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Book How to Swallow a Pig

Download or read book How to Swallow a Pig written by Steve Jenkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Swallow a Pig is a clever and whimsical nonfiction book about animal behavior disguised as a How-to /Advice book by the bestselling team of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. .

Book How to Swallow a Pig

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Priest
  • Publisher : ECW Press
  • Release : 2004-10
  • ISBN : 1554902541
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book How to Swallow a Pig written by Robert Priest and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Robert Priest's short prose includes bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories, lush love letters, re-visionary fairy tales, predictions, strange new games, dream transcripts, and a complete handbook of absurdist instructions, including one on the dangerous arts of pig-swallowing.

Book Why We Love Dogs  Eat Pigs  and Wear Cows

Download or read book Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs and Wear Cows written by Melanie Joy and published by Red Wheel. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important and groundbreaking contribution to the struggle for the welfare of animals." -- Yuval Harari, New York Times best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind The book offers an absorbing look at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote ourselves to certain animals and then allow others to suffer needlessly, especially those slaughtered for our consumption. Social psychologist Melanie Joy explores the many ways we numb ourselves and disconnect from our natural empathy for farmed animals. She coins the term "carnism" to describe the belief system that has conditioned us to eat certain animals and not others. In Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, Joy investigates factory farming, exposing how cruelly the animals are treated, the hazards that meatpacking workers face, and the environmental impact of raising 10 billion animals for food each year. Controversial and challenging, this book will change the way you think about food forever. "An absorbing examination of why humans feel affection and compassion for certain animals but are callous to the suffering of others." - Publishers Weekly "I think Gandhi would have loved Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows,. For this is a book that can change the way you think and change the way you live. It will lead you from denial to awareness, from passivity to action, and from resignation to hope." - John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America and The Food Revolution

Book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Cow

Download or read book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Cow written by Lucille Colandro and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You won't believe why the Old Lady swallowed a cow, some hay, a pig, a duck, a horse, a sheep, and a fiddle! There was an old lady who swallowed a cow. I don't know why she swallowed a cow but she did it somehow!The latest addition to Scholastic's bestselling series by Lucille Colandro and Jared Lee is a fully illustrated board book, perfect for the youngest readers.

Book Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Download or read book Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key written by Jack Gantos and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this National Book Award finalist, Joey Pigza tries hard to be a good kid trapped in a wired body.

Book Esther the Wonder Pig

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Jenkins
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2016-05-31
  • ISBN : 1455560774
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book Esther the Wonder Pig written by Steve Jenkins and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlikely pig owners Steve and Derek got a whole lot more than they bargained for when the designer micro piglet they adopted turned out to be a full-sized 600-pound sow! This funny, inspirational story shows how families really do come in all shapes and sizes. In the summer of 2012, Steve Jenkins was contacted by an old friend about adopting a micro piglet. Though he knew his partner Derek wouldn't be enthusiastic, he agreed to take the adorable little pig anyway, thinking he could care for her himself. Little did he know, that decision would change his and Derek's lives forever. It turned out there was nothing "micro" about Esther, and Steve and Derek had actually signed on to raise a full-sized commercial pig. Within three years, Tiny Esther grew to a whopping 600 pounds. After some real growing pains and a lot of pig-sized messes, it became clear that Esther needed much more space, so Steve and Derek made another life-changing decision: they bought a farm and opened the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary, where they could care for Esther and other animals in need. Funny, heartwarming, and utterly charming, Esther the Wonder Pig follows Steve and Derek's adventure--from reluctant pig parents to farm-owning advocates for animals. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Book Pig Candy

Download or read book Pig Candy written by Lise Funderburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant, often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months in the rural town he'd fled as a young man. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed Black, White, Other, comes to understand his rich and difficult background and the conflicting choices he has had to make throughout his life. Lise Funderburg is a child of the '60s, a white-looking mixed-race girl raised in an integrated Philadelphia neighborhood. As a child, she couldn't imagine what had made her father so strict, demanding, and elusive; about his past she knew only that he had grown up in the Jim Crow South and fled its brutal oppression as a young man. Then, just as she hits her forties, her father is diagnosed with advanced and terminal cancer -- an event that leads father and daughter together on a stream of pilgrimages to his hometown in rural Jasper County, Georgia. As her father's escort, proxy, and, finally, nurse, Funderburg encounters for the first time the fragrant landscape and fraught society -- and the extraordinary food -- of his childhood. In succulent, evocative, and sometimes tart prose, the author brings to life a fading rural South of pecan groves, family-run farms, and pork-laden country cuisine. She chronicles small-town relationships that span generations, the dismantling of her own assumptions about when race does and doesn't matter, and the quiet segregation that persists to this day. As Funderburg discovers the place and people her father comes from, she also, finally, gets to know her magnetic, idiosyncratic father himself. Her account of their thorny but increasingly close relationship is full of warmth, humor, and disarming candor. In one of his last grand actsFunderburg's father recruits his children, neighbors, and friends to throw a pig roast -- an unforgettable meal that caps an unforgettable portrait of a man enjoying his life and loved ones right up through his final days. Pig Candy takes readers on a stunning journey that becomes a universal investigation of identity and a celebration of the human will, familial love, and, ultimately, life itself.

Book If You Give a Pig a Party

Download or read book If You Give a Pig a Party written by Laura Numeroff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you give a pig a party,she's going to ask for someballoons. When you give her the balloons, she'll want to decorate the house. When she's finished, she'll put on her favorite dress. Then she'll call all her friends -- Mouse, Moose, and more. The little pig from If You Give a Pig a Pancake is back, and this time she wants to throw a great big party! Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond have created another winning story for this beloved character in the tradition of the best-selling If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

Book Creature Features

Download or read book Creature Features written by Steve Jenkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines unusual animal facial features and how they help the animals survive.

