselling author of The Rising “Land of the Dead is one of the most original and gripping zombie novels I have ever read, offering a glimpse into the life of a zombie in a world turned backwards, where zombies live and humans are feared. Highly recommended!” —Jeremy Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of Nemesis “Land of the Dead is simply brilliant, and its telling a superb achievement. Robert Swartwood has given us a wonderful twist, not only on the zombie novel, but on the dystopian tale as well. It's like Brave New World meets Logan's Run, but with a bite all its own. Strongly recommended!” —Joe McKinney, author of Dead City “Robert Swartwood gives the word ‘zombie’ a new meaning.” —Swedish Zombie “A definite page turner with lots of action, tension and suspense.” —buyzombie.com

The Dead City

The Dead City
Author: Michael Russell
Publisher: Constable
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408720019

In this dead city, the vultures are circling... Berlin 1944. The beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. And the beginning of a dark journey for Garda detective Stefan Gillespie as he makes his way through war-ravaged Europe to the German capital. He carries secret instructions for the Irish ambassador, who is clinging on in the growing chaos - even though it's time to get out. Bombs fall and bodies fill the streets. People starve. The true horrors of Nazi terror are everywhere now... and the Russians are coming. As Stefan searches for an Irishman trapped in Berlin who has betrayed his country and his friends, who cares if people are murdered along the way? And Stefan has to ask himself if saving one life matters in this devastation. And if it does, is it worth him risking his own?

Conversation 1

Conversation 1
Author: Robin & Cefai Price, Michele
Publisher: Brain Friendly Publications
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2012-07-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1905231369

Photocopiable classroom resource - Lower Intermediate Conversation topics