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(0)Diane Ackerman
1) Deep play
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning essayist and poet Diane Ackerman has beguiled us with her richly informative tours of the senses, the heart, and the world of endangered species. In her latest exploration, Ackerman illuminates an exalted state of transcendence achieved through emotionally and physically vigorous acvtivities. The ability to play is an essential part of what it means to be human. And "deep play" is that mom intensified form of play that puts us in a rapturous...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the citys zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski smuggled Jews through the empty cages, saving hundreds of people from Nazi hands. Eight-page photo insert.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance....