Book Small Pig

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arnold Lobel
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 1988-06
  • ISBN : 9780833528186
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Small Pig written by Arnold Lobel and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1988-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the farmer's wife insists on cleaning his mud puddle, a little pig runs away to the city where he becomes permanently stuck in what he thought was a mud puddle

Book Meathooked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marta Zaraska
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2016-02-23
  • ISBN : 046509872X
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Meathooked written by Marta Zaraska and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years ago, Marta Zaraska's mother decided to go vegetarian after stumbling upon an article on the health risks of eating meat. Her resolve lasted about a fortnight before the juicy hams and the creamy pâtés began creeping back into her refrigerator. Prodded to explain her lapse, she replied, “I like meat, I eat it, end of story.” Many of us have had a similar experience. What makes us crave animal protein, and what makes it so hard to give up? And if all the studies are correct, and consuming meat is truly unhealthy for us, why didn't evolution turn us all into vegetarians in the first place? In Meathooked, Zaraska explores what she calls the “meat puzzle”: our love of meat, despite its harmful effects. Scientific journals overflow with reports of red meat raising the risk of certain cancers; each hamburger contributes as much to global warming as does driving a car 320 miles; and the horrors of industrial meat production are now well-known. None of these facts have prompted us to give up our hamburgers and steaks. On the contrary, meat consumption has only increased over the past decades. Taking the reader to India's unusual steakhouses, animal sacrifices at temples in Benin, and labs in Pennsylvania where meat is being grown in petri dishes, Zaraska examines the history and future of meat and meat-eating, showing that while our increasing consumption of meat can be attributed in part to the power of the meat industry and the policies of our governments, the main “hooks” that keep us addicted to meat are much older: genes and culture. An original and thought-provoking exploration of carnivorousness, Meathooked explains one of the most enduring features of human civilization—and why meat-eating will continue to shape our bodies and our world into the foreseeable future.

Book The Hilarious Pig

Download or read book The Hilarious Pig written by James E. Berlin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After college and active marine corps duty, the author began his journalism career as a reporter and popular humor columnist for a Michigan newspaper. At age twenty-four, he became the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in US history. Eleven years later, he followed his heart and became a street cop in one of Americas largest cities. The stories here, true, firsthand accounts drawn from his life behind the badge, offer an uncensored glimpse into the hearts and minds of the thin blue line. If you seek the politically correct, look elsewhere. This book was written under fire, between shifts and on weekends while the author was still a working street cop. His experiences range from outrageously funny to deeply moving, but all are as they occurred. And all are wonderfully entertaining.

Book What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You

Download or read book What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You written by Steve Jenkins and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if something wanted to eat you? Walk on water? Stick out your tongue? Play dead? Animals in the wild use all kinds of methods to protect themselves from their enemies. Using dynamic and intricate cut-paper collages, Steve Jenkins explores the many fascinating and unique defense mechanisms creatures use to escape from danger.

Book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat

Download or read book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat written by Lucille Colandro and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spooky twist on the wildly popular "There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly" is perfect for fun Halloween reading!What won't this old lady swallow? This time around, a bat, an owl, a cat, a ghost, a goblin, some bones, and a wizard are all on the menu! This Halloween-themed twist on the classic "little old lady" books will delight and entertain all brave readers who dare to read it!

Book Hard to Swallow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard W. Lacey
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1994-03-25
  • ISBN : 9780521440011
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Hard to Swallow written by Richard W. Lacey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are what you eat - or are you? What is in food? Where does it come from? Richard Lacey, Professor of Clinical Microbiology at Leeds University and a popular media critic on food issues, takes the reader on a culinary exploration into the world of food. Blending science and humour, he stimulates us to question the future and to think about the nature of what we eat and where it comes from. Richard Lacey is on the side of the consumer, you and me, as he reveals the sinister side of food production and the dangers lurking in the kitchen. The reader is served up with a feast of practical tips on the handling of food. But food is FUN too! Our taste buds work overtime as we are shown how to enjoy food that is delicious, healthy and safe. The overall message is enjoy your food but be aware of the dangers and take care. As you read you will laugh, wince and learn about FOOD.

Book On Account of the Gum

Download or read book On Account of the Gum written by Adam Rex and published by Chronicle Books LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Account of the Gum is a book about how the best intentions lead to some of the worst (and funniest) ideas! Serious humor abounds in this story about one kid's hilarious misadventures with gum, and the cumulative buildup of stuff stuck in hair. From the madcap mind of Adam Rex comes a book about the improbable, downright bizarre remedies for a problem kids have faced since the creation of gum. • Features hilarious text with unexpected turns and fun rhymes • Wacky suggestions make this prime for constant giggles and repeat reading • Author Adam Rex has a funny, smart, and relatable style How do you get gum out of your hair—a pair of scissors? Butter? The cat? Call your aunt, she'll know what to do. She doesn't? Try the fire department! With each page turn, this situation—relatable to any family—grows stickier and more desperate. • A wonderful blend of light wordplay, zany humor, and a timeless topic • Perfect for fans of The Day the Crayons Quit and If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't! • Great for parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and educators who are looking for a funny, relatable tale to read out loud • You'll love this book if you love books like We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins, The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors by Drew Daywalt, and The Bad Seed by Jory John.

Book Guinea Pig Scientists

Download or read book Guinea Pig Scientists written by Leslie Dendy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of ten men and women, from the 1770s to the present, who devoted their lives, and sometimes risked them, to answer some of the big questions in science and medicine.