A Single Swallow

• Author : Zhang Ling
• Publisher : AmazonCrossing
• Release : 15 September 2020

The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling's epic and intimate novel about the devastation of war, forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring power of love. On the day of the historic 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast--in which Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender to the Allied forces, bringing an end to World War II--three men, flush with jubilation, made a pact. After their deaths, each year on the anniversary of the broadcast, their souls would return to the Chinese village of

• Author : Horatio Clare
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 02 April 2009

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year. But for Horatio Clare, writer and birdwatcher, it is the expedition of a lifetime. Along the way he discovers old empires and modern tribes, a witch-doctor's recipe for stewed swallow,

• Author : Jeannette D. Hoit, Gary Weismer,Brad Story
• Publisher : Plural Publishing
• Release : 01 February 2021

This comprehensive textbook for undergraduate-level anatomy and physiology courses in communication sciences and disorders programs is neither oversimplified nor excessively detailed. The book is written with clinical endpoints in mind, and only those topics that are ultimately important to understanding, evaluating, and managing clients with speech, hearing, and swallowing disorders are covered. Drawing on material from the best-selling Preclinical Speech Science: Anatomy, Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception, Third Edition textbook (Hixon, Weismer, & Hoit, 2020), the authors have provided chapters that cover basic

• Author : Thomas J. Hixon,Gary Weismer,Jeannette D. Hoit
• Publisher : Plural Publishing
• Release : 31 August 2018

Preclinical Speech Science: Anatomy, Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception, Third Edition is a high-quality text for undergraduate and graduate courses in speech and hearing science. Written in a user-friendly style by distinguished scientists/clinicians who have taught the course to thousands of students at premier academic programs, it is the text of choice for instructors and students. Additionally, it is applicable to a broad range of courses that cover the anatomy and physiology of speech production, speech acoustics, and swallowing as

• Author : Albert L. Baert
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 20 December 2007

The aim of this comprehensive encyclopedia is to provide detailed information on diagnostic radiology contributing to the broad field of imaging. The wide range of entries in the Encyclopedia of Diagnostic Imaging are written by leading experts in the field. They will provide basic and clinical scientists in academia, practice, as well as industry, with valuable information about the field of diagnostic imaging, but also people in related fields, students, teachers, and interested laypeople will benefit from the important and

• Author : Rebecca S. Duerr,Laurie J. Gage
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 28 April 2020

This book presents a detailed guide to hand-rearing techniques for raising young birds, providing complete coverage of a wide variety of avian species and taxonomic groups for all avian care professionals. Chapters are written by expert rehabilitation, aviculture, and zoo professionals, and include useful references and bibliographies for further reading and research. Each chapter provides valuable information on appropriate intervention, housing, feeding, and care. Hand-Rearing Birds, Second Edition presents 50 chapters, including 12 new chapters on species or groups of species not

• Author : George Allan
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 01 January 1990

Allan (philosophy, Dickinson College, and author of The importances of the past) is concerned with the nature of social value: how values emerge and how they manage to gain the authority they have over the beliefs and practices of generation after generation of people. In this work he focuses on human effort, concrete action, realization of the future through creative activities--as beginning points for the search for a foundation to values. Paper edition (unseen by Book News), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by

• Author : Roger D. Newman,Julie M. Nightingale
• Publisher : Plural Publishing
• Release : 01 June 2012

• Author : Berwickshire Naturalists' Club
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 1882

• Author : M. Frier,A C Perkins
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 12 April 2002

This text defines the role and scope of nuclear medicine imaging techniques (gamma scintigraphy) in pharmaceutical research, giving information from clinical trial data.

• Author : Stephen Moss
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 29 October 2020

From the bestselling author of The Robin, The Wren and The Twelve Birds of Christmas. With around 700,000 breeding pairs, the swallow is one of the most familiar birds in Britain. Though we consider the swallow to be 'our' bird, we also share this beloved creature with millions of others across the globe. Whilst we see it on a daily basis for half the year, the swallow then flies south to Africa, living on only in our memory in the long,

• Author : Charles R. Brown,Mary Bomberger Brown
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 01 July 1996

Many animal species live and breed in colonies. Although biologists have documented numerous costs and benefits of group living, such as increased competition for limited resources and more pairs of eyes to watch for predators, they often still do not agree on why coloniality evolved in the first place. Drawing on their twelve-year study of a population of cliff swallows in Nebraska, the Browns investigate twenty-six social and ecological costs and benefits of coloniality, many never before addressed in a

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 2022

• Author : Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 1885

Contains it's Proceedings.

• Author : Susan M. Gass,Larry Selinker
• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• Release : 29 October 1992

The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from its early role within a Contrastive Analysis framework to its current position within Universal Grammar. The introduction presents a continuum of thought starting from the late 70s, a time in which major rethinking in the field regarding the