Love in Infant Monkeys
Title | Love in Infant Monkeys PDF eBook |
Author | Lydia Millet |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2009-08-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1593763816 |
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
Love at Goon Park
Title | Love at Goon Park PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Blum |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2011-07-05 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0465026060 |
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.
Love in Infant Monkeys
Title | Love in Infant Monkeys PDF eBook |
Author | Lydia Millet |
Publisher | Counterpoint Press |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781593762520 |
The author offers a pandora's box of astringent and sentimental confections through a collection of stories, each featuring that pairing that society seems to both love and loathe: celebrities and animals. By a PEN-USA award winner and an Arthur C. Clarke Prize finalist. Original.
Wire Mothers
Title | Wire Mothers PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Ottaviani |
Publisher | G.T. Labs |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 097880371X |
Recounts the story of Harry Harlow, a psychologist who speculated, explained, and conducted experiments on whether "love" exists, using rhesus monkeys as subjects.
Love in Infant Monkeys
Title | Love in Infant Monkeys PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Frederick Harlow |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 1959* |
Genre | Love |
ISBN |
Love in Infant Monkeys
Title | Love in Infant Monkeys PDF eBook |
Author | Lydia Millet |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2009-09-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1593762526 |
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
That's Not My Monkey
Title | That's Not My Monkey PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Watt |
Publisher | Usborne Pub Limited |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 2008-06-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780794521783 |
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.