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For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend

For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend

by Patricia B. McConnell

Yes, humans and canines are different species, but current research provides fascinating, irrefutable evidence that what we share with our dogs is greater than how we vary. As behaviorist and zoologist Dr. Patricia McConnell tells us in this remarkable new book about emotions in dogs and in people, more and more scientists accept the premise that dogs have rich emotional lives, exhibiting a wide range of feelings... (more)

The Truth about Dogs: An Inquiry into Ancestry Social Conventions Mental Habits Moral Fiber Canis fami

The Truth about Dogs: An Inquiry into Ancestry Social Conventions Mental Habits Moral Fiber Canis fami

by Stephen Budiansky

Dogs: Man's best friends-or canine con artists? For centuries dogs have stolen our hearts, our homes, and our wallets. Just how do dogs get otherwise reasonable adults to feed them sirloin, let them occupy easy chairs, and generally allow them to regulate our every waking hour? In this provocative, entertaining, and wholly admiring reappraisal of our canine companions, Stephen Budiansky calls upon the latest... (more)

Cephalopod Behaviour

by Roger T. Hanlon

There are about 700 species of cephalopods (including the cuttlefishes, squids, octopods, and the chambered nautilus) living throughout the seas of the world. They are considered to be the most highly evolved marine invertebrates and possess elaborate sense organs, large brains and complex behavior. This book examines such behavior, summarizing field and laboratory data from a wide variety of sources in the... (more)

Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs (Random House Large Print)

Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs (Random House Large Print)

by James Lurie, J. Moussaieff Masson

Dogs fill our hearts with love and our minds with wonder, but their emotional lives have remained unexplored since Darwin 125 years ago. Now in Dogs Never Lie About Love , controversial psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson brilliantly navigates the rich inner landscape of "our best friends." As he guides readers through the surprising depth of canine emotional complexity, Jeffrey Masson draws from myth and literature,... (more)

The Ethology of Domestic Animals: An Introductory Text

The Ethology of Domestic Animals: An Introductory Text

This book provides a basic, introductory, text on the behavior of domestic animals, a subject that is now taught to a wide range of students. Key features include: Chapters on general issues such as behavior genetics, physiology and motivation, and social and reproductive behavor; separate chapters on the behavior of individual farm animal species and on dogs and cats, rabbits and rodents; and authoritative... (more)

Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, Eighth Edition

Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, Eighth Edition

by John Alcock

This new edition of Animal Behavior has been completely rewritten with coverage of much recent work in animal behavior, resulting in a thoroughly up-to-date text. Notable is the inclusion, for the first time, of discussion questions embedded in the text itself, rather than appended to the end of each chapter. This format is designed to encourage students to reflect on the material they have just digested while... (more)

Canine Body Language: A Photographic Guide Interpreting the Native Language of the Domestic Dog

Canine Body Language: A Photographic Guide Interpreting the Native Language of the Domestic Dog

by Brenda Aloff

On Aggression (Routledge Classics)

by Konrad Lorenz

Hugely controversial on publication, this is an insightful and characteristically entertaining survey of animal behavior and the evolution of aggression throughout the animal world.

How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do

How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do

by Stanley Coren

Bestselling author, psychologist, and world-renowned expert on dog behavior and training Dr. Stanley Coren presents the most informative, in-depth, fascinating book yet on dogs. Acclaimed for its solid scientific research and entertaining, eminently readable style, How Dogs Think gives you the insight that you need to understand the silly, quirky, and apparently irrational behaviors that dogs demonstrate, as... (more)

The Other End of the Leash

by Patricia B. McConnell

The Other End of the Leash shares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with dogs, focusing on our behavior in comparison with that of dogs. An applied animal behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell looks at humans as just another interesting species, and muses about why we behave the way we do around our dogs, how dogs might interpret our... (more)

Nudibranch Behavior

by David Behrens

Nudibranchs are among the most beautiful creatures on the reef, with colors and shapes that dazzle and delight. Unlike fish that may disappear before our eyes in a flash, the showy nudibranch glides slowly along the substrate, allowing us the time to savor this extraordinary sight. With their shell-less unprotected bodies how do they survive in seas filled with hungry mouths? How do these sightless creatures... (more)

PEOPLEWATCHING

by DESMOND MORRIS

King Solomon-s Ring: New Light on Animal Ways (Routledge Classics)

King Solomon-s Ring: New Light on Animal Ways (Routledge Classics)

by Konrad Lorenz

A delightful treasury of observations and insights into the lives of all sorts of creatures -- from jackdaws and water-shrews to dogs, cats and even wolves -- this is a wonderfully written introduction to the world of our furred and feathered friends!

