Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Grandin, Temple; Johnson, Catherine

ISBN 10: 0151014892 / ISBN 13: 9780151014897

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

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New in new dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed ?To Judy? by author Grandin on the title page.1st edition, 1st printing; complete number line. New, unread copy with dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. From Wikipedia: Grandin is an ?academic and animal behaviorist. She is a prominent proponent for the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior. Grandin is a consultant to the livestock industry, where she offers advice on animal behavior, and is also an autism spokesperson.? She is the subject of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning biographical film ?Temple Grandin.? She is the Double Helix Medal-, Ashoka Fellowship- , and World Organisation for Animal Health Meritorious Achievement Award-winning author of ?Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions? and ?Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior?. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151014892
• ISBN 13: 9780151014897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs.

In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel.Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest lifeâ on their terms, not ours.

Itâ s usually easy to pinpoint the cause of physical pain in animals, but to know what is causing them emotional distress is much harder.Drawing on the latest research and her own work,Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals.Then she explains how to fulfill them for dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, and zoo animals.Whether itâ s how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day, how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising,Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures.

Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience.

This is essential reading for anyone whoâ s ever owned, cared for, or simply cared about an animal.

About the Author

TEMPLE GRANDIN earned her Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois and went on to become an associate professor at Colorado State University. She is the author of four previous books, including the national bestsellers Thinking in Pictures and Animals in Translation. Grandin spearheaded reform of the quality of life and humaneness of death for the world’s farm animals. Through her company, Grandin Livestock Systems, she works with the country’s fast-food purveyors to monitor the conditions of animal facilities worldwide. She lectures widely on both animal science and autism.

 

CATHERINE JOHNSON, Ph.D., is a writer specializing in neuropsychiatry and the brain. She cowrote Animals in Translation and served as a trustee of the National Alliance for Autism Research for seven years. She lives with her husband and three sons—two of whom have autism—in New York.