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Princesas de lemur de cola anillada : gobernantes de la tropa / by Jaycox, Jaclyn,1983-author.(CARDINAL)413908;
"Chillido! Una hembra de lemur de cola anillada grita fuerte. Es una advertencia para que un intruso se mantenga alejado. Las hembras lideran tropas de lemures de cola anillada. Cazan, defienden sus territorios y cuidan a sus crias. Observa de cerca a los lemures de cola anillada y los importantes roles que desempenan las princesas para garantizar la supervivencia de una tropa. Screech! A female ring-tailed lemur screams loudly. It is a warning for an intruder to stay away. Females lead ring-tailed lemur troops. They hunt, defend their territories, and care for young. Take a close look at ring-tailed lemurs and the important roles princesses play to ensure a troop's survival."--Provided by publisher.Ages 5-8Grades 2-3
Subjects: Ring-tailed lemur; Social hierarchy in animals; Social behavior in animals; Animal societies; Spanish language materials.;
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Motivation of human and animal behavior; an ethological view / by Lorenz, Konrad,1903-1989.(CARDINAL)277847; Leyhausen, Paul.(CARDINAL)325198;
Lorenz, K. The comparative study of behavior.--Leyhausen, P. Introduction to the study of impression. The relationship between drive and will in its significance to educational theory. Theoretical considerations in criticism of the concept of the "displacement movement". The discovery of relative coordination: a contribution toward bridging the gap between physiology and psychology. A comparison between territoriality in animals and the need for space in humans. On the choice of a sexual partner by animals. Social organization and density tolerance in mammals. On the function of the relative hierarchy of moods (as exemplified by the phylogenetic and ontogenetic development of prey-catching in carnivores). On the natural history of fear. The biology of expression and impression.--Bibliography (p. 387-404).
Subjects: Psychology, Comparative.;
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Design in nature : how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organization / by Bejan, Adrian,1948-(CARDINAL)287352; Zane, J. Peder.(CARDINAL)283632;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.The birth of flow -- The birth of design -- Animals on the move -- Witnessing evolution -- Seeing beyond the trees and the forest -- Why hierarchy reins -- The fast and long meets the slow and short -- The design of academia -- The golden ratio, vision, cognition, and culture -- The design of history.Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow--
Subjects: Pattern formation (Physical sciences);
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Chaucer's England / by Childress, Diana.(CARDINAL)392109;
Includes bibliographical references (page) and index.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400;
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In the shadow of man / by Goodall, Jane,1934-author.(CARDINAL)130152; Lawick, Hugo van,1937-photographer.(CARDINAL)323912;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287) and index.Beginnings -- Early days -- First observations -- Camp life -- The rains -- The chimps come to camp -- Flo's sex life -- The feeding station -- Flo and her family -- The hierarchy -- The growth of the research center -- The infant -- The child -- The adolescent -- Adult relationships -- Baboons and predation -- Death -- Mother and child -- In the shadow of man -- Man's inhumanity -- Family postscript.Jane Goodall's account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologist Louis Leakey suggested that a long-term study of chimpanzees in the wild might shed light on the behavior of our Stone Age ancestors. Accompanied by only her mother and her African assistants, she set up camp in the remote Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanzania. For months the project seemed hopeless; out in the jungle from dawn until dark, she had but fleeting glimpses of frightened animals. At last came the day when she was accepted and no longer feared. She was able to record previously unknown behavior, such as the use--and even the making--of tools, until then believed to be an exclusive skill of man. As she came to know the chimps as individuals, she deciphered their complicated social hierarchy, their rituals, and many other extraordinary behaviors, which have forever changed our understanding of the profound connection between humans and chimpanzees.1220L
Subjects: Harwood, Myla.; Hopkins, Priscilla and John.; Chimpanzees; Mammals;
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The story of a goat / by Perumāḷmurukan̲,author.(CARDINAL)807272; Kalyan Raman, N.,translator.(CARDINAL)813825;
"In his brilliant new novel, Perumal Murugan paints a bucolic yet menacing portrait of the rural lives of India's farming community through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands. A farmer in Tamil Nadu is watching the sun set over his village one evening when a mysterious stranger, a giant man, appears on the horizon. He offers the farmer a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive. The farmer and his wife take care of the young she-goat, whom they name Poonachi, and soon the little goat is bounding with joy and growing prodigiously. Intoxicating passages from the goat's perspective offer a bawdy and earthy view of animal existence and a refreshing portrayal of the natural world. But Poonachi's life is not destined to be a rural idyll-dangers lurk around every corner, and may sometimes come from surprising places, including a government that is supposed to protect the weak and needy. With allegorical resonance for contemporary society and examining hierarchies of caste and color, The Story of a Goat is a provocative but heartwarming fable from a world-class storyteller"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Drama.; Goats; Social classes; Rural families;
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Queer and trans voices : achieving liberation through consistent anti-oppression / by Brueck, Julia Feliz,author,editor.; McNeill, Zoie Zane,author,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references."What does it mean to work towards our liberation? How can we center and make space for ourselves and others? How is nonhuman animal liberation part of our own fight for queer rights? With a focus on building bridges between movements and dismantling hierarchies between oppressed groups through consistent anti-oppression, Queer and Trans Voices: Achieving Liberation Through Consistent Anti-Oppression follows the concise and to-the-point style of resource activist and author Julia Feliz Brueck. In this volume, Feliz Brueck and queering activist-scholar Zoie (Zane) McNeill collaborate to raise the voices of LGBTQIA+ vegans across the world working to acknowledge the interconnections between social justice groups in order to consistently and effectively achieve liberation for all." -- Amazon.com
