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Social Creature
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Author : Tara Isabella Burton
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Social Creature written by Tara Isabella Burton and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Fiction categories.
One of the Best Books of the Year: Janet Maslin, The New York Times Vulture NPR "Social Creature is a wicked original with echoes of the greats (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn)." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, splashed with all the glitz and glitter of New York City. They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them... They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together, when they finish their stories, when they are both great writers-to Paris and to Rome and to Trieste... Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon. Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship. A Talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, this seductive story takes a classic tale of obsession and makes it irresistibly new.
The Social Animal
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Author : David Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-03-08
The Social Animal written by David Brooks and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-08 with Social Science categories.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain’s work gets done. This is the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made—the natural habitat of The Social Animal. Brooks reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. He demolishes conventional definitions of success and looks toward a culture based on trust and humility. The Social Animal is a moving intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. It is an essential book for our time—one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.
A Most Remarkable Creature
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Author : Jonathan Meiburg
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2021-03-30
A Most Remarkable Creature written by Jonathan Meiburg and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-30 with Nature categories.
“Utterly captivating and beautifully written, this book is a hugely entertaining and enlightening exploration of a bird so wickedly smart, curious, and social, it boggles the mind.”—Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Bird Way “A fascinating, entertaining, and totally engrossing story.”—David Sibley, author of What It's Like to Be a Bird An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history. “As curious, wide-ranging, gregarious, and intelligent as its subject.”—Charles C. Mann, author of 1491 In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were "tame and inquisitive . . . quarrelsome and passionate," and so insatiably curious that they stole hats, compasses, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America, sensing a larger story, but he set this mystery aside and never returned to it. Almost two hundred years later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up this chase. He takes us through South America, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana, in search of these birds: striated caracaras, which still exist, though they're very rare. He reveals the wild, fascinating story of their history, origins, and possible futures. And along the way, he draws us into the life and work of William Henry Hudson, the Victorian writer and naturalist who championed caracaras as an unsung wonder of the natural world, and to falconry parks in the English countryside, where captive caracaras perform incredible feats of memory and problem-solving. A Most Remarkable Creature is a hybrid of science writing, travelogue, and biography, as generous and accessible as it is sophisticated, and absolutely riveting.
The Social Lives Of Animals
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Author : Ashley Ward
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-03-01
The Social Lives Of Animals written by Ashley Ward and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-01 with Science categories.
A rat will go out of its way to help a stranger in need. Lions have adopted the calves of their prey. Ants farm fungus in cooperatives. Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal kingdom is ruled by competition? In The Social Lives of Animals, biologist Ashley Ward takes us on a wild tour across the globe as he searches for a more accurate picture of how animals build societies. Ward drops in on a termite mating ritual (while his guides snack on the subjects), visits freelance baboon goatherds, and swims with a mixed family of whales and dolphins. Along the way, Ward shows that the social impulses we’ve long thought separated humans from other animals might actually be our strongest connection to them. Insightful, engaging, and often hilarious, The Social Lives of Animals demonstrates that you can learn more about animals by studying how they work together than by how they compete.
Social Creature
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Author : Tara Isabella Burton
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-21
Social Creature written by Tara Isabella Burton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with categories.
Lavinia a tout - la beauté, la richesse, les amis. Louise n'a rien - ou presque. Leur rencontre va sceller leurs destins - irrémédiablement. Les deux jeunes femmes, courant ensemble les soirées les plus prisées du gotha new-yorkais, se jurent une amitié éternelle - à la vie à la mort. Louise sait que cela ne durera pas. Lavinia, elle, ne sait pas que dans six mois, elle sera morte. Mais vous et moi, nous le savons. Portrait acide d'une amitié toxique au temps des réseaux sociaux, satire glaçante d'un monde de faux-semblants où les êtres n'existent qu'à travers leur image, Social Creature est un thriller psychologique à la mécanique implacable, qui dissèque avec une intelligence redoutable et réjouissante notre époque désenchantée.
Sad Animal Facts
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Author : Brooke Barker
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-09-08
Sad Animal Facts written by Brooke Barker and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-08 with Humor categories.
The New York Times bestseller. A delightfully quirky compendium of the Animal Kingdom's more unfortunate truths, with over 150 hand-drawn illustrations to make you laugh and cry. Have you ever wondered how expensive a jar of honey would be if a minimum wage for bees applied, or whether a dog cares what's on television when they sit next to you? Once you enter Brooke Barker's world, you'll never see animals in the same way again. This melancholy menagerie pairs the sweet and sad facts of animal life with their hilarious thoughts and reactions. Sneakily informative, and beautifully illustrated, Sad Animal Facts by Brooke Barker is the perfect book for animal lovers (and haters) everywhere.
The World Cannot Give
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Author : Tara Isabella Burton
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-03-07
The World Cannot Give written by Tara Isabella Burton and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-07 with Fiction categories.
