From the co–author of the New York Times bestseller When Elephants Weep comes a book that uses true stories backed by scientific research to explore the way young animals discover their worlds and learn how to survive.
 How does a baby animal figure out how to get around in the world? How much of what animals know is instinctive, and how much must they learn? 
 In Becoming a Tiger, bestselling author Susan McCarthy addresses these intriguing matters, presenting fascinating and funny examples of animal behaviour in the laboratory and in the wild. McCarthy shows us how baby animals transform themselves from clueless kittens, clumsy cubs, or scrawny chicks into efficient predators, successful foragers, or deft nest–builders. From geese to mice, dolphins to orang–utans, bats to (of course) tigers, McCarthy's warm, amusing, and insightful examinations of animal life and developments provides a surprising window into the mental worlds of our fine fuzzy, furred, finned, and feathered friends.
 oReaders will be fascinated by a close look at animal intelligence, learning, and family life.

Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild

Health, Fitness & Dieting

McCarthy, Susan

Psychology & Counseling

Harper-perennial

It's a jungle out there. And survival is never a given. Somehow, a blind, defenseless tiger kitten must evolve into a deadly, efficient predator; a chimp must learn to distinguish edible plants from lethal poisons; a baby buffalo must be able to pick its mother out of a herd of hundreds. Contrary to common belief, not everything is "hardwired" -- or instinctual -- in the animal kingdom. Many skills a wild animal needs to thrive, to grow, to be what nature intended, must be developed through play, painstaking teaching, and often treacherous trial and error. The coming-of-age processes of the myriad creatures of plain, forest, ocean, and jungle are truly fascinating and often astonishing natural events.
In Becoming a Tiger, Susan McCarthy, co-author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller When Elephants Weep, offers readers an in-depth look into the amazing ways baby animals learn not only about themselves, but about their world and ours -- and how to survive in both. Based on extensive scientific research done in the lab, in controlled "natural" settings, as well as in the wild, her findings provide stunning new insights into the lives and development of Earth's nonhuman inhabitants -- not only tigers, but lions, bears, bats, rats, birds, dolphins, whales, apes, elephants, and dozens of other species.
Sharing stories and discoveries at once captivating, funny, breathtaking, provocative, and heartwarming, Susan McCarthy carries us on a remarkable journey into untamed places, immersing us in the fascinating, complex, and hitherto unimagined societies and cultures of the beasts and birds. Along the way she shines a brilliant new light on subjects scientists, biologists, and zoologists have only begun to explore, revealing startling truths about the behavior, and sometimes humanlike foibles, of creatures great and small.
Warm, informative, and beautifully written, Becoming a Tiger is an enthralling reading experience for animal lovers everywhere. In the transformation tales of playful pups, big-footed cubs, and scrawny chicks becoming deadly hunters, able foragers, and deft nest-builders are valuable and enriching life lessons for members of our own inquisitive, ever-developing species.

Harper

When Elephants Weep: Emotional Lives of Animals

Self-Help

Masson, Jeffrey

Personal Transformation

JONATHAN CAPE.

The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in the province of Yunnan, focusing on the ways in which they have adapted to the government's nationbuilding and minority nationalities policies since the 1980s. She reveals that Chinese government policy is shaped by perceptions of what constitutes an authentic cultural group and of the threat ethnic minorities may constitute to national interests. These minority groups fit no clear categories but rather are practicing both their Chinese citizenship and the revival of their distinct cultural identities. For these groups, being minority is, or can be, one way of being national.Minorities in the Chinese state face a paradox: modern, cosmopolitan, sophisticated people ― good Chinese citizens, in other words ― do not engage in unmodern behaviors. Minorities, however, are expected to engage in them.

Communist Multiculturalism: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China)

History

Asia

University of Washington Press

When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals

Offers 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.

Masson, J.Moussaieff

Dove Entertainment Inc

Engineer Your Way to Success

Business & Money

Natl Society of Professional

Many years ago, prior to the invention of pharmaceutical medications and before the widespread availability of doctors, people were on their own when dealing with sickness and injury. This would have been especially true for families that lived on farms and ranches, a far distance from towns and settlements. Out of necessity, it behooved everyone to know as much as he or she could about coping with accidents, handling illness, and the best ways to maintain strength and good health. It was important to know the foods and herbs that could be used to help heal and cure. Most people had some knowledge of the medicinal plants that were available to them. However, some people had particular interest and skill with herbs and plants. These people would be called upon to help in emergencies. They would be consulted on how best to strengthen the body after sickness or injury. Mary Ann's grandfather was one of these practitioners. For Susan McCarthy, meeting Mary Ann was almost like meeting Mary Ann's grandfather. Although Martinus Andersen had died many years before, he had passed on to his granddaughter the family's knowledge of using food and herbs to promote and maintain good health. Over the years, most families moved away from the old curatives and on to doctors and medicine. Most of that wealth of old information has been lost and forgotten. Fortunately, Grandpa's family has never stopped using their particular arsenal of herbal remedies. For decades, Grandpa's family has managed to produce someone inclined to take up the gauntlet and continue practicing the family's life-enhancing methods for healing with food. With Pomo Power: One Family's Herbal Heritage, that herbal legacy is recorded and shared. In this practical guide, get sensible, do-it-yourself, effective advice on managing and improving your personal health with natural remedies. Find information on relieving everything from anxiety or an upset stomach to colds or arthritis. Get tips for boosting the immune system, enhancing digestion, getting better sleep, improving your memory, taking care of the heart, and enjoying a healthier, more balanced diet. With specific plans included—from the 64-Day Colon Cleanse to The Asparagus Diet—no stone is left unturned in this guide to getting healthy the natural way.

Pomo Power: One Family's Herbal Heritage

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Offers 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

Wheeler Pub Inc

One of our nation’s leading financial advisors and the Soul Authority on Money Management” reveals that while emotions can make financial decisions difficult, our emotional relationship with our money can also lead to not just greater wealth and financial security but amazing personal growth as well. As a financial advisor for the past twenty-five years, Susan McCarthy has firsthand knowledge of the surprising degree to which emotion can govern important financial transactions. But, time and again, she also has seen her clients emerge from challenging financial situations with a newfound sense of purpose in their lives. Says McCarthy: The world of money is a world of emotion; a stage on which we play out all of our dramas. The lessons it has to teach us go well beyond the financial. They reach deep into our emotional and even our spiritual lives. Money is one of our greatest teachers.” According to McCarthy, for many of us the world of money reaches deep into our psyches, setting off fears and uncertainties we often don’t even know we harbor. In The Value of Money, she gives readers the tools they need to see past this tumultuous aspect of money to achieve not just greater wealth and financial security but personal insights as well. Presenting various money types” she has observed in her work, McCarthy helps readers to determine what type (or combination of types) they are and how each typically responds to life’s most challenging financial eventstaking financial responsibility for the care of a child or elderly parent, the death of a spouse, retirement and how to turn around any self-defeating responses to the events. This wise book outlines a path not just to a richer future financially but spiritually as well.

The Value of Money: Uncover the Hidden Wisdom of Money

Personal Finance

Tarcher

Defining Moments gives clear direction on how individuals can plan and execute a Holy Spirit led, faith-based trip of their own. So many tour groups do an excellent job of building travel itineraries along with detailed historical tours. The missing component of these trips has been the Holy Spirit connection for the traveler to experience in their own life. Defining Moments is an essential guide to help travelers transform their faith-based travels from a historical tour to a life-changing spiritual revelation experience: from their head to their heart. It is intended to move people to a Spirit led discovery method of interacting with God's powerful revelation of what happened at a place and how it impacts the traveler's life today, rather than simply a fact-based, historical teaching method. Defining Moments sets out to accomplish several goals: <ul> <li>Encourage people to take faith-based vacations and turn them into defining moments that will shape their lives forever</li> <li>Help people see the real possibility of not just having their heads filled with facts regarding a vacation spot, but to have their hearts shifted and changed in ways they never imagined</li> <li>Teach the practical ways of meeting God in powerful and personal ways that will restore, revive, and re-energize their faith</li> <li>Inform people of the important places in Christian history so they can be strengthened and inspired in their faith</li> </ul>

Defining Moments: The Transformational Promises of Faith Based Travel

McCarthy, Rick

Religion & Spirituality

Mount Tabor Media

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