Beyond Words

Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers ... (more)

Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves sort out the aftermath of one pack's personal tragedy, and finally plunge into the astonishingly peaceful society of killer whales living in the crystalline waters of the Pacific Northwest. (less)

"Follow researcher Carl Safina as he treks with a herd of elephants across the Kenyan landscape, then travel with him to... (more)

"Follow researcher Carl Safina as he treks with a herd of elephants across the Kenyan landscape, then travel with him to the Pacific Northwest to track and monitor whales in their ocean home. Along the way, find out more about the interior lives of these giants of land and sea--how they play, how they fight, and how they communicate with one another, and sometimes with us, too. Weaving decades of field research with exciting new discoveries about the brain and featuring astonishing photographs taken by the author, Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel gives readers an intimate and extraordinary look at what makes these animals different from us, but more important, what makes us all similar."--Jacket flap. (less)

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Carl Safina's childhood by the long island shore launched a life-long passion for animals. In his new book, Safina delve... (more)

Carl Safina's childhood by the long island shore launched a life-long passion for animals. In his new book, Safina delves deeply into the lives of animals, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought, and emotion. He delivers a examination of how animals truly think and feel and what really does make us human. (less)

On the same day I lose my job, my house, and all hope for the future, I also lose my journal. And the worst part . . . t... (more)

On the same day I lose my job, my house, and all hope for the future, I also lose my journal. And the worst part . . . the most awful, can't bring myself to say it out loud part is . . . He found it. He read it. And . . . he commented. At the end of his message is an email address and a plea: Contact me. Please. I know better than to trust strangers with candy, but, after a tequila-fueled night, I create a new email address and do just that . . . and the man I discover is overflowing with kindness and humor and depth. Meanwhile, I meet Lucas Hutton-a Marine with scars covering his body, heart, and soul. The chemistry between us is a force of nature. His intensity leaves me reeling. I can't have them both. I have to choose between them before things go too far. I just don't know how I can. (less)

Nothing in successful Berlin lawyer Michael gives away his Polish roots. The sudden appearance of his father, long presu... (more)

Nothing in successful Berlin lawyer Michael gives away his Polish roots. The sudden appearance of his father, long presumed dead, plunges him into existential crisis. After his father leaves, Michael can't return to his life as a German. (less)