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Elephants on the Edge

Author : G. A. Bradshaw
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300154917
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Elephants on the Edge written by G. A. Bradshaw and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At times sad and at times heartwarming . . . Helps us to understand not only elephants, but all animals, including ourselves” (Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation). Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from more than ten million to a few hundred thousand, leaving orphans bereft of the elders who would normally mentor them. As a consequence, traumatized elephants have become aggressive against people, other animals, and even one another; their behavior is comparable to that of humans who have experienced genocide, other types of violence, and social collapse. By exploring the elephant mind and experience in the wild and in captivity, Bradshaw bears witness to the breakdown of ancient elephant cultures. But, she reminds us, all is not lost. People are working to save elephants by rescuing orphaned infants and rehabilitating adult zoo and circus elephants, using the same principles psychologists apply in treating humans who have survived trauma. Bradshaw urges us to support these and other models of elephant recovery and to solve pressing social and environmental crises affecting all animals—humans included. “This book opens the door into the soul of the elephant. It will really make you think about our relationship with other animals.” —Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation

Elephant's Edge

Author : Andrew J. Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313042950
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Elephant's Edge written by Andrew J. Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republican Party currently enjoys an edge. The advantage can be seen in Congress, state politics, judicial rulings, foreign and domestic policy, party finances, the media, public attitudes, and economic and demographic developments. Yet the Republicans do not seem capable of translating this into a durable electoral majority. Conditions now exist within American politics that will facilitate the establishment of Republican rule. Many of these conditions have ripened during the past decade. They include rules governing elections and campaign finance, shifts in core political values among the public that are consistent with Republican philosophy, and fundamental social and economic changes in American society that are likely to increase the ranks of Republican voters. The author explains in lucid, engaging terms how Republicans have taken control of both houses of Congress and experienced a remarkable resurgence at the state level. He explores how conservatives are utilizing the courts to simultaneously move policy rightward and mobilize sympathetic parts of the electorate. He also examines social and economic changes to show how racial politics, religiosity, and the nature of work and wealth benefit today's Republican Party. Republican rule should not be confused with Republican realignment. These conditions will advantage Republicans in future elections and bring about consistent Republican control of government at all levels—federal, state, and local, executive, legislative, and judicial. However, current conditions do not guarantee the kind of enduring Republican majority many journalists and strategists have predicted. Taylor explains the factors that will prohibit the Republicans from fully exploiting their advantages and dominating American politics the way the Democrats did in the 30 years following the New Deal. These factors include internal and intractable tensions within the Republican Party, the parties' sophisticated political information gathering strategies, and the innate risk aversion of the campaign industry.

At the Water's Edge

Author : Sara Gruen
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812997891
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book At the Water's Edge written by Sara Gruen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this thrilling new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Water’s Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman’s awakening as she experiences the devastation of World War II in a tiny village in the Scottish Highlands. After disgracing themselves at a high society New Year’s Eve party in Philadelphia in 1944, Madeline Hyde and her husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a former army colonel who is already ashamed of his son’s inability to serve in the war. When Ellis and his best friend, Hank, decide that the only way to regain the Colonel’s favor is to succeed where the Colonel very publicly failed—by hunting down the famous Loch Ness monster—Maddie reluctantly follows them across the Atlantic, leaving her sheltered world behind. The trio find themselves in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands, where the locals have nothing but contempt for the privileged interlopers. Maddie is left on her own at the isolated inn, where food is rationed, fuel is scarce, and a knock from the postman can bring tragic news. Yet she finds herself falling in love with the stark beauty and subtle magic of the Scottish countryside. Gradually she comes to know the villagers, and the friendships she forms with two young women open her up to a larger world than she knew existed. Maddie begins to see that nothing is as it first appears: the values she holds dear prove unsustainable, and monsters lurk where they are least expected. As she embraces a fuller sense of who she might be, Maddie becomes aware not only of the dark forces around her, but of life’s beauty and surprising possibilities. Praise for At the Water’s Edge “Breathtaking . . . a daring story of adventure, friendship, and love in the shadow of WWII.”—Harper’s Bazaar “A gripping, compelling story . . . Gruen’s characters are vividly drawn and her scenes are perfectly paced.”—The Boston Globe “A page-turner of a novel that rollicks along with crisp historical detail.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Powerfully evocative.”—USA Today “Gruen is a master at the period piece—and [this] novel is just another stunning example of that craft.”—Glamour