Aggression in Dogs: Practical Management, Prevention & Behaviour Modification

Aggression in Dogs: Practical Management, Prevention & Behaviour Modification

by Brenda Aloff

When Elephants Weep : The Emotional Lives of Animals (Wheeler Large Print Book Series (Cloth))

When Elephants Weep : The Emotional Lives of Animals (Wheeler Large Print Book Series (Cloth))

by J. Moussaieff Masson

A study of the complex emotional lives of animals provides fascinating insights into and anecdotes about the existence of animal emotion and offers a compelling analysis of the ways in which humans treat animals. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

Man Meets Dog (Routledge Classics)

by Konrad Lorenz

In this wonderful book, the famous scientist and best-selling author, Konrad Lorenz, "the man who talked with animals," enlightens and entertains us with his illustrated account of the unique relationship between humans and their pets.

Perspectives on Imitation: From Neuroscience to Social Science - Volume 1: Mechanisms of Imitation and Imitation in Animals (Social Neuroscience)

Perspectives on Imitation: From Neuroscience to Social Science - Volume 1: Mechanisms of Imitation and Imitation in Animals (Social Neuroscience)

Imitation is not the low-level, cognitively undemanding behavior it is often assumed to be, but rather—along with language and the ability to understand other minds—one of a trio of related capacities that are fundamental to human mentality. In these landmark volumes, leading researchers across a range of disciplines provide a state-of-the-art view of imitation, integrating the latest findings and theories with... (more)

On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals

On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals

by Turid Rugaas

In this book, Turid identifies what she calls calming signals: "signals used by dogs to prevent things from happening, from avoiding threats from people and dogs to calming down nervousness and fear." Turid goes on to explain how dogs use calming signals, and how we, as dog owners, can use them as well with our own dogs.

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson

I don't know if people will ever be able to talk to animals the way Doctor Doolittle could, or whether animals will be able to talk back. Maybe science will have something to say about that. But I do know people can learn to "talk" to animals, and to hear what animals have to say, better than they do now. --From Animals in Translation Why would a cow lick a tractor? Why are collies getting dumber? Why do... (more)

Culture Clash

by Jean Donaldson

*The Culture Clash is special. Written in Jean's inimitably informal yet precise lecture style, the book races along on par with a good thriller. *The Culture Clash depicts dogs as they really are - stripped of their Hollywood fluff, with their loveable 'can I eat it, chew it, urinate on it, what's in it for me' philosophy. Jean's tremendous affection for dogs shines through at all times, as does her keen... (more)

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For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend

by Patricia B. McConnell

The Truth about Dogs: An Inquiry into Ancestry Social Conventions Mental Habits Moral Fiber Canis fami

by Stephen Budiansky

Cephalopod Behaviour

by Roger T. Hanlon

Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs (Random House Large Print)

by James Lurie, J. Moussaieff Masson

The Ethology of Domestic Animals: An Introductory Text

Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, Eighth Edition

by John Alcock

Canine Body Language: A Photographic Guide Interpreting the Native Language of the Domestic Dog

by Brenda Aloff

On Aggression (Routledge Classics)

by Konrad Lorenz

How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do

by Stanley Coren

The Other End of the Leash

by Patricia B. McConnell

Nudibranch Behavior

by David Behrens

PEOPLEWATCHING

by DESMOND MORRIS

King Solomon-s Ring: New Light on Animal Ways (Routledge Classics)

by Konrad Lorenz

Aggression in Dogs: Practical Management, Prevention & Behaviour Modification

by Brenda Aloff

When Elephants Weep : The Emotional Lives of Animals (Wheeler Large Print Book Series (Cloth))

by J. Moussaieff Masson

Man Meets Dog (Routledge Classics)

by Konrad Lorenz

Perspectives on Imitation: From Neuroscience to Social Science - Volume 1: Mechanisms of Imitation and Imitation in Animals (Social Neuroscience)

On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals

by Turid Rugaas

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson

Culture Clash

by Jean Donaldson