The Animal Dialogues

Author : Craig Childs
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316024333
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Dialogues written by Craig Childs and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today-a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals. Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia, watching a peregrine falcon perform acrobatic stunts at 200 miles per hour, or engaging in a tense face-off with a mountain lion near a desert waterhole, Craig Childs captures the moment so vividly that he puts the reader in his boots. Each of the forty brief, compelling narratives in The Animal Dialogs focuses on the author's own encounter with a particular species and is replete with astonishing facts about the species' behavior, habitat, breeding, and lifespan. But the glory of each essay lies in Childs's ability to portray the sometimes brutal beauty of the wilderness, to capture the individual essence of wild creatures, to transport the reader beyond the human realm and deep inside the animal kingdom

Author : Craig Childs
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316066471
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Dialogues written by Craig Childs and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-03-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES tells of Craig Childs' own chilling experiences among the grizzlies of the Arctic, sharks off the coast of British Columbia and in the turquoise waters of Central America, jaguars in the bush of northern Mexico, mountain lions, elk, Bighorn Sheep, and others. More than chilling, however, these stories are lyrical, enchanting, and reach beyond what one commonly assumes an "animal story" is or should be. THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES is a book about another world that exists alongside our own, an entire realm of languages and interactions that humans rarely get the chance to witness.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151072552
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Farm written by George Orwell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell's famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

Author : Craig Childs
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316024333
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Dialogues written by Craig Childs and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today-a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals. Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia, watching a peregrine falcon perform acrobatic stunts at 200 miles per hour, or engaging in a tense face-off with a mountain lion near a desert waterhole, Craig Childs captures the moment so vividly that he puts the reader in his boots. Each of the forty brief, compelling narratives in The Animal Dialogs focuses on the author's own encounter with a particular species and is replete with astonishing facts about the species' behavior, habitat, breeding, and lifespan. But the glory of each essay lies in Childs's ability to portray the sometimes brutal beauty of the wilderness, to capture the individual essence of wild creatures, to transport the reader beyond the human realm and deep inside the animal kingdom

Author : Jeremy Bell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253016207
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Animals written by Jeremy Bell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A unique and intriguing point of entry into the dialogues and a variety of concerns from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics, politics, and aesthetics.” —Eric Sanday, University of Kentucky Plato’s Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato’s dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato’s work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato’s understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato’s bestiary in both Greek and English. “Plato’s Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Shows readers of Plato that he remains significant to issues currently pursued in Continental thought and especially in relation to Derrida and Heidegger.” —Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver “Will provide fertile ground for future work in this area.” —Jill Gordon, author of Plato’s Erotic World

Author : Michael Huemer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429638000
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism written by Michael Huemer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After lives filled with deep suffering, 74 billion animals are slaughtered worldwide every year on factory farms. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students – a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian – discuss this question in a series of dialogues conducted over four days. The issues they cover include: how intelligence affects the badness of pain, whether consumers are responsible for the practices of an industry, how individual choices affect an industry, whether farm animals are better off living on factory farms than not existing at all, whether meat-eating is natural, whether morality protects those who cannot understand morality, whether morality protects those who are not members of society, whether humans alone possess souls, whether different creatures have different degrees of consciousness, why extreme animal welfare positions "sound crazy," and the role of empathy in moral judgment. The two students go on to discuss the vegan life, why people who accept the arguments in favor of veganism often fail to change their behavior, and how vegans should interact with non-vegans. A foreword, by Peter Singer, introduces and provides context for the dialogues, and a final annotated bibliography offers a list of sources related to the discussion. It offers abstracts of the most important books and articles related to the ethics of vegetarianism and veganism. Key Features: Thoroughly reviews the common arguments on both sides of the debate. Dialogue format provides the most engaging way of introducing the issues. Written in clear, conversational prose for a popular audience. Offers new insights into the psychology of our dietary choices and our responsibility for influencing others.

Author : John Gray
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374229171
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silence of Animals written by John Gray and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exploration of the failures of reason in human life and the enduring role of myth in science, politics, and morality"--

Author : Lisa Bullard
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1404860142
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Busy Animals written by Lisa Bullard and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about hibernation, migration, and other ways that animals cope with the change of the seasons.

Author : Rosanna Albertini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technological Rituals written by Rosanna Albertini and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unprecedented look at human nature in our technological landscape seen through the mirror of art. Nine artists, working with a multidisciplinary group of scholars at the USC/Annenberg Center for Communications, created a conversation among vastly different disciplines. This first publication from the prestigious Annenberg Center deftly probes the interaction between art and technology."

Author : Dawn Baumann Brunke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 159143954X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Voices, Animal Guides written by Dawn Baumann Brunke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to connect with animal guides to expand individual and planetary awareness • Reveals techniques for exploring dreams, shamanic journeys, healing, and shapeshifting with animals • Presents words of wisdom from cats, dogs, horses, llamas, rabbits, ravens, bears, and even insects As companions, helpers, and spiritual guides, animals have always held a special relationship with humans. As we access our natural ability to communicate with animals, we cannot help but open ourselves more profoundly to life, other human beings, and our own deep nature--the essence of who we really are. Animal Voices, Animal Guides presents a wide variety of ways in which we can tune in to the “universal language” of all life and reconnect with the animal kingdom in more conscious, meaningful ways. Through myths, shamanic journeys, and dreams we meet our power animals, spirit animals, and wise animal guides. The exercises, meditations, stories, and experiments included are designed to help us tune in to the subtle whispers of nature and expand our awareness. We learn what sled dogs have to teach us about teamwork, how llamas see themselves as healers of the world, and how it would feel to inhabit the skin of a shark. Filled with advice from animal communication professionals and actual conversations with animals, Animal Voices, Animal Guides is an invitation to explore our inner ways of knowing. When we learn how to use all our senses to listen to animals, we will find out how to listen to our authentic self as well.