Natalie Bird's Books

Hummingbird

By: Natalie Lloyd

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A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book From the bestselling author of A Snicker of Magic comes a heartfelt story about a girl who -- armed with her trusty, snazzy wheelchair -- refuses to let her brittle bone disease stand in the way of adventure Twelve-year-old homeschooled Olive is tired of being seen as "fragile" just because she has osteogenesis imperfecta (otherwise known as brittle bone disease) so she's thrilled when she finally convinces her parents to let her attend Macklemore Elementary. Olive can't wait to go to a traditional school and make the friends she's always longed for, until a disastrous first day dashes her hopes of ever fitting in. Then Olive hears whispers about a magical, wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives near Macklemore. It’ll be the solution to all her problems! If she can find the bird and prove herself worthy, the creature will make her most desperate, secret wish come true. When it becomes clear that she can't solve the mystery on her own, Olive teams up with some unlikely allies who help her learn the truth about the bird. And on the way, she just might learn that our fragile places lead us to the most wonderful magic of all...

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My Cat Ate Aliens

and Other Humorous Tales in Veterinary Medicine

By: Natalie Griffin, D.V.M.

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My Cat Ate Aliens

and Other Humorous Tales in Veterinary Medicine

By: Natalie Griffin, D.V.M.

So Much Fun! I kept wondering what the next exciting animal encounter would bring. Highly recommend My Cat Ate Aliens, A must-read for those who love animals and love the unexpected happenings they bring into our lives." ""Marty Becker DVM, "America's Veterinarian", Author of 25 pet/vet books, Nationally syndicated pet columnist, & Founder of FearFreePets.com "Dr. Griffin has written a humorous and heartwarming collection of stories for those who put faith and furry family members at the center of their lives. This is a wonderful book for those who find humor in pets and the strange animals they live with." ""Dr. Andy Roark, DVM MSc Her frantic voice hurried on," It's so horrible! I'm just worried about my cat, poor Princess Fluff!!! She's going to die of alien infestation if no one helps her!!"- My Cat Ate Aliens My Cat Ate Aliens and Other Humorous Tales in Veterinary Medicine is a collection of over 40 outrageous stories from the world of veterinary medicine. Dr. June B. French and her friends take you on a journey where they find themselves in the most unlikely scenarios, filled with surprising characters and twists no human could have foreseen. It all begins in a shelter, wherein they are faced with an impossible, heart-wrenching dilemma. From there, many more adventures are mapped out as you follow June into the land of dogs, cats, horses, alpacas, camels, horses, and even birds of all feathers (the scariest June has ever faced). You will also follow the journeys of June's beloved veterinary comrades, who detail their unexpected situations. These stories include a junkyard horse, a nudist colony, a bear and even a few mountain oysters. And you will also soon meet the furry friend that inspired this whole collection: the cat who ate aliens. These events are the unscripted trials of animal loving professionals in their everyday careers, with the greater mission to aid shelter medicine as well as finding the humor in the crazy situations they find themselves in. We do hope that you enjoy our stories! Author: Natalie Griffin, D.V.M. Contributions to this book by: Emily Peck Cindy Roberson Carrie Grace, DVM Tracy Jagocki, DVM Scott Richardson, DVM Michelle Richardson, DVM Rebecca Fratello, DVM D Pugh, DVM, MS, MAg DiplACT, ACVN, & ACVM Wendy Seesock VBSPCA Staff Reviews Derby Brackett (CEO): "Very easy to read - such fun stories. I love that you are sharing true and enriching, yet humorous experiences. I can't wait to share with my 10 year old grandson who is an animal lover too." Vikki Spruill (Director of Finance): "I keep My Cat Ate Aliens beside my bed for a quick chuckle every night before going to sleep. The stories are funny and heartwarming, a good way to end my day!" Nikki Shepperd (Retail & Sales Manager): "This book is definitely a page turner! I feel like I have a smile on my face while reading each short story and then once the story comes to fruition, the giggling really begins. I really love it!" Theresa Tsutsui (Customer Service Representative): "I really enjoyed reading My Cat Ate Aliens. Such a fun book and so relatable! I especially loved the story about the goat. "In Rut" I laughed out loud!" Jessica Lee (Customer Service Representative): "I love reading the book with my husband! It's both insightful into the veterinarian and shelter world and hilarious! I would highly recommend the book!" Maggie Henson (Customer Service Representative): "In general, all the stories from Dr. Griffin's days in vet school make me happy. My boyfriend's daughters love animals, particularly the 5 year old, and the examples of how hard and lonely, but incredibly rewarding school can be make me feel like if either of them decide to go the vet route, they will have a realistic expectation of what they will experience in school. Granted, at their ages they cannot quite read the book themselves just yet, but I believe they will enjoy it once they are ready..." S.C: "My Cat Ate Aliens" is a pleasant read that provides interesting, and lighthearted, insight into the veterinary work world. The writer's informal and personal style makes this an easy, fun read. I enjoyed the organization of the book into a variety of cleverly-titled short stories covering a wide range of animal clients.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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Ballroom Blitz

