Sentences with phrase «of animal books»
The recommendation of animal books is wonderful.
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This collection of short stories by a National Book award - winning writer, «feature telepathic zoo animals, a zealous toy collector and an eavesdropping Abraham Lincoln,» reports the FT.. Other commentators agree it's a whole lot of fun, while still managing to be moving and insightful.
In the 2003 book «Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex from Animals,» the biologist Marlene Zuk points out that social groups of hens do have «pecking orders.»
Or as Paul Shapiro, vice president of policy at the Humane Society of the United States and author of the forthcoming book Clean Meat, sums up: «It's possible that folks in this field might end up doing more good for animals than what I've done with my life.»
By the end of the book, Animal Farm has been renamed Manor Farm and the ruling pigs are walking on two legs like the humans they overthrew.
In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»
At six, her stance is Like a professional's — she waits her cue Intensely and with no expression, The youngest in the troupe of girls Costumed alike in skirts that flare like bells Embroidered with designs — Abstracted tangled animals and geometric vines — Drawn from the Book of Kells, Hair....
It takes education, knowledge to understand, and one has to have knowledge in hindu Juda ism, filthy secular ism, self center ism to understand book of hindu mithra ism, racist savior ism, called bible, of hindu dark ages, best of secular, self centered are donkeys, one of hindu secular chosen animal, secular.
Which leads me to the question of WHY DO YOU FOLLOW a being known ONLY by a book called the bible in which he drowns EVERY animal and CHILD on the planet for no reason.
@David The Book of Mormon mentions several animals, plants, and technologies that are not substantiated by the archaeological record between 3100 BC to 400 AD in America, including the following: ass, cow, horses, ox, domesticated sheep, swine, goats, elephants, wheat, barley, silk, steel, swords, scimitars, chariots and other elements.
Now he reviews a new book on ethics and writes,» [The author] agrees with what now seems to be a near - consensus among philosophers that «speciesism» - the view that we are entitled to take theinterests of animals less seriously than we take human interests, simply because humans are members of our species - is not a morally defensible position.»
Singer was more responsible than anyone else for making the term «speciesism» known, beginning in 1975 with his highly influential book Animal Liberation and continuing with his widely professed proposal that so - called human non-persons can be killed (infanticide or non-voluntary euthanasia) because of their «lower» moral status.
Today's commonplaces of animal rights discourse — concern about the factory farms, the unnecessary lab experiments on monkeys, the cosmetics tested on rabbits — are familiar because of Singer and the tremendous influence of his book.
Presenting material we've found elsewhere as our own with no credit to the source, in a for - sale book, is an animal of quite a different color.
On the contrary, every time a biblical author sketches the eschaton, humans are on earth using various kinds of cultural goods, cooking meals, living in houses, walking on roads, raising banners, blowing trumpets, using domesticated animals, sitting on chairs, reading books, and so on.
The most important statements of Santayana's later system are Skepticism and Animal Faith, 1923 (SAF), and the four books of Realms of Being (RB); The Realm of Essence, 1927 (RE); The Realm of Matter, 1930 (RM); The Realm of Truth, 1938 (RT); The Realm of Symbols 1940 (RS).
Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»
angel, open, number, lamb, star, book, thunder, dragon (snake), seven, animal, beast, throne, horse, smoke, white, great, repent, temple, conquer, like, wear (clothing), blow («plague»), gate, fire, blow (trumpet), mouth, seal, four, third, vial, voice, thousand, and gold — all of them characteristic of apocalyptic - symbolic writing.
(II Samuel xv - xviii) Again, if we isolate those parts which in our proposed classification would have to be labelled «Religion», some of them do not appear to have any particular relevance to the religious life as it is understood by civilized men in our contemporary world; such as the detailed regulations for the ritual slaughter of animals in the Book of Leviticus.
The first look at sustainability, and how we're supposed to care about the Earth, is in our two favorite books of the Bible: Leviticus and Numbers, where it talks about crop rotation and animal husbandry.
by the way, in either the book of Jasher or Jubilees, it says that animals spoke the same dialect and could communicate with humans.
Sadly, when this approach is applied to the Book of Genesis, the profound theological insights which are communicated through its narratives can be lost, e.g. the stars, animals, plants, etc. in fact all of nature, is part of creation, that is, it is created by God, it is not a god (contrary to the pagan understanding of the natural world).
If this is God's ideal plan for the animal kingdom, it doesn't make sense for the Book of Genesis to allow for the existence of carnivorous beasts, violence and death before the Fall.
