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VeggieTales
Personalized Mission Possible Adventure Series (6 books)

Your child's name is inserted throughout each story making them the hero in each book!

#3 - AstroNuts
Blast off with Bob and Larry as they head to the Nutty Sundae Deep Space Ice Cream Shop. But beware! Our heroes are not just in the search of a triple scoop sundae with caramel sauce and a cherry on top. They have been given a very serious assignment by Mission Control: to save all the ice cream in the universe!

Greedy robots have taken over the ice cream shop and are refusing to share the ice-creamy goodness. It's a Mission Possible Adventure of the most delicious kind!

Through it all, there's a lesson to be learned: When you keep everything to yourself it doesn't make you happy. Only when you share do you have true happiness! And the adventures don't end here! In the next Mission Possible Adventure, your child will land on Dinosaur Island for a lesson in encouragement. See what happens next in book 4, Jurassic Playground

So buckle your seat belts and let VeggieTales carry you to faraway places, from the depths of the seas to the heights of the stars. ... Read more

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VeggieTales
Personalized Mission Possible Adventure Series (6 books)

Your child's name is inserted throughout each story making them the hero in each book!

#5 - Snow Clones

The "Get Up'n Go Machine" has taken a wacky turn to the frozen tundra and you won't believe the wonders that await! Polar Bear Troops and a true navy seal are among the surprises that are revealed at each turn in this icy maze. Once again, our heroes have been given a very serious assignment by Mission Control: to teach these polar bears to be warm and caring even to their strange neighbors.

Through it all, there's a lesson to be learned; no matter how strange or different someone may seem, we should always treat others as we want to be treated.

And the adventures don't end here! In the next Mission Possible Adventure, your child will land on an ancient Greek Island. See what happens next in book 6, The Trojan Rocking Horse ... Read more

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VeggieTales
Personalized Mission Possible Adventure Series (6 books)

Your child's name is inserted throughout each story making them the hero in each book!

#2 - Jellyfish Jam
The Seaweedles are in a sticky jam! In this brand-new VeggieTales Mission Possible Adventure, that special child in your life can be the brave Mission Commander, leading Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato on a voyage to the bottom of the sea.

Their mission?
To save the Seaweedles from the ruthless, jelly-flinging jellyfish! They'll need every bit of bravery they can muster as they face jellyfish, an octopus, a shark dentist, and lots of sticky peanut butter and jelly.

But through it all, there's a lesson to be learned: When we're afraid, God always sticks by our side. And the adventures don't end here! In the next Mission Possible Adventure, your child will blast off to the Deep Space Ice Cream Shop where trouble is brewing. See what happens next in book 3, AstroNuts

So buckle your seat belts and let VeggieTales carry you to faraway places, from the depths of the sea to the heights of the stars. The lessons learned will carry your child even further. ... Read more

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VeggieTales
Personalized Mission Possible Adventure Series (6 books)

Your child's name is inserted throughout each story making them the hero in each book!

#6 - The Trojan Rocking Horse
You'll never believe where our heroes have landed now! A giant toy store on an ancient Greek Island! This could be their most incredible journey yet, filled with kings and queens and a giant rocking horse. (oh my!) Once again, our heroes have been given a very serious assignment by Mission Control: to teach the king that true happiness means being content with what he has. ... Read more

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Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes--chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for only about one percent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Supported by compelling color photographs by award-winning photographer Karl Ammann, Eating Apes documents the when, where, how, and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster.
Eating Apes persuasively argues that the American conservation media have failed to report the ongoing collapse of the ape population. In bringing the facts of this crisis and these impending extinctions into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to our closest relatives. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (15)

Required Reading for anyone who cares about anything.
While I am a dedicated animal advocate, I was not particularly interested in non-human primates until I read this book.(Which I literally read start to finish maybe taking one or two breaks to eat). I can't say anything that hasn't already been very eloquently expressed in some other reviews, but I want everyone (Particularly Steve Sikes)to read this book, and understand that the bushmeat crisis, and the impending extinction of all the great apes (in 10 to 15 years) is one of the most under-publicized and serious problems of our time.

