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  • Between Pets and People

    The Importance of Animal Companionship

    by Alan M. Beck, Aaron Katcher ...
    Series series New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
    Pets play a greater role in our emotional and physical health than ever before, says the Purdue University professor who is co-author of his revised edition of Between Pets and People: The Importance of Animal Companionship. The book offers conclusive evidence from the two foremost researchers in the field, Alan M. Beck and Aaron H. Katcher, that animals have a significant influence on human life ... Read more

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    1950s Science Fiction 10

    22 Vintage Stories From the Wild Imagination of the 1950s

    by Murray Leinster, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison, Robert Silverberg, Clark Ashton Smith, Randall Garrett, Donald A. Wollheim, Zenna Henderson, Michael Shaara, Charles Dye, Noel Loomis, Robert Sheckley, Miriam Allen DeFord, Lynn Venable, William Tenn, Katherine MacLean, Clyde Beck, Alan E. Nourse, Ron Cocking ...
    Narrated by Scott Miller ...
    Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi Decades

    Unabridged

    12 hours 26 min

    The 1950s were a decade when science fiction writers seemed willing to imagine almost anything. 1950s Science Fiction 10 brings together 22 stories filled with alien encounters, voyages into space, mysterious creatures, unusual technology, and ordinary people suddenly confronted by something they cannot explain.Philip K. Dick contributes two memorable tales. In James P. Crow, intelligence and ... Read more

    $24.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecology of Stray Dogs

    A Study of Free-Ranging Urban Animals

    by Alan M. Beck ...
    Series series New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
    This study of dog ecology and behavior and of human ecology and behavior discusses the facets of the phenomenon of the urban free-roaming dog. It provides information for students who wish to embark on studies of wild canines. ... Read more

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  • What Is a Dog?

    by Raymond Coppinger, Lorna Coppinger ...
    "An informative, well-written book on the evolution of all canids, including the wild types (wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dingoes)…Recommended."— ChoiceOf the world's dogs, fewer than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters. But roaming the planet are four times as many dogs who are their own masters—neighborhood dogs, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iowa Trivia

    Edited by Janice E. Stock, Alan Beck, Ken Beck ...
    Discover fascinating facts about Hawkeye State history, sports, geography and more with this revised and updated trivia book.Iowa Trivia is the ultimate resource on the who, what, when, where, and how of the great state of Iowa. This revised and updated edition contains even more questions and answers about well-known and not so well-known facts of this colorful, historic state. Test your Iowa ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Human-Animal Interactions and Anthrozoology

    Edited by Aubrey H. Fine, Megan K. Mueller, Zenithson Y. Ng, Alan M. Beck, Jose M. Peralta ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This diverse, global, and interdisciplinary volume explores the existing research, practice, and ethical issues pertinent to the field of human-animal interactions (HAIs), interventions, and anthrozoology, focusing on the perceived physical and mental health benefits to humans and the challenges derived from these relationships.The book begins by exploring the basic theoretical principles of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Health Benefits of Dog Walking for Pets and People

    Evidence and Case Studies

    by Rebecca A. Johnson, Alan M. Beck ...
    Series series New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
    Obesity is at epidemic levels worldwide. In the U.S. alone, it is estimated that by 2018 the cost of treating weight-related illnesses will double to almost $350 billion a year. A 2010 report by the U.S. Surgeon General estimates that two-thirds of American adults and almost one in three children are now overweight or obese. Similar statistics emphasize the staggering problem in other ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the Twenty-First Century

    Intersections and Prospects

    by Yossi Ben-Harush, Dzmitry Shavialiou, Amir Rezaeipanah, Özgür Kaymak, Yakov Rabkin, Yaacov Yadgar, Aharon Klieman, Shlomit Attias, Achim Rohde, Dani Kranz, Tryce Hyman, Alan T. Levenson, Johannes Becke ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
    Jewish studies has been a vibrant academic discipline for many decades, and since the establishment of the Association for Israel Studies in 1985 to engage in research on the history, politics, society, and culture of the modern state of Israel, the two disciplines have worked along parallel tracks in universities. This book focuses on the vibrant academic field of Israel studies and its complex ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

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    A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers

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  • The Ancient Roman Afterlife

    Di Manes, Belief, and the Cult of the Dead

    by Charles W. King ...
    A comprehensive study of the manes, their worship, and their place in Roman conceptions of their society.In ancient Rome, it was believed some humans were transformed into special, empowered beings after death. These deified dead, known as the manes, watched over and protected their surviving family members, possibly even extending those relatives' lives. But unlike the Greek hero-cult, the ... Read more

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  • The Gang of Three: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

    Ancient Wisdom, #2

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    Series Book 2 - Ancient Wisdom
    The thinkers who built the Western mind—and still shape your own.This is the best book on philosophy I have ever read. —Philip van Heusen for Readers' FavoriteThree men. Three rival visions of reality. And together, the hidden framework behind how you think about truth, morality, happiness, and meaning.Much of Western philosophy can be traced back to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—figures whose ... Read more

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  • London, A Fourteenth-Century City and its People

    by Kathryn Warner ...
    A resource of information about the cultural, political and social conditions of urban life in the capital of medieval England during the 1300s.For the medieval period that was witness to a legion of political and natural disasters, the rise and fall of empires across the globe and one of the most devastating and greatest pandemics human kind has ever experienced, the fourteenth century was ... Read more

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