The Underdogs
- Autor: Melissa Fay Greene
- Narrador: Christina Delaine
- Editora: HarperCollins USA
- Duração: 10:33:33
Sinopse
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 dog?”
A thousand state-of-the-art dogs later, Karen Shirk’s 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 “Man’s 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 Karen’s 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.
Capítulos
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001 The Underdogs
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002 Introduction
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003 Chapter 01
Duração: 32min -
004 Chapter 02
Duração: 56min -
005 Chapter 03
Duração: 22min -
006 Chapter 04
Duração: 53min -
007 Chapter 05
Duração: 27min -
008 Chapter 06
Duração: 34min -
009 Chapter 07
Duração: 27min -
010 Chapter 08
Duração: 40min -
011 Chapter 09
Duração: 38min -
012 Chapter 10
Duração: 23min -
013 Chapter 11
Duração: 34min -
014 Chapter 12
Duração: 39min -
015 Chapter 13
Duração: 33min -
016 Chapter 14
Duração: 39min -
017 Chapter 15
Duração: 24min -
018 Chapter 16
Duração: 24min -
019 Chapter 17
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020 Chapter 18
Duração: 36min