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Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small
Amazon.com Review
Want to learn how to speak the language of critters, large and small? Easy-to-read and understand, Ted Andrews’s bestselling Animal Speak shows readers how to identify his or her animal totem and learn how to invoke its energy and use it for personal growth and inner discovery. Nature lovers will love this insightful compendium, chock-full of touching stories about animals, natural history, and animal folklore. Readers will also learn magical animal rites and how to read omens. Animal Speak includes a dictionary of bird, animal, reptile, and insect totems, which describe each creature’s meaning. For example, if a person’s totem is dragonfly, he or she was most likely excessively emotional and passionate in early years, learning with age to balance it with mental clarity and control. If a dragonfly suddenly shows up in your life, it means you may need to gain a new perspective or make a change. –P. Randall Cohan
Product Description
Open your heart and mind to the wisdom of the animal world.
Animal Speak provides techniques for recognizing and interpreting the signs and omens of nature. Meet and work with animals as totems and spirits by learning the language of their behaviors within the physical world.
Animal Speak shows you how to: identify, meet, and attune to your spirit animals; discover the power and spiritual significance of more than 100 different animals, birds, insects, and reptiles; call upon the protective powers of your animal totem; and create and use five magical animal rites, including shapeshifting and sacred dance.
This bestselling guide has become a classic reference for anyone wishing to forge a spiritual connection with the majesty and mystery of the animal world.
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Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small
Amazon.com Review
Want to learn how to speak the language of critters, large and small? Easy-to-read and understand, Ted Andrews’s bestselling Animal Speak shows readers how to identify his or her animal totem and learn how to invoke its energy and use it for personal growth and inner discovery. Nature lovers will love this insightful compendium, chock-full of touching stories about animals, natural history, and animal folklore. Readers will also learn magical animal rites and how to read omens. Animal Speak includes a dictionary of bird, animal, reptile, and insect totems, which describe each creature’s meaning. For example, if a person’s totem is dragonfly, he or she was most likely excessively emotional and passionate in early years, learning with age to balance it with mental clarity and control. If a dragonfly suddenly shows up in your life, it means you may need to gain a new perspective or make a change. –P. Randall Cohan
Product Description
Open your heart and mind to the wisdom of the animal world.
Animal Speak provides techniques for recognizing and interpreting the signs and omens of nature. Meet and work with animals as totems and spirits by learning the language of their behaviors within the physical world.
Animal Speak shows you how to: identify, meet, and attune to your spirit animals; discover the power and spiritual significance of more than 100 different animals, birds, insects, and reptiles; call upon the protective powers of your animal totem; and create and use five magical animal rites, including shapeshifting and sacred dance.
This bestselling guide has become a classic reference for anyone wishing to forge a spiritual connection with the majesty and mystery of the animal world.
Buy Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small at Amazon
Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of South American Wild Animals
Product Description
Univ. of California, Davis. Features extensive tables, continent-specific division of amphibians, birds, reptiles, and mammals arranged by order, family, and genus. Topics include conservation efforts, diseases in free-ranging populations, and management of animals maintained in captivity. Includes an appendix on drug dosages used in avian medicine. Abundant halftone illustrations.
From the Back Cover
Through clear organization and extensive tables, Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of South American Wild Animals features:
- Continent-specific divisions of amphibians, birds, reptiles, and mammals arranged by order, family, and genus. Where possible, animal names are given in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
- Topics such as conservation efforts, diseased in free-ranging populations, and management of animals maintained in captivity
- Special coverage of general health topics such as nutrition, ophthalmology, and dentistry
- An extensive appendix on drug dosages used in avian medicine
- References for further reading
A must-have for veterinarians, animal healthcare workers, and wildlife biologists, this text is the first compiliation by regional specialists.
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Kinship and Killing: The Animal in World Religions
Review
“Katherine Wills Perlo has turned the traditional discourse on animals and religion inside out. Instead of focusing on the impact of religion on our treatment of animals, she reveals the distortions that our prejudices toward our nonhuman neighbors have had on religious teachings. A remarkable marriage of insightful scholarship and deep compassion, Kinship and Killing is a seminal work that will influence the direction of the debate on religion and animals for decades to come.” — Norm Phelps, author of The Dominion of Love: Animal Rights According to the Bible
Product Description
Through close readings of Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist texts, Katherine Wills Perlo proves that our relationship with animals shapes religious doctrine, particularly through the tension between animal exploitation and the bonds of kinship. She pinpoints four different strategies for coping with this conflict. The first is aggression, in which a divinely conferred superiority or karma justifies animal usage. The second is evasion, which emphasizes benevolent aspects of the human-animal relationship within the exploitative structure, such as the image of Jesus as a “good shepherd.” The third is defense, which acknowledges the problematic nature of killing, leading many religions to adopt a propitiation mechanism, such as apologizing for sacrifice. And the fourth is effective-defensive, which recognizes animal abuse as inherently unethical.
As humans feel more empathy toward animals, Perlo finds that adherents revise their interpretations of religious texts. Preexisting ontologies, such as Christianity’s changing God or Buddhism’s principle of impermanence, along with advances in farming practices and technology, also encourage changes in treatment. As cultures begin to appreciate the different types of perception and consciousness experienced by nonhumans, definitions of reality become complicated and humans lean more toward unitary accounts of shared existence. These evolving attitudes exert a crucial influence on religious thought, Perlo argues, moving humans ever closer to a nonspeciesist world.
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The Forager’s Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
Product Description
A practical guide to all aspects of edible wild plants: finding and identifying them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. Each plant is discussed in great detail and accompanied by excellent color photographs. Includes an index, illustrated glossary, bibliography, and harvest calendar. The perfect guide for all experience levels.
Webster’s New World Thesaurus : Third Edition
Product Description
When you need the right word, right away-turn to Webster’s New World™ Thesaurus
- EASY…Organized alphabetically just like a dictionary, with no confusing number systems.
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- COMPREHENSIVE…Brims with synonyms, antonyms, and phrases other word finders overlook — so you’re never at a loss for words.
- UP-TO-THE-MINUTE…Expanded and updated! Packed with additional listings and synonyms to reflect today’s latest scientific, medical, and other technical terms.
- INDISPENSABLE…Featuring carefully selected antonyms — this is a must-have reference tool that individualizes your writing and makes it come alive.
About the Author
Charlton Laird, first Hilliard Distinguished Professor of the Humanities (University of Nevada, Reno), and holder of both earned and honorary doctoral degrees, has devoted a lifetime to writing and teaching. His mastery and vast knowledge of language are reflected in the pages of Webster’s New World™ Thesaurus.