Archive for January, 2010
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Filed in Animals
what animal proved to be much faster than a horse in a 1927 race in Sydney, Australia?
It was a kangaroo – it ran onto the race track and ended up passing the finishing line before all the horses.
Race horse jumps into crowd: Dramatic amateur video
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Alice and the Dodo Photo Mugs Alice and the Dodo — the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble saying, We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble. …. |
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Ancient Greek Chariot Photo Mugs An Ancient Greek chariot race. …. |
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Ascot Races 1912 Photo Mugs Fashionable and not-so- fashionable spectators line the Ascot course …. |
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U.F.O’s At The Zoo – The Legendary Concert In Oklahoma City $5.77 You might not realize that the Flaming Lips are the direct descendants of both KISS and the Parliament/Funkadelics, but after watching this almost two-hour hometown performance at the Oklahoma City Zoo, there will be no doubt in your mind. And that’s not just because the band members are wearing comic book outfits and make a showy decent to the stage from a homemade space ship–although they do th… |
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1994 Royal Tournament $16.98 … |
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The Rescue of Belle and Sundance (Hardcover) $14.59 Shares the story of the rescue of two starving and frostbitten packhorses, first spotted by snowmobilers in December 2008 among the Canadian Rockies and subsequently rescued by a town of volunteers which involved digging a snow trench six feet deep and… |
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Wii – Calvin Tucker`s Redneck Racing – By Zoo Games $20.21 Calvin Tucker`s Redneck: Farm Animal Racing Tournament is a wacky kart game with loads of typical redneck humor. Their crazy organized tournaments bring them from the Farm to the tropical Pirate Island, from the Polar North to Egypt and from inside the… |
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Cabela`s Outdoor Adventures $15.9 Cabela`s Outdoor Adventures features North America`s top outdoor destinations, over 50 hunting and fishing adventures and intensive use of gear and tactics, such as animal calls and stealth skills. Emphasis is placed on moments that are instinctively a… |
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The Great Race of the Birds and Animals $6.92 A retelling of the Cheyenne and Sioux story of the great race between the animals and humans, in which people won, and now have the responsibility of caring for the animals. |
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Wii – Cabela’s 09 Dangerous Hunts $16.55 Cabela`s Dangerous Hunts 2009 puts players in bone chilling, pressure-packed hunting situations as they seek out savage animals in the world`s most dangerous locations.Players will face raw danger as they encounter the fiercest animals o… |
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Barrel Racing for Fun and Fast Times (Hardcover) $17.66 Barrel racing, in which horse and rider gallop in a cloverleaf pattern around three barrels, is the fastest-growing rodeo event. Author Sharon Camarillo, a successful contestant-turned trainer, teacher, and commentator, presents a comprehensive program… |
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Horse in Virginia (Hardcover) $25.95 Virginia has a 400-year equine tradition reaching back to the days when English planters first brought their love of racing and fast horses to the area, and Campbell (communication and public affairs, Washington and Lee University) has written a beauti… |
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Horses $6.88 More than 500 pictures create a complete portrait of horses in all their beauty. Images showcase sleek thoroughbreds and sturdy draft horses, convey the excitement of horse shows and racing, depict life on the ranch and in the field, and evoke the sp… |
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Not a Box (Hardcover) $14.74 A bunny with imagination and vision is up to all sorts of playtime fun with what some ignorant people might think is simply a plain cardboard box. But for this fluffy kid, it`s a race car, a mountain, and even a burning building. Will the rabbit ever b… |
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The Big Twitch $12.58 As a self-proclaimed twitcher-a birdwatching extremist who travels around the country trying to catch a glimpse of as many species of birds as possible-the author took a year off in 2002 with the goal of seeing 700 birds and thereby breaking … |
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Superdove $18.77 An evolutionary and cultural history of the pigeon takes readers from the dovecotes of ancient Egypt and trenches of World War I to the pigeon-racing societies and city park benches of the modern world, in an account that explores the pigeon`s role as … |
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Racing Stripes/Kangaroo Jack $12.88 RACING STRIPES: A cute zebra foal gets separated from his circus and is adopted by a horse trainer (Bruce Greenwood) in this live action talking-animal tale. Stripes (voiced by Frankie Muniz) is adopted by the trainer`s tomboy daughter (Hayden Panett… |
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The Great Fairy Race (Paperback) $3.95 In the Great Fairy Race, no fairy can use her own wings or legs, and so they compete on various animals and contraptions as each tries to prove she is fastest, but all run into a mess of trouble, except Lily, who creeps along atop a snail. Simultaneous… |
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Pigeons $10.86 An intriguing study of pigeons and the people who both love and loathe them provides a close-up look at the natural history of this ubiquitous bird, journeying across the U.S. and Europe to explore the world of pigeon racing and breeding, the radica |
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Racing Stripes/My Dog Skip (DVD) $9.85 RACING STRIPES: A cute zebra foal gets separated from his circus and is adopted by a horse trainer (Bruce Greenwood) in this live action, talking animal tale. Stripes (voiced by Frankie Muniz) becomes adopted by the trainer`s tomboy daughter (Hayden Pa… |
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Cat and Rat $8.9 To select the animals of the zodiac, the Jade Emperor has called for a race between all the animals. Full-color illustrations. |
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A Child`s Alaska (Paperback) $8.56 A Child`s Alaska is a visual feast for young adventurers who want to see for themselves what makes the Last Frontier so special. From totem poles to summer berry-picking from sled dog racing to wild animals they may see, this educational… |
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John Henry $11.54 Now in paperback, John Henry continues to entertain horse racing and sports fans with its true rags to riches tale. A plain brown, small, bad-tempered animal, John Henry was the horse no one wanted until he was purchased sight unseen for $25,000 b… |
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Winter World (Paperback) $10.87 Bernd Heinrich, National Book Award nominee for RACING THE ANTELOPE, examines all the ways Nature provides for its species to respond to the rigors of winter. Starting at the molecular level and evolving up to migratory patterns, WINTER WORLD collects … |
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Umbrella Summer (Paperback) $5.93 Annie Richards knows there are a million things to look out for—bicycle accidents, chicken pox, runaway zoo animals. That`s why being careful is so important, even if it does mean giving up some of her favorite things, like bike races with her… |
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What’s Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah? $6.92 If you want to win races, never race a cheetah–no animal on earth can run faster! A peregrine falcon can swoop faster than a cheetah can run, but that can’t even compare to an airplane, a rocket, or the speed of light. Full color. |
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Bill Frisell – Lookout For Hope [8/26] * $12.33 Disc 1:Lookout For HopeLittle Brother BobbyHangdogRemedios The BeautyLonesomeMelody For JackHackensackLittle BiggerAnimal Race, TheAlien Prints (For D. Sharpe) |
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100 Heartbeats (Hardcover) $16.29 Provides an urgent portrait of the animals that are only a few heartbeats away from extinction due to habitat loss and human exploitation, as well as inspiring stories of conservation efforts. |
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Legacies Of The Turf $22.53 With Volume 2 of Legacies of the Turf II Edward Bowen focuses on the men whose horses have dominated racing in the last half of the 20th century and into the 21st. He has woven together a rich tapestry of horse racing lore. |
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Ten Gifts from Santa Claus (Hardcover) $11.57 It`s Christmas Eve, and Santa has ten gifts to deliver to deserving baby animals all over the world. With the help of his fleet-footed reindeer, Santa flies across the globe to drop off his gifts. It`s a race against time as he hurries to deliver all t… |
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Wii – Monster Trucks Mayhem $10.82 Strap yourself in because it`s time for some Monster Trucks Mayhem! Enormous tires, incredibly powerful engines, and the shocking excitement of monster truck racing has come exclusively to Wii! Put the beasts to the test as you tear through some of t… |
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Jungle Jeep $10.93 Louie the Lion challenges Little Frog to race his jeep and the other animals ask if they can ride in the jeep, causing the jeep to get stuck in the mud. |
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Humanimal (Paperback) $27.91 HumAnimal explores the experience of dehumanization as the privation of speech. Taking up the figure of silence as the space between human and animal, it traces the potential for an alternate political and ethical way of life beyond la… |
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Humanimal (Hardcover) $78.05 HumAnimal explores the experience of dehumanization as the privation of speech. Taking up the figure of silence as the space between human and animal, it traces the potential for an alternate political and ethical way of life beyond la… |
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Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack (Hardcover) $13.36 This alphabetical romp stars Duck, of DUCK FOR PRESIDENT fame, as he races around the farm with a note that was specially typed by the cows. The story unfolds alphabetically as the day goes on, starting with “a, animals awake,” and “b, beneath blue bla… |
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Creep! Crawl! (Paperback) $4.9 A wordless picture book shows animals quietly racing or inching their way through nature. |
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A Gaggle of Geese and a Clutter of Cats $9.89 “Tidings of magpies,Ducks in a brace,Elks in a gang, in a galloping race.”This joy-filled romp through creation captures your child`s imagination with the silly-sounding (but true) names of animal groups. Rhy… |
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My Guy Barbaro (Paperback) $11.77 An uplifting personal account about a renowned jockey`s relationship with the nationally mourned former Triple Crown contender describes their first race together and the months they shared at the New Bolton Animal Hospital. Reprint. |
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Surprise! Surprise! (Board) $5.89 One lovely, lazy day in the meadow, rabbit decides it`s high time he and his animal friends plan something fun. He convinces the group to have a race, and off all the critters go, running faster and faster-to the collective big surprise … |
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La Tortuga Y La Liebre/ the Tortoise And the Jackrabbit $7.87 Many of the animals that live in the southwestern desert witness the race between slow but steady Tortoise and the quick, overconfident Jackrabbit, in a bilingual adaptation of the classic fable, set in the Southwest. |
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The Tortoise and the Jackrabbit (Hardcover) $11.1 Many of the animals that live in the southwestern desert witness the race between slow but steady Tortoise and the quick, overconfident Jackrabbit |
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Avalon the Warlock Diaries 3 (Paperback) $6.88 The race to find Avalon is on! It`s up to the warrior mage, Adriane, to lead the charge across the magic web and rescue the animals of Ravenswood before they are turned into minions of the evil warlock. The mages will need all the help they can get … |
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Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo (Reinforced Hardcover) $12.35 During her visit to the zoo, Felicity Floo wipes her red, runny nose and transfers the goo to the animals, in a cautionary tale that will have little ones racing off to wash their hands. |
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Michael Ian Black – Very Famous [PA] * $9.89 Disc 0:No track list availableDisc 1:Very FamousStrangers Don`t Find Me FunnyBanana NoisesPepperoniWorst Possible Conclusion, TheAmbien RacingSkydivingNo-Kill Animal Shel… |
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PSP – Blood Bowl $30.73 A brutal team sport unfolding in a parallel fantasy world based on Warhammer and American football, Blood Bowl invites gamers to form a team of players from races including: Orcs, Elves, Humans, Dwarfs and many other fantasy creatures, and launch thems… |
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The Jungle Run (Hardcover) $11.43 Being small can be best of all!”Here come the animals, one by one,all getting ready for the Jungle Run.Cub turns up to take her place,but the others say, `You`re too small to race.`”Cub may be little compared to the other anim… |
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Uncaged (Hardcover) $16.78 In a thrill a minute read, author Paul McKellips poses a frightening “what if” scenario that will leave the human race on the brink of certain disaster.   When a series of attacks on animal researchers leave several people dead… |
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Uncaged (Paperback) $11.54 In a thrill a minute read, author Paul McKellips poses a frightening “what if” scenario that will leave the human race on the brink of certain disaster.   When a series of attacks on animal researchers leave several people dead… |
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I Howl, I Growl (Board) $7.87 Join the lively creatures of the desert as they race, chase, howl, and growl across the pages of this clever board book. Bold Illustrations and catchy rhymes make this the perfect introduction to a wide range of animals living in the desert habitat. |
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Mini Racer (Hardcover) $17.71 Animals in a variety of fanciful vehicles, including a snail on a skateboard and rabbits in a carrot-car, race over a difficult course with a suspenseful and surprising outcome. |
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Go Fish $4.94 Thomas and his grandfather spend a peaceful day fishing and recalling family memories. Ink-wash illustrations accompany the text of this beginning chapter book. |
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1909 Animal Deaths: 1909 Racehorse Deaths, Salvator, Imp, Halma, Finasseur, Malacara, Azra $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Salvator (1886-1909) was an American thoroughbred race horse considered by many to be one of the best during the latter half of the 19th Century. Bred by Daniel Swigert of Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, Salvator was sired by Prince Charlie out of Salina (by the great Lexington). (Salvator was the last great horse Swigart would breed; his best stallions had grown old and died as so often happened to stud farms.) On his sire’s side he went back to the tremendous mare Pocahontas by Glencoe. On his dam’s side, through Lexington, he carried the blood of Boston sired by Timoleon sired by Sir Archie sired by Diomed. Unusual for the times, the dark chestnut with a large white blaze was born in 1886 in California. James Ben Ali Haggin had purchased his dam, Salina, and shipped her to his 44,000-acre (180 km) Rancho Del Paso with Salvator in utero. Haggin had made his money in the California Gold Rush of 1849, so much of it he was suddenly one of the wealthiest men in America, and he used his new wealth to establish the biggest horse breeding operation in world history. Aside from the thousands of grazing acres he owned in Arizona, New Mexico and Southern California, he headquartered at the Rancho del Paso near the present day city of Sacramento. He bought breeding horses from every state that bred fine thoroughbreds, as well as shipping them in from Ireland, Australia and England. Eventually he would buy Swigert’s Elmendorf Farm and move his headquarters there and add to it until he held 8,700 acres (35 km) of prime bluegrass. (Over time, and through several owners, this property was eventually broken up into stud farms like Spendthrift Farm, Greentree Stud, and others.) In the fall of 1887, Haggin’s eastern trainer, Matthew … More: |
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1910 Animal Births $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Pan Zareta, was a chestnut Thoroughbred racehorse born in the United States in 1910. She competed from Mexico to Canada, as well as in eight U. S. states. While she never won a significant race, and only once beat a top-level horse (Old Rosebud), she was still called “Queen of the Turf.” Bred by J. F. and H. S. Newman, from Sweetwater, Texas,Pan Zareta was born in 1910. Her sire was Abe Frank, and her mother was Caddie Griffith, who was sired by Rancocas. Pan Zareta’s lineage traced back to Hanover and Hindoo on her multiple stakes-winning sire’s side (Abe Frank), and to Leamington on her dam’s side (Caddie Griffith). Pan Zareta’s third dam on her mother’s side, a certain 1869 Texas born Mittie Stephens, caused a problem; Mittie Stephens was listed in the American Stud Book as a ‘non-thoroughbred’. Still, due to some complexities in the rulings, Pan Zareta was considered a Thoroughbred. It is interesting to note that neither Pan Zareta’s dam, Caddie Griffith, nor Pan Zareta herself appear in the American Stud Book. Known as “Panzy” (she was named for Panzy Zareta, the daughter of the once mayor of Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico), she traveled the country, appearing virtually anywhere, constantly competing. She was ridden by anyone handy and trained by an assortment of available conditioners–H.S. Newman, E. Foucon, and E.T. Colton are most frequently credited as trainers. She ran an astounding 151 races and won 76 of them–winning and starting in more races than any other mare in U.S. racing history. On 24 different tracks, she always carried higher weights than any of her rivals, males as well as females, often up to 140 pounds (she once carried an unheard of 146 pounds, giving away 46 pounds to the runner up.) She carried 1… More: |
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1949 Short Stories (Study Guide): Farmer Giles of Ham, Delilah and the Space Rigger, the Laughing Man, Mother Earth, the Aleph, the Zahir $19.99 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Farmer Giles of Ham, Delilah and the Space Rigger, the Laughing Man, Mother Earth, the Aleph, the Zahir, Finished, the Colorful Character, the Immortal, My Trial as a War Criminal, Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon, Marionettes, Inc., Gulf, History Lesson, the Entity, the Animal-Cracker Plot, the House of Asterion, Breaking Strain, the Red Queen’s Race, Backstage Lensman, Hide-And-Seek, Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed, the Exiles, Down at the Dinghy, the Forgotten Enemy, Not With a Bang, Poor Daddy, Averroes’s Search, Deutsches Requiem, the Peeler, Happy Ending, the Wait. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: “The Laughing Man” is a short story written by J. D. Salinger and originally published in The New Yorker magazine on March 19, 1949. It largely takes the structure of a story within a story and is thematically occupied with the relationship between narrative and narrator, and the end of youth. The story also appears in Salinger’s short story collection Nine Stories. The short story is told from the point of view of an unnamed narrator recounting his experience as a nine-year-old living in New York City in 1928, but largely takes the structure of a story within a story. As a member of a Boy Scout-like troop called the Comanche Club, the narrator comes into contact with a Scout leader called “The Chief,” a young law student at New York University (NYU) acting as caretaker in his spare time. The Chief is described as very handsome, and is widely respected by his troop for his athletic strength and storytelling ability. Every day, after the troop has completed its activities for the afternoon, The Chief gathers the boys for the next episode in an ongoing story he tells them about the eponymous Laughing Man. Very much in the format of a serial |
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1950s Comedy Films (Study Guide) $34.42 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Some Like It Hot, the Ladykillers, the Band Wagon, Father of the Bride, the Lavender Hill Mob, Harvey, a Bucket of Blood, the Court Jester, Mister Roberts, Animal Farm, Mon Oncle, Limelight, the Rose Tattoo, the Horse’s Mouth, Carry on Sergeant, You’re in the Navy Now, Artists and Models, the Mouse That Roared, Doctor in the House, Carry on Nurse, the Trouble With Harry, Rock-A-Bye Baby, the Girl Can’t Help It, Paris Holiday, the Prince and the Showgirl, Angels in the Outfield, Love Happy, 14 Carrot Rabbit, Hobson’s Choice, Father of Four, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, the Criminal Life of Archibaldo de La Cruz, I’m All Right Jack, Barbary Coast Bunny, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, the Solid Gold Cadillac, the Mating Season, Bedlam in Paradise, Encore, Holiday for Lovers, the Admiral Was a Lady, Carry on Teacher, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Grounds for Marriage, the Happy Time, the Counterfeit Coin, the Tender Trap, as Young as You Feel, Too Many Crooks, Penny Princess, Penny Points to Paradise, Beat the Devil, a King in New York, We’re No Angels, Barnacle Bill, Last Holiday, Scared Stiff, Bubble Trouble, Left Right and Centre, Jumping Jacks, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, the French, They Are a Funny Race, Hollywood or Bust, at War With the Army, Trouble in Store, Have Rocket, Will Travel, the Caddy, the Belles of St Trinian’s, Please Turn Over, Pendekar Bujang Lapok, the Man in the White Suit, Green Grow the Rushes, Laughter in Paradise, the Captain’s Paradise, Red Garters, Doctor at Sea, the Importance of Being Earnest, the Naked Truth, Our Man in Havana, Father’s Little Dividend, You’re Never Too Young, My Friend Irma Goes West, Smiles of… More: |
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1983 Animal Deaths: Ham the Chimp, El Mokhtar, Skateboarding Duck, Fadjur, Jill $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ham the Chimp, El Mokhtar, Skateboarding Duck, Fadjur, Jill. Excerpt: item Horse infobox last updated on: January 13, 2008. item Horse (Equus ferus caballus ) end{sloppypar El Mokhtar (February 9, 1971 December 31, 1983) was an Arabian horse , and one of three black Arabian stallions used to portray “The Black” in the second Black Stallion film , The Black Stallion Returns . El Mokhtar was imported by a syndicate of American Arabian breeders in 1975. El Mokhtar was of “Egyptian Arabian” bloodlines, rarely shown, and originally not even broke to ride because he was considered so valuable. The American Arabian enthusiast knew him from a few ads in magazines, but no super-hype promotion surrounded his breeding career.The Black Stallion Shortly after his arrival in America, El Mokhtar was seen by The Black Stallion author Walter Farley . An offer was made for El Mokhtar’s services for the role of ‘The Black’ for the first Black Stallion film , but it was firmly declined by his syndicate. Black Stallion trainer Corky Randall also liked El Mokhtar, and, at Randall’s urging, the movie studio bought out the entire 40-member syndicate in order to secure El Mokhtar for the second Black Stallion film.El Mokhtar was one of three black Arabian stallions used to portray the Black in the second film. The director loved his huge, expressive eyes, so he appears in several close-up shots. More important to the film was how El Mokhtar could run; he is the Black in the cross-country race. The native extras riding the other horses were urged to make a real race of it. The ‘come from behind’ win of ‘The Black’ is the product of a real race.El Mokhtar was also trained to do the ‘courting’ scenes with the gray gelding Talishma, who played the mare Johar in the film. Those scenes were |
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A Leader Of Light Horse $23.25 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:20 CHAPTER III. THE FIRST SIKH WAR. 1845-1846. After a somewhat stormy voyage of about three months, remarkable chiefly for the death of his favourite little dog,1 and utilised by himself in the reading of many books and gaining some little knowledge of Hindustani, William Hodson landed at Calcutta on August 20, 1845. At Madras a few weeks earlier he had been kindly received by the Governor and his family, with whom he spent some pleasant days, in spite of the weather and a touch of illness. ” It is hot enough, certainly,” he writes home; “but this house is delightful, and the people very kind. Their house being full, I sleep in a large tent pitched on the lawn or compound outside, which is both pleasant and cool.” He was “much disappointed with the natives. I fancied them a much finer race. At a distance they are picturesque enough, but they are not contrived for a near view.” The climate of Calcutta he found ” very trying: hot rains and close stifling weather, which reduces one’s strength terribly.” Sir Lawrence Peel, Arch- 1 The poor little creature had been shut up during a gale, and afterwards fell into convulsions from excess of joy at seeing its master again. deacon Dealtry, John Peter Grant, Frederick Currie, and Sir Herbert Maddock were among the acquaintances whom he then made. Two happy days of September were spent by him at Garden Reach, in the house of his new friend Sir Lawrence Peel, then Chief Justice of Bengal. Hodson justly speaks of him as ” a thoroughly nice agreeable man,” and feels “quite a different animal after two days spent in comfort and comparative freedom from heat.” After three weeks spent in the city of palaces Hodson began his voyage by steamer up the country towards Agra, then the capital of the North-West Provinces. Here on Oc… |
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A Leader Of Light Horse $24.37 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:20 CHAPTER III. THE FIRST SIKH WAR. 1845-1846. After a somewhat stormy voyage of about three months, remarkable chiefly for the death of his favourite little dog,1 and utilised by himself in the reading of many books and gaining some little knowledge of Hindustani, William Hodson landed at Calcutta on August 20, 1845. At Madras a few weeks earlier he had been kindly received by the Governor and his family, with whom he spent some pleasant days, in spite of the weather and a touch of illness. ” It is hot enough, certainly,” he writes home; “but this house is delightful, and the people very kind. Their house being full, I sleep in a large tent pitched on the lawn or compound outside, which is both pleasant and cool.” He was “much disappointed with the natives. I fancied them a much finer race. At a distance they are picturesque enough, but they are not contrived for a near view.” The climate of Calcutta he found ” very trying: hot rains and close stifling weather, which reduces one’s strength terribly.” Sir Lawrence Peel, Arch- 1 The poor little creature had been shut up during a gale, and afterwards fell into convulsions from excess of joy at seeing its master again. deacon Dealtry, John Peter Grant, Frederick Currie, and Sir Herbert Maddock were among the acquaintances whom he then made. Two happy days of September were spent by him at Garden Reach, in the house of his new friend Sir Lawrence Peel, then Chief Justice of Bengal. Hodson justly speaks of him as ” a thoroughly nice agreeable man,” and feels “quite a different animal after two days spent in comfort and comparative freedom from heat.” After three weeks spent in the city of palaces Hodson began his voyage by steamer up the country towards Agra, then the capital of the North-West Provinces. Here on Oc… |
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A Leader Of Light Horse; Life Of Hodson Of Hodson’s Horse $26.81 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:20 CHAPTER III. THE FIRST SIKH WAR. 1845-1846. After a somewhat stormy voyage of about three months, remarkable chiefly for the death of his favourite little dog,1 and utilised by himself in the reading of many books and gaining some little knowledge of Hindustani, William Hodson landed at Calcutta on August 20, 1845. At Madras a few weeks earlier he had been kindly received by the Governor and his family, with whom he spent some pleasant days, in spite of the weather and a touch of illness. ” It is hot enough, certainly,” he writes home; “but this house is delightful, and the people very kind. Their house being full, I sleep in a large tent pitched on the lawn or compound outside, which is both pleasant and cool.” He was “much disappointed with the natives. I fancied them a much finer race. At a distance they are picturesque enough, but they are not contrived for a near view.” The climate of Calcutta he found ” very trying: hot rains and close stifling weather, which reduces one’s strength terribly.” Sir Lawrence Peel, Arch- 1 The poor little creature had been shut up during a gale, and afterwards fell into convulsions from excess of joy at seeing its master again. deacon Dealtry, John Peter Grant, Frederick Currie, and Sir Herbert Maddock were among the acquaintances whom he then made. Two happy days of September were spent by him at Garden Reach, in the house of his new friend Sir Lawrence Peel, then Chief Justice of Bengal. Hodson justly speaks of him as ” a thoroughly nice agreeable man,” and feels “quite a different animal after two days spent in comfort and comparative freedom from heat.” After three weeks spent in the city of palaces Hodson began his voyage by steamer up the country towards Agra, then the capital of the North-West Provinces. Here on Oc… |
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A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems $12.99 In a watery mirror the rugged raccoon admires his face by the light of the moon: the mysterious mask, the whiskers beneath, the sliver of cricket still stuck in his teeth. Take a lighthearted romp through four seasons in the forest with these whimsical poems. Marvel at the overachieving beaver, applaud the race-winning snail and its perfect trail of slime, or head off to be pampered at a squirrel spa. Warning: Deborah Ruddell’s quirky cast of animal character |
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Animal And Plant Lore – Collected From The Oral Tradition Of English Speaking Folk $27.16 It would be difficult to overstate the antiquity of the folklore of animals and plants. Certainly prehistoric, it is very possible as old as the human race. For one cannot imagine human beings, even of the most primitive type, without a set of beliefs in regard to the other living things by which they are surrounded. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900’s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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Animal Racing: Camel Racing, Hamster Racing, Yak Racing, Snail Racing, Mouse Racing, Pony Racing, Turtle Racing, Pig Racing, Cockroach Racing $9.25 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Camel Racing, Hamster Racing, Yak Racing, Snail Racing, Mouse Racing, Pony Racing, Turtle Racing, Pig Racing, Cockroach Racing, Caracu. Excerpt: Hamster racing is a sport in which hamsters are placed in hamster wheels or hamster balls — often fitted to miniature racing vehicles — and raced down a straight 9 meter (30 ft) course. The hamster crossing the finish line in the shortest amount of time wins. According to a 2001 media report, the world-record time for this course setup is 38 seconds. Events may feature as few as two hamsters or many teams of hamsters and human pit crews. Hamster balls may be simple spheres or feature many design modifications purported to increase the performance and style of the race vehicle. In the United Kingdom, gamblers can place bets on the outcome of hamster races through online bookmakers. In 2001, an epidemic of foot and mouth disease caused the cancellation of some British horse races and other sporting events. To boost their lagging bookmaking incomes, betting agencies introduced and promoted the concept of professional hamster racing. Online bookmaker Blue Square organized the first hamster racing series, with the rodents racing in hamster dragsters. A series of qualifying rounds were held over a week, with a final race. The event was webcast live on the internet and generated significant media interest, including full-page articles in the Daily Mail and Sun newspapers, as well as live reports on BBC London and Sky News. This high level of media interest was in part due to the cancellation of horse racing at the time. While largely confined to the United Kingdom, professional hamster racing has since made inroads in the United States and Asia. Race hamsters are almost always divided into at least two … More: |
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Animal Sportspeople by Canadian Province or Territory: Animal Sportspeople From Ontario, Roger Attfield, Richard Dos Ramos, James E. Day $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Animal Sportspeople From Ontario, Roger Attfield, Richard Dos Ramos, James E. Day, Stewart Elliott, Jim Elder, Josie Carroll, John Campbell, Marshall Cleland, Mark Frostad. Excerpt: Coronation Futurity Stakes (1975, 1994)Ontario Derby (1976, 1986, 2005, 2008)Autumn Stakes (1980, 1982, 1987)Plate Trial Stakes(1980, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992)Vigil Stakes (1981, 1987)Jammed Lovely Stakes (1983, 1993, 2001)Canadian Stakes (1984, 1994)Bessarabian Handicap (1985, 1986, 1993)Bison City Stakes (1986, 1990, 1993Sky Classic Stakes (1986, 1989, 2000)Woodbine Oaks Stakes (1986, 1994, 1997)Wonder Where Stakes (1986, 1988, 1999, 2001)Dance Smartly Stakes (1987)Durham Cup Stakes (1987, 1989, 1990, 2001)Canadian Derby (1987)Nassau Stakes (1987)Nearctic Stakes (1987, 1988)Achievement Stakes (1989, 1993)Princess Elizabeth Stakes(1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2002)Marine Stakes (1989, 1991, 1992, 1993)Woodbine Mile (1990, 1993)Connaught Cup Stakes (1990, 2001, 2007)Grey Breeders’ Cup Stakes (1991, 1994)Glorious Song Stakes (1992, 1995, 2000)Dominion Day Stakes (1995, 2001) Canadian Classic Race wins:Queen’s Plate(1976, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2008)Prince of Wales Stakes(1976, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2005)Breeders’ Stakes(1986, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2001) In the United States:Yellow Ribbon Stakes (1987)Pan American Handicap (1988)Carter Handicap (1993)Wood Memorial Stakes (1995)Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes (2003)Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes (2004)Roger L. Attfield (November 28, 1939 in Newbury, Berkshire, England) is a Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer and owner. In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrian competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970. Five years later he returned to the sport he loved and began w… More: |
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Annual Events in Liverpool: Grand National $9.05 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Grand National is a world famous National Hunt horse race which is held at Aintree in the United Kingdom. It is a handicap chase run over a distance of about 4 miles and 856 yards (approximately 7¼ km), and during its running there are thirty fences to be jumped. It is presently scheduled to take place each year on a Saturday afternoon in early April. It is the most valuable National Hunt event in Great Britain, and in 2009 it offered a total prize fund of £900,000. The race is popular amongst many people who do not normally watch or bet on horse racing at other times of the year. It is also one of the most controversial, due to the injuries and fatalities suffered by participating horses. This makes it a target for animal rights groups, which have campaigned to have it banned. In one hundred and sixty-two runnings of the race there have been eighty officially recorded equine fatalities, four of which came in one year, 1954. The race is run over two circuits of Aintree’s National Course, which is triangular in shape and on which there are sixteen fences. All, except The Chair and the Water-Jump, are jumped twice. Some fences are notorious for their severity, particularly Becher’s Brook and The Chair, although in recent years this severity has been much reduced due to pressure from various animal rights groups. The Grand National is the centrepiece of a three-day meeting, one of only four run at Aintree in the racing season. It is one of ten events reserved for live broadcast on UK terrestrial television under the ITC Code on Sports and Other Listed Events. It is estimated that the Grand National is watched worldwide by over 600 million viewers. The most recent running of the race took place on April 10, 2010, and was won by Tony McCoy and … More: |
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Another Foot In The Grave $4.56 Get ready for a quirky, whodunit novel that delivers heart-pounding excitement from the first chapter. Another Foot in the Grave has all the elements you’d expect from a first-rate murder mystery-kidnapping, gruesome killings, and a detective heroine that is willing to hunt down a serial killer that makes Hannibal Lector seem tame. Lieutenant Killian Shelleen finds her squad car at the local cemetery. Demolished by a group of teenage grave robbers, she believes the case to be a run-of-the-mill vandalism.With her crack homicide team known as the Zombie Squad and her trusty canine, Dracula, a horrific discovery is unearthed. The foot of a murdered girl is found in a freshly buried grave.Killian’s on a race with death as she and her detectives try to stop a madman from kidnapping and murdering young women in her quaint little town nestled in the San Francisco Bay area.Not only is this the biggest case of her life, but her romantic life is turned upside down by the new (and incredibly sexy) priest at her local church, Father Mason Denali.Can Killian rescue the killer’s latest victim before time runs out? Will she give in to the mutual attraction of a forbidden love? She’s in over her head and pulling out all the stops to solve the case and maybe, just maybe find the love of her life.Another Foot in the Grave is filled with unforgettable characters, sharp, observant writing and a cat and mouse chase that will keep you reading until the final pages.Formerly a technical writer in the corporate venue, Erin Allen now works in the real estate industry. A travel enthusiast and animal lover, she lives in Martinez, California.Ms. Allen is currentlywriting the second series of the Killian Shelleen murder mysteries. Another Foot in the Grave is her first novel. |
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Another Foot In The Grave $10.27 Get ready for a quirky, whodunit novel that delivers heart-pounding excitement from the first chapter. Another Foot in the Grave has all the elements you’d expect from a first-rate murder mystery-kidnapping, gruesome killings, and a detective heroine that is willing to hunt down a serial killer that makes Hannibal Lector seem tame. Lieutenant Killian Shelleen finds her squad car at the local cemetery. Demolished by a group of teenage grave robbers, she believes the case to be a run-of-the-mill vandalism.With her crack homicide team known as the Zombie Squad and her trusty canine, Dracula, a horrific discovery is unearthed. The foot of a murdered girl is found in a freshly buried grave.Killian’s on a race with death as she and her detectives try to stop a madman from kidnapping and murdering young women in her quaint little town nestled in the San Francisco Bay area.Not only is this the biggest case of her life, but her romantic life is turned upside down by the new (and incredibly sexy) priest at her local church, Father Mason Denali.Can Killian rescue the killer’s latest victim before time runs out? Will she give in to the mutual attraction of a forbidden love? She’s in over her head and pulling out all the stops to solve the case and maybe, just maybe find the love of her life.Another Foot in the Grave is filled with unforgettable characters, sharp, observant writing and a cat and mouse chase that will keep you reading until the final pages.Formerly a technical writer in the corporate venue, Erin Allen now works in the real estate industry. A travel enthusiast and animal lover, she lives in Martinez, California.Ms. Allen is currentlywriting the second series of the Killian Shelleen murder mysteries. Another Foot in the Grave is her first novel. |
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Applied Ethics $60 This volume collects a wealth of articles covering a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passive euthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences of human actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women, animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear arms race. The contributors are Thomas Nagel, David Hume, James Rachels, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael Tooley, John Harris, John Stuart Mill, Louis Pascal, Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, R.M. Hare, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Peter Singer, and Nicholas Measor. |
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Bahamian Music: Jonkonnu Parades, Music of the Bahamas, Junkanoo, Ripsaw Music, March On, Bahamaland, Compass Point Studios, Goombay $9.25 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jonkonnu, Junkanoo Jonkanoo, Jankunu, John Canoe or Johnkankus is a musical street masquerade, believed to be of West African origin, which occurs in many towns across the Caribbean every December 26 and New Year’s Day. The largest parade, Junkanoo, happens in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. The etymology is disputed, but the celebration may have been named for a West African chieftain or shaman among the Papaws or Popos tribes of West Africa in the early 1700s. It may have also been a creolization of the work ‘Njoku Ji’, the name of a yam Alusi (deity) of the Igbo people, of which Okonko, an Igbo secret society, parade in the name of, wearing masks bearing striking resemblance to the Jonkonnu masquerades. This theory is supported further by the fact that Igbo slaves were represented well in colonies where Jonkonnu was and is still being practiced significantly. Recorded names have included King John Conny, Prince Jean Konnu and dzon’ku nu (an African sorcerer persona plus “nu” meaning “man”). Brought to the Americas in the slave trade the tradition survived during the slave off days of Christmas night and New Years. The practice bears great resemblance to Pre-Christian European animist or “mumming” traditions that survived into the 19th century as Christmas traditions. A notable survivor being the Celtic Wren day. Both the Jonkonnu traditions and the Mummer’s involved covering the face in soot or ash, dressing in fanciful animal like garments such as the Cow Head and the Hobby Horse, and parading the streets with music before dawn on December 26. The soot or ash has since been interpreted by many as representing race and has also been frowned upon in some cultures. The Junkanoo street parade, occurs in many towns across The Bahamas every… More: |
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Brain On Fire $12.04 Let Professor Marsh take your brain on a roller coaster ride with a host of common sense solutions and dramatic innovations in a world that is changing ever more rapidly as we travel further into the 21st century. “Brain on Fire” provides over 80 of the professor’s columns written for the Midwest Voices section of the Kansas City Star. With expertise, humor and an unbounded imagination, he covers a wide range of topics including current issues in economics, education, energy, politics, foreign affairs and health. Marsh is Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Notre Dame and Visiting Professor of Econometrics and Statistics in autumn 2010 at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. The following selections provide a small sample:”Should California be allowed to create its own money?”"Flynn Effect, IQ scores and SAT scores: are our children smarter than we are?”"How to curb petro-dictators and promote green jobs.”"Why cavemen didn’t have weak bones.”"An energy plan for Congress: A dynamic, self-adjusting price floor for gasoline.”"H1-B visas, highly-skilled immigrants and our knowledge economy.”"Enhance financial security, cut income taxes with tax-deferred savings plan.”"Is calorie restriction a good defense against cancer?”"No-Eat-Day Diet: A good strategy or bad advice?”"Reprogram your subconscious mind to commit terrorism or lose weight.”"Darwin, race and racial attitudes in America.”"Is there more to our climate problems than just global warming?”"Afghanistan mirrors Chechnya, not Vietnam.”"Freedom and democracy in China.”"Stem cells and nanosurgery may change what it means to be human.”"Altering animal DNA: Would you like your dog to talk?” “Aliens have taken over Planet Earth” |
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Built for Speed: A Year in the Life of Pronghorn $24.95 North America’s fastest mammal, the pronghorn can accelerate explosively from a standing start to a top speed of 60 miles per hour—but it can also cruise at 45 miles per hour for many miles. What accounts for the speed of this extraordinary animal, a denizen of the American outback, and what can be observed of this creature’s way of life? And what is it like to be a field biologist dedicating twenty years to studying this species? In Built for Speed, John A. Byers answers these questions as he draws an intimate portrait of the most charismatic resident of the American Great Plains.The National Bison Range in western Montana, established in 1908 to snatch bison from the brink of extinction, also inadvertently rescued the largest known remnant of Palouse Prairie. It is within this grassland habitat—home to meadowlarks, rattlesnakes, bighorn sheep, coyotes, elk, snipe, and a panoply of wildflowers—that Byers observes the pronghorn’s life from birth to death (a life often as brief as four days, sometimes as long as fifteen years) and from season to season. Readers will also experience the vicarious pleasures of a biologist who is eager to race a pronghorn in his truck, scrutinize bison dung through binoculars, and peer through the gathering dusk of a rainy evening to count the display dives of snipe.A vivid and memorable tale of a first-rate scientist’s twenty-year encounter with a magnificent animal, the story of the pronghorn is also a reminder of the crucial role we can play in preserving the fleeting life of the native American grassland. |
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Chain Thinking: A Shep Harrington Smalltown Mystery $1.99 Syndey Vail, once a beautiful soap opera star, now has a passion for championing the rights of animals—but she keeps the controversial methods of her cause as shrouded as she keeps her partially disfigured face. Sydney enters lawyer-cum-detective Shep Harrington’s life in a cloud of dust and vanishes just as quickly, leaving behind two very different but strangely connected things: a chimpanzee and a murder.The chimpanzee is the young Kikora, whom Sydney liberated from her confining cage in a testing lab at DMI—a mega-medical conglomerate led by the hard-driving Howard Doring, who “apparently believes that the human animal has every right to exploit all living things.” At DMI, she and other chimps were used to test a new anti-obesity pill. The murdered victim, killed by a blow to the head, is Dr. Celia Stone, the DMI researcher in charge of Kikora. Soon Shep realizes that Kikora, left in his initially unwilling care, is not only stolen property, but the longer he keeps her, the more threatened his own freedom becomes—and the more often tough questions race through his head. What makes an animal property? What is the source of “human” rights? What about an animal whose only difference from humans is 1.6% of DNA, that can empathize and suffer like humans? The questions confuse Shep, who’s never had to think hard about them before. And the only answers he seems to find lie in the big brown eyes of a chimp called Kikora. Chain Thinking is a whodunit with a heart and a mystery with a message. Once the mystery is solved, there’s a whole lot more left to think about. Shep finds his answers. Will you find yours? Author Biography: Author Elliott Light grew up outside Washington, D.C. in McLean, Virginia. The small town of Lyle, Virginia, one of the settings of Chain Thinking, is his literary creation, and reflects a mixture of true life and fiction drawn from the place he grew up and the places his relatives and ancestors once |
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Chuckwagon racing $57.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chuckwagon racing is an equestrian rodeo sport in which drivers in a chuckwagon led by a team of Thoroughbred horses race around a track. The sport is most popular in the Prairie Provinces of Canada, where rival governing bodies, the World Professional Chuckwagon Association and the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association, are based. The most famous chuckwagon race in the world is held annually at the Calgary Stampede, where the total prize money for the ten-day event tops C$1 million. The sport is controversial as horses and drivers are occasionally injured or killed, prompting animal welfare groups to call for the sport to be banned. |
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Creatura $6 Part human. Part animal. These are the genetically-engineered races of the Creatura, the only survivors of a global pandemic, who slowly try to rebuild a world left empty and devastated by the death of the human race three hundred years before.Shana Feles, a scrappy Felinoid relic hunter, just wanted to finish the mission to the Buffalo ruins, collect her money, and maybe snuggle up to that cute medic Twilight. But then she and her friends stumble across an ancient secret dating from before the Pandemic. A secret some of her fellow Creatura will do anything–and kill anyone–to gain for themselves.In a perilous quest across a new American frontier, Shana’s small band of outcasts try to stay one step ahead of a murderous conspiracy to discover the last great secret of their creators–a secret that may threaten all Shana holds dear… |
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Creatura $10.72 Part human. Part animal. These are the genetically-engineered races of the Creatura, the only survivors of a global pandemic, who slowly try to rebuild a world left empty and devastated by the death of the human race three hundred years before.Shana Feles, a scrappy Felinoid relic hunter, just wanted to finish the mission to the Buffalo ruins, collect her money, and maybe snuggle up to that cute medic Twilight. But then she and her friends stumble across an ancient secret dating from before the Pandemic. A secret some of her fellow Creatura will do anything–and kill anyone–to gain for themselves.In a perilous quest across a new American frontier, Shana’s small band of outcasts try to stay one step ahead of a murderous conspiracy to discover the last great secret of their creators–a secret that may threaten all Shana holds dear… |
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Cyberneural Symbiote $15.42 The Baylor are a carnivorous race who, although advanced enough to launch orbital craft, were kept planet-bound due to constant tribal warfare and Family blood feuds. They were discovered, befriended, and given advanced technology by a well-meaning race who are now known as the Lost Race. The Baylor rewarded their benefactors with genocide then conquered and enslaved the other member races of the Lost Race’s budding space Alliance. Renewing their traditional governmental form of ‘the rule of the strongest’, the new Baylorian Empire then begins to expand its boundaries star by star. Years later, one of the survivors of a half plant, half animal race whose world is destroyed by kinetic and nuclear bombardment uses his race’s nanotech based abilities to leave his clan’s refuge beneath the crust of their destroyed world to study the expanding Baylorian Empire. After four Terran centuries of study, Sy’Byt arrives on Earth where he befriends the human native Draco Moon and presents him with a nanotech based, cyberneural implant. With the help of his alien mentor, Draco constructs duplicates of his nanobotic implant and presents one to every member of his family and a few close friends who wish to join him. In this way he builds an army of cyberhumans whose goal is twofold. Covertly feed advanced technology into the data systems and research notes of Earth’s scientists to ‘push’ the pace of advancement into space. The second major goal of the Cyber Warlocks and Witches is to remove a large number of human refugees, plants, and animals of Earth in case the Baylor openly invade before humans can advance enough to defend their world. Both of these goals must be done in completesecrecy for if the Baylor suspect that nanotechnology (which they do not possess and fear greatly) exists on Earth, the planet will suffer the same fate as Sy’Byt’s world. Complete surface destruction by kinetic and nuclear bombardment from orbit. |
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Drawn from the Plains: Life in the Wilds of Namibia and Moçambique $23.36 Lynne Tinley and her husband Ken, who is one of the leading ecologists in Africa, have devoted many years to a race against time. On the Etosha Pan, in the isolated and spectacular wildernesses of Namibia, and later on the other side of the continent at Gorongosa in Moçambique, they set out to gather information which was urgently needed if the natural ecological balances of these and other African parks and reserves were to be preserved.Living in the wilderness they discovered a wealth of wonders. Sketching this far-off world of risk and hardship in words and pictures Lynne conveys images of great beauty, controversial biology, anthropology and veld humour. Moreover she provides a vivid and entertaining account of how to raise a boy and girl in the bush. Together the family survives terrorist raids, charging hippo, elephant and lion, rabid dog bites, baboon spiders, gaboon vipers, acid-shooting beetles, alcoholic snails, dangling camel membranes, and the Fat Mouse. They eat elephant trunk Portuguese-style and termites cooked by bushmen. From Otjovasandu-”The place where the elephants come through”-to the wind-swept desert pan at Okaukuejo, to the Cheringoma Plateau, through burning midday mirage and freezing lion-roaring, baboon-sobbing nights, with great sensitivity and fatalism, and an eye for the peculiarities of those who live to survive in the outer reaches, Lynne Tinley records an incredible, fast-moving period of human and animal history. Peter BeardLong Island, New York(written at the Nahoon River Mouth, South Africa in 1979) |
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Elementals: Yaellia $16.82 “”You want power girl?”" the voice hissed, circulating through her mind like a venomous toxin. “”I can give you power. All I want in return is your being.”"Blissfully unaware to the unfathomable future in store for her, sixteen-year-old Jay Callahan makes her first new friends after moving house with her abusive mother. She along with new friends Sam, Aurora, Alex and Katelyn are pitched into a foreign world inhabited by a half human-half animal race, plagued with the chaos wrought by ‘Jnuro’. They must learn to control their strange new powers over the elements in order to help this once-peaceful world avoid ripping itself apart. But who really is Jay, and why can she so easily understand the language and people of this sporadic planet? |
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Employers’ Liability And Compensation To Workmen On The Continent $13.13 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:46 CHAPTER IV. FRANCE AND COUNTRIES GOVERNED BY THE CODE CIVIL.(a) TYTITHOUT entering into the vexed question of the date of the Lex Salica, or as to whether or not it contains traces of Roman influence, as has been suggested by M. Tardif and Dr. H. Brunner, it may be stated that it is generally accepted that this celebrated law is one of the oldest legal monuments of the Prankish race. The nature of early Teutonic legislation is too well known to need discussion. As was the case with most of the Anglo-Saxon laws, the Lex Salica was a regulation of self-redress, and was mainly a tariff. If such and such an injury is done, the wrong-doer pays so much. The master of a slave was the owner of a thing, and if injury was caused by his property to another he had to make good the damage, or pay a sum as fixed by law. It was the same whether the wrong was done by a slave or an animal (cap. xxvii. 4; xxxvii. 8). According to the strict wording of this enactment, the slave pays, but it is the master who bears the burdens, and is bound to repair the wrong (Lex Salica emendata, xlii. 14). The instances given in the Lex Salica are numerous, and (a) Whilst engaged in examining authorities for the early French law, I communicated with Professor Henri Beaune of Lyons, who was good enough to give me much valuable information. As a result of my enquiries he contributed two Articles to ” la Revue catholique des institutions et du droit,” which appeared in September and October, 1897. These articles introduced to me many texts with which I was hitherto unacquainted, and I beg to make my acknowledgments to Professor Beaune for much of the contents of the early part of this chapter, especially the part relating to the law of the Middle Ages, which is little more than a translation of pa… |
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Employers’ Liability and Compensation to Workmen on the Continent $24.98 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:46 CHAPTER IV. FRANCE AND COUNTRIES GOVERNED BY THE CODE CIVIL.(a) TYTITHOUT entering into the vexed question of the date of the Lex Salica, or as to whether or not it contains traces of Roman influence, as has been suggested by M. Tardif and Dr. H. Brunner, it may be stated that it is generally accepted that this celebrated law is one of the oldest legal monuments of the Prankish race. The nature of early Teutonic legislation is too well known to need discussion. As was the case with most of the Anglo-Saxon laws, the Lex Salica was a regulation of self-redress, and was mainly a tariff. If such and such an injury is done, the wrong-doer pays so much. The master of a slave was the owner of a thing, and if injury was caused by his property to another he had to make good the damage, or pay a sum as fixed by law. It was the same whether the wrong was done by a slave or an animal (cap. xxvii. 4; xxxvii. 8). According to the strict wording of this enactment, the slave pays, but it is the master who bears the burdens, and is bound to repair the wrong (Lex Salica emendata, xlii. 14). The instances given in the Lex Salica are numerous, and (a) Whilst engaged in examining authorities for the early French law, I communicated with Professor Henri Beaune of Lyons, who was good enough to give me much valuable information. As a result of my enquiries he contributed two Articles to ” la Revue catholique des institutions et du droit,” which appeared in September and October, 1897. These articles introduced to me many texts with which I was hitherto unacquainted, and I beg to make my acknowledgments to Professor Beaune for much of the contents of the early part of this chapter, especially the part relating to the law of the Middle Ages, which is little more than a translation of pa… |
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Evolution And Religion $15.96 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Altruism 13 with profound modifications of interpretation; modifications which in all probability will increase as man’s vision of truth enlarges. But one thing seems to be certain. The theory of a universal, remorseless struggle for existence between man and the more formidable of his animal foes does not square with the facts so far as we know them. For this is no transient, unimportant departure from the truth of the theory, such as we saw in the case of man’s short-sighted treatment of the buffalo, or of beneficent forms of bird life. This is no local, circumscribed mistake of only temporary effect. It seems to be fundamental. Metempsychosis appears to have been well-nigh universal as a belief, not alone among primitive man, not only in the Egyptian, Indian, and far Eastern civilizations, in the Chaldean, Persian, and Greek speculative beliefs; but it prevails even to-day in over one half of the human race. To say that man’s ignorance has caused it, that it has all been due to a mistake on man’s part, does not help out the theory in the least. Whatever the cause or causes, the theory does not seem to square with the facts. To upbraid man for his superstitious fears which have made us modify our mathematically precise theory would be to show even greater childishness in the way of intellectual petulance than he has shown in the way of childish fear. Altruism The same failure of our evolutionary theory to square directly and fully with the facts in the case, you willfind when you come to study the supposedly ruthless struggle between man and man. Between rival tribes, nations, and races, between rival families, or heads of families, this relentless strife appears to have been indeed true; but from the earliest dawn of history, since man was first forced into |
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Evolution And Religion $27.96 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Altruism 13 with profound modifications of interpretation; modifications which in all probability will increase as man’s vision of truth enlarges. But one thing seems to be certain. The theory of a universal, remorseless struggle for existence between man and the more formidable of his animal foes does not square with the facts so far as we know them. For this is no transient, unimportant departure from the truth of the theory, such as we saw in the case of man’s short-sighted treatment of the buffalo, or of beneficent forms of bird life. This is no local, circumscribed mistake of only temporary effect. It seems to be fundamental. Metempsychosis appears to have been well-nigh universal as a belief, not alone among primitive man, not only in the Egyptian, Indian, and far Eastern civilizations, in the Chaldean, Persian, and Greek speculative beliefs; but it prevails even to-day in over one half of the human race. To say that man’s ignorance has caused it, that it has all been due to a mistake on man’s part, does not help out the theory in the least. Whatever the cause or causes, the theory does not seem to square with the facts. To upbraid man for his superstitious fears which have made us modify our mathematically precise theory would be to show even greater childishness in the way of intellectual petulance than he has shown in the way of childish fear. Altruism The same failure of our evolutionary theory to square directly and fully with the facts in the case, you willfind when you come to study the supposedly ruthless struggle between man and man. Between rival tribes, nations, and races, between rival families, or heads of families, this relentless strife appears to have been indeed true; but from the earliest dawn of history, since man was first forced into |
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Evolution And Religion $13.37 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Altruism 13 with profound modifications of interpretation; modifications which in all probability will increase as man’s vision of truth enlarges. But one thing seems to be certain. The theory of a universal, remorseless struggle for existence between man and the more formidable of his animal foes does not square with the facts so far as we know them. For this is no transient, unimportant departure from the truth of the theory, such as we saw in the case of man’s short-sighted treatment of the buffalo, or of beneficent forms of bird life. This is no local, circumscribed mistake of only temporary effect. It seems to be fundamental. Metempsychosis appears to have been well-nigh universal as a belief, not alone among primitive man, not only in the Egyptian, Indian, and far Eastern civilizations, in the Chaldean, Persian, and Greek speculative beliefs; but it prevails even to-day in over one half of the human race. To say that man’s ignorance has caused it, that it has all been due to a mistake on man’s part, does not help out the theory in the least. Whatever the cause or causes, the theory does not seem to square with the facts. To upbraid man for his superstitious fears which have made us modify our mathematically precise theory would be to show even greater childishness in the way of intellectual petulance than he has shown in the way of childish fear. Altruism The same failure of our evolutionary theory to square directly and fully with the facts in the case, you willfind when you come to study the supposedly ruthless struggle between man and man. Between rival tribes, nations, and races, between rival families, or heads of families, this relentless strife appears to have been indeed true; but from the earliest dawn of history, since man was first forced into |
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Evolution And Religion $12.91 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Altruism 13 with profound modifications of interpretation; modifications which in all probability will increase as man’s vision of truth enlarges. But one thing seems to be certain. The theory of a universal, remorseless struggle for existence between man and the more formidable of his animal foes does not square with the facts so far as we know them. For this is no transient, unimportant departure from the truth of the theory, such as we saw in the case of man’s short-sighted treatment of the buffalo, or of beneficent forms of bird life. This is no local, circumscribed mistake of only temporary effect. It seems to be fundamental. Metempsychosis appears to have been well-nigh universal as a belief, not alone among primitive man, not only in the Egyptian, Indian, and far Eastern civilizations, in the Chaldean, Persian, and Greek speculative beliefs; but it prevails even to-day in over one half of the human race. To say that man’s ignorance has caused it, that it has all been due to a mistake on man’s part, does not help out the theory in the least. Whatever the cause or causes, the theory does not seem to square with the facts. To upbraid man for his superstitious fears which have made us modify our mathematically precise theory would be to show even greater childishness in the way of intellectual petulance than he has shown in the way of childish fear. Altruism The same failure of our evolutionary theory to square directly and fully with the facts in the case, you willfind when you come to study the supposedly ruthless struggle between man and man. Between rival tribes, nations, and races, between rival families, or heads of families, this relentless strife appears to have been indeed true; but from the earliest dawn of history, since man was first forced into |
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Freedom Spirit $3.99 What would you do if the fate of your friends and your entire race depended on you? Would you take the easy way out or face what would be almost certain death? These and many more questions and responsibilities weighed down on Tangorn. When the Senate enslaves his race and others, it is up to Tangorn and his friends to win their freedom from the Senate. If they fail it would mean a lifetime of slavery and possibly death. Throughout this twisting adventure packed with danger, action, romance, and betrayal it leads them to the one person in charge of it all, Slater. It is up to them to finally bring peace to their race and stop the Senate’s animal savagery before anymore innocent lives are harmed and they become unstoppable. Can their friendship, love, and the trust they have within themselves be enough to stop the monster that is the Senate? |
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Fundamentals of Animal Breeding and Genetics $97 This is a book written by one of the Practitioners in the field of Animal Breeding in Africa.The author delved into the History of Animal genetics, a documentary of African animal genetic resources, Breeding, selection, mating systems and some elements of statistics to assist lecturers, graduate and postgraduate students in this core area to enable them understand and apply genetic principles to animal improvement in Africa.It is about the application of breeding methods to achieve sustainable use of indigenous resources for the benefit of all and the future generation of the black race. The importance of agricultural research and the application of genetic principle to crop and livestock production in the West African sub-region cannot be overemphasized, the production of this book is intended to address this issue. Since existing animal husbandry books deal mainly with the subject of production in general or as applied to the temperate zones, a publication such as this which underlines the specific animal breeding and genetic improvement problems of the tropical areas is a welcomed proposition. |
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Go Out As A Boy, Come Back As A Man $7.89 The threat, “either convert to Islam or we will annihilate your race,” drives the Christian black tribes of southern Sudan to send their young boys ages 7 to 14 out of their homeland to fend for themselves in Ethiopia while a war rages with the Arab Muslims from northern Sudan. Deng Ding, one of the “Lost Boys” of Sudan, flees from his home at seven years of age along with 26,000 other young boys. Deng finds Jesus to be his faithful friend and protector as he sees more than half of his companions die from hunger and thirst, animal molestations, Arab Muslim raids, and hopelessness. Three years later, under attack in Ethiopia by the Eritrean Muslims, the boys flee to northern Kenya where The United Nations establishes Kakuma refugee camp for their protection.Baptized “Jacob”, Deng spends nine years at Kakuma where he earns a high school level education that secures him the opportunity to further his studies in the United States. Flying to Chicago is a grand adventure, but Jacob soon finds that he faces different enemies of discrimination. Overcoming them with God’s Word and forgiveness, Jacob has the opening he needs to win new souls for Jesus. |
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Immortal Damnation $14.88 ImmortalisDanielle has been part of top secret Project Immortalis long enough to know questions get you killed. The underground military complex she works at? Doesn’t exist. The source of her salary? Untraceable. All she knows is that she’s about to test the most radical theory ever developed. When the center finally catches a living, centuries-old vampire, they come one step closer to creating the ultimate weapon. For even if the vessel is irrelevant, his immortal blood holds the key. To Danielle though, he quickly becomes a problem. It’s not that she doesn’t believe in vampires. She does. No, Danielle’s problem is that whenever she’s in contact with this particular vampire, blood leaves her brain to fuel other parts better left dormant.For the past several centuries, Bjorn has hunted, prowled and waged wars. His motto is simple-bite, feed, let the carcass roll. After he’s ambushed like an animal and sedated he awakens at the heart of a military machine spinning out of control. And with them is the most enticing woman he’s ever seen. Her mind is like a diamond, clear and hard, and he knows it could cut through anything. Even his legendary cool.DamNATIONA species created by man to serve and obey. But we made a mistake…we gave it fangs.We designed them for our use. To wage our greedy wars, toil in our poisonous lunar mines. We made them pleasing to the eye so our children would not have nightmares, tall and strong and smart so they would adapt to environments never meant to sustain life. We thought we had created the perfect sub-species. Obedient. Disposable. How wrong we were.Helios stands alone. The first of a dying race. He has spent his life fighting to free hiskind. To avenge them. His world is a cold, desolate one that has never been touched by grace or light until a hot-tempered woman, a human, marches into his life, his home and his guarded heart. Through Dawn’s dry humor and passionate embrace, he learns to trust again and to love. But |
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Infants’ Clothing: Diaper, Swaddling, Romper Suit, Infant Bodysuit, Layette, Swim Diaper, Sleeping Bag, Diaper Genie, Infant’s Binder, Bootee $10.55 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Diaper, Swaddling, Romper Suit, Infant Bodysuit, Layette, Swim Diaper, Sleeping Bag, Diaper Genie, Infant’s Binder, Bootee, Pram Suit. Excerpt: Infant’s bootees A bootee (or bootie) is a short soft sock or bootlike garment used for warmth or protection. Bootees for babies are usually thick and knitted, to keep the baby’s feet warm. There are dog booties used by dogs such as sledge dogs in very cold Arctic conditions (see Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ) to protect the animal from the cold. Disposable socks, such as those worn for hygiene by surgical teams, are also called bootees. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at “Nappy” redirects here. For other uses, see Nappy (disambiguation) and Diaper (disambiguation) . For the geological term, see diapir . Disposable baby diaper with resealable tapes and elasticated leg cuffs. Different kinds of outer diapers. A diaper (in North America ) or nappy (in the United Kingdom , Ireland , Australia and many Commonwealth countries ) is a sponge-like garment worn by individuals who are incapable of controlling their bladder or bowel movements, or are unable or unwilling to use a toilet . When diapers become full and can no longer hold any more waste, they require changing; this process is often performed by a secondary person such as a parent or caregiver. Failure to change a diaper on a regular enough basis can result in diaper rash . Diapers have been worn throughout human history, and made of cloth or disposable materials. Whereas cloth diapers are composed of layers of fabric such as cotton or microfiber and can be washed and reused multiple times, disposable diapers contain absorbent chemicals and are thrown away after use. The decision to use cloth or disposable diapers is a controversial one, owing |
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Jeu Nintendo $31.4 Ce contenu est une compilation d’articles de l’encyclopédie libre Wikipedia. Pages: 413. Non illustré. Chapitres: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Professeur Layton et L’étrange Village, Advance Wars, the Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, the Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Liste Des Jeux Édités par Nintendo, the Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past, Super Mario Bros., the Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Advance Wars: Dark Conflict, Zelda Ii: the Adventure of Link, Mother 3, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Tetris, Earthbound, Wii Sports Resort, the Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Daigassō! Band Brothers, Balloon Kid, the Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Excitebike, Bs Zelda No Densetsu, Pilotwings, Rhythm Tengoku, Professeur Layton et La Boîte de Pandore, Tetris Attack, Famicom Tantei Club Part Ii: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shōjo, Bs Zelda No Densetsu Kodai No Sekiban, Another Code : R – Les Portes de La Mémoire, Wii Fit Plus, Yoshi’s Story, the Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Professeur Layton et La Flûte Du Démon, Kid Icarus, Panel de Pon, Wave Race 64, Punch-Out!!, Balloon Fight, Adventures of Lolo, the Legend of Zelda: Collector’s Edition, Tetris Dx, Dr. Mario, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, Pyoro, une Pause Avec… Faites de La Magie: Drôle de Tête, Clu Clu Land, Donkey Kong Jr., Urban Champion, Papier Volant, Tennis, Ice Climber, 1080° Snowboarding, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, Game & Watch Gallery 2, Golf, Duck Hunt, Professeur Layton et le Dernier Voyage Dans le Temps, Professeur Layton et le Masque Des Miracles, Gyromite, Dotstream, Famicom Grand Prix Ii: 3d Hot Rally, 3d Tetris, Famicom Tantei Club: Kieta Kōkeisha, Pro Wrestling, 1080° Avalanche, Popeye, Hogan’s |
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Jeu Nintendo 64: Starcraft, Duke Nukem 3d, Perfect Dark, Super Mario 64, the Legend of Zelda $39.1 Ce contenu est une compilation d’articles de l’encyclopédie libre Wikipedia. Pages: 1046. Non illustré. Chapitres: Starcraft, Duke Nukem 3d, Perfect Dark, Super Mario 64, the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, Goldeneye 007, Body Harvest, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Mario Kart 64, Liste de Jeux Nintendo 64, Rayman 2: the Great Escape, Quake, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, Banjo-Kazooie, Lylat Wars, Donkey Kong 64, Animal Crossing, Simcity 2000, Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber, Super Smash Bros., Re-Volt, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Mortal Kombat 4, Mario Party, Daïkatana, Wcw/nwo Revenge, Resident Evil 2, Pokémon Stadium, Star Wars Rogue Squadron, Diddy Kong Racing, Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, Pokémon Stadium 2, Kirby 64: the Crystal Shards, F-Zero X, Wcw Mayhem, Worms Armageddon, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, Vigilante 8, Quake Ii, Blast Corps, Banjo-Tooie, Operation Winback, Starshot : Panique Au Space Circus, Wcw Backstage Assault, Paper Mario, Lego Racers, Yoshi’s Story, Fifa 98 : En Route Pour La Coupe Du Monde, Mischief Makers, Wave Race 64, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, Tony Hawk’s Skateboarding, Wcw Vs. Nwo: World Tour, Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon 2, Sin and Punishment: Hoshi No Keishōsha, Donald Couac Attack !, Ecw Hardcore Revolution, F1 Racing Championship, Glover, Wcw Nitro, Nightmare Creatures, Daffy Duck Dans le Rôle de Duck Dodgers, 1001 Pattes, Wwf No Mercy, Carmageddon, Castlevania 64, Coupe Du Monde 98, Superman 64, Pilotwings 64, 1080° Snowboarding, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, South Park, Fifa 99, Mission Impossible (Jeu Vidéo, 1998), Mario Party 2, Top Gear Rally, San Francisco Rush 2049, South Park: Chef’s Luv Shack, V-Rally, F-1 World Grand Prix, Jet Force Gemini, Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker, Buck Bumble, Forsaken, Mario Party 3, Winnie |
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Lives of the Fur Folk $14.61 1910. The following, to a certain extent, are composite histories. At present our knowledge of the life of the individual wild animal is too limited to admit of anything else; but the incidents related are all founded on fact, and Redpad, Grimalkin, and the rest actually lived, although here they are sometimes credited with adventures which in reality befell others of their race. Wonderfully illustrated throughout. |
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Lonely Planet Career Break Book $1.99 Stop daydreaming at your desk, ditch the nine to five, say ciao to the rat race – take life by the scruff of the neck and give it a shake! Whether you want to pen a novel, gawp at migrating wildebeest, row the Atlantic or relax on a Goan beach, The Career Break Book is the guide for you.Questions you’ll ask – answered• What should I do with my house, mortgage, finances, pension, pets, car etc? • How can I ask my employer for time off? • What happens if I take my children out of school? • How will future employers view my career break? • What if I decide not to come back?Exciting ideas – and how to realize themWatch polar bears from a tundra buggy • Learn Thai massage at a monastery • Take a felucca up the Nile • Build a house or rent an island • Join the UN Volunteer Programme • Monitor animal populations for the US National Park Service • Write a best-seller • Sail around the Caribbean • Visit an ashram in Kerala • Take the Trans-Mongolian Express from Moscow to BeijingAll this and much more!Also… • Advice from career-breakers and industry experts • World map showing round-the-world trips • Essential trip-planning advice |
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Man and His Superstitions $28.95 1925. The first part of this work explains a hypothesis that the human race has descended from some ape-like stock by a series of changes which began and were maintained by the practice of hunting in packs for animal food, instead of being content with the fruits and other nutritious products of the tropical forest. The time came when hunting was no longer the chief means of livelihood and a group of men and women were kept together by belief in the magical powers of some of their number, enabling them to enforce the group’s customs and direct its movements. |
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Menotah $23.26 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III THE BUDDING OF A PASSION NEARER the outskirts of the mighty forest, where between the tree trunks might be caught, when the bushes sometimes parted beneath a slight gust of wind, a silvery flash of the sun-kissed river, two men stood side by side in earnest conference. Very dissimilar were they in every particular, save in the one important distinction of race. One was much bent by time’s heavy hand; the other enjoyed the full vigour of early manhood. This latter was tall and finely shaped ; his arms were like strong wire ropes, and swelled with blue muscles as he moved with the unconscious animal grace of the native; his dark-skinned face was clearly cut and set in firm lines of determination, while the keen eyes flashed and the nostrils expanded as he listened to the words of the shrunk figure at his side and gave him back reply. They were completely alone in this great solitude. Close behind there spread a thick tangle of bush, which gradually merged into the dark forest line, a luxuriant growth, which might readily have concealed many an invisible foe. But these men hadno fear of their own, and as for the hostile white —well, there were but very few of them, and these harmless, since they could not be suspicious of approaching danger. The old man slowly turned himself from the glowing face of the setting sun, and raised his wrinkled countenance heavily towards the powerful features of the young warrior. His cheeks were thickly painted with a lurid stain of carmine; theeffect of the unnatural colour upon the dried up flesh was ghastly to an extreme. His form was doubled together almost by infirmity and time, for the weight of over four score years was pressing him down to the grave. He extended and spread an almost fleshless hand upon the warm fl |
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Menotah $35.18 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III THE BUDDING OF A PASSION NEARER the outskirts of the mighty forest, where between the tree trunks might be caught, when the bushes sometimes parted beneath a slight gust of wind, a silvery flash of the sun-kissed river, two men stood side by side in earnest conference. Very dissimilar were they in every particular, save in the one important distinction of race. One was much bent by time’s heavy hand; the other enjoyed the full vigour of early manhood. This latter was tall and finely shaped ; his arms were like strong wire ropes, and swelled with blue muscles as he moved with the unconscious animal grace of the native; his dark-skinned face was clearly cut and set in firm lines of determination, while the keen eyes flashed and the nostrils expanded as he listened to the words of the shrunk figure at his side and gave him back reply. They were completely alone in this great solitude. Close behind there spread a thick tangle of bush, which gradually merged into the dark forest line, a luxuriant growth, which might readily have concealed many an invisible foe. But these men hadno fear of their own, and as for the hostile white —well, there were but very few of them, and these harmless, since they could not be suspicious of approaching danger. The old man slowly turned himself from the glowing face of the setting sun, and raised his wrinkled countenance heavily towards the powerful features of the young warrior. His cheeks were thickly painted with a lurid stain of carmine; theeffect of the unnatural colour upon the dried up flesh was ghastly to an extreme. His form was doubled together almost by infirmity and time, for the weight of over four score years was pressing him down to the grave. He extended and spread an almost fleshless hand upon the warm fl |
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Menotah $25.28 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III THE BUDDING OF A PASSION NEARER the outskirts of the mighty forest, where between the tree trunks might be caught, when the bushes sometimes parted beneath a slight gust of wind, a silvery flash of the sun-kissed river, two men stood side by side in earnest conference. Very dissimilar were they in every particular, save in the one important distinction of race. One was much bent by time’s heavy hand; the other enjoyed the full vigour of early manhood. This latter was tall and finely shaped ; his arms were like strong wire ropes, and swelled with blue muscles as he moved with the unconscious animal grace of the native; his dark-skinned face was clearly cut and set in firm lines of determination, while the keen eyes flashed and the nostrils expanded as he listened to the words of the shrunk figure at his side and gave him back reply. They were completely alone in this great solitude. Close behind there spread a thick tangle of bush, which gradually merged into the dark forest line, a luxuriant growth, which might readily have concealed many an invisible foe. But these men hadno fear of their own, and as for the hostile white —well, there were but very few of them, and these harmless, since they could not be suspicious of approaching danger. The old man slowly turned himself from the glowing face of the setting sun, and raised his wrinkled countenance heavily towards the powerful features of the young warrior. His cheeks were thickly painted with a lurid stain of carmine; theeffect of the unnatural colour upon the dried up flesh was ghastly to an extreme. His form was doubled together almost by infirmity and time, for the weight of over four score years was pressing him down to the grave. He extended and spread an almost fleshless hand upon the warm fl |
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Menotah: A Tale Of The Riel Rebellion (1897) $39.16 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III THE BUDDING OF A PASSION NEARER the outskirts of the mighty forest, where between the tree trunks might be caught, when the bushes sometimes parted beneath a slight gust of wind, a silvery flash of the sun-kissed river, two men stood side by side in earnest conference. Very dissimilar were they in every particular, save in the one important distinction of race. One was much bent by time’s heavy hand; the other enjoyed the full vigour of early manhood. This latter was tall and finely shaped ; his arms were like strong wire ropes, and swelled with blue muscles as he moved with the unconscious animal grace of the native; his dark-skinned face was clearly cut and set in firm lines of determination, while the keen eyes flashed and the nostrils expanded as he listened to the words of the shrunk figure at his side and gave him back reply. They were completely alone in this great solitude. Close behind there spread a thick tangle of bush, which gradually merged into the dark forest line, a luxuriant growth, which might readily have concealed many an invisible foe. But these men hadno fear of their own, and as for the hostile white —well, there were but very few of them, and these harmless, since they could not be suspicious of approaching danger. The old man slowly turned himself from the glowing face of the setting sun, and raised his wrinkled countenance heavily towards the powerful features of the young warrior. His cheeks were thickly painted with a lurid stain of carmine; theeffect of the unnatural colour upon the dried up flesh was ghastly to an extreme. His form was doubled together almost by infirmity and time, for the weight of over four score years was pressing him down to the grave. He extended and spread an almost fleshless hand upon the warm fl |
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Not a Chimp : The hunt to find the genes that make us human $14.95 Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes – chimpanzees closest of all. With the mapping of the human genome, and that of the chimp, a direct comparison of the differences between the two, letter by letter along the billions of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts of the DNA code, has led to the widely vaunted claim that we differ from chimps by a mere 1.6% of our genetic code. A mere hair’s breadth genetically! To a rather older tradition of anthropomorphizing chimps, trying to get them to speak, dressing them up for ‘tea parties’, was added the stamp of genetic confirmation. It also began an international race to find that handful of genes that make up the difference – the genes that make us uniquely human.But what does that 1.6% really mean? And should it really lead us to consider extending limited human rights to chimps, as some have suggested? Are we, after all, just chimps with a few genetic tweaks? Is our language and our technology just an extension of the grunts and ant-collecting sticks of chimps? In this book, Jeremy Taylor sketches the picture that is emerging from cutting edge research in genetics, animal behaviour, and other fields. The indications are that the so-called 1.6% is much larger and leads to profound differences between the two species. We shared a common ancestor with chimps some 6-7 million years ago, but we humans have been racing away ever since. One in ten of our genes, says Taylor, has undergone evolution in the past 40,000 years! Some of the changes that happened since we split from chimpanzees are to genes that control the way whole orchestras of other genes are switched on and off, and where. Taylor shows, using studies of certaingenes now associated with speech and with brain development and activity, that the story looks to be much more complicated than we first thought. This rapidly changing and exciting field has recently discovered a host of genetic mechanisms that make us different from other apes.As |
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Notes On The Usefulness Of British Birds $16.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER IX. THE SWALLOW. ” Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming.”—Jer. viii. 7. Swallows usually appear with us towards the end of March or beginning of April, and the martin, sand-martin, and swift somewhat later. They are the most harmless, perhaps, of all our summer visitors, and, like the cuckoo, wryneck, wagtail, and several others, entirely insectivorous, or insect-eaters. I always feel a pleasure in watching their gradual return in the spring; few of our summer visitors, indeed, are more agreeable and useful than the swallows. And birds, too, whose food consists entirely of insects, andwhose manners are so engaging and cheerful, can hardly need a word to recommend their usefulness, or advocate their preservation. A good observer some years back remarked, “Many of our oaks are naked of leaves, and even the half, in general, have been ravaged by the caterpillars of a small phalsena, which is of a pale yellow colour. These insects, though of a feeble race, yet, from their infinite number, are of wonderful effect, being able to destroy the foliage of whole forests and districts. At this season they leave their, animal, and issue forth in their fly state, swarming and covering the trees and hedges. In a field near Greatham I saw a flight of swifts busied in catching their prey near the ground, and found they were hunting after these phalsense.” Swallows and martins, from making a longer stay, are probably still more useful. Indeed, ” whoever contemplates,” says the same writer, ” the myriads of insects that sport in the sunbeams of a summer evening in this country, will soon be convinced to what a degree ouratmosphere would be choked with them were it not for t. |
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Npov Science $26.71 Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l’essai gratuite au club de livres de l’éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d’un million d’ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d’articles Wikipedia sur : Race Humaine, Débat Autour Des Organismes Génétiquement Modifiés, Pédagogie Steiner-Waldorf, Mémoire de L’eau, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, Bois Énergie, Modèle Christallérien, Barebacking, Psychose, Comparaison Biologique Entre La Femme et L’homme, Orthogénie, Géo-Ingénierie, Hypnotique, Agropolis International, Pôle de Recherche Dans le Massif Central. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : La notion de race humaine est une tentative d’application à l’espèce Homo sapiens du concept de race, terme qui définit des sous-groupes d’espèces domestiqués du règne animal. La définition zoologique du terme race est la suivante : « subdivision d’une espèce qui hérite des caractéristiques la distinguant des autres populations de l’espèce. Au sens génétique une race est une population qui diffère dans l’incidence de certains gènes des autres populations, conséquence d’une isolation, le plus souvent géographique ». En l’état actuel des connaissances, la pertinence scientifique de ce terme appliqué à l’espèce Homo sapiens est rejetée par l’immense majorité des scientifiques qui évoquent l’impossibilité de prédire avec précision l’ascendance d’une personne par l’analyse de ses gènes. Toutefois, un certain nombre d’analyses génétiques basées sur des polymorphisme génétiques permettent de distinguer une répartition géographique de certains de ces polymorphismes. Par |
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Parenthood And Race Culture $35.97 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:PARENTHOOD AND RACE CULTURE CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY ” A Little Child Shall Lead Them ” This book will be mere foolishness to those who repeat the inhuman and animal cry that we have to take the world as we find it — the motto of the impotent, the forgotten, the cowardly and selfish, or the merely vegetable, in all ages. The capital fact of man, as distinguished from the lower animals and from plants is that he does not have to take the world as he finds it, that he does not merely adapt himself to his environment, but that he himself is a creator of his world. If our ancestors had taken and left the world as they found it, we should be little more than erected monkeys to-day. For none who accept the hopeless dogma is this book written. They are welcome to take and leave the world as they find it; they are of no consequence to the world; and their existence is of interest only in so far as it is another instance of that amazing waste- fulness of Nature in her generations, with which this : bopk-.wl be:sp largely concerned. : ‘.Begih1jir”g, -.perhaps, some six million years ago, ..-the fact :w.hiQh.ve- call human life has persisted hith- JertoMncE shoivs- raw bigns of exhaustion, much less impending extinction, being indeed more abundant numerically and more dominant over other forms of life and over the inanimate world to-day than ever before. It is a continuous phenomenon. The life of every blood corpuscle or skin cell of every human being now alive is absolutelycontinuous with that of the living cells of the first human being — if not, indeed, as most biologists appear to believe, the first life upon the earth. Yet this continuous life has been and apparently always must be lived in a tissue of amazing discontinuity — amazing, at least, to |
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Parenthood And Race Culture $25.95 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:PARENTHOOD AND RACE CULTURE CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY ” A Little Child Shall Lead Them ” This book will be mere foolishness to those who repeat the inhuman and animal cry that we have to take the world as we find it — the motto of the impotent, the forgotten, the cowardly and selfish, or the merely vegetable, in all ages. The capital fact of man, as distinguished from the lower animals and from plants is that he does not have to take the world as he finds it, that he does not merely adapt himself to his environment, but that he himself is a creator of his world. If our ancestors had taken and left the world as they found it, we should be little more than erected monkeys to-day. For none who accept the hopeless dogma is this book written. They are welcome to take and leave the world as they find it; they are of no consequence to the world; and their existence is of interest only in so far as it is another instance of that amazing waste- fulness of Nature in her generations, with which this : bopk-.wl be:sp largely concerned. : ‘.Begih1jir”g, -.perhaps, some six million years ago, ..-the fact :w.hiQh.ve- call human life has persisted hith- JertoMncE shoivs- raw bigns of exhaustion, much less impending extinction, being indeed more abundant numerically and more dominant over other forms of life and over the inanimate world to-day than ever before. It is a continuous phenomenon. The life of every blood corpuscle or skin cell of every human being now alive is absolutelycontinuous with that of the living cells of the first human being — if not, indeed, as most biologists appear to believe, the first life upon the earth. Yet this continuous life has been and apparently always must be lived in a tissue of amazing discontinuity — amazing, at least, to |
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Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire $75 Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and “gay” ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental studies. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines present a focused engagement with the critical, philosophical, and political dimensions of sex and nature. These discussions are particularly relevant to current debates in many disciplines, including environmental studies, queer theory, critical race theory, philosophy, literary criticism, and politics. As a whole, Queer Ecologies stands as a powerful corrective to views that equate “natural” with “straight” while “queer” is held to be against nature. |
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Quest: The Essence of Humanity $17.95 For years science, philosophy and religion have sought to find the single factor that makes humans different from other animals. Many confidently expected to find a human gene – a single element possessed by no other animal that made us unique. Charles Pasternak believes that such a gene does not exist. Humans differ from other primates only in small changes of genes that are common to both.Pasternak argues that it is the heightened ability of humans to quest beyond their immediate needs that has driven human development. The upright human posture, together with physically skilful hands, a sophisticated vocal cord and three times as many cortical neurons as a chimpanzee, have put humans in their highly advantageous position.This thoughtful work spans science, philosophy, religion and the arts, to examine the past and the future of the human race. |
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Rachel Atherton $49 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rachel Laura Atherton (born 6 December 1987, near Salisbury) is a professional racing cyclist specialising in downhill mountain bike racing, and is a multiple national champion. She began riding BMX at the age of 8 and mountain biking at the age of 11. She was both Sunday Times’ Sportswoman of the Year and BBC Midlands Junior Sportswoman of the Year in 2005, and then BBC Midlands Sportswoman of the Year in 2008. Since 2007 Rachel Atherton has been part of the Animal Commençal race team along with brothers Dan Atherton and Gee Atherton. In June 2008 Rachel Atherton became the first British woman to win the Elite UCI Downhill World Championship, defeating second placed Sabrina Jonnier by 11.99 seconds in the final. |
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Rebel Queen [The Adventures of Cassie Nova Book I] $5 A stubborn Federation officer on a mission that confuses even him…. A vengeful cat-woman fighting for the freedom of her hybrid race…. Two haunted souls, burning with desire and trapped at opposite ends of an uprising that’s about to blaze into a galaxy-wide war… The time is the future; the place, the Milky Way. Terrans control the Galactic Federation, and the Federation controls everything. Non-Terrans are treated like second-class citizens, while hybrids have no citizenship at all. Genetically engineered by splicing human with animal DNA, hybrids are called “pets,” but their real status is possession. Thus are sown the seeds of discontent to blossom into a rebellion that’s almost uprooted in one awful act of betrayal. Four years ago, Jaxon Colby stole Cassie’s heart, along with her virginity. Then he marooned her in the armpit of the galaxy while he sold out the rebels’ leader–her father–to the Feds. But cat-people land on their feet. She survived, escaped, and rebuilt the Freedom Alliance. Cassie might have forgiven Jax for what he did to her, but she’ll nail his traitorous ass to the wall for the rest of it. With a lethally sexy crew, and a scout ship with an outlawed F-drive, she intends to capture his battle cruiser–kind of like a hawk hunting an elephant. But capturing Jax is the easy part. Facing the lust he still stirs in her may destroy the last of Cassie’s nine lives… Genres: Science Fiction / Futuristic / Action / Adventure / Menage (M/F/M) / Group / Contains Some Gay (M/M) Content / Exhibitionism / Public Places / Series |
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Social Science Journals $23.6 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 391. Not illustrated. Chapters: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Smith Breeden Prize, Brattle Prize, Contemporary Sociology, Michael Brennan Award, State of the Future, Gradhiva, American Economic Review, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, American Anthropologist, Journal of Finance, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Law and Human Behavior, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Loyola Consumer Law Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Mundane Behavior, Journal of Race Development, Journal of Black Psychology, Environmental and Resource Economics, Ps Political Science & Politics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Econ Journal Watch, Small Business Economics, Teaching Sociology, Computational Linguistics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Culture, Society and Masculinities, Governance, Land Economics, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Acta Germanica, Science & Society, Brazilian Animal Rights Review, Cato Journal, Études Celtiques, Japan and the World Economy, Journal of Social & Psychological Sciences, Canadian Parliamentary Review, American Journal of International Law, Social Forces, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, International Affairs Review, L’année Sociologique, Social Research, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Symbolic Interaction, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Europe-Asia Studies, Postmodern Culture, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Museum Management and Curatorship, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, International Journal of Political Economy, Journal of College Student Development, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of British Studies, Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs, Marxism Today, American Journal of |
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Surviving The Waning $14.42 The human population explosion and pollutants are slowly killing the dwindling Elven race. In desperation the remnants decide to fi nd another time frame in history more suitable to survival. They collectively create a rift in time and begin the difficult trek. Denril and Chellise, brother and sister, endeavor to lead their race to the safer time in the past. Chellise, pregnant by human rape, dies in childbirth but before she passes away makes Denril promise to care for her child, Chala. Chala is born with the greatest gifts from both her species; she is a scryer, healer and animal empath, but is shunnedbecause she is mixed. When Chala scryes for others like herself, she sees Strafae, another half Elven young man. Together they have the power to savethe Elven race, if they can overcome the evils of every society. |
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The Explorer Race Series (Book 13): Each animal brings a wondrous gift to share with humanity – enjoy It! $29.95 Robert Shapiro,Paperback,Series: Explorer Race Series, English-language edition,Pub by Light Technology Publishing |
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The Great Animal Race & Trap The Angry Elephant Finds A Friend $18.49 Nicole Faul,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by AuthorHouse |
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The Law Of Births And Deaths; Being A Study Of The Variation In The Degree Of Animal Fertility Under The Influence Of The Environment $10.26 THE LAW of BIRTHS and DEATHS BEING A STUDY OF THE VARIATION IN THE DEGREE OF ANIMAL FERTILITY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT – By CHARLES EDWARD PELL – PREFACE – This little work, as its title suggests, is an attempt to place the problems of animal fertility and the birthrate on a more scientific footing than they have hitherto held. It endeavours to show that the decline of the , birthrate cannot be explained on the hypothesis that it is due to the deliberate evasion of child-bearing but that it can be explained as the result of a natural law the function of which is to adjust the degree of fertility to suit approximately the necds of the race. The accepted theory cannot, by any stretch of in- genuity, be made to account for many of the most significant features of the birthrate problem. It cannot account for the vast and increasing proportion of completely sterile marriages among the intellectual classes in 811 countries, among the British nobility, and among the weaIthy classes generally-unless, indeed, its advocates are prepared to make, without a particle of reliable evidence in its support, the remarkable assumption that anything up to 25 per cent. of these classes take the most elaborate and troublesome precautions, from the very marriage eve, to avoid having s single child. It cannot account for rises in the birthrate such as took pIace during the early part of last century in England and recently in Japan. It cannot account for the seasonal fluctuations of the birthrate. It ignores the fact that the use of contraceptives involves the most…………. |
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The Life-Story Of Insects $20.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:recognition of a life-story, not merely in the individual but in the race. We cannot doubt that the ancestors of these wingless insects possessed wings, which in the course of time have been lost by the whole species or by the members of the female sex. It is generally assumed that this loss has been gradual, and so in many cases it probably may have been. But there are species of insects in which some generations are winged and others wingless; a winged mother gives birth to wingless offspring, and a wingless parent to young with well-developed wings. Such discontinuity in the life-story of a single generation forces us to recognise the possibility of similar sudden mutations in the course of that age-long process of evolution to which the facts of insect growth, and indeed of all animal development, bear striking testimony. CHAPTER III THE LIFE-STORIES OP SOME SUCKING INSECTS We may now turn our attention to some examples of the remarkable alternation of winged and wingless generations in the yearly life-cycle of the same species, mentioned at the end of the last chapter.Cockroaches and grasshoppers belong to an order of insects, the Orthoptera1, characterised by firm fore- wings and biting jaws; in all of them the change of form during the life-history is comparatively slight. A great contrast to those insects in the structure of the mouth-parts is presented by the Hemiptera, an order including the bugs, pond-skaters, cicads, plant- lice, and scale-insects. These all have an elongated, grooved labium projecting from the head in form of a beak, within which work, to and fro, the slender needle-like mandibles and maxillae by means of which the insect pierces holes through the skin of a leaf or an animal, and is thus enabled to suck a meal of sap or blood, according to |
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The Ocean Of Theosophy $21.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:between the visible universe and the real perceiver within. And all these various powers and potentialities being well worked out in this slow but sure process, at last man is put upon the scene a sevenfold being just as the universe and earth itself are sevenfold. Each of his seven principles is derived from one of the great first seven divisions, and each relates to a planet or scene of evolution, and to a race in which that evolution was carried out. So the first sevenfold differentiation is important to be borne in mind, since it is the basis of all that follows; just as the universal evolution is septenary, so the evolution of humanity, sevenfold in its constitution, is carried on upon a septenary Earth. This is spoken of in Theosophical literature as the Sevenfold Planetary Chain, and is intimately connected with Man’s special evolution. CHAPTER III. OMING now to our Earth the view put forward by Theosophy regarding its genesis, its evolution and the evolution of the Human, Animal and other Monads, is quite different from modern ideas, and in some things contrary to accepted theories. But the theories of to-day are not stable. They change with each century, while the Theosophical one never alters because, in the opinion of those Elder Brothers who have caused its repromulgation and pointed to its confirmation in ancient books, it is but a statement of facts in nature. The modern theory is, on the contrary, always speculative, changeable, and continually altered. Following the general plan outlined in preceding pages, the Earth is sevenfold. It is an entity and not a mere lump of gross matter. And being thus an entity of a septenary nature there must be six other globes which roll with it in space. This company of seven globes has been called the “Earth Chain”, the |
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The Ocean Of Theosophy $21.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:between the visible universe and the real perceiver within. And all these various powers and potentialities being well worked out in this slow but sure process, at last man is put upon the scene a sevenfold being just as the universe and earth itself are sevenfold. Each of his seven principles is derived from one of the great first seven divisions, and each relates to a planet or scene of evolution, and to a race in which that evolution was carried out. So the first sevenfold differentiation is important to be borne in mind, since it is the basis of all that follows; just as the universal evolution is septenary, so the evolution of humanity, sevenfold in its constitution, is carried on upon a septenary Earth. This is spoken of in Theosophical literature as the Sevenfold Planetary Chain, and is intimately connected with Man’s special evolution. CHAPTER III. OMING now to our Earth the view put forward by Theosophy regarding its genesis, its evolution and the evolution of the Human, Animal and other Monads, is quite different from modern ideas, and in some things contrary to accepted theories. But the theories of to-day are not stable. They change with each century, while the Theosophical one never alters because, in the opinion of those Elder Brothers who have caused its repromulgation and pointed to its confirmation in ancient books, it is but a statement of facts in nature. The modern theory is, on the contrary, always speculative, changeable, and continually altered. Following the general plan outlined in preceding pages, the Earth is sevenfold. It is an entity and not a mere lump of gross matter. And being thus an entity of a septenary nature there must be six other globes which roll with it in space. This company of seven globes has been called the “Earth Chain”, the |
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The Practice of Ethics $116.29 In The Practice of Ethics, Hugh LaFollette argues that ethics, like medicine, is fundamentally practical; the aim of ethics is not just to further ethical knowledge but to improve how people live. He employs relevant insights from other academic disciplines and uses arguments and examples from contemporary issues such as race relations, euthanasia, gun control, and animal rights, to create a coherent narrative that is theoretically and pragmatically grounded. Timely and engaging, this introductory text is an outstanding guide to the field of applied ethics, and is an excellent companion to the new third edition of LaFollette’s authoritative anthology Ethics in Practice. |
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The Road To Banjul: Keith and Graham’s Amazing Adventure $13.58 The Road to Banjul is the true adventure story of two middle aged men pitting their wits against the desert in a banger on the Plymouth-Banjul Challenge 2007. Keith Pugsley, Lord Mallens of Bedfordshire, and his side-kick Graham de Meur motor through nine countries and down the west African coast in an ageing Cherokee Jeep called Black Betty in a bid to deliver a sewing machine to a budding gent’s outfitter in the Gambia. They are kidnapped, duped, blown up and nearly capsized, and have to suffer the indignities of Mauritanian plumbing on the way.Part One, Getting Ready, describes Keith’s preparations for the trip during the summer and autumn of 2006. It’s a blue print for anyone considering this or any similar road borne challenge. Part Two, Getting There, is an account of the trip itself, and of the many adventures and characters encountered in this three week race for charity.All profit royalties go to the North Devon Animal Ambulance (go to northdevonanimalambulance.co.uk ).For more on the Challenge go to Plymouth-Banjul.com |
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The Sepoy Revolt $39.93 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE ASIATIC PRIESTS AS SOLDIERS. 27 It was with such tools, good and bad, that the government of India had to be carried on from January, 1857, until such time as the good genius of England should decree otherwise. CHAPTER III. COMPOSITION OF THE INDIAN ARMIES.—CASTE PREJUDICES OF THE BRAHMIN.—CAUSES OF THE REVOLT.—CONDITION OP ODDE. The military force in India comprises four distinct armies, made up of the Queen’s regiments, and the separate armies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. The services of the Bengal troops are rarely required beyond the limits of their own Presidency; but it has occasionally happened that special emergency has demanded their aid, which”) has never been accorded without much dissatisfaction, and in some instances the outbreak of mutiny. The sea ; — Kalapawnee, or blackwater—is an object of special dread to them, involving damage to their caste and impairing their efficiency as soldiers, since their religion will not allow them to cook food on board ship, but compels them to live on dry pulse, suar, and stagnant water. According to the strict rule of their faith, no Brahmin can be a soldier, since the law forbids them to take life; but they overlook this vital principle for the sake of pay and profit. The cow is a sacred animal in their estimation, but they consent to wear shoes made of leather rather than march barefoot, and have no objection to relax the observance of any article of devout profession, whenever it stands in the way of repose or rupees. Tall and handsomely made, with a love of idleness and display which makes up in no slight degree the character of a model soldier, they are to outward appearance the beau ideal of a warrior race. The rules of the service provide that only a limited number of Brahmins, put of |
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The Sepoy Revolt $21.42 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE ASIATIC PRIESTS AS SOLDIERS. 27 It was with such tools, good and bad, that the government of India had to be carried on from January, 1857, until such time as the good genius of England should decree otherwise. CHAPTER III. COMPOSITION OF THE INDIAN ARMIES.—CASTE PREJUDICES OF THE BRAHMIN.—CAUSES OF THE REVOLT.—CONDITION OP ODDE. The military force in India comprises four distinct armies, made up of the Queen’s regiments, and the separate armies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. The services of the Bengal troops are rarely required beyond the limits of their own Presidency; but it has occasionally happened that special emergency has demanded their aid, which”) has never been accorded without much dissatisfaction, and in some instances the outbreak of mutiny. The sea ; — Kalapawnee, or blackwater—is an object of special dread to them, involving damage to their caste and impairing their efficiency as soldiers, since their religion will not allow them to cook food on board ship, but compels them to live on dry pulse, suar, and stagnant water. According to the strict rule of their faith, no Brahmin can be a soldier, since the law forbids them to take life; but they overlook this vital principle for the sake of pay and profit. The cow is a sacred animal in their estimation, but they consent to wear shoes made of leather rather than march barefoot, and have no objection to relax the observance of any article of devout profession, whenever it stands in the way of repose or rupees. Tall and handsomely made, with a love of idleness and display which makes up in no slight degree the character of a model soldier, they are to outward appearance the beau ideal of a warrior race. The rules of the service provide that only a limited number of Brahmins, put of |
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The Sepoy Revolt $22.59 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE ASIATIC PRIESTS AS SOLDIERS. 27 It was with such tools, good and bad, that the government of India had to be carried on from January, 1857, until such time as the good genius of England should decree otherwise. CHAPTER III. COMPOSITION OF THE INDIAN ARMIES.—CASTE PREJUDICES OF THE BRAHMIN.—CAUSES OF THE REVOLT.—CONDITION OP ODDE. The military force in India comprises four distinct armies, made up of the Queen’s regiments, and the separate armies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. The services of the Bengal troops are rarely required beyond the limits of their own Presidency; but it has occasionally happened that special emergency has demanded their aid, which”) has never been accorded without much dissatisfaction, and in some instances the outbreak of mutiny. The sea ; — Kalapawnee, or blackwater—is an object of special dread to them, involving damage to their caste and impairing their efficiency as soldiers, since their religion will not allow them to cook food on board ship, but compels them to live on dry pulse, suar, and stagnant water. According to the strict rule of their faith, no Brahmin can be a soldier, since the law forbids them to take life; but they overlook this vital principle for the sake of pay and profit. The cow is a sacred animal in their estimation, but they consent to wear shoes made of leather rather than march barefoot, and have no objection to relax the observance of any article of devout profession, whenever it stands in the way of repose or rupees. Tall and handsomely made, with a love of idleness and display which makes up in no slight degree the character of a model soldier, they are to outward appearance the beau ideal of a warrior race. The rules of the service provide that only a limited number of Brahmins, put of |
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The Sepoy Revolt $26.85 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE ASIATIC PRIESTS AS SOLDIERS. 27 It was with such tools, good and bad, that the government of India had to be carried on from January, 1857, until such time as the good genius of England should decree otherwise. CHAPTER III. COMPOSITION OF THE INDIAN ARMIES.—CASTE PREJUDICES OF THE BRAHMIN.—CAUSES OF THE REVOLT.—CONDITION OP ODDE. The military force in India comprises four distinct armies, made up of the Queen’s regiments, and the separate armies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. The services of the Bengal troops are rarely required beyond the limits of their own Presidency; but it has occasionally happened that special emergency has demanded their aid, which”) has never been accorded without much dissatisfaction, and in some instances the outbreak of mutiny. The sea ; — Kalapawnee, or blackwater—is an object of special dread to them, involving damage to their caste and impairing their efficiency as soldiers, since their religion will not allow them to cook food on board ship, but compels them to live on dry pulse, suar, and stagnant water. According to the strict rule of their faith, no Brahmin can be a soldier, since the law forbids them to take life; but they overlook this vital principle for the sake of pay and profit. The cow is a sacred animal in their estimation, but they consent to wear shoes made of leather rather than march barefoot, and have no objection to relax the observance of any article of devout profession, whenever it stands in the way of repose or rupees. Tall and handsomely made, with a love of idleness and display which makes up in no slight degree the character of a model soldier, they are to outward appearance the beau ideal of a warrior race. The rules of the service provide that only a limited number of Brahmins, put of |
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The Sepoy Revolt; Its Causes and Its Consequences $20.9 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE ASIATIC PRIESTS AS SOLDIERS. 27 It was with such tools, good and bad, that the government of India had to be carried on from January, 1857, until such time as the good genius of England should decree otherwise. CHAPTER III. COMPOSITION OF THE INDIAN ARMIES.—CASTE PREJUDICES OF THE BRAHMIN.—CAUSES OF THE REVOLT.—CONDITION OP ODDE. The military force in India comprises four distinct armies, made up of the Queen’s regiments, and the separate armies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. The services of the Bengal troops are rarely required beyond the limits of their own Presidency; but it has occasionally happened that special emergency has demanded their aid, which”) has never been accorded without much dissatisfaction, and in some instances the outbreak of mutiny. The sea ; — Kalapawnee, or blackwater—is an object of special dread to them, involving damage to their caste and impairing their efficiency as soldiers, since their religion will not allow them to cook food on board ship, but compels them to live on dry pulse, suar, and stagnant water. According to the strict rule of their faith, no Brahmin can be a soldier, since the law forbids them to take life; but they overlook this vital principle for the sake of pay and profit. The cow is a sacred animal in their estimation, but they consent to wear shoes made of leather rather than march barefoot, and have no objection to relax the observance of any article of devout profession, whenever it stands in the way of repose or rupees. Tall and handsomely made, with a love of idleness and display which makes up in no slight degree the character of a model soldier, they are to outward appearance the beau ideal of a warrior race. The rules of the service provide that only a limited number of Brahmins, put of |
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The Sepoy Revolt; Its Causes and Its Consequences $20.9 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE ASIATIC PRIESTS AS SOLDIERS. 27 It was with such tools, good and bad, that the government of India had to be carried on from January, 1857, until such time as the good genius of England should decree otherwise. CHAPTER III. COMPOSITION OF THE INDIAN ARMIES.—CASTE PREJUDICES OF THE BRAHMIN.—CAUSES OF THE REVOLT.—CONDITION OP ODDE. The military force in India comprises four distinct armies, made up of the Queen’s regiments, and the separate armies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. The services of the Bengal troops are rarely required beyond the limits of their own Presidency; but it has occasionally happened that special emergency has demanded their aid, which”) has never been accorded without much dissatisfaction, and in some instances the outbreak of mutiny. The sea ; — Kalapawnee, or blackwater—is an object of special dread to them, involving damage to their caste and impairing their efficiency as soldiers, since their religion will not allow them to cook food on board ship, but compels them to live on dry pulse, suar, and stagnant water. According to the strict rule of their faith, no Brahmin can be a soldier, since the law forbids them to take life; but they overlook this vital principle for the sake of pay and profit. The cow is a sacred animal in their estimation, but they consent to wear shoes made of leather rather than march barefoot, and have no objection to relax the observance of any article of devout profession, whenever it stands in the way of repose or rupees. Tall and handsomely made, with a love of idleness and display which makes up in no slight degree the character of a model soldier, they are to outward appearance the beau ideal of a warrior race. The rules of the service provide that only a limited number of Brahmins, put of |
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The Vernore Gene $34.5 Jailin Munrow was a new type of race. The perfect race. At the age of five, she was genetically altered on the night her mother died and her father disappeared. Raised by the Maimugg tribe of the Grundagon Jungle, Jailin’s animal abilities surfaced, giving her the resources to protect the jungle and its inhabitants from any outside danger. With the help of her insightful, yet bordering on philosophical, friend Socrates, Jailin stumbled upon her long-lost childhood friend and a white panther, whose past unraveled the company that only warranted destruction. New friendships ignite and a love that pulls at every angle of Jailin’s being influences her decision to devote her life to revenge the death of her mother and the torture of her father. Can Jailin stop Grundagon’s insatiable bio-engineer from annihilating the human race, or will true love take priority over the transforming world? |
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The Way Out Of War $21.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:NATIONS A NATION represents some one variety of animal in particular, although that nation may contain several racial elements. Some one racial element constitutes the dominating variety. We are to remember that when any variety of animal or plant is subjected to cultural processes it finally expends its protoplasmic energy and goes into decline. For object lessons let us take the Wilson Strawberry, ancient Greece, the Morgan horse, Rome, the peachblow potato, Egypt, and the Newfoundland dog. Here we have a definite object lesson relating to varietal organisms which have reached cultural limitations and then declined. In accordance with the law of continuity applied to everything in nature, nations are similar to varieties of plants. Nature retains her great vested fund of protoplasmic energy in a race. Mutant forms emerging from any race, from time to time, expend their special loans ofprotoplasmic energy rapidly and then disappear, while the racial mean type persists. Protoplasmic energy runs out of a species more rapidly than it runs out of a genus, and a variety loses energy more quickly than it is lost to a species. Nature places many checks against the exhaustion of race energy, but she allows nations (varietal hybrids) springing from any one race to make cross combinations exhibiting various degrees of power. Durable nations are composed of varietal hybrids. Specific hybrids on the other hand populate the turbulent states. Mexico is largely populated by specific hybrids: Aryan (Spanish) x Mongolian (Indian). In the absence of an external compelling force we may anticipate that a series of short, sharp revolutions will occur for centuries to come in Mexico, excepting when some remarkable mutant like a Diaz executes aspirants for domination who ask questions, and |
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The Way Out Of War $21.19 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:NATIONS A NATION represents some one variety of animal in particular, although that nation may contain several racial elements. Some one racial element constitutes the dominating variety. We are to remember that when any variety of animal or plant is subjected to cultural processes it finally expends its protoplasmic energy and goes into decline. For object lessons let us take the Wilson Strawberry, ancient Greece, the Morgan horse, Rome, the peachblow potato, Egypt, and the Newfoundland dog. Here we have a definite object lesson relating to varietal organisms which have reached cultural limitations and then declined. In accordance with the law of continuity applied to everything in nature, nations are similar to varieties of plants. Nature retains her great vested fund of protoplasmic energy in a race. Mutant forms emerging from any race, from time to time, expend their special loans ofprotoplasmic energy rapidly and then disappear, while the racial mean type persists. Protoplasmic energy runs out of a species more rapidly than it runs out of a genus, and a variety loses energy more quickly than it is lost to a species. Nature places many checks against the exhaustion of race energy, but she allows nations (varietal hybrids) springing from any one race to make cross combinations exhibiting various degrees of power. Durable nations are composed of varietal hybrids. Specific hybrids on the other hand populate the turbulent states. Mexico is largely populated by specific hybrids: Aryan (Spanish) x Mongolian (Indian). In the absence of an external compelling force we may anticipate that a series of short, sharp revolutions will occur for centuries to come in Mexico, excepting when some remarkable mutant like a Diaz executes aspirants for domination who ask questions, and |
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The Way Out of War $26.66 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:NATIONS A NATION represents some one variety of animal in particular, although that nation may contain several racial elements. Some one racial element constitutes the dominating variety. We are to remember that when any variety of animal or plant is subjected to cultural processes it finally expends its protoplasmic energy and goes into decline. For object lessons let us take the Wilson Strawberry, ancient Greece, the Morgan horse, Rome, the peachblow potato, Egypt, and the Newfoundland dog. Here we have a definite object lesson relating to varietal organisms which have reached cultural limitations and then declined. In accordance with the law of continuity applied to everything in nature, nations are similar to varieties of plants. Nature retains her great vested fund of protoplasmic energy in a race. Mutant forms emerging from any race, from time to time, expend their special loans ofprotoplasmic energy rapidly and then disappear, while the racial mean type persists. Protoplasmic energy runs out of a species more rapidly than it runs out of a genus, and a variety loses energy more quickly than it is lost to a species. Nature places many checks against the exhaustion of race energy, but she allows nations (varietal hybrids) springing from any one race to make cross combinations exhibiting various degrees of power. Durable nations are composed of varietal hybrids. Specific hybrids on the other hand populate the turbulent states. Mexico is largely populated by specific hybrids: Aryan (Spanish) x Mongolian (Indian). In the absence of an external compelling force we may anticipate that a series of short, sharp revolutions will occur for centuries to come in Mexico, excepting when some remarkable mutant like a Diaz executes aspirants for domination who ask questions, and |
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Theosophical Path Magazine, January to June 1912 $49.95 This volume contains the monthly editions of the Theosophical Path magazine from January through June 1912. An international magazine devoted to the brotherhood of humanity, the promulgation of theosophy, the study of ancient and modern ethics, philosophy, science, art and to the uplifting and purification of home and national life. Each issue is highly illustrated. Sample contents: Modern Free Animal Hospital; Why do Theosophists Oppose Capital Punishment; Carrier Pigeons and Magnetic Currents; Origin of Chess; Is Death the End; Fish Bell in Ancient Athens; Influenza and Ozone; Studies in Orphism; Is Matter Alive; Race Suicide; Rock Carvings in New Caledonia; Is Theosophy Abstruse; and much more. |
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Toast and Jammies Printed Lounge Shorts – Cotton, Missy Cut (For Women) $10.94 CLOSEOUTS . Any successful lounging adventure begins with comfy clothes; start yours with Toast and Jammies’ printed lounge shorts, patterned in animal-themed prints. Missy cut Drawstring waist Natural waist Inseam: 4" (based on Medium) Fabric: Cotton Care: Machine wash/dry Classic Fit Made in USA or Pakistan Available Colors: EAT SLEEP FISH, WALKING THE DOG, RETRO BEACH, COFFEE BREAK, BEARS LIFE, THIS IS THE LIFE, FROGS LIFE, DAY DREAM BELIEVER, 09, WEEKEND LIVING, DOG PERSON, CAT PERSON, CARIBBEAN CRUISING, RACE CAR, SIMPLY PERFECT, WOLF! WOLF! GLOW IN THE DARK, I LOVE YOU GLOW IN THE DARK, WHATS NEW PUSSYCAT, MORNING SUNSHINE, PAMPER ME, I LOVE CATS, NORTHERN LIGHTS, HUSKY PAWS, GIRAFFE LOVE, MONKEY LOVE, CUDDLY PANDAS, NY TAXI. Sizes: S, M, L, XL. |
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Tomifobia River $39.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tomifobia River is a gently flowing body of fresh water in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec. The river forms a part of an international border between Canada and the United States near the village of Beebe Plain, Vermont.The Tomifobia River is the primary source of Lake Massawippi. This lake was originally called “Lake Tomifobi,” and at the lake’s exit, the river is renamed the “Massawippi River.” The Tomifobia River is important to recreational summer activities including canoeing/kayaking, fishing (brook and rainbow trout, landlocked atlantic salmon, pike, small-mouth bass, mullet), and biking. The 19 kilometer Tomifobia Nature Trail borders much of the river between the villages of Ayer’s Cliff, Quebec and Beebe Plain, Quebec, passing through the hamlets of Tomifobia and Boynton. Winter activities in the valley center around cross-country skiing; the Tomifobia Nature Trail is host to an annual ski race. A number of rare animal species, including the endangered wood turtle (Clemmys insculpta), have been documented within the wetlands of the Tomifobia valley, the Appalachian Corridor Appalachien (ACA). |
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Two Thousand Miles $0.99 Rawson learns to his cost that the life-spark of a fabled race glows in the black heart of a dead, Western volcano.ExcerptIn the gray darkness the curved fangs of a saber-toothed tiger gleamed white and ghostly. The man-figure that stood half crouched in the mouth of the cave involuntarily shivered.”Gwanga!” he said. “He goes, too!”But the man did not move more than to shift a club to his right hand. Heavy, that club, and knotted and with a head of stone tied and wrapped with leather thongs; but Gor of the tribe of Zoran swung it easily with one of his long arms. He paid only casual attention as the great cat passed on into the night.One leathery hand was raised to shield his slitted eyes; the wind from the north struck toward the mouth of the cave, and it brought with it cold driving rain and whirling flurries of frozen pellets that bit and stung.Snow! Gor had traveled far, but never had he seen a storm like this with white cold in the air. Again a shiver that was part fear rippled through his muscles and gripped with invisible fingers at his knotted arms.”The Beast of the North is angry!” he told himself.Through the dark and storm, animals drifted past before the blasts of cold. They were fleeing; they were full of fear—fear of something that the dull mind of Gor could not picture. But in that mind was the same wordless panic.Gor, the man-animal of that pre-glacial day, stared wondering, stupidly, into the storm with eyes like those of the wild pig. His arms were long, almost to his knees; his hair, coarse and matted, hung in greasy locks about his savage face. Behind his low, retreating forehead was place for little of thought or reason. Yet Gor was a man, and he met the threat of disaster by something better than blind, terrified, animal flight.A scant hundred in the tribe—men and women and little pot-bellied brown children—Gor gathered them together in the cave far back from |
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy $22.49 In 1962, at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba, his parents left behind. His life until then is the subject of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a wry, heartbreaking, intoxicatingly beautiful memoir of growing up in a privileged Havana household — and of being exiled from his own childhood by the Cuban revolution.That childhood, until his world changes, is as joyous and troubled as any other — but with exotic differences. Lizards roam the house and grounds. Fights aren’t waged with snowballs but with breadfruit. The rich are outlandishly rich, like the eight-year-old son of a sugar baron who has a real miniature race car, or the neighbor with a private animal garden, complete with tiger. All this is bathed in sunlight and shades of turquoise and tangerine: the island of Cuba, says one of the stern monks at Carlos’s school, might have been the original Paradise — and it is tempting to believe.His father is a municipal judge and an obsessive collector of art and antiques, convinced that in a past life he was Louis XVI and that his wife was Marie Antoinette. His mother looks to the future; conceived on a transatlantic liner bound for Cuba from Spain, she wants her children to be modern, which means embracing all things American. His older brother electrocutes lizards. Surrounded by eccentrics, in a home crammed with portraits of Jesus that speak to him in dreams and nightmares, Carlos searches for secret proofs of the existence of God.Then, in January 1959, President Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla named Castro has taken his place, and Christmas is canceled. The echo of firingsquads is everywhere. At the Aquarium of the Revolution, sharks multiply in a swimming pool. And one by one, the author’s schoolmates begin to disappear — spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, alone, never to see his father again.Narrated with |
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What’s Wrong With Us? $17.19 As the title suggests, “What is Wrong with Us?” presents a study of the potential complexities of human/animal nature and interaction. Paying special attention to the emotions that might drive certain types of behavior, the volume combines personal observation with research. It also draws upon an understanding of certain political, philosophical, and sociological principles, using a generally straightforward approach in an effort to create a through yet accessible overview. The 190,000-word count manuscript contains 8 chapters.What if a manuscript that explains scientifically why we lie to others and they to us landed on your desk? How about a work that shows the true faces of jealousy and envy? How would words revealing why and how people judge be received? How much would a text that not only questions and challenges our sense of right and wrong, but also proves that they do not exist be worth? What if someone writes a manual that addressed understanding every relationship whether at work, home or school? What if a work not only examines why we seek sexual pleasure, but also details how to achieve sexual satisfaction. What if a book shows how to control fear through rational thought? What if someone has a road map on how to love unconditionally? “What’s Wrong with Us?” is one stop shopping and does all the above: “Freakonomics” mixed with the “Autobiography of Malcolm X” with Gandhi stirring the pot.This tell-all makes the reader laugh, cry, and shake their heads at the same time. The manuscript is for those who enjoy provocative writing, sex and shared personal experiences delivered through honest anecdotes. The work also addresses a multitude of current events (homosexuality, race, drugs, relationships, immigration, sex, Iraq, politics, etc). The reader will learn a great deal about me and my motives as well as human/animal behavior and himself or herself. The manuscript is a sneaky mirror of humanity. |
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Wishes Do Come True $3.99 Sky lived an ordinary life, same as the next person.All that changed one day when she was brutally murdered then mysteriously brought back to life. Sky then had to embark upon a journey to find her killer and to figure out who she is, and why she still lives. During Sky’s journey, she is helped along by an odd crew of people. She gets help from a mysterious young lady named Sierra who helps her in her quest of self-discovery. On that same journey she finds out that there are several things that are only thought to be myths and legends. She discovers a race of people called “changelings” that can change form from human into animal form. Sky also happens upon real living vampires and encounters creatures thought never to have existed. She meets a unicorn, a dragon, and many other creatures. She slowly figures out why she has always had off-the-wall dreams as a child and meets the man who’s always been in them.Throughout her journey, she realizes that wishes and dreams sometimes do come true. Weather she truly wants them to or not. |
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Woolly Mammoth $35 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The woolly mammoth, also called the tundra mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth. This animal is known from bones and frozen carcasses from northern North America and northern Eurasia with the best preserved carcasses in Siberia. They are perhaps the most well known species of mammoth. This mammoth species was first recorded in deposits of the second last glaciation in Eurasia. They were derived from steppe mammoths. It disappeared from most of its range at the end of the Pleistocene, with a dwarfed race still living on Wrangel Island until roughly 1700 BC. |
