Our Dogs Ourselves Young Readers Edition

Download or read book Our Dogs, Ourselves written by Alexandra Horowitz and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Alexandra Horowitz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, an eye-opening, informative, and wholly entertaining examination and celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike. We keep dogs and are kept by them. We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. We buy them sweaters, toys, shoes; we are concerned with their social lives, their food, and their health. The story of humans and dogs is thousands of years old but is far from understood. In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex interspecies pairing. As Horowitz considers the current culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs. We celebrate their individuality but breed them for sameness. Despite our deep emotional relationships with dogs, legally they are property to be bought, sold, abandoned, or euthanized as we wish. Even the way we speak to our dogs is at once perplexing and delightful. In thirteen thoughtful and charming chapters, Our Dogs, Ourselves affirms our profound affection for this most charismatic of animals—and opens our eyes to the companions at our sides as never before.

Download or read book Our Dogs, Ourselves -- Young Readers Edition written by Alexandra Horowitz and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This middle grade adaptation of Our Dogs, Ourselves is an eye-opening, entertaining, and beautifully illustrated look about humans’ complicated and sometimes contradictory relationship with man’s best friend by New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog—Young Readers Edition. We keep dogs and are kept by them. We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. Even while we see ourselves in dogs, we also treat them in surprising ways. On the one hand, we let them into our beds, we give them meaningful names, make them members of our family, and buy them the best food, toys, accessories, clothes, and more. But we also shape our dogs into something they aren’t meant to be. Purebreeding dogs has led to many unhealthy pups. Many dogs have no homes, or live out their life in shelters. How is it possible we can treat the same species in these two totally different ways? In Our Dogs, Ourselves Young Readers Edition, bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs.

Download or read book Our Dogs, Ourselves -- Young Readers Edition written by Alexandra Horowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We keep dogs and are kept by them. We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. Even while we see ourselves in dogs, we also treat them in surprising ways. On the one hand, we let them into our beds, we give them meaningful names, make them members of our family, and buy them the best food, toys, accessories, clothes, and more. But we also shape our dogs into something they aren't meant to be. Purebreeding dogs has led to many unhealthy pups. Many dogs have no homes, or live out their lives in shelters. How is it possible we can treat the same species in these two totally different ways? In this book the author reveals the odd, suprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs.

Download or read book On Looking written by Alexandra Horowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s “elegant and entertaining” look at how humans perceive their environments—and what they’re missing (The Boston Globe). In this eye-opening book, Alexandra Horowitz takes a series of simple walks—mostly through her Manhattan neighborhood—with experts on various subjects, including a sociologist, an artist, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer, as well as her own son. On each excursion, she shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary—to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, “the observation of trifles.” By shining a light on what her companions see—as well as how they see it and why most of us do not see the same things—Horowitz reveals the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of expert observation. With her background in cognitive science, she discovers a feast of fascinating detail, all explained with her generous humor and self-deprecating tone. On Looking invites you to turn off the phone and be in the world—where strangers communicate by geometry as they walk toward one another, where sounds reveal shadows, where posture can display humility, and the underside of a leaf unveils a Lilliputian universe—where, indeed, there are worlds within worlds within worlds. “[On Looking] does more than open our eyes . . . opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world—in fact, many worlds—we’ve been missing.” —USA Today

Download or read book Conservation Canines written by Isabelle Groc and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Selling Points The book examines how dogs are chosen and trained for conservation work and details the kind of work they do all over the world, in Africa, Italy, Portugal, France, Australia, Haida Gwaii and the United States. The author is a highly respected photojournalist, filmmaker and the author of Gone is Gone: Wildlife Under Threat and Sea Otters: A Survival Story, which are also part of the Orca Wild series. Isabelle Groc's stunning photos of working dogs give the book a hands-on feel. For fans of the TV show Dogs With Jobs—but for the environment! Includes a foreword by award-winning actor, director, producer and author Anjelica Huston.

Download or read book Inside of a Dog -- Young Readers Edition written by Alexandra Horowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's your chance to experience the world nose first, from two feet off the ground. What do dogs know, and how do they think?

Download or read book Our Boys and Girls written by Oliver Optic and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: