Download or read book Venom Doc written by Bryan Grieg Fry and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most venomous creatures. Venomologist Bryan Grieg Fry has one of the most dangerous jobs on earth: he works with its deadliest creatures. He’s been bitten by twenty-six venomous snakes, been stung by three stingrays, and survived a near-fatal scorpion sting while deep in the Amazon jungle. He’s received more than four hundred stitches and broken twenty-three bones, including breaking his back in three places, and had to learn how to walk again. But when you research only the venom you yourself have collected, the adventures—and danger—never stop. Imagine a three-week-long first date in Siberia catching venomous water shrews with the daughter of a Russian war hero; a wedding attended by Eastern European prime ministers and their machine-gun-wielding bodyguards and snakes; or leading a team to Antarctica that results in the discovery of four new species of venomous octopi. Bryan’s discoveries have radically reshaped views on venom evolution and contributed to the creation of venom-based life-saving medications. In pursuit of venom, he has traveled the world collecting samples from Indonesia to Mexico, Germany, and Brazil. He’s encountered venomous creatures of all kinds, including the Malaysian king cobra, the Komodo dragon, and the funnel-web spider. Bryan recounts his lifelong passion for studying the world’s most venomous creatures in this outlandish, captivating memoir, where he and danger are never far apart.

Download or read book Venom Doc written by Bryan Grieg Fry and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the strange and dangerous world of the VENOM DOC. Imagine a three - week - long first date in Siberia catching venomous water shrews, and later a wedding attended by Eastern European prime ministers and their bodyguards wielding machine guns. Then a life spent living and working with snakes. Lots of very, very poisonous snakes and other venomous creatures ... everything from the Malaysian king cobra to deadly scorpions. Welcome to Bryan Grieg Fry's world. In this action - packed ride through Bryan's life you'll meet the man who's worked with the world's most venomous creatures in over 50 countries. He's been bitten by 26 poisonous snakes and stung by three stingrays - and survived a near - fatal scorpion sting while deep in the Amazon jungle. He's also broken 23 bones, including breaking his back in three places, and had to learn how to walk again. But when you only research the venom you've collected yourself - the adventures, and danger, will just keep coming ... Dividing his time between scientific research and teaching at the University of Queensland, and TV filming and collecting expeditions around the world, Bryan and danger are never far from one another.

Download or read book Venom written by Ronald Jenner and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venom brings readers face to face with some of the most dangerous creatures on the planet, including jellyfish, snakes, and wasps, as it uncovers the story of venom. The book explores how venom is used for predation, defense, competition, and communication by an incredible diversity of species. It examines the unique methods that these species have evolved to create and deliver their deadly toxins. The book traces venom back to its origin in early jellyfish and sea anemones, and reveals how venoms have evolved dozens of times independently all across the animal kingdom since that time. And finally, it examines the relationships between these dangerous creatures and humans. Humans have not only learned to live with them, but also to benefit from them: scientists increasingly are harnessing the power of venom to create new drugs, treatments, and anti-venoms.

Download or read book Venom written by Brendan James Murray and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the twentieth century, an awareness was growing among European Australians of an unexpected threat, one that seemed the very embodiment of the dark, ominous power of the Australian bush. To the Indigenous people of the Guugu Yimithirr nation, it was nguman; to the whites it was the taipan, an eight foot, lightning fast venomous snake whose bite meant certain death. Venom is an examination of European settlers' troubled and often antagonistic relationship with the land, seen through the lens of the desperate scramble for an antivenom, and highlighted by the story of George Rosendale, a taipan bite victim of the Guugu Yimithirr nation.

