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- Condition
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Signed, Inscribed
- ISBN
- 9780805098884
- Book Title
- Beyond Words : What Animals Think and Feel
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publisher
- Holt & Company, Henry
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Nature, Psychology, Science
- Topic
- Animals / Marine Life, Animals / Wolves, Animal & Comparative Psychology, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Animals / Wildlife, Animal Rights
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 24.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words , readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves sort out the aftermath of one pack's personal tragedy, and finally plunge into the astonishingly peaceful society of killer whales living in the crystalline waters of the Pacific Northwest. Beyond Words brings forth powerful and illuminating insight into the unique personalities of animals through extraordinary stories of animal joy, grief, jealousy, anger, and love. The similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness, and empathy calls us to re-evaluate how we interact with animals. Wise, passionate, and eye-opening at every turn, Beyond Words is ultimately a graceful examination of humanity's place in the world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805098887
ISBN-13
9780805098884
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201627724
Product Key Features
Book Title
Beyond Words : What Animals Think and Feel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Marine Life, Animals / Wolves, Animal & Comparative Psychology, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Animals / Wildlife, Animal Rights
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Psychology, Science
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
24.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ql785.S14 2015
Reviews
Beyond Words is such a beautiful book, deep and tender, and will make you stay up all night reading. Carl Safina has a rare gift for imparting scientific insight with a storyteller's grace, and he writes with great knowledge and compassion. This vivid, far-ranging, and compassionate work is destined to become a classic., Captivating...A profound, scientifically based appeal for recognition of the kinship of all living things., Praise for The View From Lazy Point: "You could call Safina a Thoreau for the twenty-first century." - New York Post "Safina's book soars... What a pleasure it is to find such an enlightening, provocative companion for walking and talking-and reading. We can ask no more from those who warn about dark days ahead than that they also awaken us to the miracle of everyday life." -Dominique Browning, The New York Times Book Review "A call to arms in the cause of hope... Mr. Safina's writing moves easily from revelatory observation sparked by a flash of bird or splash of fish to passionate, lyrical philosophy." -The Economist, Safina offers a rich and often heart-touching account of his journeys with scientists exploring the minds and emotions of elephants, wolves, and dolphins. His compassion and empathy for animals shines throughout, and he uses both to illuminate the booming field of animal cognition. A beautifully written, accessible, and compelling read., Carl Safina shows there is indeed intelligent life in the universe, and it's all around us. At once moving and surprising, Beyond Words asks us to reexamine our relationship to other species-and to ourselves., This book breathes love of and respect for animals and is rich with observations and extraordinary travel experiences. It is a delightful and enlightening account of both how we relate to them and how they relate to each other., Carl Safina's books contain a crucial jewel that refracts the experience of nature in a new and truthful way. In this emotional and scientific adventure, Safina somehow manages to produce a view of animal intelligence that is genuinely new, and truly enlightening., Beyond Words is a great read, seamlessly weaving scientific data with wonderful stories. People will feel 'rewilded' and motivated to do more on behalf of the innumerable animals who need our help. By expanding our compassion footprint we not only help other animals but also ourselves., Beyond Words is a must-read. Animals think, mourn, dream, make plans, and communicate complex messages in much the same way that we do. Readers who knew this already will rejoice, others will learn the truth, and the more of us who capture the message, the sooner we will change the world., Safina's engaging writing takes readers along on his journey, so that we learn about these creatures as he does... The result is a meandering, entertaining tour of the animal kingdom, with pit stops for both amusing anecdotes and the latest scientific studies of animal behavior...entertaining and informative..., In this mind-bending book, Safina takes the reader along with him on his adventures, enlightening and educating at each of his stops., ...Excellent... compelling... brings forth powerful and illuminating insight into the unique personalities of animals...Wise, passionate, and eye-opening at every turn, Beyond Words is ultimately a graceful examination of humanity's place in the world... Dr. Safina's book truly is a gem -- extremely thoughtful and important and most timely..., This well-researched book is a fascinating and thought-provoking investigation of different ways of viewing non-human creatures and their inner lives., Brilliant... an unprecedented exploration of animals and...makes intimate these wild animals in vivid family portraits...each of Safina's beautifully limned animal portraits is the weight of human influence, and a challenge to exercise the power of empathy... [Safina] is a font of research, his wonder contagious., Once in a long while, a book is published that felicitously combines lambent writing with dazzling facts, while also illuminating our knowledge of significant and engaging subjects. Beyond Words by Carl Safina, a scientist who has won a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award, is one of these exemplary books., Dr. Safina is a terrific writer, majestic and puckish in equal measure, with a contagious enthusiasm...Dr. Safina draws out haunting resonances between animal lives and our own... [ Beyond Words ] carries pleasing echoes of the poet Gary Snyder...Captivating.
Table of Content
PROLOGUE: INTO THE MIND FIELDS 1 PART ONE: TRUMPETS OF ELEPHANTS 5 The Big Question 9 The Same Basic Brain 16 Distinctly Human? 25 Deep and Ancient Circuits 31 We Are Family 36 Motherhood Happens 42 Do Elephants Love Their Babies? 49 Elephant Empathy 58 Good Grief 66 I Don't Know How You Say Good-bye 75 I Say Hello 86 Holding Back, Letting Go 95 Troubled Minds 100 Ebony and Ivory 108 Where Baby Elephants Come From 126 PART TWO: HOWLS OF WOLVES 137 Into the Pleistocene 139 A Perfect Wolf 143 Packing and Unpacking 151 The Wolf Named Six 160 A Shattering of Promises 167 In a Time of Truce 177 Magnificent Outcasts 183 Where the Wolf Birds Lead Us 191 Wolf Music 200 The Hunter Is a Lonely Heart 210 A Will to Live 216 Domestic Servants 221 Two Ends of the Same Leash 229 PART THREE: WHINES AND PET PEEVES 241 Never Mind Theory 243 Sex, Lies, and Humiliated Seabirds 250 Conceit and Deceit 258 Chuckles and Wacky Ideas 266 Mirror, Mirror 273 And Speaking of Neurons 280 People of an Ancient Nation 286 PART FOUR: KILLER WAILS 295 Sea Rex 297 A More Complex Killer 304 Just Very Sexual 308 Inner Visions 316 Diverse Minds 325 Intelligent in What Way? 336 The Social Brain 345 Woo-Woo 351 Helping in Mind 367 Do Not Disturb 375 To Have and to Hold 383 Expect Personality 392 A Vision True and Mighty 399 EPILOGUE: FINAL SCRATCH 410 Notes 413 Selected Bibliography 437 Acknowledgments 439 Index 443
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2014-045385
Dewey Decimal
591.56
Dewey Edition
23
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