About this title: This inquiry begins with the puzzle of sibling relations. Why are individuals from the same family little more similar in personality than people from different families? Why doesn't a shared family environment lead to similar values and beliefs? Sulloway suggests a fresh way of understanding how family affects individual development. Among ...
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553273960ISBN:0553273965
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 30th Anniversary Edition with a new preface by the author.164 pgs in gd condition w/some wear on edges and "physical science" written inside front & back covers. The incredible true story of life among Arctic wolves. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group (P)
ISBN-13:9780553203318ISBN:0553203312
Description: Very Good. 0553203312 100% guaranteed. Very good shape with a tight spine, creased spine, creased cover, bent corners on cover, yellowing pages, and light shelf wear. We work hard to make you happy. read more
Description: Very Good. 0553236245 100% guaranteed. Very good shape with a tight spine, creased spine, creased cover, bent corners on cover, yellowing pages, clean pages, and light shelf wear. We work hard to make you happy. read more
Description: Good. 100% guarantee! Good condition with a tight spine, yellowing pages, clean pages, bumped cover, worn cover, creased spine, creased cover, and general shelf wear that is typical for a good condition used book. January 1971, 11th printing. We work hard to make you happy. read more
Description: Very Good. 0553273965 100% guaranteed. Very good shape with a tight spine, creased spine, creased cover, yellowing pages, clean pages, personalized inside, and light shelf wear. We work hard to make you happy. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Laurel Edition, New York
Date Published: 1976
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The book is very solid with unmarked pages. The cover is aging with minor shelf & edge wear. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780553236248ISBN:0553236245
Description: Good in Unknown jacket. Good to Very Good 0553236245 Tight spine, some cover and edge wear and no markings. "Now a major motion picture from Walt Disney Productions. The spellbinding bestseller. The incredible true story of life among Arctic wolves. " Non-fiction (#12754) read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553236248ISBN:0553236245
Description: Good. 0553236245 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in good condition, varying degrees of shelf wear, some spine creases, m..._ read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780770421373ISBN:0770421377
Description: Good. 0770421377 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in good condition, varying degrees of shelf wear, some spine creases, m..._ read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., New York
Date Published: 1973
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Good clean flat paperback with only very light overall wear. pages clean and unmarked though lightly toned. read more
"I absolutely loved this book. My first surprise was the sense of humor behind Mowat. This is the first book of his that I have read and it won't be the last. (I didn't see this movie). I laughed out loud at many of his quirky mannerisms and never expected to see a man of science so entertaining. His details of his experience are unbelievable bringing the reader right into the midst of his observations. He is able to deliver his message of compassion to these misunderstood animals to a wider audience. Although I don't recommend cohabitation with any wild animals, I don't believe it necessary to seek out to hurt any either. Highly recommend."
"The folly of man's senseless fear of and cruelty towards wolves has been proven baseless for generations. The family bonds they hold dear put those of man to shame; that they perform a necessary function of strengthening the health of their prey is beyond dispute. Why then, is the senseless cruelty of these noble creatures permitted - even rewarded by bounties - by man? Mowat, charged by his governmental employers with proving wolves' bloodlust, finds the tranquil harmony with which they lead their lives endearing. Indeed, Mowat yearns to experience firsthand what he learns from wolves in this 1963 work."
"Who doesn't think of the scene in the movie when the young man is naked in the caribou stampede! I'm excited to be reading this for the first time. Like his The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, the language is sophisticated - a good change of pace! I was amazed to see that the RL is 7 -- but that's the time of my reading life that it takes me back to. My, how times have changed.
Great book. Easy to read, loaded with 7th and 8th grade science content!
"After enduring a childhood where trading a life with humans for a life with animals poses an attractive proposition, Mowat becomes a biologist and embarks as the official representative for the Canadian government to study Arctic wolves for a season.
His task is to study the wolves' migratory and predation patterns, with the underlying assumption that wolves were the primary driver for the decimation of Canada's caribou herds.
Rolling onto the tundra as a newly minted biologist, Mowat convinces himself that since biology is reportedly the study of life, he needs to be where life is in order to study it. Not in a laboratory, not from a helicopter, but on the ground, mere yards from the den of an Arctic wolf family. And there he spends the majority of a year, observing, watching, noting and eventually, admiring.
As is now fairly well known, he discovered that wolves -- these predators of famed ferocity, fearlessness, bloodlust and appetite -- subsisted mainly on mice, fish and the odd sick, lame, or aged caribou thrown in. The wolves' notice of humans seems to function only to calibrate their varying levels of indifference and disdain.
Written with healthy servings of self-deprecation (for both himself and Western humanity as a whole), Mowat's chronicle of his immersion into wolf life bubbles with humor but just beneath the surface lies a streak of anger and sadness that recognizes any official reports he files with the Canadian Wildlife Service will do nothing to change the image of the wolf in the eyes of those with the guns, the traps, the cyanide and the power."
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