Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 590 EAN: 9781571781895 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 1571781897 Label: Council Oak Books Manufacturer: Council Oak Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: June 30, 2006 Publisher: Council Oak Books Release Date: May 18, 2006 Sales Rank: 396494 Studio: Council Oak Books
Product DescriptionScientists, artists, activists, philosophers, lawyers, and spiritual leaders share their intensely personal experiences and ponder on the meaning and import of human/animal relationships. From prairie dogs, donkeys and squid to Best Friends Sanctuary’s dogs and cats, the contributors tell of a wide variety of insightful encounters with animals. Jane Goodall recalls how her lifelong commitment to animals began with a fateful childhood meeting with a dragonfly. Homeless veterans find healing with the parrots of Serenity Park. Musician Jim Nollman plays the waterphone for an audience of orcas.
Our understanding of animals has increased greatly in just the last few years. 'Kinship with Animals: Updated Edition' contains new research findings and new contributors. Wesley the Owl saves a woman’s life. A rescued whale shows his gratitude. Lawyer Jody Weiner muses on Koko the Gorilla’s sexual harassment lawsuit. Dave Soldier designs instruments for the Thai Elephant Orchestra. This collection of over thirty stories will inspire and delight animal-lovers of all stripes.
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Rating: - More than just entertainment
This book will make you laugh and cry, and will keep you mesmerized until the last page. But more than that, it will make you think and rethink. It will challenge the reader to consider new ways of looking at the intelligent life that surrounds us, and to realize that these other beings are more like us (or we are more like them) than we are often willing to admit, even though this truth should be self evident. Long after you have read the book, you will be thinking about it and talking about it. ... Read More
Rating: - Process, not content
I rate this a five on the basis of the importance of having people from such different walks of life telling essentially the same story in their own unique way. Solisti and Tobias have put together a compendium of tales that illustrate the individual dilemma that each one of us face at this moment in time. Whether approached from a scientific, spiritual, moral or uniquely personal view, the need to make a personal choice regarding one's relationship with one's context is one that those privileged ... Read More
