Animal Attraction

Author: Jill Shalvis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425268373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
A small-town veterinarian’s basic instincts are tempted in this charming Animal Magnetism novel that’s “full of cuddly animals, hot men, and confident women”(Fresh Fiction). Sunshine, Idaho, is a quiet ranching town, a perfect place to give injured animals a refuge...or to find one yourself. Veterinarian Dell Connelly suspects there’s a reason his clinic’s uber-efficient receptionist has taken shelter here. Jade Bennett couldn’t be happier to escape the big-city jungle to work with hurt animals, and have a forlorn stray kitten make its home under her desk...or enjoy the gorgeous views of her ruggedly sexy boss. Jade is used to planning everything in her life, but Dell’s seductive, alluring ways have sparked an uncontrollable desire. And though Dell has never had time for love, Jade’s strength and sass is the kind of call no red-blooded male can resist...

Animal Attraction

Author: Jill Shalvis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110154466X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Dear Jane (Animal Attraction)

Author: Marissa Clarke
Publisher: Entangled: Lovestruck
ISBN: 1633758591
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Jane Dixon is a dating disaster. Flammable tablecloths and broken arms are just a typical evening for her unlucky companions. No wonder Jane never gets past a first date. But luckily her co-worker and new bff says he’s got loads of friends who’d date her more than once. If only she could stop thinking about how much fun he was to hang out with. And she’d never dropped a bucket of ice on his junk. Win. All attorney Eric Blackwell has to do to make junior partner is not screw anything up for six weeks, which seems like a slam dunk until he finds himself matchmaker to the office “One Date Wonder” aka the boss’s daughter. It’s hard to stay focused when setting up the hottest girl he’s ever met with everyone but himself. Maybe he could just set her up with all the wrong men, and keep his hands off his new friend... Yeah. His promotion is toast.

Animal Attraction

Author: Dana Marie Bell
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 9781605048109
Category : Paranormal romance stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Books 4 and 5 of the Halle Pumas series are collected in this single volume. Includes "Steel Beauty" and "Only in My Dreams."

Animal Attractions

Author: Elizabeth Hanson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691186243
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape immersion exhibit. Born in Africa, Willie B. had been captured by an animal collector and sold to a zoo. During the decades he spent in a cage, zoos stopped collecting animals from the wild and Americans changed the ways they wished to view animals in the zoo. Zoos developed new displays to simulate landscapes like the Amazon River basin and African forests. Exhibits similar to animals' natural habitats began to replace old-fashioned animal houses. But such displays are only the most recent effort of zoos to present their audiences with an authentic experience of nature. Since the first zoological park opened in the United States in Philadelphia in 1874, zoos have promised their visitors a journey into the natural world. And for more than a century they have been popular places for education and recreation: every year more than 130 million Americans go to zoos to look at the animals and enjoy a day outdoors. The first book-length history of American zoos, Animal Attractions examines the meaning of nature in the city by looking at the ways zoos have assembled and displayed their animal collections. Situated literally and culturally in the American middle landscape, zoos are concrete expressions of longstanding tensions between wildness and civilization, science and popular culture, education and entertainment. In their efforts to promote nature appreciation, they reveal much about how our culture envisions the natural world and the human place in it and how these ideas have changed.

A Taste for the Beautiful

Author: Michael J. Ryan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691191395
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
"In A Taste for the Beautiful, Michael Ryan, one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, tells the remarkable story of how he and other scientists have taken up where Darwin left off, transforming our understanding of sexual selection and shedding new light on animal and human behavior. Drawing on cutting-edge science, Ryan explores the key questions: Why do animals perceive certain traits as beautiful and others not? Do animals have an inherent sexual aesthetic and, if so, where is it rooted? Ryan argues that the answers lie in the brain--particularly of females, who act as biological puppeteers, spurring the development of beautiful traits in males."--Back cover

The Animal Attraction

Author: Jonica Newby
Publisher: ABC Enterprises(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
ISBN: 9780733308246
Category : Animals and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Why is it that of all the animals human beings have domesticated, the longest and most enduring connection has been with dogs and cats? How have we physically shaped each other and influence each other's language and cultures? This authoritative book looks at the whole relationship between domestic pets and their human owners.

Natural Attraction

Author: Iris Gottlieb
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1632171112
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Best buds, frenemies, freeloaders, bullies, copycats, hangers-on. We’re accustomed to all types of people and human interactions. But animal relationships can be just as weird and complex. For anyone who’s ever felt a bit awkward in their relationships, wait until you hear about how complicated things get in the animal world. This funny and enlightening gift book depicts charming and unusual symbiotic animal relationships in all their awkward glory. Through delightful watercolor illustrations and funny yet scientifically accurate text, Iris Gottlieb explores the symbiotic relationships of 35 odd, cute, and unpredictable animal pairs. Here are stories of vampires, cannibalism, mimicry, parasites, and more. You’ll learn a lot about nature--and human nature--as you recognize traits of your own friends, frenemies, and enemies in this insightful, amusing look into the secret lives of animals.

Why We Love

Author: Helen Fisher
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466829443
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
A groundbreaking exploration of our most complex and mysterious emotion Elation, mood swings, sleeplessness, and obsession—these are the tell-tale signs of someone in the throes of romantic passion. In this revealing new book, renowned anthropologist Helen Fisher explains why this experience—which cuts across time, geography, and gender—is a force as powerful as the need for food or sleep. Why We Love begins by presenting the results of a scientific study in which Fisher scanned the brains of people who had just fallen madly in love. She proves, at last, what researchers had only suspected: when you fall in love, primordial areas of the brain "light up" with increased blood flow, creating romantic passion. Fisher uses this new research to show exactly what you experience when you fall in love, why you choose one person rather than another, and how romantic love affects your sex drive and your feelings of attachment to a partner. She argues that all animals feel romantic attraction, that love at first sight comes out of nature, and that human romance evolved for crucial reasons of survival. Lastly, she offers concrete suggestions on how to control this ancient passion, and she optimistically explores the future of romantic love in our chaotic modern world. Provocative, enlightening, and persuasive, Why We Love offers radical new answers to the age-old question of what love is and thus provides invaluable new insights into keeping love alive.

Three Day Fiancee (A Romantic Comedy)

Author: Marissa Clarke
Publisher: Entangled: Lovestruck
ISBN: 1640635076
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
"Another wonderful Marissa Clarke book full of humor and swoon-worthy romance. Loved every minute!" - Kira Archer, USA Today bestselling author Helicopter pilot Taylor Blankenship’s time schedule is maxed out. Between his job, his huge, slobbering mess of a dog, and his matchmaking grandmother, he has no time for anyone or anything—especially a woman. If only there was a way to get Grams to back down... The job of New York City dog walker suits Caitlin Ramos perfectly while she preps for her accounting exam. It’s work that’s steady, scheduled, and requires very little human interaction, which is exactly what she wants. That is until her hot, bossy client—whose Saint Bernard behaves like a lap dog—offers her one more job. But pretending they’re engaged to get his grandmother off his case? Down, boy. Now Taylor’s offered Caitlin a bargain she can’t refuse. And for the next three days, Caitlin is his fiancée. All she has to do is fake a relationship with Mr. Bossy Pants in front of his entire family, survive their games, and not lose her heart to a guy who’s quickly becoming more than she’s bargained for. Each book in the Animal Attraction series is STANDALONE: * Dear Jane * Three Day Fiancee