![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on the experiences of various wolf programs throughout the country, including New England, the Northern Rockies, Upper-Midwest, Southwest, and Yellowstone National Park, it documents how wolves are often used as a political symbol and surrogate for a number of socially significant policy issues. This article examines the political cultural context and sociopolitical dimensions of wolf management and restoration in the United States. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. ![]()
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The intriguing title was spelt out along the top in bold red capitals. ![]() Three large stepping stones led across the water, where, in the foreground, a kingfisher waited on an overhanging branch. On the cover of my Grafton Paperback edition, an Anglo-Saxon warrior-type leant on a sword, next to a thickly wooded stream. I bought a copy from a small bookshop on Bristol’s Gloucester Road, not far from our house. I was 15 when I first read Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood, a couple of years after it had come out. All of them repeat survivors of successive culls and clear-outs and each featuring a particular landscape or setting at the heart of the story. 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This favor inadvertently drags Merit and Ethan into the fray when they are forced to stop an assassination attempt at ball hosted by a mysterious businessman whose end game may spell disaster for them all.ĭark Debt, the eleventh installment in Neill’s Chicagoland Vampire series, starts out with a saucy dramatic unveiling as Neill reintroduces a painful reminder from Ethan’s past. Morgan, the master of Navarre, is shocked to learn the previous Master left the house in massive debt to The Circle, a shadow mafia group who want a favor in return for an extension on the loans. ![]() As Merit and Ethan race to discover exactly what Balthazar wants, the Navarre house is experiencing its own troubles. The past comes back to haunt Ethan when his maker, Balthazar, shows up in Chicago. Merit and Ethan are back and their drama is as intense as ever. Dark Debt (Chicagoland Vampires, # 11) by Chloe Neillįavorite Quote: The stars are always shining even if we can’t see them. ![]() ![]() ![]() well, all four of them are actually pretty peachy. ![]() the bloodthirsty youngest girl was my predictable favorite of the four, but I also wouldn't mind having fearless and slightly condescending oldest-sister Jane as a child either. they get various wishes and go on various adventures including seeing pirates, cannibals, Antarctica, and what it's like to be a few years older and going on a date with a couple pretentious twits. 4 siblings spend a summer at a lake, A MAGIC LAKE, the magic courtesy of a grouchy magic turtle. Written in 1957 but set several decades earlier, this fun little trifle is Eager all over. you root your adventures in prosaic reality but you manage to make prosaic reality not bad, not bad at all, its own sort of adventure. you get kids and you don't bring a lot of sentimentality to the table either you capture the cheerfulness & the mood swings & the sweetness & a little bit of the sour as well. a family man but not one of those mawkish mewling types who always seem to be about to burst into tears when they talk about their fam. Oh, Edward Eager, you really seem like a swell guy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sign up for weekly tips and tricks on mindful creative living at. ![]() She is the creator of over a dozen fiction and nonfiction books, including Eat Your Rocks, Croc!, Shark Lady, Pink is for Blobfish, the Elements of Genius middle grade series, and the graphic novel series, Bunbun & Bonbon. Sign up for weekly tips and tricks on mindful creative living at Find her on Twitter and on Instagram Keating is an award-winning author, cartoonist, and zoologist, whose work has been featured in the New York Times, CBC, Buzzfeed, Parents Magazine, and more. ![]() Find her on Twitter and on Instagram Jess Keating is an award-winning author, cartoonist, and zoologist, whose work has been featured in the New York Times, CBC, Buzzfeed, Parents Magazine, and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Underland Chronicles, I’d examined the idea of an unjust war developing into a just war because of greed, xenophobia and longstanding hatreds. I knew I wanted to continue to explore writing about just-war theory for young audiences. I had been grappling with another story that just couldn’t get any air under its wings. At the time, I was completing the fifth book in The Underland Chronicles and my brain was shifting to whatever the next project would be. Suzanne Collins: Yes, I was flipping through the channels one night between reality television programs and actual footage of the Iraq War, when the idea came to me. An excerpt from that interview, including potential spoilers, is below, condensed and edited for clarity and length.ĭavid Levithan: Let’s start at the origin moment for “The Hunger Games.” You were flipping channels one night. In a 10th anniversary edition of the book, which hits stores this month, David Levithan, a vice president and publisher at Scholastic Press, interviewed Collins. The books have spawned four record-breaking films and many Katniss Halloween costumes. ![]() The series has more than 100 million copies in print worldwide, and spent more than 260 consecutive weeks on The Times best-seller list. ![]() ![]() It is the first in a trilogy by the same name that includes “Catching Fire” (2009) and “Mockingjay” (2010). “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins, came out in 2008. ![]() |