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Though the roots of single-sex schooling extend back to the very origins of education in this country, in this century the institution has been an easy target for criticism - the common perception being that coeducation is obviously better because it's more equal and democratic. By the mid-1980s this logic had become so accepted that most single-sex schools had disappeared, and, in fact, few people cared. For many, that they existed at all at the...
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A regional story told in the first person by twelve-year-old Cotton Kinney of northern Texas, whose hunting trip with a local bachelor hero brings him a much desired dog and the sight of his friend, Blackie Scantling, being secured by the girl who should have him ... Dialect yarn."
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"What brought the ape out of the trees, and so the man out of the ape, was a taste for blood. This is how the story went, when a few fossils found in Africa in the 1920s seemed to point to hunting as the first human activity among our simian forebears-the force behind our upright posture, skill with tools, domestic arrangements, and warlike ways. Why, on such slim evidence, did the theory take hold? In this engrossing book Matt Cartmill searches out...
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No matter where you live in North America, here is the book that will help you improve your deer hunting. Within the covers of this informative volume, some of the continent's most respected experts have pooled their knowledge and the secrets of their success at deer hunting to cover every region, every technique, every type of sporting arm, and every huntable variety of whitetail and mule deer.
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Whether in the African bush or in America's game lands, hunting has bred enormous controversy in recent years. The killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe in 2015 triggered a firestorm of international criticism over trophy hunting, and the regulated hunting of the white-tailed deer in the United States has sparked opposition over conservation and other issues. Defenders argue that hunting can conserve wildlife populations and raise money to protect...
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"Tales (both fact and fable) told about a master hunter of the Rockies who in his prime was 'chief huntsman' to Theodore Roosevelt."
Ben Lilly was the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record. Folklorist Dobie met Lilly some twenty years before writing this book, and was so struck by this extraordinary man that he began collecting everything he could find about him. Lilly was born in Alabama in...
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No matter how sophisticated or technologically advanced we become, there is still something within that beckons us to "the hunt." This desire creates the customs, beliefs, and rituals related to hunting--for deer, hogs, as well as fish and snakes, etc. These rituals and customs lead to some of our most treasured folklore.
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Oliver and Lucy Sinclair were raised by an eccentric single father with a penchant for elaborate treasure hunts meant to entertain and inspire his children. When their father unexpectedly passes away, the siblings return home to find that instead of a traditional will, he's left them a final call to adventure from beyond the grave - one last treasure hunt.
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