Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and the Skyscraper

Book Description

This profusely illustrated work offers abundant insights into the early development of the skyscraper and the influence of two master builders who played key roles in its evolution. Rare photos, floor plans, and renderings document such influential structures as Sullivan' Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Wright' Larkin building in Buffalo and many others.

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good insight into their buildings.......1999-07-18

In this book, noted architectural scholar Donald Hoffman outlines the contributions of these two men and others to the fledgling skyscraper movement. Among the topics examined are the profit motive behind skyscraper construction, the importance of light in skyscraper design, Sullivan's soaring idealism, the "anti-skyscraper," exemplified by Wright's Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and many more.

Accompanying the perceptive, carefully researched text are 100 excellent illustrations, including rare photographs, floor plans, and renderings that document such important structures as Sullivan's Wainwright Building in St. Louis, along with his Masonic Temple, Reliance Building, and Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago; the A.T. Stewart store in New York; the San Francisco Call Project; Wright's Larkin Building in Buffalo, New York, as well as his dazzling but never-constructed National Life Insurance Company project, Chicago, and St. Mark's Tower project, New York.

Architecture enthusiasts will find this comprehensive, authoritative study filled not only with an abundance of insights into the early development of the skyscraper but also with the ideas and influence of two master builders who played key roles in one of the most revolutionary developments in modern architecture.

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Including such artists as Janine Antoni, Willie Coles, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Christian Marclay, Alan Rath, Jason Rhoades, Kay Rosen, Jessica Stockholder, and Lisa Yuskavage, among many others, Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting examines the collecting impulse in its various manifestations, raising fundamental questions about why we collect and whether it matters what we collect. Surprising and eccentric, this publication features three utterly different collections: Pictures(and other contemporary art objects) from the renowned Robert Shiffler Foundation in Ohio; the stunningly beautiful Patents,a selection of the Smithsonian's collection of patent models submitted to the US Patent Office in the 19th century; and finally Monkeys, from a private, New York-based collection of approximately 1,600 sock monkeys toys. Running the gamut from high art to the unmapped inspirations hidden in the dregs of American culture, Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting draws on such diverse talents as Ingrid Schaffner--adjunct curator at ICA Philadelphia--and artist Arne Svenson, whose photographs of the sock monkeys combine the haunting and the beautiful.

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Have you ever wondered what dogs do all day, or if they're able to express feelings' The rich black-and-white photos collected in My Life As a Dog in Vermont detail the daily interests and activities of Lucy, a very busy and photogenic beagle. With the photos and Lucy's narrative, the reader is invited to enter a dog's world, as seen from her point of view. In My Life As a Dog in Vermont, author and photographer Geoff Hansen shares 45 photos of family dog Lucy that capture her many moods and activities. Hansen began snapping photos of Lucy when she was a puppy and soon noticed that she seemed to like having her picture taken. Lucy spars, plays, mopes, begs, sleeps, explores, and even flirts with a Japanese tourist. From inquisitive to bored, proud to embarrassed, the range of emotions dogs are capable of expressing are captured in these photographs. Hansen started sending photos of Lucy as postcards to friends and family. The response was so enthusiastic that he decided to turn the pictures into a book. Whether romping with her little brother, Chester, or pouting about being dressed in a humiliating sweater, Lucy will make you smile in this charming keepsake that reaffirms why the dog is man's best friend.

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Too Cute!.......2000-08-22

I read a review in our local paper and bought this book for my husband as a stocking stuffer. I fell in love with it! We have a beagle mix and she makes some of the faces Lucy makes, but we could never be quick enough with our camera. This a keepsake for all dog owners. I look at it over and over and it's a real "feel good book". It's also a great, simple childrens' book. Great idea, great photgraphy.

Too Cute!.......2000-08-22

Sentimental Journey.......2000-03-29

Welled up with tears as i turned each page. Geoff really got through on paper what it feels like to love a dog.

