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Owls

Who Gives a Hoot?

By: Frances Backhouse

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Owls are incredible creatures. They can see in the dimmest light, hear the faintest of sounds, fly silently and rotate their heads to look straight backward. Most owls are nocturnal, more often heard than seen. Even those that are active during the day stay largely out of sight. Owls: Who Gives a Hoot? reveals the secrets of these mysterious birds and the important role they play in our lives and their ecosystems. Learn about the 19 species that live in Canada and the United States—from the tiny elf owl to the hefty great horned owl. And meet the scientists, activists and young people who are working to keep these iconic birds in flight and turning heads for years to come. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

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Orca Book Publishers

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145983531X

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9781459835313

Grizzly Bears

Guardians of the Wilderness

By: Frances Backhouse

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Grizzly Bears

Guardians of the Wilderness

By: Frances Backhouse

★“An important book for helping kids see past the stereotypes of terrifying grizzly bears and join the call for conservation.”—School Library Journal, starred review Grizzlies are one of North America’s most iconic wildlife species. They once roamed across half the continent, but today the grizzly population has declined at an alarming rate and it is incredibly difficult to rebuild those numbers, especially in places with a lot of people. Yet grizzlies are key members of their ecological communities and a powerful symbol of wilderness. Filled with facts and richly illustrated with photos, Grizzly Bears: Guardians of the Wilderness explores the biology of grizzlies and the vital ecological role these bears play, and it asks readers to consider what it takes to share the land with them. Learn from conservationists, scientists, Indigenous Peoples and young people who are working to ensure that grizzlies will be with us forever.

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Orca Book Publishers

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1459828569

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9781459828568

Once They Were Hats

In Search of the Mighty Beaver

By: Frances Backhouse

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Once They Were Hats

In Search of the Mighty Beaver

By: Frances Backhouse

“Unexpectedly delightful reading—there is much to learn from the buck-toothed rodents of yore” (National Post). Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent’s most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Rio Grande to the edge of the northern tundra. Wherever there was wood and water, there were beavers—sixty million, or more—and wherever there were beavers, there were intricate natural communities that depended on their activities. Then the European fur traders arrived. Once They Were Hats examines humanity’s fifteen-thousand–year relationship with Castor canadensis, and the beaver’s even older relationship with North American landscapes and ecosystems. From the waterlogged environs of the Beaver Capital of Canada to the wilderness cabin that controversial conservationist Grey Owl shared with pet beavers; from a bustling workshop where craftsmen make beaver-felt cowboy hats using century-old tools to a tidal marsh where an almost-lost link between beavers and salmon was recently found, it’s a journey of discovery to find out what happened after we nearly wiped this essential animal off the map, and how we can learn to live with beavers now that they’re returning. “Fascinating and smartly written.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

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ECW/ORIM

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1770907556

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9781770907553

Beavers

Radical Rodents and Ecosystem Engineers

By: Frances Backhouse

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Beavers

Radical Rodents and Ecosystem Engineers

By: Frances Backhouse

By cutting trees and building dams, beavers shape landscapes and provide valuable wetland homes for many plants and animals. These radical rodents were once almost hunted to extinction for their prized fur, but today we are building a new relationship with them, and our appreciation of the benefits they offer as habitat creators and water stewards is growing. Packed with facts and personal stories, this book looks at the beaver’s biology and behavior and illuminates its vital role as a keystone species. The beaver’s comeback is one of North America’s greatest conservation success stories and Beavers: Radical Rodents and Ecosystem Engineers introduces readers to the conservationists, scientists and young people who are working to build a better future for our furry friends. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

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Orca Book Publishers

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1459824717

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9781459824713

Racial Profiling in Canada

Challenging the Myth of "a Few Bad Apples"

By: Carol Tator,Frances Henry,Charles Smith,Maureen Brown

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Racial Profiling in Canada

Challenging the Myth of "a Few Bad Apples"

By: Carol Tator,Frances Henry,Charles Smith,Maureen Brown

Informed by a wealth of research and theoretical approaches from a wide range of disciplines, Racial Profiling in Canada makes a major contribution to the literature and debates on a topic of growing concern.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802086667

