Author: Darrin Lunde
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580895662
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Nobody likes a rat. And we're not talking about a snitch here. We're talking about those disgusting bald-tailed rodents that scurry around alleys and in the subway. But, hold on . . . are rats really so bad? There are hundreds of rat species all around the world that defy common stereotypes. Rats help predators survive, allow plants to spread their seeds, and even contribute to medical research that helps humans stay healthy. Simple, clear text introduces many of the rats that crawl on the earth today, where they live, what they eat, and how they survive. Next time you see a rat, take a second look.
Dirty Rats?
Author: Darrin Lunde
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580895662
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Nobody likes a rat. And we're not talking about a snitch here. We're talking about those disgusting bald-tailed rodents that scurry around alleys and in the subway. But, hold on . . . are rats really so bad? There are hundreds of rat species all around the world that defy common stereotypes. Rats help predators survive, allow plants to spread their seeds, and even contribute to medical research that helps humans stay healthy. Simple, clear text introduces many of the rats that crawl on the earth today, where they live, what they eat, and how they survive. Next time you see a rat, take a second look.
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580895662
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Nobody likes a rat. And we're not talking about a snitch here. We're talking about those disgusting bald-tailed rodents that scurry around alleys and in the subway. But, hold on . . . are rats really so bad? There are hundreds of rat species all around the world that defy common stereotypes. Rats help predators survive, allow plants to spread their seeds, and even contribute to medical research that helps humans stay healthy. Simple, clear text introduces many of the rats that crawl on the earth today, where they live, what they eat, and how they survive. Next time you see a rat, take a second look.
Snarling Tiger, Dirty Rat
Author: Stella Hyde
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399532481
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Presents the animal aspects of the Chinese zodiac as it guides readers through the darker meanings of the Chinese signs, discussing the influence of the signs on such personal topics as temperament, love and sex, and behavior patterns.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399532481
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Presents the animal aspects of the Chinese zodiac as it guides readers through the darker meanings of the Chinese signs, discussing the influence of the signs on such personal topics as temperament, love and sex, and behavior patterns.
The Dirty Rat
Stinky Dirty Rat
Author: Paul Winter
Publisher: Austin Macauley
ISBN: 9781528929011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Join Roger in his adventures through a dark scary forest, to meet his friend Millie Mouse, who lives in a big posh house in the countryside. On his journey, danger lurks around every corner and Roger soon finds himself in peril. However, Roger has a secret superpower that even he is not aware of!
Publisher: Austin Macauley
ISBN: 9781528929011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Join Roger in his adventures through a dark scary forest, to meet his friend Millie Mouse, who lives in a big posh house in the countryside. On his journey, danger lurks around every corner and Roger soon finds himself in peril. However, Roger has a secret superpower that even he is not aware of!
The Dirty Rat
Author: Nancy Carpino-Weller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781928675099
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Cotton Sox, The Dirty Rat, is a coal mining rat who works for Victor Banana, a wealthy successful cat. Victor owns Banana Coal. He hires rats, instead of cats. Cats throw stones at Victor and bully him. His most trusted employee is Cotton Sox. Coal mining is a dangerous/hazardous occupations. Many miners have lost their lives working in coal mines. Cotton is a hero who saves miners in a mining disaster.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781928675099
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Cotton Sox, The Dirty Rat, is a coal mining rat who works for Victor Banana, a wealthy successful cat. Victor owns Banana Coal. He hires rats, instead of cats. Cats throw stones at Victor and bully him. His most trusted employee is Cotton Sox. Coal mining is a dangerous/hazardous occupations. Many miners have lost their lives working in coal mines. Cotton is a hero who saves miners in a mining disaster.