Fall in love with a furry face.......2000-01-27

Geoff Hansen has a remarkable gift for capturing the broad range of emotions expressed by his charming beagle, Lucy. This talented photographer invites everyone to share in the pure joy of watching his little friend explore her world. This collection of photographs successfully combines art and dogs. Anyone who loves either should own this book. They won't be disappointed!

VERY FUNNY AND A MUST HAVE FOR ALL DOG LOVERS!.......1999-12-25

I laughed at all the funny pictures he has of his dogs. Its a must have!

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A journey through the past 40 years of Mr. Schulz's strip.......1995-09-26

This book contains classic strips and thoughts of Mr. Schulz, Mr. Melendez, and Mr. Mendelson. A must have for any Peanuts fan (including die-hard fans like myself)

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Practical Information

Don't judge a book from it's cover

Best book I've personally ever read on RE

Big $$$ in the ugly ducklings

Perpetual Income: How-to Generate Cash Flow from Low-End House Investments
Bryan Wittenmyer
Manufacturer: Infoleverage
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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The Hidden Secrets of a Real Estate Technician

Real Estate Business and Investment Opportunities: The Complete Guide to Starting a High-Profit Business

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Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes, and Quads: The Fastest and Safest Way to Real Estate Wealth

The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor's Kit: How to Make Money Buying Distressed Real Estate -- Before the Public Auction

ASIN: 0964438011

Book Description

This book explains in detail how to build cash flow from lower end houses and apartment properties. Not slum property, just simple housing for folks on lower income budgets.

This can be a highly rewarding business, since these properties typically produce a cash flow even when 100% financing is used. In fact, when purchased correctly, these properties can be financed using short, 10 year mortgages with no balloon payments needed. In 5-10 years, you'll have a debt-free asset!

The last thing the world needs in another real estate investment book that just skims the surface. This book goes into extreme detail on the nuts and bolts of buying lower-end properties. In fact, the rehab and repair chapter is almost 50-pages long.

Even if you don't currently invest in this type of property, you will come away with dozens of tips on buying, repairing, and rehabbing houses. This book goes way beyond the typical "bookstore" book on investing.

A brief list of topics includes: Buying defective titles for mega profit, low-budget repair and rehab secrets, 60-months until free and clear, how to easily get owner financing, buying houses for $3000-25,000, why private deals are best, finding free building supplies, risk avoidance strategies, managing low-income tenants, buying real estate at sub-wholesale prices, telephone buying techniques, real estate investor resources, finding personal freedom, business philosophy, why there's big money in nasty properties, and much more.

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excellent.......2005-11-08

I want to give credit to Bryan Wittenmyer for writing a highly informative piece on low-end housing investments.

However I do not feel that low-end housing is the way to go. These types of properties will appreciate the least, yet they involve the most hassles. You really have to get a good deal to make it worth it and get cash flow.

Practical Information.......2005-08-12

This is a good book with practical, straight forward, real life information, not pie in the sky, get rich quick promises.

Don't judge a book from it's cover.......2005-04-05

This is the absolute best book to buy on the subject of buying and rehabbing properties. When reading this book, it feels as though you have a veteran investor with you teaching you what you really need to know. You could buy 20 different real estate books with fancy covers that all basically have the same content or you could buy this one and have the best book on the subject.

Best book I've personally ever read on RE.......2005-03-17

I'll keep this short. Low-end house investments aren't for everyone. However, this book hit me like a Mack Truck...I couldn't put it down and have referred many friends to this excellent work. I have read well over 100 real estate investment courses and books in the last 12 years of my life and NONE (even those outrageously priced $800 courses) spoke to me like this $40 gem. Thank you Bryan for sharing your experiences and wisdom with us and doing it at a bargain price. My very highest recommendation to all (even though I don't want any more competition in this arena) LOL.

This is the only review I've done and even though this book will undoutedly bring in more investors to this low-end niche--I feel I owe a real debt to Bryan for his positive impact on my life.

