Wild And Wilful

Author : Neha Sinha
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9353578302
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild And Wilful written by Neha Sinha and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound truth of the wild, and the world at large, is that we are a part of it, not owners of it. Is there any animal we love and hate as much as the Royal Bengal Tiger? Tigers are feared and poached, but they also endure, becoming pin-ups for candlelight marches. Indian elephants are trapped by railway lines and fences, but are reclaiming their bodies and colonizing new areas in central India. And in our dirty cities, the sparkling Plain Tiger Butterfly flourishes as one of our last links to wildlife. Wild animals exist beyond our control. They are harmless, only occasionally dangerous. They live with us, or in spite of us. Those who know them understand that wild animals require acceptance for what they are, not enslavement for what we want them to be. In this book, we meet fifteen iconic Indian species in need of conservation and heart. The author explores what these creatures need, and how they exert agency and decision-making. With an equal emphasis on human and animal, science and skilled prose, Wild and Wilful reveals the magic of the wild in our daily lives. It will take you from fear to wonder.

Author : Neha Sinha
Publisher : HarperCollins India
ISBN 13 : 9789353578299
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild and Wilful written by Neha Sinha and published by HarperCollins India. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound truth of the wild, and the world at large, is that we are a part of it, not owners of it. Is there any animal we love and hate as much as the Royal Bengal Tiger? Tigers are feared and poached, but they also endure, becoming pin-ups for candlelight marches. Indian elephants are trapped by railway lines and fences, but are reclaiming their bodies and colonizing new areas in central India. And in our dirty cities, the sparkling Plain Tiger Butterfly flourishes as one of our last links to wildlife. Wild animals exist beyond our control. They are harmless, only occasionally dangerous. They live with us, or in spite of us. Those who know them understand that wild animals require acceptance for what they are, not enslavement for what we want them to be. In this book, we meet fifteen iconic Indian species in need of conservation and heart. The author explores what these creatures need, and how they exert agency and decision-making.

Author : W. Boone Hedgepeth
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483462986
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Willful Heart written by W. Boone Hedgepeth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a wild megalomaniacal trip into the American spiritual and Cultural Revolution of the 1960s-1990s, as a young southern man gives fresh perspective to the propaganda, bad marriages, a collection of strange gurus and some bizarre mystical places. For many years, author W. Boone Hedgepeth was a magnet for unusual occurrences of an ethereal nature which vigorously affected the world around him. Suffering a life threatening illness and after a near death experience, Boone goes on an adrenalized journey from the American south and across the country seeking answers. Here, force of will and prayer are the proven best weapons against very unusual circumstances. Literally seeking the face of God, the author plunges into the magical medicine of his native ancestors, the new age metaphysical movement, Christian fundamentalism, and other wild and life-changing experiences before coming out of the fires to the other side.

Author : Margaret Heffernan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802777953
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willful Blindness written by Margaret Heffernan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With deft prose and page after page of keen insights, Heffernan shows why we close our eyes to facts that threaten our families, our livelihood, and our self-image--and, even better, she points the way out of the darkness.” --Daniel H. Pink In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Margaret Heffernan's Willful Blindness is a tour de force on human behavior that will open your eyes. Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and say, How could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don't? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers, and white collar criminals, distinguished businesswoman and writer Margaret Heffernan examines the phenomenon of willful blindness, exploring the reasons that individuals and groups are blind to impending personal tragedies, corporate collapses, engineering failures-even crimes against humanity. We turn a blind eye in order to feel safe, to avoid conflict, to reduce anxiety, and to protect prestige. But greater understanding leads to solutions, and Heffernan shows how-by challenging our biases, encouraging debate, discouraging conformity, and not backing away from difficult or complicated problems-we can be more mindful of what's going on around us and be proactive instead of reactive.

Author : Robin Hobb
Publisher : Voyager
ISBN 13 : 9780008245009
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince written by Robin Hobb and published by Voyager. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally-bestselling, critically-acclaimed author Robin Hobb takes readers deep into the history behind the Farseer series in this exclusive, new novella. Long before the time of Chivalry Farseer, there was another indiscreet member of the royal line. Princess Caution Farseer, in defiance of her name, was headstrong and willful, destined to fall dangerously in love where she ought not. The child she bore, a Witted boy known as the Piebald Prince, rose to favour despite his questionable bloodlines. But the dukes of the Six Duchies backed Canny Farseer for the throne. And so both young men competed for power... But this was not their only struggle: for they both fell in love with the same lady. Such rivalry could end only in bloodshed... A tale of love and secrets, magic and manipulation, heartbreak and murder most foul: only a true-tongued minstrel can reveal the real story of the Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince.

Author : Miles Olson
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0865717214
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unlearn, Rewild written by Miles Olson and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a manual to break free from enslavement to jobs, bills, and the trap of civilization, sharing advice on survival skills and sustainable living.

Author : Tim Floreen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481432788
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willful Machines written by Tim Floreen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a near-future America, a sentient computer program named Charlotte has turned terrorist, but Lee Fisher, the closeted son of an ultraconservative President, is more concerned with keeping his Secret Service detail from finding out about his developing romance with Nico, the new guy at school, but when the spider-like robots that roam the school halls begin acting even stranger than usual, Lee realizes he is Charlotte's next target.

Author : SOFIE LAGUNA
Publisher : MEHTA PUBLISHING HOUSE
ISBN 13 : 8184981929
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ONE FOOT WRONG written by SOFIE LAGUNA and published by MEHTA PUBLISHING HOUSE. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant first novel of profound depth, startling originality and breathtaking talent. A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat, Spoon, Door, Handle, Broom, and they all speak to her. Her imagination is informed by one book, an illustrated child`s bible, and its imagery forms the sole basis for her capacity to make poetic connection. One day Hester takes a brave Alice in Wonderland trip into the forbidden outside (at the behest of Handle `turn me turn me`), and this overwhelming encounter with light and sky and sunshine is a marvel to her. From this moment on, Hester learns the concept of the secret, and not telling, and the world becomes something that fills her with feeling as if she is a vessel, empty and bottomless for need of it.

Author : Īmān Ḥumaydān
Publisher : Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781566567008
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Mulberries written by Īmān Ḥumaydān and published by Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hands of Adania Shibli, the discovery of these letters makes for a wrenching meditation on lives lived ensnared within the dictates of others.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307399052
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild Things written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max is a rambunctious eight-year-old, living with his mother and his sister, terrorizing the neighborhood on his bicycle. But Max's world is changing around him: His father is absent and his mother is increasingly distracted. Max's teenage sister is outgrowing him, leaving him alone in favor of her friends. Sad and angry, Max dons his wolf suit and makes terrible, ruinous mischief. Setting off into the night, Max finds a boat and sails away to an island. Here he meets strange and giant creatures. Creatures that rage and break things. Creatures that trample and scream. These monsters do everything Max feels inside! And so, Max appoints himself their king. Here, on a magnificent adventure with the creatures, Max can be the wildest thing of all. In this visionary new novel, Eggers brings an imaginary world vividly to life, filling it with monsters, chaos, and one very real little boy. By turns beautiful and joyful, sorrowful and strange, The Wild Things is an astonishing literary triumph.