Download or read book Dirty Rats written by Darrin Lunde and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody likes a rat. And we're not talking about a snitch here. We're talking about those disgusting bald-tailed rodents that scurry around alleys and in the subway. But, hold on . . . are rats really so bad? There are hundreds of rat species all around the world that defy common stereotypes. Rats help predators survive, allow plants to spread their seeds, and even contribute to medical research that helps humans stay healthy. Simple, clear text introduces many of the rats that crawl on the earth today, where they live, what they eat, and how they survive. Next time you see a rat, take a second look.

Download or read book Dirty Rats written by Darrin Lunde and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody likes a rat. And we're not talking about a snitch here. We're talking about those disgusting bald-tailed rodents that scurry around alleys and in the subway. But, hold on . . . are rats really so bad? There are hundreds of rat species all around the world that defy common stereotypes. Rats help predators survive, allow plants to spread their seeds, and even contribute to medical research that helps humans stay healthy. Simple, clear text introduces many of the rats that crawl on the earth today, where they live, what they eat, and how they survive. Next time you see a rat, take a second look.

Download or read book Rats in the Grain written by James B Lieber and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the wholesome image of Archer Daniels Midland lie some of the dirtiest practices in American business: price-fixing, bribery, and cover-ups. Unfolding like a legal thriller, Rats in the Grain portrays the crime and punishment of ADM during the largest white-collar criminal trial of the 1990s. James Lieber profiles the witnesses, the defense lawyers and federal prosecutors, the inner workings of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, and the unpredictable mole Lieber had access to. "A detailed account of how an influential corporation can go rotten." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Download or read book written by Harry Highstreet and published by Harry. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rats written by Robert Sullivan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Public Library Book for the Teenager New York Public Library Book to Remember PSLA Young Adult Top 40 Nonfiction Titles of the Year "Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Behold the rat, dirty and disgusting! Robert Sullivan turns the lowly rat into the star of this most perversely intriguing, remarkable, and unexpectedly elegant New York Times bestseller. Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing. With an all-new Afterword by the author

Download or read book Snarling Tiger Dirty Rat written by Stella Hyde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the animal aspects of the Chinese zodiac as it guides readers through the darker meanings of the Chinese signs, discussing the influence of the signs on such personal topics as temperament, love and sex, and behavior patterns.

Download or read book Dirty Rats written by Richard Groves and published by Hodder Wayland. This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for older children, this zany, off-the-wall story about sewer rats is original and humorous. 10 yrs+

Download or read book Stinky Dirty Rat written by Paul Winter and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dirty Rat written by Nancy Carpino-Weller and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cotton Sox, The Dirty Rat, is a coal mining rat who works for Victor Banana, a wealthy successful cat. Victor owns Banana Coal. He hires rats, instead of cats. Cats throw stones at Victor and bully him. His most trusted employee is Cotton Sox. Coal mining is a dangerous/hazardous occupations. Many miners have lost their lives working in coal mines. Cotton is a hero who saves miners in a mining disaster.

Download or read book Oh Rats written by Albert Marrin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to be disgusted, amazed, shocked (and informed) by the astonishing and mysterious creature that has annoyed humanity for centuries: Rats! Able to claw straight up a brick wall, squeeze through a pipe the width of a quarter, and gnaw through iron and concrete, rats are also revealed in this fascinating book to be incredibly intelligent and capable of compassion. Weaving together science, history, culture, and folklore, award-winning writer Albert Marrin offers a look at rats that goes from the curious to repulsive, horrifying to comic, fearsome to inspiring. Arresting black-and-white scratchboard illustrations with bold red accents add visual punch to this study of a creature that has annoyed, disgusted, nourished, and intrigued its human neighbors for centuries. * "[A] lively and informative overview of the history and behavior of the widely encountered rodent.... It's a different sort of discussion... for this well-known historian and biographer and one that he has clearly enjoyed, as will a wide variety of nonfiction readers and animal fans. There's a bibliography of adult sources and children's nonfiction as well as a listing of literary works featuring rats." —School Library Journal, starred review “Pleasantly icky.” —Booklist A Junior Library Guild Selection Includes bibliography, further reading list, and a list of rats in literature

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Download or read book Motown Encyclopedia written by Graham Betts and published by AC Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motown means different things to different people. The mere mention of perhaps the most iconic record label in history is often enough to invoke memories and mental images of Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, The Supremes and numerous others. With each group recalled, there is an accompanying piece of music of the mind, from Baby Love, My Girl, Signed Sealed Delivered, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, ABC and Tears Of A Clown and countless more. Quite often, you can ask people what kind of music they like and they will simply answer ‘Motown’, and both they, and you, know exactly what is meant. Or rather, what is implied. The Motown they are invariably thinking of is the label that dominated the charts in the mid 1960s with a succession of radio friendly, dance orientated hits, most of which were written and produced by the trio of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland. This period is referred to, naturally enough, as the Golden Era, when Motown was not only the dominant force in its home city of Detroit but carried The Sound of Young America all around the world. The kind of music that had them Dancing In the Street from Los Angeles to London, Miami to Munich and San Francisco to Sydney. It was the kind of music that attracted scores of imitators; some good, some not so good. The kind of music that appealed to the public and presidents alike, and still does. It was that Motown that this book was intended to be about. However, when you start digging deeper into the Motown story, you realise that throughout its life (which, for the purposes of this book, is its formation in 1959 through to its sale in 1988) it was constantly trying other musical genres, looking to grab hits out of jazz, country, pop, rock, middle of the road and whatever else might be happening at the time. Of course it wasn’t particularly successful at some of the other genres, although those who claim Motown never did much in the rock market conveniently overlook the healthy sales figures achieved by Rare Earth, the group, and focus instead on the total sales achieved on Rare Earth, the label. This book, therefore, contains biographies of all 684 artists who had releases on Motown and their various imprints, as well as biographies of 16 musicians, 23 producers, 19 writers and 13 executives. There are also details of the 50 or so labels that Motown owned, licensed to or licensed from. All nine films and the 17 soundtracks are also featured. Every Motown single and album and EP that made the Top Ten of the pop charts in either the US or UK also have their own entries, with 222 singles, 84 albums and five EPs being featured. Finally, there are 36 other entries, covering such topics as the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Motortown Revues, Grammy Awards and the most played Motown songs on radio. The 1,178 entries cover every aspect of Motown and more – of the link between Granny in The Beverly Hillbillies and Wonder Woman, of the artists from Abbey Tavern Singers to Zulema, and the hits from ABC to You Really Got A Hold On Me. The Motown Encyclopedia is the story of Motown Records; Yesterday, Today, Forever.

