Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life With Autism - Rilegato

Grandin, Temple

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ISBN 10: 0385477929 ISBN 13: 9780385477925

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1995

Riassunto

Celebrated for her unique empathy for animals, the subject of Oliver Sacks's An Anthropologist on Mars describes her life with autism and how she has used her strong visual sensibility to cope with it. 20,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Temple Grandin is currently an assistant professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University.

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ing subject of Oliver Sack's Anthropologist on Mars, here is Temple Grandin's personal account of living with autism extraordinary gift of animal empathy has transformed her world and ours.



Temple Grandin is renowned throughout the world as a designer of livestock holding equipment. Her unique empathy for animals has her to create systems which are humane and cruel free, setting the highest standards for the industry the treatment and handling of animals. She also happens to be autistic. Here, in Temple Grandin's own words, is the story what it is like to live with autism. Temple is among the few people who have broken through many the neurological impairments associated with autism. Throughout her life, she has developed unique coping strategies, including her famous "squeeze machine," modeled after seeing the calming effect squeeze chutes on cattle. She describes her pain isolation growing up &qu

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385477929
• ISBN 13: 9780385477925
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 222
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile