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Author: Elizabeth M. GlowackiVinita Agarwal
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2023-10-19
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 2832536123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Demos
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1995-03-28
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0679759611
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband. Out of this incident, The Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Devos has constructed a gripping narrative that opens a window into North America where English, French, and Native Americans faced one another across gilfs of culture and belief, and sometimes crossed over.
Author: Laurens Van der Post
Publisher: Daimon
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 3856305408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, humanitarian, explorer, conservationist... the list goes on and on. His extraordinary curiosity, his love for the small and the great, and his tremendous feeling and concern for his surroundings and all that they included, set him travelling the lands and the waters of the world, a messenger in search of meaning. He touched and inspired many along the way, some of whom are to be found in the pages of this book. A true man of his time, Sir Laurens was born in 1906 in the interior of South Africa, served in the British forces during World War II, including three-and-a-half years in Japanese captivity, and lived and worked since that time in London, where he died just after celebrating his 90th birthday in December, 1996. 'The Rock Rabbit and The Rainbow' was originally conceived as a Festschrift, or gift collection of writings, for Sir Laurens by several of his friends and then evolved into its present form, which includes numerous original contributions by Sir Laurens himself.
Author: Margery Williams
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-01-22
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9780312377502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The classic story of how the velveteen rabbit became real.
Author: Susan E. Davis
Publisher: Lantern Books
Published: 2003-08
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 1590563379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revered as a symbol of fertility, sexuality, purity and childhood, beloved as a children's pet and widely represented in the myths, art and collectibles of almost every culture, the rabbit is one of the most popular animals known to humans. Ironically, it has also been one of the most misunderstood and abused. Indeed, the rabbit is the only animal that our culture adores as a pet, idolizes as a storybook hero and slaughters for commercial purposes. Stories Rabbits Tell takes a comprehensive look at the rabbit as a wild animal, ancient symbol, pop culture icon, commercial "product" and domesticated pet. In so doing, the book explores how one species can be simultaneously adored as a symbol of childhood (think Peter Rabbit), revered as a symbol of female sexuality (e.g., Playboy Bunnies), dismissed as a "dumb bunny" in domesticity and loathed as a pest in the wild. The authors counter these stereotypes with engaging analyses of real rabbit behavior, drawn both from the authors' own experience and from academic studies, and place those behaviors in the context of current debates about animal consciousness. In a detailed investigative section, the authors also describe conditions in the rabbit meat, fur, pet and vivisection industries, and raise important questions about the ethics of treating rabbits as we do. The first book of its kind, Stories Rabbits Tell provides invaluable information and insight into the life and history of an animal whom many love, but whom most of us barely know. As such, it is a key addition to the current thinking on animal emotions, intelligences and welfare, and the way that human perceptions influence the treatment of individual species.
Author: Linda Zuckerman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0439869773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Imagine a world in which foxes are civilized. They wear clothes, they fight, they elect corrupt officials. They eat only lower orders with limited brainpower. Like mice. Or rabbits. Now imagine that the rabbits disappear, and develop their OWN society. What happens when the two groups once again collide? A Taste for Rabbit is a biting look at Harry the Fox, Quentin the Rabbit, the price of honour, and what it really means to be...human.
Author: Gavin Parkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1781381437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although the self-definition of Surrealism and the initial defining of science fiction as a genre both took place in the 1920s and the links between the two are manifest, no full study has appeared till now on Surrealism and SF. Across ten original essays, Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics looks at how the Surrealist movement in France and the USA used, informed, contributed to, and criticised SF from that moment, whilst including discussion of the related genre of comics. Among its aims are a reassessment of Jules Verne in the light of Surrealism and an analysis of the debate in the 1950s on the 'new' Anglo-American literature arriving in France. This received, in fact, a mixed reception from the Surrealists of that decade even though writers and intellectuals close to the movement in the 1920s were directly responsible for its success. The book includes further essays on the subsequent impact of Surrealism on SF novelists J.G. Ballard and Alan Burns, and features essays that argue for Salvador Dalí's closeness to SF in the 1960s and his disagreement with the earlier scientific romance defined by Verne. The chapters that bring in comics range from theoretical discussions of the relation between the original comic strips of Rodolphe Töpffer and the key Surrealist technique of automatism, used in art and writing, through the cybernetic implications of the proto-SF Surrealist ciné-roman 'M. Wzz...' of 1929, which has never discussed in any detail before, to the 1948 Vache paintings by René Magritte, inspired by Louis Forton's strip Les Pieds nickelés. This pioneering set of essays shows how Surrealism from the 1920s to the 1970s did not just receive and adapt SF but impacted the genre in its later manifestations.
Author: Bill Day
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2017-04-25
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 1684093295
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Once upon a time, there was a family of rabbits who lived in a small meadow outside a big woods. In this family, there were three boys and three girls. They were always getting in trouble by getting dirty and messing up their clothes.
Author: Margery Williams Bianco
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Published: 2021-08-27
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 3985941432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Velveteen Rabbit illustrated Margery Williams Bianco - THERE was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy's stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming.There were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy engine, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit was quite the best of all. For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.