Download or read book Venomous Reptiles and Their Toxins written by Bryan Fry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venom research and technology has advanced greatly, rapidly transforming our knowledge of reptile venoms. Research advances, like the development of molecular systematics, provide the framework necessary to reconstruct the evolutionary history of glands and fangs. Such research developments have expanded our understanding of venom's evolution and its usefulness in therapeutic development. The results of this punctuated toxin molecular evolutionary expansion include protein neofunctionalization. While these changes may impact antivenom efficacy, this molecular diversity also facilitates their usefulness in the development of novel drug therapies. Venomous Reptiles And Their Toxins brings together the world's leading toxinologists in this comprehensive study of the entire scope of reptile venoms, from clinical effects to evolution to drug design and development. The book contains detailed applied chapters on clinical care of the envenomed patient, ineffective traditional or modern remedies, occupational considerations involved in the maintenance of institutional venomous reptile collections, veterinary care for venomous reptiles and research methods used in venom research. This book also devotes a chapter to each toxin class found in reptile venoms, detailing the full trajectory of research on the peptide or protein in question. These chapters discuss each toxin's respective role in the envenomation process through to how each has been explored for their biomedical potential. This book is a unique resource for anyone working with venomous reptiles.

Download or read book HELLBENDERS written by James Axler and published by Gold Eagle. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POINT OF NO RETURN Out of the ashes of the conflagration that savaged mankind two centuries ago, Deathlands was born—a tortured testament to a world long gone. Yet, in this kill-or-be-killed world where justice is the way of the past and blood is law, hope is the last refuge of the doomed. For Ryan Cawdor, driven by a warrior's instinct to survive, it's a world that exacts a devil's bargain: the struggle for daily existence in return for a chance to forge a better life. VANGUARD Emerging from a gateway into a redoubt filled with preDark technology, Ryan and his band hope to unlock some of the secrets of postnuclear America. But the fortified redoubt is under the control of a half-mad former sec man hell-bent on vengeance, who orders Ryan and the others to jump-start his private war against two local barons. Under the harsh and pitiless glare of the radblasted desert sun, the companions fight to see another day, whatever it brings…. In the Deathlands, the condemned shall inherit the earth…

Download or read book Examining Biophilia and Societal Indifference to Environmental Protection written by Markey, Mary Ann and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of biophilia posits that there is an innate connection between all the species that share Earth’s biosphere and that this connection is inherently collaborative as organisms work together to ensure survival as opposed to competing for resources and territory. As threats to the environment increase in frequency and scale, applying a scientifically rigorous lens to the biophilia theory becomes crucial to ensuring survival. Examining Biophilia and Societal Indifference to Environmental Protection is a pivotal reference source that explores the relationship between nature, humanity, and mindfulness. The book is broken into three sections with the first section introducing the reader to biophilia and examining how this phenomenon results in human awe for nature. The second section investigates the value of biophilia and covers human exploitation of nature, including how this has changed the regard for children and elders. The final section outlines a practical approach to restoring nature and renewing faith in one another. While highlighting a broad range of topics including mental health, natural disasters, and taxonomy, this book is ideally designed for biologists, activists, engineers, policymakers, government officials, academicians, researchers, and students.

Download or read book InstaFall of U S A written by Ben Compani and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: InstaFall of U.S.A. By: Ben Compani InstaFall of U.S.A. is a science-fiction work demonstrating the details of our nation’s security and the threat of other nations’ interferences. Author Ben Compani’s thrilling work is not for the faint of heart nor for those who do not wish to partake in philosophical questioning. The nation of Chima is posing a threat of biological warfare against the U.S.A. Will the nation of Chima find a way to take over the U.S.A.? If so, will Western democratic governments be a thing of the past? Filled with murder, a hunt for a killer (or two?), and hostile takeovers on a global scale, InstaFall is sure to captivate and inspire discussions about our own situation. Maybe our truth is stranger than fiction.

Download or read book Killer Sudoku written by Kaye Morgan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maiden’s Bay is a small, scenic town on the Oregon Coast where citizens get their number fix thanks to Liza Kelly—Sudoku Maven with the Oregon Daily. Her challenging puzzles sharpen the mind, and her deductive skills unravel even the most enigmatic clues. Liza is looking forward to a refreshing change of pace as a competitor in the West Coast Sudoku Summit. It’s a chance to break away from her job and her almost-boyfriends back home. That is, until her paramours show up and an obnoxious TV crew decides to cover the Sudoku A-listers. Now Liza knows how the numbers feel—boxed in. During the first round, one of Liza’s toughest opponents makes a spectacle in front of the cameras—by dropping dead. And soon, contestants are being eliminated one by one, and not in the way Liza planned. There’s more at stake here than prize money, and if Liza doesn’t find out what’s up with the murderer’s pattern, she’ll the next one down.

Download or read book Dead Without Honor written by Diane Bator and published by BWL Publishing Inc.. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scroll of the Four Possessions of the Samurai holds the key to a deadly mystery… Gilda Wright thinks she’s landed a dream job as the receptionist at a karate school. Her boss, Sensei Mick Williams, is almost as demanding as he is sexy, but Gilda is inspired by the strength and courage of the people around her. When Gilda finds the body of one of the instructors in the dojo with a sword through his chest, she must find her own inner strength and fast! The police regard everyone in the school as suspects, including her boss, and it’s up to Gilda to find out what really happened. She follows the clues of the missing scroll of the Four Possessions of the Samurai down a deadly path filled with lies, deceit, and poisoned ninja stars. If she doesn’t watch her back, she just may become the killer’s next target.

Download or read book The Wages of Sin written by Quintin Peterson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2002-10-18 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D.C. Police Officer Jacob "Doc" Holloway was recruited to work as a narcotics undercover operative for the federally funded Janus Project, working in conjunction with federal law enforcement agencies' entire Special Investigations Network (SIN). Eighteen months later, he discovered that he had merely been a pawn of corrupt government and law enforcement officials seeking to eliminate their competition and ensure the continued success of their own criminal enterprises. Now Doc Holloway has vowed to bring down these corrupt individuals and to see to it that they reap what they have sown. The wages of sin is death.

Download or read book Utopia Falling written by R.C. Vielee and published by Bobalou Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “…immersive world-building, compelling characters, and gripping plot…” - Literary Titan “…this novel marks the beginning of an epic fantasy trilogy that promises to captivate readers until the very end.” - The Reader’s House The Great Destruction drove Earth to its knees. The near-utopia civilization of Tartica rose from the ashes. Reyne’s hopes are shattered when assassins from the parallel realm of Evidar, a brutal world condemned to exist forever in darkness, arrive just days before his wedding… and mark him for death. Elsewhere, benevolent leaders guiding Tartica succumb to dark ambitions based on tainted promises and spark events that threaten to set a millennium of peace and cultural harmony ablaze. Driving everything towards chaos, the Devil’s Blacksmith, Evidar’s master manipulator, has secrets of his own and will stop at nothing to secure salvation for his world and freedom from its perpetual darkness at the expense of Reyne’s life, everything he loves, and Tartica’s very existence. “… this novel is sure to keep readers eagerly turning the pages until the very end.” – Goodreads “I feel like this book is perfect for the state our world is in now.” - NetGalley

Download or read book The Crocodile Hunter written by Steve Irwin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-11-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Steve and Terri Irwin, confronting aggressive sixteen-foot gators, hissing deadly snakes, charging rhinos, venomous spiders, huge lizards, and wild reptiles in their own habitats was a part of daily life. Steve’s love for animals began at an early age, when his parents created an animal refuge—instilling in him a respect for Australia’s native wildlife, and some of the most dangerous creatures on Earth. Writing with his wife and soul mate, Terri Irwin, Steve provides intimate insights into their private life away from the cameras. Learn how they first met, how they successfully translated a shared love of animals into a worldwide message of conservation, and how they built one of the largest private animal refuges in Australia.

Download or read book Snakebite written by Charles Hofer and published by Twenty-First Century Books (Tm). This book was released on 2019 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the biology of venomous snakes, the pharmacology and biochemistry of antivenom, its use in treating disease, and the politics of bringing life-saving antivenom drugs to market.

Download or read book Venomous written by Christie Wilcox and published by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry From the coasts of Indonesia to the rainforests of Peru, venomous animals are everywhere—and often lurking out of sight. Humans have feared them for centuries, long considering them the assassins and pariahs of the natural world. Now, in Venomous, the biologist Christie Wilcox investigates and illuminates the animals of our nightmares, arguing that they hold the keys to a deeper understanding of evolution, adaptation, and immunity. She reveals just how venoms function and what they do to the human body. With Wilcox as our guide, we encounter a jellyfish with tentacles covered in stinging cells that can kill humans in minutes; a two-inch caterpillar with toxic bristles that trigger hemorrhaging; and a stunning blue-ringed octopus capable of inducing total paralysis. How do these animals go about their deadly work? How did they develop such intricate, potent toxins? Wilcox takes us around the world and down to the cellular level to find out. Throughout her journey, Wilcox meets the intrepid scientists who risk their lives studying these lethal beasts, as well as “self-immunizers” who deliberately expose themselves to snakebites. Along the way, she puts her own life on the line, narrowly avoiding being envenomated herself. Drawing on her own research, Wilcox explains how venom scientists are untangling the mechanisms of some of our most devastating diseases, and reports on pharmacologists who are already exploiting venoms to produce lifesaving drugs. We discover that venomous creatures are in fact keystone species that play crucial roles in their ecosystems and ours—and for this alone, they ought to be protected and appreciated. Thrilling and surprising at every turn, Venomous will change everything you thought you knew about the planet’s most dangerous animals.

Download or read book The Lions Share written by Donna J. Brown and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge and extortion.In Southern California, Adolf, a man who looks like Hitler, vows, "Captain Baker, you will rue the day you testified." Adolf and his men go by descriptive nicknames. Needles, his addict son, Einstein, the bomb expert, Lefty, Muscles, Doc, and Cookie, his chef. Sunday evening a few hours after youth pastor, Daniel Baker, patches things up with his wife, Cindy, he is kidnapped. Monday evening, she is chloroformed, and their sons, Danny age five and Timmy age three, are kidnapped. Cindy and six-month-old Jonathan stay with Dan's adoptive parents Cap and Amanda for six days while Dan is forced to retrieve money extorted from corporations owning busy stores and markets throughout Orange County. Cap works with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to stop the criminals and rescue Dan and the boys, but their efforts to tail Dan or pass him a tracking device result in explosions. Chained, sedated at night, and tormented by Adolf, Dan fights anger, fear, and frustration while he waits for God to act but wonders if God will before or after Adolf kills him. Faith assures him that God will save Danny and Timmy.

Download or read book Vlors Vice written by Sean L Johnson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VLORs & VICE agencies (formerly known as VLORICE) are secretly funded by The Informant. This Informant stays in contact with both agencies in secrecy. The United States Military personnel, along with national security, counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism cases, and the successor organization to the former Naval Investigative Service (NIS), are all unaware of VLORs & VICE operations. VLORs is an espionage and law-enforcement type of agency. VLORs main goal is to protect and to never be seen. VICE is the opposite and strives for a new world order. VLORs investigates activities concerning crimes against The United States and from around the world, eventually will deal with para-normal and super-human threats. VLORs is ran by Commander Thomas Jeffery Addams, who was given the position by The Informant. Addams sends special agents out on missions. VICE is a criminal organization dedicated to the achievement of world domination through terrorist and subversive activities on various fronts, resulting in one, new ideal world order. VICEs base of operations is secretive and inconclusive; always attempting to elude VLORs, who always stops VICE. VICE is run by Commander Johnathan Walter Talgitx, who was a former General in the U.S. Army. Talgitx was given the position by The Informant. The two secret agencies operate on hidden ships that are unknown and never-seen-before. The ships are believed to be mobile.