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Tooth and Claw

Author : Jo Walton
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429954686

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A tale of contention over love and money—among dragons Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Now Walton returns with Tooth and Claw, a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband. Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses...in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society's high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Tooth and Claw

Author : Lynn Katzenmeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1694152782

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Rejected and destroyed, the reviled dud of the Kootenai pack is finally exiled for failing to shift into a wolf before her high school graduation. Ten years later, Lee Fields finally has her life on track. She's part-owner of the Tooth and Claw pub, small town legend, and Easterville's own Bionic Barmaid. When her life before Easterville comes back for her, she'll have to grapple with her moon blessed mate, Kendrick Biel, and the complicated past they share.Back on packs lands, Lee will have to choose between the life she's been living in Easterville and the mate who forced her there in the first place. After ten years apart, has Kendrick changed enough for Lee to trust he could ever truly love the dud?"You knew what I was to you for years before the accident," I whispered afraid if I spoke with my full voice I'd lose control, "you should have protected me. But you didn't. You let me...." I couldn't finish the sentence. He knew what he'd allowed to happen. He'd been there. It was my first shift and the first time I'd felt the pull of my mate. The same pull I was feeling for the man sitting across the narrow bar, "you need to leave," I said finally getting the strength to repeat the words he'd said to me all those years ago, "I don't want you here."

Nature Red in Tooth and Claw

Author : Michael Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199237272

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Nature Red in Tooth and Claw by Michael Murray Pdf

Those who believe in God often puzzle over how God could permit evil and suffering in the world. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw focuses specifically on non-human animal suffering, and whether or not it raises problems for belief in the existence of a perfectly good creator.

Tooth and Claw

Author : T. C. Boyle
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408826744

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Tooth and Claw by T. C. Boyle Pdf

This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail, Boyle has mapped the strange underworld of America.

Beak, Tooth and Claw: Living with Predators in Britain

Author : Mary Colwell
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780008354770

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Beak, Tooth and Claw: Living with Predators in Britain by Mary Colwell Pdf

‘A must read for all wildlife lovers’ Dominic Dyer Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites – Britain and Ireland’s predators are impressive and diverse and they capture our collective imagination. But many consider them to our competition, even our enemies.

Tooth and Claw

Author : Nigel McCrery
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623653101

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Tooth and Claw by Nigel McCrery Pdf

DCI Mark Lapslie suffers from a rare neurological condition that "cross-wires" his senses. The sickening clamor of sounds he can taste has smothered his marriage and stifled his career, and it's getting worse. His colleagues have written him off as a drunk--or worse, a lunatic--and Lapslie has quarantined himself in an isolated Essex cottage, only venturing out at night when peace reigns. Carl Whittley, 22, stays at home too, caring for his crippled father. He's got his own problems to deal with too: he's just tortured a minor TV celebrity to death and blown an apparently anonymous commuter to pieces. Tooth & Claw is a visceral thriller that will draw DCI Lapslie into a deadly game where the troubled detective might just discover that his gravest weakness is also his greatest strength.

Tooth and Claw

Author : Deborah Noyes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780425289860

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The tale of the epic rivalry between two foundational paleontologists to find bigger and better bones in the American West, perfect for readers of Steve Sheinkin and Candace Fleming. Today we take for granted the idea that dinosaurs once roamed the earth. But two hundred years ago, the very concept of an extinct species did not exist. When an English scientist proposed in 1841 that Dino Saurs ("terrible lizards") had come and gone, it was only a theory, a new way of explaining the "dragon" and "giant" bones scattered across the globe. But when proof turned up seventeen years later, it was not only incontrovertible; it was massive. Tooth and Claw tells the story of the feverish race between two brilliant, driven, and insanely competitive scientists--Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover more and more monstrous fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry--a "war" waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked their professional and private lives even as it brought alive for the public a vanished prehistoric world.

Tooth And Claw

Author : Doranna Durgin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471108150

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Assigned to help evacuate the planet Ntigano before the total failure of its sun, the crew of the Starship Enterprise are engaged in delicate negotiations with the only people who can help them: a proud and volatile neighbouring race known as the Tsorans. To assist their efforts, Riker and Worf are assigned a different diplomatic task. As a show of friendship and good faith, they are serving as honor guards to a young Tsoran prince, accompanying him to a royal hunting preserve. There, a combination of technology-damping fields and some of the galaxy's deadliest predators are supposed to test the skills of the young Tsoran noble in the 'kaphoora' - the hunt. When their shuttlecraft crashes inside the preserve, however, what should have been a civilised formality turns into a terrifying struggle for survival. Cut off from both Tsora and the Enterprise, without the benefit of either tricorders or phasers, Riker, Worf and their royal charge must fight for their lives with the only resources they have: spear and bat'leth - tooth and claw.

Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw

Author : Debra Hawhee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226706771

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Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw by Debra Hawhee Pdf

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: they’re crawling with animals. With Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw, Debra Hawhee explores this unexpected aspect of early thinking about rhetoric, going on from there to examine the enduring presence of nonhuman animals in rhetorical theory and education. In doing so, she not only offers a counter-history of rhetoric but also brings rhetorical studies into dialogue with animal studies, one of the most vibrant areas of interest in humanities today. By removing humanity and human reason from the center of our study of argument, Hawhee frees up space to study and emphasize other crucial components of communication, like energy, bodies, and sensation. Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Erasmus, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw tells a new story of the discipline’s history and development, one animated by the energy, force, liveliness, and diversity of our relationships with our “partners in feeling,” other animals.

The King's Peace

Author : Jo Walton
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429970655

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Sulien ap Gwien was seventeen when the Jarnish raiders came. Had she been armed when they found her, she could have taken them all. As it was, it took six of them to subdue her. She will never forgive them. Thus begins her story--a story that takes her back to her family, with its ancient ties to the Vincan empire that once ruled in Tir Tanagiri, and forward to Caer Tanaga, where the greatest man of his time, King Urdo, struggles to bind together the squabbling nobles and petty princes into a unified force that will drive out the barbarian invader and restore the King's Peace. Ringing with the clash of arms and the songs of its people, rich with high magic and everyday life, The King's Peace begins an epic of great deeds and down-to-earth people, told in language with the strength and flexibility of sharpened steel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Tooth and Claw

Author : Ted Lewin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0688141056

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Rugged traveler Ted Lewin has swum with hungry sharks! been chased by angry bears! snuck up on sleeping tigers! come face-to-face with venomous snakes! ... and lived to tell his story! Risking his life to take dozens of shots as risky as the jacket photo, this thrill seeker fills the pages of Tooth and Claw with stories, drawings, and photos that very well could have been his last!

Predators: The Whole Tooth and Claw Story

Author : Glenn Murphy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781447285052

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Predators: The Whole Tooth and Claw Story by Glenn Murphy Pdf

What turns owls into airborne ninjas? Which creature has the highest pounce rate? Which dinosaur scared the pants off the mighty T-rex? Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green? and How Loud Can You Burp? leads us through the wide world of all things toothed, clawed and fearsome in this brilliantly informative book about creatures that hunt to survive. Packed with amazing photographs, illustrations, information and jokes about all things sharp, toothy and ferocious – from lions and bears to dinosaurs and wolverines, Predators: The Whole Tooth and Claw Story contains absolutely no boring bits! Discover more funny science with Evolution: The Whole Life on Earth Story.

Tooth and Claw

Author : Frank Frazetta,James Silke
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812503309

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Tooth and Claw by Frank Frazetta,James Silke Pdf

Death Dealer Gath of Baal searches for Noon, Queen of the Cats, accompanied by a motley crew--the bounty hunter, Gazul, the Doctor Doolittle-like animal lover, Bilbarr, and Fleka, the obsequious and sexually generous slave girl.

Breed

Author : K T Davies
Publisher : Fox Spirit Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1909348651

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Breed by K T Davies Pdf

After Breed, a Guild Blade of small renown, is chased by a dragon, tricked by a demon, almost killed by a psychopathic gang boss and hunted by a ferocious spider-like arrachid assassin life really takes a turn for the worst. Sentenced to five years bonded servitude to a one-handed priest magician, Breed must find the hammer of the ancient hero known only as the Hammer of the North within a year and a day... or else. And so, with only a drug-addicted vagrant, a rat-faced child, and a timid priest for back up, Breed sets out for the mighty city of Valen and the tomb of the Hammer. What could possibly go wrong? I'll give you a clue. Everything!

Tooth and Claw

Author : Jim Arnosky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Carnivora
ISBN : 1402786247

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Tooth and Claw by Jim Arnosky Pdf

Lions and tigers and bears . . . and WOLVES--oh, my! Acclaimed nature writer and illustrator Jim Arnosky introduces awe-inspiring wild predators: carnivores that survive by tooth and claw. Follow the huge paw prints of big cats like the African lion; of massive bears like the fierce grizzly; and the gray wolf. One spectacular double gatefold plus two single foldouts present the animals up close and lifelike!