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Parrot's Lament, The and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligen

Author : Eugene Linden
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101222387
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Parrot's Lament, The and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligen written by Eugene Linden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape—even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals. Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling, The Parrot's Lament contains remarkable stories that are sure to resonate with animal lovers, turning skeptics everywhere into believers.

Petronius the Poet

Author : Catherine Connors
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521592313
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Petronius the Poet written by Catherine Connors and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient novel, previously relegated to the margins of literary study, has recently taken its place at centre stage. Petronius' Satyricon, the oldest surviving work of prose fiction, is in many respects an arrestingly modern ancient novel but the inclusion within it of thirty short poems and two long ones introduces an alien feature in need of investigation. In this study, Catherine Connors draws on developments in Latin literary criticism to take a comprehensive approach to the Satyricon's poems, reminiscences of poetic texts, and the figure of the poet, assessing the ways in which they fragment and refashion established literary forms into a new amalgam of prose fiction. This book will be of interest to students of Latin literature, Neronian culture, and the early history of the novel. All Latin and Greek is translated.

The Parrot's Lament

Author : Eugene Linden
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0452280680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book The Parrot's Lament written by Eugene Linden and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape—even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals. Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling, The Parrot's Lament contains remarkable stories that are sure to resonate with animal lovers, turning skeptics everywhere into believers.

The Nursery

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385248531
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The Nursery written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Parrot

Author : Paul Carter
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861894953
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Parrot written by Paul Carter and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the more nonconformist figures in the animal kingdom, the parrot is linked to humans by its ability to speak—a trait many have found unsettling, though this discomfort is offset by its gorgeous plumage, which makes it one of the most popular members of the avian family. Unlike previous studies that have treated parrots as simply a curious oddity, Paul Carter offers here in Parrot a thoughtful yet spirited consideration of the natural and cultural history of parrots, discussing parrot portraiture, the role and significance of parrots' mimicry in human culture, and parrot conservation, as well the parrot's role in literature, folklore and mythology, film, and television worldwide. Parrot takes three different approaches to the squawker: the first section, "Parrotics," examines the historical, cultural, and scientific classification of parrots; "Parroternalia," the second part, looks at the association of parrots with the different languages, ages, tastes, and dreams of society; and, finally, "Parrotology" investigates what the mimicry of parrots reveals about our own systems of communication. Humorously written and wide-ranging in scope, this volume takes readers beyond pirates and "Polly wants a cracker" to a new kind of animal history, one conscious of the critical and ironic mirror parrots hold up to human society.

Weep Not, O Widow

Author : Jean Schmeling
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512721905
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Weep Not, O Widow written by Jean Schmeling and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weep Not O Widow is a journal of fifty poems written from the heart and soul during that tough first year. Because the poems show the process Jean went through, this book will especially help the recently widowed. The poems contain beautiful imagery of weeping, memories of their shared life, and crying out to God. There are continuous references to natures beauty and the wildlife of Gods magnificent creation. With support and comfort, Jean hopes to help the grieving widow find her way to God and His will, and to the joy of living.

Women Poets in the Victorian Era

Author : Fabienne Moine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134776608
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Women Poets in the Victorian Era written by Fabienne Moine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry, Fabienne Moine explores the work of canonical and long-neglected women poets to show the myriad connections between women and nature during the period. At the same time, she challenges essentialist discourses that assume innate affinities between women and the natural world. Rather, Moine shows, Victorian women poets mobilised these alliances to defend common interests and express their engagement with social issues. While well-known poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti are well-represented in Moine's study, she pays particular attention to lesser known writers such as Mary Howitt or Eliza Cook who were popular during their lifetimes or Edith Nesbit, whose verse has received scant critical attention so far. She also brings to the fore the poetry of many non-professional poets. Looking to their immediate cultural environments for inspiration, these women reconstructed the natural world in poems that raise questions about the validity and the scope of representations of nature, ultimately questioning or undermining social practices that mould and often fossilise cultural identities.

‘The Bird Who Sang the Trisagion’ of Isaac of Antioch

Author : Robert A. Kitchen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031600770
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book ‘The Bird Who Sang the Trisagion’ of Isaac of Antioch written by Robert A. Kitchen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tuco and the Scattershot World

Author : Brian Brett
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 1771640642
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Tuco and the Scattershot World written by Brian Brett and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author’s memoir of life with an African grey parrot offers “a thoughtful and generous celebration of minds and bodies different from our own” (Times Literary Supplement, UK). For thirty years, Brian Brett shared his office and his life with Tuco, a remarkable parrot given to asking questions such as “Whaddya know?” and announcing “Party time!” when guests showed up at Brett’s farm. Although Brett bought Tuco on a whim, he gradually realized the enormous obligation he has to his pet, learning that the parrot is far more complex than he thought. In Tuco and the Scattershot World, Brett not only chronicles his fascinating relationship with Tuco, but uses it to explore the human tendency to “other” the world, abusing birds, landscapes, and each other. Brett sees in Tuco’s otherness a mirror of his own experience contending with Kallman syndrome, a rare genetic condition that made him the target of bullies—and nurtured his affinity for winged creatures. Brett’s meditative digressions touch on topics ranging from the history of birds and dinosaurs to our concepts of knowledge, language, and intelligence—and include commentary from Tuco himself. By turns provocative and deeply moving, Tuco and the Scattershot World “is not a straight memoir—it’s something much more wondrously weird . . . a view of the human predicament that is hilarious, sobering and profound” (Globe & Mail, UK).

