Overview
With a scientist's mind and an animal lover's compassion, world-renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake presents a groundbreaking exploration of animal behavior that will profoundly change the way we think about animals--and ourselves. How do cats know when it's time to go to the vet, even before the cat carrier comes out? How do dogs know when their owners are returning home at unexpected times? How can horses find their way back to the stable over completely unfamiliar terrain? After five years of extensive research involving thousands of people who have pets and work with animals, Dr. Sheldrake proves conclusively what many pet owners already know: there is a strong connection between humans and animals that defies present-day scientific understanding. Sheldrake compellingly demonstrates that we and our pets are social animals linked together by invisible bonds connecting animals to each other, to their owners, and to their homes in powerful ways. His provocative ideas about these social, or morphic, fields explain the uncanny behavior often observed in pets and help provide an explanation for amazing animal behavior in the wild, such as migration and homing. Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home not only provides fascinating insight into animal, and human, behavior, but also teaches us to question the boundaries of conventional scientific thought, and shows that the very animals who are closest to us have much to teach us about biology, nature, and consciousness.
Full Product Details
Author: Rupert Sheldrake
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Random House Inc
Edition: Updated, Revised ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 13.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.335kg
ISBN: 9780307885968
ISBN 10: 0307885968
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 26 April 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Delightful . . . this book will turn our understanding of animals inside out. -- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep Wonderful . . . splendid and thought-provoking. -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs
Delightful . . . this book will turn our understanding of animals inside out. -- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of <b>When Elephants Weep</b> Wonderful . . . splendid and thought-provoking. -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of <b>The Hidden Life of Dogs</b>
"Delightful . . . this book will turn our understanding of animals inside out."<br>-- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep <br>"Wonderful . . . splendid and thought-provoking." <br>-- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs
Delightful . . . this book will turn our understanding of animals inside out. <br>-- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep<br><br> Wonderful . . . splendid and thought-provoking. <br>-- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs
Delightful . . . this book will turn our understanding of animals inside out. -- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep Wonderful . . . splendid and thought-provoking. -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs
Author Information
Rupert Sheldrake studied natural sciences at Cambridge and philosophy at Harvard, then took a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Cambridge and was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. The author of several books and more than 80 technical papers, he lives in London, England.
