Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA during the development of the Space Shuttle, and has taught at treatment centers, hospitals and pain clinics throughout the world, as well as at the Hopi Guidance Center in Arizona. Peter served on the World, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, presidents’ initiative on responding to large scale disasters and ethno-political warfare. His best selling book, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, is published in 20 languages. Lizzie Stewart has written (and drawn!) such a wonderful story - I can't really say any more than that! It brings out the importance of imagination and seeking for things, and the magic that all creates. Plus Jeff is really cool, too! The book is a hunter's story, along the lines of the search for Lobo the Wolf in the American West. It is very similar in tone and respect. Additionally, the book is full of facts about tigers (who can jump from the water like dolphins, who kill bears on princple, and who sound surprising human), facts about Russia, and about animal biolgoy. The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr is for me, a forgotten childhood favorite. The glee of sitting down with my grandfather as he read it to me had slipped my memory until I had to catalog a copy. The illustrations in this book are lovely. The depictions of the characters and the clothes that they are wearing are a little old fashioned and I think this adds to the charm of the story.

The tiger in this book was much less mellow than this tiger I saw at the Saint Louis Zoo, pain-maddened by an encounter with a human poacher.

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The Tiger is the sort of book I very much like and rarely find. Humans are hard-wired to fear tigers, so this book will attract intense interest. Vaillant writes great descriptions of the Amur Tiger protective agents with succinct and poignant details. He was also able to build the locally legendary characters of the area's poachers, even the ones who became the tiger's prey. With forensic evidence, post-mortums of the many hunts and subsequently successful kills by the tiger of man or animal were fully enacted in engrossing action that'll put the chills up your spine. A reminder/warning though: this is not a thrill-a-minute action novel. This is a balanced non-fiction. Be prepared to spend some time, for instance, learning about Russia's Perestroika movement in the 80s or relating the detrimental buffalo slayings of the old American West to the big game hunting that nearly wiped out the tigers of Russia's Taiga. So just beware, you might learn something.

Then there's the issue of credibility. The author bases his views on his practice as therapist. He really does that to the max: there are almost no references to psychological science. No footnotes or endnotes. Typically, when another book is quoted, that book is a work of fiction. I take no issue in taking examples and inspiration from fiction, yet I do take issue in that Levine, despite his dual doctoral degrees, seems completely unconcerned with psychological science. He talks about "energies" which he does not specify, and towards the end, we even discuss "vortices of energy". A vortex of trauma energy and a vortex of healing energy. (Unsurprisingly, no source.) Okay, if you say so? Sometimes functions of the brain are brushed upon, but even that doesn't happen in a pop science, informative way. It's more that Levine is very taken with the more poetical metaphors: he's very taken with our "reptilian brain". He takes quite a bit of inspiration from shamanic practices, but he doesn't spell those out either, so where this book stands is precisely Levine's personal work.Whilst not actuallya tiger, Karl Newson and Ross Collins’ I Am a Tiger is a real crowd pleaser! I have read the entire trilogy to many classes multiple times. The books follow a confused mouse as he tries to convince his friends that he is the eponymous animal from the title. Giggles will never run out when reading them! At 55 it still earns new fans. It’s a brilliant read-aloud that I hope continues to live on for many years to come. But as a parent there are only so many times you can read a favourite before you need to accidentally lose it behind the bed... So, for those families looking for a new favourite to wear out, I recommend these. There is a famous quote: “You can’t understand Russia with your mind,” and the zapovednik is a case in point. In spite of the contemptuous attitude the Soviets had toward nature, they also allowed for some of the most stringent conservation practices in the world. A zapovednik is a wildlife refuge into which no one but guards and scientists are allowed—period. The only exceptions are guests—typically fellow scientists—with written permission from the zapovednik’s director. There are scores of these reserves scattered across Russia, ranging in size from more than sixteen thousand square miles down to a dozen square miles.” Vancouver-based American author John Vaillant’s non-fiction book The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (2010) tells the true story of a man eating tiger that killed many people in Russia. Alongside the story about this tiger, he also talks about the history of his region as well as how science has tried to deal with it. He also talks about environmental issues which threaten these animals’ existence.

One of Britain’s most beloved picture books, The Tiger Who Came to Tea has spent more than a decade thrilling families with its magical stage adaptation. Now returning to the Theatre Royal Haymarket this Olivier Award Nominated smash hit show is the perfect way to spend a day with the family over the Summer holidays. way through. I am left wondering what exactly this 'energy' is that Levine writes about. If it is indeed some sort of energy, then can we find a scanner to find it? Or is it instead not an increase in any type of energy per se (like there is no more water in a pipe system) but that the body isn't regulating the energy any better (the valves are out of sync). The first is that if it is indeed an increase in some form of energy then we can look for it and find it in scans. If it is not a form of energy, then we cannot scan for it. And searching for biomarkers will prove impossible by Levine's own model as he writes that the symptoms in the body manifest in an incredible diverse manner that renders any sort of attempt at screening null. What we have, then, is a wide butterfly net of a label of trauma. Along with what drives much of the illegal trade in tiger-based supplements. The brandname Viagra is derived from vyaaghra, the Sanskrit word for tiger. Hormones control our thinking.This is just a fun-filled story that reminds me of when I used to go to sleep - I'd pretend I was going on adventures AND talk to my teddy bear, George. Emily does something similar, but way more fun! Peter Brown’s Wild Robot is loved by many, but his tiger-based picture book Mr Tiger Goes Wildis a book that many adults will be able to connect with. Mr Tiger lives among a civilised town, but the responsibility of being sensible is wearing thin, so one day he decides to go WILD! What will the other animals think? Food-Based Laughs

In addition to being one of the best books for preschoolers as simple to be repeatedly told, the amazingly illustrated "Tiger" was the main reason why my little nephew loved that book. When faced with a hungry tiger at the door, there are only two things you can do: slam the door and hide, or invite him in and hope for the best. They invite him in. Although polite (in that he doesn't eat them), the tiger is ravenous. He eats and drinks them out of house and home, including drinking all the water out the tap! It isn't surprising that the reflections pertaining to the tiger's umwelt herein are in general accordance with those expressed in the book "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" by Frans de Waal, even those in the book "The Elephant Whisperer" by Lawrence Anthony, and no doubt others. We are all cut from the same cloth, and the ‘all too human’ behavior of man is ‘all too animal.’

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For my first book review I have chosen The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr. This is a story I have read many times for my nephews and for the boy whom I child mind for and they love it. It sounds like the teaser for a trashy thriller but this story really happened. The Tiger is the story of a rogue tiger and it's man-eating ways. The Tiger takes us on a journey to the raw edge of civilization, to a world of vengeful cats and venal men, a world that, in Vaillant's brilliant telling, is simultaneously haunting and enchanting. Some in the village felt sure he had invited his own death by robbing the tiger of its kill. 'It became a bit of a joke,' said one local resident, 'that he brought that meat to his own funeral.' Regardless of their other feelings about tigers, the residents of Sobolonye had great respect for the tiger's intelligence and hunting prowess, and the idea that these powers might be directed against them—at random—was terrifying. This tiger’s presence had cast a pall over the village”