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Author: Laurie Hess
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0738219576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exotic animal veterinarianÕs experiences treating our favorite unusual pets and a testament to the power and depth of human-animal bonds, with take-away life lessons about our most important human relationships.
Author: Ken Becker
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780852443675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf Carl Gustav Jung and Ignatius of Loyola could face each other over a gap of four centuries, what would they have to say to one another? Kenneth Becker demonstrates, in this engaging study, that these two intellectual and spiritual giants bring great insight to each other's work.
Author: David W. Scott
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-07-08
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1725286378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan something as simple as friendship have a transformative impact in a divided world? Through a series of richly textured historical portraits and reflections on personal experience, this book shows that boundary-crossing friendships in Christian mission have shaped theologies, built organizations and partnerships, facilitated mission work, and changed attitudes and ways of thinking. This is true in settings as varied as eighteenth-century French women’s work, twentieth-century urban Boston, colonial India, the Jim Crow South, and twentieth-century rural Congo. In all these settings and more, friendship has mattered. Boundary-crossing friendships are, however, not easy. Despite their power, such friendships are complicated by race, gender, ability, class, nationality, and other elements of identity, as this book also demonstrates. Friendships are not immune from the divisions in the world, nor a simple cure-all for them. Still, friendship stands as a powerful testimony to the gospel. Therefore, the book calls for more attention to friendship in the study of mission history and more living out of friendship as a practice of mission. In this way, this book pays honor to Dr. Dana L. Robert as a pre-eminent mission scholar and exemplary friend and mentor to others in the fields of missiology and world Christianity.
Author: To Be Confirmed
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2030-12-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781476794587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpend a fascinating, fast-paced week alongside an exotic pet vet as she races to find the source of a mysterious illness that is killing scores of lovable little pets—all while dealing with the remarkable daily challenges of treating a Noah’s Ark of exotic animals and their eccentric, loving, and sometimes demanding owners. Parrots and pythons, hedgehogs and hamsters, ferrets, turtles, and pot-bellied pigs—these are just a few of the many unique pets that world-renowned veterinarian Laurie Hess sees in the course of any given day. Like the New York Times bestseller Tell Me Where It Hurts, Unlikely Companions will take you inside the daily world of a noted veterinarian as she treats the perplexing symptoms and illnesses of her animal patients. Unlikely Companions chronicles a fast-paced week in Dr. Hess’s life as she struggles to solve a mystery affecting her practice and that of vets around the country: what is killing off the sugar gliders—tiny, affectionate marsupials who look like flying squirrels and love to snuggle? All the while, it’s business as usual at her bustling hospital outside of New York City, as she performs risky surgeries, makes life-altering diagnoses, and juggles puzzling patients and their quirky owners. Laurie has learned many lessons about the importance of caring for ourselves from her unique charges and from the profound bonds she witnesses daily between people and their pets. Part memoir, part inspirational self-help, Dr. Hess’s heartwarming, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting book is a James Herriot tale for a new era, an All Creatures Great and Small that celebrates the loving connections we make as human beings with each other and with other species.
Author: Ann Rinaldi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0152055975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRinaldi delves into the childhood friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and black seamstress Elizabeth Keckley--two fascinating women who became devoted friends and confidantes amid the turbulent times of the Lincoln administration.
Author: Lucy H. Spelman, DVM
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2008-06-24
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0440337887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of exotic animals and the doctors who care for them. Here pioneering zoological veterinarians—men and women on the cutting edge of a new medical frontier—tell real-life tales of daring procedures for patients weighing tons or ounces, treating symptoms ranging from broken bones to a broken heart, and life-and-death dramas that will forever change the way you think about wild animals and the bonds we share with them. From a root canal on a three-thousand pound hippo to one doctor’s heartbreaking effort to save a critically ill lemur, here are acts of rescue, kindness, and cross-disciplinary cooperation between zoo vets and other top scientists. We meet highly trained specialists racing against time and circumstance to save the lives of some of the most exotic animals in the world. Shoes designed for racehorses help a rhinoceros with a debilitating foot disease. A kangaroo survives spinal surgery performed by a leading human doctor. These unforgettable stories capture the bonds that develop between vets and their animal patients, the ingenious measures many vets have tried, and the remarkable new insights modern medical technology is giving us into the physiology and behaviors of wild animals. At once heart-quickening and clinically fascinating, the stories in this remarkable collection represent some of the most moving and unusual cases ever taken on by zoological vets. A chronicle of discovery, compassion, and cutting-edge medicine, The Rhino with Glue-on Shoes is must reading for animal lovers, science buffs, and anyone who loves a well-told tale.
Author: Jennifer S. Holland
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2012-05-02
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 0761172106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGood friends come in all shapes and sizes! Unlikely Friendships, the runaway New York Times bestseller with a compelling message of hope and friendship and differences overcome, is rewritten just for younger readers. This hardcover chapter book for children ages seven and up collects five heartwarming true stories of animal friendship: a hippo and the goat who is his best friend, an iguana that snuggles with a cat, a dog that takes care of a blind deer, a cat and orangutan who become friends, and a mother dog who cares for a tiny piglet. Chapter books give young readers a strong sense of accomplishment, and these heartwarming animal stories, with their incredible photographs and inexplicable mysteries of attraction, their focus on friendship, love, and the ways that creatures of all different species can find common bonds of affection, will keep kids turning the pages to find out about the unusual ways animals help each other and discover the love of new friends. Each is a perfect gift for young animal lovers, and a lovely subject to help kids get reading.
Author: Jennifer S. Holland
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2011-06-15
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0761165312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . ” Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster. The well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten; and the hippo Owen and the tortoise Mzee. And almost inexplicable stories of predators befriending prey—an Indian leopard slips into a village every night to sleep with a calf. A lionness mothers a baby oryx. Ms. Holland narrates the details and arc of each story, and also offers insights into why—how the young leopard, probably motherless, sought maternal comfort with the calf, and how a baby oryx inspired the same mothering instinct in the lionness. Or, in the story of Kizzy, a nervous retired Greyhound, and Murphy, a red tabby, how cats and dogs actually understand each other’s body language. With Murphy’s friendship and support, Kizzy recovered from life as a racing dog and became a confident, loyal family pet. These are the most amazing friendships between species, collected from around the world and documented in a selection of full-color candid photographs.
Author: Jennifer S. Holland
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2016-08-23
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0761187286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new book from the New York Times bestselling series. Enhanced with beautiful full-color photographs, these true stories of camaraderie, affection, and remarkable bravery are from the author of the New York Times bestsellers Unlikely Friendships, Unlikely Loves, and Unlikely Heroes, as well as other books and calendars, with nearly two million copies in print. Meet Rex, a German shepherd who learned to love and trust again through the improbable friendship of a goose. The pit bull named Dolly, whose antics with her best friend, Sheldon the tortoise, include games of tag. For the millions of dog lovers, this heartwarming and inspirational book celebrates 37 stories of unusual canine companionship.
Author: Tina Daniel
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Published: 2012-05-29
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 078696328X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe final installment in the New York Times–bestselling Meetings Sextet series brings the cast of Dragonlance together for their first adventure While on an innocent ship’s errand, Caramon, Sturm, and Tasslehoff are blown thousands of miles off course by a magic windstorm and transported to the eastern Bloodsea. Caramon and Sturm are left for dead while Tasslehoff mysteriously turns against his friends. Back in Solace, Raistlin convinces Flint Fireforge and Tanis Half-Elven that they must make a perilous journey to Mithas, the kingdom of the minotaurs. Their task: not only to rescue their friends, but also to defeat the elusive Nightmaster.
