The Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love [Large Print] (Paperback)

Melissa Fay Greene

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York, 2016

0062467239 / 9780062467232

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Paperback. From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder.The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age twenty-four by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent, immobile patient, who was turned down by every service dog agency in the country because she was too disabled. Her nurse encouraged her to tone down the suicidal thoughts, find a puppy, and raise her own service dog. Karen did this, and Ben, a German shepherd, dragged her back into life. How many people are stranded like I was, she wondered, who would lead productive lives if only they had a dogA thousand state-of-the-art dogs later, Karen Shirks service dog academy, 4 Paws for Ability, is restoring broken children and their families to life. Long shunned by scientists as a manmade, synthetic species, and oft- referred to as Mans Best Friend almost patronizingly, dogs are finally paid respectful attention by a new generation of neuroscientists and animal behaviorists. Melissa Fay Greene weaves the latest scientific discoveries about our co-evolution with dogs with Karens story and a few exquisitely rendered stories of suffering children and their heartbroken families.Written with characteristic insight, humanity, humor, and irrepressible joy, what could have been merely touching is a penetrating, compassionate exploration of larger questions: about our attachment to dogs, what constitutes a productive life, and what can be accomplished with unconditional love. "Karen Shirk's service dog academy, 4 Paws for Ability, is restoring hurting children and their famililies to life. Melissa Fay Greene tells the stories of children with disabilities, their struggling parents, and their marvelous dogs"--Back cover. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
The Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love [Large Print] (Paperback)
Autore
Melissa Fay Greene
Editore
HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2016
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0062467239
ISBN 13
9780062467232

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