Yunnan–Burma–Bengal Corridor Geographies

Author : Dan Smyer Yü
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000458423
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Yunnan–Burma–Bengal Corridor Geographies written by Dan Smyer Yü and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the historical interconnections between Bengal, Burma, and Yunnan (China), and views the corridor as a transregion that exhibits mobility, connectivity and diversity as well as place-based ecogeological uniqueness. With a focus on the concept of corridor geographies that have shared human and environmental histories beyond sharply demarcated territorial sovereignties of modern individual nation-states, it presents the variety and complexity of premodern and modern pathways, corridors, borders, and networks of livelihood-making, local political alliances, trade and commerce, religions, political systems, and colonial encounters. The book discusses crucial themes including environmental edgings of human-nonhuman habitats, transregional migratory routes and habitats of megafauna, elephant corridors in Yunnan–Myanmar–Bengal landscape, framing spaces between India and China, Tibetan–Myanmar corridors, transboundary river systems, narratives of a Rohingya jade trader, cross-border flow of De’ang’s fermented tea, householding in upland Laos, cultural identities, and trans-border livelihoods. Comprehensive and topical, with its wide-ranging case studies, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of history, routes and border studies, sociology and social anthropology, South East Asian history, South Asian history, Chinese studies, environmental history, human geography, international relations, ecology, and cultural studies.

The Amboseli Elephants

Author : Cynthia J. Moss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226542238
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Amboseli Elephants written by Cynthia J. Moss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe and Hannibal used them in warfare. This book is the summation of what's been learned from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP) - the longest continuously running elephant research project in the world.

Understanding elephants

Author : Elephant Specialist Advisory Group (ESAG)
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775843424
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Understanding elephants written by Elephant Specialist Advisory Group (ESAG) and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants are arguably Africa’s most charismatic animals, and among the biggest drawcards to our game reserves. While the burgeoning game-park industry may be increasing our access to these magnificent creatures, rising human-elephant encounters are an inevitable outcome – sometimes, sadly, fatal. Such encounters could likely have been avoided had those involved understood elephant behaviour, and particularly how these intelligent animals interface with traffic through their territory. This book describes elephant family life, from rearing of infants to establishing dominance within a herd; it unpacks regular elephant behaviour, the matriarchal system, the particular dangers of males in musth, and many other aspects of their lives. Most of all, it provides guidelines for ensuring safe and enjoyable encounters with these majestic animals. This is an essential guide for those planning visits to reserves: aside from the interest factor, being able to read the tell-tale signs may just save lives.

Elephants on the Edge

Author : Charles Hope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781742034652
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Elephants on the Edge written by Charles Hope and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing photographs accompanied by bite-sized chunks of information! Learn all about the amazing world of elephants, how they are under threat and what is being done to protect them.

Elephants

Author : Ellen Greene Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476645930
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Elephants written by Ellen Greene Stewart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants are a keystone species and have been a part of the magic of the thickly forested land of South Africa for millennia. This book focuses on the history and work of Knysna Elephant Park, a leading South African elephant research facility that has been home to more than 40 elephants in 25 years. Unfortunately, all the mystique of the Knysna elephant has been reduced to a single elephant left alive. Exploring a wide range of topics, this book covers the impact of elephants' interactions with tourists, how they recover from trauma and even their relevance in human healthcare. Renowned elephant researchers explain the majesty of the elephant brain, which has the largest temporal lobe devoted to communication, language, spatial memory and cognition. To this effect, the book emphasizes the threat of poaching to these gentle giants, which has almost forced them to extinction. Perhaps if humans pay attention to how elephants symbolize our relationship with nature, we can learn important lessons about humanity itself.

Elephants

Author : Tammy Gagne
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1629681768
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Elephants written by Tammy Gagne and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go inside the mind of one of the most intelligent animals on Earth. Learn more about elephants, how they use their cleverness to survive, and how they are astonishing scientists with their surprising smarts. Complete with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The Thin Book of Naming Elephants

Author : Sue Annis Hammond
Publisher : Thin Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780966537352
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Thin Book of Naming Elephants written by Sue Annis Hammond and published by Thin Book Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Provided Annotation There's an elephant in the room that everyone knows about but no one is acknowledging. The elephant is implicit and undiscussable and lurks in every organization. Everyone talks around the elephant and thinks that everyone else knows about the elephant. However, until the elephant's presence is made explicit, the level of dialogue and therefore the quality of decision-making is limited. Sound familiar? Using NASA's tragic accidents and Enron's bankruptcy as examples of the price of not having open, constructive dialogue, The Thin Book of Naming Elephants shows how great companies create an environment that encourages and listens to input from all levels of the organization.

Animal Ethics and Animal Law

Author : Andrew Linzey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666924156
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Animal Ethics and Animal Law written by Andrew Linzey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal law is a growing discipline, as is animal ethics. In this wide-ranging book, scholars from around the world address the intersections between the two. Specifically, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, the book is edited by the Oxford Centre’s directors, Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, and features contributions from many of its fellows. Divided into three sections, the work explores historical perspectives and ethical–legal issues such as “personhood” and “property” before focusing on five practical case studies. The volume introduces readers to the interweaving between these subjects and should act as a spur to further interdisciplinary work.

