Animals in War

Reducere. Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and...

It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. T...

The Glimmer is a meditation on the time-span of life illuminated by many voices. In Mexico a taxidermist tends animals in their afterlife and conte...

Reducere. Author Blue Spruell reimagines TARO - Legendary Boy Samurai - in an historical fantasy adventure of warlords, swords, and magical beasts from old J...

Reducere. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (1920) is a children's fantasy novel by Hugh Lofting. The novel is the third in a series of fifteen books featuring D...

Reducere. Astonishing and just plain wild facts with explanations about the world's purrfect pet. Fascinating and fun for cat-loving kids and cat lovers of a...

Lieutenant James William Abert (1820-97) of the United States Army Topographical Engineers received orders in 1845 to explore the Canadian River re...

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

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...

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 ...

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. Mohammad Alla Aljaleel era conductor de ambulancia. En vez de huir de la ciudad como tantos otros decidió quedarse para ayudar a los heridos por la...

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. 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. Some farms have normal animals. This one has monsters.Cows go moo. Pigs go oink. Some farms are in a dale.But Old MacGregor's Farm is different fro...

Reducere. 1944, Amersfoort Concentration Camp, Holland. Based on a true story, the unforgettable tale of two young lovers who risked everything to keep hope ...

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

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. Two women. One shocking wartime secret. And a family mystery just waiting to be discovered...Berlin Zoo, 1943: Ten-year-old Adelaide and her newbor...

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

Reducere. Colin Dayan meditates on the connection between her personal and family history and her relationship with animals in this lyrical memoir about her ...

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

This timely tale of an endless war between humans and nature follows young orphan Gert, whose land is shrouded in a thick fog hiding ferocious, fan...

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. 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...

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. 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...

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

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

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

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 ...

Reducere. My Father's War is a story based on a diary my father wrote while serving as a young man in the United States Marine Corps during the Second Nicara...

Barry had created a little piece of paradise in his southern Arizona backyard-until the javelinas came. His battle to rid his property of the wild ...

Reducere. "In this powerful illustrated fable for older picture book readers, Achebe, the celebrated Nigerian writer, offers a parable about how power corrup...

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

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

Reducere. Peek through the pages in this busy board book to discover fun facts about many types of wild animals. Young readers will love to peek through the ...

After the "war with no name" a cat assassin searches for his lost love in Repino's strange, moving sci-fi epic that channels both Homeward Bound an...

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...

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

Reducere. Clean air and pure water. All the land, even deserts, fertile and blooming. Pasturelands full of grazing animals. Rivers and seas teeming with fish...

Reducere. Animal lover Jasmine Green is back to rescue an adorable kitten, just in time for the holidays. On her family's farm, Jasmine and her best friend, ...

Reducere. Animal lover Jasmine Green is back to rescue an adorable kitten, just in time for the holidays. On her family's farm, Jasmine and her best friend, ...

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. 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. 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. 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...

DescriptionThere's a new criminal mastermind in the galaxy, and it's...Rocket Raccoon? How did this happen? Groot knows, but he's not talking Well,...

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. 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...

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 lyrical nonfiction picture book about the inspired life of C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of Narnia--from Free as a Bird autho...

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...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionSaint Francis of Assisi is one of the most beloved and well-known saints in the Catholic church. In this biography, G. K. Chesterton rel...

DescriptionRon is a rhino like no other. He doesn't like to live by the other rhino rules--the other rhinos are grumpy, solitary, and they will cha...

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...

Generations of entertainers have amused audiences of children and adults with the art of hand shadows, using only a light source and their own two ...

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 ...

DescriptionNinja and animal lover Jiro Azuma's life is changed forever when he finds himself in the middle of a war of ninjas vs. demons. Jiro Azum...

Reducere. Millions of people worldwide have already benefited from the healing practice of Reiki. With the help of this introductory Reiki book, you can lear...

DescriptionWhen George and the man with the yellow hat visit the animal shelter, George is delighted to discover a large litter of puppies. At firs...

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. DescriptionI don't want words to sever me from reality.I don't want to need them. I want nothingto reveal feeling but feeling--as in freedom, or th...