Bear Head (Dogs of War Book 2)

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Also, unusually for me, I really do think you can read Bear Head without having read Dogs. There are plenty of call-outs for people who did read the first book, but the distance between the events of Bear and those of Dogs means it should all work as a first look at the universe. (Publishers love to say you can read book two of any given series cold, but in my case, I usually get very invested in world continuity so the books often follow very closely and in great detail). There are some fantastic bear puns in Bear Head. Were there any puns that you just couldn’t squeeze in? Nie, Y.; Swaisgood, R. R.; Zhang, Z.; Hu, Y.; Ma, Y.; Wei, F. (2012). "Giant panda scent-marking strategies in the wild: role of season, sex and marking surface". Animal Behaviour. 84 (1): 39–44. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.03.026. S2CID 53256022.

Owen, M. A.; Swaisgood, R. R.; Slocomb, C.; Amstrup, S. C.; Durner, G. M.; Simac, K.; Pessier, A. P. (2014). "An experimental investigation of chemical communication in the polar bear". Journal of Zoology. 295 (1): 36–43. doi: 10.1111/jzo.12181. Bears in captivity have for centuries been used for entertainment. They have been trained to dance, [129] and were kept for baiting in Europe from at least the 16th century. There were five bear-baiting gardens in Southwark, London, at that time; archaeological remains of three of these have survived. [130] Across Europe, nomadic Romani bear handlers called Ursari lived by busking with their bears from the 12th century. [131] There is evidence of prehistoric bear worship, though this is disputed by archaeologists. [138] It is possible that bear worship existed in early Chinese and Ainu cultures. [139] The prehistoric Finns, [140] Siberian peoples [141] and more recently Koreans considered the bear as the spirit of their forefathers. [142] Artio ( Dea Artio in the Gallo-Roman religion) was a Celtic bear goddess. Evidence of her worship has notably been found at Bern, itself named for the bear. Her name is derived from the Celtic word for "bear", artos. [143] In ancient Greece, the archaic cult of Artemis in bear form survived into Classical times at Brauron, where young Athenian girls passed an initiation rite as arktoi "she bears". [144] Ringe, Don (2017). From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. A Linguistic History of English. Vol.1 (2nded.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.128. ISBN 978-0-19-251118-8.Postma, Laura. "The word for "bear" ". University of Pittsburgh Slovak Studies Program. Archived from the original on 2017-11-22 . Retrieved 21 March 2018. Bellemain, E.; Zedrosser, A.; Manel, S.; Waits, L. P.; Taberlet, P.; Swenson, J. E. (2005). "The dilemma of female mate selection in the brown bear, a species with sexually selected infanticide". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 273 (1584): 283–291. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3331. PMC 1560043. PMID 16543170. The peoples of eastern Asia use bears' body parts and secretions (notably their gallbladders and bile) as part of traditional Chinese medicine. More than 12,000 bears are thought to be kept on farms in China, Vietnam, and South Korea for the production of bile. Trade in bear products is prohibited under CITES, but bear bile has been detected in shampoos, wine and herbal medicines sold in Canada, the United States and Australia. [134] Bears, like other animals, may symbolize nations. The Russian Bear has been a common national personification for Russia from the 16th century onward. [158] Smokey Bear has become a part of American culture since his introduction in 1944, with his message "Only you can prevent forest fires". [159] a b c "The Great Bear Constellation Ursa Major". Archived from the original on 30 November 2010 . Retrieved 12 January 2017.

