Rhinoceroses

This book looks into the forces at work that have undermined critical thinking and sound intellectual inquiry in the world of public affairs in Canada, have fostered reductive perspectives and …

characters being transformed suddenly into rhinoceroses. De Rougemont recalls that he and Ionesco were …

This book looks into the forces at work that have undermined critical thinking and sound intellectual inquiry in the world of public affairs in Canada, have fostered reductive perspectives and …

characters being transformed suddenly into rhinoceroses. De Rougemont recalls that he and Ionesco were …

A rollicking exploration of the history and future of our favorite foods When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into …

burning oil. Paintings of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, horses, bison and other animals adorn the …

Daniel Cowper's debut poetry collection, Grotesque Tenderness, speaks for an unrooted age, for unrooted people. In these poems, city-dwellers long to ally themselves with some sympathetic culture or the evolutionary …

living: whales learn whalesong from each other. Rhinoceroses court with gifts of gazelle racks hooked on …

This book is a non-fiction biography of Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century Jesuit, scientist and polymath. He was one of the modern world's first scientific celebrities. His interests ranged from hieroglyphics …

readers that forests in China were filled with rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, and apes. Of course, Kircher …

In Bed with the Word addresses questions such as: When people want to pray, to worship, to marry or bury, why do they reach for a book? What is it …

Whigs and Tories, communists, socialists, and rhinoceroses. This young Trinidadian girl is plunged into …

In the same decision (decision XII/18, paragraph 13), the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary, working with the Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW), to prepare technical …

more than two hundred pachyderms (elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses) in Bouba Ndjida. The illegal …

work that focuses on law and poetry), will relish the rich detail and odd tales of historical rhinoceroses and the people who have kept, shown, and traded in them, as depicted using a range of poetic techniques …

to £16 Leopards £20; Lions £100; Tigers £300 rhinoceroses run higher but often die in transit the skulls … Sudan teams of hunters, trappers everywhere sold rhinoceroses to the London and Bronx Zoos sold P.T. Barnum … prodigious proportions one of the largest black rhinoceroses ever seen huge monster leviathan rhinoceros … calf was found They happened upon two more rhinoceroses The King killed the first dead with one barrel … efforts greatest hunted increase is more of our rhinoceroses since southern this time than their 14,000 …

Rivers can be extraordinarily powerful, and not just because of their fast-flowing currents. They can make civilizations rise or crumble, divide cultures or link them together, and even provide crucial …

grasslands roamed by mammoths, hippopotamuses, and rhinoceroses. On the day they left their tracks in the mud … stegodons (extinct elephant relatives), deer, rhinoceroses, and water buffalo roamed the banks, giant crocodiles … ago, Neanderthals hunted woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses in the open tundra beside the Rhine, and sheltered …

Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twentieth-century modernism. His anti-authoritarian tendencies put him at odds with many contemporaries-aesthetically and politically. However, thanks …

mad and attacked villages.13 Also tigers and rhinoceroses. But the elephants caused him the most regret …