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Book American Roadkill

    Book Details:
  • Author : Don H. Corrigan
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2021-10-11
  • ISBN : 147668443X
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book American Roadkill written by Don H. Corrigan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaughtered along our highways, roadkill may be observed regularly, but aren't likely to be given much thought. Research scientists, animal rights activists, roadkill artists, writers, ethicists and lyricists, however, are increasingly sounding the alarm. They report that we are killing the very animals we love, and are driving many of them to the brink of extinction. Detailing the death and destruction of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and insect pollinators, this study examines the ways in which we are thus jeopardizing our own futures. Beginning in the Model T era, biologists counted the common carnage of the time--cottontails, woodchucks, and squirrels, mostly. That record-keeping continues today. Beyond the bleak statistics, zoologists are rerouting migratory paths of animals and are advocating for cat and dog companions. This book illuminates both our successes and failures in keeping animals out of harm's way and what those efforts reflect about ourselves and our capacity to care enough to alter the road ahead.

Book Florida Roadkill

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  • Author : Tim Dorsey
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-10-13
  • ISBN : 0061833029
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book Florida Roadkill written by Tim Dorsey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men's money. On the other hand, there's Sean and David, who love fishing and are kind to animals -- and who are about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen insurance money. Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more drugs . . . and the suitcase. In the meantime, there's murder by gun, Space Shuttle, Barbie doll, and Levi's 501s. In other words, welcome to Tim Dorsey's Florida -- where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned!

Book Something Rotten

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  • Author : Heather L. Montgomery
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2018-10-16
  • ISBN : 1547601876
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Something Rotten written by Heather L. Montgomery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ALA Notable book An Orbis Pictus Recommended title When Heather L. Montgomery sees a rattlesnake flattened on the side of the road, her first instinct is to pick it up and dissect it--she's always wanted to see how a snake's fangs retract when they close their mouths, and it's not exactly safe to poke around in a live reptile's mouth. A wildlife researcher with a special penchant for the animals that litter the roadways, Heather isn't satisfied with dissecting just one snake. Her fascination with roadkill sets her off on a journey from her own backyard and the roadways of the American South to scientists and kids in labs and homes across the globe. From biologists who use the corpses of Tasmanian devils to investigate cures for a contagious cancer, to a scientist who discovered a whole new species of bird from a single wing left behind, to a boy rebuilding animal bodies from the bones up, to a restaurant that serves up animal remnants, Heather discovers that death is just the beginning for these creatures. This engaging narrative nonfiction is an eye-opening and irreverent look at the dead and dying animals that we pass by without a second thought--as well as a fascinating insight to the scientific research process.

Book If You Meet the Buddha on the Road  Kill Him

Download or read book If You Meet the Buddha on the Road Kill Him written by Sheldon Kopp and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1982-05-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, realistic approach to altering one's destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom. No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddahood of each of us has already been obtained. We only need to recognize it. “The most important things that each man must learn no one can teach him. Once he accepts this disappointment, he will be able to stop depending on the therapist, the guru who turns out to be just another struggling human being.” Using the myth of Gilgamesh, Siddhartha, The Wife of Bath, Don Quizote . . . the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Karka, Nin, Dante and Jung . . . a brilliant psychotherapist, guru and pilgrim shares the epic tales and intimate revelations that help to shape Everyman's journey through life.

Book Zombie Road

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  • Author : David Simpson
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-09-11
  • ISBN : 9781727251418
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Zombie Road written by David Simpson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Zombie Road coloring companion. 150 pages. All the carnage, all the heroes and villains and the wasteland machines they drive.

Book Road Kill

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  • Author : S. R. Martin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780590691307
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book Road Kill written by S. R. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrown from his car in a highway accident, a boy awakens in a strange place where subhuman creatures worship "Travelers of the Black Track."

Book If You Meet the Buddha on the Road  Kill Him

Download or read book If You Meet the Buddha on the Road Kill Him written by Sheldon Kopp and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, realistic approach to altering one's destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom. No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddahood of each of us has already been obtained. We only need to recognize it. “The most important things that each man must learn no one can teach him. Once he accepts this disappointment, he will be able to stop depending on the therapist, the guru who turns out to be just another struggling human being.” Using the myth of Gilgamesh, Siddhartha, The Wife of Bath, Don Quizote . . . the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Karka, Nin, Dante and Jung . . . a brilliant psychotherapist, guru and pilgrim shares the epic tales and intimate revelations that help to shape Everyman's journey through life.

Book Antiques Roadkill  A Trash  n  Treasures Mystery

Download or read book Antiques Roadkill A Trash n Treasures Mystery written by Barbara Allan and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A con artist meets his end on a country road—and a lot of swindled senior citizens are suspects: “Hilarious…a delightful debut.”—Joan Hess Determined to make a new start in her quaint hometown on the banks of the Mississippi, Brandy Borne never dreams she'll become the prime suspect in a murder case. . . Moving back in with her eccentric, larger-than-life mother, Brandy Borne finds small-town Serenity, Iowa, anything but serene. It seems an unscrupulous antiques dealer has swindled Vivian out of the family's heirlooms. But when he is found run over in a country lane, Brandy becomes Murder Suspect Number One--with her mother coming in a very close second. . . The list of other suspects is impressive--the victim's business seems to have been based on bilking seniors out of their possessions. And when the Borne "girls" uncover a few very unsavory Serenity secrets, they become targets for a murderer whose favorite hobby seems to be collecting victims. “A likable heroine.”—Booklist “Enormously entertaining.”—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Includes Brandy Borne's tips on antiques!

Book Road Kill

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  • Author : Kinky Friedman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780571192205
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Road Kill written by Kinky Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the novels featuring foul-mouthed, wise-cracking Kinky Friedman, country singer turned private eye, who joins his old pal Willie Nelson on tour for a little much-needed R & R. But Willie, who has problems of his own, disappears from the tour bus, and his look-alike valet gets shot.

Book Cherokee Road Kill

Download or read book Cherokee Road Kill written by Celia Bland and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Native American Studies. A superb collection of poems rooted in remembering the past, and transcending the confinement imposed by poverty. As Robert Kelly writes in the introduction: "Reading Celia Bland's poetry, especially the acute lyrics in this book, I have the feeling of being taken by the hand of a sensitive quiet guide and shown time after time quick narratives, microtomes of life, that speak their own word. Word of a town, maybe, of a family, or a race, or perhaps even, after reading, the sense of a nation-word that has been spoken." "Never in the midst of this world of disorder is the poems' music given short shrift. Each piece is infused with it...That attention to beauty in the language spills over into the world it's describing, so that this world of despair still shimmers. The reader lingers in the state of decay and somehow finds it achingly beautiful, like the moldy old house the speaker inherits along with these memories."--Gretchen Primack, Boston Review "Adroit syntax, crisp imagery, and disasters both personal and public define the poems in Celia Bland's collection CHEROKEE ROAD KILL. Her poems have the air of history about them, whether family history, the haunted past of the Cherokees, or the present slipping away, moment by moment."--Garin Cycholl, Rain Taxi "CHEROKEE ROAD KILL is an important book, written by a poet in total command of her powers."--Jonathan Blunk, Georgia Review

Book Roadkill for Beginners

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9789811404757
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Roadkill for Beginners written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Axolotl Roadkill

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  • Author : Helene Hegemann
  • Publisher : Constable & Robinson Ltd
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781849010542
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Axolotl Roadkill written by Helene Hegemann and published by Constable & Robinson Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the death of her mother, 16-year-old Mifti has been living in Berlin in an increasingly dire state of disarray. Diagnosed as a'pseudo stress-debilitated' problem child, she becomes enmeshed in the Berlin party scene, surviving her so called life through a haze of sex, drugs and club culture.

Book How to Cook   Roadkill

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Marcou
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993-06
  • ISBN : 9780963706201
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book How to Cook Roadkill written by Richard Marcou and published by . This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tongue-in-cheek recipe book for meals from under wheels.

Book Road Kill

Download or read book Road Kill written by Craig Hodge and published by Slattery Media Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It has been the best part of 12 years since I investigated a fatal accident and dealt with grieving relatives. It has taken me 12 years to have the strength to write about it, to put pen to paper and record what has caused me so much grief and anguish." So writes Craig Hodge, one of Victoria Police's leading investigators of fatal road accidents. A police officer for 20 years, eight of which he spent with the Accident Investigation Section (now the Major Collision Investigation Unit), Hodge attended the horrific scenes of more than 350 accidents that resulted in deaths and serious injuries. In ROAD KILL, Hodge recounts harrowing investigations and details the processes involved in finding out the causes of such tragedies, which often led to prosecutions. His story is a cautionary tale in which responsible driving messages loom large. ROAD KILL also provides a poignant account of the emotional and psychological impact such carnage has on all involved, not least of all on investigators like Hodge, who struggled at times to find a balance between being sensitive to victims and their families, while also trying to remain emotionally detached for his own sanity and wellbeing.

Book Road Kill

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  • Author : Carol L. Jenkner
  • Publisher : Archway Publishing
  • Release : 2021-08-05
  • ISBN : 1665709006
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Road Kill written by Carol L. Jenkner and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Gerald O’Connor, known to friends as “Road Kill” O’Connor is a retired professor of archaeology and anthropology from Colorado State University. During his career, he became interested in animal skeletal structure and his penchant for collecting road-killed specimens in order to practice the skill of taxidermy earned him his nickname. While watching the news one morning, he hears a report of a skull found along Interstate 90, not far from his home. There is no evidence of a body, only the skull. The only things authorities can tell is that the skull is likely that of an African American woman in her twenties and it has been there for many years. Recalling a cold case in his vast collection of notebooks, O’Connor begins his search for information about this victim. An expert witness for law enforcement throughout his career, O’Connor begins to piece together other missing persons’ cases and a pattern emerges. He concludes a serial killer has been at work for four decades. It’s time this murderer was brought to justice and Road Kill O’Connor is just the man to get the job done.

Book Road Kill

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  • Author : David Jacobs
  • Publisher : Kensington Books
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780786010820
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Road Kill written by David Jacobs and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six true-life cases from the files of True Detective magazine document the horrific crimes of such psychopaths as Spencer Corey Goodman, a martial arts expert who killed a beauty queen for her Cadillac, and Keith Allen Brown, a depraved cab driver who crushed a helpless woman to death with his car. Reissue.

Book Road Kill

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  • Author : Jack Ketchum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780747245407
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Road Kill written by Jack Ketchum and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: