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The dolphin house / by Schulman, Audrey,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Based on the true story of the 1965 "dolphin house" experiment, this spellbinding novel captures the tenor of the social experiments of the 1960's in award-winning author Audrey Schulman's tightly paced and evocative style. It is 1965, and Cora, a young, hearing impaired woman, buys a one-way ticket to the island of St. Thomas, where she discovers four dolphins held in captivity as part of an experiment led by the obsessive Dr. Blum. Drawn by a strong connection to the dolphins, Cora falls in with the scientists and discovers her need to protect the animals. Recognizing Cora's knack for communication, Blum uses her for what will turn into one of the most fascinating experiments in modern science: an attempt to teach the dolphins human language by creating a home in which she and a dolphin can live together. As the experiment progresses, Cora forges a remarkable bond with the creatures, until her hard-won knowledge clashes with the male-dominated world of science. As a terrible scandal threatens to engulf the experiment, Cora's fight to save the dolphins becomes a battle to save herself.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Animals; Deaf; Dolphins; Human-animal communication; Nineteen sixties; Science; Women;
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Secrets of ancient Egypt [videorecording] / by Barrie, David,director.; Coles, Phil,producer.; El-Baz, Farouk,performer.; Hale, Christopher,director.; Hawass, Zahi A.,performer.; Landin, Bo,producer,director,screenwriter.; Stoepel, Beatrix,producer.; Athena (Firm),film distributor.; KBYU-TV (Television station : Provo, Utah); Scandinature Film.; TV4 (Sweden);
disc 1. Secrets of the pharaohs: a quest for ancient DNA / written, produced, and directed by Bo Landin ; Oasis of the golden mummies / directed by Christopher Hale -- disc 2. Secrets of the sands / directed by David Barrie ; The sacred animals of the pharaohs / produced by Phil Coles and Beatrix Stoepel.Zahi Hawass, Farouk El-Baz.Bordered by the banks of the Nile River and the edges of the Sahara, Egypt developed one of the world's earliest advanced civilizations. For millennia, after the pharaohs fell and sand reclaimed the Sphinx, the mysteries of this ancient people have fascinated scientists and laymen alike. Four documentaries about the pyramids, mummies, and mysteries of ancient Egypt. Programs included: Secrets of the Pharaohs; Oasis of the Golden Mummies; Secrets of the Sands; and Sacred Animals of the Pharaohs.E.DVD, 16:9 widescreen and 4:3 full screen presentations ; Dolby Digital stereo, Dolby Digital mono.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Egyptology.; Historical television programs.; Mummies; Pharaohs.; Pyramids;
© c2014., Athena,
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Decoding your dog : the ultimate experts explain common dog behaviors and reveal how to prevent or change unwanted ones / by Dale, Steve,1957-; Horwitz, Debra.; Ciribassi, John.; American College of Veterinary Behaviorists.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-334) and index.The top dog behaviorists in the country - the top researchers, scientists, and veterinarians - have teamed up with a renowned media personality to create the most cutting-edge, scientifically accurate, definitive book on the most popular behavioral issues that dogs face.LSC
Subjects: Dogs; Dogs; Human-animal communication.;
© 2014., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
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The monarch effect : surviving poison, predators, and people / by Church, Dana L.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Rivers of Butterflies -- Baby Monarchs and barfing Blue Jays -- Where do they go? -- More to the story -- Squabbling scientists -- Secrets of the forest -- Tracking migration -- Tracking more than migration -- Monarch "smarts" -- Monarchs around the world-- Monarch emergencies -- Living near the Monarchy -- Conclusion: more than a butterfly."With their stunning black-and-orange wings, monarch butterflies are one of the most recognizable insects on the planet. But despite their delicate beauty, these creatures are warriors. The moment they hatch, they're fighting for their lives. Everything is the enemy: from the very leaf they live on to the humans and animals around them to nature itself. How does such a tiny egg survive to become a butterfly? And even after emerging from the cocoon, unimaginable danger awaits: migration. Every year, monarchs take flight, making one of the greatest migrations in the world. However, for a long time, their destination was unknown within the scientific community. Through the research of scientists in Canada and the United States and the support and efforts ofordinary people as well as Indigenous knowledge in Mexico, that mystery was finally solved. But to do so would involve years of searching across three countries and encounters with feuding scientists, the consequences of colonialism, and life-and-death stakes"--
Subjects: Monarch butterfly; Monarch butterfly; Monarch butterfly;
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Show me science. [videorecording] : how they live, learn & communicate / by Allegro Productions (Firm); TMW Media Group.;
As mammals, humans and dolphins share a number of important biological characteristics. Both species are warm-blooded, have body hair, breathe air, give live birth and nurse their young. But is it possible that we have more in common? Do they like us? Can they reason and solve problems? Just how intelligent are these gentle marine mammals? In this program, join marine scientists from Florida to Hawaii who are trying to answer these and other questions about dolphins by studying how they live, learn and communicate.G.DVD.
Subjects: Children's films.; Dolphins.; Educational films.; Human-animal relationships.; Marine mammals.; Video recordings for children.;
© c2012., TMW Media Group,
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NOVA wonders [videorecording] / by Klein, Larry(Producer),producer,screenwriter,film director.; Williams, Talithia,on-screen presenter.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.),broadcaster.;
Talithia Williams, host.Originally broadcast on television in 2018.Explores the capabilities of science and the workings of the human mind.Reporting from the frontiers of science, follow researchers on the winding paths of uncertainty and the unknown. From the mysteries of astrophysics to the technologies that could rival or surpass the abilities of the human mind, the series reveals how far humans have come, how they've managed to get here, and the remarkable scientists who are transforming the world and the future.E.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Television mini-series.; Documentary television program.; Educational television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Science television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Science.;
For private home use only.