Big $$$ in the ugly ducklings.......2005-01-07

It seems like most of the books/info published out there is targeting "nice" single family homes and creative financing techniques. What most people don't realize is that smart investors salivate over the the investment opportunities in low end housing. Reason being is that by virtue of being lower priced they can be paid off sooner and the owner can then point the cash flow toward other low end investments that can be paid off even quicker with the addition of the cash flow of the recently paid off property. These end up being small "annuities", as Bryan beautifully describes them, that are so highly valued in today's pension-less, menaced social security system world.

So instead of learning how to find fancy financing and distressed owners, I would say that learning how to manage lower end housing and it's inherent intricacies would be a person's more efficient and likely path to acquiring wealth in real estate.

This book, and anything published by Bryan, in my opinion, is a must read.

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In Landscape of the Heart, Stephen J. Lyons writes of a five-year period following a divorce when he and his young daughter Rose serch for new meanings in their lives and their relationship. This quiet work of healing is both painful and joyful as Stephen and Rose discover the West together. These essays and poems confirm the existence of an internal "landscape" that responds to birds on the wing, mountain lakes, big skies, and dense forests - a landscape of the heart.

"These are the moments I am moving in," writes Lyons. "As I get older, I lean more and more toward these small pockets of the obvious and the mysterious that rise from the landscape, surround memories, and enhance a sense of possibilities. This is also where I am leading my daughter during the short years of our time together."

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A quietly touching, funny and affirming book ; great writing.......1999-04-02

Every time I happen upon a magazine article written by Lyons I read it, no matter the subject. He is one of my favorite freelancer/contributers around. Always a keen, insightful and oftentimes happily cynical view on things. A writer I can trust, or buy a used car from. His writing in this book is just as good, and the subject - a single father, his daughter, the land the nurtures them both - is very relevant to me - also a father with young children to whom I hope to pass on a love of the land. Great job, Stephen!

This is a beautiful book........1999-04-01

I really enjoyed reading this wonderful writing. Check it out

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Sylvanus G. Morley (1883-1948) has been highly regarded for over a century for his archaeological work among the Maya pyramids. As director of the Carnegie Archaeological Program, he supervised the reconstruction of ChichÃ©n ItzÃ¡, one of today's most visited sites in Central America.

Harris and Sadler present information showing Morley used his archaeological skills and contacts to covertly spy for the U. S. Office of Naval Intelligence during World War I. His primary charge was to detect and report German activity along the more than 1200 miles of eastern Central American and Mexican coastlines. To aid him in this special "fieldwork," Morley recruited other archaeologists, assigned them specific territories in which to work, and, together, they maintained a constant vigil.

In this remarkable story of a remarkable man and his colorful associates, Harris and Sadler bring to vivid life an unknown story of early American intelligence. They illuminate the start of today's vast spy apparatus. A lively, scholarly, and useful job.--David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers and Hitler's Spies.

Â“This is superior scholarship. Rumors and allegations existed about anthropologists acting as spies, but this is the first credible account. Sadler and Harris have written the most significant book available on U.S. intelligence during World War I in Latin America. For historians of intelligence agencies, this is a must read volume.Â”Â—William H. Beezley, University of Arizona

Sylvanus G. Morley was the most influential Mayan archaeologist of his generation and perhaps the greatest American spy of WWI. Harris and Sadler document for the first time Morley's dual career as a scholar and a spy. Working for the Office of Naval Intelligence, he proved an invaluable source of information about German and anti-American activity in Mexico and Central America.

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Spymaster extraordinaire.......2004-05-28

Other reviews tell you accurately what this book is about. If you're looking for a spy, chase, suspense, thriller, or murder account, this isn't it, despite the flashy cover. Instead, this is primarily an unabashedly pro-American history report on a World War I sidelight, intended for those interested in the development of American intelligence services. If you are into Maya archaeology, this book will remind you that Morley (author of the pioneering: The Ancient Maya, 1946) was a very impressive hyperactive fellow.

