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Liberating today's chicken from cartoons, fast food, and other demeaning associations, The Chicken Book at once celebrates and explains this noble fowl. As it traces the rise and fall of Gallus domesticus from the jungles of ancient India to the assembly-line hatcheries sprawled across modern America, this original, frequently astounding book passes along a trove of knowledge and lore about everything from the chicken's biology and behavior to its place in legend and mythology. The book includes lively discussions of the chicken's role in literature and history, the cruel attractions of cockfighting, the medicinal uses of eggs and chicken parts, the details of the egg-laying process, the basics of the backyard coop, recipes, and much more. Entertaining and insightful, The Chicken Book will change the way we regard this too often underappreciated animal.
Eisenberg offers a comprehensive work on Daniel, focusing particularly on theprophetic passage of Daniel 9: 24-27. (Christian)
Once confined to the research laboratory, the genetic engineering of plants is now a big business that is changing the face of modern agriculture. Giant corporations are creating designer crops with strange powers-from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to plants that act as miniature drug factories, churning out everything from vaccines to insulin. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers, more productive agriculture-even an end to world hunger. But the vision has a dark side, one of profit-driven tampering with life and the possible destruction of entire ecosystems. In Lords of the Harvest, Daniel Charles takes us deep inside research labs, farm sheds, and corporate boardrooms t...
How did the United States become not only the leading contemporary art scene in the world, but also the leading market for art? The answer has to do not only with the talents of American artists or even the size of the American economy, but also--and especially--the skills and entrepreneurship of American art dealers. Their story has not been told...until now. Landscape with Figures is the first history of art dealing in the United States, following the profession from eighteenth-century portrait and picture salesmen in the colonies to the high-profile, jet-set gallery owners of today. Providing anecdotal and carefully researched biographies of the prominent dealers from more than two centur...
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A botched Tuxedo Park robbery attempt with Clearsands cronies Peter Cooper, Frank Baldwin, and Gilbert Glough posing as early morning DPW garbagemen, initiated by Clearsands CEO, Daniel Crosswell, to fund cocaine into the states has awake and wandering, sleep apnea, one hundred and fifty million in cash and bond asset Richard Anthony Southwick murdered during the home invasion. When greed clouds the cronies' judgment they steal the garbage truck compacted cash and bond assets with the Clearsands helicopter crashing into Reeves Meadow Remo house nine miles away killing Craig Remo and his young son Jason. This one act of defiance resonates throughout the Clearsands hierarchy, tipping the very axis by which Clearsands has operated unscathed for so many years shredding the very fabric of its existence.
City boys Daniel and Charles have worked for years in the financial sector selling stocks, shares and other assets. As their lifestyles and personal expenses expand, they decide to start their own trading business. They believe they know how to realise their fortune in simple, if not always legitimate, ways. Over time, and having involved their wives, behaviours begin to shift and things go from trust to dishonesty. Their focus switches from financial independence to avoiding getting caught; and their illegal practices lead to an ever-deepening involvement with international criminal organisations. Soon, the city boys are facing insurmountable and unsavoury challenges both at work and in their family lives. The further their activities extend internationally, the deeper they find their difficulties developing at home. Scammers is a story of descent into deception, dishonesty, greed and criminality that should scare anyone thinking about achieving their dream by bending a few trivial rules…
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