God Made The Skunk

Some animals and plants injure or kill millions of people annually, others cause trillions of dollars in property damage and loss. Such harmful species are understandably hated. However, the vast majority of the planet’s millions of species are disliked simply because of how they look and act. This bias is endangering numerous species that play important roles in maintaining both the natural ecosystems and the human economies of the world. In Defense of the World’s Most Despised Species examines the psychological motivations that lead people to make judgments about the attractiveness of species, noting the overwhelming importance of visual cues. It describes in considerable detail the physical and behavioral traits of species that lead us to love or hate them. Full color illustrations throughout present beautiful, charming animals and plants, species that seem loathsome, behavior of people in relation to such divergent species and their characteristics, and numerous explanatory diagrams of relevant biological and psychological phenomena. The aim of this book is to give readers insights into how we humans arrive at biased judgments and to promote the welfare of valuable, albeit sometimes unlovable animals and plants that consequently suffer from discrimination. Many of the ugliest, most disgusting, and feared species, such as vultures, toads, hyenas, sharks, spiders, and even the vast majority of cockroaches, in reality are some of our most valuable friends. Features Theme of the book – human preferences for and against species – is novel, scarcely examined to date. Multidisciplinary analysis, especially psychology, biological conservation science, and ecology, as well as philosophy, agriculture, urban planning, human health, and law. Text is accessible, user-friendly, concise, and well-organized, making numerous complex topics comprehensible, readable not only by specialists, but also by students and the educated layperson. Includes over 2,000 high-quality, entertaining, and informative color figures.

This tale of an animal musical band will enchant you and captivate your imagination! A young boy in an orphanage loves to play his trombone and, unbeknown to him, the animals in the nearby forest are charmed by his playing. They have formed a band and as it happens they need a trombone player! What is more, the young boy discovers he has a gift to hear and talk to animals-and imagine his surprise when the stray dog that's always hanging about the kitchen for scraps speaks to him and invites him to join their band! And what a band! You could call it 'The Animals'! There's the leader, a cobra snake that wears a long scarf. There's a lady snake Coral, a mongoose that carries a white chicken (his 'ready meal'!), a red monkey, a black pig, an armadillo, a skunk and an elephant-and they all make the most beautiful music for the King, the biggest lion you've ever seen!

Discover how to live fearlessly for Christ Like Daniel in Babylon, Christians today are exiles in a hostile culture. Every day, we face the lions--the easier road of moral compromise, the lure of earthly wealth and influence, the temptation to give in to our fears or our apathy. Yet we are called to obey God rather than man, and we need courage to do it. Award-winning apologist Ray Comfort wants to help you develop the fortitude to look into the mouths of lions without flinching, trusting that God not only will bring you to the other side of the trial but is refining you through it. This encouraging and practical book draws on inspiring stories from Scripture to help you identify the lions you face and build a strategy for combatting them, recognizing that nothing catches God off guard and reminding you that, by His power, you have victory over the darkness. For any believer who sometimes feels beaten down, burned-out, or ready to give in, this book offers a spiritual shot in the arm.

This science text is designed to give kindergarten students a simple overview of the basic elements of science from a Christian perspective. Topics such as nature, weather, seasons, personal health, and animals are presented in this beautifully illustrated four-color text.

Zany poems about animals by renowned children's author J. Patrick Lewis. Full-page, full-color illustrations by Jerry King.

THEY WERE ... THEY ARE GONE (Psa 74:14 NIV) It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave him as food to the creatures of the desert. Most of the scientifi c community reject the religiously-inspired interpretation of dinosaurs. (115) Wikipedia Encyclopedia