Animals in War

Reducere. DescriptionA new collection about violence and the rural Midwest from a poet whose first book was hailed as "memorable" (Stephanie Burt, Yale Revie...

Reducere. It's 1973. Our nation is torn apart by the Vietnam War, and the massacre of unarmed students at Kent State. The Vice President has resigned for bri...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Deborah GordonA scientific tour de force, Deborah Gordon's Ants at Work takes us to the amazing world of an ant society and...

Reducere. "Lady Pamela Hicks's joyously entertaining new memoir, arguably the poshest book that ever has or will be written" (Newsweek), is a privileged glim...

This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from h...

Reducere. A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone) stories from the front lines of our war on i...

Reducere. Ayobami is an African girl who dreams of going to school. After war comes to an end, she can finally return to the schoolhouse. But in order to do ...

Reducere. Anthropology has so far failed to solve the riddle of human evolution. Existing models are unable to account for the scope of the differences that ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe "imaginative . . . intriguing" far-future novel about the telepathic bond of friendship between human and animal--from the New York ...

Reducere. "Feathery fun for little ones." --Kirkus Reviews From Caldecott Honor artist Anita Lobel comes a touching and classically, vividly illustrated stor...

New angle on the popular 'animal interest' line, profusely illustrated with rarely seen original archival material.

Reducere. A beautiful new edition of George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than othe...

Reducere. It was never To o's plan to leave El Salvador behind.To o has spent his entire life rising hours before dawn to feed the animals and mind the farm ...

Reducere. Set against the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan, Saving Cinnamon chronicles the love story of Navy Reservist Mark Feffer and a stray puppy he bo...

Reducere. Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight.The Most Dang...

Reducere. Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba the lion cub, Lula the bear...

Reducere. DescriptionAt its current tally of 212 species, California's mammal list is the largest of all the United States'. This new guidebook joins its sis...

Reducere. This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . . In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rh...

Reducere. From its headwaters on the southern slope of the Tennessee Valley divide near Dahlonega to its confluence with the Oostanaula to form the Coosa in ...

Reducere. Unabridged value reproduction of THE LOST WORLD by the original master of mystery Arthur Conan Doyle. Join the enigmatic and forceful Professor Cha...

Reducere. This investigative feat tells the shocking, heartbreaking story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its terrible legacy of sickness and...

Reducere. The daughter of a murdered physician vows to protect the magical Oddity he left behind in an alternate nineteenth century where a failed Louisiana ...

Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surg...

Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. Asian armies boasted of their pachyderm power, while the Romans fielded e...

Reducere. Welcome to a world like no other.The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircli...

The second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenom...

Reducere. A musician is transported into a land of magic--from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Da...

"Sam Whatley's vignettes show the intersection of our lives with eternity. Some are spiritual perspectives on animals, such as alligators, woodpeck...

Reducere. Set during the French and American wars in South Vietnam, Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is the true story of an orphan, Quang Van Nguyen, adopted by...

Reducere. An epic graphic novel about a jealous witch, a withering curse, and one girl's journey to save her family-- no matter the cost. When Vonceil's olde...

Reducere. In virtually every military conflict in recorded history animals have fought--and often died--alongside their human counterparts. While countless s...

Reducere. When Nate Tallhelm left his homestead to visit his uncle's place hard by the eastern slopes of the continental divide in 1870, he had no idea of th...

Reducere. DescriptionA tamed dragon may be loyal, but it will forever be free. Loose from her cage, Sigrid of Wildewyn returns to her homeland with a heavy h...

Reducere. In December 2002, Meryl Harrison moved a large audience to tears at the BBC Animal Awards Ceremony, having been flown over from her native Zimbabwe...

Reducere. DescriptionWilfred Trotter's book on the 'herd instinct' was published on the heels of World War I. He had seen how the various nations had engaged...

A girl with wondrous, hidden powers must find the courage to confront her destiny in this breathtaking sequel to The Mapmaker's War, which New York...

Reducere. DescriptionProgress has transformed Queenston, capital city of Argonia. Once the land of witches, wizards, fairies, and other magical people and an...

The springs that initially attracted settlers to this area sprang from thick deposits of Balcones Escarpment limestone. The springs gave rise to Wa...

Reducere. Sh t happens. Every day.Mae West was sent to jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" with her first Broadway play. When participation in the Hitl...

DescriptionUtrum Aelvi habeant anima naturaliter sibi unita. Do elves have souls? In a fantasy world in which the realm of man is dominated by a ri...

Reducere. We are facing an overwhelming army of deadly, invisible enemies. We need a plan -- before it's too late.Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction...

Reducere. Prairie Public's beloved Dakota Datebook radio series is now in book form The students of the University of North Dakota's Writing, Editing, and Pu...

Reducere. Bear Boy is a true-life coming-of-age story of two bears who inspire one boy to stand up for animals, question authority and discover the power of ...

Reducere. This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on...

DescriptionA lavishly illustrated celebration of these glorious animals--and a poignant lament for their futureElephants are among the most beloved...

DescriptionPresented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The Wo...

Reducere. On a bright and sunny summer morning, Tucker Turtle and Ripley Rabbit decide to meet the many animals, birds, and insects that live on Presque Isle...

A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirite...

"A perfect novel--taut and seductive." --Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life and Filthy Animals "Intimacies is a haunting, precise, and morally ast...

Reducere. In Rehem, Dravens soar astride ravens, eagles, dragons, or hawks known collectively as Eedon Rath-ni. They wield magic, weapons, animals within the...

Reducere. This volume includes the major Eranos lecture The Animal Kingdom in the Human Dream, and Hillman s contributions to the out-of-print bestiary, Drea...

Robert Repino concludes the War with No Name series in an explosive final novel. Over a decade has passed since the ant queen began her apocalyptic...

Reducere. Civilization ended long before Lynn Tanner was born. Wild animals roam the streets, but mankind is still the biggest threat to a woman alone in the...

Reducere. This third volume of Machen's collected fiction begins with a tale, "The Thousand and One Nights, " that has never before been reprinted. It contin...

Reducere. DescriptionThis collection of heartwarming and surprising true tales celebrate heroic animals who saved the day, impart important lessons, and can ...

Reducere. Okinawa, Japan. The People, History, World War II, Culture and Tradition. Travel and Tourism. Before Okinawa, there was Ryukyu, an independent king...

Reducere. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of ...

Jared Diamond and other leading scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labor, and tools of war has advanced the developme...

Reducere. This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on...

Reducere. In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more...

Reducere. Utrum Aelvi habeant anima naturaliter sibi unita. Do elves have souls? In a fantasy world in which the realm of man is dominated by a rich and powe...

Reducere. In Rehem, Dravens soar astride ravens, eagles, dragons, or hawks known collectively as Eedon Rath-ni. They wield magic, weapons, animals within the...

Reducere. In ancient times it was assumed that the world stands on three elephants, or three columns, according to the Jewish Kabbalah. You can say that the ...

Reducere. Talking to the Moon is an unusual and charming story of a Thoreau-like adventure in remote northeastern Oklahoma. Following his university educatio...

Reducere. Col. George Wright's campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Palouse, and other Indian peoples of eastern Washington Territory was int...

Reducere. DescriptionHave you ever looked deep into the eyes of an animal and felt entirely known? Often, the connections we share with non-human animals rep...

Reducere. Once upon a time, the subjects of fairy tales--princesses, withces, talking animals, and more--lived far away in a fabled magical realm. But when a...

Reducere. Civil War Supply and Strategy stands as a sweeping examination of the decisive link between the distribution of provisions to soldiers and the stra...

DescriptionThe white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization: it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history ...