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Birds and People: A Book Review

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and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. I found this use of ‘regular people’s’ stories initially disjointing; it threw my librarian concept of a reference book out of whack. But, this is not a reference book in the classic sense. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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Welcome Home Mama & Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldiers Beloved Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

Pets In Iraq – Excerpt from Mama & Boris. So when Peter calls and excitedly tells us stories about a small pack of five dogs that has started coming around the base—a mother and her four pups—I laugh and think, of course he has pets in Iraq. Please refer to the finished book for accuracy.

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“Birds of Cyprus” field guide review

10,000 Birds

His work in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey remains inspirational to researchers throughout the region. The book ends with References, the Checklist as noted above and the Index. And my first impression is: Wow! Colin Richardson is an ornithologist with a particular interest in bird migration in the Middle East.

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

I’ll refer you to Charlie’s impassioned essay against game hunting again, and you can see what I’m talking about. The Iraq War was a demonstration of the most dangerous and beguiling aspect of the should – the belief that what should be is so obvious that a nudge will make it so.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Example: A reference to "still undemocratic Iraq" makes the assertion that eventually Iraq will be democratic. Using the human-appropriate relative pronoun "who" to refer to an animal is a planted assertion that animals should be considered in the same way that humans are considered.

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