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My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell
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Author : Gerald Durrell
Publisher : Penguin Books Limited
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Corfu Island (Greece)
ISBN : 0241951461

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'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine . . . a country where we can grow.' 'Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I had a letter from George this morning - he says Corfu's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go to Greece?' 'Very well, dear, if you like,' said Mother unguardedly. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu. But the Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna - among them scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies. Recounted with immense humour and charm My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of a rare, magical childhood. 'Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph

The Corfu Trilogy

Gerald Durrell
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Author : Gerald Durrell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141911137

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The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell Pdf

The trilogy that inspired ITV's six part television series The Durrells. Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell - are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy. Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession . . . causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family. Durrell's memories of those enchanted days gave rise to these three classic tales, loved by generations of adults and children alike, which are now available in one volume for the first time. 'He has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentrics' Sunday Telegraph 'A delightful book full of simple, well-known things: cicadas in the olive groves, lamp fishing at night, the complexities of fish and animals - but, above all, childhood moulded by these things' New York Times

Humans and Other Animals

Samantha Hurn
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Author : Samantha Hurn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Animal welfare
ISBN : 1849647267

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Explores the evolving and diverse ways in which humans and animals interact, from blood sports to pet keeping

Our Children and Other Animals

Matthew Cole,Kate Stewart
Our Children and Other Animals Book PDF

Author : Matthew Cole,Kate Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317084723

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Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood. With close attention to the dominant practices through which children encounter animals and mainstream representations of animals in children's culture - whether in terms of the selective exposure of children to animals as pets or as food in the home or in school, or the representation of animals in mass media and social media - Our Children and Other Animals reveals the interconnectedness of studies of childhood, culture and human-animal relations. In doing so it establishes the importance of human-animal relations in sociology, by describing the sociological importance of animals in children's lives and children in animals’ lives. Presenting a new typology of the various kinds of human-animal relationship, this conceptually innovative book constitutes a clear demonstration of the relevance of sociology to the interdisciplinary field of human-animal relations and will appeal to readers across the social sciences with interests in sociology, childhood studies, cultural and media studies and human-animal interaction.

Other Animals

Jane Costlow,Amy Nelson
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Author : Jane Costlow,Amy Nelson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822973720

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The lives of animals in Russia are intrinsically linked to cultural, political and psychological transformations of the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras. Other Animals examines the interaction of animals and humans in Russian literature, art, and life from the eighteenth century until the present. The chapters explore the unique nature of the Russian experience in a range of human-animal relationships through tales of cruelty, interspecies communion and compassion, and efforts to either overcome or establish the human-animal divide. Four themes run through the volume: the prevalence of animals in utopian visions; the ways in which Russians have incorporated and sometimes challenged Western sensibilities and practices, such as the humane treatment of animals and the inclusion of animals in urban domestic life; the quest to identify and at times exploit the physiological basis of human and animal behavior and the ideological implications of these practices; and the breakdown of traditional human-animal hierarchies and categories during times of revolutionary upheaval, social transformation, or disintegration. From failed Soviet attempts to transplant the seminomadic Sami and their reindeer herds onto collective farms, to performance artist Oleg Kulik's scandalous portrayal of Pavlov's dogs as a parody of the Soviet “new man,” to novelist Tatyana Tolstaya's post-cataclysmic future world of hybrid animal species and their disaffection from the past, Other Animals presents a completely new perspective on Russian and Soviet history. It also offers a fascinating look into the Russian psyche as seen through human interactions with animals.

Communication in Humans and Other Animals

Gisela Håkansson,Jennie Westander
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Author : Gisela Håkansson,Jennie Westander
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272010

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Communication in Humans and Other Animals by Gisela Håkansson,Jennie Westander Pdf

Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and nonverbal communication, communication in nonhuman primates, in dogs and in birds. Research questions and findings from different perspectives are summarized and integrated to show students similarities and differences in the rich diversity of communicative behaviours. A core topic is how young individuals proceed from not being able to communicate to reaching a state of competent communicators, and the role of adults in this developmental process. Evolutionary aspects are also taken into consideration, and ideas about the evolution of human language are examined. The cross-disciplinary nature of the book makes it useful for courses in linguistics, biology, sociology and psychology, but it is also valuable reading for anyone interested in understanding communicative behaviour.

Side by Side

Marilyn Baillie
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Author : Marilyn Baillie
Publisher : Maple Tree
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000031639637

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Explains how animals all over the world get along by helping each other for food or a home, to stay safe or clean.

Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals

Mira Wasserman
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Author : Mira Wasserman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812249200

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Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals by Mira Wasserman Pdf

In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals, Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara, arguably the Babylonian Talmud's most scandalous tractate. According to Wasserman, Avoda Zara is where this Talmud joins the humanities in questioning what it means to be a human

Derrida and Other Animals

Judith Still
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Author : Judith Still
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748680986

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Derrida and Other Animals by Judith Still Pdf

Judith Still analyses Derrida's late writings on animals, especially his seminars The Beast and the Sovereign, to explore ethical questions of how humans treat animals and how we treat outsiders, from slaves to terrorists.

Human and Other Animals

Bob Carter,Nickie Charles
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Author : Bob Carter,Nickie Charles
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230321366

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This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; whether and under what circumstances animals are regarded as social actors with agency; media representations of human-animal relations; and the relation between animals and national identity.

Humans and Other Animals

John Dupré
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Author : John Dupré
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199247099

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John Dupr explores the ways in which we categorize animals, including humans, and comes to refreshingly radical conclusions. It is a mistake to think that each organism has an essence that determines its necessary place in a unique hierarchy. We should reject the misguided concepts of a universal human nature and normality in human behavior. He shows that we must take a pluralistic view of biology and the human sciences.

My Manager and Other Animals

Richard Robinson
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Author : Richard Robinson
Publisher : Constable
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781472106728

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Deep down, we're just like animals. Some of us are selfish like apes. Some are chaotic like ants. . . And somehow the two clash and coalesce in 'antagonistic harmony'. A fascinating look at the evolutionary psychology, instincts and tactics of the workplace. My Manager & Other Animals examines the evolutionary psychology of work, focusing on the office, workshop, corporation or government department, and the complex and fascinating evolutionary tactics that have developed to deal with working life. 37 years ago Richard Dawkins wrote The Selfish Gene and it didn't take long for the business community to latch on to the 'selfish' part and adopt it as an industry standard. After all, it fitted in with the notion that, since we are all descended from apes, we should be like them: selfish, aggressive and competitive. More recently, astounding discoveries in human and animal behaviour (particularly ants) have shown that, in all animals, cooperation and altruism is more common than we think and more useful than we could imagine. It seems we contain an inner ape and an inner ant. How confusing; they seem like opposites, because co-operation means helping others, competition means swatting them. What are we, ape or ant? This book shows that ant and ape are both important. Co-operation without leadership is random, leadership without co-operation is slavery. The result of these two colliding is the mad mad mad world of work and life, lovingly described in the book.

Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture

Frank Palmeri
Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth Century British Culture Book PDF

Author : Frank Palmeri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351929417

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Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture by Frank Palmeri Pdf

Combining historical and interpretive work, this collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between human and nonhuman animals in Britain over the long eighteenth century. Persistent questions concern modes of representing animals and animal-human hybrids, as well as the ethical issues raised by the human uses of other animals. From the animal men of Thomas Rowlandson to the part animal-part human creature of Victor Frankenstein, hybridity serves less as a metaphor than as a metonym for the intersections of humans and other animals. The contributors address such recurring questions as the implications of the Enlightenment project of naming and classifying animals, the equating of non-European races and nonhuman animals in early ethnographic texts, and the desire to distinguish the purely human from the entirely nonhuman animal. Gulliver's Travels and works by Mary and Percy Shelley emerge as key texts for this study. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students who work in animal, colonial, gender, and cultural studies; and will appeal to general readers concerned with the representation of animals and their treatment by humans.

Fellow Creatures

Christine Marion Korsgaard
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Author : Christine Marion Korsgaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198753858

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Presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals

Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth

Carol J. Adams,Lori Gruen
Ecofeminism Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth Book PDF

Author : Carol J. Adams,Lori Gruen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628926224

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Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth by Carol J. Adams,Lori Gruen Pdf

Leading feminist scholars and activists as well as new voices introduce and explore themes central to contemporary ecofeminism. Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth first offers an historical, grounding overview that situates ecofeminist theory and activism and provides a timeline for important publications and events. This is followed by contributions from leading theorists and activists on how our emotions and embodiment can and must inform our relationships with the more than human world. In the final section, the contributors explore the complexities of appreciating difference and the possibilities of living less violently. Throughout the book, the authors engage with intersections of gender and gender non-conformity, race, sexuality, disability, and species. The result is a new up-to-date resource for students and teachers of animal studies, environmental studies, feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics.