epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-22 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

These are not just what professors would call rhetorical strategies, things that work. They are a circuit of feelings and implicit themes, of voice, that makes The Origin not just ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:John Zerzan

The Modern Anti-World There now exists only one civilization, a single global domestication machine. Modernity's continuing efforts to disenchant and instru- mentalize the non-cultural natural world have produced a reality ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-16 | Author:Peter Forbes

Bill, who I can only guess is embarrassed by this oversight of not having ordered enough material for the sills, tells me and Scott to “put it in the back ...

epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Farley Mowat [Mowat, Farley]

"We hailed them and told them to liold off so we could get clear of the Pond. George, he yelled down to we they had orders for to finish off ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-20 | Author:Donald Worster [Worster, Donald]

Muir gravitated toward idealistic people like the Strentzels, Carrs, and Bidwells who shared his disapproval of the naked pursuit of money. They also shared his passion for the outdoors, loved ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:Richard Rawlings

PART TWO THE BIG SHOW Aaron and me in the desert. COURTESY OF DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS. ASSEMBLING THE CREW Before we reminisce about some of our favorite episodes, I thought I’d ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:David Gessner [Gessner, David]

DURING MY MAY trip to study the Abbey papers at the library in Tucson, I’d driven up to the Glen Canyon Dam and taken a raft trip that started at ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Gretel Ehrlich

At the island school, now an evacuation center for those who lost their houses, we’re met by a young Japanese man wearing a Yankees jersey, number 55, Hideki Matsui’s number. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jo Marchant

LORD CARNARVON’S DEMISE wasn’t the only source of dramatic stories constructed from evidence that some might consider rather thin. Attention also focused on Tutankhamun’s own death, or to be more ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:Catherine Friend

Turquoise Treasure I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am gen- uinely sorry for the poor browns. —WINSTON CHURCHILL Sherry from Colorado ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Charlotte Gill

{ 7 } at the END of the REACH THE MONTH OF May, in the coastal rainforest, is a time of lushness and warmth before the heat of summer sets ...

mobi |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Terri Irwin

Chapter Twelve The Crocodile Kid Stephen Robert Irwin was born in Upper Ferntree Gully, outside of Melbourne, in 1962, on his mother’s birthday, February 22. Lynette and Robert Irwin—the people ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Landers, Jackson [Landers, Jackson]

Nutria Months after returning from the lizard hunt on Boca Grande, I got an e-mail from Jeff Latham, the journalist I’d met there. We’d kept in touch online since meeting ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Mary Street Alinder

Chapter 16: Conclusions By early 1950, Ollie, now eighty-seven years old and bedridden, was failing fast. In January, Ansel hired a night nurse for his mother so that his father, ...

epub, mobi |ara, eng | 2014-08-13 | Author:Michele Raffin

NINE Mail-Order Bride On those TV reality shows about animal rescue, the abuses are often appallingly clear—emaciated dogs and cats, skeletal horses, all delivered from their suffering by uniformed officers ...