Kingfisher

Kingfisher
Author: Patricia A. McKillip
Publsiher: Ace
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780425271766

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"A young man comes of age amid family secrets and revelations, and transformative magic."--Provided by publisher.

Fat City

Fat City
Author: Leonard Gardner
Publsiher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781590178935

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Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses obscured by untrimmed shrubs and black walnut trees. When two men meet in the ring -- the retired boxer Billy Tully and the newcomer Ernie Munger - their brief bout sets into motion their hidden fates, initiating young Ernie into the company of men and luring Tully back into training. In a dispassionate and composed voice, Gardner narrates their swings of fortune, and the plodding optimism of their manager Ruben Luna, as he watches the most promising boys one by one succumb to some undefined weakness; still, "There was always someone who wanted to fight."

The Kingfisher Book of Children s Poetry

The Kingfisher Book of Children s Poetry
Author: Michael Rosen
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781856979092

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An illustrated collection of poems, ballads, limericks, riddles in rhyme, and nonsense verse.

The Kingfisher Book of Mythology

The Kingfisher Book of Mythology
Author: David Bellingham
Publsiher: Hachette Book Group
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0753453177

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The great myths and legends of the ancient world are explained in this unique and wide-ranging reference with a glossary and more than 600 mythical characters. Full-color illustrations.

A Policy Travelogue

A Policy Travelogue
Author: Catherine Kingfisher
Publsiher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2013-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781782380061

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An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Different actors, including not only policy élites but also providers and recipients, engage with it in light of their own resources and knowledge. Drawing on two analytic frameworks of the contemporary anthropology of policy-translation and assemblage-Kingfisher situates policy as an artifact and architect of cultural meaning, as well as a site of power struggles. All points of engagement with policy are approached as sites of policy production that serve to transform it as well as reproduce it. As such, A Policy Travelogue provides an antidote to theorizations of policy as a-cultural, rational, and straightforwardly technical.

Kingfisher Days

Kingfisher Days
Author: Susan Coyne
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2004
Genre: Drama
ISBN: UCSC:32106017886745

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Kingfisher

Kingfisher
Author: Ildiko Szabo
Publsiher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-09-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781789141726

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Kingfishers are a stunning sight to behold. The dash and verve of these cosmopolitan birds has been admired for millennia, appearing in creation myths, imperial regalia, and cultural iconography, and they were once valued as highly as gold. Artists used their iridescent feathers in Tian-tsui, an iconic style of Chinese fine art, for more than 2,400 years. The magnificent temples at Angkor Wat in Cambodia owe their existence in part to the great wealth generated by the live kingfisher trade from the Indochina Peninsula. As well, as a muse, kingfishers have influenced philosophers, playwrights, and artists, from the Roman poet Ovid to Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, and others, while more recently, bio-mimicry engineers have turned to kingfishers for inspiration. This lavishly illustrated book delves into the origins and diversity of the more than 120 species of kingfishers, from the burly kookaburras to the diminutive birds that daringly pluck spiders off webs, defining their characteristics, their differences, their lifestyles, and their cultural significance around the world.

The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
Author: Kingfisher
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0753446995

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History leaps from the page in this completely revised and updated edition of the critically acclaimed Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. From man's earliest history right through to the technological and social revolutions of the current day, this trusted reference provides a one-stop source for research, and is the perfect companion to any study of world history. The encyclopedia is organized chronologically and then thematically within each time period. A timeline runs across the top of each page for context. Each section includes biographies of important people and key features on the art, architecture, and technology of the period. A brand new chapter details modern-day events, such as the fight for equality, the threat of climate change, the COVID-19 crisis, and space exploration and discoveries.With more than 2,000 full-colour illustrations, photographs, and source materials, as well as research-friendly back matter and index, this encyclopedia provides a beautiful, authoritative reference that is essential for any home, school, or library.