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The ultimate book of reptiles : your guide to the secret lives of these scaly, slithery, and spectacular creatures / by Somaweera, Ruchira.; Drimmer, Stephanie Warren.;
"Get ready to sink your fangs into the hidden worlds of reptiles with leading reptile scientist and National Geographic Explorer Dr. Ruchira Somaweera as your guide! Between the pages of this book, readers will get up close and personal with the coolest cold-blooded animals ever. From lizards to snakes, turtles to crocodiles, something called a tuatara, and even enormous prehistoric reptiles (think: real-life sea monsters!), they'll discover what makes a reptile a reptile, how these different species live, hunt, hide, raise their young, and what wild adaptations they have that make them so unique and, well, a little bit strange at times!"--
Subjects: Reptiles;
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Bitch : on the female of the species / by Cooke, Lucy,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."It's a tale as old as time: the philandering man wants to chase sex with whomever, wherever, and at all costs-and to avoid supporting his offspring at all costs, too-while leaving a long-suffering wife to clean up his mess. You can find the idea in comedians' routines, inane self-help books, and any number of movies, novels, and television shows. It almost all comes from evolutionary biology and psychology, and the tale boils down to this: Females are naturally submissive, passive, and maternal, while males are necessarily dominant, competitive, and promiscuous. And as Lucy Cooke shows in Bitch, it's almost completely wrong. In its place, Cooke offers a new vision of the female sex: depending on which one you choose, you can find females that are inherently as promiscuous, competitive, strategically cooperative, ardent, aggressive, dominant, dynamic, complex and variable as evolutionary psychology's stereotypical male. So how did the idea of the passive female get so entrenched? Tracing biology from Darwin to today, Cooke shows how the men behind breakthrough theories in evolution have infused their ideas with a massive dose of societal sexism. Cooke surfs the work of two generations of feminist evolutionary biologists, showing how they've pushed back against the blinkered views of evolution's founding fathers to reveal the true diversity of nature. She meets with pioneering scientists--Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Jeanne Altmann, Mary-Jane West-Eberhard, Patricia Gowaty and more--following their work around the globe. From the dominant female lemurs of Madagascar to same-sex female albatross couples in Hawaii to female killer whale elders in the Salish sea, Cooke takes us on a journey through a side of nature that's much less binary, less heterosexual, and less sexist than we have been led to expect. Fierce, funny, and revolutionary, Bitch is a scientific manifesto that shows us an entirely new perspective on what it means to be a female animal, with serious implications for all of us today"--
Subjects: Females; Psychology, Comparative.; Sexual behavior in animals.; Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Social behavior in animals.; Women.; Women;
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Embrace fearlessly the burning world : essays / by Lopez, Barry Holstun,1945-2020,author.; Solnit, Rebecca,writer of introduction.; Lopez, Barry Holstun,1945-2020.Essays.Selections.;
"This collection represents part of the enduring legacy of Barry Lopez, hailed as a 'national treasure' (Outside) and "one of our finest writers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) when he died in December 2020. An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture in all its forms, Lopez lost much of the Oregon property where he had lived for over fifty years when it was consumed by wildfire, likely caused by climate change. Fortunately, some of his papers survived, including four never-before published pieces that are gathered here, along with essays written in the final years of his life; these essays appear now for the first time in book form. Written in his signature observant and vivid prose, these essays offer an autobiography in pieces that a reader can assemble while journeying with Lopez along his many roads. They unspool memories at once personal and political, including tender, sometimes painful stories from Lopez's childhood in New York City and California; reports from the field as he accompanies scientists on expeditions to study animals; travels to Antarctica and some of the most remote places on earth; and to life in his own backyard, adjacent to a wild, racing river. He reflects on those who taught him: the Indigenous elders and scientific mentors who sharpened his eye for the natural world--an eye that, as the reader comes to see, missed nothing. And with striking poignancy and searing candor, he confronts the challenges of his last years as he contends with the knowledge of his mortality, as well as with the dangers the Earth-and all of its people--are facing"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Essays.; Travel writing.; Personal narratives.; Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-2020; American essays.;
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Dinosaurs at the dinner party : how an eccentric group of Victorians discovered prehistoric creatures and accidentally upended the world / by Dolnick, Edward,1952-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the early 1800s the world was a safe and cozy place. But then a twelve-year-old farm boy in Massachusetts stumbled on a row of fossilized three-toed footprints the size of dinner plates-the first dinosaur tracks ever found. Soon, in England, Victorians unearthed enormous bones-bones that reached as high as a man's head. No one had ever seen such things. Outside of myths and fairy tales, no one had even imagined that creatures like three-toed giants had once lumbered across the land. And if anyone had somehow conjured up such a scene, they would never have imagined that all those animals could have vanished, hundreds of millions years ago. The thought of sudden, arbitrary disappearance from life was unnerving and forced the Victorians to rethink everything they knew about the world. Now, in Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the first half of the 19th century puzzled their way through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today. The tale begins with Mary Anning, a poor, uneducated woman who had a sixth sense for finding fossils buried deep inside cliffs; and moves to a brilliant, eccentric geologist named William Buckland, a kind of Doctor Doolittle on a mission to eat his way through the entire animal kingdom; and then on to Richard Owen, the most respected and the most despised scientist of his generation. Entertaining, erudite, and featuring an unconventional cast of characters, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party tells the story of how the accidental discovery of prehistoric creatures upended humanity's understanding of the world and their place in it, and how a group of paleontologists worked to bring it back into focus again"--
Subjects: Dinosaurs; Paleontologists; Paleontology;
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