The Tree Of The Doves

Author : Christopher Merrill
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571313052
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Tree of the Doves written by Christopher Merrill and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking several ageless questions--"Where do we come from? Where are we going? What shall we do?"--as his point of departure, award-winning author Christopher Merrill explores the related issues of terror, modernity, tradition, and epochal transformation. In three extended essays, Merrill observes the performance of a banned ritual in the Malaysian province of Kelatan; traces Saint-John Perse's epic voyage from Beijing to Ulan Bator in 1921, and relates it to the China of today; and embarks on a trip across the Levant in 2007 in the wake of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Merrill asserts that it is in this trinity of human actions--ceremony, expedition, and war--that history is formed; and that the political, environmental, and social changes we're witnessing now presage the end of one order and the creation of another.

Author : Patricia Wallace
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1973664550
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Majestic Tree of Doves written by Patricia Wallace and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allow your child a glimpse of God’s love with an amazing story of a majestic tree being the home to a vibrant and colorful colony of doves.

Author : Ronald Newbold Bracewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Trees of Stanford and Environs written by Ronald Newbold Bracewell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathleen Norris Brenzel
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647002877
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Healthy Garden written by Kathleen Norris Brenzel and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part-gardening bible, part-call to action, award-winning authors Kathleen Norris Brenzel and Mary-Kate Mackey present advice, tips, and how-tos for gardeners seeking better health, increased happiness, and stronger communities A gardening book for the times we live in, The Healthy Garden combines practical advice for starting a garden with a rare view into how home gardening builds resilience, personal happiness, and community strength. Filled with savvy tips from dozens of experts, each chapter celebrates the many ways gardening works to build health. These professionals and passionate plant people offer lively insights into landscape design, soil science, nutrition, and plant choices. With its can-do, Victory Garden approach, The Healthy Garden is essential for anyone seeking to live closer to nature in their own backyards.

Author : Charles D. Blanchard
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453577866
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Mourning Doves After the Fire written by Charles D. Blanchard and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of love and loss, of passion and tragedy, and of the triumph of the spirit in both man and beast. Pennsylvania 1910. Abby Whitman, a twenty-eight year old secretary with an interest in classical music, lives with her mother, Maggie, who works as a part-time seamstress to help make ends meet. Abby pays a visit to Dr. Raymond Fletcher, whom she secretly fancies and he gives her the unfortunate news that she has a cancer. Dr. Fletcher is devoted to Abby and he seeks the aid of a renowned doctor who has apparently discovered an experimental treatment that has proven to eradicate cancer. During a camping trip, Abby befriends Madison, a young girl, who shares with Abby an interest in music and who will provide a dramatic change in Abbys life. Abby is under Dr. Fletchers personal care and an appreciation for each other develops as he begins to treat her cancer and her prognosis remains uncertain. A subplot to the human story involves a female mourning dove, recently widowed, and her bird neighbors who nest in the large oak tree near Abbys house. As the human story develops so does the story of heartache and resolve in the birds as their own existence is constantly threatened. The birds serve as a witness to the human story around them as well as their own.

Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061736589
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Plague of Doves written by Louise Erdrich and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves—the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose—is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American reservation. Though generations have passed, the town of Pluto continues to be haunted by the murder of a farm family. Evelina Harp—part Ojibwe, part white—is an ambitious young girl whose grandfather, a repository of family and tribal history, harbors knowledge of the violent past. And Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, who bears witness, understands the weight of historical injustice better than anyone. Through the distinct and winning voices of three unforgettable narrators, the collective stories of two interwoven communities ultimately come together to reveal a final wrenching truth. Bestselling author Louise Erdrich delves into the fraught waters of historical injustice and the impact of secrets kept too long.

Author : Joseph Forshaw
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486304052
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Pigeons and Doves in Australia written by Joseph Forshaw and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibly the most successful urban birds, pigeons and doves in the Order Columbiformes are one of the most easily recognised groups. They are an ancient and very successful group with an almost worldwide distribution and are most strongly represented in tropical and subtropical regions, including Australia. In most species simple plumage patterns feature mainly grey and brown with black, white or dull reddish markings, but the highly colourful fruit-doves include some of the most beautiful of all birds. From dense rainforests of north Queensland, where brilliantly plumaged Superb Fruit-Doves Ptilinopus superbus are heard more easily than seen, to cold, windswept heathlands of Tasmania, where Brush Bronzewings Phaps elegans are locally common, most regions of Australia are frequented by one or more species. For more than a century after arrival of the First Fleet, interest in these birds focused on the eating qualities of larger species. In addition to contributing to declines of local populations in some parts of Australia, excessive hunting brought about the extinction of two species on Lord Howe Island and another species on Norfolk Island. In Pigeons and Doves in Australia, Joseph Forshaw and William Cooper have summarised our current knowledge of all species, including those occurring on Christmas, Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, and with superb artwork have given readers a visual appreciation of the birds in their natural habitats. Historical accounts of extinct species are also included. Detailed information on management practices for all species is presented, ensuring that Pigeons and Doves in Australia will become the standard reference work on these birds for ornithologists and aviculturists.

Author : Christopher Merrill
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571318402
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Tree of the Doves written by Christopher Merrill and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A unique travelogue” that “explores the nature of terror, its place in the post-9/11 world and how it unites and galvanizes those in the throes of it” (Kirkus Reviews). Using several ageless questions—“Where do we come from? Where are we going? What shall we do?”—as his point of departure, journalist and award-winning poet Christopher Merrill explores the related issues of terror, modernity, tradition, and epochal transformation. In three extended essays, Merrill observes the performance of a banned ritual in the Malaysian province of Kelatan; traces Saint-John Perse’s epic voyage from Beijing to Ulan Bator in 1921 and relates it to the China of today; and embarks on a trip across the Levant in 2007 in the wake of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Merrill asserts that it is in this trinity of human actions—ceremony, expedition, war: all devised to keep terror at bay—that history is formed, and that the technological, political, environmental, and social changes we are witnessing now presage the end of one order and the creation of another. “Merrill is a ‘writer’s writer’: he spins sentences made of gold.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Douglas Dewar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Birds of the Plains written by Douglas Dewar and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Otis Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Posthumous Works: The behaviour of pigeons, ed. by Harvey A. Carr written by Charles Otis Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: