King Solomon's Ring: New light on animal ways (Routledge Classics)

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The book gave me an entirely different way of looking at, and in my case, of understanding more deeply than superficially the natural world in which I am privileged to be living. Y mientras sigo con la vista a los gansos, hasta que desaparecen en el próximo meandro del río, volando a escasa altura sobre el agua, me embarga súbitamente la admiración por lo que me es familiar, y que es el nacimiento de toda filosofía. Finalmente, qualche mese dopo averlo acquistato per pochi euro in edizione molto tascabile, lo leggo. Konrad's language is not well served in this somewhat stunted anonymous translation that maintains many of the more stilted and clumsy constructions that are natural to the original German but sound strange to a speaker of English. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

King Solomon's Ring is a general-audience zoological book, written by Austrian scientist Konrad Lorenz in 1949. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. King Solomon was sitting on his throne one morning, And he decided that Benaiah, the captain of the Palace Guard, needed a lesson in humility. The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings. I don't think I've ever found such a profound respect for someone in a book as I have for Lorenz in reading "King Solomon's Ring".Allo stato attuale dell'etologia sicuramente i suoi esperimenti e le sue osservazioni appaiono in parte superate, ma resta comunque un pilastro nello studio del comportamento animale, uomo compreso: istinto, apprendimento, comportamento sessuale, imprinting, organizzazione sociale, rapporto col territorio, aggressività e comportamenti patologici. Ammetto che, estrapolato dal contesto delle inibizioni sociali in cui Lorenz lo inserisce, il paragrafo possa forse sembrare povero, in un certo senso incompleto. With each step ahead and every moment experienced, I feel more and more comfort, security and a clearer sense of direction. A variant form of the "Secret Seal of Solomon", as seen in the 17th-century grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon. Each stunning piece carries with it a world of spiritual wisdom and power that now you can carry wherever you go.

Konrad Lorenz is in truth gifted with a similar power of understanding the ways of the animal world. Benaiahu went and dug a pit lower down the hill, and let the water flow into it[13] and stopped [the hollow] with the fleeces of wool, and he then dug a pit higher up and poured the wine into it[14] and then filled up the pits. I looked him up on the Internet: he won a noble prize in 1973 and changed his focus from animals to people.

Questo libro racconta l'esperienza di uno scienziato, etologo, che studia il comportamento degli animali, soprattutto dei volatili e dei mammiferi. Ed è stupendo vedere un uomo adulto approcciarsi al creato con la meraviglia di un bambino e vivendo ogni scoperta sulla sua pelle, responsabilità comprese. Lorenz's observations about the social structures and habits of these animals are written in laymen's terms with much humor but not lacking scientific insight. He then seated himself on the throne and ruled for forty days, during which time the real king wandered about the country, poor and forlorn.

The seriousness of the last chapter revealing the nature of man and how he wields his weapons without mercy lets the reader reflect on Lorenz's prediction that man will not survive since, unlike the wolf or dog, he has no inhibitions about destroying his own kind. In point of fact I am quite surprised that I have not heard of Konrad Lorenz before this time of over seventy-six years of my life-span - thus far and fortunately, still counting. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. An ancient and mystical symbol that holds meaning for Jews, Christians and Muslims, the Seal of Solomon is believed to be based on the signet ring that was worn by the Biblical King Solomon. Due to the proverbial wisdom of Solomon, it came to be seen as an amulet or talisman, or a symbol or character in medieval magic and Renaissance magic, occultism, and alchemy.

every sensitive reader will agree that the book is a work of humanity, wisdom and balance as well as of delightful humour. Non pretendeva che gli animali capissero, studiava piuttosto come farsi capire da loro, come interagire secondo i loro codici di comportamento e di linguaggio.

I feel like I owe it a better review than I'm going to give it, but I'm not feeling especially inspired to get thoughts from inside my head out in to the internets world. Se siete anche solo un po' più sensibili di me nei confronti degli animali è un libro interessantissimo. The book's title refers to the legendary Seal of Solomon, a ring that supposedly gave King Solomon the power to speak to animals. In reference to that incident, Solomon said, What profit is there to a man in all his labor wherein he laboureth under the sun? The ring will help you accomplish all your plans and will take you to the height of glory along the easiest and optimum path.Secondo me questo libro dovrebbero leggerlo tutti: in parte come chiave di lettura per capire che cosa sia davvero il mondo animale, ma soprattutto per rimanere con i piedi per terra, per capire quali siano le vere differenze tra umano e uomo allontanandosi dall'idea favolesca che dilaga soprattutto tra gli italiani (che non si esaurisce nell'idea del "lupo cattivo", ma si acuisce nel dare adito ad "umanizzare" certi comportamenti meramente animali). International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. Aún así hablo con algunas especies, a las que conozco bien, y no necesito para ello ningún anillo encantado. A legend of a magic ring with which the possessor could command demons was already current in the 1st century ( Josephus [4] (8. In parallel, a first century Greek manual of Judeo-Christian magic known as Testament of Solomon also makes reference to the Seal of Solomon.