Download or read book Getting Under Our Skin written by Lisa T. Sarasohn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vermin are not only pestering; they shape the way people look at each other and are a way that some people get to feel superior to others"--

Download or read book Imperfect Creatures written by Lucinda Cole and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucinda Cole’s Imperfect Creatures offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of “vermin” as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political imagination. In the space between theology and an emergent empiricism, Cole’s argument engages a wide historical swath of canonical early modern literary texts—William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, Abraham Cowley’s The Plagues of Egypt, Thomas Shadwell’s The Virtuoso, the Earl of Rochester’s “A Ramble in St. James’s Park,” and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year—alongside other nonliterary primary sources and under-examined archival materials from the period, including treatises on animal trials, grain shortages, rabies, and comparative neuroanatomy. As Cole illustrates, human health and demographic problems—notably those of feeding populations periodically stricken by hunger, disease, and famine—were tied to larger questions about food supplies, property laws, national identity, and the theological imperatives that underwrote humankind’s claim to dominion over the animal kingdom. In this context, Cole’s study indicates, so-called “vermin” occupied liminal spaces between subject and object, nature and animal, animal and the devil, the devil and disease—even reason and madness. This verminous discourse formed a foundational category used to carve out humankind’s relationship to an unpredictable, irrational natural world, but it evolved into a form for thinking about not merely animals but anything that threatened the health of the body politic—humans, animals, and even thoughts.

Download or read book The Vermin Family Adventures Book 1 written by Eleanor Goodier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to read something absolutely ridiculously funny? '¦ and funnily RIDICULOUS?Meet the Vermins!They are a family of 2 parents and 12 children that live on an imaginary planet called Igwarf, in a town called Rigood. They have stunningly strange adventures all around their world, and the strange bit usually comes from the children! Their parents are quite imaginative, so some of the children have really weird names ' so get cracking and read about Emotional, Evaluate and the others'¦

Download or read book Vermin Victims and Disease written by Angela Cassidy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do about this complex problem have been the source of scientific, policy, and increasingly vociferous public debate ever since. This book integrates contemporary history, science and technology studies, human-animal relations, and policy research to conduct a cross-cutting analysis. It explores the worldviews of those involved with animal health, disease ecology and badger protection between the 1970s and 1990s, before reintegrating them to investigate the recent public polarisation of the controversy. Finally it asks how we might move beyond the current impasse.

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Download or read book The New and Complete Universal Vermin killer Being an Infallible Directory for Taking Alive Destroying and Driving Away All Four footed Creeping and Winged Vermin Etc written by Daniel Holland and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Compleat English and French Vermin killer Being a Companion for All Families Shewing a Ready Way to Destroy Adders Badgers Birds of All Sorts Bugs Etc written by COMPLETE ENGLISH AND FRENCH VERMIN KILLER. and published by . This book was released on 1705 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Vermin killer Being a Compleat and Necessary Family book Also Several Excellent Receipts for the Cure of Most Disorders and Some Useful Directions for Gardening and Husbandry Etc written by VERMIN-KILLER. and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Vermin killer Being a Very Necessary Family book Containing Exact Rules and Directions for the Artificial Killing and Destroying All Manner of Vermin Whereunto is Added The Art of Taking All Kinds of Fish and Fowl with Many Other Things Never Before Known Fourth Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Rats and How to Destroy Them Traps and Trapping Series Vermin Pest Control written by Mark Hovell and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1924, this rare early work on rats and their control is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. READ COUNTRY BOOKS has republished it in an affordable, high quality, modern edition using the original text and artwork. The author was an expert and dedicated destroyer of rats who also invented the "Terrier" Death Run Rat Trap and the Blocking Trap. He was persuaded to write this fascinating book after fighting a memorable battle in ridding a friend's house and farm of a long established and numerous rat colony. Utilising his vast knowledge of the Brown and the Black Rat, and his many years of practical experience in their destruction, he penned this, the most comprehensive of all books ever published on this particular subject. Over five hundred pages contain forty eight detailed chapters including : - Habits and Natural History of the Rat. - Traps, Type and Use - Signals. - Trapping Methods. - Snaring. - Ferrets and Ferreting. - The Mongoose. - Dogs. - Trailing. - Poisoning. - Virus. - Blocking. - Flooding. - Fumigation. - Varnish and Rat Lime Trap. - The Rodier System. How to Deal with Rats in the House, Shop, Outbuildings, Yards, Stables, Cow -Houses, Fowl Pens, Pig Sties, Gardens, Greenhouses, Rivers and Ships. - Rats on Shooting Estates and Farms. - Sewers. - Notes on Plague. - Cancer in Rats. etc etc. There are also chapters on the control of mice, cockroaches and sparrows, with extra detailed chapters on traps and their design. Over fifty text illustrations are included, detailing trap design and usage etc. Also retained are several pages of vintage advertisements for rat traps, poisons, baits, books etc. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the countryside, rural conservation, pest control, game keeping etc, with much of the historical information remaining useful and practical today. Many of the earliest sporting books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. READ COUNTRY BOOKS are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Download or read book Vermin written by Ardin Patterson and published by Douglas A Owen (pub-9568136019008422). This book was released on with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dying boy A rebellious girl History poised to repeat itself Left for dead at the side of the road in an outlawed town, Nicholas is rescued by a human girl. Plagued by fevered dreams and a lethal illness, Nicholas doesn’t know what to make of her kindness. If she knew what he was, death would be a merciful gift. Rose takes it upon herself to show the boy hospitality, despite her uncle Roland forbidding her from going near him. She survived the brutal sickness and knows exactly what their guest is going through—he needs a friend. Roland stands to lose everything when he discovers what Nicholas is. Dire circumstances force Roland to turn the boy into a test subject. However, in coaxing an old flame into helping domesticate the beast, Roland ends up in a cruel experiment of his own. As Rose and Nicholas grow closer, Roland’s decision to keep the boy’s identity a secret threatens to bring history full circle. Can Roland guard two hearts as he struggles to keep the boy and his future alive? Fall into this whirlwind of forbidden love amidst harsh truths and harsher follies. Pick up a copy of Vermin today.