Pig Science

Baker Street mice - beware! So far the twins are safe. They'll stay that way if you do what we say. We've decided to make your Baker Street cellar the headquarters for our gang. Everybody must be out in 48 hours. It's Basil's job to move you all out, just the way he moved you in. Better make it fast! And leave the furniture - we need it. This is the only warning you'll get. And listen - if you don't follow our orders, you'll never set eyes on those twins again!

Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro in April 1961. Drawing on recently declassified CIA documents, Jones deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs. Ignoring warnings from the ambassador to Cuba, the Eisenhower administration put in motion an operation that proved nearly unstoppable, even after the inauguration of John F. Kennedy.

Jack loves his childhood toy Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens - DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life...even toys. And Jack’s newest toy - the Christmas Pig (DP’s annoying replacement) - has a daring plan: Together they’ll embark on a magical journey to seek something lost and to save the best friend Jack has ever known....

Have you been looking for a resource that will take you through the ins and outs of livestock from start to finish? If so, then you've come to the right place. This audiobook Raising Livestock: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Horses, Donkeys, Beef Cattle, Llamas, Pigs, Sheep, and Goats is exactly what you need.

Emmy was a good girl—too good, perhaps. The rat, whose cage sat on the counter next to Emmy’s desk, was not so good. On the other hand, he was the only one in Emmy’s class who would talk to her. The rest of the kids barely knew she existed. Even her teacher didn’t seem to know she was there! Only her nanny, the lovely-but-sinister Miss Barmy, really pays her much attention.

Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig - the new brand of "empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture". If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on them.

Thirty million years ago, it was the absolute apex predator of the continent. Tonight, the badlands belong to it again. When a corporate genetics lab deep in the South Dakota badlands breaches containment during a massive storm, paleontologist Dr. Mara Kessler is thrust into a brutal battle for survival. The resurrected Daeodon—a twelve-hundred-pound prehistoric nightmare known as the "Hell Pig"—is loose, hunting with the crushing power of a grizzly and the shocking problem-solving intelligence of a great ape. With all communications destroyed, a rising flood blocking the roads, and ...

Bloomsbury presents A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup, read by Nicky Diss. Shortlisted for the BMA Book Awards and Macavity Awards 2016 Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn’t mean it's all made-up ... Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off...

Dito es el juguete preferido de Jack. Ha estado a su lado, en los buenos y malos momentos, hasta que una Nochebuena sucede algo terrible: Dito se pierde. Pero es una noche especial, una noche para los milagros y los casos perdidos, una noche en que los objetos, incluidos los juguetes, pueden cobrar vida. Y el juguete más nuevo de Jack, el cerdito de Navidad (el frustrante sustituto de Dito), ha tramado un plan muy arriesgado. Juntos se embarcarán en un viaje mágico para recuperar y salvar al que hasta ahora ha sido el mejor amigo Jack.

Every person living off the grid has a common goal of being self-sufficient. Raising farm animals is a great first step toward that self-reliance, but which animals do you need? This book is specifically designed to answer that question. With the knowledge you will gain from this book, you will be able to plan and prepare effectively and efficiently. You will learn which animals will best meet your needs for milk, meat, eggs, and fiber, and you will learn how to properly care for them and manage their products.

When Suzy comes over to Peppa's house to play, they have a lot of fun with Peppa's new toy horse, Horsey Twinkle Toes. But what they really want to play with is a wonderful, magical, colorful UNICORN! Can Daddy Pig make their dreams come true? Peppa's Magical Unicorn is a lovely audiobook that all unicorn fans will adore.

Right now, someone is added to an organ transplant waiting list every ten minutes, and many will not get one in time. In Book Four of Our Futures Series, Dr. Patricia A. Farrell tells the story of the science working to change that, from genetically modified pig kidneys already keeping real patients off dialysis, to the early research into growing replacement tissue from a patient's own cells. You will meet the actual patients behind the headlines, understand exactly how gene editing makes an animal organ safe enough for a human body, and get an honest picture of what has already worked, ...

Meet Ricky Ricotta, a little mouse with a big problem! Ricky Ricotta lives in Squeakyville with his mom and dad. Ricky has a hard time making friends at school, and the neighborhood bullies are always picking on him. If only Ricky could find someone to be his best buddy and keep those creepy bullies away! Meanwhile, on the other side of town, a mad scientist named Dr. Stinky McNasty has created a mighty robot who is as gentle as he is powerful. Dr. Stinky plans to make the robot destroy Squeakyville, but there's one little thing in his way: Ricky Ricotta!

Is it right to eat a pig that wants to be eaten...? Thought experiments are short scenarios that pose a moral or philosophical problem in a vivid and concrete way. In this book Julian Baggini presents 100 of the most intriguing thought experiments from the history of philosophy and ideas.

Squeal! Guinea pigs make fun pets. Some have long hair and some have almost no hair at all. Some have crests on their heads and others have droopy ears. Young listeners will learn about the appearance and behavior of guinea pigs, and discover why these playful rodents make great pets.

The dream is no longer to slow aging. It's to reverse it — and the richest people alive are betting billions they can. In a lab, a scientist takes an old cell and makes it young again. In a hospital, a dying man walks out alive on a kidney grown inside a pig. In Silicon Valley, the largest fortunes ever assembled pour into a single goal: winding the clock back. This is the wildest frontier in all of science — and the one where real breakthroughs and pure hype are hardest to tell apart. Winding the Clock Back is the thrilling, clear-eyed finale of The Mortality Problem, told by the ...

Squeak! Tiny hamsters make fun pets. Some have a solid color and others have three different colors. Some have short tails and others have long tails. Young listeners will learn about the appearance and behavior of hamsters, and discover why these curious rodents make great pets.

In the midst of Anthropocene pollution, as the planet drowns under the waste of human consumption, a group of scientists tries to solve what corporations never wanted to face: creating living matter capable of devouring the world’s refuse. Thus was born Glutton #-6, a creature designed to eat and regenerate, an experiment promising ecological redemption… until the nature of hunger proves more powerful than any equation. As the line between the organic and the human dissolves, the laboratory becomes a mirror of a civilization that consumes without limits, turning all life—even its own...

When demons gather in their masses, it's time to put them on their asses. At least, that's what Noah and I decided after we finished up a whiskey-assisted hunt in Kentucky for one of the most ridiculous supers I've ever seen. And that's saying something considering I've hunted more than one Bonnacon.

It’s one thing for scientists to use animals for their experiments. But it’s another thing entirely for them to use humans to test out a new vaccine or medical treatment - especially when the scientists are the subjects of their own experiments! Guinea Pig Scientists features brief but informative biographies of men and women who have changed the world by using their own bodies to test their scientific theories.