Inside Animal Hearts and Minds

Author : Belinda Recio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510718958
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Inside Animal Hearts and Minds written by Belinda Recio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Charles Darwin suggested more than a century ago, the differences between animals and humans are “of degree and not of kind.” Not long ago, ethologists denied that animals had emotions or true intelligence. Now, we know that rats laugh when tickled, magpies mourn as they cover the departed with greenery, female whales travel thousands of miles for annual reunions with their gal pals, seals navigate by the stars, bears hum when happy, and crows slide down snowy rooftops for fun. In engaging text, photographs, and infographics, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds showcases fascinating and heart-warming examples of animal emotion and cognition that will foster wonder and empathy. Learn about an orangutan who does “macramé,” monkeys that understand the concept of money, and rats that choose friendship over food. Even language, math, and logic are no longer exclusive to humans. Prairie dogs have their own complex vocabularies to describe human intruders, parrots name their chicks, sea lions appear capable of deductive thinking akin to a ten-year-old child’s, and bears, lemurs, parrots, and other animals demonstrate numerical cognition. In a world where a growing body of scientific research is closing the gap between the human and non-human, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds invites us to change the way we view animals, the world, and our place in it.

The Rights of Nature

Author : David R. Boyd
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1770909664
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Rights of Nature written by David R. Boyd and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 17-09-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life Palila v Hawaii. New ZealandÕs Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building Ñ in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it. Lawyers from California to New York are fighting to gain legal rights for chimpanzees and killer whales, and lawmakers are ending the era of keeping these intelligent animals in captivity. In Hawaii and India, judges have recognized that endangered species Ñ from birds to lions Ñ have the legal right to exist. Around the world, more and more laws are being passed recognizing that ecosystems Ñ rivers, forests, mountains, and more Ñ have legally enforceable rights. And if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities. In The Rights of Nature, noted environmental lawyer David Boyd tells this remarkable story, which is, at its heart, one of humans as a species finally growing up. Read this book and your world view will be altered forever.

The Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit

Author : Janell Moon
Publisher : Red Wheel
ISBN 13 : 1590030141
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit written by Janell Moon and published by Red Wheel. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt combination of spiritual discovery, environmental observations, and journal writing, this book offers readers a 52-week cycle of themed essays and related questions about the natural world. Included are themes such as night and sky and parakeets, wind and mud and rain, snakes and tea and thistle, among others. In addition to folklore, myths, stories, and symbols connected to each theme, there are inspirational quotes from well-known writers.

The Nursery

Author : Fanny P. Seaverns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nursery written by Fanny P. Seaverns and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanny P. Seaverns, editor, 1867-68.

Sexual Types

Author : Mario DiGangi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205154
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Types written by Mario DiGangi and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual types on the early modern stage are at once strange and familiar, associated with a range of "unnatural" or "monstrous" sexual and gender practices, yet familiar because readily identifiable as types: recognizable figures of literary imagination and social fantasy. From the many found in early modern culture, Mario DiGangi here focuses on six types that reveal in particularly compelling ways, both individually and collectively, how sexual transgressions were understood to intersect with social, gender, economic, and political transgressions. Building on feminist and queer scholarship, Sexual Types demonstrates how the sodomite, the tribade (a woman-loving woman), the narcissistic courtier, the citizen wife, the bawd, and the court favorite function as sites of ideological contradiction in dramatic texts. On the one hand, these sexual types are vilified and disciplined for violating social and sexual norms; on the other hand, they can take the form of dynamic, resourceful characters who expose the limitations of the categories that attempt to define and contain them. In bringing sexuality and character studies into conjunction with one another, Sexual Types provides illuminating new readings of familiar plays, such as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale, and of lesser-known plays by Fletcher, Middleton, and Shirley.

Glimpses of Paradise

Author : Penny Olsen
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780642276520
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Glimpses of Paradise written by Penny Olsen and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Paradise Parrot - from its 'discovery' in the 1800s to its extinction in the 1920s and how claims of sightings have continued to the present day.

Animal Cognition

Author : Nick Lund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317797248
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Animal Cognition written by Nick Lund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Cognition looks at how non-human animals process information from their environment. Nick Lund has written an accessible and engaging account of this area of comparative psychology. The book contains chapters on animal navigation (including homing behaviour and migration), animal communication methods and research into animal language, and attempts to teach language to non-human animals. A chapter on memory includes models of memory in non-human animals and discusses the importance of memory in navigation and foraging behaviour. Animal Cognition is designed to cover the AQA(A) A2 level specification but will also be of interest to undergraduates new to comparative psychology. It is well illustrated and includes a study aids section with examination questions and answers, and key research summaries.

Birds in the Ancient World

Author : Jeremy Mynott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191022713
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Birds in the Ancient World written by Jeremy Mynott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds pervaded the ancient world, impressing their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people and figuring prominently in literature and art. They provided a fertile source of symbols and stories in myths and folklore and were central to the ancient rituals of augury and divination. Jeremy Mynott's Birds in the Ancient World illustrates the many different roles birds played in culture: as indicators of time, weather and the seasons; as a resource for hunting, eating, medicine and farming; as domestic pets and entertainments; and as omens and intermediaries between the gods and humankind. We learn how birds were perceived - through quotations from well over a hundred classical Greek and Roman authors, all of them translated freshly into English, through nearly 100 illustrations from ancient wall-paintings, pottery and mosaics, and through selections from early scientific writings, and many anecdotes and descriptions from works of history, geography and travel. Jeremy Mynott acts as a stimulating guide to this rich and fascinating material, using birds as a prism through which to explore both the similarities and the often surprising differences between ancient conceptions of the natural world and our own. His book is an original contribution to the flourishing interest in the cultural history of birds and to our understanding of the ancient cultures in which birds played such a prominent part.