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Our wild calling : how connecting with animals can transform our lives--and save theirs
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- ISBN: 1616205601 :
- ISBN: 9781616205607 :
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Physical Description:
308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Human-animal communication Animals Therapeutic use Human-animal relationships |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Howe Library | 615.85 LOU
Memorial: In memory of Elizabeth French Lathem.
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Our Wild Calling : How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives--And Save Theirs
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Table of Contents
Our Wild Calling : How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives--And Save Theirs
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction: A Mystery | p. 1 | |
| Part 1 | Beautiful Acts: Life-Changing Encounters with Species Not Our Own | p. 5 |
| 1 | In the Family of Animals | p. 7 |
| 2 | The Aching Heart | p. 14 |
| Species Loneliness | p. 16 | |
| An Altered View of Human Exceptionalism | p. 19 | |
| 3 | The Mind-Altering Power of Deep Animal Connection | p. 23 |
| Habitat of the Heart | p. 24 | |
| The Land of Giant Ants, an Unexpected Urchin, and a Moving Protozoan | p. 27 | |
| Crossing Over | p. 31 | |
| 4 | The Octopus Who Stopped Time | p. 33 |
| Time Bending | p. 35 | |
| Resetting Our Sense of Wonder | p. 38 | |
| Part 2 | What the Wild Heart Still Knows: The Art and Science of Communicating with Other Animals | p. 43 |
| 5 | Becoming the Grasshopper | p. 45 |
| Wearing the Shoes of the Snake (Critical Anthropomorphism) | p. 48 | |
| 6 | Intimacy Is All around Us | p. 53 |
| Beyond the Threshold | p. 55 | |
| Have You Ever Seen a Box Turtle Drink? | p. 58 | |
| 7 | Earth's Oldest Language | p. 62 |
| Call and Response | p. 63 | |
| Hanging Out in the Tatooine Cantina | p. 68 | |
| The Song of the Wild | p. 70 | |
| 8 | How to Talk with Birds | p. 74 |
| What the Animals Say | p. 75 | |
| Awakening the Seventh Sense | p. 80 | |
| Back to the Garden | p. 85 | |
| 9 | Playing Well with the Others | p. 86 |
| The Labrador Retriever of Primates | p. 87 | |
| How Elephants Taught Sven Everything He Needed to Know about Business | p. 90 | |
| Part 3 | How We Co-Become: Wohderdogs and Werecats, Therapy Lizards and Robot Pets | p. 95 |
| 10 | More Than Human | p. 97 |
| The Wild, the Domestic, and the Distorted | p. 99 | |
| 11 | The Animal Lover | p. 103 |
| Who's Raising Whom? | p. 104 | |
| The Dog Who Taught Ethics | p. 109 | |
| Homo homini lupus | p. 112 | |
| 12 | Reptiles and Ambivalence | p. 117 |
| Wild Blood Transfusion | p. 119 | |
| Herping, USA | p. 122 | |
| 13 | The Boy Who Said Horse | p. 125 |
| Naomi and Koba | p. 128 | |
| Animal-Assisted Self-Care | p. 133 | |
| Wildlife, Therapy, and the Pet Effect | p. 136 | |
| 14 | The Replacements: Do We Really Need Animals? | p. 142 |
| Digital Dog and the Internet of Cows | p. 144 | |
| Escape from Uncanny Valley | p. 150 | |
| An Alternative Universe | p. 154 | |
| Do They Love Us Back? | p. 156 | |
| Part 4 | The Age of Connectedness: Creating a Home for All Creatures | p. 159 |
| 15 | New Ways to Live Together | p. 161 |
| Notes from the Animal Underground | p. 163 | |
| Can't We All Live Together? | p. 167 | |
| A New Contract for Cohabitation | p. 171 | |
| 16 | The Betweens | p. 174 |
| Arrival of the Neophiles | p. 178 | |
| How Coyotes Conquered America | p. 182 | |
| That'll Be a Caramel Macchiato for Me and an Espresso for the Bear | p. 186 | |
| 17 | Welcome to Symbiocene City | p. 190 |
| Designing for Peaceful Coexistence | p. 191 | |
| Doglandia | p. 195 | |
| Texting Pachyderms and the Bats of Bendigo | p. 198 | |
| The Raccoons Next Door | p. 202 | |
| 18 | The New Noahs | p. 205 |
| Zealandia | p. 210 | |
| Mammoth Thoughts | p. 214 | |
| Lost World Found | p. 217 | |
| Part 5 | Wild Souls: Love, Humility, and the Principle of Reciprocity | p. 223 |
| 19 | Dreaming Animals | p. 225 |
| Avatars, Symbols, and Messengers | p. 226 | |
| The Man with the Crow Tattoo | p. 231 | |
| The Spirit of the Brahminy Kite | p. 235 | |
| In Fire and Smoke | p. 241 | |
| 20 | The Peaceable Kingdom | p. 244 |
| The Right to Be | p. 248 | |
| 21 | Learning and Teaching in a School of Animals | p. 253 |
| Animal Class | p. 255 | |
| Ten Ways to Love the World | p. 258 | |
| An Older Way of Learning | p. 261 | |
| 22 | The Bear | p. 265 |
| Beyond the Horizon | p. 268 | |
| Our Calling | p. 272 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 274 | |
| Notes | p. 275 | |
| Suggested Reading | p. 293 | |
| Index | p. 297 |
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