The Cockroach Hall of Fame - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cockroach Hall of Fame write by Sandra Gurvis. This book was released on 1994. The Cockroach Hall of Fame available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unusual and eccentric museums throughout the United States and Canada which feature such displays as Dan Quayle's baby pictures and spelling tests, 2,000 cookie jars, the largest and best dressed cockroaches, and antique dental instruments in Charleston, South Carolina, whose fame is spread "thanks to word of mouth."
The Cockroach Papers
The Cockroach Papers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cockroach Papers write by Richard Schweid. This book was released on 2015-06-04. The Cockroach Papers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Skittering figures of urban legend—and a ubiquitous reality—cockroaches are nearly as abhorred as they are ancient. Even as our efforts to exterminate them have developed into ever more complex forms of chemical warfare, roaches’ basic design of six legs, two hypersensitive antennae, and one set of voracious mandibles has persisted unchanged for millions of years. But as Richard Schweid shows in The Cockroach Papers, while some species of these evolutionary superstars do indeed plague our kitchens and restaurants, exacerbate our asthma, and carry disease, our belief in their total villainy is ultimately misplaced. Traveling from New York City to Louisiana, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Morocco, Schweid blends stories of his own squirm-inducing roach encounters with meticulous research to spin a tale both humorous and harrowing. As he investigates roaches’ more nefarious interactions with our species—particularly with those of us living at the margins of society—Schweid also explores their astonishing diversity, how they mate, what they’ll eat, and what we’ve written about them (from Kafka and Nelson Algren to archy and mehitabel). Knowledge soon turns into respect, and Schweid looks beyond his own fears to arrive at an uncomfortable truth: We humans are no more peaceful, tidy, or responsible about taking care of the Earth or each other than these tiny creatures that swarm in the dark corners of our minds, homes, and cereal boxes.
Cockroach
Cockroach - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cockroach write by Marion Copeland. This book was released on 2004-04-04. Cockroach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The cockroach could not have scuttled along, almost unchanged, for two hundred and fifty million years – some two hundred and forty-nine before man evolved – unless it was doing something right. It would be fascinating as well as instructive to have access to the cockroach’s own record of its life on earth, to know its point of view on evolution and species domination over the millennia. Such chronicles would perhaps radically alter our perceptions of the dinosaur’s span and importance – and that of our own development and significance. We might learn that throughout all these aeons, the dominant life form has been, if not the cockroach itself, then certainly the insect. Attempts to chronicle the cockroach’s intellectual and emotional life have been made only within the last century when a scientist titled his essay on the cockroach "The Intellectual and Emotional World of the Cockroach", and artists as radically different as Franz Kafka and Don Marquis created equally memorable cockroach protagonists. At least since Classical Greece, authors have brought cockroach characters into the foreground to speak for the weak and downtrodden, the outsiders, those forced to survive on the underside of dominant human cultures. Cockroaches have become the subjects of songs (La Cucaracha), have competed in "roachraces" and have even ended up in recipes. In this accessible, sympathetic and often humorous book, Marion Copeland examines the natural history, symbolism and cultural significance of this poorly understood and much-maligned insect.
If It's Such a Small World Then Why Have I Been Sitting on this Airplane for Twelve Hours?
If It's Such a Small World Then Why Have I Been Sitting on this Airplane for Twelve Hours? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If It's Such a Small World Then Why Have I Been Sitting on this Airplane for Twelve Hours? write by Mad Dog. This book was released on 2008-09-14. If It's Such a Small World Then Why Have I Been Sitting on this Airplane for Twelve Hours? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A humorous, quirky, and unique look at the world, its people, and their cultures. Seventy-seven columns have been culled from Mad Dog's travels through the United States and the world, from a four-week coast-to-coast car trip to an extended stay on Bali, from the coronation of the Slug Queen in Eugene, Oregon to flirting with a Russian spy in Cuba. It's a view of the world as you've never seen it before.
The United States of Strange
The United States of Strange - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The United States of Strange write by Eric Grzymkowski. This book was released on 2012-06-18. The United States of Strange available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of All Things Weird Sure, you probably know that George Washington was our first president and that Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered America in 1492, but did you know that there are more plastic flamingos in the United States than there are real ones and that Disneyland employees were not permitted to wear their own underwear while dressing in character until 2001? Behind the portrait of America that history classes, news reports, and boring documentaries have painted lies a strange and perplexing country that you couldn't imagine even in your wildest dreams. Featuring 1,001 shocking facts, this book reveals all the secrets and weirdness that you never knew about the United States. From the thirty-two(!) bathrooms in the White House to the fact that a single U.S.–made hamburger may contain meat from 100 different cows, these wacky tidbits will guarantee that you'll never look at this nation the same way again!