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9780802086662

True Love Grows in Brooklyn

By: Frances Ruocco

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True Love Grows in Brooklyn

By: Frances Ruocco

Fran has promised to help her granddaughter with a term paper comparing the differences between living in the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. As she writes, Fran can’t help but recall the memories of her life and of the events that shaped who she is. True Love Grows in Brooklyn narrates Fran’s life journey through the changing political and social tides of the twentieth century. She was born and raised in Brooklyn during World War II. This memoir follows her carefree childhood days visiting New York fixtures such as Coney Island, Ebbets Field, and Wolf’s Pond in Staten Island. It tells of her meeting Frank, the love of her life, and of their marriage and powerful relationship. It relates her internal struggles balancing her working life and her motherhood, raising six children. And this story addresses her grief when Frank passes in 1982, just eight days before their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Fran tells of living thirty-three years after the death of her beloved husband, knowing that their love will never die and some day she will be reunited in heaven.

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iUniverse

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1450232914

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Magic and Masculinity

Ritual Magic and Gender in the Early Modern Era

By: Frances Timbers

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Magic and Masculinity

Ritual Magic and Gender in the Early Modern Era

By: Frances Timbers

In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic - the attempted communication with angels and demons - both reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. The majority of male magicians acted from a position of control and command commensurate with their social position in a patriarchal society; other men, however, used the notion of magic to subvert gender ideals while still aiming to attain hegemony. Whilst women who claimed to perform magic were usually more submissive in their attempted dealings with the spirit world, some female practitioners employed magic to undermine the patriarchal culture and further their own agenda. Frances Timbers studies the practice of ritual magic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries focusing especially on gender and sexual perspectives. Using the examples of well-known individuals who set themselves up as magicians (including John Dee, Simon Forman and William Lilly), as well as unpublished diaries and journals, literature and legal records, this book provides a unique analysis of early modern ceremonial magic from a gender perspective.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857726870

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9780857726872

Betrayed Ally

China in the Great War

By: Frances Wood

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Betrayed Ally

China in the Great War

By: Frances Wood

The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community.In 1912 the Qing Dynasty had ended. President Yuan Shikai, who seized power in 1914, offered the British 50,000 troops to recover the German colony in Shandong but this was refused. In 1916 China sent a vast army of labourers to Europe. In 1917 she declared war on Germany despite this effectively making the real enemy Japan an ally.The betrayal came when Japan was awarded the former German colony. This inspired the rise of Chinese nationalism and communism, enflamed by Russia. The scene was set for Japans incursions into China and thirty years of bloodshed.One hundred years on, the time is right for this accessible and authoritative account of Chinas role in The Great War and assessment of its national and international significance

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280

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Pen and Sword

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147387503X

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9781473875036

Northern Archaeological Textiles

By: Frances Pritchard,John Peter Wild

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Northern Archaeological Textiles

By: Frances Pritchard,John Peter Wild

This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this important and stimulating area of archaeology. From the golden robes of a Roman burial, to the fashionable Viking in Denmark, through to the early modern period and more technological aspects of textile-research, these twenty-four papers (five of which are in German) provide a wealth of new information on the study of ancient textiles in northern Europe.

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145

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Oxbow Books

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1782979794

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9781782979791

The Massachusetts Bay Company and Its Predecessors

By: Frances Rose-Troup

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The Massachusetts Bay Company and Its Predecessors

By: Frances Rose-Troup

Orleans County, New York, situated in the northwestern corner of the state along Lake Ontario was a staging area for a vast westward migration of persons associated with various religious denominations who were seeking greater opportunities in Ohio, Illinois, and the other states of the Old Northwest Territory. The bulk of Arad Thomas's account of Orleans County consists of histories of the following principal towns and villages of Orleans County: Barre, Albion, Carlton, Clarendon, Gaines, Kendall, Murray, Holley, Hulberton, Hindsburgh, Ridgeway, Medina, Knowlesville, Shelby, and Yates. The genealogical meat of the volume can be found in the roughly 300 biographical sketches that are distributed at the end of the town and village profiles.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806351365

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9780806351360

Italian-American Folklore

By: Frances M. Malpezzi,William M. Clements

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Italian-American Folklore

By: Frances M. Malpezzi,William M. Clements

Italian-Americans compose one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States, numbering more than 14 million in the 1990 census. Though they have often been portrayed in fiction and film, these images are often based on stereotypes not borne out among the immigrant and assimilated population.

