The Bedside Book Of Beasts

Author : Graeme Gibson
Publisher : Nan a Talese
ISBN 13 : 0385524595
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bedside Book of Beasts written by Graeme Gibson and published by Nan a Talese. This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated companion to The Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationships between predators and prey, drawing on mythology, nature writings, and other sources to provide coverage of both real and fictional creatures.

Author : Graeme Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526633675
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bedside Book of Birds written by Graeme Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graeme Gibson
Publisher : Doubleday of Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780385669153
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bedside Book of Beasts written by Graeme Gibson and published by Doubleday of Canada. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning companion to the internationally bestselling Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship between predators and their prey. The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on Earth throughout time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts, Graeme Gibson gathers from all eras and cultures works of art and literature that capture the power, grace, and inventiveness of both predators and their natural prey. Here are myths, fables, poetry, generous excerpts from nature and travel writing, journals, sacred texts, and works of fiction. There are vivid descriptions of noteworthy predators — including the big cats, bears, wolves — but also the small but voracious praying mantis. Gibson also brings to life the experiences, strategies, and emotions of vulnerable prey, and paints intriguing portraits of such legendary evil beasts as the Minotaur, Grendel, and the Biblical Leviathan. All of this is enhanced by a breathtaking array of art, both traditional and contemporary, as well as scientific, religious, and mythological drawings, paintings, and woodcuts. In The Bedside Book of Beasts Gibson evokes a profound sense of the eternal, often unsettling, connection between the human animal and the free, untamed beasts of the wilderness.

Author : Various Artists
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 156097768X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beasts! written by Various Artists and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beasts! is a classic mythological menagerie, comprised only of creatures that were thought at one time to actually exist, depicted by about a hundred of the most acclaimed artists and cartoonists coming from the most avant-garde ambits of the art world. The Beasts project has fired the imaginations of luminaries such as Craig Thompson, Souther Salazar, Jeff Soto, Glenn Barr, Dave Cooper, Tim Biskup, Seonna Hong, Jeremy Fish and Jay Ryan, who will present never-before-seen art completely original to this book, superbly laid out in breathtaking, full-color two-page spreads. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}

Author : Bennett Cerf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1318 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vint Virga, D.V.M.
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307718875
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of All Living Creatures written by Vint Virga, D.V.M. and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As profiled in the New York Times Magazine… Based on the author’s twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals – from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats – and explores the relationships we forge with them. As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience: he witnessed the power of simple human contact and compassion to affect the recovery of a dog struggling to survive after being hit by a car. Observing firsthand the remarkably strong connection between humans and animals inspired him to explore the world from the viewpoint of animals and taught him to respect the kinship that connects us. With The Soul of All Living Creatures, Virga draws from his decades in veterinary practice to reveal how, by striving to perceive the world as animals do, we can enrich our own appreciation of life, enhance our character, nurture our relationships, improve our communication with others, reorder our values, and deepen our grasp of spirituality. Virga discerningly illuminates basic traits shared by both humans and animals and makes animal behavior meaningful, relevant, and easy to understand. Insightful and eloquent, The Soul of All Living Creatures offers an intimate journey into the lives of our fellow creatures and a thought-provoking promise of what we can learn from spending time with them.

Author : Carol J. Adams
Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 1590565096
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neither Man nor Beast written by Carol J. Adams and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Adams] advocates an activism that reveals the truth about animal suffering and about women's lives."—Library Journal;” This book very usefully brings together Adams's thinking on animal defense as it has developed since the 1990 publication of her first book The Sexual Politics of Meat."—The Animals' Agenda; “Adams does for women and animals what the author of Our Bodies, Ourselves did for women's health. She proves insightfully that the 'unexamined meal is not worth eating.' "—Mary E. Hunt; “Adams's thinking is brilliant and original, and this volume belongs in every women's studies, theology, and environmental ethics collection."—Choice; “Carol Adams looks unsparingly at the way our culture has conditioned us to accept as normal the staggering cruelty inflicted daily on millions of animals. From theology to nutrition, from reproductive rights to pornographic images, she shows how assumed male superiority to women and other others pervades our lives."—Jane Tompkins

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571195473
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faber Book of Beasts written by Paul Muldoon and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 1998 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet. The animal kingdom has prompted some of the liveliest and most enjoyable writing by poets, from Homer to our contemporaries. Among the creatures gathered here, tame or wild; common or exotic, are mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, and others perhaps more fanciful than real. A zoologist's delight.There is, too, a moral or philosophical purpose. As Paul Muldoon says in his introduction: 'We are most human in the presence of animals.' And it is just this sense of how our humanity is illuminated by the contemplation of bestial life that he has set out to celebrate. The results are wonderfully rich and thought-provoking.

Author : Graeme Gibson
Publisher : New Canadian Library
ISBN 13 : 0771093993
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perpetual Motion written by Graeme Gibson and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth century, at a time when the machine age was coming into its own, Perpetual Motion chronicles the fortunes of settler Robert Fraser, a man obsessed with power and control. Driven by the idea of inventing a perpetual motion machine which will utilize natural energy, he neglects and destroys not only the nature around him but his own family too, as his overbearing rationality becomes a kind of tragic lunacy. First published in 1982, Perpetual Motion is Graeme Gibson’s superb evocation of a time when faith in material progress is still challenged by superstition and a lingering belief in magic. It is an ironic yet compassionate examination of the painful consequences of human folly.

Author : Ann Benson
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0440336457
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Physician's Tale written by Ann Benson and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping us from plague-ravaged Europe to the terrifying near future, acclaimed author Ann Benson brings two eras brilliantly to life. The Physician’s Tale is a spellbinding saga of two healers separated by six centuries, both facing terror and trials, bound together by history, science, and destiny. In the near future, in the hills of the American Northeast, a group of men, women, and children band together for survival against nature and human enemies, huddling in the only corner of the world they know. Among these people is Janie Crowe, a physician whose son is her greatest hope and deepest secret. Etched into Janie’s memory is the ancient journal of a Jewish man of medicine–a man who fought for survival in his own age of plague. In Europe, in the age of the Black Death, Alejandro Canches must hide his identity–and break his oath as a physician for the sake of his and his loved ones’ lives. As France and England are locked in war, and disease lays waste to both, Alejandro’s daughter Kate is caught in the clutches of King Edward of England. Betrayed by a patient, hunted by the king, Alejandro makes a desperate journey to Windsor itself, where a clever scribe named Geoffrey Chaucer has hatched a fantastic plan for Kate’s escape.... As the story of Alejandro and his family builds to a gripping climax, and as Janie’s life is racked by trials and the dawning of a new age, The Physician’s Tale brings together a rich cast of friends and lovers, traitors and healers. Unraveling mysteries of science, history, and the human heart, Ann Benson has created a stunning chronicle of courage in the face of darkness–in a work of vibrant storytelling and unrelenting suspense.