Rats in the Grain
Author: James B Lieber
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465024270
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Beneath the wholesome image of Archer Daniels Midland lie some of the dirtiest practices in American business: price-fixing, bribery, and cover-ups. Unfolding like a legal thriller, Rats in the Grain portrays the crime and punishment of ADM during the largest white-collar criminal trial of the 1990s. James Lieber profiles the witnesses, the defense lawyers and federal prosecutors, the inner workings of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, and the unpredictable mole Lieber had access to. "A detailed account of how an influential corporation can go rotten." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465024270
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Beneath the wholesome image of Archer Daniels Midland lie some of the dirtiest practices in American business: price-fixing, bribery, and cover-ups. Unfolding like a legal thriller, Rats in the Grain portrays the crime and punishment of ADM during the largest white-collar criminal trial of the 1990s. James Lieber profiles the witnesses, the defense lawyers and federal prosecutors, the inner workings of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, and the unpredictable mole Lieber had access to. "A detailed account of how an influential corporation can go rotten." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Rats
Author: Robert Sullivan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596919175
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
New York Public Library Book for the Teenager New York Public Library Book to Remember PSLA Young Adult Top 40 Nonfiction Titles of the Year "Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Behold the rat, dirty and disgusting! Robert Sullivan turns the lowly rat into the star of this most perversely intriguing, remarkable, and unexpectedly elegant New York Times bestseller. Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing. With an all-new Afterword by the author
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596919175
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
New York Public Library Book for the Teenager New York Public Library Book to Remember PSLA Young Adult Top 40 Nonfiction Titles of the Year "Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Behold the rat, dirty and disgusting! Robert Sullivan turns the lowly rat into the star of this most perversely intriguing, remarkable, and unexpectedly elegant New York Times bestseller. Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing. With an all-new Afterword by the author
Stinky Dirty Rat
Author: Paul Winter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781528965705
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781528965705
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
King Rat
Author: China Miéville
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466826029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Award-winning author China Miéville began his astounding career with King Rat—now in a new Tor Essentials edition—a mix of a young man's search for identity with a pulse-pounding story of revenge and madness. With a new introduction by Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail. Something is stirring in London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul Garamond's father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into Saul's prison cell and leads him to freedom: a shadow called King Rat. King Rat reveals to Saul his own royal heritage, a heritage that opens a new world for him, the world below London's streets. With drum-and-bass pounding the backstreets, Saul must confront the forces that would use him, the ones that would destroy him, and those that have shaped his own bizarre identity. Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466826029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Award-winning author China Miéville began his astounding career with King Rat—now in a new Tor Essentials edition—a mix of a young man's search for identity with a pulse-pounding story of revenge and madness. With a new introduction by Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail. Something is stirring in London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul Garamond's father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into Saul's prison cell and leads him to freedom: a shadow called King Rat. King Rat reveals to Saul his own royal heritage, a heritage that opens a new world for him, the world below London's streets. With drum-and-bass pounding the backstreets, Saul must confront the forces that would use him, the ones that would destroy him, and those that have shaped his own bizarre identity. Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Mouse or Rat?
Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780226276
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, broadly speaking, cultural.' Umberto Eco is of the world's most brilliant and entertaining writers on literature and language. In this accessible and dazzling study, he turns his eye on the subject of translations and the problems the differences between cultures can cause. The book is full of little gems about mistranslations and misunderstandings.For example when you put 'Studies in the logic of Charles Sanders Peirce' through an internet translation machine, it becomes 'Studies in the logic of the Charles of sandpaper grinding machines Peirce'. In Italian 'ratto' has no connotation of 'contemptible person' but denotes speed ('you dirty rat' could take on a whole new meaning!) What could be a weighty subject is never dull, fired by Eco's immense wit and erudition, providing an entertaining read that illuminates the process of negotiation that all translators must make.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780226276
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, broadly speaking, cultural.' Umberto Eco is of the world's most brilliant and entertaining writers on literature and language. In this accessible and dazzling study, he turns his eye on the subject of translations and the problems the differences between cultures can cause. The book is full of little gems about mistranslations and misunderstandings.For example when you put 'Studies in the logic of Charles Sanders Peirce' through an internet translation machine, it becomes 'Studies in the logic of the Charles of sandpaper grinding machines Peirce'. In Italian 'ratto' has no connotation of 'contemptible person' but denotes speed ('you dirty rat' could take on a whole new meaning!) What could be a weighty subject is never dull, fired by Eco's immense wit and erudition, providing an entertaining read that illuminates the process of negotiation that all translators must make.