Author: Brooke Bessesen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932082838
Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Rhyming text introduces a pack rat who spends his time finding interesting objects to bring home, where he uses them to decorate, saves them to trade at the swap meet, or simply stores them for future use. Includes facts about pack rats and discussion questions.

Author: Ruth Bell Graham
Publisher: Nelsonword Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780840795779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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"Some of the bits and pieces stored away in my memory I've jotted down to enjoy or think about ... how the Lord's goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life"--Page 16.

Author: Julio L. Betancourt
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816547157
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Over the past thirty years, late Quaternary environments in the arid interior of western North America have been revealed by a unique source of fossils: well-preserved fragments of plants and animals accumulated locally by packrats and quite often encased, amberlike, in large masses of crystallized urine. These packrat middens are ubiquitous in caves and rock crevices throughout the arid West, where they can lie preserved for tens of thousands of years. More than a thousand of these deposits have been dated and analyzed, and middens have supplanted pollen records as a touchstone for studying vegetation dynamics and climatic change in radiocarbon time (the last 40,000 years). Now, similar deposits made by other mammals like hyraxes are being reported from other parts of the world. This book brings together the findings and views of many of the researchers investigating fossil middens in the United States, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. The contributions serve to open a forum for methodological concerns, update the fossil record of various geographic regions, introduce new applications, and display the vast potential for fossil midden analysis in arid regions worldwide. The findings presented here will serve to foster regional research and to promote general studies devoted to global climate change. Included in the text are more than two hundred charts, photographs, and maps.

Author: Conrad J. Storad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891795169
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Penny Pack Rat waits until the night air cools down the Sonoran Desert before she leaves her cluttered burrow to collect her treasures.

Author: Claudine Crangle
Publisher: Magination Press
ISBN: 9781433823350
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Priscilla liked collecting things. Not any one type of thing in particular. She collected little things, big things, ordinary things, just things in general. Priscilla was a pack rat. Priscilla tries to pick out birthday presents for her friends, but has trouble parting with her favorite finds. In the end, Priscilla learns to value the party -- and her friends -- more than the presents! Includes a Note to Parents and Other Caregivers by Elizabeth McCallum, PhD, with more information about cutting down on clutter, and the difference between collecting and potential hoarding behaviors.

Author: Robert J. Randisi
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1645403726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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"I am loving these! FAST, FUN, and FURI0US! What a great read! What wonderful entertainment!"—SANDY HACKETT It's 1961 and Las Vegas is still the place to be. Eddie Gianelli, pit boss at the Sands Casino, now considers the Rat Pack his friends. And this time, his friend Frank Sinatra wants him to help Sammy. Someone has an embarrassing photo of Sammy and wants twenty-five grand for it. All Eddie has to do is make the payoff and collect the photo. Easy, right? But at the rendezvous, in place of a blackmailer, Eddie finds a dead body greeting him. Pretty soon Eddie and New York tough guy Jerry Epstein are up to their elbows in bodies. There's a double cross going on. Could the presence of the Secret Service mean that JFK is somehow involved? Celebrity cameos by Buddy Hackett and Marilyn Monroe add to the glamour. The stars are out, and it's up to Eddie to see that they don't fall from the sky. “Randisi shows both respect and affection for his historical characters as he highlights the antics of the RAT PACK, who made the burgeoning gambling and entertainment empires of Nevada their playground.” —Publishers Weekly on Hey There (You with the Gun in Your Hand) PRAISE FOR RAT PACK MYSTERY NOVELS "Randisi perfectly captures the GLITZ, GLAMOUR, CORRUPTION, AND CRIME of the era, using the Rat Pack gang with affectionate respect and considerable acumen."―Publishers Weekly on Luck Be a Lady, Don't Die “As entertaining as the series debut. Frank, Dean, Sammy, and Joey Bishop are all portrayed as the COOLEST OF THE COOL CATS (well, maybe not Joey), and the stakes are elevated….GREAT FUN for the snap-brimmed-hat crowd.”―Booklist on Luck Be a Lady, Don’t Die "Longtime mystery veteran Randisi does a BANG-UP JOB CAPTURING SINATRA, MARTIN, DAVIS JR., AND THEIR FELLOW KINGS OF COOL in all their Vegas glory....With a likable but savvy protagonist, a deep understanding of Vegas culture and sixties style, and an obvious love of the Rat Pack, Randisi delivers a stylish, memorable winner."―The Baltimore Sun on Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime “A RAT-A-TAT WHODUNIT [that] harks back to drugstore pulp fiction…Randisi conjures up a sharkskin-suited man's world, awash in booze [and] broads…a quick romp…with a flashy façade.”―The Washington Post on Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime

Author: Donna George
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780022785383
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Tells about the life of the desert pack rat.

Author: Tommie Moller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578448954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Packy is a wacky Pack Rat who is attracted to all kinds of objects. He collects and trades articles as he travels but doesn't make friends easily. Tommie Moller's rhymed verse is a light-hearted and comical story of how Packy learns the value of friendship when he makes a surprising trade.

Author: Sally Roth
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781545424742
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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This is the story of Packrat Bob, a bushy-tailed packrat (Neotoma cinerea), who lives with naturalists Sally Roth and Matt Bartmann in their remote cabin high in the Rocky Mountains. The charming illustrations are by 13-yr-old Olivia Gallagher.

Author: Marcus Ewert
Publisher: Parallax Press
ISBN: 1946764264
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Mr. Pack Rat is a particularly acquisitive small mammal with a hoarding problem (sound like someone you know?). Through trial and error, he begins to question whether having more things is really the secret to happiness. Although real life pack rats (genus Neotoma) build large piles of debris to nest in, Mr. Pack Rat isn't satisfied with plain old sticks and leaves. He wants novelty and variety, and--unfortunately for him!--he owns a magical magnet that can summon anything he desires. Mr. Pack Rat is always on to the next thing. Lovely flowers will brighten up his sticks and leaves... until they wilt. Colorful seashells won't wilt, but they aren't much fun. Games and toys are fun, but only if you have enough room to play with them. This wry, witty fable from Marcus Ewert, author of 10,000 Dresses, will have the whole family laughing, and, perhaps, learning along the way.