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(0)Diane Ackerman
Author
Language
English
Description
The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts....
Author
Language
English
Description
In this landmark book, Ackerman confronts the unprecedented reality that one prodigiously intelligent and meddlesome creature, Homo sapiens, is now the dominant force shaping the future of planet Earth and takes her readers on an exhilarating journey through this new reality, introducing many of the people and ideas now creating -- perhaps saving -- our future and that of our fellow creatures.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawn-drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping. As a patient and learned observer of animal and human physiology and behavior, she introduces us to varieties of bird music and other signs of avian intelligence, while she herself "migrates" from...
Author
Series
Next! volume 71
Pub. Date
2000[min 89]
Edition
Chu ban.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Ben shu fen shi zhang:shen xi, Shu zui, Shen sheng de jing yu, Shen ru jue jing, Dang qian de fu yin, Chuang zao de xin ling, Tian zhen de yi shi, Da zi ran de zhi liao li liang, Cai se shen chu kong jian he hui xing zhi ye.
11) Animal sense
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems that tells how such animals as alligators, bats, penguins, bumble bees, and skunks use their different senses.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance....
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