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The ASPCA Complete Guide To Pet Care Carroll, David L. & Zawistowski, Stephen
Plume Books 0452282721 / 9780452282728 Softcover, 415 pages. New copy
Written in cooperation with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, The ASPCA Complete Guide to Pet Care provides pet lovers with everything they need to know about maintaining the health and well-being of their domestic animals. With individual chapters on each of the most common species of pets, this book is perfect for families that live with more than one type of animal. Samples:
* How to care for more than one animal species
* Choosing the right pet
* What to do when you bring your pet home
* Feeding techniques
* Refresher course in housebreaking
* Travelling with your pet
* Animal diseases which may be contagious to humans
* Emergency care
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A Field Guide to Ticks Susan Carol Hauser
Falcon; 2nd edition 2008 0762747404 / 9780762747405 New Softcover
The complete handbook for preventing and treating ailments from dangerous bites. This clearly written and illustrated guide provides all the information you need to know about deer ticks, black widow spiders, brown recluse spiders, scorpions, chiggers, and other poisonous arachnids that can cause numerous ailments, including Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The early detection and treatment of bites can prevent permanent damage to you, your family, and your pets. Updated with the most recent medical information on Lyme disease, this is the essential handbook for parents, gardeners, pet owners, campers, hikers, hunters, and anyone else who is vulnerable to ticks and other biting insects.
Inside you'll find:
* How to identify the ticks, scorpions, spiders, and mites in your area
* The warning signs of Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and other ailments and how to treat them
* Ways to prevent contact with these outdoor pests and how to avoid getting bitten
* The myths about ticks and poisonous spiders
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A Perfect Harmony - Intertwining Lives of Animals and Humans Throughout History Caras, Roger
Simon & Schuster Trade Paperback New copy
Roger A. Caras's exhilarating exploration of the enduring ties between man and beast brings to light the far reaching impact domesticated animals have had on the course of human civilization.
Spanning centuries of history, Caras discusses in fascinating detail such events as the domestication of goats and sheep, which led to the birth of agriculture by enabling wandering tribes to settle in one place. He writes of the role of the camel in bringing about the meeting of Eastern and Western cultures. The aid horses, donkeys, and other beasts of burden have given in everything from construction to transportation, vastly reducing human toil and hardship; and the often underestimated contributions of the dog, who has served not only as a faithful friend, but as a diligent herder, hunter, and guard.
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Aardvarks To Zebras Tulin, Melissa S.
MJF Books 1995 1567312438 / 9781567312430 1st Edition Hardcover, DJ New copy 286 pages
Everything you've ever wanted to know about animals - and everything you never knew you wanted to know about animals - is all here in this funny, fascinating, ferociously entertaining one-volume encyclopedia of animal fact and fiction. You'll meet slithering snakes and stately swans, enormous elephants and miniscule mosquitoes, cuddly koalas and primitive primates. You'll learn how they eat, how they mate, and how they spend whatever time they have left. And when you're finished with the facts, you'll move on to the fantasies: animals in myths and folklore, in superstition and religion, in literature and movies.
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Adventure Vacations For Animal Lovers Ocko, Stephanie
Citadel Press 0806525983 / 9780806525983 Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Filled with practical tips on food, lodging, transportation, and health and safety, Adventure Vacations for Animal Lovers will lead travelers on their vacation of a lifetime.
If you are an animal lover, thee are scores of opportunities for you to spend your vacation time on unforgettable and fascinating animal-themed adventures. Some examples:
* Enjoy lions, giraffes, elephants and zebras on an awe-inspiring SAfari
* Visit animal rescue sanctuaries
* Drive cattle through Colorado or tend sheep in New Zealand
* Observe, catch and band exotic birds
* Spend the night at the Zoo
*Swim with dolphins, manatees or sharks in the Florida Keys
* Vacation in places where your pet is welcomed
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African Pygmy Hedgehogs Yearbook Dennis Kelsey-Wood
TFH 079381975X / 9780793819751 Magazine format, 64 pages
The African Pygmy Hedgehog is capturing the hearts of thousands of animal lovers. These people need fast, reliable information. This book, published and distributed in a magazine format, brings you the latest, up-to-date techniques in keeping pygmy hedgehogs alive and healthy. It contains everything you need to know about the selection, care, breeding and feeding of pygmy hedgehogs in your own home.
