Team Rodent

Author : Carl Hiaasen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307764885
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Team Rodent written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving to improve upon it, constantly fine-tuning God's work." --from TEAM RODENT TEAM RODENT How Disney Devours America "Revulsion is good. Revulsion is healthy. Each of us has limits, unarticulated boundaries of taste and tolerance, and sometimes we forget where they are. Peep Land is here to remind us; a fixed compass point by which we can govern our private behavior. Because being grossed out is essential to the human experience; without a perceived depravity, we'd have nothing against which to gauge the advance or decline of culture; our art, our music, our cinema, our books. Without sleaze, the yardstick shrinks at both ends. Team Rodent doesn't believe in sleaze, however, nor in old-fashioned revulsion. Square in the middle is where it wants us all to be, dependable consumers with predictable attitudes. The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America's values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company, and not the other way around." BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Carl Hiaasen's Team Rodent written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-11T22:59:00Z with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Disney Store, a shrine-like store filled with Disney characters, has been able to subjugate the area’s most entrenched sin merchants. Some say that if Times Square can be redeemed, no urban Gomorrah is beyond salvation. #2 Disney changed the face of Florida, and by extension, the entire state, by changing how people in Florida think about money. Everyone in the state wanted to catch the tourists after they left the Magic Kingdom, and spend what was left of their vacation money. #3 Disney’s ambitions in Times Square are modest compared to its original mission in Florida: to establish a sovereign state within a state, a private entertainment mecca for every working family in America.

Author : Carl Hiaasen
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813037891
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kick Ass written by Carl Hiaasen and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2009-09-13 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers who eagerly anticipate each new Carl Hiaasen novel will relish this selection of his Miami Herald columns, written with the same dark humor and satirical edge as Tourist Season, Strip Tease, Stormy Weather, and the rest of Hiaasen’s brilliant and nationally acclaimed fiction. Known for evoking the disastrously flawed paradise of modern South Florida, Hiaasen proves in these columns that facts can indeed be stranger than the fiction they inspire. Beginning with "Welcome to South Florida," a chapter introducing such everyday events as animal sacrifice, riots at the beach, and a shootout over limes at the supermarket, this collection organizes over 200 columns into 18 chapters, chronicling the events and defining the issues that have kept the South Florida melting pot bubbling throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. An introductory essay provides an overview of Hiaasen’s career and outlines his principal concerns as a journalist. Since its inception in 1985, Hiaasen’s twice-weekly "baseball-bat-to-the-forehead" column has become enormously popular for its passionate conviction and willingness to confront powerful interests in pursuit of the public good. Amid the corruption and chaos of a city on the edge, Hiaasen’s pointblank honesty and clear articulation of what’s right have secured him wide respect across the community’s many racial and ethnic divides as well as the admiration of his peers, who compare him to A. J. Leibling, I. F. Stone, and H. L. Mencken. In addition to South Florida color and world-class journalism, readers of Kick Ass will find one of Florida’s staunchest defenders in action, and they’ll take great pleasure in watching him work.

Author : Carl Hiaasen
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307594386
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Island written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane from “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (The New York Times Book Review) and the national bestselling author of Squeeze Me. Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry’s handlers (über–stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker–wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry’s public—and from Cherry herself. The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink—the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp—and now he’s heading for Miami to find her . . . Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry’s motley posse does? BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey.

Author : Carl Hiaasen
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0525567186
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Razor Girl written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A lovable con woman and a disgraced detective team up to find a redneck reality TV star in this raucous new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me. “Carl Hiaasen’s irresistible Razor Girl meets his usual sky-high standards for elegance, craziness and mike-drop humor.” —The New York Times Merry Mansfield, the eponymous Razor Girl, specializes in kidnapping for the mob. Her preferred method is rear-ending her targets and asking them for a ride. Her latest mark is Martin Trebeaux, owner of a private beach renourishment company who has delivered substandard sand to a mob hotel. But there's just one problem: Razor Girl hits the wrong guy. Instead, she ends up with Lane Coolman, talent manager for Buck Nance, the star of a reality TV show about a family of Cajun rooster farmers. Buck Nance, left to perform standup at a Key West bar without his handler, makes enough off-color jokes to incite a brawl, then flees for his life and vanishes.