a b Rybczynski, N.; Dawson, M.R.; Tedford, R.H. (2009). "A semi-aquatic Arctic mammalian carnivore from the Miocene epoch and origin of Pinnipedia". Nature. 458 (7241): 1021–1024. Bibcode: 2009Natur.458.1021R. doi: 10.1038/nature07985. PMID 19396145. S2CID 4371413. It is infinitely more fun, to be honest. Especially for a first-person narrative. All of my first-person leads are flawed or even openly horrible people. Stefan Advani ( Cage Of Souls) is a self-interested coward, Gary Rendell ( Walking With Aldebaran) has serious physical and mental issues that slowly creep out over his narrative, and the unnamed narrator of One Day All This Will Be Yours is frankly a horrible, horrible person. So yes, Jimmy is a wretched, miserable and untrustworthy character thrust into a spotlight he really doesn’t want. But because of that, his perspective on the big picture is much more entertaining. Bear Head was originally named Bear With Me… The morality and reality of control and subjugation are themes that both the reader and even the fictional characters have to face. Did you find you challenged your own thoughts on this? Mörner, T.; Eriksson, H.; Bröjer, C.; Nilsson, K.; Uhlhorn, H.; Ågren, E.; af Segerstad, C.H.; Jansson, D.S.; Gavier-Widén, D. (2005). "Diseases and mortality in free-ranging brown bear ( Ursus arctos), gray wolf ( Canis lupus), and wolverine ( Gulo gulo) in Sweden". Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 41 (2): 298–303. doi: 10.7589/0090-3558-41.2.298. PMID 16107663. bear (n.)". Online Etymology Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02 . Retrieved 22 January 2017.

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The English word "bear" comes from Old English bera and belongs to a family of names for the bear in Germanic languages, such as Swedish björn, also used as a first name. This form is conventionally said to be related to a Proto-Indo-European word for "brown", so that "bear" would mean "the brown one". [1] [2] However, Ringe notes that while this etymology is semantically plausible, a word meaning "brown" of this form cannot be found in Proto-Indo-European. He suggests instead that "bear" is from the Proto-Indo-European word *ǵʰwḗr- ~ *ǵʰwér "wild animal". [3] This terminology for the animal originated as a taboo avoidance term: proto-Germanic tribes replaced their original word for bear— arkto—with this euphemistic expression out of fear that speaking the animal's true name might cause it to appear. [4] [5] According to author Ralph Keyes, this is the oldest known euphemism. [6] Tchaikovsky keeps up a brisk pace by rotating through these viewpoints, each with its own distinct voice and representing unique angles and perspectives on the narrative, between them covering slightly different time periods which converge over the course of the book. Right from the off it’s interesting to see the realities of life on Mars through Jimmy’s (biomodded) eyes, but as the main thrust of the plot is gradually revealed it becomes evident just how cleverly this world and the developing narrative are tied together. Life is tough for all of the POV characters here, but Stringer in particular has it bad despite the veneer of glamour and power. It’s worth noting that there are a couple of scenes that amount to sexual assault, which are uncomfortable to read to say the least, and while we mostly only see Thompson through Stringer’s eyes, he proves to be a genuinely disturbing antagonist. Fitzgerald, C. S.; Krausman, P. S. (2002). "Helarctos malayanus". Mammalian Species (696): 1–5. doi: 10.1644/1545-1410(2002)696<0001:HM>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 198969265. Soibelzon, L. H.; Tonni, E.P.; Bond, M. (2005). "The fossil record of South American short-faced bears (Ursidae, Tremarctinae)" (PDF). Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 20 (1–2): 105–113. Bibcode: 2005JSAES..20..105S. doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2005.07.005. hdl: 10915/5366. Ashliman, D. L. (2004). Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp.114–115. ISBN 978-0-313-32810-7.a b Hunt, R. M. Jr. (1998). "Ursidae". In Janis, Christine M.; Scott, Kathleen M.; Jacobs, Louis L. (eds.). Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, volume 1: Terrestrial carnivores, ungulates, and ungulatelike mammals. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp.174–195. ISBN 978-0-521-35519-3. Yes, although honestly this is more a direct throughline from my pre-academic interests in zoology and behaviour – neither topic at Uni level really touched on this sort of thing enough for my early Nineties self. Zoology, evolution, behaviour and intelligence make up a lot of my stamping ground for writing ideas. The book at times feels like a political thriller, do you think science fiction is a good way to explore that genre? Cannadine, David (1 February 2013). "A Point of View: The grownups with teddy bears". BBC. Archived from the original on 2017-04-25 . Retrieved 21 January 2017. Mattson, David J. (1998). "Diet and Morphology of Extant and Recently Extinct Northern Bears". Ursus. 10: 479–496. JSTOR 3873160. Silver, Alexandra (10 January 2011). "Hooking Up and Using the John: Why Do We Use So Many Euphemisms?". Time . Retrieved 4 April 2019.

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