Just One More Thing, Doc

Just One More Thing, Doc

Author: Bradford B Brown

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-05-15

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1684751489

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Whether he's escaping the personal vendetta of a bull named Killer (I was a matador without a cape), entangled with a rabid cow, chasing a stallion (well, not quite, anymore...) through downtown Bangor, performing heart surgery in an arena, or having a close encounter?while airborne?with a B-52 bomber, this vet regards it all as part of a (long) working day.


While You're Here, Doc

While You're Here, Doc

Author: Bradford B Brown

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-05-13

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1684751624

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Whether he was trying to geld a spooked stallion in a blizzard or found himself in the middle of an all-out fracas involving a monkey's abscessed tooth and a shotgun, he took it in stride, with great affection for both his four-legged patients and his two-legged clients.


One of Ours

One of Ours

Author: Willa Cather

Publisher: IndyPublish.com

Published: 1922

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13:

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Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive


Animal Liberation

Animal Liberation

Author: Peter Singer

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1473524423

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How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari), the renowned moral philosopher Peter Singer addresses this simple question with trenchant, dispassionate reasoning. Accompanied by the disturbing evidence of factory farms and laboratories, his answers triggered the birth of the animal rights movement. 'An extraordinary book which has had extraordinary effects... Widely known as the bible of the animal liberation movement' Independent on Sunday In the decades since this landmark classic first appeared, some public attitudes to animals may have changed but our continued abuse of animals in factory farms and as tools for research shows that the underlying ideas Singer exposes as ethically indefensible are still dominating the way we treat animals. As Yuval Harari’s brilliantly argued introduction makes clear, this book is as relevant now as the day it was written.


The Cows are Out!

The Cows are Out!

Author: Trudy Price

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780967166292

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In this bittersweet memoir of two decades of dairy farming, Trudy Chambers Price writes of the daily trials of haying, cow breeding, and milking against a backdrop of gentle and entertaining rural life. The work was never-ending and exhausting, but also exhilarating and rewarding. She introduces kind neighbors, eccentric neighbors, visiting city folk, and loveable pets. The Cows Are Out! is a tribute to hard-working family farmers and to an important part of the nation's historical and cultural heritage.


Main Street

Main Street

Author: Sinclair Lewis

Publisher: First Avenue Editions TM

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1728468884

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Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.


Creatures of Empire

Creatures of Empire

Author: Virginia DeJohn Anderson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780195304466

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