The Big New Yorker Book of Cats

The Big New Yorker Book of Cats
Author: The New Yorker Magazine
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 0679644784

Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions. This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. Among the contributors are Margaret Atwood, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Roald Dahl, Wolcott Gibbs, Robert Graves, Emily Hahn, Ted Hughes, Jamaica Kincaid, Steven Millhauser, Haruki Murakami, Amy Ozols, Robert Pinsky, Jean Rhys, James Thurber, John Updike, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and E. B. White. Including a Foreword by Anthony Lane, this gorgeous keepsake will be a treasured gift for all cat lovers. Praise for The Big New Yorker Book of Cats “The Book of Cats comes a year after The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs—a publishing slight that, though it stings, I’ll forgive, as the latest anthology was worth the wait. . . . Two standout articles feature real-life obsessives of ages past who reveal today’s Caturnet devotees—with their GIFs and Tumblrs and hastily aggregated listicles—for what they truly are: amateurs. . . . Eat your heart out, Cute Overload.”—The New York Times Book Review “A beautiful hardcover.”—Jenny McCarthy, People “This irresistible anthology of articles, poems, essays, fiction, cartoons, and covers pulled from the New Yorker is a veritable treasure trove for cat lovers. Just dive right in; with stories from the likes of John Updike, Maeve Brennan, Roald Dalhl, and Haruki Murakami interwoven with hilariously wry cartoons, one can’t help but be enthralled. A must-have.”—Modern Cat “A shiny, well-fed tome . . . The anthology embodies the cat’s defining characteristic: its cluster of opposites, rolled together into a giant hairball of cultural attitudes—something, perhaps, at once uncomfortably and assuringly reflective of our own chronically conflicted selves.”—Brain Pickings “This gorgeous book has earned a permanent spot on my coffee table. It is an absolute joy to read and browse through, and I know it will bring me hours and hours of pleasure for years to come. And it makes a purr-fect gift for the special cat lovers in your life.”—The Conscious Cat “[A] sumptuous volume.”—The Dallas Morning News

Giant Book of the Cat

Giant Book of the Cat
Author: Book Sales, Inc. Staff
Publisher: Booksales
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Alternative medicine for cats
ISBN: 9780785809463

Discusses all aspects of cats, including cat breeds, choosing a cat, reproduction, health care, breeding, and the life span of a cat.

The Big Mean Kitty

The Big Mean Kitty
Author: Cory Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692991169

10 years after the release of the viral YouTube hit The Mean Kitty Song, Sparta is back with a new adventure of epic proportions! The cute kitty has grown into the biggest, meanest cat to ever roam the earth, or so people thought. Follow his story and learn to never judge based on appearances.

Big Cats

Big Cats
Author: John Bonnett Wexo
Publisher: Wildlife Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Felidae
ISBN: 9781888153910

Discusses physical characteristics, habitats, behavior, and future of such big cats as lions, tigers, leopards, and cheetahs, using numerous pictures.

Big Cats

Big Cats
Author: Tom Brakefield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release:
Genre: Felidae
ISBN: 9781610603546

Combines photography, research, and personal observations of the worlds eight big cats.

Big Cats Past and Present

Big Cats Past and Present
Author: Marianne Johnston
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1999-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780823952038

Describes the prehistoric ancestors, evolution, and modern-day members of the cat family.

The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives

The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives
Author: Alan Turner
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231102285

The author and illustrator draw on the surviving seven species of large cats and remains of their prehistoric ancestors to explain and illustrate their anatomy and function, social interaction, predatory behavior, prey treatment, and other aspects of the fascinating and fearsome creatures.

Big Cats

Big Cats
Author: Holiday Reinhorn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416584676

Big Cats opens with "Charlotte," in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away from Me, David," a bank manager tries to overcome his haunted past as he deals with the aftermath of a minor earthquake and the body of a customer who died in the lobby. "Big Cats" pits two teenage girls against each other in an escalating catfight at the zoo where they work, culminating in a blowout in front of the lion cage.

Cat Sense

Cat Sense
Author: John Bradshaw
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 0465031013

Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while many have learned to live alongside humans and even feel affection for us, they still don’t quite “get us” the way dogs do, and perhaps they never will. But cats have rich emotional lives that we need to respect and understand if they are to thrive in our company. In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to dispel the myths and explain the true nature of our feline friends. Tracing the cat’s evolution from lone predator to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that although cats and humans have been living together for at least eight thousand years, cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of contact with their own kind, qualities that often clash with our modern lifestyles. Cats still have three out of four paws firmly planted in the wild, and within only a few generations can easily revert back to the independent way of life that was the exclusive preserve of their predecessors some 10,000 years ago. Cats are astonishingly flexible, and given the right environment they can adapt to a life of domesticity with their owners—but to continue do so, they will increasingly need our help. If we’re to live in harmony with our cats, Bradshaw explains, we first need to understand their inherited quirks: understanding their body language, keeping their environments—however small—sufficiently interesting, and becoming more proactive in managing both their natural hunting instincts and their relationships with other cats. A must-read for any cat lover, Cat Sense offers humane, penetrating insights about the domestic cat that challenge our most basic assumptions and promise to dramatically improve our pets’ lives—and ours.