For what it is-a dry academic piece with flashes of patriotism-this is an informative book. It substantially expands on a two-year episode in the fuller picture of Morley's adventurous career depicted by his biographer, R. L. Brunhouse (1971, Sylvanus G. Morley). Harris and Sadler's focus is really on the development of the Office of Naval Intelligence, using Morley as its central figure, I think, because he left uniquely complete diaries of this period (and throughout his life). The authors delve deeply into old ONI files and look at other academic spies, and at sub-agents recruited by Morley and his stumbling handlers, and what befell them. (They build on their previous book on clandestine activities in Mexico: The Border and the Revolution). Because extensive extracts from Morley's diaries and his 32 espionage reports are included, there's a great deal of entertaining local color on the 1917 state of radio, shipping, ports, earthquakes, diplomacy, Central American politics, etc. If you know this area you may enjoy these details of how it used to be. There is very little, however, on Morley's archaeological discoveries and publications during these years.

Morley may indeed have been America's greatest WW I spy in terms of his successful assessment of the submarine threat, but he turned up no German spies while Black Listing a few German companies in Central America. Harris and Sadler leave the reader with no way to evaluate their claim that Morley was the "greatest," because they don't compare his accomplishments to other theaters of the war, or services beyond ONI. Nor do they follow up their own references to German propagandists and activists in Mexico who might actually have been threats.

Another theme that briefly emerges, only to be dismissed with an editorial huff, is that of the propriety of archaeologists, or field scientists in general, becoming spies in foreign lands. Such activities, when they become known later, bring all their innocent fellow scientists in the field into suspicion, disrepute, and actual danger in the eyes of foreigners and officials who control their access. This is in addition to the common peasant suspicion that people like Morley walking around with compass and tape are really "looking for gold, or working for the government to take the farm away."

Searching for German Submarine Bases.......2004-01-20

During the First World War, the German submarine forces were a serious threat to allied victory. If the Germans had been able to construct a secret base in some remote corner of Central America, the potential damage to shipping would have been immense. How to ensure that this did not happen before satellite reconnaissance and computerized communications monitoring? One answer the Office of Navel Intelligence devised was to recruit archaeologists who were tramping around the jungles and rivers as part of their academic pursuits.

One of the most productive archaeologist/spies was Sylvanus Griswold Morely, M.A. Harvard, who spent most of the war years journeying through the Central American jungles and rivers in search of ancient ruins and preparing detailed reports on the potential for German exploitation of the remote sites. This book describes his travels in Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Sylvanus was accompanied by cartoonist John Held who prepared detailed maps of their excursions. The book includes some samples of Held's excellent cartography. Charles Harris and Louis Sadler also discuss other academic recruits to naval intelligence and their contributions in Central America.

This is a real niche in the history of American military intelligence and will appeal to those interested in one of the lesser-known war efforts. The appendices contain copies of actual reports submitted by Morely and the book contains copies of pages from the notes taken by the agents as they endured "ticks, mosquitoes, fleas, sand flies, saddle-sores, seasickness, bar-running, indifferent grub, and sometimes no grub at all, rock hard beds, infamous hostelries and even earthquakes."

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Evolution of the Japanese Social and Psychic
Sidney L. Gulick
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1426474318

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The present work is an attempt to interpret the characteristics of modern Japan in the light of social science. It also seeks to throw some light on the vexed question as to the real character of so-called race-nature and the processes by which that nature is transformed.

Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic

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Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic
L. Sidney Gulick
Manufacturer: IndyPublish
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Evolution of the Japanese: A study of their characteristics in relation to the principles of social and psychic development,

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Evolution of the Japanese: A study of their characteristics in relation to the principles of social and psychic development,
Sidney Lewis Gulick
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A Near Death Experience

Everything Condor

How one large bird journeyed to the very edge of extinction and came back makes for an exciting story

Informative and a lot of fun to read

The Return of the Condor

Condor: To the Brink and Back--the Life and Times of One Giant Bird
John Nielsen
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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ASIN: 006008863X
Release Date: 2007-03-13

Book Description

The California condor, with a wingspan of nine–and–a–half feet and a history as old as the Redwoods, should be extinct by now. It should not be soaring over the Grand Canyon, Big Sur, and south–central California. It should not be breeding like a machine in zoos. It should be a bitter memory.

