Poultry Science, Chicken Culture : A Partial Alphabet /
Poultry Science, Chicken Culture is a collection of engrossing, witty, and thought-provoking essays about the chicken-the familiar domestic bird that has played an intimate part in our cultural, scientific, social, economic, legal, and medical practices and concerns since ancient Egypt, Greece, and...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2011.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | Poultry Science, Chicken Culture is a collection of engrossing, witty, and thought-provoking essays about the chicken-the familiar domestic bird that has played an intimate part in our cultural, scientific, social, economic, legal, and medical practices and concerns since ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Organized as a primer, the book reaches beyond narrow disciplines to discover why individuals are so fascinated with the humble, funny, overlooked, and omnipresent chicken. A combination of personal passion and surprising scholarly information, it will change forever the way you think. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780813552361 |