Author : Linda Beech
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590400237
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad written by Linda Beech and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody agrees that mold is just disgusting, until the class goes on a field trip inside a rotting log. They discover that all the dead-looking stuff is actually alive...and it's pretty neat after all. Join the class on their "rotten" adventure, and learn about how nature recycles through decomposition.

Author : Katherine Quesenberry
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 1437702880
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents - E-Book written by Katherine Quesenberry and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise guide to the care of small mammals, Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery covers the conditions seen most often in veterinary practice. The book emphasizes preventive medicine along with topics including disease management, ophthalmology, dentistry, and zoonosis. More than 400 illustrations demonstrate key concepts related to radiographic interpretation, relevant anatomy, and diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic techniques. Now in full color, this edition adds coverage of more surgical procedures and expands coverage of zoonotic disease. From editors Katherine Quesenberry and James W. Carpenter, along with a team of expert contributors, the "Pink Book" provides an authoritative, single source of information that is hard to find elsewhere. A logical organization makes it quick and easy to find important information, with each section devoted to a single animal and chapters within each section organized by body system. Over 400 photographs and illustrations highlight key concepts such as radiographic interpretation and the main points of diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic techniques. A chapter on ophthalmology provides hard-to-find information on eye care for ferrets, rabbits, rodents, and other small mammals. Coverage of preventive medicine includes basic biology, husbandry, and routine care of the healthy animal. The drug formulary supplies dosage instructions for ferrets, rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, rats/mice, prairie dogs, hedgehogs, and sugar gliders. Chapter outlines offer at-a-glance overviews of the contents of each chapter. Handy tables and charts make it easy to find key information. Expanded Zoonotic Diseases chapter adds more depth along with the latest information on the rising potential for disease transmission to humans as exotic pets become more popular. Additional surgical procedures for each species are included, some with step-by-step instructions accompanied by color photographs and line drawings. Full-color images show the sometimes minute structures of these small animals and make accurate diagnoses easier, especially for lymphoproliferative diseases of rabbits, endoscopy, cytology, and hematology.

Author : Lisa J. Lawrence
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459809777
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rodent written by Lisa J. Lawrence and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel for teens, Isabelle knows all about shouldering responsibility: she looks after her younger siblings because their mother is often drunk or absent. School is a nightmare, but one teacher seems to understand that Isabelle has talent to spare.

Author : Mark I. Pinsky
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611644275
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gospel according to Disney written by Mark I. Pinsky and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2004-07-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to his bestselling The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family, religion journalist Mark Pinsky explores the role that the animated features of Walt Disney played on the moral and spiritual development of generations of children. Pinsky explores thirty-one of the most popular Disney films, as well as recent developments such as the 1990s boycott of Disney by the Southern Baptist Convention and the role that Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg played in the resurgance of the company since the mid-1980s.

Author : Nate Cosby
Publisher : Disney Press
ISBN 13 : 9781423119432
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ready, Set, Mission! written by Nate Cosby and published by Disney Press. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you get when you mix explosive action, hi-tech government gadgets, cool fighting moves, and…rodents? Well, you get G-Force: a highly-trained group of government spying guinea pigs and other small creatures! They may not sound like much, but don’t tell them that! G-Force protects the world from the evil doers who will stop at nothing to destroy it. But when a diabolical mad-man bent on destroying the earth with household appliances gets in their way, can Speckles, Bucky, Blaster and the rest of the G-Force squad stop this evil menace before it’s too late? Ready, Set, Mission The G-Force crew set out on a mission to stop the world from Leanord Saber and his menace of robotic kitchen appliances!