Black Sheep Books
Five and Ten Press
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"Creatures of the Earth and the Mind." 60 pages. Published in October 1998. $6.
By Ambassador Carl Coon, a retired American Foreign Service Officer, resident of
Washington, D.C., and writer of distinction.
Ten charming and poignant essays and fictional stories mostly about animal life,
starting with an encounter with Lord Ganesh the elephant god, moving on to a duck,
a beaver, turkeys and vultures, seventeen-year locusts, various pet dogs and cats,
and ending with a provocative essay in which the author argues that the latest stage
in the theory of biological evolutionary development concerns
the "memes" of the human mind.
Table of Contents
1.Introduction
2.On Consulting a God
3.The Turkey
4.Seventeen
5.David the Duck
6.Bert's Bark
7.Culture Vulture
8.A Beaver's Tale
9.Dogs and Cats
10.God's'doG
11.Creatures of the Mind
{ INTRODUCTION }
{ PUBLICATIONS OF THE FIVE AND TEN PRESS 1995-2005 }
{ ORDER FORM }
{ROBERT KEELEY'S BIOGRAPHICAL DATA}
{D.C. GOVERNANCE: IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A MATTER OF RACE AND MONEY}
{ANNALS OF INVESTING
STEVE FORBES VS. WARREN BUFFETT }
{ THE FILE: A PRINCETON MEMOIR }
{ESSAYS FAST AND LOOSE: A CHRISTMAS MISCELLANY }
{LETTERS MOSTLY UNPUBLISHED}
{ INNOCENTS OF THE LATTER DAY: MODERN AMERICANS ABROAD }
{ ESSAYS COLD AND HOT: A NEW YEAR"S POTPOURRI}
{ MSS REVISTED }
{ THREE SEA STORIES }
{CREATURES OF THE EARTH AND THE MIND}
{MY COMMUTE}
{SIC TRANSIT}
{THE GREAT PHELSUMA CAPER - A DIPLOMATIC MEMOIR}
{THE PORT OF MISSING MEN - A NOVEL}
{ POETRY MOSTLY OFF THE BEATEN TRACK }
{ PARTING THE CURTAIN }
{ ESSAYS NEAR AND FAR: AS A NEW CENTURY DAWNS }
{ RANDOM THOUGHTS, ANECDOTES, AND MEMORIES OF A BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE THAT IS NO MORE }
{ FROM THE HEARTLAND }
{ ONE OF THE VERY BEST MEN }
{ A STORY GOES WITH IT }
{ LOW CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN HIGH PLACES: John Mitchell and Watergate. }
{ THE WORLD ACCORDING TO WHITBECK. }
{ AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN WORLD WAR I. }
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