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Author: Laura Erickson
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published:
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 1452933235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gorgeous guide to the owls native to Minnesota, with descriptions and portraits by two of the state’s most beloved authors
Author: Bethany Wilson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-02-11
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1365650286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Prayer Wall is a heart warming tale about the mission of the twelve owls of Christmas. The owls are messengers from God spreading special meanings across the world to those who need an extra reminder of what is important. The story reminds everyone of the true meaning of Christmas.
Author: David Lawrence Evans
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Depletion of fisheries due to acid rain may pose a future threat to bald eagle and osprey populations in some regions. Loss of essential habitat has affected declines in the caracara and western burrowing owl and the disappearance of the norther aplomado falcon from the southern United States. Most populations of the ferruginous hawk, marsh hawk, and prairie falcon appear stable; habitat loss is the most critical factor in population changes.
Author: Ronald L. Smith
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 132884160X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After something strange happens during a camping trip, twelve-year-old alien-obsessed Simon suspects he has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination?
Author: Robert W. Nero
Publisher: Fort Collins, Colo. : Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Brian Phillips
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0374717702
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY. One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar's Best Books of 2018. Named one of the Best Books of October and Fall by Amazon, Buzzfeed, TIME, Vulture, The Millions and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. “Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating.” —Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad A globe-spanning, ambitious book of essays from one of the most enthralling storytellers in narrative nonfiction In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he’s one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels. The eight essays assembled here—five from Phillips’s Grantland and MTV days, and three new pieces—go beyond simply chronicling some of the modern world’s most uncanny, unbelievable, and spectacular oddities (though they do that, too). Researched for months and even years on end, they explore the interconnectedness of the globalized world, the consequences of history, the power of myth, and the ways people attempt to find meaning. He searches for tigers in India, and uncovers a multigenerational mystery involving an oil tycoon and his niece turned stepdaughter turned wife in the Oklahoma town where he grew up. Through each adventure, Phillips’s remarkable voice becomes a character itself—full of verve, rich with offhanded humor, and revealing unexpected vulnerability. Dogged, self-aware, and radiating a contagious enthusiasm for his subjects, Phillips is an exhilarating guide to the confusion and wonder of the world today. If John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead was the last great collection of New Journalism from the print era, Impossible Owls is the first of the digital age.
Author: Dick Dekker
Publisher: University of Alberta
Published: 1998-06
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780888643087
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beaverhills Lake, near Tofield, Alberta, lies at the heart of an area recognized as one of North America's most important wetlands. The lake supports hundreds of plant and animal species in its still, shallow waters, undisturbed by boats or swimmers. This beautiful book features a map of the lake and its surroundings; 85 colour photographs; checklists of the birds, mammals and plants of Beaverhills Lake; a list of references; and a foreword by environmentalist and educator Jim Butler.
Author: Janet Frame
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2016-11-21
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1619028697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in New Zealand in 1957, Owls Do Cry, was Janet Frame's second book and the first of her thirteen novels. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, it is securely a landmark in Frame's catalog and indeed a landmark of modernist literature. The novel spans twenty years in the Withers family, tracing Daphne's coming of age into a post–war New Zealand too narrow to know what to make of her. She is deemed mad, institutionalized, and made to undergo a risky lobotomy. Margaret Drabble calls Owls Do Cry "a song of survival"—it is Daphne's song of survival but also the author's: Frame was herself misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and scheduled for brain surgery. She was famously saved only when she won New Zealand's premier fiction prize. Frame was among the first major writers of the twentieth century to confront life in mental institutions and Owls Do Cry is important for this perspective. But it is equally valuable for its poetry, its incisive satire, and its acute social observations. A sensitively rendered portrait of childhood and adolescence and a testament to the power of imagination, this early novel is a first–rate example of Frame's powerful, lyric, and original prose.
Author: Paula L. Enriquez
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-24
Total Pages: 670
ISBN-13: 3319571087
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents a comprehensive biological and ecological information about owls in the neotropic area. In addition the book covers topics such as threats and conservation strategies for these nocturnal birds of prey from 18 Neotropical countries. Owls are a good example of diversification processes and have developed evolutionary characteristics themselves. These species are found almost everywhere in the world but most of them are distributed in tropical areas and about a third of them live in the Neotropics. This biogeographic region has a high biodiversity and even share lineages of species from other continents because at some point all were part of Pangea. Although we still have much to know and understand about this diverse, scarcely studied and threatened group this work aims to be a precedent for future and further research on the subject.