By: Natalie Cross

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Ballroom Blitz

By: Natalie Cross

In the glamorous world of ballroom, love and dancing do not always mix. Professional dancer Anita Goodman has learned that lesson the hard way. With her studio and her reputation on the line, she has to take a chance on the last person she ever wanted to partner with: her best friend. Patrick O’Leary has loved Anita since high school, but he has languished in the Friend Zone for long enough. He will take this last chance to prove to her that love is greater than winning. Neither of them realize that conquering their rising attraction won’t be their biggest obstacle. Someone does not want them to be together, and will stop at nothing to get their way. Love, dance, and danger. It’s a Ballroom Blitz.

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509244344

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9781509244348

Amaranta. Rival of Fairies’ Queen

By: Natalie Yacobson

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Amaranta. Rival of Fairies’ Queen

By: Natalie Yacobson

The union between elves and people was concluded for the first time in the century. Now is the end of the magical strife. The king of elves and the mortal count managed to make friends. But from behind the sea, the bride of the Count Amaranta arrived, and the king of elves realized that her love was for him more expensive than the peace with mortals. He begins to pay court to Amaranta, bringing her gold roses and magic gifts. And the Queen of Fairies and Dragons wants to destroy a rival.

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5043515104

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Trickster Travels

A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

By: Natalie Zemon Davis

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Trickster Travels

A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

By: Natalie Zemon Davis

An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work. In Trickster Travels, Davis describes all the sectors of her hero's life in rich detail, scrutinizing the evidence of al-Hasan's movement between cultural worlds; the Islamic and Arab traditions, genres, and ideas available to him; and his adventures with Christians and Jews in a European community of learned men and powerful church leaders. In depicting the life of this adventurous border-crosser, Davis suggests the many ways cultural barriers are negotiated and diverging traditions are fused.

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1466829303

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Java 2: Web Developer Certification Study Guide

Exam 310-080

By: Natalie Levi

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Java 2: Web Developer Certification Study Guide

Exam 310-080

By: Natalie Levi

Here's the book you need to prepare for Exam 310-080, Sun Certified Web Component Developer for J2EE Platform. This Study Guide provides: In-depth coverage of every exam objective Practical information on programming servlets, developing JSP pages, and using custom tags Hundreds of challenging review questions, in the book and on the CD Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a testing engine Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including: The structure and deployment of modern servlet web applications The servlet container model Designing and developing servlets to handle server-side exceptions Designing and developing servlets using session management Designing and developing secure web applications Designing and developing thread-safe servlets The JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology model Designing and developing reusable web components Designing and developing JSP pages using JavaBean components and custom tags Designing and developing a custom tag library Design patterns Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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0782151566

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Graymore is a dragon hunter

By: Natalie Yacobson

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Graymore is a dragon hunter

By: Natalie Yacobson

Princess Graymore is the great dragon conqueror. They say someone enchanted her, making her invulnerable. As soon as a dragon appears on the borders of the kingdom, Graymore feels as if she is on fire herself. She is drawn into battle. Alone she can handle whole dragon packs, but one day an unusual dragon flies into the country. Setting out to hunt it, Graymore faces a choice: which is better: defeating the dragon or the dragon’s love?

