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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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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!).