In Defence of Dogs

In Defence of Dogs

Author: John Bradshaw

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780141046495

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What would dogs ask for, if they knew how? In the Sunday Times bestseller In Defence of Dogs John Bradshaw, an anthropologist at Bristol University who has been at the centre of the latest research into what makes dogs tick, gives us the answers.Overturning the most common myths about dogs' emotions and behaviour, this book shows how we should really treat our pets, and stands up for dogdom: not the wolf in canine clothes, not the small furry child, not the trophy-winner, but the real dog, who wants to be part of the family and enjoy life - mankind's closest friend. This is the real science that every dog lover needs to know.


American Nations

American Nations

Author: Colin Woodard

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-09-25

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0143122029

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• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to El Norte, Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how each region continues to uphold its distinguishing ideals and identities today, with results that can be seen in the composition of the U.S. Congress or on the county-by-county election maps of any hotly contested election in our history.


Mermaid Life

Mermaid Life

Author: Christine De Carvalho

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1523510730

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An ode to the joy of making waves. Ah, salty breezes, beach hair, the feeling of bare feet (or fins) in warm sand. And dreams of that mer-mazing world under the sea. An ode to the joys of making waves, this sweet celebration is filled with mermaids, merman, purrmaids, and other underwater lovelies- complete with quotes, folklore, and mantras. Let the currents guide your soul. Never allow anyone to burst your bubble. And know that life offers its treasures to those who seek magic. Stay wild, ocean child.


Women of Oshkosh

Women of Oshkosh

Author: Ron La Point

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-13

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781638378907

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The twenty-seven women featured in the book are names from the past and those currently engaged in making our community stronger and more responsive to those in need. It was my intention to memorialize those whose lives were dedicated in helping others including those who fought and struggled to win the right for women to vote. I have come to the realization, after visiting with these women and doing the necessary research and observing the lives of others I knew, that women are the prime movers of change in our society. It is my hope you will become acquainted with these women as I have.


Readezy

Readezy

Author: Cameron House

Publisher:

Published: 2006-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781877082689

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Recommended by the medical profession worldwide, this revolutionary stand allows everyone to have hands-free reading anywhere and at any time, enabling perfect posture while working at a desk, cooking, studying or sitting up in bed. READEZY has ultimate stability and can sensibly fold flat into a neat and compact package. No more awkward positions, eyestrain, tired arms or neck and back pain.


Rachel Carson: The Sea Trilogy (LOA #352)

Rachel Carson: The Sea Trilogy (LOA #352)

Author: Rachel Carson

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2021-12-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1598537059

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Pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson explores the wonders of the Earth's oceans in these classics of American science and nature writing. Rachel Carson is perhaps most famous as the author of Silent Spring, but she was first and foremost a "poet of the sea" and the three books collected in this deluxe Library of America volume are classics of American science and nature writing. Under the Sea-Wind (1941), Carson's lyrical debut, offers an intimate account of maritime ecology through the eyes of three of the ocean's denizens, the individual lives of sanderling, mackerel, and eel dramatically intertwined in the enduring ebb and flow of the tides. The Sea Around Us (1951)--a winner of the National Book Award--draws on a wealth of oceanographic, meteorological, biological, and historical research to present its subject on a grand, biospheric scale, revealing not only many mysteries of the still-unfathomed depths, but a reverence for the sea as a source of global climate and of life itself. Concluding Carson's "sea trilogy," The Edge of the Sea (1955) explores the habits of the many small creatures that live on shorelines and in tidepools accessible to any beachcomber: part identification guide, part hymn to ecological complexity, it is a book that conveys the "sense of wonder" in nature for which Carson is justly celebrated. At a moment when overfishing, pollution, and global warming are causing catastrophic changes to marine environments worldwide, Carson's lyrically detailed accounts of these environments offer a timely reminder of their beauty, fragility, and immense consequence for human life.