What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage write by Amy Sutherland. This book was released on 2008-02-12. What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life–namely her dear husband, Scott? In this lively and perceptive book, Sutherland tells how she took the trainers’ lessons home. The next time her forgetful husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid car keys, she asked herself, “What would a dolphin trainer do?” The answer was: nothing. Trainers reward the behavior they want and, just as important, ignore the behavior they don’t. Rather than appease her mate’s rising temper by joining in the search, or fuel his temper by nagging him to keep better track of his things in the first place, Sutherland kept her mouth shut and her eyes on the dishes she was washing. In short order, Scott found his keys and regained his cool. “I felt like I should throw him a mackerel,” she writes. In time, as she put more training principles into action, she noticed that she became more optimistic and less judgmental, and their twelve-year marriage was better than ever. What started as a goofy experiment had such good results that Sutherland began using the training techniques with all the people in her life, including her mother, her friends, her students, even the clerk at the post office. In the end, the biggest lesson she learned is that the only animal you can truly change is yourself. Full of fun facts, fascinating insights, hilarious anecdotes, and practical tips, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage describes Sutherland’s Alice-in-Wonderland experience of stumbling into a world where cheetahs walk nicely on leashes and elephants paint with watercolors, and of leaving a new, improved Homo sapiens.
Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched
Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched write by Amy Sutherland. This book was released on 2006-06-01. Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rare and absolutely enchanting look inside the Harvard of wild animal wranglers As is obvious to anyone who has read her most e-mailed New York Times article of 2006, "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage," Amy Sutherland knows a thing or two about animals. In Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, she takes readers behind the gates of Moorpark Community College, where students are taught such skills as how to train a hyena to pirouette and coax a tiger to open wide for a vet exam. As she follows the faculty, student body, and four- footed teaching aides at Moorpark's Exotic Animal Training and Management program, Sutherland produces a true walk on the wild side, filled with wonder, comedy, occasional heartache, and transcendent beauty.
Smile at Strangers
Smile at Strangers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Smile at Strangers write by Susan Schorn. This book was released on 2013. Smile at Strangers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rollicking memoir about the rewards of risk and the surprising facts of safety and self-defense, from a woman who has earned two black belts in her pursuit of living fearlessly.
Teenage as a Second Language
Teenage as a Second Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teenage as a Second Language write by Barbara R Greenberg. This book was released on 2010-10-18. Teenage as a Second Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What are you to do when your cheerful, friendly family members morph overnight into sarcastic, sullen, teens? How can you get through to these hormonally challenged strangers when all you get in return are sighs and eyerolls? Thankfully, this book reveals the groundbreaking strategies you can use to maintain good communication, healthy interaction, and strong connections to your teen, no matter how rocky the road to puberty becomes. You'll learn how to: Let your teens help set the rules--and the consequences for breaking them Realize that "me, me, me!" is actually age-appropriate Put honesty above all else Try not to criticize, judge, or become angry Based on the latest research, this book works as a Rosetta Stone to help you hear what your kids are really saying--and makes sure nothing is lost in translation!
Object Lessons
Object Lessons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Object Lessons write by Ellen Lee McCallum. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Object Lessons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An important contribution to our understanding and interpretation of fetishism and of what fetishism can teach us about sexuality, gender, belief, and knowledge.
