Between dog and wolf

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Jennifer Arnold

Arnold has always approached the education of dogs with kindness and compassion. And she'd always understood dogs to be uniquely, uncannily attuned to their human companions. She knew that the bond that developed between a person and their service dog was the single greatest predictor of that partnership's success and, conversely, failure to bond brought about anxiety and distress in dogs. But it wasn't until recent scientific findings confirmed her hands-on experience with dogs' intuitive social skills that she was willing to put this bold idea to the test: dogs who bond with us completely and unconditionally will seek to please us and, with minimal cues, can learn to make remarkably sophisticated decisions about their own behavior.

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P. Huerre, M. Pagan-Reymond, J.M. Reymond

L'enfance, l'âge adulte, la vieillesse existent assurément. Mais l'adolescence? S'agit-il d'un passage obligé, fatal, ou bien, au contraire, d'un phénomène socio-culturel qui reflète tous les signes du malaise de plus en plus visible d'un monde en mutation? L'adolescence est, en effet, un concept récent dans l'histoire des hommes. Les sociétés primitives ne le connaissent pas et des sociétés très évoluées -la Grèce, Rome, la France du Moyen Age et des Temps modernes- l'ont ignoré. Mettant en évidence le caractère relatif et artificiel de cet entre-deux-âges par l'observation de ses manifestations et de ses avatars au fil des temps, depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'à nos jours, cet essai montre que l'on assiste à une mise en scène de l'adolescence où ce sont tour à tour (ou simultanément) la nature, l'Etat, la famille, la religion, l'économie, la démographie, les concepts éducatifs ... qui lui décrivent son rôle.

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Konrad Z. Lorenz

Based on a translation of Vergleichende Verhaltensforschung, with revisions. Bibliography: p. [347]-362. Includes index.

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Anita Brookner

I have come to believe that there can be no adequate preparation for the sadness that comes at the end, the sheer regret that one's life is finished, that one's failures remain indelible and one's successes illusory.' Elizabeth and Betsy are old school friends. Born in 1948 and unready for the sixties, they had high hopes of the lives they would lead, even though their circumstances were so different. When they meet again in their thirties, Elizabeth, married to the safe, older Digby is relieving the boredom of a cosy but childless marriage with an affair. Betsy seems to have found real romance in Paris. Are their lives taking off, or are they just making more of the wrong choices without even realising it?