Pardon This Intrusion
Pardon This Intrusion

Author: John Clute

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 2016-11-24

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1473219795

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Pardon This Intrusion gathers together 47 pieces by John Clute, some written as long ago as 1985, though most are recent. The addresses and essays in Part One, "Fantastika in the World Storm", all written in the twenty-first century, reflect upon the dynamic relationship between fantastika - an umbrella term Clute uses to describe science fiction, horror and fantasy - and the world we live in now. Of these pieces, "Next", a contemporary response to 9/11, has not been revised; everything else in Part One has been reworked, sometimes extensively. Parts Two, Three and Four include essays and author studies and introductions to particular works; as they are mostly recent, Clute has felt free to rework them where necessary. The few early pieces - including "Lunch with AJ and the WOMBATS", a response to the Scientology scandal at the Brighton WorldCon in 1987 - are unchanged.

Diseases of Canaries
Diseases of Canaries

Author: Robert Stroud

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2011-03-23

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 144654656X

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Originally published in 1933. The author was well known as "The Bird Man of Alcatraz." He wrote this book while serving a life sentence. A comprehensive work containing much information on: - Anatomy - Feeding - Feeding Experiments - Insects and Parasites - The Moult - Injuries - Septic Fever - Septicemia - Necrosis - Diarrhoea - Aspergillosis - Bacteriology - Pathogenic Organisms - Drugs etc. Keywords: Pathogenic Organisms Life Sentence Bird Man Aspergillosis Septicemia Bacteriology Diarrhoea Alcatraz Necrosis Parasites Insects Anatomy Fever Drugs

Common Diseases of the Canary - A Dictionary of Diseases and their Cures
Common Diseases of the Canary - A Dictionary of Diseases and their Cures

Author: Robert L. Wallace

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1473356210

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This book contains a detailed dictionary of diseases common in canaries, with information on their causes, treatment, and prevention. This is the perfect handbook for any canary-keeper keen on the proper care and management of their birds, and it is well deserving of a place in any collection of avicultural literature. The chapters of this book include: General Remarks, Cause of Disease, Food, Apoplexy, Asthma, Breaks and Claws, Bronchitis, Cataract and Ophthalmia, Chorea, Constipation, Consumption, Cramp, Decline, Deformed Hind Claw, Diarrhea, Diphtheria, Dysentery, Epilepsy, Fainting or Syncope, Fainting Fits, et cetera. This text has been elected for modern republication due to its timeless education value, and we are proud to republish it here complete with a new introduction on aviculture.

The Red Canary
The Red Canary

Author: Tim Birkhead

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-01-30

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1408849437

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The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new for in the 1920s an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided to genetically engineer a red canary. Though his experiments failed, they paved the way for others to succeed when it was recognised that the canary needed to be both a product of nature and nurture. This highly original narrative, of huge contemporary relevance, reveals how the obsession with turning the wild canary from green to red heralded the exciting but controversial developments in genetic manipulation.