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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand). This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. Simon Baron-Cohen, cousin to the comedian. Seriously, this book is crying out for a movie treatment!).

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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. The 300 stories enhance the thousands, maybe millions of facts Cocker has compiled, creating a volume that speaks to a collective human experience that is rooted in both poetry and science. Cocker focuses on the love-hate relationship we have with raptors.

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