Challenger, Melanie
Summary: "A wide-ranging take on why humans have a troubled relationship with being an animal, and why we need a better one Human are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive, and baffling animals on the planet. But we are also an animal that does not think it is an animal. How well do we really know ourselves? How to Be Animal tells a remarkable story of what it means to be human and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.9 CHABombeck, Erma.
Summary: Collection of humorous essays on the similarities between humans and animals, discovering that the odd habits of the animal kingdom are strikingly similar to our own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 BOMWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: One of the world's foremost primatologists explores what our two closest relatives in the animal kingdom--the violent, power-hungry chimpanzee and the cooperative, empathetic bonobo--can tell us about the duality of our own human nature. We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 156 WAAGray, John
Summary: In a book by turns chilling and beautiful, John Gray continues the thinking that made his Straw Dogs such a cult classic. Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction, and philosophy to re-imagine our place in the world. Writers as varied as Ballard, Borges, Conrad, and Freud have been mesmerized by forms of human extremity—experiences that are on the outer edge of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2014
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Summary: "A song is passed from one animal to another, uniting all living things and spreading joy across the world. Inspired by a bird in Michael Morpurgo's own garden, the uplifting story and breathtaking illustrations show us the beauty of nature and what is at stake."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Hoots 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fully understand how the natural world can positively impact their emotional wellbeing. With that in mind, this book looks to show children how nature can be fun, uplifting, consoling and even offer companionship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The School of Life 2022
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Summary: "The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "Both the perspective of the wolf and the shepherd are seen in this flippable picture book."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020