Moby The Flea

Author : Amy Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737016809
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moby the Flea written by Amy Hill and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moby the Flea was inspired by a quote from Herman Melville from Moby Dick, "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it." I have contemporized the Moby Dick story and adapted it to the pursuit of a flea. Kevin gets a dog, then a job with Dr. Ahab, the veterinarian who vaccinates the dog. The doctor has recently lost an eye to a white flea that jumped off a dog he was treating and bit him. He calls this flea Moby and is out to find and kill him. With the help of the receptionist and the other workers in the veterinary clinic, the search goes on, techniques for searching are learned, dog owners are baited to bring their pets to the clinic, and sightings and attacks of the white flea are reported from the local veterinary community. Kevin dates a young woman who tells him astonishing facts about the flea. Kevin's dog falls ill, and while the doctor examines him, he sights the White Flea in his fur. After all in the clinic chase the flea, spraying it with their insecticides, the dog jumps up, his leash flies around the doctor's neck and he is strangled to death. Kevin doesn't know what happened to Moby.

Author : Nell Greenfieldboyce
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393882357
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life written by Nell Greenfieldboyce and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life. In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine, and the control room of a particle collider; she’s presented news on the color of dinosaur eggs, ice worms that live on mountaintop glaciers, and signs of life on Venus. In this, her debut book, she delivers a wholly original collection of powerful, emotionally raw, and unforgettable personal essays that probe the places where science touches our lives most intimately. Expertly weaving her own experiences of motherhood and marriage with an almost devotional attention to the natural world, Greenfieldboyce grapples with the weighty dualities of life: birth and death, constancy and impermanence, memory and doubt, love and aging. She looks for a connection to the universe by embarking on a search for the otherworldly glint of a micrometeorite in the dust, consults meteorologists and storm chasers on the eerie power of tornadoes to soothe her children’s anxieties, and processes her adolescent oblivion through the startling discovery of black holes. Inspired throughout by Walt Whitman’s invocation to the “transient and strange,” she remains attuned to the wildest workings of our world, reflecting on the incredible leap of the humble flea or the echoing truth of a fetal heartbeat. A beautiful blend of explanatory science, original reporting, and personal experience, Transient and Strange captures the ache of ordinary life, offering resonant insights into both the world around us and the worlds within us.

Author : John Bartlett
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031625018X
Total Pages : 5216 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bartlett's Familiar Quotations written by John Bartlett and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 5216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after its original publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. Bartlett's showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the classic Bartlett's tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.

Author : Erin McHugh
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1402792115
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 5 W's: What? written by Erin McHugh and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of quirky and unusual facts about a variety of topics, including car names, mascots, pregnancy, and oxymorons. Musical instruments in an orchestra, Pulitzer Prize categories, and events in an Olympic decathlon: this is an entertaining and enlightening diverse anthology of facts. From the longest word currently listed in any Oxford dictionary to inventions, fashions, and ketchup ice cream, all the sundries of life appear on these vivid pages . . . What is . . . . . . Dr. Bunting’s Sunburn Remedy? The product we know today as Noxema; when it “knocked out” a customer’s eczema, its new name was born. . . . a Scoville unit? A measure of how hot a pepper is. By this reckoning, a habanero is ten to fifty times as hot as a chipotle pepper. . . . fictive kinship? A relationship, like being a godparent, that has nothing to do with one’s birth or marriage, but is modeled on family relationships. . . . Powder of Sympathy? A seventeenth-century concoction that was said to cause pain to recur if it was sprinkled on the knife that had stabbed someone.

Author : Eugene F. Irey
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concordance to Herman Melville's Moby Dick written by Eugene F. Irey and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1982 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey O'Brien
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316375314
Total Pages : 2788 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bartlett's Familiar Quotations written by Geoffrey O'Brien and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 2788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Egypt to today, enjoy a sweeping survey of world history through its most memorable words in this completely revised and updated nineteenth edition. More than 150 years after its initial publication, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations now enters its nineteenth edi­tion. First compiled by John Bartlett, a bookseller in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a commonplace book of only 258 pages, the original 1855 edition mainly featured selections from the Bible, Shakespeare, and the great English poets. Today, Bartlett’s includes more than 20,000 quotes from roughly 4,000 con­tributors. Spanning centuries of thought and culture, it remains the finest and most popular compendium of quotations ever assembled. While continuing to draw on timeless classi­cal references, this edition also incorporates more than 3,000 new quotes from more than 700 new sources, including Alison Bechdel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Pope Francis, Atul Gawande, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Hilary Mantel, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Claudia Rankine, Fred Rogers, Bernie Sanders, Patti Smith, and Malala Yousafzai. Bartlett’s showcases the thoughts not only of renowned figures from the arts, literature, politics, science, sports, and business, but also of otherwise unknown individuals whose thought-provoking ideas have moved, unsettled, or inspired readers and listeners throughout the ages. Bartlett’s makes searching for the perfect quote easy in three ways: alphabetically by author, chrono­logically by the author’s birth date, or thematically by subject. Whether one is searching for appropriate remarks for a celebration, comforting thoughts for a serious occasion, or simply to answer the question “Who said that?” Bartlett’s offers readers and schol­ars alike a stunning treasury of words that have influ­enced

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book SPIN written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

Author : Fred R. Shapiro
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030020597X
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Yale Book of Quotations written by Fred R. Shapiro and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and updated edition of an essential reference book filled with more than twelve thousand famous quotations

Author : Oliver Lovesey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501355856
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Music Autobiography written by Oliver Lovesey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing. This book situates these works -- in the forms of formal autobiographies and memoirs, auto-fiction, songs, and self-fashioned museum exhibitions -- within the context of the recent expansion of interest in autobiography, disability, and celebrity studies. It argues that these writings express anxiety over musical originality and authenticity, and seeks to dispel their writers' celebrity status and particularly the association with a lack of seriousness. These works often constitute a meditation on the nature of postmodern fame within a celebrity-obsessed culture, and paradoxically they aim to regain the private self in a public forum.

Author : Joanne Rocklin
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613126948
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fleabrain Loves Franny written by Joanne Rocklin and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gem of a novel takes place in Pittsburgh in 1952. Franny Katzenback, while recovering from polio, reads and falls in love with the brand-new book Charlotte’s Web. Bored and lonely and yearning for a Charlotte of her own, Franny starts up a correspondence with an eloquent flea named Fleabrain who lives on her dog’s tail. While Franny struggles with physical therapy and feeling left out of her formerly active neighborhood life, Fleabrain is there to take her on adventures based on his extensive reading. It’s a touching, funny story set in the recent past, told with Rocklin’s signature wit and thoughtfulness. Awards Bank Street Children's Books "Best Books of the Year," Fiction Ages 9-12 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Older Readers Praise for Fleabrain Loves Franny "Heartwarming and endlessly funny, Fleabrain Loves Franny will delight readers of all ages. Rocklin’s sharp wit and exuberant writing style are refreshing. This book is not to be missed." --VOYA "Franny—a compassionate, thoughtful and sympathetic protagonist—is believably erratic in her emotions and reflections on her illness and its effects on her previously carefree life." --Publishers Weekly "Rocklin perfectly captures the era of 1952 and creates a sympathetic, realistic character in Franny, who begins to accept her condition, rejoin her friends and even protest her school’s inaccessibility." --Kirkus Reviews "Comedic and philosophical, readers will find multiple levels to enjoy." --School Library Journal