Fifteen years ago, there were only twenty–seven California condors left in the world, and they were all in zoos, where none had even tried to reproduce. The effort to save this bird had come to resemble a bar fight, in which environmentalists, scientists, and bureaucrats injured themselves and the species they were trying to save. It was embarrassing at best.

Yet the condor has survived somehow. It has sailed past the brink of extinction, turned a broad circle in the sky, and returned to the wild again. The story of how this happened is more than the story of an endangered bird with an amazing wingspan. It is also the story of a wild and giant state that has become crowded and small, and the behind–the–scenes dramas that shaped the environmental movement.

Customer Reviews:

A Near Death Experience.......2007-07-07
If cats have nine lives, then the California condor as a species must be their equal. These birds have stepped to the edge of the extinction cliff and ALMOST fallen to a crushing collapse. After reading their story, you have to wonder if the creator was playing a cruel joke on this ancient and giant bird. First, with the exception of the huge black body and their graceful soaring, they aren't what you would call "easy on the eyes." They have a number of disgusting habits, and to top it off, they settled on Southern California as home (i.e., this place is being consumed by development at an alarming rate).

Condors to the Brink and Back - covers this bird's life history all the way to the release of zoo raised birds into the wilds of California and Arizona. With each chapter that John Nielsen writes in their life history I felt like, "Okay, this is it. These birds aren't going to survive this one." In the end, the species (read: humans) which puts them against the ropes, is ultimately the same species which comes to their rescue. Nielsen introduces all the key players in what at times resembles a less-than-unified effort to save the mighty condor.

Nearing the end of the book, what becomes apparent is man's role as the crutch the fragile condor must lean against to survive. As more condors raised in captivity are released into the wild, their dependency on wildlife biologists and zoo care-takers can begin to crumble. Encouraging news about California condors breeding and fledging new birds in their natural habitat is happening with greater frequency and spreading over a wider range including Mexico.

Their longer term survival looks brighter and brighter. But some of the threats that put these birds on the brink of collapse are still present today in the form of lead pellets and bullets in downed game which the condors ingest and the ever shrinking range land which they inhabit. For the time being, we have the California condor back to grace our skies, and play an important role as one of nature's big body snatchers.
Everything Condor.......2006-06-03
This is a really interesting book. Nielsen writes very well, and with an evident passion arising from his boyhood experiences with condors in southern California. Nielsen tells the story of the condor, what little we know of its history before the nineteenth century, the slaughter of the birds and the stealing of its eggs, and finally the sometimes comical efforts to save this profound species from extinction. The book is equally appealing to readers who are simply seeking a good story, and to those who are involved in other kinds of environmental protection efforts.

One particular part of the story surprised me. Nielsen interviewed Sandy Wilbur, the government biologist charged with developing a plan to save the condor immediately after the Endangered Species Act became law in 1973. According to Nielsen, Wilbur became a Christian after reading a book by C.S. Lewis, and it was his Christian beliefs that influenced his desire to preserve the condor. Wilbur believed that the condor was special because it was created by God, even though the bird had long outlived its evolutionary significance and was not necessary for any current ecosystem. This is a different kind of motivation for saving biodiversity, and the story is a nice complement to the many other individuals who have struggled to save such a memorable bird.
How one large bird journeyed to the very edge of extinction and came back makes for an exciting story.......2006-05-26
How one large bird journeyed to the very edge of extinction and came back makes for an exciting story: especially when related by a NPR environmental correspondent as in CONDOR; TO THE BRINK AND BACK - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ONE GIANT BIRD. Here is where passionate reporting blends best with science, producing a moving story of how a small group of committed people refused to allow the condor to become extinct, joining forces to gather the last remaining wild condors to a pair of zoos where they were encouraged to breed with other captives. John Nielsen is a native Californian as well as an environmental writer, so he's in the perfect position to provide a survey of both California environmental politics and processes and natural history in this compelling account.

