Roadkill

Author : Chonda Pierce
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310235279

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Roadkill on the Highway to Heaven by Chonda Pierce Pdf

When life's left you flatter than a steamrolled possum, turn here for a little hope, humor, honesty, and encouragement from the Bible. It's the best of Chonda Pierce's celebrated Roadkill Reports to her fans, plus lots of new material, and it's perfect for reinflating your outlook--anytime, anywhere! Postcard from Chonda: "I tell jokes for a living. It's adventurous. But to do that, I have to fly for hours. I have to take a bus for days. I have to walk up steep stairs in skinny heels. In short, I sometimes take a beating like roadkill on a country highway! Life really is one long journey to heaven. My travel journal is filled with what I've learned along the way--the hurts, the laughter, the victories, the failings, the crowds and the loneliness, and mostly, the times I've seen God at work." --Chonda

Author : Don H. Corrigan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781476644820

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American Roadkill by Don H. Corrigan Pdf

Slaughtered along our highways, roadkill may be observed regularly, but aren't likely to be given much thought. Research scientists, animal rights activists, roadkill artists, writers, ethicists and lyricists, however, are increasingly sounding the alarm. They report that we are killing the very animals we love, and are driving many of them to the brink of extinction. Detailing the death and destruction of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and insect pollinators, this study examines the ways in which we are thus jeopardizing our own futures. Beginning in the Model T era, biologists counted the common carnage of the time--cottontails, woodchucks, and squirrels, mostly. That record-keeping continues today. Beyond the bleak statistics, zoologists are rerouting migratory paths of animals and are advocating for cat and dog companions. This book illuminates both our successes and failures in keeping animals out of harm's way and what those efforts reflect about ourselves and our capacity to care enough to alter the road ahead.

Author : Buck Peterson
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781449401993

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Quick-Fix Cooking with Roadkill by Buck Peterson Pdf

From a humor cookbook author, a funny take on hillbilly cuisine along with quick, easy recipes for dead animals that might otherwise go to waste. Move over Rachael Ray. Smash car driver and redneck culinary authority Buck “Buck” Peterson follows up The Original Road Kill Cookbook with more than fifty new roadkill recipes inside Quick-Fix Cooking with Roadkill. Created for culinary cruisers on the go, each recipe can be prepared in less than thirty minutes after its roadside procurement. Consider ditch-divining recipes such as Perky Jerky, Corned Carnage and Cabbage, Freeway Frittata, Backed-Over Baby Back Ribs, Pavement Panini, and Tar-Tare. Also included are sample tasting menus for breakfasts, lunches, appetizers, dinners, and holiday meals, as well as entertaining tips on where to shop, how to tell when an animal has given up the ghost, and how to pair your roadkill with wine. Nothing is left to chance, except your next culinary roadkill junction. So, when there's a fork in the road, why not pick it up and eat what's found nearby.

Author : Matthew Calarco
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031305788

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Reflections on Roadkill between Mobility Studies and Animal Studies by Matthew Calarco Pdf

Roadkill is a recurrent but often unthought feature of modern life. Yet, consideration of the broader significance of the myriad social, ethical, and political issues related to roadkill has largely gone missing from mainstream scholarship and activism. This neglect persists even in fields such as mobility studies and animal studies that would otherwise seem to have a vested interest in the topic. This book aims to bring roadkill to the foreground of current discussions among scholars and activists in these fields in order to demonstrate that roadkill is a uniquely important site from which to understand and contest the machinations of the dominant social order. It argues that a careful examination of roadkill can help both to uncover the hidden violence of contemporary human-centered systems of mobility and to develop alternative modes of mobility for a renewed social life in common with our more-than-human kin.

Author : Steven A. Ludsin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781469751115

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Roadkill on the Information Highway by Steven A. Ludsin Pdf

The book describes the venal behavior of federal employees determined to stop a government contractor from making a million dollar commission by selling distressed government assets held by the US Small Business Administration and committing "econocide" against the entrepreneur.

Author : Tim Dorsey
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061833021

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Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey Pdf

Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men's money. On the other hand, there's Sean and David, who love fishing and are kind to animals -- and who are about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen insurance money. Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more drugs . . . and the suitcase. In the meantime, there's murder by gun, Space Shuttle, Barbie doll, and Levi's 501s. In other words, welcome to Tim Dorsey's Florida -- where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned!