An important read
This book is very important to read: mostly because so few people know about the bushmeat trade in Africa and its impact on the great apes. The book goes into why apes are worth saving, the contribution of logging to crisis, how the crisis is kept hidden, and suggestions on how to alleviate the problem. You will be very surprised to learn the lengths, difficulties, and dangers the contributors of the book go through simply to bring this issue into the spotlight. I also found it very shameful how the crisis has been ignored and exacerbated by the media and the conservation groups.


Honestly though, I felt the book was a little long. It's not actually a long book, but its longer than it needs to be. It seemed to get a little repetitive as the author kept hammering the same points over again. Also, though the author does include an aside on vegetarianism and its merits (while discouraging veganism), he is not a vegetarian himself. While this is, of course, not the subject of the book I feel that if he is going to argue to protect the great apes on the grounds of their sentience, than it is wrong to overlook the sentience of cows, chickens, and especially pigs (who have the same mental capacity as a dog). This is just a minor criticism, but it did bother me a little throughout the book.

So yes, you should read this book. Its very thorough, detailed, complete, and compelling. You will learn a lot and, if the authors have succeeded (and I think they have), you will be sufficiently outraged and willing to contribute to the cause.

Powerful challenge to wildlife conserv groups, loggers, more
American and international conservation organizations may be doing little more than feel-good guilt assuaging with many of their slick magazine glossy photos, while ignoring a huge elephant right in front of the world's faces and refusing to show readers the problem.

So says Peterson in the challenging and disturbing book Eating Apes.

Peterson writes about the hunting for bushmeat in Central Africa, specifically hunting great apes - gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos. He accuses the Wildlife Conservation Society of doing little more than giving PR flak to a German logging concern in the Congo, CIB, a decade ago, just at the time public pressure was starting to ratchet up on the issue, in large part due tophotographer Karl Ammann.

He also accuses Wildlife Conservation, the magazine of WCS, along with National Geographic and other such magazines and other media for generally downplaying or even spiking the issue. Ammann, as interviewed in the book, is even blunter, noting how several wildlife conservation magazines said they didn't want his pictures specifically because they were too controversial and, in not so many words, too guilt-provoking while showing that the modern western-nation wildlife preservation industry wasn't wearing any clothes on this issue.

Read Eating Apes. Then rethink your donations to wildlife groups, at least without some strong letters to the editor.

A family affair
Sometime far in our past, humans took up rocks and sticks to hunt food instead of scavenging from other predators.With our meat available today in shrink-wrapped containers it's easy to lose sight of that long-standing tradition.Others in the world still obtain meat in the traditional environment.The difference is that instead of spears, the weapons are high-powered shotguns.Instead of skulking through the forest seeking prey, hunters are now given rides by timber carriers using deep-penetrating access roads.In this book, Dale Peterson reveals the transformations forest hunting has undergone in West African nations.It's not a
pleasing picture, but it's valid and it's important.And it must change.

The bushmeat trade has many implications, but Peterson has chosen three significant ones.One, of course, is that by killing chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas for food, we're consuming our nearest relations.The primate line divided only 12 million years ago, with the descendants of one line becoming today's mountain gorillas.The other line led to chimpanzees and bonobos with a spur turning off about 7 million years ago leading to you and me.The proximity of chimpanzee and human DNA patterns is no longer news, but the reminder needs to be flashed occasionally.

Another implication is health.With so much attention given to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, it's worth reflecting on its origins.More importantly, as Peterson reminds us, is to consider how it works.HIV/AIDS appears to be a recent evolutionary virus quirk.It adapts and evolves with amazing speed.The roots of it remain in the African forest and a new strain can emerge at any time.The best means of transmission from ape or monkey to human is through blood - that stuff the hunter is soaked in as he butchers his forest kill.

