In The Land Of The Vultures

Author : Paula C. Scardamalia
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1509223509
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Land of the Vultures written by Paula C. Scardamalia and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samara dreams of a man to love her and give her children. But while she serves as priestess to the goddess of death that will never happen. No man would dare to touch her. No one, that is, until she is rescued from the desert by a man who compels her to lie about what she is. For Darouk, as Maker for the realm of Nehmir, death is his enemy. He's lost too many of his family too soon, including his infant nephew. He'd rather give his care and attention to building roads and buildings that last. He won't risk loving and losing a wife and family. But in order to save the king, the queen, and their chance at happiness, both Samara and Darouk must honor death, then choose love.

Author : Keith L. Bildstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501765027
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vultures of the World written by Keith L. Bildstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vultures of the World, Keith L. Bildstein provides an engaging look at vultures and condors, seeking to help us understand these widely recognized but underappreciated birds. Bildstein's latest work is an inspirational and long overdue blend of all things vulture. Based on decades of personal experience, dozens of case studies, and numerous up-to-date examples of cutting-edge science, this book introduces readers to the essential nature of vultures and condors. Not only do these most proficient of all vertebrate scavengers clean up natural and man-made organic waste but they also recycle ecologically essential elements back into both wild and human landscapes, allowing our ecosystems to function successfully across generations of organisms. With distributions ranging over more than three-quarters of all land on five continents, the world's twenty-three species of scavenging birds of prey offer an outstanding example of biological diversity writ large. Included in the world's species fold are its most abundant large raptors—several of its longest lived birds and the most massive of all soaring birds. With a fossil record dating back more than fifty million years, vultures and condors possess numerous adaptions that characteristically serve them well but at times also make them particularly vulnerable to human actions. Vultures of the World is a truly global treatment of vultures, offering a roadmap of how best to protect these birds and their important ecology.

Author : Lila Bowen
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 031626430X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wake of Vultures written by Lila Bowen and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wake of Vultures will kick your a** up one page and down the other." -- io9 Nettie Lonesome dreams of a greater life than toiling as a slave in the sandy desert. But when a stranger attacks her, Nettie wins more than the fight. Now she's got friends, a good horse, and a better gun. But if she can't kill the thing haunting her nightmares and stealing children across the prairie, she'll lose it all -- and never find out what happened to her real family. Wake of Vultures is the first novel of the Shadow series featuring the fearless Nettie Lonesome. The Shadow seriesWake of VulturesConspiracy of Ravens

Author : Ian Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849954570
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Vulture Landscape written by Ian Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vulture Landscape is more than just a book about vultures, in the same way that these majestic flyers are more than just birds. Vultures are a crucial part of many of the world's ecosystems, and without these specialist environmental cleansers the ecosystems wouldn't work properly. A calendar year in the lives of these gargantuan raptors is explored as they live, breed, feed and fly with effortless ease across the skies of the vulture landscape that is Extremadura in central Spain.There are four species of vulture in Europe, and a fifth that is becoming more of a regular visitor as its own global population plummets. The serious conservation issues faced on a day-to-day basis by these species, and their relatives spread across the globe, are explored, issues that in many cases threaten their very survival. However, this book is a celebration of the vulture and the landscape in which it reigns.Using the latest science, his keen eye and his passion for the birds themselves, the author takes the reader on a journey, introducing readers to the vultures, their lives and their landscape. Along the way, much of the other wonderful wildlife of the vulture landscape, from exotic Bee-eaters and bewitching Montagu's Harriers to rutting Red Stags as well as some very excitable cattle, are included. Ian explains how watching vultures is not only addictive, but that it can often lead to vulture gazing, surely the most relaxing form of bird watching there is!

Author : Jeffrey W. Cupchik
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438464436
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Vultures' Wings written by Jeffrey W. Cupchik and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound of Vultures' Wings offers the first in-depth exploration of the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition, which is based on the liturgical song-poems of the twelfth-century Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdrön (1055–1153). Chöd is a musical/meditative Vajrayāna method for cutting off the root of suffering, namely, egoic identification with the body, or the belief that the "I" is the locus of the "self." Chöd is regarded by many Tibetan Lamas as one of the most effective Buddhist practices for spiritual and social transformation. Jeffrey W. Cupchik details the significance of the complex, interwoven performative aspects of this meditative ritual and explains how its practice can bring about experiences of insight and inner transformation. In doing so, he undoes the notion of meditation as exclusively an experience of silence and stillness.

Author : Michael O'Neal Campbell
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482223627
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vultures written by Michael O'Neal Campbell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Debbie Blue
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426775903
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consider the Birds written by Debbie Blue and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From biblical times to today, humans have found meaning and significance in the actions and symbolism of birds. We admire their mystery and manners, their strength and fragility, their beauty and their ugliness—and perhaps compare these very characteristics to their own lives in the process. Though admired today, the birds of Scripture are largely unseen and underappreciated. From the well-known image of the dove to the birds that gorge on the flesh of the defeated “beast” in Revelation, birds play a dynamic part in Scripture. They bring bread to the prophets. They are food for the wanderers. As sacrifices, they are the currency of mercy. Highlighting 10 birds throughout Scripture, author Debbie Blue explores their significance in both familiar and unfamiliar biblical stories and illustrates how and why they have represented humanity across culture, Christian tradition, art, and contemporary psyche. With these (usually) minor characters at the forefront of human imaginations, poignant life lessons illuminate such qualities as desire and gratitude, power and vulnerability, insignificance and importance—even as readers gain a better understanding that God’s mysterious grace is sometimes most evident in His simplest of creatures.

Author : Lilymjok, Kyuka
Publisher : Malthouse Press
ISBN 13 : 9785477584
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart of Jacob written by Lilymjok, Kyuka and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob prospers as a moneylender and pig merchant by taking advantage of other people’s misfortunes. But when he seeks to exploit the famine afflicting his village Tounga by lending money at high interest rates to poor villagers, he does not reckon what a sacrilege his pigs would commit which give the people an opportunity to feast on his own misfortune. When this happens community gives way to individual desires, and the stomach dictates to the head what it should think and believe in. Reason bends to absurdity and custom bows to bizarre novelty. Life explodes into a sinister mess that points to only one outcome: Jacob and society’s ultimate ruin.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William McClure Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land and the Book written by William McClure Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: