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In this masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies, the author investigates our connection with deer, from mythology to biology, offering a unique and intimate perfective on a very human relationship while inviting us to contemplate the paradoxes of how we interact with and shape the natural world.
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How far would you go to save a dog's life? Greg Mahle has driven more than one-million miles to rescue thousands of dogs from hunger, abuse and neglect and give them a second chance at life and love. Zheutlin travels with Mahle from Ohio to the Gulf Coast on his Rescue Road Trips to bring hard-luck dogs from the deep South to loving "forever families" up north looking to adopt a pet. With the help of many volunteers along the way, they discover how...
5) The dig
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Pub. Date
2014.
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159 pages : 21 cm
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"Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a badger-baiter who brings with him the stark threat of violence."--Amazon.
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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When she confronts a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost, animal control officer Francine Poulet questions her abilities.
7) Lost & found
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"Rocky's husband Bob was just forty-two when she discovered him lying cold and lifeless on the bathroom floor, and Rocky's world changed forever. Quitting her job, chopping off all her hair, she leaves Massachusetts, reinventing her past and taking a job as Animal Control Warden on Peak's Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine and a million miles away from everything she's lost... Rocky, a quirky and fallible character, discovers the healing...
8) Pariah dog
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Documentary focusing on several eccentric street dog caretakers in Kolkata, India."--Container.
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2022.
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xxvi, 372 pages ; 24 cm
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"A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum. Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands every day. The world needs an ethical awakening, a consciousness-raising...
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2008
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x, 352 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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In eighteenth-century England--where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew large crowds, and the abuse of animals was routine--the idea of animal protection was dismissed as laughably radical. But as pets became more common, human attitudes toward animals evolved. An unconventional duchess defended their intellect in her writings; a gentleman scientist believed that animals should be treated with compassion; and with the concentrated efforts of an eccentric...
13) Animalkind: remarkable discoveries about animals and revolutionary new ways to show them compassion
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2020.
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x, 294 pages ; 22 cm.
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Studies show that animals are astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. Newkirk and Stone detail a range of surprising discoveries: that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish 'sing' underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away. Readers will learn what they can do in their everyday lives to ensure...
14) Toucan nation
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. Toucan Nation follows the uplifting story of Grecia, a toucan whose unconscionable abuse sparked international outrage & inspired a national animal welfare movement in Costa Rica. Seeking to right a wrong, animal rescuers and veterinarians enlist a team of volunteer experts including 3D-printing engineers to design and construct a prosthetic beak.
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A groundbreaking feature-length documentary about a group of highly trained, adrenaline-fueled professionals who risk life and limb to rescue animals. They're Los Angeles' Specialized Mobile Animal Rescue Team, and they save anything and everything, wild or domestic, from an array of dangerous situations. Shot over the course of three years, it follows team leader Armando Navarrete as he struggles to get his team off the ground, survives death-defying...
19) Animal welfare
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Access vertical file of Archive collection at Port Angeles Main Library.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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372 pages ; 24 cm
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In this sequel to Syndrome E, Lucie Henebelle and Inspector Sharko have reunited to take on the case of the brutal murder of Eva Louts, a promising graduate student who was killed while working at a primate research center outside Paris. But what first appears to be a vicious animal attack soon proves to be something more sinister. What was Eva secretly researching? Was she tracking three fanatical scientists who control a thirty-thousand-year-old...
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