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Angell Memorial Animal Hospital Book of Wellness and Preventive Care for Dogs Darlene Arden
McGraw-Hill 0071438025 / 9780071438025 New Softcover
Angell Memorial Animal Hospital recognized the importance of wellness early on and was one of the first institutions to initiate a wellness program for pets. The hospital's esteemed staff of veterinarians explains how you can put Angell Memorial's renowned, medically proven formula to work for your dog. You'll also learn how to customize the plan to fit your dog's individual needs. Discover how to help your dog lead a longer, healthier, and happier life. you - and your dog - will be glad you did!
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Animal Antics - A Photo Expose Lund, John
Andrews McMeel 2002 0740727001 / 9780740727009 Hardcover, DJ, New copy 74 pages
Ever wonder what really goes on among our four-legged friends after we leave the room? In Animal Antics, the secret is finally out. The animals are having a ball - and reading this book, you will too. Cats ride scooters, ducks dance the cancan, beagles lounge at the spa, and, yes, dogs do play poker! Behind this shocking expose is veteran photographer (and digital-manipulation wizard) John Lund. Lund uses amazing digital sleight of hand to endow a menagerie of animals with eerily and uncannily human qualities. The text of the book is equally playful with tasty morsels of advice like "Learn to pamper your soul," "Sharpen your survival skills," and "Chill out as needed." Many of the images in Animal Antics have been featured in a best-selling greeting card line of the same name.
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Animal Wisdom Susie Green
Cico Books 2005 1904991254 / 9781904991250 Softcover New copy
Animal Wisdom introduces the ancient ways of shamanism, a spiritual practice through which we can learn to 'journey' and discover our animal guides. We all have one or more animal guides, whose appearance brings a magical lesson. By increasing our senstivity to our animals, we begin to enrich our wisdom, heighten our intuitive powers and take the true path of the shaman. Included is a history of shamanic peoples, outlining their cultural beliefs and ceremonies to give a context and understanding of shamanism as a spiritual tradition.
You are also given practical advice on how you can embark on your own shamanic journey, through which you can meet your personal animal guide. Through journeying we can ask questions, solve problems, bring about healing and change our physical reality. Learn to perform simple journeying exercises, similar to some visualization techniques, to ask for higher wisdom. Guided journeys are included that tell you how you can reach the lower world, a world similar to our own to meet your power animal, or animal guide. You learn how to recognize your animal and what it represents to you. By studying the characteristics and strength of the animal you can learn more about your potential, and empower yourself to make the best of your future.
Also included is a dictionary of more than 120 animals, insects, and birds that we can encounter when journeying. It gives in-depth information on the animal - where it lives, how it hunts and mates, its characteristics and strengths and what it can symbolize for you if it is your current power animal, if you have seen it regularly, or if you are seeking that animal's 'medicine', or strength.
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Animals as Guides For The Soul McElroy, Susan Chernak
Ballantine Wellspring 0345424042 / 9780345424044 Softcover, 291 pages
In her New York Times bestseller Animals as Teachers and Healers, Susan Chernak McElroy movingly explored the wide and enriching horizons of human relationships with animals. In this new volume of reflections and true animal stories, she invites us to broaden and deepen that relationship.
While living with her husband and animals on a farm in Oregon, McElroy pondered the ancient bonds that connect humans and animals: the healing gifts of animals, the genius of people who talk to them, and the power of animal messengers. She also asked herself the tough questions that engage every true animal lover. How can we soothe our anguish and guilt when a loved animal suffers or dies? How do we atone for our mistakes? When are animals prisoners and when are they fulfilled? Is it moral to eat other beings? And how can we go about transforming our relationship with animals?
Through daily experiences with the animals around her and those in her dreams--along with compelling true stories sent to her by readers--McElroy began to find answers. She discovered that animals are guides in the development of our souls. A frail llama teaches lessons of joy and unconditional love; a barn cat proves that service need not be imprisonment but fulfillment; a mortally injured hawk infuses a cancer patient with renewed strength and faith; an attentive rabbit awakens an abused child from a trance of sadness; and a skinny white horse does more for a damaged six-year-old boy in one hour than any human has done in six years.