“The Secret History meets The Price of Salt” (Vogue) in this “equal parts dangerous and delicious” (Entertainment Weekly) novel about queer desire, religious zealotry, and the hunger for transcendence among the members of a cultic chapel choir at a Maine boarding school—and the ambitious, terrifyingly charismatic girl that rules over them. When shy, sensitive Laura Stearns arrives at St. Dunstan’s Academy in Maine, she dreams that life there will echo her favorite novel, All Before Them, the sole surviving piece of writing by Byronic “prep school prophet” (and St. Dunstan’s alum) Sebastian Webster, who died at nineteen, fighting in the Spanish Civil War. She soon finds the intensity she is looking for among the insular, Webster-worshipping members of the school’s chapel choir, which is presided over by the charismatic, neurotic, overachiever Virginia Strauss. Virginia is as fanatical about her newfound Christian faith as she is about the miles she runs every morning before dawn. She expects nothing short of perfection from herself—and from the member of the choir. Virginia inducts the besotted Laura into a world of transcendent music and arcane ritual, illicit cliff-diving and midnight crypt visits: a world that, like Webster’s novels, finally seems to Laura to be full of meaning. But when a new school chaplain challenges Virginia’s hold on the “family” she has created, and Virginia’s efforts to wield her power become increasingly dangerous, Laura must decide how far she will let her devotion to Virginia go. The World Cannot Give is a “hypnotic and intense” (Shondaland) meditation on the power, and danger, of wanting more from the world.
Social Creatures
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Author : Clifton P. Flynn
language : en
Publisher: Lantern Books
Release Date : 2008
Social Creatures written by Clifton P. Flynn and has been published by Lantern Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Nature categories.
In more than thirty essays, Social Animals examines the role of animals in human society. Collected from a wide range of periodicals and books, these important works of scholarship examine such issues as how animal shelter workers view the pets in their care, why some people hoard animals, animals and women who experience domestic abuse, philosophical and feminist analyses of our moral obligations toward animals, and many other topics.
Social Creature
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Author : Tara isabella Burton
language : fr
Publisher: Média Diffusion
Release Date : 2019-03-21T00:00:00+01:00
Social Creature written by Tara isabella Burton and has been published by Média Diffusion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21T00:00:00+01:00 with Literary Collections categories.
" LE CHAÎNON MANQUANT ENTRE BRET EASTON ELLIS ET LE MAÎTRE DES ILLUSIONS. " – Emma Flint Lavinia a tout – la beauté, la richesse, les amis. Louise n'a rien – ou presque. Leur rencontre va sceller leurs destins – irrémédiablement. Les deux jeunes femmes, courant ensemble les soirées les plus prisées du gotha new-yorkais, se jurent une amitié éternelle – à la vie à la mort. Louise sait que cela ne durera pas. Lavinia, elle, ne sait pas que dans six mois, elle sera morte. Mais vous et moi, nous le savons. Portrait acide d'une amitié toxique au temps des réseaux sociaux, satire glaçante d'un monde de faux-semblants où les êtres n'existent qu'à travers leur image, Social Creature est un thriller psychologique à la mécanique implacable, qui dissèque avec une intelligence redoutable et réjouissante notre époque désenchantée. Tara Isabella Burton a suivi une ermite jusqu'au fin fond du Caucase, s'est vue offrir des talismans d'amour par des shamans turcs et a manifesté avec les prêcheurs de rue de Las Vegas. Elle a aussi obtenu un doctorat en littérature française du XIXe siècle et en théologie à l'université d'Oxford. Journaliste, elle partage son temps entre l'Upper East Side de New York et Tbilissi en Géorgie. " La prose est électrique, les personnages éblouissants d'intelligence. Ce roman vous consumera. " Danya Kukafka, auteur du bestseller Girl in Snow " Aussi affûté qu'un miroir brisé... Burton a beaucoup à dire sur les conventions de notre temps. La vivacité des dialogues et un sens de l'humour tranchant mènent irrésistiblement au point de non-retour où Louise doit décider si elle tuera de nouveau, ou pas. " The New York Times Book Review " Une histoire haletante d'amitié toxique poussée à l'extrême sur fond de décadence, de bohème et du glamour sombre de New York. " Elle " Social Creature, sans rien renier de sa singularité féroce, multiplie les clins d'œil aux maîtres du genre, passés et présents (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn)... Ce roman construit un suspense insoutenable autour de la mort de Lavinia. Et ce qu'il adviendra ensuite. " The New York Times
Imperial Creatures
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Author : Timothy P. Barnard
language : en
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Release Date : 2019
Imperial Creatures written by Timothy P. Barnard and has been published by National University of Singapore Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Human ecology categories.
One of the areas of fastest-growing interest in the humanities and social sciences in recent years has been the history of animals. Imperial Creatures fills a gap in that field by looking across species at animals in a urban colonial setting. If imperialism is a series of power relationships, Timothy P. Barnard argues, then it necessarily involves not only the subjugation of human communities, but also of animals. What was the relationship between those two processes in colonial Singapore? How did interactions with animals enable changes in interactions between people? Through a multidisciplinary consideration of fauna, Imperial Creatures weaves together a series of tales to document how animals were cherished, monitored, employed, and slaughtered in a colonial society. All animals, including humans, Barnard shows, have been creatures of imperialism in Singapore. Their stories teach us lessons about the structures that upheld such a society and how it developed over time, lessons of relevance to animal historians, to historians of Singapore, and to urban historians and imperial historians with an interest in environmental themes.