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5045223518

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Poetry, Publishing, and Visual Culture from Late Modernism to the Twenty-first Century

Fugitive Pieces

By: Natalie Pollard

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Poetry, Publishing, and Visual Culture from Late Modernism to the Twenty-first Century

Fugitive Pieces

By: Natalie Pollard

This is a book about contemporary literary and artistic entanglements: word and image, media and materiality, inscription and illustration. It proposes a vulnerable, fugitive mode of reading poetry, which defies disciplinary categorisations, embracing the open-endedness and provisionality of forms. This manifests itself interactively in the six case studies, which have been chosen for their distinctness and diversity across the long twentieth century: the book begins with the early twentieth-century work of writer and artist Djuna Barnes, exploring her re-animation of sculptural and dramatic sources. It then turns to the late modernist artist and poet David Jones considering his use of the graphic and plastic arts in The Anathemata, and next, to the underappreciated mid-century poet F.T. Prince, whose work uncannily re-activates Michelangelo's poetry and sculpture. The second half of the book explores the collaborations of the canonical poet Ted Hughes with the publisher and artist Leonard Baskin during the 1970s; the innovative late twentieth-century poetry of Denise Riley who uses page space and embodied sound as a form of address; and, finally, the contemporary poet Paul Muldoon who has collaborated with photographers and artists, as well as ventriloquising nonhuman phenomena. The resulting unique study offers contemporary writers and readers a new understanding of literary, artistic, and nonhuman practices and shows the cultural importance of engaging with their messy co-dependencies. The book challenges critical methodologies that make a sharp division between the textual work and the extra-literary, and raises urgent questions about the status and autonomy of art and its social role.

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Oxford University Press

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019259396X

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Seeking the Wolf Tree

By: Natalie Cleavitt

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Seeking the Wolf Tree

By: Natalie Cleavitt

Old-time New England foresters coined the term “wolf tree” for trees they saw as having the ability to “eat” the sun and nutrients and prevent the growth of other trees. Today, however, we understand how wolf trees benefit wildlife. Join Aurora and Orion as they search for a wolf tree in the 3500-acre forest managed by Harvard University near Petersham, Massachusetts, looking for such clues as a large trunk, low branches, wildlife activity, and nearby smaller trees.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Woman

An Intimate Geography

By: Natalie Angier

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Woman

An Intimate Geography

By: Natalie Angier

The author explores the essence of what it means to be a woman--in body and mind--as she shares her thoughts on everything from organs to orgasm and menopause

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0385498411

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15 Secrets to Survival

By: Natalie D. Richards

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15 Secrets to Survival

By: Natalie D. Richards

New York Times bestselling author Natalie D. Richards's middle grade debut about a group of four classmates forced to navigate the wilderness for an extra credit project with nothing but the pages of a survival handbook—and each other—to save them. When classmates Baxter, Abigail, Turner and Emerson break a school rule, they’re forced to travel to the middle of nowhere for an extra credit project. They think things can’t get much worse. After all, how will learning to survive in the wilderness help them stay out of trouble in school? What starts off as a weekend of team building takes a scary turn when their instructor goes missing and they are given nothing but pages of a survival guide to complete a series of challenges. They soon learn the woods around them have unexpected surprises. Will they discover a way to work together to find their teacher and overcome the dangers of winter in the mountains? A recommended choice for classroom discussions on earth science and educators looking for survival books for kids.

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059364414X

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The Knowledge Gap

The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it

By: Natalie Wexler

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The Knowledge Gap

The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it

By: Natalie Wexler

The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.

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0735213569

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A More Obedient Wife

A Novel of the Early Supreme Court

By: Natalie Wexler

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A More Obedient Wife

A Novel of the Early Supreme Court

By: Natalie Wexler

A More Obedient Wife blends fact and fiction to tell the story of two women--married to Supreme Court Justices James Iredell and James Wilson--who find themselves swept up in the events of the federal government's turbulent first decade"--P. [4] of cover.

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0615135161

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Swan and Dragon. Dragon Empire

By: Natalie Yacobson

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Swan and Dragon. Dragon Empire

By: Natalie Yacobson

Princess Rose has fallen prey to magic and intrigue. Now she is a hostage of the golden dragon, who rules the whole empire of magical creatures. The dragon, who had torn to pieces many beauties, for some reason spared her alone. And the young man, whom Rosa mistook for a dragon hunter, himself has dragon habits.

