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Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
Jessica Pierce · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there's another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as powerful: guilt. When we see our cats... |
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Bird Flight: An Illustrated Study of Birds' Aerial Mastery
Robert Burton · Facts On File; 1St Edition edition
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover |
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YA-- A careful examination of the hows and whys of a bird's ability to fly. The thorough, comprehensive narration is systematically divided into relevant subsections covering the mechanics and other aspects of flight depending upon the type of bird and its habitat. However, more than... |
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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
John Bloom · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 496
Format: Print book |
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan's... |
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
Sam Maggs · Quirk Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Ever heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered "highly dangerous"? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, who planned and embarked on the world's first scientific expedition? How about Huang Daopo, the invenÂÂtor who fled... |
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Domestic Pets
Klaus Paysan · Olympic Marketing Corp
Format: Hardcover |
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Book by Paysan, Klaus |
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My Gentle Barn: Creating a Sanctuary Where Animals Heal and Children Learn to Hope
Ellie Laks · Harmony Books
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover |
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"My Gentle Barn is a wonderful book. You'll love Ellie Laks and the animals she rescued--and who rescued her back." -Sy Montgomery, The Good Good PigFounder Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred... |
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Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Erik Larson · Crown Publishers
Pages: 323
Format: Book |
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston,... |
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A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
Joel Greenberg · Bloomsbury
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover |
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In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other... |
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The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores, and Rescuers
Kim Kavin · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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We love them with all our hearts, but do we really know where our dogs came from? Kim Kavin, author of Little Boy Blue, reveals the complex network behind the $11 billion-a-year business of selling dogs. A must-read for the benefit of all dogs, everywhere. In what promises to become an "Omnivore's... |
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