The Secret Elephants

Author : Gareth Patterson
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143027204
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Elephants written by Gareth Patterson and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elephants of the Knysna forest have long been the subject of mystery and conjecture. Over the years they have taken on an almost mythical quality, with many doubting whether they existed at all. In 1994 the local forestry department maintained that there was only one surviving Knysna elephant, the seldom seen female known as The Matriarch. The Knysna elephant was thus described as 'functionally extinct'. This was the official stance until September 2000 when forest guard Wilfred Oraai encountered and photographed a young bull from a distance of some thirty metres. The question arose: who was its mother? And, indeed, who was its father? In 2001 Gareth Patterson began an independent study of the Knysna elephant. For the next seven years he covered thousands of kilometres on foot, following ancient elephant paths through the dense Afromontane forest and the surrounding mountain fynbos. He found abundant signs to suggest that, far from dying out, the Knysna elephants are, quietly and secretly, holding their own. Patterson's fieldwork, and his dna research in collaboration with conservation geneticist Lori Eggert, established that at least five young females exist, lending support to Patterson's growing evidence that the Knysna forest and its surroundings are home to a small herd of young elephants. The Secret Elephants is the story of these remarkable animals that fought their way back from the brink of extinction without any help from humankind.

Animals in Peril

Author : John Arthur Hoyt
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780895296481
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Animals in Peril written by John Arthur Hoyt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the theory that endangered species must pay their own way to survive is a political expediency used to justify legalized killing in the name of conservation

Wild Elephants

Author : Samuel Wasser
Publisher : Earth Aware Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781683833826
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Wild Elephants written by Samuel Wasser and published by Earth Aware Editions. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wild Elephants, Art Wolfe seeks to capture on camera just what makes elephants so special and so worth saving. Legendary for their size and intelligence, elephants are one of the most charismatic of megafauna. That they are under siege from poachers is no secret, and the rapidity of their declining numbers is horrifying. However, amidst the steady stream of bad news, all is not lost. Ivory prices are declining, global education seems to be succeeding, and recent government crackdowns are beginning to stem the flow of illegal ivory. While Wild Elephants features photographs of both African and Asian species, the emphasis is on the African savanna or bush elephant. Samuel Wasser's informative text focuses on his current groundbreaking research on the impacts of the illegal trade in elephant ivory along with legal culling practices as a means of population control of this highly intelligent, tightly knit social species. Wild Elephants is a celebration of these wondrous gentle giants, of the renewed efforts countries are taking to protect their natural heritage, and of what we can do to empower local populations to safeguard the survival of a magnificent species.

Elephants Cry

Author : Bruce Flood
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460290003
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Elephants Cry written by Bruce Flood and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants Cry is a dialogue of crime and passion. It's a story of a young couple's love affair, of a pair of fumbling detectives attempting to find self-esteem, of a little girl's love for animals, and of an emotionally disturbed and grotesque-looking woman all of whom become entangled in a cold case mystery. Detective Jack Reinhardt searches for a single piece of evidence that will bring closure to a perplexing and unsolved crime. University student and part-time zoo employee Justin Lombardi takes over the duties of trainer for Buster the elephant. Within the book, there is a definite affinity between existence in the big city and life at the zoo.

Tamburlaine's Elephants

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1409582728
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Tamburlaine's Elephants written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RUSTI is a Mongol warrior, fighting for the bloodthirsty Tamburlaine, Conqueror of the World. He intends to show the enemy neither fear nor mercy... until he comes face-to-face with his first elephant. KAVI is the elephant's rider. Captured by the terrifying Mongol Horde, he fears for his life. But the boy who takes him prisoner does not kill him. And soon it seems they might almost become ... friends. Then Rusti uncovers a terrible secret, and the unlikeliest of friendships is put to the ultimate test.

Elephants Before Unicorns

Author : Caroline Stokes
Publisher : Entrepreneur Press
ISBN 13 : 1613084153
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Elephants Before Unicorns written by Caroline Stokes and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven entrepreneurs seem to always be in search of their "unicorn" team—that match made in heaven that opens the door to freedom and endless possibility. Unfortunately, huge obstacles—the "elephants"—tend to get in the way. Bringing her expertise from HR to EQ, Caroline Stokes offers real-world solutions to the people management problems business owners like you face right now. Dive into this book and learn how to: Hire the right people by taking your time Build an onboarding process that fits your company culture and makes new hires feel welcome Keep employees happy, healthy, engaged, and educated so they always perform their best Think smart before acting so strategies are their most effective Adapt to industry trends and workforce shifts to earn the best results