The third theme is the question of human relations with the rest of our environment.Human population growth is presented in a novel framework.How many humans come into existence every day is contrasted with the great ape population.Peterson calculates that the entire gorilla population is equalled by new humans every twelve hours.Population pressures in the "developed" world lead to demands for African timber products.In turn, the timber firms are cutting great swaths of forest using displaced populations for labour.To feed these workers, hunters are hired or loggers hunt and apes, due to their availability and size, become a major food source.In a feedback cycle of habitat reduction and hunting, the apes are simply being exterminated.Recovery would require sharply reduced logging.Peterson notes that trees are being taken that began growth in Michaelangelo's time, but their replacements will be cut in only forty years.

Peterson is effusive in his description of the significant role played by Swiss photographer Karl Ammann.Ammann's chance encounter with a logging truck driver revealed the role international logging firms play in the ape slaughter and the extended bushmeat trade.The logging firms, particularly CIB,contend they are providing "employment for locals, health services, food and education".Peterson explains the falsity of this contention, with "health services limited to a nurse and schools and teachers paid for by the workers' families.

Peterson argues that the long-established bushmeat tradition is already lost, displaced by commercial logging practices and new, mass hunting methods using guns, sometimes lent by government officials.If we can change a culture, such as was done with slavery, hunting traditions no longer tenable can be modified, as well.He cites the willingness of Americans to spend minimal annual funds to protect wolves, bears and other fauna.Why not establish a fund for ape protection.He calculates that US$1 billion per year could be raised with an individual contribution of but US$50.Not an enormous sum, given that other donations and military expenditures far exceed it.[stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

Difficult to digest but a must-read nonetheless
With its appealing cover-picture of two baby chimps and its appalling title, "Eating Apes" is a must read for everybody interested in conservation in general and the survival of the great apes in particular. Although I've been already aware of the bushmeat crisis through voluntary work at a zoo, this book hit me hard. The scope of denial by many - individuals and conservation groups alike - paired with risky relationships between NGOs and logging companies is driving our closest living relatives - the great apes - to extinction. Dale Peterson's book encompasses every aspect of this difficult and very complex issue and Karl Ammann's pictures and comments provide further evidence of what really is happening. Everbody who makes or is going to make decisions regarding the bushmeat trade, logging, development and conservation in central Africa has to read this book before making those important and far-reaching decisions. My next task will be to check with the various conservation groups I support, to find out what they are planning to do about this subject. Depending on their answers, I may well choose to cancel some memberships. Something I haven't actually thought about before reading this book - so I hope that many others will follow suit and choose action over complacency! ... Read more

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Chapters: Eduard Bøckmann, John Verrall, Linda N. Hanson, Karl Hagedorn, John J. Cound, Harry H. Peterson, Deborah Keenan, David Crittenden, Elmer Sprague. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dr. Eduard Boeckmann (8 March 1849 8 August 1927) was a Norwegian born American ophthalmologist, physician and inventor. Eduard Bøckmann was born in Østre Toten in Oppland county, Norway. He was the son of Daniel Peter Barth Bøckmann (17931877) and Dina Severine Dreier (18111885). He enrolled as a student in 1867 and graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1874. He settled in Bergen in December 1874, and worked there until 1886. During this period, in 1882 he took the dr.med. degree on the thesis Om den ved Trigeminusanæsthesi forekommende Hornhindelidelses Væsen og Aarsager. The ailments he described often occurred in leprosy patients. Bøckmann had spent a year from 1880 to 1881 as a physician at a lepra institution. His was the first Norwegian doctoral thesis in medicine whose research had been conducted outside the proximity of the University of Kristiania. Also, in Bergen he involved himself in the local medical society, Bergens Medicinske Selskap. In 1884 he co-founded the journal Medicinsk Revue, which existed until 1939. He married Anne Sophie Dorothea Gill in Kaupanger in September 1875. In 1886, Boeckmann immigrated to the United States, where he settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, and socialized with the many Norwegian immigrants in that area. In 1887 he invited Gerhard Armauer Hansen from Norway, who resided and researched in Bøckmann's premises. He had a practice as an ophthalmologist and surgeon, and from 1898 to 1908 he was a professor of clinical ophthalmology at Hamline University. In the 1890s, Boeckmann invented two types of autoclave, one of th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22847964 ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more