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5042834281

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Laboratory of Deficiency

Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s

By: Natalie Lira

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Laboratory of Deficiency

Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s

By: Natalie Lira

Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the “feebleminded,” justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable members of society from the 1920s through the 1950s. Institutional records document the convergence of ableism and racism in Pacific Colony. Analyzing a vast archive, Natalie Lira reveals how political concerns over Mexican immigration—particularly ideas about the low intelligence, deviant sexuality, and inherent criminality of the “Mexican race”—shaped decisions regarding the treatment and reproductive future of Mexican-origin patients. Laboratory of Deficiency documents the ways Mexican-origin people sought out creative resistance to institutional control and offers insight into how race, disability, and social deviance have been called upon to justify the confinement and reproductive constraint of certain individuals in the name of public health and progress.

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Univ of California Press

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0520355679

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The Third Side

A Double Sided Teen Nove

By: Natalie And Melissa Black

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The Third Side

A Double Sided Teen Nove

By: Natalie And Melissa Black

With intense pain also comes shocking realization. As once again, four average teenagers, Vanessa, Alexandria, Dylan, and Eric, are forcefully kidnapped from their lives and thrust into an alternate world where evil rushes at them from all directions, they have no choice but to battle for their lives and protect each other's. With the help of various unforeseen alliances, the clock races down upon the four as they battle against fate, betrayal, and treachery to save a crumbling kingdom and force justice upon those responsible for its destruction. Yet, will it be twisted love, shaky destinies, or the ever looming fear of death that finally withholds the ultimate goal of returning to the lives they once knew? Only the revelation of truth will lead to victory.

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1477236740

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The Colonel

By: Natalie Edwards

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The Colonel

By: Natalie Edwards

Waimea Bay, North Shore, Oahu. The night sea rages in a Paso Doble wrought from love and war. Light and darkness. Good and evil. Lilly Rose has waited all day with zealous determination to glimpse her angel on the horizon and up close. So she dives into the alchemy of a typhoon-rattled sea to find one Soon rip currents claim her as the deep sea pulls her under its abyss. Overhead, Colonel Skye Worthy soars with his army of angels on this night of reckoning, sent to battle The Raven and emit the light of Zion. But when he sees a light under the sea unexpectedly, he halts his direction and dives into the deep. It’s a divine collision. An angel and a human. Light on light. A moment Skye and Lilly Rose will never forget. Do you want to see the angels? Love finds you when light encroaches upon the darkness. In THE COLONEL, divine collisions orchestrate The King’s love unfurled on the earth to shine His light and defeat The Raven. New Zion is coming. Eternity will reign in endless goodness and perfect love. But every angel and every person must decide whom they want to follow: The King or The Raven. The dueling paradigms of Earth and Heaven paint the backdrop of a love story between Lilly and Skye where light shines, love rises, redemption prevails, and life ignites from The King who seeks to engender a world without evil.

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LifeRich Publishing

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1489743847

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Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making

By: Natalie Chanin

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Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making

By: Natalie Chanin

Designer Natalie Chanin blends embroidery and hand-sewing techniques with her own personal story in this empowering guide for all who love stitching and handcraft Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making mixes lessons in sewing, design, and embroidery with Natalie Chanin's engaging, personal story of the evolution of Alabama Chanin and the indelible mark the techniques she pioneered and the company she founded have made on the sewing and fashion industry. Chapters explore design-related themes—craft, technique, relationship, repeat, and color—through images, instruction, and stories from Chanin about her life, Alabama Chanin, and the evolving view of craft and hand-sewing in the modern world. The book also explores how sewing and embroidery relate to wider concerns of sustainability, community, and women’s empowerment. As makers, we tend to learn different stitches over time without thinking much about how they relate to one another. Embroidery challenges us to go deeper by examining the history of a beloved company and cherished pastime.

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Abrams

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1647002184

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9781647002183

Swan Lake. Dragon Empire

By: Natalie Yacobson

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Swan Lake. Dragon Empire

By: Natalie Yacobson

Queen Diana kept a secret that fell victim to her two daughters. One Odette is the daughter of a mortal king, the other Odile is the daughter of a sorcerer. Both princesses were cursed, forcing them to turn into swans. Brothers in love with princesses want to remove the spell. For love they have to fight with dangerous magical creatures and charms.

