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Can philosophy conceive of a perfect animal? Can it think of the animal as anything other than an imperfect human? This books using the Hegelian dialect to rework the philosophy of nature in order to assign a proper place to the animal.
From a fragile canary bird to a strong bear, the animals in these ten short stories can speak to one another. A lion may share a secret with a peacock; a frog can explain something to a grasshopper.-----In these soon-to-be-classic stories for pre-K children, the animals find out some important lessons about life. Children will delight in learning with the animals that it isn't good to envy your friends, you shouldn't look down on others, friends stick together and bragging is bad.-----The perfect stories for settling down little ones for a night of pleasant dreams, Beautiful Animal Stories for Good Children are sure to become much-loved favorites to read again and again!
This book presents a novel account of the aesthetics of animals. The author argues that the appreciation of animal beauty carries profound ethical consequences for our relations to our fellow creatures.
The best intentions can be deadly During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another’s lives to devastating effect. When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and high society of island life, their imaginations are sparked when one day they find a young Arab man, Faoud, washed up on shore, a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean. But when their seemingly simple plan to help the stranger goes wrong, all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion.
An illustrated exploration of colors and patterns in the animal kingdom, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals. Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as “beauty”? The term scarcely ever appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things, but we humans may nonetheless find the colors, patterns, and songs of animals to be beautiful in apparently the same way that we see beauty in works of art. In Animal Beauty, Nobel Prize–winning biologist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard describes how the colors and patterns displayed by animals arise, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals. Watercolor drawings illustrate these amazing instances of animal beauty. Darwin addressed the topic of ornament in his 1871 book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, and did not hesitate to engage with criteria of beauty, convinced that animals experienced color and ornament as attractive and agreeable in the same way that we do, and that the role this played in mate choice pointed to a “sexual selection” distinct from natural selection. Nüsslein-Volhard examines key examples of ornament and sexual selection in the animal kingdom and lays the groundwork for biological aesthetics. Noting that color patterns have not been a research priority—perhaps because they appeared to be nonessential luxuries rather than functional necessities—Nüsslein-Volhard looks at recent scientific developments on the topic. In part because of Nüsslein-Volhard's own research on the zebrafish, it is now possible to decipher the molecular genetic mechanisms that lead to production of colors in animal skin and its appendages and control its pattern and distribution.
NEW EDITIONBrand new designed books jackets and higher resolution and redesigned illustrations inside!7 BOOKS IN 1!!This collection book includes the seven episodes of the series:- Episode 1. These Animals... Don't Want To Wash!- Episode 2. These Animals... Don't Want To Eat!- Episode 3. These Animals... Don't Want To Sleep!- Episode 4. These Animals... Don't Want To Go To School!- Episode 5. These Animals... Don't Want To Share!- Episode 6. These Animals... Don't Want To Take Their Medicine!- Episode 7. These Animals... Don't Want To Get Vaccinated!THE BOOK OF THE ANIMALS:FUN LEARNING FOR CHILDREN AND PARENTSWhat are certainly the most occurring moments in a parent's life? When their child doesn't want to wash, eat, sleep, go to school, share, take medicine, get vaccinated... And what can a parent answer to these refusals?The successful "Book of The Animals" bilingual children's books series was created with the aim to help both parents and children to discover the benefits of washing, eating, sleeping, going to school, sharing, taking medicine, getting vaccinated... in a fun as well as educational manner. Since the books are also bilingual, parents will enjoy the teaching and the interactivity they can gain from reading them with their children.THE AUDIENCEThe books are geared towards children aged 2-5, before elementary/primary school.They will likely be bilingual children whose parents want to encourage the learning of their two current languages.They will also be children whose parents want to teach a language at a young age.Some teachers have also been using the books of the series as a way to teach a second language to children, with themes easy for them to both understand and memorise.THE CURRENT BOOKSThere are currently seven books in the series.Each episode brings on new animals, new words, new situations and new stories.- Ep.1. "These Animals... Don't Want to Wash!" (2008)- Ep.2. "These Animals... Don't Want to Eat!" (2009)- Ep.3. "These Animals... Don't Want to Sleep!" (2010)- Ep.4. "These Animals... Don't Want to Go to School!" (2011)- Ep.5. "These Animals... Don't Want to Share!" (2011)- Ep.6. "These Animals... Don't Want to Take their Medicine!" (2012)- Ep.7. "These Animals... Don't Want to Get Vaccinated!" (2012)The books are all available in either bilingual or monolingual versions:- Bilingual versions: English-French, English-Portuguese, English-Italian, English-Spanish, English-Swedish, English-Creole, English-Japanese...More versions still to come!REVIEW"The Book of the Animals is a planned series of illustrated books for young children. [...] These delightful books tell the story of what happens when the animals in the stories, like many young children, don't want to eat and don't want to wash...The books are very suitable both for reading to young children and for older children to use to learn to read in both languages. They might even persuade them to wash and eat their dinner!The repetitive structure is supportive of children learning new words and the illustrations work well alongside the text to help understanding of unfamiliar words.I can easily imagine young children demanding repeat readings and enjoying learning the text by heart as many children do with favourite stories. Children learning to make up and write their own stories might well want to write a personalised version, using the structure as a prop.I think the stories would work well both in the home and in the classroom."(Review published in The Cass School of Education, by Dr Raymonde Sneddon, Research Fellow for "The Cass School of Education" at the University of East London, and Honorary Research Fellow of Birkbeck College, in the Department of Applied Linguistics)SUPPORT'The Book of The Animals' series is supported & recommended by ABRIR UK, a Brazilian Association for Educational Projects in the United Kingdom. www.Abrir.org.ukWebsite: TheBookOfTheAnimals.com
This book is designed to help any child or person easily learn what to call animals in the English language, where each word comes with a clarification, and is presented with pictures accompanying the words to facilitate the learning process and give a kind of fun and entertainment. This book is suitable for both individuals and groups, and the method adopted makes it easier to learn a new language adventure.
Traveling and helping others is the perfect fit for Deva. Working for the Shifter Alliance gives her that. Her current assignment is to fly to a location where the most extensive operation the teams have undergone is taking place. She’s ready for it and will do whatever it takes for all involved to succeed. Before she can even get started, she meets a man that—even in her wildest dreams, she never imagined existed. He’s tall, dark, and dangerous and is her mate. Torn between helping the teams and the attraction to this man, she needs to figure out how she can do her job and not let the others down. Taggart Steele is wanted in so many countries; he’s lost count. His life has been a dangerous game of working in the shadows to rescue his kind from the leaders allowing atrocities to occur. He has a team of mercenaries that do what it takes to free others in danger. When their paths cross with the Shifter Alliance, he makes a deal with their king that will keep their relatives safe from harm. Together with the Alliance teams, they’re going to shut down the underground organization that hunts, cage, and torture shifters worldwide. After a few months in North America, he decides it will be his home. Until he came here, he could never have had a real one. Of course, nowhere in his plans was there the probability of finding his mate—but now that he has found her, he will make her a permanent part of his life just as soon as he can get her to agree. ~ In Jacqueline Paige's Animal Senses Series, hearts and tempers collide with wild passions and animal instincts. Animal shifters live among normal humans (one-forms) and have since the dawn of time. They blend in without any cause for notice until a crime organization finds out and starts hunting them to sell off across the globe. The shifter alliance is formed to protect all their kind. Their teams are working endlessly to rescue all of theirs from lives of servitude and shutting down any involvement in the underground organization.
Bring your most beloved pets and animals to life! This quick start guide includes materials to get your artistic journey rolling with oil, acrylic, and watercolor.
