Unnatural Companions

Author : Peter Christie
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610919708

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Unnatural Companions by Peter Christie Pdf

"Highly compelling...page-turning read" — TNC's Cool Green Science We love our pets. Dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other species have become an essential part of more families than ever before—in North America today, pets outnumber people. Pet owners are drawn to their animal companions through an innate desire to connect with other species. But there is a dark side to our domestic connection with animal life: the pet industry is contributing to a global conservation crisis for wildlife—often without the knowledge of pet owners. In Unnatural Companions, journalist Peter Christie issues a call to action for pet owners. If we hope to reverse the alarming trend of wildlife decline, pet owners must acknowledge the pets-versus-conservation dilemma and concede that our well-fed and sheltered cats too often prey on small backyard wildlife and seemingly harmless reptiles released into the wild might be the next destructive invasive species. We want our pets to eat nutritionally healthy food, but how does the designer food we feed them impact the environment? Christie's book is a cautionary tale to responsible pet owners about why we must change the ways we love and care for our pets. It concludes with the positive message that the small changes we make at home can foster better practices within the pet industry that will ultimately benefit our pets’ wild brethren.

Author : Josh Milburn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780228013242

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Just Fodder by Josh Milburn Pdf

Animal lovers who feed meat to other animals are faced with a paradox: perhaps fewer animals would be harmed if they stopped feeding the ones they love. Animal diets do not raise problems merely for individuals. To address environmental crises, health threats, and harm to animals, we must change our food systems and practices. And in these systems, animals, too, are eaters. Moving beyond what humans should eat and whether to count animals as food, Just Fodder answers ethical and political questions arising from thinking about animals as eaters. Josh Milburn begins with practical dilemmas about feeding the animals closest to us, our pets or animal companions. The questions grow more complicated as he considers relationships with more distance – questions about whether and how to feed garden birds, farmland animals who would eat our crops, and wild animals. Milburn evaluates the nature and circumstances of our relationships with animals to generate a novel theory of animal rights. Looking past arguments about what we can and cannot do to other beings, Just Fodder asks what we can, should, and must do for them, laying out a fuller range of our ethical obligations to other animals.

Author : Susan Sizemore
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441008755

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Laws of the Blood 3: Companions by Susan Sizemore Pdf

Selena Crawford is a Chicago homicide detective. She is also the unwilling companion of Istvan, chief of the Enforcers. They do their best to avoid one another-until they both find themselves investigating the murder of a vampire.

Author : Heather Gunn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312289529

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Aspect Core Rulebook FC 2015 SC by Heather Gunn Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433002465544

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Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the District of Columbia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas COOPER (the Chartist.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021983530

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The Bridge of History ... Third Edition by Thomas COOPER (the Chartist.) Pdf

Author : James Flamank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018570549

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Mind and Manner; Or, Diversities of Life by James Flamank Pdf

Author : Thomas Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : OXFORD:600088632

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The Bridge of History Over the Gulf of Time by Thomas Cooper Pdf

Author : Lynn Red
Publisher : Yellow Moon Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Between a Bear and a Hard Place (Alpha Werebear Shifter Menage Romance) by Lynn Red Pdf

Curvy, slightly self-conscious Claire Redmon is a woman with a few addictions: her dopey dog, inhaler, and fantasies about a big, muscled-up bear of a guy who she just knows is going to sweep her off her feet. Yeah, right. Dating has never been this scientist’s forte, but she’s about to learn that when it comes to bears, reality is always better than fantasy, and two is ALWAYS better than one! Kidnapped from their clan as cubs, tortured and subjected to experiments, Stone and Fury are barely surviving. The alpha werebears know nothing but pain, suffering, and darkness. When they are simultaneously gripped by a sensation neither can explain, not even the strongest tranquilizers can contain their rage. They must escape. No excuses, no regrets. Driven by something they don’t understand, they roar, claw and fight their way to freedom. As they escape the only home they’ve ever known, the bears run headlong into a girl with entrancing eyes and a scent that warms them to the core. A woman that they’ve never seen before, but who seems mysteriously familiar. Suddenly, it all makes sense - that surge must have been fate, and this woman is... their mate! These are two bears who do EVERYTHING together, and don’t take no for an answer. No matter what, they will take her, have her, and make her theirs. Forever.

Author : Carl Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134105212

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The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing by Carl Thompson Pdf

As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many subjects within the humanities and social sciences. An ideal starting point for beginners, but also offering new perspectives for those familiar with the field, The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing examines: Key debates within the field, including postcolonial studies, gender, sexuality and visual culture Historical and cultural contexts, tracing the evolution of travel writing across time and over cultures Different styles, modes and themes of travel writing, from pilgrimage to tourism Imagined geographies, and the relationship between travel writing and the social, ideological and occasionally fictional constructs through which we view the different regions of the world. Covering all of the major topics and debates, this is an essential overview of the field, which will also encourage new and exciting directions for study. Contributors: Simon Bainbridge, Anthony Bale, Shobhana Bhattacharji, Dúnlaith Bird, Elizabeth A. Bohls, Wendy Bracewell, Kylie Cardell, Daniel Carey, Janice Cavell, Simon Cooke, Matthew Day, Kate Douglas, Justin D. Edwards, David Farley, Charles Forsdick, Corinne Fowler, Laura E. Franey, Rune Graulund, Justine Greenwood, James M. Hargett, Jennifer Hayward, Eva Johanna Holmberg, Graham Huggan, William Hutton, Robin Jarvis, Tabish Khair, Zoë Kinsley, Barbara Korte, Julia Kuehn, Scott Laderman, Claire Lindsay, Churnjeet Mahn, Nabil Matar, Steve Mentz, Laura Nenzi, Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Manfred Pfister, Susan L. Roberson, Paul Smethurst, Carl Thompson, C.W. Thompson, Margaret Topping, Richard White, Gregory Woods.

Author : Rik Peels,René van Woudenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108476003

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The Cambridge Companion to Common-Sense Philosophy by Rik Peels,René van Woudenberg Pdf

A comprehensive exploration of the historical development and philosophical importance of common-sense philosophy.

Author : Charles V. de Vet
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479402694

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The 14th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK® by Charles V. de Vet Pdf

Charles V. de Vet wrote more than 50 short stories for science fiction magazines, beginning with "The Unexpected Weapon" for Amazing Stories in September 1950. After a several year hiatus, de Vet became active as a writer again in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This collection spans the length of his career, showcasing his talents for vivid characterization and exciting storytelling. Included in this volume are: SPECIAL FEATURE SEEDLING ALIEN'S BEQUEST SALTY FOR THE CAT SURVIVAL CHARACTERISTIC CATALYST DUEL SECOND CHANCE BIG STUPE DELAYED ACTION MONKEY ON HIS BACK RETURN JOURNEY STOPOVER THERE IS A REAPER... VITAL INGREDIENT WHEELS WITHIN EXPENDABLE If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 190+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Author : Robert J. Naiman,John J. Magnuson,Diane M. McKnight,Jack A. Stanford
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610910712

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The Freshwater Imperative by Robert J. Naiman,John J. Magnuson,Diane M. McKnight,Jack A. Stanford Pdf

This volume summarizes the two-year effort of a working group of leading aquatic scientists sponsored by NSF, EPA, NASA, TVA, and NOAA to identify research opportunities and frontiers in freshwater sciences for this decade and beyond. The research agenda outlined focuses on issues of water availability, aquatic ecosystem integrity, and human health and safety. It is a consensus document that has been endorsed by all of the major professional organizations involved with freshwater issues.

Author : Jed A. Bryan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312743793

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Companions (Nich'ooni) by Jed A. Bryan Pdf

This is the story of two young men put together as companions by Mormon Church powers in an isolated and largely ignored corner of Arizona. Both, according to dogma, are dual beings, bringers of the holy Word to the Navajo people, and homosexuals, monsters in disguise, murderers of their own posterity. It is a tale of their fight for self-recognition and ultimately, self-determination in a society that either ignores their existence or vehemently wishes them dead. It is also a myriad of other fights, other disasters between people, organizations, traditions and nature itself, swirling around them in a macabre dance of destruction and death. The difference between these unknown people and events and the world at large is scale and the essential things individuals have in their favor against survival of the fittest attitudes and realities: the ability to think, to analyze, and to make choices for themselves.

Author : Gavin Ehringer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781681776064

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Leaving the Wild: The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows, and Horses by Gavin Ehringer Pdf

A thought-provoking and surprising book that explores the ever-evolving relationship between humans and domesticated animals. The domestication of animals changed the course of human history. But what about the animals who abandoned their wild existence in exchange for our care and protection? Domestication has proven to be a wildly successful survival strategy. But this success has not been without its drawbacks. A modern dairy cow’s daily energy output equals that of a Tour de France rider. Feral cats overpopulate urban areas. And our methods of breeding horses and dogs have resulted in debilitating and sometimes lethal genetic diseases. But these problems and more can be addressed, if we have the will and the compassion. Human values and choices determine an animal’s lot in life even before he or she is born. Just as a sculptor’s hands shape clay, so human values shape our animals—for good and or ill. The little-examined, yet omnipresent act of breeding lies at the core of Gavin Ehringer's eye-opening book. You’ll meet cows cloned from steaks, a Quarter horse stallion valued at $7.5 million, Chinese dogs that glow in the dark, and visit a Denver cat show featuring naked cats and other cuddly mutants. Is this what the animals bargained for all those millennia ago, when they first joined us by the fire?