![]() ![]() In An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar, big-cat expert Alan Rabinowitz shares his own personal journey to conserve a species that, despite its past resilience, is now on a slide toward extinction if something is not done to preserve the pathways it prowls through an ever-changing, ever-shifting landscape dominated by humans. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable spirit so strong, the jaguar has shaped indigenous cultures and the beliefs of early civilizations on two continents. The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The Underground Railway of the Jaguar.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland’s soul finds safe harbor. ![]() But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray.įollow Brother Zachariah and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market’s dark dealing and festival, Anna Lightwood’s doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild’s great sin and Tessa Gray plunged into a world war. ![]() As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters. There the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks and vampires. A collection of all eight Ghosts of the Shadow Market stories, along with two brand new ones, about characters from Cassandra Clare’s internationally bestselling Shadowhunters series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Almost identical polyphonic traditions can be found in places sometimes thousands of kilometers apart. ![]() ![]() Outsiders describe the narrow intervals of these songs as being «maximally rough», while the singers themselves experience their performance as smooth, beautiful and pleasant. This study represents a thorough investigation of a polyphonic vocal village tradition in Bistritsa, Bulgaria. Gerald Florian Messner, an internationally renowned ethnomusicologist, has conducted extensive fieldwork in the areas of ritual and primary performance and different traditional singing styles in South-Eastern Europe, Oceania and Indonesia.īook Description Originalhardcover. The results are stunning and ever more relevant – and not just for ethnomusicologists: The babi or grannies of Bistritsa and their songs have been inscribed on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind in 2008. This inquiry is carried out within a very broad and comparative context, whereby historical sources, the origin of different constituents and etymologies as well as electronic sound analysis are taken into account. Synopsis: This study represents a thorough investigation of a polyphonic vocal village tradition in Bistritsa, Bulgaria. ![]() ![]() TW: gun violence, implied suicide, violence, gore, human death (including murder), animal death, medical scenes But as rebellion seethes and as Jetta meets a young smuggler, she will face truths and decisions that she never imagined-and safety will never seem so far away. Because seeing spirits is not the only thing that plagues Jetta. Her skill and fame are her family’s way to earn a spot aboard the royal ship to Aquitan, where shadow plays are the latest rage, and where rumor has it the Mad King has a spring that cures his ills. But the old ways are forbidden ever since the colonial army conquered their country, so Jetta must never show never tell. In truth, Jetta can see the souls of the recently departed and bind them to the puppets with her blood. With Jetta behind the scrim, their puppets seem to move without string or stick a trade secret, they say. ![]() ![]() Jetta’s family is famed as the most talented troupe of shadow players in the land. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I feel like that now: tired of the Me I've always been, tired of making the same mistakes, repetitively stumbling after the same small ego strokes, being caught in the same loops of anxiety and defensiveness. “You know that feeling at the end of the day, when the anxiety of that-which-I-must-do falls away and, for maybe the first time that day, you see, with some clarity, the people you love and the ways you have, during that day, slightly ignored them, turned away from them to get back to what you were doing, blurted out some mildly hurtful thing, projected, instead of the deep love you really feel, a surge of defensiveness or self-protection or suspicion? That moment when you think, Oh God, what have I done with this day? And what am I doing with my life? And how must I change to avoid catastrophic end-of-life regrets? ![]() ![]() ![]() The doula is there to help you make good decisions. She is trained and experienced in providing emotional support, physical comfort, and nonclinical advice. She is on call for you, arrives at your house or hospital when you need her, and remains with you continuously until after the baby is born. The birth doula is a positive development in maternity care. Learn how the hospital functions and which entrances you should use during the day and at night. ![]() ![]() Take a tour of the hospital maternity area, including the triage room, birthing rooms, waiting room, nursery, kitchen, and postpartum rooms. The mother may want you to play a role in the birth, or she may prefer a more natural birth.