How to Love a Rat
Title | How to Love a Rat PDF eBook |
Author | Darcie DeAngelo |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2024-09-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520397428 |
How to Love a Rat takes place in a Cambodian minefield. Working amid hidden bombs, former war combatants use explosive-sniffing rats to clear mines from the land. In total, an estimated four to six million landmines in Cambodia have been left behind by wars that ended decades ago. This has created the conditions for a flourishing mine-clearance industry, where workers who were once enemy combatants may now be employed on the same clearance teams. Zeroing in on two distinct sets of feelings, Darcie DeAngelo paints a portrait of the love experienced between humans and rats and the suspicions felt between former adversaries turned coworkers. In doing so, she points to how human-animal relationships in the minefield produce models for relationality among people from opposing sides of war. The ways the deminers love for the rats mediate both the traumatic violence of the past and the uncertain dangers of the minefield. The book's stories depict an transformative postwar ecology emerging through human-nonhuman relationships, including those shared between humans and rats, landmines, and spirits.
Bear and Rat
Title | Bear and Rat PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Cheng |
Publisher | Random House Australia |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | Animals |
ISBN | 1760896284 |
Bear and Rat are the best of friends who do everything together, but Rat wonders if Bear will always be there to hold her hand, no matter what happens...
My Pet Rat
Title | My Pet Rat PDF eBook |
Author | Paige V. Polinsky |
Publisher | Bellwether Media |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2020-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1618918656 |
Rats are friendly pets that love to chew. They happily nibble snacks. Then they give themselves baths! These critters make great pets, and this title proves it. The book is a guide for pet rat care, including what they eat, where they live, and how they play. The fun text combines with a profile, a supply list, and a care duties checklist to create an engaging primer on pet rats!
The Infested Mind
Title | The Infested Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Lockwood |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2013-09-25 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0199374937 |
The human reaction to insects is neither purely biological nor simply cultural. And no one reacts to insects with indifference. Insects frighten, disgust and fascinate us. Jeff Lockwood explores this phenomenon through evolutionary science, human history, and contemporary psychology, as well as a debilitating bout with entomophobia in his work as an entomologist. Exploring the nature of anxiety and phobia, Lockwood explores the lively debate about how much of our fear of insects can be attributed to ancestral predisposition for our own survival and how much is learned through individual experiences. Drawing on vivid case studies, Lockwood explains how insects have come to infest our minds in sometimes devastating ways and supersede even the most rational understanding of the benefits these creatures provide. No one can claim to be ambivalent in the face of wasps, cockroaches or maggots but our collective entomophobia is wreaking havoc on the natural world as we soak our food, homes and gardens in powerful insecticides. Lockwood dissects our common reactions, distinguishing between disgust and fear, and invites readers to consider their own emotional and physiological reactions to insects in a new framework that he's derived from cutting-edge biological, psychological, and social science.
Rush
Title | Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Todd G. Buchholz |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-07-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0452297958 |
Relaxation makes us stupid. You think that downtime will make you happy. You may even dream about getting out of the rat race for good. But Todd Buchholz—a former White House director of economic policy, award-winning teacher at Harvard, hedge fund director, and co-producer of a Tony Award-winning Broadway hit show—wants you to know that you’re wrong. It’s the race that delivers the rush. So forget about retirement, zen retreats, and making everyone feel like a winner; human beings are hard-wired to compete. Interweaving entertaining stories and cutting-edge research from neuroeconomics to evolutionary biology to Renaissance art to General Motors, Buchholz draws the counterintuitive—yet wholly convincing—conclusion that competition has not only made us taller and smarter, it’s what we love and need.
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Title | Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat PDF eBook |
Author | Lynne Jonell |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2008-09-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1466824662 |
Emmy was a good girl. At least she tried very hard to be good. She did her homework without being told. She ate all her vegetables, even the slimy ones. And she never talked back to her nanny, Miss Barmy, although it was almost impossible to keep quiet, some days. She really was a little too good. Which is why she liked to sit by the Rat. The Rat was not good at all . . . Hilarious, inventive, and irresistably rodent-friendly, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat is a fantastic first novel from acclaimed picture book author Lynne Jonell.
Rat
Title | Rat PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Kenney |
Publisher | Carson-Dellosa Publishing |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2015-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1634306244 |
The You Have a Pet What?! series introduces young readers to unusual pets through using a fun and factual approach to mastering early reading skills. With bold keywords and a Show What You Know section, Rat allows students to refer to details and examples in the text and provide a summary distinct from personal opinions or bias. Featuring 32 full-color pages, photographs, simple language, and text-based questions, this title encourages curiosity as well as reading comprehension.