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Basically a short version...

Revisado: 04-24-25

of Mcgilchrist's The Master and his Emissary. Read this and everything else Mcgilchrist has written

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A mixed bag...

Revisado: 04-08-25

There is some useful information here about how to deal with farm animals. But beyond that it gets a little dicey. There's all kinds of speculation in which she says "I think" and "I guess" and "I assume" but she says the things that she says with an air of authority that's almost cocky. An example is her absolute insistence that animals think in pictures. How in the world could she know this? Animals function mostly on smell and many have very poor vision, and animals like bats function on echolocation and smell. And yet she makes these broad sweeping insistences that all animals think in pictures and perceive things just like autistic people--?! She also makes all kinds of false dichotomies, forgetting that everything is on a spectrum. Verbal people versus visual people. Autistic people versus "normal" people. People who understand animals and people who don't. (Guess which ones always do and which ones always don't.) She does a whole bit on how cows see fine detail. Specialists in animal perception say the opposite. A cow sees light, shadow and movement primarily, without much detail, and this is why they spook easily. If they had to take the time to concentrate on fine detail, their ancestors would have been eaten alive at every turn. This should be a book about how to handle farm animals on the farm. That's her specialty. But when she starts hypothesizing beyond that, she gets way out of her barnyard.

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This is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read...

Revisado: 03-22-25

Wohlleben shows the infinite complexity and unity of nature in this book. It is a must read

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I thought this was going to be a book about animal communication and language...

Revisado: 03-20-25

These so-called animal communicators use the same mental three-card Monte techniques as the so-called communicators with the dead. Apparently, this woman has found that dogs can spell, know that shoes need to be polished, and that horses can quote Maslowvian humanistic psychology. Oh, and poodles can chat about their former lives. That's a hard one to get wrong. You can make up whatever you want about Egypt or under the sea or whatever it is that you think will most amuse and con the hapless and willfully gullable owner. I was frankly embarrassed for her for most of the book. I'm more embarrassed for the people who fall for this stuff and pay money for it. They do it for the same reason that those with dead relatives do it-- the desperate wish for a miracle and a way to know the unknowable. There's always somebody out there to sell them that. I'll give her one star for her obvious affection for animals and for keeping this nonsense short, but I frankly wish I had the 3 hours back. In my next life as a cockatoo, I'll know not to read this. Cockatoos can't read, you say? Try this book. It's especially written for bird brains.

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Absolutely fascinating...

Revisado: 03-17-25

I bought several more of his books after just a couple of hours of this one. The inquisitiveness of Rupert Sheldrake and the Insight into the lives of animals of Robert Wright. This is great stuff

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Some good stuff...

Revisado: 03-11-25

but also some question begging and circular logic. it's a mixed bag. You're going to get that anytime someone goes in with a prefigured conclusion

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I wish there were more stars to give...

Revisado: 03-06-25

This is a stunningly poetic and beautiful book, an elegy to life and death that everyone should read. The final 45 minutes of the audiobook will leave you most deeply moved.

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Fabulous....

Revisado: 01-26-25

once you get past the now seemingly requisite "woke" chapters. I will be so glad when books can be again published without these awkward and clunky appendages.

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This is a very good book

Revisado: 01-17-25

about tenacity and the will to regain one's place in the world. However, for more insight about the right and left hemispheres, one would do better to read Ian Mcgilchrist's The Master and His Emissary or The Matter with Things

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Great Book

Revisado: 01-12-25

in that is gives proper terms and medical details of the various dementias while still explaining things in simple ways so that a medically unversed family member can still understand. Highly recommended.

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