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august house

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087483533X

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9780874835335

Xavier Herbert

Episodes from Capricornia, Poor Fellow My Country, and Other Fiction, Nonfiction and Letters

By: Xavier Herbert,Frances De Groen

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Xavier Herbert

Episodes from Capricornia, Poor Fellow My Country, and Other Fiction, Nonfiction and Letters

By: Xavier Herbert,Frances De Groen

This ground-breaking first biography explores the contradictions at the core of Xavier Herbert's turbulent life and career (1901-1984). Charting his lifelong quest to discover the reality of his existence and to forge a larger-than-life identity, it highlights Herbert's compulsion to write and illuminates his abiding themes. Labelled at various times "ratbag" and "mug genius" as well as "master writer", Xavier Herbert led a life characterised by controversy and contradiction. His signature books, Capricornia (1938) and Poor Fellow My country (1975), were to change the face of Australian novel writing.

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702224081

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9780702224089

Last Mrs Astor

A New York Story

By: Frances Kiernan

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Last Mrs Astor

A New York Story

By: Frances Kiernan

Presents a comprehensive biography of Brooke Astor, the wife of Vincent Astor, that profiles her childhood, charitable contributions, and highly publicized life.

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342

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393331601

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9780393331608

Australia's Intriguing Past

By: Frances Payne

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Australia's Intriguing Past

By: Frances Payne

Convicts and bushrangers, pirates and princes, they ave all had a part to play in Australia's past. The history of the Indigenous Australians goes back for over 60,000 years, a length of time that is so vast it is difficult to comprehend. Find out the stories of all these people in this book, and discover how they have left their mark on today's Australia. How much do you really know about Australia? Did you know that the whole continent is on the move, or that Aussies were the first to use penicillin? Dip in anywhere throughout this series to find masses of mini articles on everything you could want to know about Australia.

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Redback Publishing

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1922322040

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9781922322043

A Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscape in Northamptonshire

The Raunds area project Volume 2

By: Jan Harding,Frances Healy

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A Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscape in Northamptonshire

The Raunds area project Volume 2

By: Jan Harding,Frances Healy

The Raunds Area Project investigated more than 20 Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in the Nene Valley. From c 5000 BC to the early 1st millennium cal BC a succession of ritual mounds and burial mounds were built as settlement along the valley sides increased and woodland was cleared. Starting as a regular stopping-place for flint knapping and domestic tasks, first the Long Mound, and then Long Barrow, the north part of the Turf Mound and the Avenue were built in the 5th millennium BC. With the addition of the Long Enclosure, the Causewayed Ring Ditch, and the Southern Enclosure, there was a chain of five or six diverse monuments stretched along the river bank by c 3000 cal BC. Later, a timber platform, the Riverside Structure, was built and the focus of ceremonial activity shifted to the Cotton 'Henge', two concentric ditches on the occupied valley side. From c 2200 cal BC monument building accelerated and included the Segmented Ditch Circle and at least 20 round barrows, almost all containing burials, at first inhumations, then cremations down to c 1000 cal BC, by which time two overlapping systems of paddocks and droveways had been laid out. Finally, the terrace began to be settled when these had gone out of use, in the early 1st millennium cal BC. This second volume of the Raunds Area Project, published as a CD, comprises the detailed reports on the environmental archaeology, artefact studies, geophysics and chronology.

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English Heritage

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1848021755

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Owls

Owls

Grizzly Bears

Grizzly Bears

Once They Were Hats

Once They Were Hats

Beavers

Beavers

Racial Profiling in Canada

Racial Profiling in Canada

True Love Grows in Brooklyn

True Love Grows in Brooklyn

Magic and Masculinity

Magic and Masculinity

Betrayed Ally

Betrayed Ally

Northern Archaeological Textiles

Northern Archaeological Textiles

The Massachusetts Bay Company and Its Predecessors

The Massachusetts Bay Company and Its Predecessors

Italian-American Folklore

Italian-American Folklore

Xavier Herbert

Xavier Herbert

Last Mrs Astor

Last Mrs Astor

Australia's Intriguing Past

Australia's Intriguing Past

A Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscape in Northamptonshire

A Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscape in Northamptonshire

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