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Product Description: An evaluation of the significance and usefulness of anthropomorphism and anecdotalism for understanding animals and humans. The 29 critical essays, written by historians, philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists, biologists, and primatologists, consider the debates between scientific and cultural analysis which fuels the question: Why anthropomorphize? These discussions suggest a number of reasons, pro and con, diving into the nature of anthropomorphism itself, and related topics in consciousness, cognition, and language...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By H. Lyn Miles (editor), Robert W. Mitchell (editor) and Nicholas S. Thompson (editor)

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9780791431252 | State Univ of New York Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $35.50 | About this edition: An evaluation of the significance and usefulness of anthropomorphism and anecdotalism for understanding animals and humans.

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9780791431269, titled "Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes and Animals" | State Univ of New York Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Evaluates the significance and usefulness of anthropomorphism for the scientific understanding of animals by presenting diverse ideas from historians, philosophers, anthropologists, primatologists, psychologists, behaviorists, and ethologists.

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Product Description: Although Communication with All Life is about animal communication, it isn’t just a how-to book, but a guide that will help you discern how much you’re already exchanging feelings, words, and pictures with your pet. Woven throughout the book are many stories to illustrate and support the theory that animal communication isn’t something that you do or need to learn ...read more

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9781401916817 | Hay House Inc, November 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Although Communication with All Life is about animal communication, it isn’t just a how-to book, but a guide that will help you discern how much you’re already exchanging feelings, words, and pictures with your pet.

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By Kate Solisti (editor) and Michael Tobias (editor)

Paperback:

9781571781895 | Updated edition (Council Oaks Distribution, June 1, 2006), cover price $16.95

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By Barry Moser (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780520248557 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, October 27, 2009), cover price $85.00

Paperback:

9780520271524 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 2011, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Have you ever asked yourself any of these questions? Am I creating my relationships from a place of love and compassion? Isn't it just part of our animal nature to react with fear and anger? How do I change my perspective to create the healthy, joyful relationships I so desire?The author found answers in what may seem an unlikely group of teachers: A rescue mutt and a feral feline live in the moment without self-judgment...read more

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9781614483595 | Morgan James Pub, January 8, 2013, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Have you ever asked yourself any of these questions?

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Product Description: Animals are thinking, feeling, consciously-aware beings who have a lot to teach us, if we'll only ask...and listen to their answers. Terri Diener has worked with people and their animal companions since 1995, addressing issues of behavior, grief, and animals in crisis...read more

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9781595941176 | Wingspan Pr, December 31, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Animals are thinking, feeling, consciously-aware beings who have a lot to teach us, if we'll only ask.

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Product Description: For centuries we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered. The idea that animals had feelings was either dismissed or considered heresy. Today, that's all changing. New scientific studies of animal behavior reveal perceptions, intelligences, awareness and social skills that would have been deemed fantasy a generation ago...read more

Hardcover:

9780230613621 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 16, 2010, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: For centuries we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered.

Miscellaneous:

9780230109261 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 16, 2010, cover price $12.99

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Product Description: Consider these amazing--100 percent true stories:* Iowa hogs phone home and leave a message* Pigeons in Japan distinguish cubist-style from Impressionistic paintings* An orangutan leaves two tourists naked in the woods* A squirrel devotes his life to stealing American flags from cemeteriesAfter the success of their Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest series, the unflappable veterans of the strange news beat--John Kohut and Roland Sweet--have come back to their readers with Strange Tails, a collection of true news events chronicling the bizarre, wacky, hilarious, and sometimes heartwarming behavior of animals...read more
By John J. Kohut (editor) and Roland Sweet

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9780452281189 | Plume, October 1, 1999, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Consider these amazing--100 percent true stories:* Iowa hogs phone home and leave a message* Pigeons in Japan distinguish cubist-style from Impressionistic paintings* An orangutan leaves two tourists naked in the woods* A squirrel devotes his life to stealing American flags from cemeteriesAfter the success of their Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest series, the unflappable veterans of the strange news beat--John Kohut and Roland Sweet--have come back to their readers with Strange Tails, a collection of true news events chronicling the bizarre, wacky, hilarious, and sometimes heartwarming behavior of animals.

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Product Description: Wild animals are often cute. But even the most adorable creatures can sometimes snap and bite your face off. Sharks and grizzly bears certainly have the power to rip people limb-from-limb. But animals such as chimpanzees or even pet dogs can also cause a lot of bodily harm...read more

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9781467714358 | Lerner Pub Group, March 1, 2014, cover price $26.65 | About this edition: Wild animals are often cute.

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Paperback:

9780761159131 | Workman Pub Co, June 21, 2011, cover price $13.95

Prebinding:

9780606235037 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, June 21, 2011), cover price $25.70

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. New York Times bestselling author Holland proves that heroes come in all shapes, sizes, and species with these incredible stories of unlikely animal heroes, the third in the Unlikely series.

Paperback:

9780761174417 | Workman Pub Co, October 7, 2014, cover price $13.95

Prebinding:

9780606360753 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, October 7, 2014), cover price $25.70 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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