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A carregar... Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spiritpor Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This book was almost perfect for someone like me. It included new learning, one of my favorite things; the facts about animal nature were fascinating. Then there’s the writing. The essays were the perfect length and eloquently written to the point my mouth was wide open in awe at the end of them. Lastly, it was partly memoir and I really like her and related to her. I want to be her friend. The themes were a repetitive towards the end though. ( ) It's easy to see why Deming's Zoologies was a nonfiction finalist for the 2015 Orion Book Award. Each chapter of this book is an essay exploring a different connection between humans and non-human animals with great insight and expertly precise language, and though there is lamentation, there is also hope. For me, one of the most powerful moments of the book was toward the end when Deming wrote, "Ten thousand years from now, I want someone to say of us, 'What amazing courage they had, and what spirit. How smart they were, how inventive—and how profoundly they must have loved Earth.'" I had the pleasure of meeting Alison when she visited Iowa State earlier this year, and she signed my book with this inscription: "In hopes this work feeds your own—" Such simple words, such a simple hope, and it couldn't have been more realized. Read it! sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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"Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our companions in evolution are leaving the world - both as physical beings and spiritual symbols - and not returning. In this collection of linked essays, Alison Hawthorne Deming asks, and seeks to answer: what does the disappearance of animals mean for human imagination and existence? Moving from mammoth hunts to dying house cats, she explores profound questions about what it means to be animal. What is inherent in animals that leads us to destroy, and what that leads us toward peace? As human animals, how does art both define us as a species and how does it emerge primarily from our relationship with other species? The reader emerges with a transformed sense of how the living world around us has defined and continues to define us in a powerful way"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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