Herd on the Street (eBook, ePUB)

Animal Stories from The Wall Street Journal
Redaktion: Wells, Ken

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For more than sixty years, The Wall Street Journal has prided itself not just on its serious journalism, but also on the whimsical and arcane stories that amuse and delight its readers. In that regard, animal stories have proven to be the most beloved of all. Now, veteran Journal reporter and Page One editor Ken Wells gathers the finest, funniest, and most fascinating of these animal tales in one exceptional book.

Here are lighthearted, witty stories of breakthroughs in goldfish surgery, the untiring efforts of British animal lovers who guide lovesick toads across dangerous motorways, and the quest to tame doggy anxieties by prescribing the human pacifier Prozac. Other pieces reflect on mankind's impact on the animal kingdom: a close-up look at the nascent fish-rights movement, the retirement of U.S. Air Force chimpanzees that once soared through space, and ongoing scientific efforts to defeat that most hardy enemy -- the cockroach.

Each of these fifty-odd stories -- from the outlandish to the poignant -- exemplifies the superb feature writing that makes The Wall Street Journal one of America's best-written newspapers. This charming and utterly captivating collection will be a joy not only to animal lovers, but to all those who appreciate artful storytelling by writers who are obviously having a wonderful time spinning the tales.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781416583189
• Artikelnr.: 37874098

Autorenporträt

Medical Editor Anthony L. Komaroff, MD, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and Editor in Chief of Harvard Health Publications.

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