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The most common way we come to know animals is usually by rote learning the specific features that certain kind of animals have according to a textbooks. We learn that they are mammals, birds or fish; but at school we rarely mention that they have a personality of their own and even less do we analyze whether we treat them well or badly. Have you ever wondered how animals actually feel?Have you thought about how they are treated in our society?The Voice of Animals pr...

Are you a leader, clergy or lay, in a Catholic parish wrestling with how to bridge the multiple ethnic, linguistic, and racial communities that increasingly comprise your parish? With these cultural backgrounds frequently come diverse perspectives on everything from how to communicate with each other to how to understand God. In addition, such cultural divisions all too often manifest differences in the access these communities have to parish decision-making structures.In Build...

ILLUSTRATO A COLORI- VOLUME PER BAMBINIL’asino Gaetano e la gallina Coccodella, due animali da sempre considerati come l’emblema dell’ignoranza e della stupidità, che dimostrano invece di essere intelligenti ed intraprendenti, entrambi capaci di grandi imprese.

Do you believe you have a “flair” for decorating? Do you know what constitutes a pillow emergency? Do you have any idea how many swatches of paint must be sampled before finding the “perfect” color? Are you aware there’s a difference between a curated collection of “trinkets” and a bookcase full of clutter? Can you explain when it’s acceptable for a grown woman to throw a tantrum over fabric—or perhaps throw the fabric itself? (Not me, in case you were wondering.) Can you tell whether a re...

I polpi sanno aprire un barattolo per procurarsi il cibo, e gli scimpanzé possono fare piani per il futuro. Un computer IBM, di nome Watson, ha vinto un quiz televisivo, e Alexa conosce le nostre canzoni preferite. Ma davvero gli animali e le macchine intelligenti possiedono una mente paragonabile a quella degli esseri umani? Questo libro prende in esame i computer (i "bot") e gli animali e li mette a confronto con la mente umana, offrendo il primo esame comparato dell'intelligenza nelle m...

A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes – and what we can do about itWe are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, loneliness and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respo...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake delivers a powerful meditation on the process of learning to express herself in Italian—and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice. • "The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a writing life I have read.” —The Washington PostOn a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian lang...

The New York Times–bestselling "exploration of the world from a piscine perspective . . . makes a persuasive case that what fish know is quite a lot" (Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books).Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, revealing th...

Did you know that Gorillas can catch human colds? or that cows from different regions moo in different accents? This fantastic quick-read eBook features 101 amazing facts split into categories such as record breakers, creepy crawlies, gross facts, primates and many more. So if you want to know what the fastest animal in the water is, or the disgusting thing a hoopoe bird does to scare away predators, then this is the book for you! Find the information you want, fast!

_______________'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley, Spectator'A writer of uncommon elegance and poise' - New York Times'A fascinating account of her linguistic exile' - Erica Wagner, Harper's Bazaar_______________In Other Words is a revelation. It is at hea...

Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try toprotect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats,finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed torescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save anunrelated infant who has fallen into a watery moat.Theexamples above and many others, argues Dale Peterson, show that ourfellow creatures have powerful impulses towar...

The Animal Intelligence Bundle: "Minds of Their Own" by Virginia Morell (March 2008) "Almost Human" by Mary Roach (April 2008) "The Genius of Swarms" by Peter Miller (July 2007) In "Minds of Their Own," Virginia Morell provides an overview of the science of animal intelligence. She introduces you to an African gray parrot named Alex, a bonobo named Kanzi, and a border collie named Betsy. Each of these animals tells us something interesting about the way they perceive and manipulate their w...