Category: Animals / Pets

"Deeply I sat, fixed to the slap, slap, slap of her trot, and the counterpoint thud-plod, thud-plod of her heart, enchanted by a soft percussion I felt part of, floating above the syncopated rhythm like a melody." --Diane Ackerman, recalling her beloved Appaloosa mare Horses have inspired devotion, awe, and love in their human companions for millennia; in Horse People more than forty acclaimed writers and artists share their own passion for these magical, mythical animals. Horse People includes deeply moving reminiscences and stories as varied as Jane Smiley's memories of her return to riding ...
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Larousse Encyclopedia of Animal Life

Price: $9.99

Seller ID: 63439

ISBN: 281DCP1004117

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

the life and history of the cat

Price: $19.99

Seller ID: 65631

ISBN: 281DCP1004404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

By: Ackerman, Jennifer

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Penguin Books : May 2021

Seller ID: 44957

ISBN-13: 9780735223035

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. "There is the mammal way and there is the bird way." But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries -- What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communic...
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Dr. Ackerman's Book of the Boxer (BB Dog)

By: Ackerman, Lowell

Price: $3.99

Publisher: Tfh Pubns Inc : December 1996

Seller ID: 35616

ISBN-13: 9780793825547

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Frogs (WorldLife Library Series)

By: Badger, David

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Voyageur Press : April 2000

Seller ID: 44645

ISBN-13: 9780896584563

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Frogs have long played a role in tales of legend and lore--symbolizing fertility, omens, impending rain, and more. "Frogs" is an introduction to the world's most fascinating frogs and toads, including detailed coverage of frog characteristics, their life cycle, musical repertoires, and conservation issues. David Badger's entertaining text and John Netherton's brilliant, up-close photographs bring these fascinating creatures to life as you've never seen them.
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Marine aquarist's manual

By: Baensch, Hans A

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Tetra : January 1983

Seller ID: 31161

ISBN: B0006EK8TS

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Communicating With Your Dog: Twenty Magic Words

By: Baer, Ted

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc : May 1989

Seller ID: 42553

ISBN-13: 9780812042030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Pocket Guide to Butterflies & Moths

By: Balmer, Elizabeth

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Parragon Inc : April 2007

Seller ID: 62013

ISBN-13: 9781405488037

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Greater Swiss Mountain Dog: A Complete and Reliable Handbook (Rare Breed)

By: Barton, Jim

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Tfh Pubns Inc : December 1997

Seller ID: 51211

ISBN-13: 9780793807529

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Bonnie Bergin's Guide to Bringing Out the Best in Your Dog: The Bonnie Bergin Method

By: Bergin, Bonnie,McNally, Robert A.

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Little Brown & Co : July 1995

Seller ID: 43171

ISBN-13: 9780316092845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Dogs are as individual as people. No two are exactly alike. So why should there be a single right way to train a dog or influence its behavior? There isn't, says Bonnie Bergin -- in a fascinating book that is at once a training guide and a revealing exploration of how and why dogs behave as they do.Bonnie Bergin has trained several hundred dogs of all breeds as she has developed and pioneered the concept of service dogs -- dogs trained as helpers and companions of people with physical disabilities. Drawing on her two decades of experience, she shares the secrets about dog mind that she has dis...
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