Author: Dino LingoPublisher: Dino Lingo
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : zh-CN
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Shepherd Who Understood The Language Of The Animals
Author: Dino LingoPublisher: Dino Lingo
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : zh-CN
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Shepherd Who Understood The Language Of The Animals
Author: Dino LingoPublisher: Dino Lingo
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : th
Pages : 25
Book Description
Who Let the Bats Out?
Author: Peter HargitaiPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475971621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In this bat-mad collection of twisted tales, Peter Hargitai lets out all the stops: he is irreverent, funny, and irresistible. Learn about the real Vlad the Impaler and his poor performance on the Hamilton Depression Scale due to Dracula wannabees like Bla Lugosi; goddesses pursuing shepherds hunkering after sheep; straight serpent-like creatures and gay super-heroes; tattooed dragon slayers, medieval shepherds whose lies tell the truth, talking cocks stalking Turkish emperors; an artistic lad who wants to be called Andr and join the Merchant Marine in land-locked Transylvania; a blind princess under the spell of an evil sorceress; a blood countess who wants to be forever young through a combination of Botox and an Iron Maiden. And one damsel who fulfills her impossible dream of becoming a king after a sex-change operation in nearby Serbia. Who Let the Bats Out? Twisted Tales from Transylvania, a hilarious tweaking of folk tales from the Hungarian oral tradition, will make you laugh out loud on every page. They are about fantastical beings as in the story of Hunor and Magor, twin hunters who come to earth like two falling stars, obsessed by the behind of a magical white hind. The elusive creature leads them to a meadow of beautiful moon maidens they are destined to marry were it not for their forbidding pre-nuptials...
Herald of the Star
Author: Studying Animal Languages Without Translation: An Insight from Ants
Author: Zhanna ReznikovaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319449184
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals. To do so, she pursues a fundamentally new approach to studying animal communication and “linguistic” capacities on the basis of measuring the rate of information transmission and the complexity of transmitted messages. Animals’ communication systems and cognitive abilities have long-since been a topic of particular interest to biologists, psychologists, linguists, and many others, including researchers in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. The main difficulties in the analysis of animal language have to date been predominantly methodological in nature. Addressing this perennial problem, the elaborated experimental paradigm presented here has been applied to ants, and can be extended to other social species of animals that have the need to memorize and relay complex “messages”. Accordingly, the method opens exciting new dimensions in the study of natural communications in the wild.
Tales of the Turquoise
Author: Corneille JestPublisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1559399945
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In the early spring of 1961, Dr. Corneille Jest undertook a three-week circumambulation of the valley in the company of Tibetans visiting temples, shrines, and sacred mountains. His companion Karma, an elderly nomad from Western Tibet and a gifted storyteller, punctuated the journey with traditional tales and his own reflections. Charmingly written, colorful, and engaging, the narrative transports the reader to a world of Tibetan spirit in ways not readily accessible to outsiders.
Understanding Animals
Author: Lars SvendsenPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789141877
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How do animals perceive the world? What does it really feel like to be a cat or a dog? In Understanding Animals, Lars Svendsen investigates how humans can attempt to understand the lives of other animals. The book delves into animal communication, intelligence, self-awareness, loneliness, and grief, but most fundamentally how humans and animals can cohabit and build a form of friendship. Svendsen provides examples from many different animal species—from chimpanzees to octopus—but his main focus is on cats and dogs: the animals that many of us are closest to in our daily lives. Drawing upon both philosophical analysis and the latest scientific discoveries, Svendsen argues that the knowledge we glean from our relationships with our pets is as valid and insightful as any scientific study of human-animal relations. With this entertaining and thought-provoking book, animal lovers and pet owners will gain a deeper understanding of what it is like to be an animal—and in turn, a human.
The Laughing Prince
Author: Parker FillmorePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752312467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Laughing Prince by Parker Fillmore
Once Upon a Time
Author: Gyula IllyésPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Laughing Prince: Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales
Author: Parker FillmorePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
"The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales" is a fascinating collection of fairy tales and folk tales, presented by an American folklorist Parker Fillmore to demonstrate the incredible vigor and the artistic inventiveness of the Jugoslav imagination to the western reader. The tradition of the Hungarian folk tales was greatly influenced by Oriental and Northern as well as Slavic myths, which have made it incredibly rich and exciting to the reader of any time—first published in 1921.