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Bigfoot
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ISBN: 1282239759 9786612239755 0226502155 9780226502151 0226079791 9780226079790 9781282239753 6612239751 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Last August, two men in rural Georgia announced that they had killed Bigfoot. The claim drew instant, feverish attention, leading to more than 1,000 news stories worldwide-despite the fact that nearly everyone knew it was a hoax. Though Bigfoot may not exist, there's no denying Bigfoot mania.With Bigfoot, Joshua Blu Buhs traces the wild and wooly story of America's favorite homegrown monster. He begins with nineteenth-century accounts of wildmen roaming the forests of America, treks to the Himalayas to reckon with the Abominable Snowman, then takes us to north

The fire ant wars
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ISBN: 0226079821 9780226079844 0226079848 0226079813 9780226079813 9780226079820 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Sometime in the first half of the twentieth century, a coterie of fire ants came ashore from South American ships docked in Mobile, Alabama. Fanning out across the region, the fire ants invaded the South, damaging crops, harassing game animals, and hindering harvesting methods. Responding to a collective call from southerners to eliminate these invasive pests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture developed a campaign that not only failed to eradicate the fire ants but left a wake of dead wildlife, sickened cattle, and public protest.With political intrigue, environmental tragedy, an

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