In this deeply personal yet universal testament to the profound connection between animals and humans, there is wisdom and blessing. As the author reminds us, the fingerprint of God is often a pawprint.
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Animals In Translation - Using The Mysteries Of Autism To Decode Animal Behavior Grandin, Temple
Scribner, 2004 0743247698 / 9780743247696 Hardcover, DJ New copy
Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation speaks in the clear voice of a woman who emerged from the other side of autism, bringing with her an extraordinary message about how animals think and feel.
Temple's professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have given her a perspective like that of no other expert in the field. Standing at the intersection of autism and animals, she offers unparalleled observations and groundbreaking ideas about both.
Autistic people can often think the way animals think -- in fact, Grandin and co-author Catherine Johnson see autism as a kind of way station on the road from animals to humans -- putting autistic people in the perfect position to translate "animal talk." Temple is a faithful guide into their world, exploring animal pain, fear, aggression, love, friendship, communication, learning, and, yes, even animal genius. Not only are animals much smarter than anyone ever imagined, in some cases animals are out-and-out brilliant.
The sweep of Animals in Translation is immense, merging an animal scientist's thirty years of study with her keen perceptions as a person with autism -- Temple sees what others cannot.
Among its provocative ideas, the book:
* argues that language is not a requirement for consciousness -- and that animals do have consciousness
* applies the autism theory of "hyper-specificity" to animals, showing that animals and autistic people are so sensitive to detail that they "can't see the forest for the trees" -- a talent as well as a "deficit"
* explores the "interpreter" in the normal human brain that filters out detail, leaving people blind to much of the reality that surrounds them -- a reality animals and autistic people see, sometimes all too clearly
* explains how animals have "superhuman" skills: animals have animal genius * compares animals to autistic savants, declaring that animals may in fact be autistic savants, with special forms of genius that normal people do not possess and sometimes cannot even see
* examines how humans and animals use their emotions to think, to decide, and even to predict the future * reveals the remarkable abilities of handicapped people and animals
* maintains that the single worst thing you can do to an animal is to make it feel afraid
Temple Grandin is like no other author on the subject of animals because of her training and because of her autism: understanding animals is in her blood and in her bones.
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Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance Stephen Herrero
Lyons Press 2004 0941130827 / 9780941130820 Softcover New copy
What causes bear attacks? When should you play dead and when should you fight an attacking bear? What do we know about black and grizzly bears and how can this knowledge be used to avoid bear attacks? And, more generally, what is the bear's future?
Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching landmark study of the attacks made on men and women by the great grizzly and the occasionally deadly black bear. This is a book for everyone who hikes, camps, or visits bear country - and for anyone who wants to know more about these sometimes fearsome but always fascinating wild creatures.
For anyone planning a journey in bear country, this book should be required reading
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Beauty in the Beasts - True Stories of Animals Who Choose to do Good Von Kreisler, Kristin
Tarcher/Putnam 2001 158542093x / 9781585420933 First Hardcover, with jacket New 226 pages
In Beauty in the Beasts, animal advocate and writer Kristin von Kreisler combines provocative scientific findings with a compassionate understanding of the natural world to offer clear proof that animals are capable of experiencing strong feelings and that they can choose to express their emotions through behavior that is virtuous and moral. She tells the captivating, real-life accounts of cats, dogs, bears, horses, and other animals whose actions speaks volumes.
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Bond for Life Emotions Shared By People and Pets Josephine Wills & Ian Robinson
Mitchell Beazley 2000 1840002689 / 9781840002683 Hardcover, DJ New
Bond for Life celebrates the rich and complex bond between people and their pets around the world and throughout time. Using captivating and evocative photographs, together with inspiring quaotations taken from literature and from life, the book explores the whole range of emotions felt by people about their pets.
The book begins with a comprehensive review of the history of animals as part of human life from ancient times to the present day. It charts the evolution of the domestication of some animals, in particular dogs and cats, and traces the gradual shift in their primary function from working animals and objects of worship to much loved pets kept purely for companionship and pleasure. In addition, the astonishing beneficial effects pets can have on the well-being and emotional development of children and adults alike are explored, from lowering blood pressure to increasing independence. The evocative imagery and carefully selected quotations appeal to the senses and speak touchingly of the lasting and profoundly positive effects that pets have had on our lives. Although cultural differences in attitudes emerge, the sheer universality of human emotions and the special relationship enjoyed between people and their pets around the globe is striking.
