by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson
Overall, this was an interesting and insightful read.My big problem with the book was that it was less scientific than I was expecting. While Grandin does reference various studies, a lot of her ideas are based on anecdotal evidence about animals and people she knows or has heard of. While this make...
I first became aware of Temple Grandin and her work through Monty Roberts; when I took his Join-up workshop, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism was required reading. Grandin uses her unique ability as an autistic woman to see things from the perspective of animals. Her humor and knowledge shi...
This is an interesting and insightful look at some of the ways in which animals think, it made me think about the treatment of animals and how I could help make things better. It advocates looking at things from an animals perspective and thinking about how to make their lives easier. It includes ...
TOGS - G:AUDIO BOOKSNon FictionAnimals in TranslationTeh Blurbz : Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation speaks in the clear voice of a woman who emerged from the other side of autism, bringing with her an extraordinary message about how animals think and feel.Temple's professional training as an a...
A fascinating book for anyone interested in either animal behavior or human behavior. Temple Grandin gives us so many insightful observations on both.
The word "animals" is in the title, but the reader learns a lot about human behavior from this book. The author writes from her own personal perspective of being autistic. I learned from the book that the frontal lobe's ability to screen through all the incoming sensory data to the human brain to q...
This is an interesting and insightful look at some of the ways in which animals think, it made me think about the treatment of animals and how I could help make things better.It advocates looking at things from an animals perspective and thinking about how to make their lives easier. It includes thi...
Grandin is a fine writer, with real insight into the lives of animals of all sorts. i enjoy all her books.
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