The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar

The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar
Title The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar PDF eBook
Author Martin Windrow
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 321
Release 2014-06-10
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0374228469

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The author reflects on his fifteen-year relationship with a tawny owl, an unlikely companionship marked by their incredulous neighbors, books, and unique care challenges.

The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar

The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar
Title The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar PDF eBook
Author Martin Windrow
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 234
Release 2014-06-10
Genre Pets
ISBN 0374711534

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This memoir of the relationship between a British military historian and a Tawny Owl is “a small masterpiece of animal literature . . . [a] perfect book” (The Wall Street Journal). Mumble was so much a part of my life in those days that the oddity of our relationship seldom occurred to me, and I only thought about it when faced with other people’s astonishment. When new acquaintances learned that they were talking to a book editor who shared a seventh-floor flat in a South London tower block with a Tawny Owl, some tended to edge away, rather thoughtfully . . . I tried to answer patiently, but I found it hard to come up with a short reply to the direct question ‘Yes, but . . . why?’; my best answer was simply ‘Why not?’ Martin Windrow was a war historian with little experience with pets when he adopted an owl the size of a corncob. Adorable but with knife-sharp talons, Mumble became Windrow’s closest, if at times unpredictable, companion, first in a South London flat and later in the more owl-friendly Sussex countryside. In The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar, Windrow recalls with wry humor their finer moments as well as the reactions of incredulous neighbors, the awkwardness of buying Mumble unskinned rabbit at Harrods Food Hall, and the grievous sense of loss when Mumble nearly escapes. Windrow offers a poignant and unforgettable reminiscence of his charmed years with his improbable pet, as well as an unexpected education in the paleontology, zoology, and sociology of owls. “A memoir of his friendship with this singular creature, interwoven with a natural history of her species . . . [It] is all the more affecting because of its gruff understatement.” —The New York Times Book Review “Pure joy. Martin Windrow shows us the essence of a wild animal in a story as informative as a scientific paper on the species Strix aluco, but much more fun to read.” —Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of A Million Years with You Includes photographs and illustrations

Clockwork Doomsday

Clockwork Doomsday
Title Clockwork Doomsday PDF eBook
Author Alex Archer
Publisher Gold Eagle
Pages 317
Release 2013-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0373621639

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Archaeologist Annja Creed, her friend Garin and his old mentor Roux race across Europe in a frantic quest to find an ancient butterfly key thought to activate a powerful automaton.

The Humane Gardener

The Humane Gardener
Title The Humane Gardener PDF eBook
Author Nancy Lawson
Publisher Chronicle Books
Pages 226
Release 2017-04-18
Genre
ISBN 1616896175

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In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.

Ten Terrible Dinosaurs

Ten Terrible Dinosaurs
Title Ten Terrible Dinosaurs PDF eBook
Author Paul Stickland
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Pages 26
Release 2016-12-29
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1509852654

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Ten terrible dinosaurs standing in a line, soon began to mess about until there were . . . nine. This lively counting book stars the same colourful dinosaurs as in the classic picture book Dinosaur Roar! The bouncy rhyming text encourages children to join in, helping them to learn their numbers as they count down from ten to one, ending with a wonderful loud ROAR!

Powers of Horror

Powers of Horror
Title Powers of Horror PDF eBook
Author Julia Kristeva
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 324
Release 2024-03-26
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0231561415

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In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.

Give a Girl a Knife

Give a Girl a Knife
Title Give a Girl a Knife PDF eBook
Author Amy Thielen
Publisher Clarkson Potter Publishers
Pages 322
Release 2017
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0307954900

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Amy Thielen, author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook The New Midwestern Table, traces her journey from Park Rapids, Minnesota, to cooking professionally under some of New York City's finest chefs -- including David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten -- and then back home again. A love of food and an overwhelming desire to get the hell out of small-town America drive Thielen to New York to seek out its intense culinary world, which she embraces enthusiastically, while her boyfriend finds success in its fickle art world. After years of living in the city, with frequent trips back home in the summertime, the couple eventually chooses life deep in the woods in a cabin Thielen's husband built by hand. There Aaron can practice his craft while Amy takes the skills she learned cooking professionally and turns them to undoing years of processed foods to uncover true Midwestern cooking, which begins simply with humble workhorse ingredients such as potatoes and onions.