Author : Leonard E. Sielecki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Animals
ISBN : UCBK:C100954843

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Wildlife Roadkill Identification Guide by Leonard E. Sielecki Pdf

Author : Heather L. Montgomery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781547601875

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Something Rotten by Heather L. Montgomery Pdf

An ALA Notable book An Orbis Pictus Recommended title When Heather L. Montgomery sees a rattlesnake flattened on the side of the road, her first instinct is to pick it up and dissect it--she's always wanted to see how a snake's fangs retract when they close their mouths, and it's not exactly safe to poke around in a live reptile's mouth. A wildlife researcher with a special penchant for the animals that litter the roadways, Heather isn't satisfied with dissecting just one snake. Her fascination with roadkill sets her off on a journey from her own backyard and the roadways of the American South to scientists and kids in labs and homes across the globe. From biologists who use the corpses of Tasmanian devils to investigate cures for a contagious cancer, to a scientist who discovered a whole new species of bird from a single wing left behind, to a boy rebuilding animal bodies from the bones up, to a restaurant that serves up animal remnants, Heather discovers that death is just the beginning for these creatures. This engaging narrative nonfiction is an eye-opening and irreverent look at the dead and dying animals that we pass by without a second thought--as well as a fascinating insight to the scientific research process.

Author : Richard Marcou
Publisher : Prographics Pub.
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 096926240X

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How to Cook Roadkill by Richard Marcou Pdf

Author : Bruce Carlson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1878488422

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Revenge of Roadkill by Bruce Carlson Pdf

Author : Ben Bramble,Bob Fischer,Robert William Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199353903

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The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat by Ben Bramble,Bob Fischer,Robert William Fischer Pdf

This volume collects twelve new essays by leading moral philosophers on a vitally important topic: the ethics of eating meat. Some of the key questions examined include: Are animals harmed or benefited by our practice of raising and killing them for food? Do the realities of the marketplace entail that we have no power as individuals to improve the lives of any animals by becoming vegetarian, and if so, have we any reason to stop eating meat? Suppose it is morally wrong to eat meat--should we be blamed for doing so? If we should be vegetarians, what sort should we be?

Author : Caitlin Sullivan,Kate Bornstein
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computer sex
ISBN : UOM:39015049628525

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Nearly Roadkill by Caitlin Sullivan,Kate Bornstein Pdf

Two cybersex operators -- a man and a woman -- defy a U.S. law requiring a permit to use the Internet. Their campaign of protest leads to a general shutdown of e-mail operations across the world. By the author of Gender Outlaw.

Author : Leslie Savan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780307264329

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Slam Dunks and No-Brainers by Leslie Savan Pdf

In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them as “no-brainer”s) to wars (finding WMD in Iraq was to be a “slam dunk”). Real people create these catchy phrases, but once media, politics, and businesses broadcast them, they burst out of our mouths as celebrity words, newly glamorous and powerful. Witty, fun, and full of thought-provoking stories about the origins of popular expressions, Slam Dunks and No-Brainers is for everyone who loves the mysteries of language.

Author : Barbara Allan
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758272799

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Antiques Roadkill: A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery by Barbara Allan Pdf

A con artist meets his end on a country road—and a lot of swindled senior citizens are suspects: “Hilarious…a delightful debut.”—Joan Hess Determined to make a new start in her quaint hometown on the banks of the Mississippi, Brandy Borne never dreams she'll become the prime suspect in a murder case. . . Moving back in with her eccentric, larger-than-life mother, Brandy Borne finds small-town Serenity, Iowa, anything but serene. It seems an unscrupulous antiques dealer has swindled Vivian out of the family's heirlooms. But when he is found run over in a country lane, Brandy becomes Murder Suspect Number One--with her mother coming in a very close second. . . The list of other suspects is impressive--the victim's business seems to have been based on bilking seniors out of their possessions. And when the Borne "girls" uncover a few very unsavory Serenity secrets, they become targets for a murderer whose favorite hobby seems to be collecting victims. “A likable heroine.”—Booklist “Enormously entertaining.”—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Includes Brandy Borne's tips on antiques!

Author : Patricia Leeuwenburg,Tim Leeuwenburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cooking, Australian
ISBN : 0975848313

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Roadkill Recipes by Patricia Leeuwenburg,Tim Leeuwenburg Pdf

"'Roadkill Recipes: Australian Wildlife on the Verge' portrays an overview of Australian roadkill with a twist for the gallivanting gourmet. The beautifully photographed book highlights the confronting issue of roadkill, emphasising important conservation and road safety messages whilst satirising glossy cookbooks and gourmet travel. There is increasing awareness of roadkill as an important conservation issue. The dual meaning of the title was chosen as a reminder that wherever roads encroach into wildlife habitat there will be wildlife: both on the verge of the road and in some cases on the verge of extinction. Our native animals use both the road and verge environment as transport corridors and as an easy, often preferable resource area. Unfortunately the indiscriminate, contemporary predator of this environment, the car or truck, can place vulnerable species or populations on the verge of extinction. Many native Australian species are already stressed from habitat loss, predation and disease. For those species, the added pressures of roadkill really can lead to wildlife populations existing 'on the verge'. We believe that bringing the subject of roadkill to a broader audience will encourage debate and build greater awareness of what to expect on the road, serving both road safety and wildlife conservation efforts. Bon appetit!"--Provided by publisher.