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A fantastic work about the birds in the Limberlost swamp area in Indiana, USA. The book contains a wealth of character studies of native American birds as through friendly advances the author could induce to pose for her. Both text and pictures, of which there are almost forty in this edition, display an intimacy with the home life, the moods, the manners and customs of birds.

A literary psychological suspense short story. Euthanasia, morality, right, wrong... how do you repay the oldest debt? How can you make anyone understand that you have to pay? Everyone learns that what seemed important an hour ago really wasn't important at all.

The Laban Workbook is a compendium of unique exercises inspired by the concepts and principles of movement theorist and artist, Rudolf Laban. Written by five internationally recognized movement experts, this textbook is divided into single-authored chapters, each of which includes a short contextual...

The Ultimate Unauthorized Resource to the Stories Behind Lost Lost is a complex and mysterious tale, one that draws on many sources for its themes and ideas—sources you must understand to become an advanced Lost expert. Lost*'s Buried Treasures* is the ultimate unauthorized guide to the ideas that...

He is a motherless child, a coal miner, a circus star, a con artist, a seer, a hero, and a survivor. This is the tale of Billy Creekmore, a young boy with mystifying powers and the gift of storytelling. But his life in the Guardian Angels Orphanage is cruel and bleak, and when a stranger...

Widely used in architectural circles in the heat of discussion, the recurrent use of particular words and terms has evolved into a language of design jargon. Commonly found in architectural literature and journalism, in critical design debate and especially in student project reviews, Archispeak can...

In 1870, a great American educator set down in print the advice he had often given to students. He teaches how to read critically but with appreciation, the topics of history, Christian literature, fiction, biography, poetry, criticism, science, religion, and news. Includes advice on starting and maintaining a library, as well as a list of recommended reading.

The aim of this little book is to give general readers some idea of the subject and spirit of European Continental literature in the later and culminating period of the Middle Ages— the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.

Clarifies many aspects of the previously obscured or merely anecdotal relation between criticism and Jewishness in the twentieth century and beyond.

As a young California girl growing up in a blue collar neighborhood, Taylor Young dreamed of being popular, beautiful, and acquiring a wardrobe to die for. Not to mention marrying a handsome, successful man and living happily ever after in a gorgeous house with three wonderful children. Now, at 36,...

Outback Creek Primary School is so remote there are no suitable teachers to fill the grade six vacancy. As a temporary solution the school hires Mr Sergeant, who uses his military training techniques to prepare the students for the Annual Dodgeball Challenge between students and a group of super-serious...

Paranormal Shapeshifter Romance Rachel Dunne thinks she's safe from the politics of her people by keeping a low profile in America. When she comes face to face with one of the clan chiefs in search of a mate, she’s stunned yet is undeniably attracted. There is a catch—law states one queen...