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What Is My Cat Thinking?: The Essential Guide to Understanding Pet Behavior (in Hardcover)
What Is My Cat Thinking? is essential for learning to respond to your cat’s changing needs. Did you ever wonder why she licks her paws, scratches the furniture or brings dead animals into the house? This book lifts the lid on cat behavior and helps you communicate more effectively with your pet. Includes questions and [...]
Culture of Nonsalmonid Freshwater Fishes, 2nd Edition (in Hardcover)
Culture of Nonsalmonid Freshwater Fishes, 2nd Edition presents an expanded, updated description of important techniques and practices for the culture of some of the most widely cultured nonsalmonid species used for human consumption (channel catfish, tilapia, carp) for stocking freshwater bodies for recreational fishing (bass, walleye, striped bass), and for bait (minnows). This new edition [...]
Bioactive Components of Milk (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology) (in Hardcover)
Review From the reviews: “This multi-authored and international volume presents recent scientific advances on bioactive components of milk of both livestock and human. The ultimate goal is to create and use genetically engineered components from livestock milk … . The review format of the articles includes historical discovery dates of particular components and leads to [...]
The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America (in in in in Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Franklin, a historian and author of over 15 books (most recently War Stars), was inspired by his passion for saltwater angling to write this history of the all-but-extinct menhaden, a fish that’s historically served an essential part of the Atlantic coastal food web, including human populations (natives and settlers both). [...]
Amphibian (DK Eyewitness Books) (in Hardcover)
Review …a mini museum between the covers of a book. [Eyewitness series] — The New York TimesThese books’ striking visual impact will draw in even the most casual readers. [Eyewitness series] — School Library Journal –This text refers to the Library Binding edition. Frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and the rare caecilians come in a stunning [...]
Hermit Crab: Your Happy Healthy Pet (in in in Hardcover)
The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs. Hermit crabs are social creatures, so most owners have several. They’re easy to care for and fascinating to watch as they grow, molt, climb, dig, burrow, and crawl. They “adopt” shells that they carry on their back like a mobile home! With colorful [...]
Stanley Mows the Lawn (in Hardcover)
Review Received Wanda Gág Book Award Honor. Award and honors go to the best 2005 read-aloud children’s picture books. — Wanda Gág Book Award Honor 2006, Minnesota State University Moorhead One day, Stanley sets out to mow his lawn. Up and back, up and back, there’s only one way to do it . . . [...]