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I Know Your Dog Is a Good Dog - Linda Scroggins - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

I Know Your Dog Is a Good Dog - Linda Scroggins - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

When a pet dog injures a human or another dog, the owner is left in a state of fear and confusion. If a dog wreaks havoc and destruction on a home, the owner is left feeling helpless. If an owner finds a dog uncontrollable, or if a dog becomes aggressive and a threat to the community, the dog becomes the one that is at risk for injury or death. Families living with these behaviorally challenged dogs may become isolated and wonder if there is help for their dog. The reality is there are thousands of families facing these issues. This book explains the process for helping dogs with behavior problems in plain language. Calling on her years of experience as a certified canine behavior consultant, the author highlights the journeys of past clients through a series of vignettes broken up by chapters that contain informative and researched guidance. While it is not meant to be a how-to training guide, the book lets people with reactive or anxious dogs know they are not alone. And for those that lose the battle, it walks with them through that final journey.

DKK 334.00
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Your Service Dog and You - Nicola Ferguson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Your Service Dog and You - Nicola Ferguson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Service dogs play an important role in society, assisting their handlers in leading independent, fulfilling lives. These amazing dogs are trained to work with a wide range of disabilities, from visual impairments to PTSD, and come from a variety of breeds and backgrounds. Some service dogs are custom bred and trained by large charities, while others are rescue dogs of indeterminate breed, trained entirely by their owners. Disability knows no bounds and can strike anyone, at any time, leaving us alone, scared and confused, with many of us wondering how feasible it would be to integrate a service dog into our lives. This is a practical guide, written from the perspective of an ordinary dog owner turned service dog trainer, following her own need for a service dog. It covers everything from service dog breeding and selection, how to acquire a service dog, basic training, and public access work, to your dog''s eventual retirement. Chapters also detail the day-to-day realities of living with and loving a service dog.

DKK 325.00
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I'm Not Single, I Have a Dog - Brian Patrick Duggan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

I'm Not Single, I Have a Dog - Brian Patrick Duggan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

At age 60, Susan Hartzler has learned to accept, even love, the single life, provided she has good friends and a dog or two by her side. Always attracted to the quintessential bad boy with his good looks and charming ways, she was sure she could change "the one" into a devoted partner and loving father, but her compulsive giving and fixing behaviors went hand in hand with her disappointing and disastrous romantic relationships. On a purposeful trip to the pound, she hoped to find a dog to care for, one that would sniff out the bad guys, give her a sense of purpose, and help her find meaning in her crazy world. Thoughtful and funny, this memoir follows Susan''s life through the many ups and downs on her way to finding unconditional love. Her journey is a personal one, full of the hard decisions it took to learn to put herself first and stop entering and staying in unhealthy relationships. By saving a dog, she rescues herself, learning to love herself as much as her dog loves her.

DKK 240.00
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Beware of Dog - Melissa Crawley - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Beware of Dog - Melissa Crawley - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

For many of us, the only way we meet "dangerous" dogs is through news reports about vicious attacks, and films and TV shows that feature out-of-control versions of man''s best friend. But there''s more to the Bad Dog''s story than sensational headlines and movie beasts. A deeper look at these representations reveals a villain much closer to home. This book takes the reader on a rich journey through depictions of violent dogs in popular media. It explores how press accounts and screen stories transform canines into bloodthirsty hunters, rabies-infested strays, ferocious fighters, rogue law enforcement partners and diabolical pets, all adding up to a frightening picture of our usually beloved companions. But, when media tells the dangerous dog''s story, it is often with a deep connection to the person on the other end of the leash.

DKK 382.00
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Dog of the Decade - Deborah Thompson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Dog of the Decade - Deborah Thompson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

What do dogs mean in America? How do Americans make meaning through their dogs? The United States has long expressed its cultural unconscious through canine iconography. Through our dogs, we figure out what we''re thinking and who we are, representing by proxy the things that we don''t quite want to recognize in ourselves. Often, it''s a specific breed or type of dog that serves as an informal cultural mascot, embodying an era''s needs, fears, desires, longings, aspirations, repressions, and hopeless contradictions. Combining cultural studies with personal narrative, this book creates a playful, speculative reading of American culture through its canine self-representations. Looking at seven different breeds or types over the last seven decades, readers will go on an intellectual dog walk through some of the mazes of American cultural mythology.

DKK 382.00
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Dog's Best Friend - Lisa Begin Kruysman - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Dog's Best Friend - Lisa Begin Kruysman - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

In 1923, William Lewis Judy purchased Dog World magazine for just over $1,000. For the next four decades, his unique, poignant, and witty writing and editing style, combined with his genuine love for dogs, enlightened a growing population of dog owners across the nation. A prolific dog show judge and breeder and expert on dog law in America, Judy had a vision that dogs would serve humans in ways most had not imagined. He championed their use in military and police work, and in their value as assistance and therapy dogs. In 1928, he launched the National Dog Week Movement, to honor man''s best friend in a collective and thoughtful manner. Today, that movement continues, a testament to the legacy of this inspiring and gifted dog-enthusiast.

DKK 259.00
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The Force-Free Dilemma - Nicola Ferguson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Force-Free Dilemma - Nicola Ferguson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Dog training methodology is an increasingly hotly contested topic. A number of vocal trainers insist that dogs should be instructed through exclusively positive reinforcement, and that training should be totally force-free. Popularized through social media, the force-free training movement has grown into a lucrative, billion-dollar industry, but the consequences may outweigh the positives. This book examines the current state of dog training and discusses ethical alternatives to force-free methods. Chapters cover the history of dog training, common myths, equipment, and the merits of balanced training methods that don''t dogmatically avoid occasional force.

DKK 429.00
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General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs - Brian Patrick Duggan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs - Brian Patrick Duggan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

General George Armstrong Custer and his wife, Libbie Custer, were wholehearted dog lovers. At the time of his death at Little Bighorn, they owned a rollicking pack of 40 hunting dogs, including Scottish Deerhounds, Russian Wolfhounds, Greyhounds and Foxhounds. Told from a dog owner''s perspective, this biography covers their first dogs during the Civil War and in Texas; hunting on the Kansas and Dakota frontiers; entertaining tourist buffalo hunters, including a Russian Archduke, English aristocrats and P. T. Barnum (all of whom presented the general with hounds); Custer''s attack on the Washita village (when he was accused of strangling his own dogs); and the 7th Cavalry''s march to Little Bighorn with an analysis of rumors about a Last Stand dog. The Custers'' pack was re-homed after his death in the first national dog rescue effort. Well illustrated, the book includes an appendix giving depictions of the Custers'' dogs in art, literature and film.

DKK 476.00
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Man Writes Dog - William Farina - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Man Writes Dog - William Farina - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Over the millennia, many great writers, from Pliny and Plutarch to C.S. Lewis and John Steinbeck, have addressed diverse canine themes in their work, usually in a broader, human context. Late in the 20th century it was conclusively established by modern science that all dogs, without exception, are descended from wolves. Viewed through the dynamic lens of this new model, the constantly evolving relationship between humankind and canines, both wild and domesticated, appears more complex and intertwined than ever before. This survey reviews what 20 selected authors from the Western tradition have had to say on the same subject matter leading up to our present times.

DKK 382.00
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Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War - Larry B. Maier - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War - Larry B. Maier - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

As an iconic symbol of the American GI, the dog tag has gained considerable cultural recognition. This book returns to the origins of the dog tag with an in-depth look at all 49 styles of Civil War era Union identification discs, including detailed photographs and histories for individual discs as well as a general history of the origin and production of identification discs. This work also provides a general guide to the authentication of identification discs for use by collectors.

DKK 382.00
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Devil Dog" Dan Daly - Charley Roberts - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Devil Dog" Dan Daly - Charley Roberts - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

More than 40 million Americans have served in the U.S. military during wartime. Only 3500 have been awarded the Medal of Honor. Of these, three have received the medal twice. One was recommended for it a third time. Marine Corps Sergeant Major Daniel J. Daly was an unlikely hero at five feet, six inches tall and 132 pounds. What he lacked in size he made up for in grit. He received his first Medal of Honor for single-handedly holding off enemy attacks during China''s Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the second for his daring, one-man action during an ambush in Haiti in 1915. He was nominated for (but not awarded) an unprecedented third medal in World War I for his valor at Belleau Wood, where he led a charge against the German stronghold with the battle cry, "Come on you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" This first full-length biography presents a detailed examination of a Marine Corps legend.

DKK 382.00
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Big Mama Thornton - Michael Sporke - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Big Mama Thornton - Michael Sporke - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

You ain''t nothing but a "Hound Dog" ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit "Hound Dog" before Elvis Presley and who wrote "Ball & Chain," the song that catapulted Janis Joplin to sudden fame? The story begins with her first musical attempts in the Hot Harlem Revue as a girl of 14. Then the book follows her journey into the Mecca of Texas Blues, Houston, where Big Mama Thornton met Johnny Otis, with whom she recorded her greatest success--"Hound Dog." With the slowdown of the blues in the early sixties this book follows Big Mama Thornton''s way to California, discusses her struggle to survive and celebrates her impressive musical comeback in the course of the blues revival and the hippie movement. With the end of the sixties, facing a declining interest in the old school blues, the book shows how Big Mama Thornton found her niche in clubs and festivals in the U.S. and Europe. The book then follows Big Mama Thornton through the seventies and eighties until her untimely death.

