When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals - Hardcover

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385314256 ISBN 13: 9780385314251

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1995

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Texto en inglés. Tapa dura con sobrecubierta de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Muy Buen estado de conservación.This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as 'a masterpiece' by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as 'marvelous' by Jane Goodall. The popularity ofWhen Elephants Weephas swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared onDateline NBC, Good Morning America,and was profiled inPeoplefor his ground-breaking and fascinating study. Not since Darwin'sThe Expression of Emotions in Man and Animalshas a book so thoroughly and effectively explored the full range of emotions that exist throughout the animal kingdom. From dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas to spiteful killer whales, Masson and coauthor Susan McCarthy bring forth fascinating anecdotes and illuminating insights that offer powerful proof of the existence of animal emotion. Chapters on love, joy, anger, fear, shame, compassion, and loneliness are framed by a provocative re-evaluation of how we treat animals, from hunting and eating them to scientific experimentation. Forming a complete and compelling picture of the inner lives of animals,When Elephants Weepassures that we will never look at animals in the same way again. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Full of fascinating anecdotes, a ground-breaking study offers compelling proof of the reality of emotions throughout the animal kingdom and evaluates humans' treatment of animals--from hunting to eating them--in light of this discovery. 25,000 first printing. $35,00 ad/promo. BOMC. First serial, Cosmopolitan. Tour.

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l bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.

The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, and was profiled in People for his ground-breaking and fascinating study. Not since Darwin's The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals has a book so thoroughly and effectively explored the full range of emotions that exist throughout the animal kingdom.

From dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas to spiteful killer whales, Masson and coauthor Susan McCarthy bring forth fascinating anecdotes and illuminating insights that offer powerful proof of the existence of animal emotion. Chapters on love, joy, anger, fear, shame, compassion, and loneliness are framed by a provocative re-evaluation of how we treat animals, from

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385314256
• ISBN 13: 9780385314251
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 291