There are more picture books about St. Francis of Assisi than any other religious figure, including Christ; Francis» love of animals is rich fodder for an artist.
Decades later, in his latest book, «The Divine Life of Animals,» he briefly describes how he adopted Penny during a family vacation to Mexico.
A tipping point occurred during a sleepy, 9 - a.m. Introduction to World Literature class when my class read the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian poem purportedly written before the book of Genesis, which tells the story of a worldwide flood, a favored family, and an ark full of animals, only with Sumerian gods and heroes at its center instead of the familiar Yahweh.
He'll occasionally ask to play alone, at which point he will go to his room, arrange his stuffed animals, and pull out one of his books from Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, or Mo Willems and «read» to them a story he has memorized.
«Talking snakes», 500 yr old men and one of them called «Noah» with an ark who somehow magically saved all the animals (LOL), «Adam and Eve» in the «Garden of Eden» even though all the proof shows that the human species began in S. East Africa., a planet and universe that was supposedly created in 6 days 6 thousand years ago... thanks, but I have all the proof I need to NOT believe in your twisted book of fairy tales.
As a minor illustration: I have written two books (The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934 and Born to Sing, 1973) which, with all their faults (especially apparent to me in the earlier work), contain pointers, I believe, by which competent investigators might be helped to deal with some problems in psycho - physiology and in the study of animal behavior.
Indeed, her book is representative of all that is good and bad about the current explosion of theological interest in animals.
They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.
«The body,» he continues, «would thus be, not the cause of our thinking, but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and, although essential to our sensuous and animal consciousness, it may be regarded as an impeder of our pure spiritual life.8 And in a recent book of great suggestiveness and power, less well - known as yet than it deserves, — I mean» Riddles of the Sphinx,» by Mr. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, late of Cornell University, — the transmission - theory is defended at some length.9
These and other instances of the oppression of animals have been documented in great detail in numerous books and treatises, especially in the last decade (see Singer, 1985).
Humans are still not evolved much beyond animals — we believe a book that was, literally, cobbled together from several questionable sources all in the name of bringing as many religions together as possible over 2000 years ago.
Rene Descartes, «Animals Are Machines,» in Animals and Christianity: A Book of Readings, ed.
God could had it been both ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...
God could had creation either ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...
I feel most spiritually connected to God and to nature when I am creating art, so this book was an extremely rewarding book for me to illustrate, as it is all about animals enduring storms on the prairie each month of the year.
Professor Celia Deane - Drummond's book, The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human Animals in Human Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human person.
I myself discussed this in 1951 in the first chapter of my book, Learning and Instinct in Animals, and in a number of writings since.
The bible appears to me to be the kind of book my kids should» t read.It recommends killing animals for no reason at all, theft of property, and slaughtering other people.How very nice.These are tht words of God?I highly doubt it, and if they are I want no part of this guy.
Because nonhuman animals are not, by hypothesis, capable of developing such virtues, it is hard to see why a creator who is both omnipotent and benevolent would make them so susceptible to pain (insofar as warning devices are needed, omnipotence could have fashioned nonpainful ones, as pointed out in the book Catch 22).
There is a rather profound section in the «Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy» set of books, where the main character Arthur, upon an awakening because of a human love, feels like he has been a trapped animal, that finds its cage open, with the fields stretching out, beautiful, before him.
The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»
The speculation that it was in a «section on preaching to the «half breeds» / Samaritans» might be some handy way someone sections off that section of the book, but to assume every incident within a certain part of scripture is there like a Science book identifying the phylum and genus of an animal, that is, that everything mentioned under the Raccoon Family is in the Raccoon Family (the ring - tail cat, kinkajou, coatimundi... three other members of the raccoon family), is an assumption that does not seem to apply to the Bible and how it is written... it is more human, and living, and not sterile, everything in its tight little unmovable section, etc..
We had mammal and bird identification books, and I kept a list of what we saw — in all, 16 species of animals and 23 species of birds.
Yes of course I just bought your books, but I only have done some recipes and not read all of the books so I thought there was some particular reason as it is the only animal derivate I could find.
It's actually an adaptation of the DIY animal crackers from my second book, The Secret Lives of Baked Goods, but with a magical upgrade: pink icing and plenty of sprinkles.
This book is a must have for all vegans, and anyone else who wants to discover the ease and practicality of great - tasting, nutritious Pantry Cuisine.Vegan Unplugged also features a concise emergency preparedness section for you, your family, and your companion animals.
In: Book of Abstracts of the 67th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, Wageningen Academic Publisher, The Netherlands, Book of abstracts, no. 22, p. 307.