DKK 334.00
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Dogs of the Railways - Jill Lenk Schilp - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Dogs of the Railways - Jill Lenk Schilp - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This is the story of the vagabond canines that hopped on railroads across the United States, often becoming celebrities and national heroes. Chapters introduce canines like Owney, guardian of the railway mail service; Fala, FDR''s beloved dog and train-companion; Annie, the Colorado railway ambassador; the K9 patrols who watch over the tracks; and many more. As railroads were changing America, these raildogs were changing the people who lived and worked in rail communities. For the dogs of the railways, home became the hearts of the people of the railroad. More than the dogs themselves, this book is about the human-animal relationship between a dog and a community and moments in history where that relationship symbolized the quest for home and belonging, a search that humans often share with our canine travelers.

DKK 334.00
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We Saved Each Other - Christopher Dale - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

We Saved Each Other - Christopher Dale - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Rescue dogs provide above-and-beyond value to humans at our most vulnerable: when we experience deep depression and severe mental illness; searing trauma and gripping grief; debilitating drug addiction; and of course, strained relationships with our fellow humans. Alternating between memoir and rescue dog owner profiles, this book intimately binds together shelter dogs, mental health and human relationships, exploring the tangible benefits these damaged dogs bring to us damaged humans. The author offers firsthand experience with each of the mental health themes and relationship issues covered herein and discusses how his beloved rescue dog--a battered mutt with an odd name and a heartbreaking backstory--substantially helped him cope with these challenges. Throughout, we find rescue dogs compelling their humans to be better people--to push forward through headwinds, persist despite setbacks, and build self-esteem through the estimable acts of feeding, sheltering and loving an innocent, mistreated being.

DKK 259.00
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Laboratory Dogs Rescued - Ellie Hansen - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Laboratory Dogs Rescued - Ellie Hansen - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Animal testing is a controversy that has raged for hundreds of years. Some people view experiments on dogs as necessary for human medical progress, while others argue that the practice is barbaric. When the author adopted Marty--a beagle rescued from a research laboratory--she found herself rehabilitating a terrified dog with a traumatic past. She soon discovered the well-kept secret of painful and often fatal testing on dogs. This book details what the author has learned about the past and present of laboratory testing on dogs, life after laboratories and the hope for a future without animal testing. Interviews with rescue organizers and adoptive families reveal the struggles of removing dogs from laboratories and acclimating them to daily life. Scientists discuss the ethics of dog research and advocate for new biomedical technologies. Fundamental change is brewing, with the public, scientists and governments urging the use of new technologies that can replace testing on animals and yield better results.

DKK 334.00
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Toy Cannon - Bill Mccurdy - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Toy Cannon - Bill Mccurdy - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Despite the pressures of racism and a troubled personal life, Jimmy "The Toy Cannon" Wynn achieved remarkable success as a major league player. In a career that stretched from 1963 to 1977, he slugged 291 home runs, 223 of them in Houston ballparks (Colt Stadium, the Astrodome) notoriously unfriendly to power hitters. A strong-armed, speedy outfielder, Wynn was also adept at getting on base (seven times in the top 10 for on-base percentage) and then swiping a bag (225 career steals). This memoir recounts his triumphs and struggles in detail.

DKK 259.00
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Almost Perfect Pets - Lowell Ackerman - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Almost Perfect Pets - Lowell Ackerman - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Raising an almost perfect pet does not happen by accident. When people acquire pets, they may not be certain about what to expect, but few anticipate the problems that can result--including expenses, health care issues and bad behaviors--or the emotional investment that comes with a true commitment to another living being. Being prepared, having realistic expectations, and raising pets with desired outcomes can make the experience one to be treasured. This handbook is a complete guide to dog and cat care aimed at pet owners wishing to raise healthy, happy pets and to foster a lasting, loving relationship with their four-legged friends.

DKK 329.00
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Vampire Films of the 1970s - Gary A. Smith - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Vampire Films of the 1970s - Gary A. Smith - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The 1970s were turbulent times and the films made then reflected the fact. Vampire movies--always a cinema staple--were no exception. Spurred by the worldwide success of Hammer Film''s Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1969), vampire movies filled theaters for the next ten years--from the truly awful to bonafide classics. Audiences took the good with the bad and came back for more. Providing a critical review of the genre''s overlooked Golden Age, this book explores a mixed bag from around the world, including The Vampire Lovers (1970), Dracula Versus Frankenstein (1971), Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973), ''Salem''s Lot (1975), Dracula Sucks (1978) and Love at First Bite (1979) and many others.

DKK 334.00
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Public Executions in Richmond, Virginia - Harry M. Ward - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Public Executions in Richmond, Virginia - Harry M. Ward - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Virginia''s capital city knew poverty, injustice, slavery, vagrancy, substandard working conditions, street crimes, brutality, unsanitary conditions, and pandemics. One of the biggest stains in the city''s past was the spectacle of public executions, attended by throngs. Thousands, including the old and the very young, reveled in a carnival-like atmosphere. This book narrates the history of the executions--hangings, and during the Civil War also firing squads--that formed a large part of Richmond''s entertainment picture. Revulsion slowly mounted until the introduction of the electric chair. The history has a cast of unusual characters--the condemned, the crime victims, family members, the executioners, and not least an 182 pound "gallows" dog.

DKK 334.00
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Blues Singers - David Dicaire - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Blues Singers - David Dicaire - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This reference volume is intended for both the casual and the most avid blues fan. It is divided into five separately introduced sections and covers 50 artists with names like Muddy, Gatemouth and Hound Dog who helped shape 20th-century American music. Beginning with the pioneering Mississippi Delta bluesmen, the book then follows the spread of the genre to the city, in the section on the Chicago Blues School. The third segment covers the Texas blues tradition; the fourth, the great blueswomen; and the fifth, the genre''s development outside its main schools. The styles covered range from Virginia-Piedmont to Bentonia and from barrelhouse to boogie-woogie. The main text is augmented by substantial discographies and a lengthy bibliography.

DKK 429.00
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The Art of the Screwball Comedy - Doris Milberg - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Art of the Screwball Comedy - Doris Milberg - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Part One of this entertaining exploration of screwball comedies and their later offspring begins in the mid-1930s discussing the careers of popular stars such as Cary Grant and Carole Lombard and well-known supporting players like Walter Connally and Ralph Bellamy (also Asta the dog, top animal star of the 1930s!). Writers and directors are given their due: Frank Capra, Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges, just to name a few. Part Two, the meat of the book, takes an in depth look at the films, from the genre''s inception (1934''s It Happened One Night ) to the recent 2003 Down with Love , and the stars that appear in them--Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere--ending with some thoughts about the future.

DKK 334.00
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I Worked Alone - Lily Sergueiew - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

I Worked Alone - Lily Sergueiew - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

During World War II Nathalie "Lily" Sergueiew, a woman of mystery, confidently seduced the German Intelligence Service into employing her as a spy against their British enemy. Little did they know that this striking woman--who turned heads when she walked into a room with her little dog Babs--would work with their enemy against them. Her diary chronicles her months-long journey to becoming a double agent for the British under the code name Treasure. From the moment she conceived the idea of becoming a double agent, Lily faced challenges on two fronts: first, she had to convince the Germans to ask her to spy for them; second, she needed the British to believe her story. Only then could she begin the perilous work of helping free her homeland--France--from the German occupier.

DKK 334.00
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Orville's Aviators - John Carver Edwards - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Orville's Aviators - John Carver Edwards - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The six pioneers profiled here were promising graduates of the Wright Brothers'' School of Aviation, which flourished in Ohio from 1910 to 1916. These airmen fairly represent their 113 fellow alumni in their all-consuming love of flying. The pilots are Arthur L. Welsh, a Russian immigrant who rose to become Orville Wright''s chief instructor; Howard Warfield Gill, heir to an international tea dynasty; Archibald Freeman, whose flour-bag bombing of Boston Harbor won him attention as an early exponent of the supremacy of air power; Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, whose promise as a pilot quickly soured; George A. Gray, whose marriage resulted in an extraordinary husband and wife exhibition team; and Howard Max Rinehart, aerial mercenary, international racing competitor, Wright test pilot, South American explorer, and co-owner of one of America''s premier charter services.

DKK 259.00
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Harry Potter and the Classical World - Richard A. Spencer - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Harry Potter and the Classical World - Richard A. Spencer - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

J.K. Rowling has drawn deeply from classical sources to inform and color her Harry Potter novels, with allusions ranging from the obvious to the obscure. "Fluffy," the vicious three-headed dog in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone , is clearly a repackaging of Cerberus, the hellhound of Greek and Roman mythology. But the significance of Rowling''s quotation from Aeschylus at the front of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a matter of speculation. Her use of classical material is often presented with irony and humor. This extensive analysis of the Harry Potter series examines Rowling''s wide range of allusion to classical characters and themes and her varied use of classical languages. Chapters discuss Harry and Narcissus, Dumbledore''s many classical predecessors, Lord Voldemort''s likeness to mythical figures, and magic in Harry Potter and classical antiquity--among many topics.

DKK 334.00
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