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5043280948

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Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song

Folklore in Context

By: Natalie Kononenko

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Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song

Folklore in Context

By: Natalie Kononenko

Ukrainian epic, or dumy, were first recorded from blind mendicant minstrels in the nineteenth century, yet they reflect events dating back to as early as the 1300s. Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song provides new translations in contemporary English of these songs of family strife, war, and human dignity. It also explains the historical events celebrated in epic and other historical songs: fierce battles, rebellion against tyranny, the struggles of captivity, the joys of escape from slavery. Natalie Kononenko’s expert translation and analysis of Ukrainian epics provides a sweeping social history of folklore that is vital to Ukrainian identity. A translation of at least one variant of every known epic is included. Whereas earlier trends in folklore scholarship emphasized genre purity and compartmentalization, Kononenko critically examines the events about which songs were sung. Her emphasis on the lives of ordinary people rather than on leaders reshapes our understanding of how epics were composed and performed. Kononenko’s ground-breaking analysis also illuminates Ukrainian self-understanding and explains how songs preserve and perpetuate historical memory. Scholars interested in epic song, history, and general folklore will benefit from this work. Members of the Ukrainian diaspora will find new appreciation of Ukrainian folklore.

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1487515715

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Songs and tales from the dark continent

the authoritative 1920 classic, recorded from the singing and the sayings of C. Kamba Simango, Ndau tribe, Portuguese East Africa, and Madikane ?ele, Zulu tribe, Natal, Zululand, South Africa

By: Natalie Curtis Burlin

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Songs and tales from the dark continent

the authoritative 1920 classic, recorded from the singing and the sayings of C. Kamba Simango, Ndau tribe, Portuguese East Africa, and Madikane ?ele, Zulu tribe, Natal, Zululand, South Africa

By: Natalie Curtis Burlin

Authentic regional singings and sayings feature folklore from the Ndau tribe of Portuguese East Africa and Zulus of South Africa: labor chants, dances, laments, songs of war, meditation, and love, plus proverbs, legends, fables. Extensive editorial commentary, metrical and literal translations, notes on pronunciation.

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Courier Corporation

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0486420698

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California Calling

A Self-Interrogation

By: Natalie Singer

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California Calling

A Self-Interrogation

By: Natalie Singer

This book split my heart open and reminded me how much immigrants matter, how much we all carry the traces of other worlds. LIDIA YUKNAVITCH, The Chronology of Water California Calling is a lyrical self-interrogation of obsession, emigration, and identity. Natalie Singer’s story opens in a courtroom on a witness stand, where she’s forced to testify in a family breakup that changes the course of her life. At sixteen Natalie emigrates from Montreal and the secrets it holds to the golden promise of the California Bay Area, just as her Jewish ancestors fled Russia and went west for a new life. Through uneasy rituals of high school pep rallies and college sex in boats and the backs of pickups, to a summer tracing a serial killer through the heart of Gold Country, to an eventual journalism career in San Francisco and the deserts of Palm Springs, Natalie aches to forge an American identity. At once an intimately unflinching memoir and a probing examination of the family and cultural myths that shape us, California Calling calls upon history, reportage, witness interrogation tactics, music and pop culture, and the iconography of the West to explore whether we can cure loneliness through landscape. Ultimately, California Calling is a search for a state of belonging.

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0998825727

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9780998825724

Unquenchable!

A Tipsy Quest for the World's Best Bargain Wines

By: Natalie MacLean

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Unquenchable!

A Tipsy Quest for the World's Best Bargain Wines

By: Natalie MacLean

We wine writers tend to be obsessive souls. How else can a person stay fascinated throughout a career with just one drink? Compare us to food writers: Over their lives, they'll encounter thousands of ingredients and ways of combining and cooking them. Wine, by contrast, is just fermented grapes. But it engages our primary senses-smell, taste, feel-in a way that is both hedonistic and cerebral. That's why I've spent the past several years traipsing around the world, visiting wineries, tasting their offerings, and searching for the world's best cheap wines. The narrative is as familiar as Arthur's quest for the grail and as naive as Dr. Seuss's plaintive search for the affirmative in Are You My Mother? With her signature conversational style, Natalie MacLean takes you on a whirlwind journey through the world of wine, searching for great taste at a low cost. By turns confessional-with guilty admissions from a penny-pincher who loves simple pleasures-and spirited, Unquenchable is informed by MacLean's decade-long career as an award-winning wine writer. In this engaging and enlightening book, MacLean recounts her adventures with the most passionate personalities in some of the most gorgeous, off-beat places in the world-from the crazed vintner who explains his philosophy while speeding down the Autobahn to the Sicilian winemakers you don't want to disappoint with your tasting notes. Yet there's plenty to take away from her inspired recommendations for food pairing to lists of favorite value wines and vintners, plus plenty of pointers that will enhance your own drinking pleasure.

