Love In Infant Monkeys

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593762520

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Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet Pdf

Animals and celebrities share unusual relationships in these hilarious satirical stories by an award-winning contemporary writer. Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants—all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Thomas Edison, and David Hasselhoff. Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of our fascination with famous people and pop culture in a wildly inventive collection of stories that “evoke the spectrum of human feeling and also its limits” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review). While in so much fiction animals exist as symbols of good and evil or as author stand-ins, they represent nothing but themselves in Millet's ruthlessly lucid prose. Implacable in their actions, the animals in Millet’s spiraling fictional riffs and flounces show up their humans as bloated with foolishness yet curiously vulnerable, as in a tour-de-force, Kabbalah-infused interior monologue by Madonna after she shoots a pheasant on her Scottish estate. Millet treads newly imaginative territory with these charismatic tales. “These incredibly crafted stories, with their rare intelligence, humor, and empathy, describe the furious collision of nature and science, man and animal, everyday citizen and celebrity, fact and fiction. Lydia Millet’s writing sparkles with urgent brilliance.” —Joe Meno

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593763817

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Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet Pdf

Animals and celebrities share unusual relationships in these hilarious satirical stories by an award-winning contemporary writer. Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants—all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Thomas Edison, and David Hasselhoff. Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of our fascination with famous people and pop culture in a wildly inventive collection of stories that “evoke the spectrum of human feeling and also its limits” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review). While in so much fiction animals exist as symbols of good and evil or as author stand-ins, they represent nothing but themselves in Millet's ruthlessly lucid prose. Implacable in their actions, the animals in Millet’s spiraling fictional riffs and flounces show up their humans as bloated with foolishness yet curiously vulnerable, as in a tour-de-force, Kabbalah-infused interior monologue by Madonna after she shoots a pheasant on her Scottish estate. Millet treads newly imaginative territory with these charismatic tales. “These incredibly crafted stories, with their rare intelligence, humor, and empathy, describe the furious collision of nature and science, man and animal, everyday citizen and celebrity, fact and fiction. Lydia Millet’s writing sparkles with urgent brilliance.” —Joe Meno

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : Counterpoint Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1593762526

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Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet Pdf

The author offers a pandora's box of astringent and sentimental confections through a collection of stories, each featuring that pairing that society seems to both love and loathe: celebrities and animals. By a PEN-USA award winner and an Arthur C. Clarke Prize finalist. Original.

Author : Kari Schuetz
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612117621

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Baby Monkeys by Kari Schuetz Pdf

Monkey babies are clingy children, hanging on to mom or dad for dear life. Some infants hug dad's belly. Others ride on mom's back. After you make your way through this book, you will be attached to the little creatures yourself!

Author : Deborah Blum
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780465026067

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Love at Goon Park by Deborah Blum Pdf

In this meticulously researched and masterfully written book, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum examines the history of love through the lens of its strangest unsung hero: a brilliant, fearless, alcoholic psychologist named Harry Frederick Harlow. Pursuing the idea that human affection could be understood, studied, even measured, Harlow (1905-1981) arrived at his conclusions by conducting research-sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrible-on the primates in his University of Wisconsin laboratory. Paradoxically, his darkest experiments may have the brightest legacy, for by studying "neglect" and its life-altering consequences, Harlow confirmed love's central role in shaping not only how we feel but also how we think. His work sparked a psychological revolution. The more children experience affection, he discovered, the more curious they become about the world: Love makes people smarter. The biography of both a man and an idea, The Measure of Love is a powerful and at times disturbing narrative that will forever alter our understanding of human relationships.

Author : Michael Allen Fox
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520055012

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The Case for Animal Experimentation by Michael Allen Fox Pdf

Discusses animal rights and the morality of animal experiments, suggests ethical guidelines for the use of animals as test subjects, and identifies irrational attitudes towards animals

Author : Harry Frederick Harlow
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : UCSC:32106014589177

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Learning to Love by Harry Frederick Harlow Pdf

Report on research, using either cloth-covered or wire surrogate mothers, on the importance of physical and social contact in the development of monkey babies.