Īs a birth partner, you may experience many different situations and feelings. The role of the birth partner varies according to the personal factors and the nature of the partner’s relationship with the mother. It will help you work well with the mother during labor and childbirth. Insights from Chapter 2īefore labor starts, you should do everything on this list to prepare yourself and your partner. You can prepare for your role through introspection, discussions with the pregnant mother, gathering information, and practicing comfort measures. Your role as birth partner begins before the mother is in labor. Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 1 ![]() Insights on Penny Simkin's The Birth Partner Contents ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Dan Simmons has come through again, returning from his intellectual and corporeal wanderings to his science-fictional roots with the novel Ilium. His output is so prodigious one imagines him married to his word processor a la Asimov yet unlike Asimov he finds time to raise children and travel the world. One of my all-time favorite short stories called “Eyes I Dare Not Meet In Dreams” which he later expanded into the novel The Hollow Man. In fact, Simmons' novel called The Crook Factory features Hemingway as a character. His salt and pepper beard and prophetic squint makes you think of Hemingway had that salty old dog stayed home from Africa and become a professor of English. And if that isn't intimidation enough, he's a handsome devil too. Even after a career that spans 19 years, 23 novels and collections, and about a zillion short stories and articles, his gift for invention is unpredictable, seemingly superhuman and limitless. ( Jump down to see more reviews of this author's novels )ĭan Simmons is a writer who seems unable to limit himself to a particular niche or genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Here,” she said, and disappeared in a rustle of skirts. At once, she detached the infant from her person and pushed him into William’s arms. On July 16, 2022, I released a new excerpt (aka “Daily Lines”) from Book Ten in my Outlander series of novels:Ī piercing scream stopped Brianna in mid-word. Also as a (wonderful!) audiobook, narrated by the fabulous Jeff Woodman.Ĭlick here to visit my webpage for “A Fugitive Green.” Buy links are available to purchase this ebook or audio version via pull-down menus there. IS NOW AVAILABLE AS A STANDALONE E-BOOK in Kindle, Nook and Apple’s iBookstore formats. Now some of the novellas from that collection are being released as standalone e-books, starting with this one, which… I wrote “A Fugitive Green” for inclusion in the collection of my short(er) fiction titled SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL, first published in 2017. “A Fugitive Green” – Standalone Ebook and Audiobook! So is the OUTLANDER PREQUEL (BLOOD OF MY BLOOD)! ![]() ![]() ![]() The author’s father–who worked as a type compositor with the BELFAST TELEGRAPH, and whose favorite books were westerns–is the person Sam McBratney credits for giving him his love of the English language. “But, as the frog trapped in the milk discovered, if you keep going, sometimes you find yourself walking on cream cheese.” Where does Sam McBratney get his inspiration? “I told my children stories when they were young,” he says, “so when I write I try to think of what they would have liked.” But there may be another source guiding his writing as well. “This is not the sort of thing you expect when most of your books have been remaindered,” the author admits. The fifty-seventh book of Sam McBratney’s career, and his first book with Candlewick Press, was the much-loved GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU, which has sold an astonishing 15 million copies worldwide, and is available in 37 languages. But he continued writing for a more-personal reason: “the act of imagining simply makes me feel good,” he says. ![]() He started writing children’s books when he was a teacher in his thirties, with the aim of helping out students who had trouble reading. Sam McBratney Author of Guess How Much I Love You pdf Book was born in 1943. ![]() ![]() His eyes were open, but fixed unseeing on the thatched roof. She steeled herself, tied the crickets up in a cloth, and put them in her pocket for later. The thought of that nutty, crunchy taste made her mouth water. She paused when she found a handful of crickets. She knocked the lizard’s head on a rock and held it between her knees while she checked the other traps. The sight of it immediately drove all thoughts of porridge from the girl’s head. Now her woven trap held a prize anyone would want: a lizard as long as her forearm. She’d always had clever hands, and back when such things had mattered, her basket-weaving had been much praised. 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