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Book Sport

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  • Author : C. M. van Stockum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Sport written by C. M. van Stockum and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dogopolis

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  • Author : Chris Pearson
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2021-08-31
  • ISBN : 022679704X
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Dogopolis written by Chris Pearson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogopolis presents a surprising source for urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships. Stroll through any American or European city today and you probably won’t get far before seeing a dog being taken for a walk. It’s expected that these domesticated animals can easily navigate sidewalks, streets, and other foundational elements of our built environment. But what if our cities were actually shaped in response to dogs more than we ever realized? Chris Pearson’s Dogopolis boldly and convincingly asserts that human-canine relations were a crucial factor in the formation of modern urban living. Focusing on New York, London, and Paris from the early nineteenth century into the 1930s, Pearson shows that human reactions to dogs significantly remolded them and other contemporary western cities. It’s an unalterable fact that dogs—often filthy, bellicose, and sometimes off-putting—run away, spread rabies, defecate, and breed wherever they like, so as dogs became a more and more common in nineteenth-century middle-class life, cities had to respond to people’s fear of them and revulsion at their least desirable traits. The gradual integration of dogs into city life centered on disgust at dirt, fear of crime and vagrancy, and the promotion of humanitarian sentiments. On the other hand, dogs are some people’s most beloved animal companions, and human compassion and affection for pets and strays were equally powerful forces in shaping urban modernity. Dogopolis details the complex interrelations among emotions, sentiment, and the ways we manifest our feelings toward what we love—showing that together they can actually reshape society.

Book Dressage du chien de defense

Download or read book Dressage du chien de defense written by Joseph Ortega and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dressage du chien de d  fense

Download or read book Dressage du chien de d fense written by Joseph Ortega and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le Dressage du chien de d  fense

Download or read book Le Dressage du chien de d fense written by Joseph Ortega and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographie de Belgique

Download or read book Bibliographie de Belgique written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dressage du chien de d  fense

Download or read book Dressage du chien de d fense written by Helmut Raiser and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mammalia

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 748 pages

Download or read book Mammalia written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Petit manuel de dressage du chien de d  fense

Download or read book Petit manuel de dressage du chien de d fense written by Jacques Lussigny and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chiens d aujourd hui

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  • Author : Jean-Louis de Waziers
  • Publisher : FeniXX
  • Release : 1967-01-01T00:00:00+01:00
  • ISBN : 2403041858
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Chiens d aujourd hui written by Jean-Louis de Waziers and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1967-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Book M  thode de dressage du chien de guerre  de police  de garde et de d  fense

Download or read book M thode de dressage du chien de guerre de police de garde et de d fense written by Lalloué (Ex-Agent de la Sûreté, à Épinal (Vosges)) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le dressage pratique et utile du chien de d  fense et du chien de garde

Download or read book Le dressage pratique et utile du chien de d fense et du chien de garde written by Achille Malric and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le chien de garde  de d  fense et de police  Manuel pratique et complet d   levage et de dressage du chien destin      la garde et la d  fense du particulier  au service de la police et    prendre part aux concours pour chiens dits  de d  fense et de police

Download or read book Le chien de garde de d fense et de police Manuel pratique et complet d levage et de dressage du chien destin la garde et la d fense du particulier au service de la police et prendre part aux concours pour chiens dits de d fense et de police written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le chien de garde  de d  fense et de police

Download or read book Le chien de garde de d fense et de police written by Joseph Couplet and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le chien de garde  de d  fense et de police

Download or read book Le chien de garde de d fense et de police written by Joseph Couplet and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le Chien Auxiliaire de la Police

Download or read book Le Chien Auxiliaire de la Police written by Gaston de Wael and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Le Chien Auxiliaire de la Police: Etude Critique Et Manuel de Dressage Applicable au Chien de Defense du Particulier Et au Chien du Garde-Chasse Nos peres s'etaient rendu compte de ses facultes et, depuis des temps immemoriaux, le chien a ete utilise a des travaux qui exigent un certain degre d'intelligence. C'est aussi en vertu de ces qualites que, de nos jours, nous voyons, de plus en plus, l'homme chercher a tirer parti du meme animal dans differentes occasions pour recueillir a son profit quelque avantage. Tel est le role que, depuis plusieurs annees, on cherche a faire jouer au chien, comme aide de la police des villes, chargee de prevenir ou de constater les delits. Sous ce rapport, il y a lieu de s'etonner que l'on n'ait pas songe plus tot a utiliser dans cette voie les belles qualites du chien, lui, le compagnon de l'homme par excellence et qui, instino tivement, devient le defenseur de son maitre ou le gardien de sa propriete. Les chiens douaniers, au surplus, auraient du, selon nous, faire penser depuis longtemps qu'on pouvait beneficier des services qu'ils pouvaient rendre dans la police. Il y a donc la une nouvelle carriere qui s'ouvre a la gent canine, qui, par les resultats qu'elle a deja procures, nous fait esperer comme proche la generalisation de cette pratique. Si cette institution nouvelle n'a pas jusqu'a maintenant pris plus d'extension, c'est parce que les interesses, commissaires et prefets de police, manquaient de donnees serieuses quant au dressage a faire subir a leurs chiens, ou ont ete decus par l'emploi de sujets soi - disant dresses a des exercices trop compliques ou peu utiles et dont on leur avait dit merveilles. Il ne faut pas, en effet, que dans la police, comme ailleurs, du reste, on demande au chien plus que ce qu'il peut donner; nous ne sommes plus au temps ou les chiens parlaient ou nous n'y sommes pas encore. Il faut, d'un autre cote, laisser les animaux savants aux arenes des cirques et, aux habitues des loges foraines, les Spectacles plus ou moins excessifs ou le chien est l'acteur M. G. De Wael, dont nous avons l'agreable mission de presenter le livre au public, nous semble avoir bien compris ces faits, et dans son manuel de dressage, publie en vue de l'education des chiens policiers, qui est le fruit de son experience personnelle, il se borne, avec raison, a leur apprendre cinq choses essentielles l'obeissance au commandement de rappel, le coucher au gre du maitre, le refus de l'animal d'accepter n'importe quoi d'une main etrangere, puis la quete dans les terrains vagues, les quais, les chantiers, les maisons en construction, les jardins publics, etc., en vue d'y decouvrir le malfaiteur et de le signaler par ses aboiements a ceux qui sont charges de constater ou de prevenir ainsi les delits, enfin, la defense du maitre, le cas echeant. C'est la un programme tres suffisant et qui ne doit pas etre depasse, si l'on ne veut pas faire fausse route et devier du but que l'on se propose d'obtenir avec le chien policier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.