Author : Jim Ottaviani
Publisher : G.T. Labs
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780978803711

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Wire Mothers by Jim Ottaviani Pdf

Recounts the story of Harry Harlow, a psychologist who speculated, explained, and conducted experiments on whether "love" exists, using rhesus monkeys as subjects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Nature of Love by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593763190

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My Happy Life by Lydia Millet Pdf

At the opening of My Happy Life, the unnamed narrator has been abandoned in a locked room of a deserted mental hospital. She hasn't seen the nice man who brings her food in days; so she's eaten the soap, the toothpaste, and even tried to eat the plaster on her walls — a dietary adventure that ended none too well. This woman's story, covering decades and spanning continents, is tragic, yet she is curiously at peace, even happy. Despite a lifetime of neglect, physical abuse, and loss, she's incapable of perceiving slight or injury. She has infinite faith in the goodwill of others, loves even her enemies, and finds grace and communion in places most people wouldn't dare to brave. Lauded by both critics and readers, My Happy Life consistently surprises and excites with its original vision of a unique woman whose rich interior life protects her from the horrors of external reality.

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781932360776

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Everyone's Pretty by Lydia Millet Pdf

A “supremely wacky [and] astute” novel by a PEN Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist (The Washington Post). In Los Angeles, Dean Decetes, a pornographer with messianic delusions, spins out of control, spending his time drinking himself into a stupor, getting beaten up by strangers he’s recklessly insulted, stealing credit cards to pay for sex, being arrested, begging favors, and mounting a PR campaign to make himself famous with the help of a loyal foot soldier—a porn-loving midget he met in jail. Meanwhile his pious, romantic spinster sister, who reluctantly keeps house for him, busies herself writing quasi-religious love notes to the boss she worships, and two of her coworkers at the statistics company—an obsessive-compulsive Christian Scientist in a twisted marriage and a promiscuous, depressed blond bombshell—become enmeshed in her life as she dreams of ridding herself of her freeloading brother and being carried away on a white horse by her employer. Then a teenage math genius runs away from home after her mother humiliates her in school, and hooks up at a bar with Decetes’s suicidal editor. Told from five points of view, over three wild days in which these lives intersect, this is a rollickingly funny yet heart-wrenching novel from one of today’s most acclaimed literary voices. “Taken at surface level, its presentation of over-the-top characters placed in bizarre situations is supremely wacky, but underneath is an astute examination of how contemporary society fosters alienation and loneliness so acute that it takes outsized actions to allow any possibility of driving the demons away.” —The Washington Post

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593763138

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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet Pdf

“Though Oh Pure and Radiant Heart possesses the nervy irreverence of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, Millet makes the subject matter her own, capturing the essence of these geniuses in a way that can only be described as, well, genius.” —Vanity Fair Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bomb—Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi—as they watch history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945 . . . and places them down in modern-day Santa Fe. One by one, the scientists are spotted by a shy librarian who becomes convinced of their authenticity. Entranced, bewildered, overwhelmed by their significance as historical markers on the one hand, and their peculiar personalities on the other, she, to the dismay of her husband, devotes herself to them. Soon the scientists acquire a sugar daddy—a young pothead millionaire from Tokyo who bankrolls them. Heroes to some, lunatics or con artists to others, the scientists finally become messianic religious figureheads to fanatics, who believe Oppenheimer to be the Second Coming. As the ever-growing convoy traverses the country in a fleet of RV's on a pilgrimage to the UN, the scientists wrestle with the legacy of their invention and their growing celebrity, while Ann and her husband struggle with the strain on their marriage, a personal journey married to a history of thermonuclear weapons.

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781324005049

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A Children's Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet Pdf

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others National Bestseller "A blistering little classic." —Ron Charles, Washington Post A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside. Lydia Millet’s prophetic and heartbreaking story of generational divide offers a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.

Author : Fiona Watt
Publisher : Usborne Pub Limited
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0794521789

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That's Not My Monkey by Fiona Watt Pdf

Young readers may touch various surfaces on monkeys that are not the one someone is looking for, until at last the right one appears. On board pages.

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393089790

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Magnificence: A Novel by Lydia Millet Pdf

A woman embarks on a dazzling new phase in her life after inheriting a sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy. Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet is "one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation" (Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times). Salon praised her for writing that is "always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself." The Village Voice added, "If Kurt Vonnegut were still alive, he would be extremely jealous." This stunning new novel presents Susan Lindley, a woman adrift after her husband’s death and the dissolution of her family. Embarking on a new phase in her life after inheriting her uncle’s sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy, Susan decides to restore the neglected, moth-eaten animal mounts, tending to “the fur and feathers, the beaks, the bones and shimmering tails.” Meanwhile an equally derelict human menagerie—including an unfaithful husband and a chorus of eccentric old women—joins her in residence. In a setting both wondrous and absurd, Susan defends her legacy from freeloading relatives and explores the mansion’s unknown spaces. Funny and heartbreaking, Magnificence explores evolution and extinction, children and parenthood, loss and revelation. The result is the rapturous final act to the critically acclaimed cycle of novels that began with How the Dead Dream.