Diane C. Donovan, Editor
California Bookwatch

Informative and a lot of fun to read.......2006-04-02
John Nielsen has clearly done his homework when it comes to understanding the fascinating history of the California Condor. He not only takes us through the natural history of condors from the Pleistocene to the present, he also introduces us to the remarkable cast of characters who have worked diligently for almost a century to prevent this species from disappearing. Written in an easy, engaging style, "Condor" combines ecology, history, and gossip to create a vivid picture of the challenges involved in saving a species that was more at home in the age of the mammoths than in the age of McMansions.
The Return of the Condor.......2006-02-28
American condors are not an easy bird to love, at least for many people. Their points of unattractiveness are many. The condor is a vulture, a creature that eats dead and rotting things by sticking its bald, red, ugly head into carcasses. When it needs to cool its feet, it urinates on them. Its sense of interior design for the caves in which it nests is to decorate the walls with feces and vomit. John Nielson, in _Condor: To the Brink and Back - The Life and Times of One Giant Bird_ (HarperCollins) admits to all this ugliness, but says the images vanish when the bird takes flight: "You may think there's no chance you could ever give a damn about this bird, but take my word for it: once you see the condor soaring, it owns you." The birds have inspired a great deal of fervent enthusiasm, which has of course pitted enthusiasts against such types as farmers and developers, but has also divided those who want to save the birds into warring factions when they disagree on the fundamentals of how to do so. The condor has survived, but even Nielsen admits it has long been a species with no ecological value. It has survived, barely so, despite its involvement with humans and now directly because of them.

The birds are amazing in many ways. They are one of the largest of flying birds, with a ten foot wing span. The finger-like feathers at the end of those wings are almost two feet long. As big as condors are, they were small scavenger birds compared to some of the others 1.6 million years ago in the Pleistocene, when they would have fed on mammoths, sloths, and saber-toothed cats. As Nielsen says, we'd pay plenty to get mammoths and saber-tooths back; what's it worth to keep an animal with the same history? Condors started being afflicted by humans who wiped out different mammalian species in the mid-1700s, and then by hunters who left their prey full of lead, and then by strychnine used to poison varmints, and then by collectors of their feathered skins and their eggs. By 1982 there were only about two dozen left. A great deal of basic research had to be done on the birds to get real understanding of how they lived. It was not until the 1980s, for instance, that it was learned by chance that condors are among the birds that "double clutch," laying a second egg in a season if they lose the first one. This meant that one egg could go to the zoo without making the flock smaller. Crews of condor-fanciers wore themselves out tagging condors in the wild or collecting the eggs; they called themselves "The Zombie Patrol" because as they staggered to the condor nest caves they were "filthy, smelly, bleeding, starving, stiff, and utterly exhausted." Eggs brought back (in a special padded suitcase) were hatched in the zoos. A program of simply tagging and releasing birds in the wild did not work; eventually all the last birds wound up as captives.

There has been enough success in captive breeding that condors raised in pens have been released into the wild. No one really can predict how this will go. Chicks raised this way are often fed by hand, or at least by hand puppet, a covering for a hand that looks very much like an adult condor head coming down with food in its beak. This was supposed to let chicks sense that they were in a condor family, but one keeper said, "It only took the chicks a few days to figure out that there were people behind the puppets." Wild birds do not need to be thinking of people as a source for nutrition (or for any other blessings, given how we have treated them). There was a program of "aversive therapy" to keep them from being too affectionate to or curious about humans, and another to teach them not to land on power lines. There are important philosophical issues here; are such birds raised so unnaturally really natural members of the environment, and what is it that we have gotten for the millions that have been spent to get them back in the air? If you only count numbers, there are about a hundred condors flying free now, which is a real success, although some biologists think this only shows how badly we have failed to keep the environment a place where condors could continue to make their homes independently. Perhaps it is only appropriate that this strange bird, hideously ugly in appearance and fabulously beautiful in the skies, should bring out the best and the worst in us, and that its unresolved story should be filled with ambivalent messages.
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