The Almost True Story of Birds of Paradise
Title | The Almost True Story of Birds of Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Gora |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 2024-04-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
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A boring, green plant becomes a beautiful Bird of Paradise plant. The plant turns into colorful, exciting birds. The birds discover a park that has plant friends that look like their animal names. Children will be able to learn about plants and nature through Carolyn Gora's whimsical illustrations and dialogue.
Birds of Paradise
Title | Birds of Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Laman |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Birds of paradise (Birds) |
ISBN | 1426209584 |
In this dazzling photo essay, Laman and Scholes present gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior.
Birds of Paradise
Title | Birds of Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Malcom |
Publisher | Anne Malcom |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-03-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1386117633 |
He collected beautiful things. Rare things. Ripped them out of their natural environment and preserved them in all of their dead splendor. The problem was I wasn't beautiful. I was all of the hideous and ugly realities of the world packaged into one broken human being. He came to kill me. That was his business. Death. He ripped me out of my natural environment, the prison I'd created, and locked me away with all of his beautiful dead things. I hated him. I still hate him. But if I was given the choice and the ability to leave this cage, come back to life, I'd stay dead. In all of my hideous splendor. Because my murderer can only possess dead things. And I can only be possessed by someone more broken and ugly than me.
The Real Story of Risk
Title | The Real Story of Risk PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Croston |
Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2012-11-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1616146613 |
We live in a world of risk. It waits for us in our refrigerator and surrounds us on the freeway. It's lurking in our arteries and sitting in our 401(k) accounts. Given that we deal with risk on a constant basis, we should be good at it; as it turns out, though, we're not. We're blind to common risks like heart disease (one in five deaths), but we shrink in fear from rare events like shark attacks (one in a million) and airplane crashes (one in twenty thousand). What accounts for our poor ability to perceive and react to the risks that really matter? Starting from an evolutionary perspective, the author traces our distorted perception of risk back to our ancestors, reminding readers that we are all the culmination of a long line of survivors who fought life-and-death threats such as attacks from wild animals, starvation, and disease. The fact that we have covered Earth with seven billion people is a testament to our skill at overcoming these risks. But our spectacular success has also produced our contemporary artificial world with new threats like climate change, chili dogs, and online gambling. Our brains, which evolved to deal with the ancient world, are ill equipped to process the new threats we face. Croston examines the many facets of our hazardous modern environment that we only dimly perceive. He explains why we let our guard down for a beautiful face, why slow-moving risks (like rising seas) are hard to stop, how a good story (though false) can be more persuasive than dry statistics (even alarming ones), what we fear even more than death, and many other intriguing quirks about our built-in incompetence to adequately handle present-day risks. Offering a wealth of fascinating information about health, sex, money, safety, food, and the environment, this book illuminates an often-misunderstood but crucial aspect of daily life.
The Birds of Paradise
Title | The Birds of Paradise PDF eBook |
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Release | 1869 |
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Title | Harper's New Monthly Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Mills Alden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 976 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | American literature |
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Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
Birds of a Lesser Paradise
Title | Birds of a Lesser Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Mayhew Bergman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2012-11-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1451643365 |
Presents a collection of stories focusing on the moments when bonds with nature become evident, including the story of a mother and son attempting to reclaim an African gray parrot and of a population control activist who longs to have a baby.