Dog Science

The Divinity of Dogs is about the moments you learn something profound about life from an experience with a dog. Featuring more than 70 stories culled from hundreds of submissions to the author's Web site, these inspiring and heartwarming true stories show where love, tolerance, comfort, compassion, loyalty, joyfulness, and even death have provided experiences that have led to spiritual enlightenment.

Sometimes that very thin line between illusion and reality is not as clearly defined as we would like it to be. It certainly wasn't the day that Alan Mitz stumbled into the garden of Abdul Gasazi. For in this bizarre and eerie place - where strange topiary trees loomed - the evil visage of Gasazi casts its shadow. And even after Alan escaped, the spell of Gasazi still seemed to penetrate into his everyday world. In this extraordinary, unusual, and unique book, Chris Van Allsburg explores both real and surreal worlds with incredible deftness.

When John Tovey lost his sight at the age of 42, he thought his life was over. He was wrong, it was just beginning. John had followed a bad path drifting in and out of trouble. He was sent to improvement schools, a young offenders institute and eventually a prison. John was on self-destruct and thought nothing or no one could help him. Then he became the victim of a vicious attack by a notorious train ‘steaming’ gang. John knew he had to take the witness stand.

Die nervenaufreibende Vorgeschichte zu dem megaheißen Videogame Ubisofts WATCH DOGS: LEGION! Die britische Hauptstadt soll ins Chaos gestürzt werden! Eine geheim operierende Widerstandsbewegung ist die letzte Verteidigungslinie Londons. Fahrradkurier Olly Soames ist der neueste Rekrut der Widerstandsbewegung DedSec, doch als direkt vor seinen Augen ein Fremder erschossen wird, beginnt er zu begreifen, dass die Gefahr viel näher ist, als er dachte.

An expert on otters dives into their wild and wonderful world You’ve heard of a murder of crows and a pride of lions—but what about a romp of otters? In this informative and entertaining book, animal behaviorist Heide Island takes readers on an odyssey through otterdom, focusing on a family...

A spell at GCHQ sounded like a refreshing change for academic historian George. But his life is thrown upside down when he gets put in a team with a gifted physicist, Alex, and multi-talented prankster mathematician, Betty, who have covertly broken through the accepted rules of physics to produce an extraordinary novel technology.

Ronnat Rua, apprentice to her grandmother the Death Crooner of the Trabally, comes of age over the 13 months of the sacred moon-year of her people. She struggles with loneliness and while life turns her from child to woman, destiny, duty, and dreams collide with loyalty and love. Steeped in the rituals and spells of her people, surrounded by the spirits that cross the veil between this life and the next, Ronnat is awakening to powers within of sight and healing. Before the year is done, Ronnat must survive a calamity and save the life of someone precious.

When Dr. Cyrus Mills returned home after inheriting his estranged father's veterinary practice, the last thing he wanted was to stay in Eden Falls, Vermont. However, the previously reclusive veterinarian pathologist quickly found that he actually enjoyed treating animals and getting to know the eccentric residents of the tiny provincial town - especially an alluring waitress named Amy.

When Agony is spirited to the middle of nowhere, things get dicey for them both. The dangers are not contained to the glittering city lights. Some old scores can never be forgotten. Our tenacious twosome did just fine by themselves before they ran into each other, but the world has changed, and they can't go back to the way things were before they met. They'll need more than their usual shoot first, ask questions later tactics to get through this in one piece, and reunite.

This is the story of Normal Kint, who is on the run from his wife's wrath after selling her dog, Ringo, to a Martian. The Martians love dogs – as a delicacy. Normal hopes to lie low till his wife's anger has cooled down. But there is no escape for him. Apparently, Ringo is not your average dog, he carries an important secret. Now, everybody (but not their dog) wants Ringo – and Normal. Will Normal's wife forgive him? Who are the people after Ringo? What do they want? And what lengths will they go to get what they want?

1920’s Chicago, Gregory Davenport is a gentle soul whose life is music, playing the sax, and piano in the brothers’ speakeasy. He’s only been involved in the family business with his seances, like most, staged for the participants. But after a brush with death during a raid by the Italian gangsters, Gregory gets two gifts from the ghost of his murdered Irish gangleader cousin. He becomes a real medium, able to channel the dead, and he gets one chance to go back in time.

Philip Burnham tells the life story of the remarkable Packs the Dog, a member of the Minneconjou Lakotas who was born in 1864 east of the Black Hills. His father, Yellow Knife, died when the boy was five, and the family eventually enrolled at Pine Ridge Agency with the Oglalas under an uncle's name, Three Stars. In 1879 Packs the Dog joined the first class of Indian students to be admitted to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

The age of plenty is dead. Wars and rumors of wars - from economic collapse to cult driven genocide. Flesh eating cannibals were blamed but no one really knew the truth, no one really wanted to know the truth. Where there was once life and hope there is now only suffrage, where the remnants; struggle onward, attempting to squeeze something of worth from a dying world. Every decade brings a new war, new battles and conflicts from newly formed factions - ideologies that were previously unknown.

When Jason Walker and his dog MMax are both badly injured in an IED explosion while serving in the European war in 2038, they are evacuated back to the United States for the chance to recuperate and heal. But before the two can reach the relative safety of their designated VA hospital in Tennessee an EMP blast creates havoc and brings down their plane, leaving them alone and vulnerable amidst the chaos of a country that is on the verge of complete and utter social collapse.

Maauro, Dassa, and the Seachange flee Mystic, having dealt a deathblow to the pirate haven, but at a terrible cost. Rasfel, organ-legged by those pirates, lies in frozen sleep aboard. Beyond hope, Maauro must find a way to resurrect the boy.

The continuing crisis in Syria has raised a question mark over the common perception of Middle Eastern affairs as an offshoot of global power politics. To Western intellectuals, foreign-policy experts, and politicians, "empire" and "imperialism" are categories that apply exclusively to the European powers and more recently to the United States of America. Lacking an internal dynamic of its own, the view of such people is that Middle Eastern history is the product of its unhappy interaction with the West.

When his time came to pass from this earth, Dumas was given the choice of becoming just a dead pooch or continuing here as a dog spirit. For reasons only known to Dumas, or Dumb ass, as the angels are prone to calling him, he chose to become a spirit.

Jules Cavanaugh is settling nicely into her new Florida home and learning to use her magic, but with a power-hungry witch and wizard gunning for her, she feels like she's waiting for the other shoe to drop. Unfortunately for them, she's done letting other people dictate her future. Even though she's exhausted and battered from the first attack, the fate of the magical world rests on her shoulders. If nearly 50 years of life has taught her anything, it's that no matter how many aches and pains you have, life won't wait for the Advil to kick in.

Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. Throughout the decades of spiraling growth that defined New York City from the 1840s to the 1910s, the bone-chilling cry of "Mad dog!" possessed the power to upend the ordinary routines and rhythms of urban life. In Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but dreaded affliction during a time of rapid urbanization.

I'll never forget that day. The horror, fear and the uncertainty of what was to come are still etched on my memory. But I didn't know that in that moment, somewhere off the M1 in a place that seemed as unnerving as it was eerie, I would find something so precious that would change my life forever. That was the day I discovered my Buddy, abandoned in a crate, unable to move and so frail that he only had moments to live. He stopped me in my tracks, and without pausing to think I scooped him up and quickly ran from the scene. This was no place for people or animals.