Subjects: Interviews.; Gay liberation movement.; Sexual minorities; Gay rights.; Social movements.; Sexual minorities; Transgender people; Social justice.; Veganism.; Animal rights movement.; Transgender people; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.; Gay rights.; Social movements.; Transgender people.;
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Yemen / by Hestler, Anna,author.(CARDINAL)654452; Robinson, Peg,author.(CARDINAL)803453; Spilling, Jo-Ann,author.(CARDINAL)496698;
Geography -- The land -- Weather -- Plants -- Animals -- Urban centers -- History before Islam -- The fall of the kingdoms -- Islam -- The Ottoman Empire -- The British occupation of South Yemen -- The second occupation -- The Zaidi imamate -- The Yemen Arab Republic -- The PDRY (People's Democratic Republic of Yemen) -- Unification -- Post-unification Yemen -- The breakdown -- The Houthi coup d'état-- Government -- The Republic of Yemen -- Constitution -- Governmental structure -- Law -- Civil war -- Economy -- The challenge -- Agriculture -- Women in agriculture -- Resources -- Manufacturing -- Energy -- Environment erosion and desert -- Water -- Climate change -- Destruction of environment -- Yemeni's population statistics -- Arabs -- The loss of Yemeni Jews -- Social hierarchy -- Rural and urban life -- Men's wear -- Women's wear -- Lifestyle cultural values -- Time for pleasantries -- The Yemeni family -- Children -- Arranged marriages -- School -- Tower houses -- Education -- Health care -- Religion -- the Prophet Muhammad -- Sunni and Shia -- Holy texts -- The pillars -- Mosques -- Prayer and daily life -- Language -- Arabic -- Alphabet and numerals -- Script -- Speech -- Body -- Language -- Free press -- Arts -- Poetry : the great art -- Arabic calligraphy -- Architecture -- The art of building -- Design and decoration -- Silversmithing -- Dance -- Music -- Leisure -- Yemeni games -- Yemeni sports -- Public bathhouses -- Men's social groups and Qat parties -- Women's social groups -- Festivals -- Religious events -- Ramadan -- Feasts -- Non-religious holidays -- National unity -- Farm festivals -- Getting married -- Food cuisine -- Kitchens -- Cooking -- Meals -- Table manners -- Favorites -- Map of Yemen.A book for young readers about the history and culture of the country of Yemen.6+.Accelerated Reader AR
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Pain : a very short introduction / by Boddice, Rob,author.(CARDINAL)801602;
1.Pain concepts -- 2.Pain and piety -- 3.Pain and the machine -- 4.Pain and civilization -- 5.Sympathy, compassion, empathy -- 6.Pain as pleasure -- 7.Pain in modern medicine and science -- 8.Chronic pain -- 9.Cultures of painIn this 'Very Short Introduction', Rob Boddice explores the history, culture, and medical science of pain. Charting the shifting meanings of pain across time and place, he focusses on how the experience and treatment of pain have changed. He describes historical hierarchies of pain experience that related pain to social class and race, and the privileging of human states of pain over that of other animals. From the pain concepts of classical antiquity to expressions of pain in contemporary art, and modern medical approaches to the understanding, treatment, and management of pain, Boddice weaves a multifaceted account of this central human experience. Ranging from neuroscientific innovations in experimental medicine to the constructionist arguments of social scientists, pain is shown to resist a timeless definition. Pain is physical and emotional, of body and mind, and is always experienced subjectively and contextually.
Subjects: Pain; Pain; Pain;
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Freely determined : what the new psychology of the self teaches us about how to live / by Sheldon, Kennon M.(Kennon Marshall),author.(CARDINAL)860826;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Why free will matters -- The problems with determinism -- The grand hierarchy of human reality -- The source of our free will -- If we're free, why don't we feel free? -- Untangling the mysteries of the symbolic self -- Finding the symbolic self in the brain -- The problem of too much freedom -- What brings happiness -- The digital self -- The creative process of living -- Epilogue: Living well together."For centuries, philosophers have debated the question of free will. Do we make our own choices? Or are we more like rudderless ships drifting on the ocean, buffeted by winds and currents outside ourselves? In TK, research psychologist Ken Sheldon revealsthat the way we answer these questions has serious implications for our wellbeing. We may never know for certain whether free will exists, Sheldon argues, but recent studies have found that believing in free will matters-indeed, it's an essential component of psychological health. Freely Determined offers an argument for embracing our capacity to choose our own destiny, and a guide for how we might recognize our freedom and use it wisely. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work on motivation, as well as recent research in personality science and social psychology, Sheldon shows us that far from being in the thrall of animal urges and unconscious biases, we humans are constantly making conscious choices: whether to eat the nachos or the salad, whether to shoot the basketball or pass it to a teammate, whether to take that job or marry that person or write that novella. Indeed, over decades of research, Sheldon has established that seeing ourselves as change-makers in our own lives, and in the world, helps us feel happier and even behave more ethically. By identifying and pursuing our deepest values, he argues, we can set and achieve meaningful goals, ones that will help us and our communities flourish. Offering readers insight into how they can live a moreself-directed, satisfying life, Freely Determined demystifies the science of choice and reveals that we are radically free to live with greater purpose"--
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Free will and determinism.; Psychology.;
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