Steering the Elephant
Author | : Robert Rector |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Administrative agencies |
ISBN | : 9780876638934 |
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Author | : Robert Rector |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Administrative agencies |
ISBN | : 9780876638934 |
Author | : Susan Nance |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-03-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1421408295 |
How the lives and labors of nineteenth-century circus elephants shaped the entertainment industry. Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior—drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications—to offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus entertainment between 1800 and 1940. By developing a deeper understanding of animal behavior, Nance asserts, we can more fully explain the common history of all species. Entertaining Elephants is the first account that uses research on animal welfare, health, and cognition to interpret the historical record, examining how both circus people and elephants struggled behind the scenes to meet the profit necessities of the entertainment business. The book does not claim that elephants understood, endorsed, or resisted the world of show business as a human cultural or business practice, but it does speak of elephants rejecting the conditions of their experience. They lived in a kind of parallel reality in the circus, one that was defined by their interactions with people, other elephants, horses, bull hooks, hay, and the weather. Nance’s study informs and complicates contemporary debates over human interactions with animals in entertainment and beyond, questioning the idea of human control over animals and people's claims to speak for them. As sentient beings, these elephants exercised agency, but they had no way of understanding the human cultures that created their captivity, and they obviously had no claim on (human) social and political power. They often lived lives of apparent desperation.
Author | : VJ Taylor |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2015-08-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504928253 |
Utburd is the story of a troubled teen who goes to live with her grandmother in Woodland, where her family has lived for over a hundred years. Willa has always been able to see and hear the dead, but Woodland brings that ability to a new level. Willa travels back in time to when her ancestors inadvertently create an Utburd, which will follow her back to her own time.
Author | : Kevin Simler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0190495995 |
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the extent of our selfishness. This is the elephant in the brain. Such an introspective taboo makes it hard for us to think clearly about our nature and the explanations for our behavior. The aim of this book, then, is to confront our hidden motives directly - to track down the darker, unexamined corners of our psyches and blast them with floodlights. Then, once everything is clearly visible, we can work to better understand ourselves: Why do we laugh? Why are artists sexy? Why do we brag about travel? Why do we prefer to speak rather than listen? Our unconscious motives drive more than just our private behavior; they also infect our venerated social institutions such as Art, School, Charity, Medicine, Politics, and Religion. In fact, these institutions are in many ways designed to accommodate our hidden motives, to serve covert agendas alongside their official ones. The existence of big hidden motives can upend the usual political debates, leading one to question the legitimacy of these social institutions, and of standard policies designed to favor or discourage them. You won't see yourself - or the world - the same after confronting the elephant in the brain.
Author | : Robert Rector |
Publisher | : Universe Publishing(NY) |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin E. Ford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1108491650 |
This book integrates evidence from motivational and evolutionary science to explain the essential nature of human motivation. Scholars, professionals, leaders, and students in psychology, education, and business will learn how goal-life alignment and 'thriving with social purpose' can inspire optimal functioning and enhance life meaning.
Author | : David A. Schmaltz |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2003-04-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1605096121 |
Using a familiar metaphor, the creator of True North's Mastering Projects Workshop and Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Project Sun Workshop shows readers how anyone can transform a fuzzy project assignment into a meaningful, satisfying experience.
Author | : Page A. Smith |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2017-08-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1475826257 |
Bullies don’t discriminate. They are equal opportunity abusers. In Bullying from streets to schools: Practical information for those who care, authors Smith and Kearney guide their readers through multiple facets of this growing and pervasive problem. Far beyond other books that simply explore the current research on the topic, Bullying from streets to schools: Practical information for those who care shapes the subject of bullying in both understandable and realistic ways. In chapter after chapter, the authors painstakingly direct their readers through numerous “peaks and valleys” of bullying situations, including the “who, what and where” of the subject. Bullying from streets to schools: Practical information for those who care features detailed information describing the three critical groups most affected by bullying, including perpetrators, victims and bystanders. The authors accompany their readers through home, school, virtual, and workplace environments, and directly relate how these areas influence the potential development of both bullies and victims. The realities of bullying hit home as readers also are provided with an intense glimpse into the mind of a bully though an actual interview. Practical suggestions in the Facts, Feelings and Facilitation sections at the end of each chapter encourage anti-bullying action by both school and community leaders, and a bullying “hotspot” map is included along with research-based suggestions for avoiding confrontations. Unlike other books, which deal in part with the issues surrounding bullying, Smith and Kearney engage readers in thoughtful and comprehensive ways that prompt action.