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Gutkind Lee |
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An unspoken art : profiles of veterinary life / / Lee Gutkind |
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New York, New York : , : Open Road Integrated Media, , 2014 |
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©1997 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (387 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Veterinarians - United States |
Veterinary medicine - United States |
Veterinary medicine - Vocational guidance - United States |
Veterinarians |
Veterinary medicine |
Veterinary medicine - Vocational guidance |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Portions of this book were first published in slightly different forms in Prairie schooner and The crab orchard review and in The art of nonfiction: writing and selling the literature of reality, published by John Wiley & Sons"--Title page verso. |
Includes index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: ""We Lay Our Hands Down upon Them""; Doing ""God''s Work""; Manhattan Veterinarian; Rescue Fantasy; Office Hours; A Way of Life; VHUP; ""Lady Comes into My Office""; New Bolton; Stallion Ring; Invasive Procedures; The Quitter; Difficult Decisions; Not Just an Ordinary Veterinary School Vet; Reindeer with a Hernia; Aquazoo; Primates--and Other Warriors; Tuskectomy; Fecalas Lizardas--and Other Funny Jokes; Baby-sitting the Bongo; Icy; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z; Acknowledgments |
About the AuthorCopyright |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the tradition of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, An Unspoken Art is Lee Gutkind's captivating look at the lives of veterinarians, from the zoos to the farmLee Gutkind, the godfather of |
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