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1101558881

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Influenza: A Century of Research

By: Irina Kiseleva,Natalie Larionova

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Influenza: A Century of Research

By: Irina Kiseleva,Natalie Larionova

Influenza is one of the most ancient and intriguing diseases that has been accompanying our civilization for millennia. While mankind has successfully defeated many dangerous influenza infections in the last couple of centuries, influenza control remains a serious problem for public health. A number of influenza vaccines and antiviral compounds have been licensed in recent times. However, the influenza virus is still ahead of us, as it continues to persistently infect humans to this day. Influenza: A Century of Research shows how influenza virology has developed historically and the tremendous knowledge that has been uncovered in the study of influenza. In this monograph, the authors present a historical perspective on influenza, chronologically, with an emphasis on its virology. Chapters cover information about the isolation of the first influenza viruses, substrates, and models for studying influenza, structure, and life cycle of the influenza virus, mechanisms of attenuation and virulence. Chapters progress into the multidisciplinary aspects of influenza research such as influenza virus ecology and the evolutionary origin of epidemic and pandemic influenza viruses. A significant part of the book also covers the description of the prevention and treatment of influenza and reasons that have contributed to insufficient control for influenza. The questions of how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the circulation of seasonal respiratory viruses, and if we can eliminate this virus are also addressed. Influenza: A Century of Research is an informative source of information for a broad range of readers, academic or otherwise, who are interested in knowing more about the disease.

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Bentham Science Publishers

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1681088452

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9781681088457

Shape-Shifting Animals

By: Natalie Lunis

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Shape-Shifting Animals

By: Natalie Lunis

Do some animals really have the power to transform themselves into something else? In fact, such creatures do exist. In this book, young readers will meet eight of these amazing, shape-shifting animals, including a sea creature that can pretend to be a rock, a caterpillar that can rise up like a snake that is about to strike, and a fish that can blow itself up into a big, spiky ball. These animals may take on very different shapes, but they do have one thing in common. They all use their shape-shifting abilities to scare off, escape from, or appear less tasty to their enemies. In other words, their special powers help them survive! Eye-popping photos and clear, simple text bring these one-of-a-kind creatures to vivid life.

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Bearport Publishing

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1627241329

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Animal Hunting and Feeding

By: Natalie Goldstein

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Animal Hunting and Feeding

By: Natalie Goldstein

All animals have to eat, but feeding behavior goes far beyond predators and prey. Animals have a variety of ways to find food. Some sit and wait for food to come to them. Others chase or trap their food. Other animals are scavengers and decomposers, breaking down the leftovers of other animals' meals. Animal Hunting and Feeding explains these various techniques as well as the importance of food chains and food webs.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438126476

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9781438126470

Interviews From the Fairy Realm

By: Natalie Hajjar,Susan Hajjar

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Interviews From the Fairy Realm

By: Natalie Hajjar,Susan Hajjar

★A BOOK THAT BRINGS YOU CLOSER TO THE REAL WORLD OF FAIRIES★ Since 2004, sisters Natalie and Susan Hajjar have had an extraordinary connection with a group of Elves known as the Elves of Fyn. Growing up, both sisters felt connected to other worlds, but neither gave the fairy realm or Elves much thought until they burst into their lives, making their presence known through a series of showy events and mischief. In this fascinating book, you will learn how the sisters went from not even thinking about fairies, to knowing about them in great detail. You will also get to know Mr. E, the kind and generous spokesperson for the Elves of Fyn, who is an important contributor to the book. After discovering how much misinformation existed about the fairy realm and those who live there, the sisters and Mr. E wanted to let the fae residents speak for themselves through Susan’s ability to channel. In this book, fourteen fae beings from beyond our world came forward to speak of their lives and their people. With the perfect combination of Susan’s channeling, Natalie’s interviews, and Mr. E’s insight, this book creates an amazingly accurate window into their world. It goes beyond all the mystique and falsehoods and offers a rare glimpse into the fascinating world of real fairies!

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Wild Wisdom Media

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