Herd on the Street

Animal Stories from the Wall Street Journal
Herausgeber: Wells, Ken

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Produktbeschreibung

A charming and captivating collection of the best animal stories from "The Wall Street Journal" is presented by veteran author and Page One feature editor Ken Wells.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Free Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780743254205
• ISBN-10: 0743254201
• Artikelnr.: 21116800

Autorenporträt

Edited by Ken Wells; Foreword by Bruce McCall

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
  
Introduction
Chapter One
Pet Theories
1 Listening to Prozac: "Bow-Wow! I Love the Mailman!" / Carrie Dolan
  
2 Surgery on an Odd Scale / Dan Morse
 
3 A Horse Is a Horse, Unless of Course.../ Tony Horwitz
4 Much Chow, No Hounds / Ken Wells
 
5 Polly Wants a Scholarship to Harvard / David Stipp
6 Two-Stepping with Four Legs / Lisa Gubernick
 
7 Big Bird Is an Emmy Shoe-In / James Bandler
  
8 Barking Mad for Joyce / Susan G. Hauser
  
9 Little Beauties / James M. Perry
 
10 Fido Forever / Jeffrey Krasner
  
Chapter Two
Political Animals
11 Kill Kitty? / James P. Sterba
  
12 Anglers Away! / Charles F. McCoy
 
13 Bite the Lawyers / Quentin Hardy
  
14 Bambi Uncensored / James P. Sterba
  
15 Horns of a Dilemma / Bryan Gruley
  
16 The Military-Chimpanzee Complex / Geraldine Brooks
  
17 High on the Hedgehog / Glynn Mapes
  
18 I've Got You, Babe / Vanessa Fuhrmans
  
19 A Man Among the Predators / James P. Sterba
  
Chapter Three
Odd Ducks
20 Splat Man / Barry Newman
  
21 Next, They'll Want a Stadium / Gautam Naik
  
22 Pinky, Phone Home / June Kronholz
  
23 The Toad People / Glynn Mapes
  
24 Elvis Has Left the Forest / Quentin Hardy
  
25 Bugged in Rhode Island / Barbara Carton
  
26 The Worm Economy / James P. Sterba
  
27 Not Your Mother's Nutritionist / Erik Larson
  
28 The Greening of Frog Dreams / James P. Sterba
 
Chapter Four
Pastoral Pursuits
29 Shear Excitement / Eric Morgenthaler
  
30 Bucks, Sex and.../ James P. Sterba
  
31 Yoking It Up in Maine / Barry Newman
  
32 Another Thing to Grouse About / Tony Horwitz
  
33 At Least They're Not Elephants / Carrie Dolan
  
34 The Polish Pickle Over Buffalo / Barry Newman
  
35 New Zealand's Woolly Problem / Geraldine Brooks
  
Chapter Five
Fish Stories
36 An Operative Theory of Caviar / Daniel Pearl
  
37 The Devil Ray as Angel Food? / Gay Sands Miller
  
38 A Wail of a Tale / Robert L. Rose
  
39 A Biting Reappraisal of Sharks / James P. Sterba
  
40 If Guppies Rise Up, You'll Know Why / Michael J. McCarthy
  
41 Getting With the Drill / Ellen Byron
  
42 Bugs, Bass and Loons in Moonlight / Ned Crabb
  
Chapter Six
Wild Things
43 Paddling with "Psycho Sam" / Ken Wells
 
44 We'd Guess Punxsutawney Phil Is Next / Timothy Aeppel
  
45 Not Only That: Rudolph Sells Crack! / Robert Berner
  
46 Feral TV / Mark Robichaux
  
47 Where's Dumbo? / Roger Thurow
  
48 The Monkey Bomb / Barry Newman
  
49 This Zoo's a Killer / Craig S. Smith
  
50 Gentle Ben's Big Bad Brother / Ken Slocum
  
51 Barking Up the Right Tree / Jim Hyatt
  
Chapter Seven
Buzz
52 After the Oscars, Please Call Orkin / Carrie Dolan
  
53 A Grubby Little Secret / Dawn Blalock
  
54 The Dean of Doodlebugs / Eric Morgenthaler
  
55 With Crickets, I'd Try a Nice Pinot Grigio / Amal Kumar Naj
  
56 The Roach Has No Friends.../ Erik Larson
  
57 ...Save One / Bob Ortega  
Epilogue: Only in America
  
Acknowledgments
  
Index to Authors