Loud Sparrows

Author : Aili Mu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231138499
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loud Sparrows written by Aili Mu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If sparrows are but a metaphor, every writer faces the challenge of reality, which is to say, how one catches this sparrow." So writes Bei Dao in his preface to Loud Sparrows, a spirited collection of ninety-one short-shorts, an exciting new form of extreme short-storytelling that has swept the creative consciousness of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The artistic and aesthetic freedoms of short-shorts enable writers to capture the tone, texture, and chaos of their rapidly changing societies in infinitely inventive ways. Written by Chinese authors over the past three decades, the stories in this anthology are culled from newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and personal collections, and their subjects range from humanist ideals and traditional virtues to the material benefits of a commercialized society.

Author : Ted Floyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1426220030
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Know the Birds written by Ted Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.

Author : Bill Fenimore
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423603542
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backyard Birds of Maryland written by Bill Fenimore and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BACKYARD BIRDS IS AN EXCITING SERIES of books that explores the top twenty-five backyard birds most commonly found in each state. It includes a profiled size scale that allows the reader to quickly identify the correct bird, and each bird entry is accompanied by a stunning color photograph and specific description, including identification marks, behavior, habitat, and nesting style-even the song the bird makes! As an added feature, author Bill Fenimore also provides expert tips for building the ultimate backyard bird sanctuary, from creating birdbaths and planting proper foliage to offering a bird's favorite foods. Fenimore was awarded the Ludlow Griscom Award, the American Birding Association's highest honor. Bird-watching is one of the most popular activities in the United States, with approximately fifty-one million bird-watchers nationwide. Bird-watching is a $6 million business. More than $400 million is spent each year on bird-related magazines and books. The series will soon include all fifty states. Author is a franchisee of Wild Bird Center, which has more than eighty locations in twenty-nine states. Bill Fenimore is owner of the National Best Environmental Stewardship Award-winning Wild Bird Center franchise in Layton, Utah. He conducts seminars and workshops that educate the public about birds and their critical habitat needs, and he leads birding field trips for clients from around the globe.

Author : Henry Davis Minot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land-birds and Game-birds of New England written by Henry Davis Minot and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Minot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land-birds and Game-birds of New England with Descriptions of the Birds, Their Nests and Eggs, Their Habits and Notes written by Minot and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.3K/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Histories of North American [birds].: Cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, towhees, finches, sparrows and allies, pt. 1-3 written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rick Wright
Publisher : Peterson Reference Guides
ISBN 13 : 0547973160
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America written by Rick Wright and published by Peterson Reference Guides. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparrows are as complicated as they are common. This is an essential guide to identifying 76 kinds, along with a fascinating history of human interactions with them. What, exactly, is a sparrow? All birders (and many non‑birders) have essentially the same mental image of a pelican, a duck, or a flamingo, and a guide dedicated to waxwings or kingfishers would need nothing more than a sketch and a single sentence to satisfactorily identify its subject. Sparrows are harder to pin down. This book covers one family (Passerellidae), which includes towhees and juncos, and 76 members of the sparrow clan. Birds have a human history, too, beginning with their significance to native cultures and continuing through their discovery by science, their taxonomic fortunes and misfortunes, and their prospects for survival in a world with ever less space for wild creatures. This book includes not just facts and measurements, but stories--of how birds got their names and how they were discovered--of their entanglement with human history.

Author : G.R.R. Restivo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146283650X
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyes of the Innocent written by G.R.R. Restivo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-11-19 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caesar, a gifted black cat, witnesses a murder and then after his masters and mother are murdered that same night, seeks revenge on the killer. Mark Gallo, a police detective, tries to unravel the mystery of the killings, somehow linked to Warner Hollander, the head of a worldwide company and drug smuggling operation. Throughout, we see the vast differences between man and animal, dealing with their own demons. Caesars trek leads to Europe, where Gallo is almost killed and Caesar saves him on the North Atlantic with a surprising climax on Long Island.

Author : Lang Elliott
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618006977
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music of the Birds written by Lang Elliott and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the songs and calls of more than seventy North American birds. Includes audio compact disc featuring songbird concerts and solos.

Author : Peter Straub
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101665505
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadowland written by Peter Straub and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As if Harry Potter was written for grown-ups, Peter Straub’s Shadowland delivers carnage, blood, pain, fairy tales, and flashes of joy and wonder, just like real magic.”—Grady Hendrix You have been there...if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real. Only one of them will make it through.