Animals in Translation : Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

from exlibrismcp

I was totally hooked from the very beginning of this book. It provides many insights into neuroscience (both animals and human), animal behaviors, and how an autistic person's mind works. Grandin draws on both her personal experience as an autistic and her professional experience as a Ph.d. in An...

from the_awesome_opossum

As a woman with autism, Temple Grandin adds an interesting and important voice to the conversation regarding animal rights and animals' involvement in our lives generally. She suggests that because "normal human beings are built to see what they're expecting to see," it is hard for us to conceptu...

from the_awesome_opossum

As a woman with autism, Temple Grandin adds an interesting and important voice to the conversation regarding animal rights and animals' involvement in our lives generally. She suggests that because "normal human beings are built to see what they're expecting to see," it is hard for us to conceptu...

from donitamblyn

Temple Grandin, PhD, has done something extraordinary: combined her experiences as an animal scientist and an autistic person to give us new insights into the amazing inner world of animals. In her irresistably fun, anecdotal style, Grandin describes the most recent research on the senses, the br...

from folini

This is certainly an interesting book. Temple Grandin is an autistic woman who found a way to apply her specific autistic sensitivity toward the solution of real-world problems. She works as a consultant for slaughterhouse and placed where animals are raised, treated, and killed. She draws parall...