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Casanova's Parrot And Other Tales of the Famous and Their Pets Bryant, Mark
Carroll & Graf 0786710926 / 9780786710928 Hardcover, DJ 243 pages New copy
Those intrigued by the arcane, unusual, and just plain weird will be amused by this quirky collection of tidbits concerning the famous and infamous and the animals who shared their lives. From historical titans such as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra to literary greats such as Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker, Bryant uses personal stories to bring to light fascinating anecdotes designed to remind us that, yes, they might be giants but they still respond to comforting creatures just like mere mortals. Although many stories recount acts of phenomenal devotion both given and received, in trotting out a veritable zoo of bizarre pets such as scorpions, bats, skunks, and even a leash-trained lobster, Bryant seems to confirm that the prominent can be a little peculiar, too.
A treasure trove for the trivia buff, research hound, or anyone wishing to bestow a memorable moniker on his or her own lovable mutt.
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Celebrity Pets Tell All lai Ubberud
Atria 2006 1582701555 / 9781582701554 Softcover New copy
The scandal sheets and gossip magazines fabricate stories about who is sleeping with whom and who is getting divorced, or pregnant, or suffering from some exotic disease. Instead of depending on these very unreliable sources for her celebrity fix, psychic Lai Ubberud is going straight to a genuine source - their pets.
Did you know:
* Tinkerbell's disappearance may not have been an accident?
* El Alamein and Little Man miss their Gipper?
* Max is hopeful that George will find the right lady?
Read, learn, and smile your way through this charming and beautifully illustrated book to see just what Paris Hilton's delightful dog, Ronald Reagan's regal horses, and George Clooney's potbellied pig think about their owners' quirks, habits, and dislikes.
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7.15 USD
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Country Matters Michael Korda
HarperCollins 1st Edition 2001 0060197722 / 9780060197728 Hardcover, DJ Clean used copy
With his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country.
At once entertaining, canny, and moving, Country Matters does for Dutchess County, New York, what Under the Tuscan Sun did for Tuscany. This witty memoir, replete with Korda's own line drawings, reads like a novel, as it chronicles the author's transformation from city slicker to full-time country gentleman, complete with tractors, horses, and a leaking roof.
When he decides to take up residence in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Dutchess County, ninety miles north of New York City, Korda discovers what country life is really like:Owning pigs, more than owning horses, even more than owning the actual house, firmly anchored the Kordas as residents in the eyes of their Pleasant Valley neighbors.You may own your land, but without concertina barbed wire, or the 82nd Airborne on patrol, it's impossible to keep people off it!It's possible to line up major household repairs over a tuna melt sandwich.And everyone in the area is fully aware that Michael "don't know shit about septics."
The locals are not particularly quick to accept these outsiders, and the couple's earliest interactions with their new neighbors provide constant entertainment, particularly when the Kordas discover that hunting season is a year-round event - right on their own land! From their closest neighbors, mostly dairy farmers, to their unforgettable caretaker Harold Roe - whose motto regarding the local flora is "Whack it all back! " - the residents of Pleasant Valley eventually come to realize that the Kordas are more than mere weekenders.
Sure to have readers in stitches, this is a book that has universal appeal for all who have ever dreamed of owning that perfect little place to escape to up in the country, or, more boldly, have done it.
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Cyclopedia Anatomicae Gyorgy Feher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2006 1579125913 / 9781579125912 Softcover New
Designed for both professional and amateur artists, Cyclopedia Anatomicae is an essential guide to mastering the fundamentals of anatomical drawing. In addition to the human figure, it covers horses, dogs, cats, pigs, apes and more. Detailed, fully annotated illustrations of the skeletal, joint, and muscular systems clarify the proportions of each body type and lay the foundation for reproducing movements with true-to-life accuracy. With more than 1,500 illustrations, tips on drawing techniques, and informative explanations of the basics on human and animal anatomy, Cyclopedia Anatomicae provides the helpful guidance any artist can use.
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