Download or read book The Lab Rat Chronicles written by Kelly Lambert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover What Rodents Know About the Good Life What can the common laboratory rat tell us about being human? According to behavioral neuroscientist Kelly Lambert, a whole lot. Her twenty- five-year career conducting experiments that involve rats has led her to a surprising conclusion: Through their adaptive strategies and good habits, these unassuming little animals can teach us some essential lessons about how we, as humans, can lead successful lives. From emotional resilience and a strong work ethic to effective parenting and staying healthy, the lab rat is an unlikely but powerful role model for us all. This is a surprising and engaging guided tour into the sophisticated mental, emotional, and behavioral worlds of these frequently maligned and often misunderstood little creatures.

Download or read book Welcome to Indonesian written by Stuart Robson and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise and user–friendly introduction to the Indonesian language This concise book aims to introduce the reader to the Indonesian language not by creating a course, with grammar and exercises, but by describing it from various points of view, such as telling what it is related to and how it has developed, and on this basis saying where some of its words originate, as a means of familiarization with some common examples. After that, the description moves on to talk about the kinds of words one wold expect to meet, and how they can be put together as sentences, before providing a few examples of journalistic prose as well as some more literary specimens, in order to give a feeling for the language. Welcome to Indonesian includes: Chapter 1: What is Indonesian? Chapter 2: Bahasa Indonesia as the National Language Chapter 3: A Historical Overview Chapter 4: The Development of Modern Indonesian Chapter 5: Indonesian and Malaysian Chapter 6: The colloquial Dimension, Influence of Dialek Jakarta Chapter 7: What is Indonesian Related to? Chapter 9: Loanwords in Indonesian Chapter 10: The Indonesian Word Chapter 11: The Indonesian Sentence Chapter 12: Journalistic Prose Chapter 13: A Literary Dimension Suggestions for Further Reading Glossary of Indonesian Words

Download or read book Dirty Bertie written by Alan MacDonald and published by Koala Books. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! More disgusting than ever with crazier plans and increasingly madcap schemes, Bertie continues to delight his legions of fans who revel in his revolting ways. Join Bertie in Rats! as he crosses paths with a cheeky rodent, takes part in a chaotic cross-country run and tries to get his dog Whiffer to eat healthily - with disastrous results!

Download or read book Kristo written by Andrew Datsiouk and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three hundred years ago, a bloodthirsty and power-hungry leader came to power. He was called Dezmortthe head of a merciless army of rats who devoured and destroyed every new civilization they could find. One such civilization was known as Kretonia, with its residents called the Burning Tails. True to character, Dezmort conquered this peaceful city and exiled its population. The Burning Tails were sent underground, beneath a mountain. If they attempted escape, they would be killed. To avoid extinction, the Burning Tail race made do with what they had beneath the mountain. Years passed, and soon the Burning Tails built a successful society, beyond the reach of the sun. They multiplied and were fruitful for decades, until even the elders forgot about the world above. Now, a young Burning Tail named Kristo grows curious about the world beyond the borders of his underground home. Kristo will unknowingly change his civilization forever, escaping the darkness and stepping into the light. But are the Burning Tails ready to return to the surface? And what of Dezmorts army of rats? Do they still stand outside, waiting to crush the beautiful Burning Tails? It will take bravery to escape the mountain prison, and young Kristo might be the one to do it.

Download or read book The Tree of Young Dreamers written by Frank Sousa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought up in the Depression, Johnny DaSilva is leader of a fun and imaginative gang that lives out their dreams in the Big Tree in which each has a branch that serves as the Lone Ranger's Silver, the race car of Morey Amsterdam, the rocket ship of Buck Rogers, the crow's nest for Black Bart the Pirate. When World War II broke out, they tried every ruse their young imaginations could think of to get into the marines, army, and navy but had to settle for the Boy Scouts. But the faux pas war to end all wars came too soon for the Big Tree Gang. Johnny is best described by an aunt as having the millstone around the neck of having a strict English Episcopalian conscience and bucking bronco Portuguese sexual proclivities. Two girls are in love with him, one wealthy and popular, the other sexually abused and who considered herself a worthless toy, until she met Johnny. Whatever they knew about the facts of life, male and female, were learned pretty much by trial and error.