The Impossible Zoo

Author: Leo Ruickbie
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472136454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383

Book Description
'Leo Ruickbie's impeccably-written The Impossible Zoo is a menagerie like no other, as its exotic inhabitants are fabulous in every sense of the word. So for anyone who has ever wished that dragons and unicorns were real, for anyone who believes that they are, and for anyone who peruses bestiaries with unbridled joy, this magical, mystical, and truly memorable book is definitely for you - and for me!' Dr Karl Shuker, author of A Manifestation of Monsters HERE BE DRAGONS! Here you will find the things that once made the woods wild and the nights to be feared; that made ancient map-makers write, 'Here be Dragons'. The Impossible Zoo is a biology of the supernatural - a study of the life of things that never lived. This world of mermaids and unicorns, now confined to fantasy, but once believed to exist, is a world of the imagination that still affects us today. Wonderfully illustrated throughout, it also provides sources as a guide to further study and exploration. 'For anyone who has ever wished that dragons and unicorns were real, this magical, mystical and truly memorable book is definitely for you - and for me!' Dr Karl Shuker, author of A Manifestation of Monsters 'Ruickbie's level of scholarship is impressive and he presents his conclusions with great literary skill in readable and attractive prose. The results are truly fascinating. Very highly recommended.' Revd Lionel Fanthorpe, FRSA, author and President of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena

The Zoo of Impossible Animals

Author: Rob Crisell
Publisher: de Portola Press
ISBN: 9780692473634
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
After they find a strange monkey who only eats ink, Jake Jinks and his sister Miranda get a job at the Zoo of Impossible Animals--a top-secret facility dedicated to capturing apparently mythical and undeniably dangerous animals called "cryptids." Soon they find themselves running for their lives from some rogue cryptids and a gang of bad guys.

The Impossible Sleepover

Author: amy sharp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Maggie the rhino knows ALL about sleepovers.?You play your favorite games.You eat your favorite food.You stay up all night.?But Maggie doesn't know ALL about Daisy the zebra and Inez the oryx, the new-to-the-zoo animals coming for a visit. They don't look or sound anything like Maggie. Then there's shouting and stomping, and a sleepover starts to seem impossible! ?Can Maggie figure out what they have in common and save the sleepover or is everyone headed home??This almost totally true story is a celebration of how we can be entirely different and exactly the same.

All the Impossible Things

Author: Lindsay Lackey
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 125020285X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
A bit of magic, a sprinkling of adventure, and a whole lot of heart collide in All the Impossible Things, Lindsay Lackey's extraordinary middle-grade novel about a young girl navigating the foster care system in search of where she belongs. "Wise and wondrous, this is truly a novel to cherish.” —Katherine Applegate, New York Times–bestselling author of Wishtree An Indies Introduce Selection Red’s inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother. Whenever Ruby “Red” Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up. And being placed in foster care, moving from family to family, tends to keep her skies stormy. Red knows she has to learn to control it, but can’t figure out how. This time, the wind blows Red into the home of the Grooves, a quirky couple who run a petting zoo, complete with a dancing donkey and a giant tortoise. With their own curious gifts, Celine and Jackson Groove seem to fit like a puzzle piece into Red’s heart. But just when Red starts to settle into her new life, a fresh storm rolls in, one she knows all too well: her mother. For so long, Red has longed to have her mom back in her life, and she’s quickly swept up in the vortex of her mother’s chaos. Now Red must discover the possible in the impossible if she wants to overcome her own tornadoes and find the family she needs.

Zoo Station

Author: Christiane F.
Publisher: Zest Books ™
ISBN: 1541582187
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
This incredible autobiography of Christiane F. provides a vivid portrait of teen friendship, drug abuse, and alienation in and around Berlin's notorious Zoo Station. Christiane's rapid descent into heroin abuse and prostitution is shocking, but the boredom, longing for acceptance, thrilling risks, and even her musical obsessions are familiar to everyone. Previously published in Germany and the US to critical acclaim, Zest's new translation includes original photographs of Christiane and her friends.

The Human Zoo

Author: Kasey Rocazella
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578798486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
Jax Cooper lives a comfortable life, maybe too comfortable. Born into a powerful family. Jax is the son of the largest mogul in the world. As a journalist for The Globe, he takes on a unique, self-assigned piece: to investigate his father's empire, The Human Zoo. Disguised as one of the animals and stripped of his identity, wealth, and eugenic luxuries, Jax is challenged by what it means to be human when he meets Priya.Born into the zoo's captivity, Priya has only known two things; she does not belong here, and she will do anything to escape, but freedom always seemed impossible until an unusual new animal, Jax, arrives.A gripping investigation turned life changing, Jax is forced to make a decision. Will he risk dismantling society by exposing who-or what-being an animal means...or succumb to his only living protection, his family's empire?

The Backyard Zoo

Author: Daniel Mannix
Publisher: eNet Press
ISBN: 1618869655
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
A host of exceptional and inspiring stories about the wild animals collected and studied by a small boy in rural Pennsylvania. Daniel Mannix dazzles with the joy and humor and havoc his animals created while burrowing, flying, spraying, chewing, pecking, outwitting, and inevitably stealing the hearts of the boy, his family, and the household staff who put up with them.

Zoo and Aquarium History

Author: Vernon N. Kisling, Jr
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000585336
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
Wild animals have been housed in zoos and aquariums for 5,000 years, fascinating people living in virtually every society. Today, these institutions are at a new milestone in their history. This second edition of Zoo and Aquarium History takes the reader on a journey through the transition of private collections to menageries, to zoos, then zoological gardens, and more recently conservation centers and sanctuaries. Under the direction of Vernon N. Kisling, an expert in zoo history, an international team of authors has thoroughly updated the only comprehensive, global history of animal collections, menageries, zoos, and aquariums. The resulting book documents the continuum of efforts in maintaining wild animal collections from ancient civilizations through today, explaining how modern zoos have developed their mission statements around the core aims of conservation, education, research and recreation. This new edition pulls together regional information, including new chapters on zoological gardens of Canada, Latin America, China, Israel, the Middle East, and New Zealand, along with the cultural aspects of each region to provide a foundation upon which further research can be based. It presents a chronological listing of the world's zoos and aquariums and features many never-before published photographs. Sidebars present supplementary information on pertinent personalities, events, and wildlife conservation issues. The original Appendix has been expanded to include over 1,200 zoos and aquariums, providing an invaluable resource. This is an extensive, chronological introduction to the subject, highlighting the published and archival resources for those who want to know more.

Zoos in Postmodernism

Author: Stephen Spotte
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 083864094X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
"The putative mission of zoos - education and conservation - yield doubtful results, education because its information relies on description and exposition instead of narrative, conservation because only a few large, showy vertebrates receive the most effort. By controlling reproduction and restricting evolution, zoos reduce animals to artifacts - unattached ecological fragments - and ultimately revoke their ontological status as part of the natural world." "Spotte's argument assumes manifestations that impinge on contemporary theories of art, film, literature, photography, and science, the whole anchored securely by the twin poles of semiotics and simulation. This willingness to grapple with high-level theory - and to take intellectual risks - sets Zoos in Postmodernism apart from other treatments of zoos in contemporary western literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Zoo

Author: Eric Baratay
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861892089
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
Wild animals have fascinated human observers since time immemorial. The story of our interest in collecting, classifying and dominating Nature so that its inner workings could be understood also looms large in the history of science, and thus it is surprising that the history of menageries, zoological gardens and the zoo as we know it today has been so poorly documented. This gap is addressed by Zoo, a comprehensive history of the zoo in the Western world.