The Bald Eagle. The Improbable Journey of America's Bird, Hardback - Jack E. (University of Florida) Davis

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in AmericaPublisher: WW Norton & CoAu...

Fall under the spell of Florida's natural environment In this captivating collection, Florida's most notable authors, poets, and environmentalists ...

Reducere. What does it mean to deeply love a home place that haunts us still? From Mark Twain to Grant Wood to Garrison Keillor, regionalists from the Gilded...

In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer, was shot down over Manchuria. He was captured by the Chinese and held for the ...

Reducere. A large, soaring bird reminds people of strength and freedom. Read about this important national symbol.

Reducere. Justice, the bald eagle, shares his development from tiny eaglet through fledging and leaving the nest. Incredible photography, engaging story and ...

Reducere. A bald eagle doesn't sound like an attractive bird. But it's pictured on the Great Seal of the United States and on the dollar bill. Why was this b...

Reducere. It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage ...

A review of the journalism experience of blacks in one US state, with examples from newspapers, newsletters, magazines and the broadcast media. Bor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nathan DyeIllustrator: Chris DyeBailey is a bald eagle, one of the most graceful and beautiful birds, known for being the s...

Reducere. Bailey is a bald eagle, one of the most graceful and beautiful birds, known for being the symbol of strength and pride. She comes from a long linea...

Reducere. Description"In this insightful book the conflicts known as the Seminole Wars are placed in the larger context of American history. Twenty-first-cen...

Reducere. How do you use your local library? Does it arrive at your door on the back of an elephant? Can it float down the river to you? Or does it occupy a ...

Reducere. Taking an early look at the work of one of comicdom's most esteemed artists, Jack Davis. This chronology of his earliest work reveals the incredibl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cathy SalustriIn the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project sent mostly anonymous writers, but also Zora Neale Hurston and Ste...

Reducere. A portrait of a species on the brink The only bird species that lives exclusively in Florida, the Florida scrub-jay was once common across the peni...

DescriptionThe Great Uighur Empire ruled Inner Asia in the 8th and 9th centuries and their descendants, the Taklamakanians, created a thousand year...

Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents ...

Reducere. An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinat...

Reducere. The Bald Eagle is a comprehensive description of the morphology, behavior, flight patterns, hunting, migration, nesting, development, and growth of...

Publisher: Rare Bird BooksAuthor(s): Larry JaffeeNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 214 x 140 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Agrippina Vaganova is revered as the visionary who first codified the Russian system of classical ballet training. In this absorbing volume, Cather...

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, driv...

Reducere. Death in the Everglades chronicles the demise of one of 20th-century Florida's most enduring folk heroes. The murder of Guy Bradley represents a mi...

Breaks new ground in analysing first-person narratives by five Francophone Caribbean writers - Joseph Zobel, Patrick Chamoiseau, Gisele Pineau, Edw...

National Federation of Press Women National Communications Contest, First Place for Autobiography/Memoir Delaware Press Association Communications ...

Weaving together biography and political history, Michael Woods restores Jefferson Davis and Stephen Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The Land of the Anka Bird: A Journey Through the Turkic Heartland is a reflective visual essay introducing the powerful photographs of Ergun ağatay...

Reducere. "Fourteen essays and articles and three short stories that will hit you right between the eyes. Crews writing is informed by a deep love of languag...

Reducere. A New York Times BestsellerTo some people, Florida is a paradise; to others, a punch line. As Oh, Florida shows, it's both of these and, more impor...

Illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a sty...

Reducere. A wickedly smart, funny, and irresistibly off-kilter account of an improbable thousand-mile journey on foot into the heart of modern Florida, the s...

Reducere. "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a world war."--E. B. White on fatherhood"I was lucky to be born abnormal. It ran in the f...

Reducere. "You always needed a wild duck like Avram, a nonlinear thinker that stirred up the others. I always try to have an Avram on my team. Always. They d...

Reducere. "You always needed a wild duck like Avram, a nonlinear thinker that stirred up the others. I always try to have an Avram on my team. Always. They d...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Douglas E. CowanIlluminating the religious and existential themes in Stephen King's horror stories Who are we? Why are we h...

Brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Stretching 625 miles through the Caribbean Sea alon...

DescriptionJefferson Davis is a historical figure who provokes strong passions among scholars. Through the years historians have placed him at both...