![]() ![]() His work with crows includes some of the first behavioral brain-imaging studies in wild birds. His work is featured on the PBS documentary TV show Nature in the episode "A Murder of Crows". He and his fellow researchers found that this transmission was both from one generation to the next and from peer to peer. After the people wearing the mask left, even crows that did not witness the tagging scolded the mask, showing an example of cultural transmission in crows. His lab once banded American crows while wearing various masks, which demonstrated that crows identify and remember people's faces. His work combines science, anecdotes, and humor. In Subirdia, Marzluff shows how seven "exploiter" birds have enlarged their territories by taking advantage of human-made changes to the environment, and discusses how we could make our back yards better for birds. In Gifts of the Crow, Marzluff and Angell documented how intelligent crows are, with both anecdotes and research. They discuss the ways that crows are like humans, and the many different ways that humans have treated crows. ![]() In the Company of Crows and Ravens was written with and illustrated by Tony Angell. John Marzluff (born 1958) is a professor of wildlife science at the University of Washington and an author. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Tracing stars by erin e moulton![]() ![]() But during the day, Indie has to hide her friendship with Owen.When things come to a head, Indie realizes that being true to yourself is more important than being cool. At night, Indie and Owen rebuild a tree house into a ship in the sky to catch Indie’s pet lobster. But he’s fun and smart, so Indie keeps her friendship with him a secret. (Bebe has a starring role.) But Bebe is worried that Indie will embarrass her again, so she gives her a makeover and tells her who she should be friends with. ![]() She tries to do this by joining the stage crew of the community’s theater production, The Sound of Music. So when Indie accidentally brings her pet lobster to school, makes a scene, loses him in the ocean and embarrasses Bebe worse than usual, she makes a wish on a star to become a better Chickory. And no one tells Bebe she’s a fish freak, for two. ![]() ![]() You can read this before Tracing Stars PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī charming novel about sisterhood, self-identity, and friendship from the author of FlutterIndie Lee Chickory knows she’s not as cool as her older sister Bebe. Moulton which was published in May 10, 2012. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Tracing Stars written by Erin E. Brief Summary of Book: Tracing Stars by Erin E. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Colourless tsukuru![]() Although a civil engineer who designs railway stations, Tsukuru dreams that he is sight-reading a complicated piano sonata. Then, at the novel's climax, Tsukuru Tazaki himself has one of the enigmatic but revealing dreams that add to the story's texture and flavour as much as any twist of plot. He tells a ghostly tale about embracing death and plays Thelonious Monk's "Around Midnight" with fingers that ripple across the keys "like fish swimming in clear water". At a pivotal moment, we meet a mysterious jazz virtuoso in a forest hideaway. The Murakami music does not stop with Liszt. Franz Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage, his pianistic "memoir" of youthful search and struggle, accompanies the action and reflection of this book in the form of two favoured recordings, by Lazar Berman and Alfred Brendel. On one level, his latest novel – at 300 pages, a mere bagatelle next to the three-movement, 1,000-page symphony of 1Q84 – honours and interprets one cornerstone of the Romantic piano repertoire. Haruki Murakami, who ran a jazz bar in Tokyo before he turned to fiction, often makes music a key to unlock his world. ![]() ![]() The title comes from ancient Greek ἀνιαρός, “sad, despairing”, plus special resonances that the sound “a” had for Martinson. “ Aniara” (Swedish: Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum/Aniara: A Revue About Man in Time and Space) is a science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1956. The producer is Annika Rogell and the film is made by the production company Meta Film Stockholm AB. The Swedish actress Emelie Jonsson took the lead in the “Aniara” film. It is scheduled to be premiere March 28, 2018. It is based on Harry Martinson‘s SF epic poem “ Aniara” from 1956. “ Aniara” is an upcoming SF Swedish film directed by Hugo Lilja and Pella Kågerman. It transcends panic and terror and even despair and leaves you in the quiet immensities, with the feeling that you have spent time, and have been permanently tinted, by and with an impersonal larger-than-God force.” ![]() Theodore Sturgeon, reviewing “Aniara” in 1964 declared that “ Martinson’s achievement is an inexpressible, immeasurable sadness. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Ice blue by anne stuart![]() ![]() When she’s not traveling, she’s at home in Northern Vermont with her luscious husband of thirty-six years, an empty nest, three cats, four sewing machines, and one Springer Spaniel, and when she’s not working she’s watching movies, listening to rock and roll (preferably Japanese) and spending far too much time quilting.Īnne Stuart also writes as Kristina Douglas. Her general outrageousness has gotten her on Entertainment Tonight, as well as in Vogue, People, USA Today, Women’s Day and countless other national newspapers and magazines. ![]() She’s won numerous awards, appeared on most bestseller lists, and speaks all over the country. Martins Press, Berkley, Dell, Pocket Books and Fawcett. Since then she's written more gothics, regencies, romantic suspense, romantic adventure, series romance, suspense, historical romance, paranormal and mainstream contemporary romance for publishers such as Doubleday, Harlequin, Silhouette, Avon, Zebra, St. Her first novel was Barrett's Hill, a gothic romance published by Ballantine in 1974 when Anne had just turned 25. Anne Stuart is a grandmaster of the genre, winner of Romance Writers of America's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, survivor of more than thirty-five years in the romance business, and still just keeps getting better. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this world, the USA/federation began (using ex-Nazi scientists) a space program back in the late 40s and had several launches to the Moon. The 'straights' are your basic citizens who hoover up mass media and constitute the status quo. 'Wrackers' can be seen as something like a punk counter-culture, totally against established authority. The novel is set at the end of 1979 through early 1980. Like real history, a cold war soon arose. What was left were two superpowers- the USA and its 'central federation', basically colonizing Russia, and the Anglo-Chinese alliance. ![]() The Russians allied with Hitler, however, and the USA invaded Russia and took it over to end the war. WAR is set in an alternative history FDR died choking on a chicken bone in 1933, but WWII still happened. Totally wild ride by Denton here, and it wracks and rolls! Trying to describe this novel will be difficult, as I have never really encountered anything like it. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Les misérables book pdf![]() ![]() "There is something we might mention that has no bearing whatsoever on the tale we have to tell - not even on the background." Les Misérables begins with a digression from a digression (thus resembling Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, which a few years earlier had begun with a digression, too.) Here, at the start, Hugo was trying to set up a narrative convention, derived from the novel's deep theory. The beginning, it turns out, is not a beginning at all. And this is visible immediately: it's visible, to the perturbed reader, in the second of this novel's many sentences. The size was the centre of Hugo's discovery in the art of the novel. To describe his work in progress, he jotted down a list of hyperbolic adjectives: "Astounding, extraordinary, surprising, superhuman, supernatural, unheard of, savage, sinister, formidable, gigantic, savage, colossal, monstrous, deformed, disturbed, electrifying, lugubrious, funereal, hideous, terrifying, shadowy, mysterious, fantastic, nocturnal, crepuscular." This megalomania was a conscious choice on Hugo's part. ![]() And the most obvious transformation Victor Hugo effects in the novel's form is sheer gargantuan size. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The jitterbug perfume![]() ![]() Pompadours of supper-time smoke billowed from chimneys, separating into girlish pigtails as the breeze combed them out, above the slate rooftops. ()Ī few flat clouds folded themselves like crepes over fillings of apricot sky. ![]() The sun was so round and glossy and black that had it a figure eight on it, well, it would have validated a lot of long-standing philosophical and theological complaints, underlining once and for all just where we earthlings sit on the cosmic pool table. When Claude glanced at the sky, he saw that the text of Les Miserables had been painted over by Salvador Dali. With the absence of the cloud cover that normally caused the sky over Seattle to resemble cottage cheese that had been dragged nine miles behind a cement truck, the city, for the first time in memory, would have an unobstructed view of one of nature’s most mystical spectacles. The sky was a velvety black paw pressing on the white landscape with a feline delicacy, stars flying like sparks from its fur. ![]() The sky, layered with thin altostratus clouds and smog, appeared to reflect human suffering and failed to awaken in Claude visions of paradise. ![]() And here’s the kind of prose you can look forward to: Here’s what seems to pass for humor in a Tom Robbins novel: beets (the very existence of), a woman getting stung in a delicate place by a bee, and lesbians (the very existence of). People have recommended him on the basis of comparisons to Douglas Adams, but Adams is, you know, funny. Well, I officially don’t get Tom Robbins. ![]() ![]() ![]() Asking for or providing invites to non-official servers is not allowed. No advertising, self-promotion, spamming, code giveaways, selling or trying to buy accounts, trading, or nitro begging. Any NSFW or objectionable content will be removed.Ĥ. 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But this favorite theory just doesn't hold up to rigorous analysis. What this theory does is to simultaneously knock the amount of household labor done by both the average housewife and the average employed wife. With machines doing the housework-so the theory goes-women could, perhaps had to, go outside the house to work. We have stoves and washing machines and even vacuum cleaners. ![]() It is an article of faith that the wonders of modern technology have freed women from the household burdens of their foremothers.Īfter all, women don't make candles, soap and cloth at home anymore. "One reason," said a researcher, "is that there is less work to do at home."īy now the notion that there is less work to do at home has become the accepted wisdom of modern America. In response to this familiar phenomenon, we were offered a familiar explanation. The figures released in their special report on women show that in 1950 less than one-third of adult females were employed outside their homes, and by 1980 more than half were. When the Census Bureau rounded up the usual statistics, it recorded another step in the movement of women into the work force. ![]() |