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Animal-assisted Psychotherapy: Theory, Issues, And Practice
by Nancy Parish-PlassThe integration of animals into the therapy setting by psychotherapists has been a growing trend. Psychological problems treated include emotional and behavioral problems, attachment issues, trauma, and developmental disorders. An influential 1970s survey suggests that over 20 percent of therapists in the psychotherapy division of the American Psychological Association incorporated animals into their treatment in some fashion. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the number is much higher today. Since Yeshiva University psychologist Boris Levinson popularized the involvement of animals in psychotherapy in the 1960s, Israel has come to be perhaps the most advanced country in the world in the area of animal-assisted psychotherapy (AAP). This is true especially in the areas of academic training programs, theory-building, and clinical practice. Great effort has been put into understanding the mechanisms behind AAP, as well as into developing ethical guidelines that take into account the therapist s responsibility toward both client and animal. This book exposes the world to the theory and practice of AAP as conceived and used in Israel. It emphasizes evidence-based and clinically sound applications with psychotherapeutic goals, as differentiated from other animal-assisted interventions, such as AAE (animal-assisted education) and AAA (animal-assisted activities), which may have education or skills-oriented goals. Not just anyone with a dog can call him-or herself an animal-assisted therapist. This volume demonstrates not only the promise of animal-assisted psychotherapeutic approaches, but also some of the challenges the field still needs to overcome to gain widespread legitimacy.
Animal-centric Care and Management: Enhancing Refinement in Biomedical Research
by Dorte Bratbo Sørensen, Sylvie Cloutier, and Brianna N. GaskillThe concept of the 3Rs (Refinement, Reduction and Replacement) has been used as a framework for improving the welfare of laboratory animals for the last half century. By establishing an animal-centric view on housing and management, Animal-centric Care and Management: Enhancing Refinement in Biomedical Research takes Russell and Burch’s definition of Refinement as "elimination of inhumanities" and goes further. Rather than fitting animals into experimental conditions, it encourages readers to adjust conditions to better meet the behavioral, emotional, physical, and physiological needs and preferences of the animals. The team of expert authors, from the fields of laboratory animal science, ethology, biology as well as animal training, provide ideas for creating housing conditions and handling procedures that induce, to the best of current abilities and knowledge, a long-term positive state of mind in the animals under our care. This book is written for animal caretakers, animal health technicians, researchers, animal facility managers, laboratory animal veterinarians, and anyone who engages in work with living experimental animals or is interested in the continuous improvement of laboratory animal welfare. This interdisciplinary guide will act as a catalyst, resulting in multiple viewpoints and fields collaborating to optimize laboratory animal welfare.
Animalanzas
by Carlos SilveyraAnimalanzas incluye casi doscientos acertijos de Hispanoamérica, ideales para leer y reir en los ratos libres. Animalanzas incluye casi doscientos acertijos de Hispanoamérica, ideales para leer y reir en los ratos libres.
Animales a bordo: Animals on Board (Spanish Edition) (MathStart 2)
by Stuart J. Murphy“Kids, young and old, fall in love with math when they see how real-life and effortless it becomes thanks to these books.” —Kimberly D. Mueller, Ed.D., First Grade Teacher, Ashbrook School, Lumberton NJThis high-quality Spanish-language book can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers as well as those learning the language, whether at home or in a classroom.Sáobete al camián de Jill y su perro y suma junto con ellos los animales que ven pasar en el camino. Estos animales son muy especiales y van a un lugar que te sorprendera.The MathStart series has sold over 1.5 million copies and combines math with fun stories that have real-life applications. In Animales a bordo, a Level Two MathStart, simple addition equations help children to understand basic arithmetical operations.Math skills are life skills, and the MathStart series supports success!This award-winning series by Stuart J. Murphy teaches math through stories and visual models63 books divided into three levels with 21 books in eachFun activities kids will love are included to help parents and teachers emphasize the lessonsEngaging and relatable stories, with each story revolving around practical applications of the math concept presentedLively art from top-notch illustratorsCharts and other visual representations help children understand how the math works and promote deeper comprehensionMathStart's unique combination of stories, illustrations, and visual models helps teachers and parents in the teaching of math and provides all children with the opportunity to succeed.The math concepts taught in MathStart books conform to state and national standards. Level 1 is Pre-K–Kindergarten; Level 2 is Grades 1–3; Level 3 is Grades 2–4. The series follows math topics across grades so there is a foundational path to learning that runs through the levels.Help kids with their math skills plus their reading skills with the engaging and fun MathStart series!
Animales bebé (¡Arriba la Lectura! Level E #89)
by Heather HammondsNIMAC-sourced textbook <p><p> ¡Mira estos animales bebé! También puedes ver la mamá de cada uno y saber qué hacen juntos.
Animales con armadura (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Level O #57)
by Jill McDougallNIMAC-sourced textbook. Muchos animales tienen una armadura que los protege. Gracias a ella, es más difícil que se conviertan en presa de sus depredadores. Descubre los tipos de armadura: espinas, escamas, caparazón y exoesqueleto.
Animales con armadura para sobrevivir (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Level L #6)
by Stanford MakishiNIMAC-sourced textbook. Los animales silvestres tienen varias maneras de protegerse. ¿Qué tienen en común los puercoespines, las tortugas y los cocodrilos? Lee este libro para enterarte.
Animales de papel
by Emanuele AzzitàUna hoja de papel cualquiera en tus manos y el libro abierto; lee las instrucciones, mira los dibujos y dobla el papel, despacito y con cuidado... verás que, como por arte de magia, ¡la hoja de papel ha desaparecido y tienes ante ti un cisne! (o una rana o el animal que hayas elegido). Así de fácil y de divertida es la papiroflexia. Si practicas con frecuencia, lo harás cada vez mejor y, si además utilizas papeles de colores distintos o pintas tus obras con lápices de colores, pronto podrás tener los animales de tu propio zoo, de tu granja o de tu selva. La papiroflexia es una actividad muy fácil de practicar que, sin más gastos, procura grandes momentos de diversión, y que el padre y la madre podrán compartir con sus hijos e hijas. Ayuda a desarrollar la habilidad manual, la imaginación y la creatividad; mejora la autoestima de los niños y niñas que comprueban que son capaces de crear sus propios juguetes. Usted puede también enseñarles a reciclar el papel usado para sus juegos a la vez que los aleja de la televisión y otras pantallas electrónicas. Emanuele Azzità es un gran experto en papiroflexia que ha publicado varias obras sobre este tema en Editorial De Vecchi. En esta ocasión, se ha propuesto presentar graciosos proyectos, apropiados para los más jóvenes de la casa.
Animales del emprendimiento chileno: Cebras, Unicornios y otras especies
by Marcos Alvo Ronny MajlisHistorias de los más exitosos emprendimientos chilenos del último tiempo, ocupando la taxonomía animal para agruparlos con mucho humor. Cebras, unicornios, camellos, gacelas, cigüeñas y leones. La fauna chilena del emprendimiento es tan amplia como diversa. Los unicornios, la especie de moda, se han convertido en verdaderas estrellas de rock: algunos de sus especímenes, como los fundadores de NotCo y Cornershop, cuyas empresas están avaluadas en más de mil millones de dólares, son retratados por los medios de comunicación como el mejor ejemplo del Chilean Dream. Pero este título no se encarga solo de los animales de moda, sino también de otras especies que han sacado partido de sus características; desde la resiliencia del camello a la agilidad de la gacela, demostrando que existen otros modelos de desarrollo. Los animales del emprendimiento chileno narra las historias de startups que uno ni siquiera pensaría que son chilenos como Crystal Lagoons, Japi Jane y Runway; como también de empresas emergentes con un profundo sentido social como Algramo y Karün. Crónicas llenas de detalles, que no dejan de lado las dificultades propias de emprender. Hay éxitos meteóricos y consolidaciones pausadas, crisis de estrés con pasantías por centros médicos e historias de arduo trabajo y cuestionamientos. ¿Qué motiva a los chilenos a crear una empresa emergente? ¿Qué tienen en común quienes lo hacen? ¿Qué tiene que ver un animal cornudo mitológico con una buena idea? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que se responden a través de las historias de quienes lideran hoy el ecosistema del emprendimiento local.
Animales domésticos
by Alejandra CostamagnaComo silenciosos espectadores de las vicisitudes de la vida cotidiana aparecen los animales domésticos que pueblan este magnífico conjunto de relatos. Se asoman para observar cómo a su alrededor las parejas, las familias, padres e hijos se relacionan ante hechos que los ponen a un paso de la felicidad o la desdicha. Una mujer tiene que decidir si se opera de una enfermedad grave o en definitiva no lo hace. Una pareja en crisis acude de madrugada a una clínica para salvar a un gato. Un hombre solitario encuentra a un perro y no está seguro de si desea devolverlo. Una amante persigue a quien la ha abandonado hasta el otro lado del mundo?Con delicadeza, como si dibujara sobre un papel transparente, Alejandra Costamagna perfila mundos donde el lector se acercará a la extrañeza y la fugacidad de la vida.
