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  • Saplings and Spades

    A Woodland Returns

    by David Parkins ...
    As a young boy, David witnessed bulldozers obliterate a forest for a bypass. Decades later, he resolved to replace the annihilated trees with another wood. Starting from nothing, he set about the task. It was not easy; there was vastly more to woodland establishment than planting saplings. Writing informally, David recalls the triumphs and disasters of his undertaking. Success was hard-won and ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

    by David Parkin ...
    Series Book 19 - Encounters
    This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author’s thinking. The volume makes the argument that language and other forms of communication involve semiotic ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward

    by David Parkin ...
    This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa

    Studies Presented and Discussed at the Twelfth International African Seminar, Lusaka, September 1972

    Edited by David Parkin ...
    Series series African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
    Originally published in 1975, the studies in this volume examine the range of factors which mediate the development of social processes in both town and country: as well as migration there is the ebb and flow of beliefs, ideologies and educational and occupational opportunities. It considers the fundamental economic and political bases of migrations in the form of colonialism or multi-national ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Gunner

    Hurricane Horse

    by Judy Andrekson ...
    Illustrated by David Parkins ...
    Series Book 1 - True Horse Stories
    Each book in the True Horse Stories focuses on a contemporary horse from a different part of the world, and each animal is, in his or her own way, a hero.PBJ Decks Smokin Gun (Gunner) is an American Paint Horse, one of the many of Heather Lott Goodwin's herd, and a valuable show animal that won the World Championship Paint Horse title. When Hurricane Katrina passed over the Goodwin property, it ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Going Up!

    Elisha Otis's Trip to the Top

    by Monica Kulling ...
    Illustrated by David Parkins ...
    Series Book 4 - Great Idea Series
    This is the fourth book in Tundra's Great Idea Series of biographies for young readers. The story behind the invention of the elevator is one that all young children can relate to! The previous books in the series have been well reviewed, and this new book will be equally compelling.A short, fully illustrated biography in the award-winning GREAT IDEA SERIES, about the man who invented the elevator ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Little Squire

    The Jumping Pony

    by Judy Andrekson ...
    Illustrated by David Parkins ...
    Series Book 5 - True Horse Stories
    Little Squire was born in an Irish meadow on an early spring day. The colt was beautifully formed with strong, straight legs and a pretty head. But due to his small size, it was unlikely he would be more than a nice child’s riding pony. By the following spring, the yearling was separated from his mother and turned out to pasture with the other weanlings. Little Squire wasn’t happy to be away from ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Miskeen

    The Dancing Horse

    by Judy Andrekson ...
    Illustrated by David Parkins ...
    Series Book 3 - True Horse Stories
    Miskeen was born in obscurity on a Russian farm, sold to a traveling circus, and earned a reputation performing in small towns in the 1980s. He was schooled first as a liberty (rider-less) horse and then as a “dancing” (dressage) performer. Dancing was what he did best, and he was often observed trotting on the spot whenever he heard music. He matured into a magnificent, highly trained and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • JB Andrew

    Mustang Magic

    by Judy Andrekson ...
    Illustrated by David Parkins ...
    Series Book 2 - True Horse Stories
    He was born, wild and free, in the vast mountainous scrublands of Nevada. Until he was a year old, no human hand touched him, though he knew something of the danger people represented to the herd. But one fateful day, the herd was chased by a huge black creature in the sky, and the yearling was separated from his mother. In blind panic he ran, but he could not outdistance the terrifying, whirling ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Where's Burgess?

    by Laurie Elmquist ...
    Illustrated by David Parkins ...
    Series series Orca Echoes
    Reece Hansen is missing two things: his father and his frog.Reece's parents are newly separated, and his dad is now living in another city, fighting forest fires. Reece struggles to get used to daily life without him. When he loses his pet frog, Burgess, Reece puts posters up around the neighborhood. But frogs are difficult to find. It takes an unusual classmate, the boy who wears a bathrobe to ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Fosta

    Marathon Master

    by Judy Andrekson ...
    Illustrated by David Parkins ...
    Series Book 6 - True Horse Stories
    If nature had taken its course, Fosta would never have lived. But thanks to quick and loving intervention, the plucky little foal did survive. In the first few moments of his life, he was stolen from his dame by an expectant mare. When she had no milk to give him, he had to be fostered by a third “mother” since his own refused to take him back. From the very beginning, his chances of amounting to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ben's Robot

    by Robin Stevenson ...
    Illustrated by David Parkins ...
    Series series Orca Echoes
    Seven-year-old Ben loves pretending to be a robot, but his best friend Jessy is tired of being ordered to oil his knee joints and check his batteries. She says the robot game is boring and runs off to play with someone else. So Ben decides to build a real robot instead. He's built all kinds of things before: wind generators, solar-powered marble launchers, pinball machines. But none of his ... Read more

    $5.39 USD