Love In Infant Monkeys

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593762526
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in Infant Monkeys written by Lydia Millet and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals and celebrities share unusual relationships in these hilarious satirical stories by an award-winning contemporary writer. Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants—all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Thomas Edison, and David Hasselhoff. Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of our fascination with famous people and pop culture in a wildly inventive collection of stories that “evoke the spectrum of human feeling and also its limits” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review). While in so much fiction animals exist as symbols of good and evil or as author stand-ins, they represent nothing but themselves in Millet's ruthlessly lucid prose. Implacable in their actions, the animals in Millet’s spiraling fictional riffs and flounces show up their humans as bloated with foolishness yet curiously vulnerable, as in a tour-de-force, Kabbalah-infused interior monologue by Madonna after she shoots a pheasant on her Scottish estate. Millet treads newly imaginative territory with these charismatic tales. “These incredibly crafted stories, with their rare intelligence, humor, and empathy, describe the furious collision of nature and science, man and animal, everyday citizen and celebrity, fact and fiction. Lydia Millet’s writing sparkles with urgent brilliance.” —Joe Meno

Author : Kari Schuetz
Publisher : Bellwether Media
ISBN 13 : 1612117627
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baby Monkeys written by Kari Schuetz and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monkey babies are clingy children, hanging on to mom or dad for dear life. Some infants hug dad's belly. Others ride on mom's back. After you make your way through this book, you will be attached to the little creatures yourself!

Author : Deborah Blum
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465026060
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love at Goon Park written by Deborah Blum and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this meticulously researched and masterfully written book, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum examines the history of love through the lens of its strangest unsung hero: a brilliant, fearless, alcoholic psychologist named Harry Frederick Harlow. Pursuing the idea that human affection could be understood, studied, even measured, Harlow (1905-1981) arrived at his conclusions by conducting research-sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrible-on the primates in his University of Wisconsin laboratory. Paradoxically, his darkest experiments may have the brightest legacy, for by studying "neglect" and its life-altering consequences, Harlow confirmed love's central role in shaping not only how we feel but also how we think. His work sparked a psychological revolution. The more children experience affection, he discovered, the more curious they become about the world: Love makes people smarter. The biography of both a man and an idea, The Measure of Love is a powerful and at times disturbing narrative that will forever alter our understanding of human relationships.

Author : Taro Miura
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452173524
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hello, Love! written by Taro Miura and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do animals show their love? By touching trunks, beaks, and noses! Toddlers will delight in adorable pairs of fish, ducklings, elephants, and monkeys as they splash, swim, dance, and swing, all while showing affection. Author-illustrator Taro Miura brings a playfulness and verve to this love-affirming board book, which culminates in the ultimate celebration of love: a child embraced by loving parents.

Author : Jim Ottaviani
Publisher : G.T. Labs
ISBN 13 : 097880371X
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wire Mothers written by Jim Ottaviani and published by G.T. Labs. This book was released on 2007 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the story of Harry Harlow, a psychologist who speculated, explained, and conducted experiments on whether "love" exists, using rhesus monkeys as subjects.

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593763190
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Happy Life written by Lydia Millet and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the opening of My Happy Life, the unnamed narrator has been abandoned in a locked room of a deserted mental hospital. She hasn't seen the nice man who brings her food in days; so she's eaten the soap, the toothpaste, and even tried to eat the plaster on her walls — a dietary adventure that ended none too well. This woman's story, covering decades and spanning continents, is tragic, yet she is curiously at peace, even happy. Despite a lifetime of neglect, physical abuse, and loss, she's incapable of perceiving slight or injury. She has infinite faith in the goodwill of others, loves even her enemies, and finds grace and communion in places most people wouldn't dare to brave. Lauded by both critics and readers, My Happy Life consistently surprises and excites with its original vision of a unique woman whose rich interior life protects her from the horrors of external reality.

Author : Robert M. Sapolsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743260163
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monkeyluv written by Robert M. Sapolsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays by a leading neurobiologist and primatologist share the author's insights into behavioral biology, including discussion of the physiology of genes and the factors that shape human social interaction.

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393635481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fight No More written by Lydia Millet and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve interlocking stories set in Los Angeles describe a broken family through the homes they inhabit. In her first story collection since Love in Infant Monkeys, which became a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Lydia Millet explores what it means to be home. Nina, a lonely real-estate broker estranged from her only relative, is at the center of a web of stories connecting fractured communities and families. She moves through the houses of L.A.’s wealthy elite and finds men and women both crass and tender, vicious and desperate. With wit and intellect, Millet offers profound insight into human behavior from the ordinary to the bizarre: strong-minded girls are beset by the helpless, myopic executives are tormented by their employees, and beastly men do beastly things. Fresh off the critical triumph of Sweet Lamb of Heaven (longlisted for the National Book Award), Millet is pioneering a new kind of satire—compassionate toward its victims and hilariously brutal in its depiction of modern American life.

Author : Parragon
Publisher : Parragon
ISBN 13 : 9781445432519
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hello Monkey written by Parragon and published by Parragon. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello Monkey, I can see you%u2026 through a rumbly jungle maze. Monkey may seem far away but you can follow him from the jungle floor to the treetops in the sky. With a peek-a-boo holes, sweet rhyming text, and a special, sparkly surprise. %u2013cover verso.

Author : Fiona Watt
Publisher : Usborne Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780794521783
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That's Not My Monkey written by Fiona Watt and published by Usborne Pub Limited. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers may touch various surfaces on monkeys that are not the one someone is looking for, until at last the right one appears. On board pages.