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| Author | : Dilly Court |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2011-03-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1446472590 |
The enthralling saga set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century London from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Gifted with a beautiful soprano voice, young Clemency Skinner is forced to work as a pickpocket in order to support her crippled brother, Jack. Their feckless mother, Edith, has fallen into the clutches of unscrupulous pimp, Todd Hardiman, whose evil presence threatens their daily existence. Befriended by Ned Hawkes and his kindly mother, Nell, Clemency struggles to escape from life in the slums of Stew Lane. She finds work with a troupe of buskers run by larger than life Augustus Throop, and is spotted by the manager of the Strand Theatre. Clemency looks set for operatic stardom, but a chance meeting with the mysterious Jared Stone brings danger and intrigue and threatens to change her life forevermore.
| Author | : Tommy Kearney |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2017-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1326935879 |
Tasmin a young married blue tit is about to become a mother. When a man puts up a sign near to their home next to the stinging nettle bush. Tasmin has a feeling that her nest and the future of the New River is under threat. As blue tits can't read their friend Cora Coo, a wood pigeon suggests they ask the cemetery owl for help as everyone knows that owls are wise and all wise beings must be able to read. Terry, Tasmin's husband is reluctant to go and talk to the owl, as he has never left the New River and all songbirds know that owls have a taste for small birds. Will the Cemetery Owl help them? Or will the fate of the New River rest in the hands of a much smaller bird?
| Author | : Sidney Defriend |
| Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1412020883 |
The book travels through Sid's life from his birth in 1926 when he was born into a world of poverty, through returning from the second world war to find out that life had still not improved for the likes of him. Despite this he has always taken on life with a cheerful determined attitude, taking it as it came. Streetwise at eight years old and turning a penny or two he fought his way on to seventy eight through a series of adventures and travels. Then he decided to take on the world of computers and write this lively book. He is not a well educated historian but a working man with a story to tell. He crosses paths with the rich, with politicians, and quite a few rogues. There is laughter and pain but Sid carries on as most Cockneys do with a juanty smile and a purposeful stride. Don't miss a book with a difference.
| Author | : Ashlee Cunsolo |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2017-05-17 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0773549358 |
We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation – challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance, degradation, and loss of nature. Seeking to redress the silence around ecologically based anxiety in academic and public domains, and to extend the concepts of sadness, anger, and loss, Mourning Nature creates a lexicon for the recognition and expression of emotions related to environmental degradation. Exploring the ways in which grief is experienced in numerous contexts, this groundbreaking collection draws on classical, philosophical, artistic, and poetic elements to explain environmental melancholia. Understanding that it is not just how we mourn but what we mourn that defines us, the authors introduce new perspectives on conservation, sustainability, and our relationships with nature. An ecological elegy for a time of climatic and environmental upheaval, Mourning Nature challenges readers to turn devastating events into an opportunity for positive change. Contributors include Glenn Albrecht (Murdoch University, retired); Jessica Marion Barr (Trent University); Sebastian Braun (University of North Dakota); Ashlee Cunsolo (Labrador Institute of Memorial University); Amanda Di Battista (York University); Franklin Ginn (University of Edinburgh); Bernie Krause (soundscape ecologist, author, and independent scholar); Lisa Kretz (University of Evansville); Karen Landman (University of Guelph); Patrick Lane (Poet); Andrew Mark (independent scholar); Nancy Menning (Ithaca College); John Charles Ryan (University of New England); Catriona Sandilands (York University); and Helen Whale (independent scholar).
| Author | : Kim Todd |
| Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2013-02-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1861899777 |
Innocent. Invader. Lover. Thief. Sparrows are everywhere and wear many guises. Able to live in the Arctic and the desert, from Beijing to San Francisco, the house sparrow is the most ubiquitous wild bird in the world. They are the subject of elegies by Catullus and John Skelton and listed as “pretty things” in Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book—but they’re also urban vermin with shocking manners that were so reviled that Mao placed them on the list of Four Pests and ordered the Chinese people to kill them on sight. In Sparrow, award-winning science and natural history writer Kim Todd explores the bird's complex history, biology, and literary tradition. Todd describes the difference between Old World sparrows, like the house sparrow, which can nest in a garage or in an airport, and New World sparrows, which often stake their claim to remote islands or meadows in the high Sierra. In addition, she looks at the nineteenth-century Sparrow War in the United States—a battle over the sparrow’s introduction—which set the stage for decades of discussions of invasive species. She examines the ways in which sparrows have taught us about evolution and the shocking recent decline of house sparrows in cities globally—this disappearance of a bird that seemed hardwired for success remains an ornithological mystery. With lush illustrations, ranging from early woodcuts and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary wildlife photography, this is the first book-length exploration of the natural and cultural history of this beloved, reviled, and ubiquitous bird.
| Author | : Gill Williams |
| Publisher | : Bradt Travel Guides |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1841623598 |
This is a fun science photographic exposure of one of the greatest threats to the planet after climate change and overpopulation.
| Author | : Hugh Lofting |
| Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2022-12-13 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 8726613352 |
Doctor Dolittle has a special power: he can talk to animals. When he discovers that the animals in the African Kingdom of Fantippo are writing letters, he establishes a post office just for them. Throughout his adventures, he journeys from battling slave ships to discovering forgotten islands where pre-historic animals still walk the earth! ‘Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office’ is the third book in the Dolittle series but remains a fun and fantastical standalone for readers old and new. Hugh Lofting's charming children's series is brilliantly engaging and full of stunning words and animals, paired with lessons of compassion from the good doctor himself. An unmissable read for fans of Robert Downey Junior's ‘Dolittle’ or Disney's ‘Jungle Book’. \"Doctor Dolittle" is a children’s fantasy series set in Victorian England, featuring the famous English physician who can speak to animals. His adventures are compelling, humorous, and quite extraordinary, turning the series into a children’s classic. Adapted into numerous animations and movies, the most recent one being the 2020’s version starring Robert Downey Jr. and Antonio Banderas. Hugh Lofting (1886-1942) was a British author of children’s books and poetry, he is best remembered for his creation of the enigmatic Doctor Dolittle: a globe-trotting physician with the ability to speak to animals. Affected by his experiences as a veteran of the First World War, Hugh Lofting focused his imagination on the more beautiful, fantastic things in life. His wonderful imagination created some of the most beloved children’s books of all time, most famous among them ‘Doctor Dolittle’, ‘The Twilight of Magic’ and ‘Victory for the Slain’.
| Author | : Hugh Lofting |
| Publisher | : Delphi Classics |
| Total Pages | : 3234 |
| Release | : 2020-10-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1913487369 |
The English-born American author Hugh Lofting was the creator of the beloved children's character of Doctor Dolittle, the eccentric, yet genial physician that can talk to the animals. The genesis of the series appeared in illustrated letters sent by Lofting to his children, while he was undergoing the horrors of the trenches in World War I, when news was “too horrible” to send. The Dolittle books are celebrated for their charming wit and the humorous treatment of the doctor’s bachelor household in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. However, Lofting’s works provide a recurring message of pacifism and censure of warmongering, which is most evident in Lofting’s anti-war poem ‘Victory for the Slain’. For the first time in publishing history, this edition presents Lofting’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts and concise introductions. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Lofting’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All of the Doctor Dolittle books, including ALL of Lofting’s original illustrations * Rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Lofting’s other children’s books, digitised here for the first time, including ‘Porridge Poetry’ and ‘Noisy Nora’ * Lofting’s works for adults – available in no other collection * Includes the 1924 pacifist essay ‘Children and Internationalism’ * The anti-war poem ‘Victory for the Slain’ * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Doctor Dolittle Books The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920) The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922) Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office (1923) Doctor Dolittle’s Circus (1924) Doctor Dolittle’s Zoo (1925) Doctor Dolittle’s Caravan (1926) Doctor Dolittle’s Garden (1927) Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928) Gub Gub’s Book (1932) Doctor Dolittle’s Return (1933) Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake (1948) Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary (1950) Doctor Dolittle’s Puddleby Adventures (1952) Other Children’s Books The Story of Mrs. Tubbs (1923) Porridge Poetry (1924) Noisy Nora (1929) The Twilight of Magic (1930) Tommy, Tilly, and Mrs. Tubbs (1936) Works for Adults Children and Internationalism (1924) Victory for the Slain (1942) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
| Author | : Arthur Firstenberg |
| Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 578 |
| Release | : 2020-02-28 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1645020096 |
The most misunderstood force driving health and disease The story of the invention and use of electricity has often been told before, but never from an environmental point of view. The assumption of safety, and the conviction that electricity has nothing to do with life, are by now so entrenched in the human psyche that new research, and testimony by those who are being injured, are not enough to change the course that society has set. Two increasingly isolated worlds--that inhabited by the majority, who embrace new electrical technology without question, and that inhabited by a growing minority, who are fighting for survival in an electrically polluted environment--no longer even speak the same language. In The Invisible Rainbow, Arthur Firstenberg bridges the two worlds. In a story that is rigorously scientific yet easy to read, he provides a surprising answer to the question, "How can electricity be suddenly harmful today when it was safe for centuries?"
| Author | : Jerome K. Jerome |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2019-11-26 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : |
Jerome K. Jerome's 'Idle Ideas in 1905' is a collection of witty essays on a wide range of topics, from the absurdity of societal expectations at parties to the nature of beauty and the necessity of politeness in the military. Despite being written over a century ago, many of his observations remain relevant and thought-provoking today, showcasing Jerome's enduring talent as a writer and humorist. Whether reflecting on the plight of the poor or poking fun at the conventions of literature, Jerome's writing is sure to entertain and enlighten readers.
