Worth a Thousand Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Worth a Thousand Words write by Brigit Young. This book was released on 2018-08-14. Worth a Thousand Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Quiet outsider Tillie is known around school for using her camera to find lost things, but when a boy named Jake needs help finding his dad, Tillie faces her biggest challenge yet.
Vulture
Vulture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vulture write by Katie Fallon. This book was released on 2017-03-07. Vulture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Turkey vultures, the most widely distributed and abundant scavenging birds of prey on the planet, are found from central Canada to the southern tip of Argentina, and nearly everywhere in between. In the United States we sometimes call them buzzards; in parts of Mexico the name is aura cabecirroja, in Uruguay jote cabeza colorada, and in Ecuador gallinazo aura. A huge bird, the turkey vulture is a familiar sight from culture to culture, in both hemispheres. But despite being ubiquitous and recognizable, the turkey vulture has never had a book of literary nonfiction devoted to it - until Vulture. Floating on six-foot wings, turkey vultures use their keen senses of smell and sight to locate carrion. Unlike their cousin the black vulture, turkey vultures do not kill weak or dying animals; instead, they cleanse, purify, and renew the environment by clearing it of decaying carcasses, thus slowing the spread of such dangerous pathogens as anthrax, rabies, and botulism. The beauty, grace, and important role of these birds in the ecosystem notwithstanding, turkey vultures are maligned and underappreciated; they have been accused of spreading disease and killing livestock, neither of which has ever been substantiated. Although turkey vultures are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which makes harming them a federal offense, the birds still face persecution. They've been killed because of their looks, their odor, and their presence in proximity to humans. Even the federal government occasionally sanctions "roost dispersals," which involve the harassment and sometimes the murder of communally roosting vultures during the cold winter months. Vulture follows a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. By incorporating information from scientific papers and articles, as well as interviews with world-renowned raptor and vulture experts, author Katie Fallon examines all aspects of the bird's natural history: breeding, incubating eggs, raising chicks, migrating, and roosting. After reading this book you will never look at a vulture in the same way again.
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words write by Phil Sexton. This book was released on 2006-12-28. A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words&break;&break;The old saying is true. And if you're a writer in need of inspiration, it's also the key to creating an endless number of stories while honing your craft to a razor's edge. &break;&break;Inside, you'll find over 110 beautiful and intriguing photos created just for this book. Each photo is paired with a thought-provoking writing prompt. Together, they'll help you break through writer's block, generate hundreds of story ideas, and improve your writing ability by leaps and bounds. Many prompts are geared toward specific elements of the craft, enabling you to focus on whatever aspect of writing - character, dialogue, beginnings, endings, description, and more - you find most worthy of examination. &break;&break;And by probing deeper into the details of each photo, you'll also learn how to improve your observational skills, find ideas everywhere you look, and create intriguing stories on demand. &break;&break;One thousand words and more are just waiting to be written. Open the cover and see for yourself.
The Commissar Vanishes
The Commissar Vanishes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Commissar Vanishes write by David King. This book was released on 1999-03-15. The Commissar Vanishes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 The lavishly illustrated and often darkly hilarious retelling of Soviet history through the doctored photographs under Stalin. The Commissar Vanishes has been hailed as a brilliant, indispensable record of an era. The Commissar Vanishes offers a unique and chilling look at how one man--Joseph Stalin--manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and erase the memory of his victims. Over the past thirty years David King has assembled the world's largest archive of doctored Soviet photographs, the best of which appear here, in a book Tatyana Tolstaya, in The New York Review of Books, called "an extraordinary, incomparable volume."
The History of Cartography, Volume 4
The History of Cartography, Volume 4 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Cartography, Volume 4 write by Matthew H. Edney. This book was released on 2020-05-15. The History of Cartography, Volume 4 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800. The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volume’s more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the era’s mapping, covering topics both detailed—such as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collecting—and broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.
