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Franki Storlie believes that every person possesses a spirit
heart and soul that waits to be reawakened and longs to seek
spiritual knowledge. In her guidebook "Animal Totem Guides:
Messages for the World, " Storlie relies on her Native American
ancestry and her personal experiences to provide clear direction on
how each of us can connect with our own souls and spiritual guides,
ultimately realizing true joy, inner peace, wisdom, and love in the
process.
Storlie has been studying and practicing spiritual teachings for
the past twenty years and partners with nature in order to teach
others how to meditate, bond with their inner selves, and find
balance in a busy and often chaotic world. As she shares twelve
totem animal stories that illustrate each animal's characteristics
and area of influence, she encourages others to begin connecting
with the power animals that protect, guide, and communicate wisdom
through our own hearts and souls.
"Animal Totem Guides: Messages for the World" provides guidance
and wisdom for anyone interesting in walking a new spiritual
pathway beside power animals who, through their gifts of strength
and illumination, will not only help us heal ourselves, but also
our beautiful Earth.
A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking
Life on Earth. David Attenborough's unforgettable meeting with
gorillas became an iconic moment for millions of television
viewers. Life on Earth, the series and accompanying book,
fundamentally changed the way we view and interact with the natural
world setting a new benchmark of quality, influencing a generation
of nature lovers. Told through an examination of animal and plant
life, this is an astonishing celebration of the evolution of life
on earth, with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of
organisms that have ever lived on this planet. Attenborough's
perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of millions of
species of living organisms takes the reader on an unforgettable
journey of discovery from the very first spark of life to the blue
and green wonder we know today. To celebrate the 40th anniversary
of the book's first publication, David Attenborough revisited Life
on Earth, completely updating and adding to the original text,
taking account of modern scientific discoveries from around the
globe. This paperback edition also includes more than 60 full
colour photographs, chosen by the author to help illustrate the
book in a much greater way than was possible forty years ago. This
updated edition provides a fitting tribute to an enduring wildlife
classic, destined to enthral the generation who saw it when first
published and bring it alive for a whole new generation.
The movement of research animals across the divides that have
separated scientist investigators and research animals as Baconian
dominators and research equipment respectively might well give us
cause to reflect about what we think we know about scientists and
animals and how they relate to and with one another within the
scientific coordinates of the modern research laboratory.
Scientists are often assumed to inhabit the ontotheological domain
that the union of science and technology has produced; to master
'nature' through its ontological transformation. Instrumental
reason is here understood to produce a split between animal and
human being, becoming inextricably intertwined with human
self-preservation. But science itself is beginning to take us back
to nature; science itself is located in the thick of posthuman
biopolitics and is concerned with making more than claims about
human being, and is seeking to arrive at understandings of being as
such. It is no longer relevant to assume that instrumental reason
continues to hold a death grip on science, nor that it is immune
from the concerns in which it is deeply embedded. And, it is no
longer possible to assume that animal human relationships in the
lab continue along the fault line of the Great Divide. This book
raises critical questions about what kinship means, or might mean,
for science, for humanimal relations, and for anthropology, which
has always maintained a sure grip on kinship but has not yet
accounted for how it might be validly claimed to exist between
humanimals in new and emerging contexts of relatedness. It raises
equally important questions about the position of science at the
forefront of new kinships between humans and animals, and questions
our assumptions about how scientific knowing is produced and
reflected upon from within the thick of lab work, and what counts
as 'good science'. Much of it is concerned with the quality of
humanimal relatedness and relationship. For the Love of Lab Rats
will be of great interest to scientists, laboratory workers,
anthropologists, animal studies scholars, posthumanists,
phenomenologists, and all those with an interest in human-animal
relations.
A rare fox in the South American cordillera. A disappearing fox on
an island off California. A common coyote in the Albany suburbs.
How do these wild carnivores live? And what is it about the places
they live that allows them to survive? Holly Menino joins up with
three young scientists to find out, and along the way is drawn into
a broader consideration of the science that defines these animals'
natural histories.
With the same intelligent, lucid style that made "Forward
Motion" such a success, "Darwin's Fox and My Coyote" is a
sympathetic but unsentimental examination of animals in their
habitats. Field biology spearheaded the animal conservation
movement by creating a new awareness of wild animals and bringing
to public consciousness their needs and vulnerabilities. The
conservation movement has fostered a general sense that land is
shifting out from under wild animals at a pace that threatens their
very survival. But if that threat is known, it is little
understood. Few realize that animals are becoming extinct at rates
that far exceed the ability of scientists to help stabilize their
populations. Menino confronts the public attitudes that reinforce
these calamitous realities and thwart animal conservation
efforts.
In the tradition of "Silent Spring" and "A Sand County Almanac,
Darwin's Fox and My Coyote" is thought-provoking, alarming, and
unapologetic. It is, most important, a call to action.
Originally published in London in 1920. The author describes in
exciting detail numerous adventures with the big game of Africa and
India. Many of these true stories are of famous hunters of the time
including Gordon Cumming, Thornton, Sanderson and Baldwin. Also
included are anecdotes on sport with deer, foxhunting, and fishing
for salmon and trout. Well illustrated with beautiful pen and ink
drawings. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating
back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and
increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these
classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using
the original text and artwork.
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