Animales habladores: Conversaciones privadas entre seres vivos
by Eva MeijerLos animales hablan. Claro que hablan. El problema es que no los escuchamos. «Un libro fascinante y accesible sobre cómose comunican los animales».The Guardian Los delfines y los loros se llaman entre sí por su nombre; los perros de las praderas describen a los intrusos con todo lujo de detalles - incluidos su tamaño, forma, velocidad y el color de su cabello o de sus camisetas-; a los murciélagos les encanta chismear; en los cantos de algunos pájaros y en los patrones de la piel de los calamares encontramos estructuras gramaticales... Con un poco de suerte, algún día se toparán con un animal que quiera hablar con ustedes, o incluso que se tome el tiempo y el esfuerzo de conocerlos. Si eso ocurre, comprobarán lo mucho que este tipo de relaciones nos enseñan sobre el lenguaje y sobre nosotros mismos. Cada vez son más los hallazgos científicos que demuestran que los animales tienen lenguajes ricos y complejos con reglas estructurales que les permiten diseñar estrategias, dar consejos, mostrarse amor e incluso cotillear. Animales habladores es una fascinante exploración filosófica (en compañía de autores como Aristóteles, Descartes, Wittgenstein y Heidegger) de las formas en que los animales se comunican entre sí y con nosotros, que revela su vida social secreta y sorprendente, cuestiona la jerarquía entre los humanos y el resto de criaturas y propone una nueva forma de entender el lenguaje. La crítica ha dicho:«Un puñado de historias fascinantes y mucho que aprender de ellas... Meijer demuestra que muchos animales son más sofisticados y más inteligentes de lo que creemos».The Spectator «Eva Meijer se ha propuesto redefinir la relación entre humanos y animales. Una visión audaz y progresista de un futuro más justo en el que la humanidad mejora al compartir la Tierra simplemente aprendiendo a escuchar».The Herald Tribune «Fascinante».Daily Mail «Rebosante de anécdotas fabulosamente entretenidas».Strong Words
Animales pequeños que se ocultan (¡Arriba la Lectura! Level E #90)
by Elsie NelleyNIMAC-sourced textbook <p><p> A veces, los animales pequeños están en peligro. Aprende cómo se ocultan, o esconden, para estar protegidos.
Animales que se parecen (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Big Book Unit 2 #7)
by Robin BernardNIMAC-sourced textbook
Animales que viven bajo la tierra (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Level I #61)
by Debbie CroftNIMAC-sourced textbook. Hay muchos animales que viven bajo la tierra, como conejos, ardillas, ranas y lombrices. Aprende cómo viven estos animales.
Animales que viven en el bosque: Osos negros (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Big Book Unit 2 #9)
by JoAnn MackenNIMAC-sourced textbook
Animales: El reino animal como nunca lo habías visto (DK Knowledge Encyclopedias)
by DKEl reino animal como nunca antes lo habías vistoRepleto de ilustraciones en 3D, Animales acerca al lector a un mundo en constante evolución para descubrir cómo vive y cómo se relaciona con su entorno cada habitante del planeta.Animales está lleno de divertidas curiosidades y datos relevantes de especies de todo el reino animal: desde las alas de un espectacular albatros a la majestuosidad del tiburón blanco, el libro es un repaso por todas las especies que conforman cada ecosistema por remoto que sea.Descubre todo tipo de animales, desde la diminuta pulga de agua hasta la gran ballena azul. Observa la vida animal en sus detalles más recónditos: las brillantes escamas del ala de la mariposa, el cortante filo del diente del tigre, el espolón venenoso del ornitorrinco... Aprende cómo se comunican las hormigas, cómo los pingüinos protegen a sus polluelos o por qué cambian de color los camaleones. ¡Prepárate para sumergirte de lleno en el reino animal!
Animali esotici e da compagnia: Un po’ di serenità in una vita stressata… (Come... #31)
by Owen JonesSpero che tu possa trovare queste informazioni utili ed efficaci. Le informazioni contenute in questo ebook riguardano vari aspetti degli animali esotici da compagnia e non, divisi in 20 capitoli da 500-600 parole ciascuno. Spero che questo possa essere interessante per gli amanti degli animali. Ti autorizzo inoltre ad utilizzare il contenuto di quest’opera per il tuo sito internet, blog o newsletter, anche se ti consiglio di rielaborare il tutto con parole tue. Potresti anche suddividere il libro e rivenderne gli articoli, considerando che l’unico diritto di cui non disponi è quello di presentare o rivendere il libro così come ti è stato consegnato.
Animalia
by Graeme BaseAn alphabet book with fantastic and detailed pictures, bearing such labels as Lazy lions lounging in the local library..
Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity (Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law)
by Colleen BoggsColleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. Concentrating on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson, Boggs argues that animals are critical to the ways in which Americans enact their humanity and regulate subjects in the biopolitical state. <P><P>Biopower, or a politics that extends its reach to life, thrives on the strategic ambivalence between who is considered human and what is judged as animal. It generates a space of indeterminacy in which animal representations intervene to define and challenge the parameters of subjectivity. The renegotiation of the species line produces a tension that is never fully regulated. Therefore, as both figures of radical alterity and the embodiment of biopolitics, animals are simultaneously exceptional and exemplary to the biopolitical state. An original contribution to animal studies, American studies, critical race theory, and posthumanist inquiry, Boggs thrillingly reinterprets a long and highly contentious human-animal history.
Animalia: A to Z
by Christal Lorice BaileyThere are so many animals in the world. We have to think about how we as humans are impacting their world. Every animal deserves to survive and thrive, and with human help, they can do so. This book is just a sampling of all the amazing creatures found in the diverse habitats on our beautiful planet Earth.
Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times
by Antoinette Burton and Renisa MawaniFrom yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals—domestic, feral, predatory, and mythical—whose relationship to imperial authorities and settler colonists reveals how the presumed racial supremacy of Europeans underwrote the history of Western imperialism. Victorian imperial authorities, adventurers, and colonists used animals as companions, military transportation, agricultural laborers, food sources, and status symbols. They also overhunted and destroyed ecosystems, laying the groundwork for what has come to be known as climate change. At the same time, animals such as lions, tigers, and mosquitoes interfered in the empire's racial, gendered, and political aspirations by challenging the imperial project’s sense of inevitability. Unconventional and innovative in form and approach, Animalia invites new ways to consider the consequences of imperial power by demonstrating how the politics of empire—in its racial, gendered, and sexualized forms—played out in multispecies relations across jurisdictions under British imperial control. <P><P>Contributors. Neel Ahuja, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Utathya Chattopadhyaya, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Peter Hansen, Isabel Hofmeyr, Anna Jacobs, Daniel Heath Justice, Dane Kennedy, Jagjeet Lally, Krista Maglen, Amy E. Martin, Renisa Mawani, Heidi J. Nast, Michael A. Osborne, Harriet Ritvo, George Robb, Jonathan Saha, Sandra Swart, Angela Thompsell
Animality and Horror Cinema: Creaturely Fear on Film (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)
by Peter Sands Samantha Hind Mo O’ NeillAnimality and Horror Cinema provides a wide-ranging overview of the role played by animals in the genre of horror cinema. Across four sections that unite affective and generic modes of horror with animals, animality, and the discourse of species, the volume demonstrates the multivalent operation of animality in transnational cinemas that look beyond the trope of monstrous adversity associated with the creature feature. With chapters focusing on the extrusion of animals from horror narratives, the multisensorial dimensions of animal horror, the intrusion of documentary violence, and the horrific contiguity of human and nonhuman flesh, it argues for the concept of creaturely fear as a lens through which to read horror&’s blurring of the species barrier. The collection appeals to those interested in the intersection of animal and film studies with memory studies, afropessimism and critical race theory, posthumanism, biopolitics, ecocriticism, queer theory and vegan theory.
Animality and Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity (Routledge Research in Art and Race)
by Elodie SilbersteinThis volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North’s destructive relationship with the natural world. Drawing on a broad spectrum of archives extending back to the late 18th century – paintings, fashion plates, prints, photographs, and films – this study traces the intricate ways a patriarchal imperialism and a global capitalism have paired black women with the realm of nature to justify the exploitation both of people and of ecosystems. These dehumanizing and speciesist strategies of subjugation have perpetuated interlocking patterns of social injustice and environmental depletion that constitute the most salient challenges facing humankind today. Through a novel approach that merges visual studies, critical race theory, and animal studies, this interdisciplinary investigation historicizes the evolution of the boundaries between human and non-human animals during the modern period. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, critical race theory, colonial and post-colonial studies, animal studies, and French studies.
Animality in British Romanticism: The Aesthetics of Species (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)
by Peter HeymansThe scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book’s novel approach focuses on the role of aesthetic taste in the Romantic understanding of the animal. Concentrating on the discourses of the sublime, the beautiful, and the ugly, Heymans argues that the Romantics’ aesthetic views of animality influenced—and were influenced by—their moral, scientific, political, and theological judgment. The study reveals how feelings of environmental alienation and disgust played a positive moral role in animal rights poetry, why ugliness presented such a major problem for Romantic-period scientists and theologians, and how, in political writings, the violent yet awe-inspiring power of exotic species came to symbolize the beauty and terror of the French Revolution. Linking the works of Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Erasmus Darwin, and William Paley to the theories of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Burke, this book brings an original perspective to the fields of ecocriticism, animal studies, and literature and science studies.