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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Robert Bird

As Bird illuminates how these grueling experiences contributed to the writing of novels like Notes from the Underground, he also describes how they instilled in the author a craving for social justice and quest for form that spurred his ...
Walking the Cape and Islands: A Comprehensive Guide to the ...

Walking the Cape and Islands: A Comprehensive Guide to the ...

David Weintraub

... this venue provides one—stop shopping for all your birding needs, including optics, field guides, bird feeders, and bird—related gifts. Cape Cod Bird Club, wwwmassbird.org/ccbc. Founded in 1972, this is one of the largest bird clubs in New ...
Bird by Bird: some instructions on writing and life

Bird by Bird: some instructions on writing and life

Anne Lamott

In Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott, a bestelling novelist and memoirist, distils what she’s learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wise, and immensely helpful, this is the book for serious writers and writers-to-be.
The Bird Observer: The Official Organ of the Bird Observers' ...

The Bird Observer: The Official Organ of the Bird Observers' ...

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702 Date of Issue: 9 Ocotber 1990 Con- 11SS0 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE BIRD OBSERVERS CLUB OF AUSTRALIA Honorary Editor: Julia Hurley Eastern Yellow Robin Photo: Keith & Beryl Richards BIRD WEEK Birds of the ...
Messiaen the Theologian

Messiaen the Theologian

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215–224; for saints Bernard and Bonaventure see robert Fallon, 'Messiaen's Mimesis: the language and Culture of the Bird Styles' (PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 2005) and 'the record of realism in Messiaen's Bird style', ...
The Russian Prospero: The Creative Universe of Viacheslav Ivanov

The Russian Prospero: The Creative Universe of Viacheslav Ivanov

Robert Bird

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine “[Bird’s] clear explanations of Ivanov’s ideas and his informed, insightful, astute readings of the poetic works make this book required reading for anyone interested in modern poetry, ...
Philosophy Of Science

Philosophy Of Science

Alexander Bird

Alexander Bird. For Michael Bird Contents Preface Introduction: the nature of science 1 Part I Dedication.
Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared

Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared

David Hopkins

The Glass in fact provides an opening for the next phase of the discussion, since the prominent bird images in Ernst's picture — the descendants of many earlier bird and bird/human figures as will be shown — bear surprising links with ...
Bird Observer

Bird Observer

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... Digital Age Marjorie Rines 366 Driving Birds Away Christopher Reed 369 Bird Conservation and the Important Bird Area (IBA) Program: It's All about Habitat Wayne R. Petersen 372 Ten Tips for Maintaining Your Birding Partner John Nelson ...
Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison:: ...

Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison:: ...

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BIRD'S. PAPER. PAUL. HOYNINGEN-HUENE. It is a pleasure to comment on Professor Bird's paper because it is part of the excellent work he has done on Kuhn's philosophy (most importantly Bird, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005). His work is ...
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Isabella Lucy Bird

ISABELLA BIRD Born in Yorkshire, England, on October !.">. 1.S31. Isabella Lucy Bird could have been described as a rambunctious little girl if it were not for the illness that often confined her to bed. She began traveling in her early twenties ...
A Curious Life for a Lady: The Story of Isabella Bird

A Curious Life for a Lady: The Story of Isabella Bird

Pat Barr

Her accounts of her experiences became best-selling books and established for Isabella Bird a reputation as one of the great travel writers of her day. 'Miss Barr has her measure. She and Miss Bird are well suited.
I Am Lucky Bird

I Am Lucky Bird

Fleur Philips

Fleur Philips' I AM LUCKY BIRD is an intensely gripping, deeply emotional literary novel, telling the heart-wrenching narrative of its young protagonist, Lucky Bird, after her mother AnnMarie mysteriously vanishes, and her childhood comes ...
Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas

Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas

Wayne R. Petersen

R. Parker, Donald Parsons, Katherine Parsons, Stuart Parsons, Ethel Pearson, ' Robert Pease, Stephen Pelikan, Fred ... Rudolph H. Stone, Cherrie Stout, Peter Stowe, Jane Stroup, "Robert H. Stymeist, Phyllis Swift Robert Tamarin, Vivian ...
Chickenhawk

Chickenhawk

Robert Mason

In Chickenhawk, Robert Mason gives us a devastating bird's eye-view of that war in all its horror, as he experiences the accelerating terror, the increasingly desperate courage of a man 'acting out the role of a hero long after he realises ...
Bird's Best Friend

Bird's Best Friend

Apple Jordan

When the precocious Russell meets a huge flightless jungle bird named Kevin, they become the best--and most unlikely--of friends. Simultaneous.
Bird migration

Bird migration

Donald Redfield Griffin

Probes the extent, seasonal timing, and energetics of bird migrations as well as looking at the ways birds navigate
Among the Tibetans

Among the Tibetans

Isabella Lucy Bird

Bird (1831-1904) recounts her rugged passage through the Himalayas by horseback and her four-month sojourn amid "the pleasantest of people.
Shouldering Antigua and Barbuda: The Life of V.C. Bird

Shouldering Antigua and Barbuda: The Life of V.C. Bird

Paget Henry

Beginning with a close look at the path of Bird's development as a man and as a politician, the book then examines the major achievements and failures of his rule.
National Geographic Birding Essentials: All the Tools, ...

National Geographic Birding Essentials: All the Tools, ...

Jonathan K. Alderfer

Offers tips and advice for how to improve bird watching skills, from choosing equipment and guides to where to watch and what features to look for when trying to identify a bird.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither

Isabella Bird

An evocative 1883 account of travels in the Malay Peninsula by Isabella Bird, the famous Victorian explorer.
Why Do Birds Sing?

Why Do Birds Sing?

Joan Holub

Filled with colorful illustrations and photographs of wild and domestic birds, this is a perfect selection for any young bird-watcher or bird lover.
The Osbick Bird

The Osbick Bird

Edward Gorey

Though short in length, the story is sure to linger long in your imagination. Emblus Fingby's life was changed forever with the unexpected arrival of the osbick bird.
Sports Hero, Larry Bird

Sports Hero, Larry Bird

Marshall Burchard

A biography of basketball forward Larry Bird, who, in addition to his personal awards, led the Celtics to the NBA championship in 1981.

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