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    <body><![CDATA[This realization sometimes strikes me as a faintly surreal discovery. It is not me I remember striding the touchline in Tuscaloosa; it is the wolf that walked beside me.  It is not me I remember at the party, it is the wolf that sat beside me and the pretty girls that approached me because of this. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53905462">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a great introduction to animal rights and philosophy for the new non-fiction addict. Rowlands has a wonderful style of writing, probably more suited to fiction than philosophy. As a recently converted vegetarian and humanist, this book was very well received. <br/><br/>My only critiqu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53994534">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating story about a man's relationship with his pet wolf that's really about the relationship between man (as in &quot;hu&quot;) and wolves (as in &quot;animals&quot;). What elevates the book is Rowland's ability --- thanks to his academic training --- to put relatively quotidian issues like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68009236">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was hoping this would be like <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4804840.Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance_An_Inquiry_into_Values_P_S_" title="Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance  An Inquiry into Values (P.S.) by Robert M. Pirsig">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</a> with wolves, and I wasn't disappointed. Ethical and philosophical concepts and questions are put into context by the irresistible, magnetic presence of Brenin the wolf.<br/><br/>It's tempting to skip the philosophy and flick...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63571334">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought I would really like this, since I do think there is something special about human-animal communication, but the author invalidates his own arguments by admitting he doesn't &quot;get&quot; human to human relationships, which I think means has Asperger's Syndrome. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Neither a book of philosophy, nor a book on Wolf ethology, this book is unique and breathtaking. An account of a philosophy professor who acquired a wolf cub (not that I agree with this decision, but I don't agree with what Hitler did either - there are still things we learned, though) and his trave...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61865006">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book fits into so many categories: biography, philosophy, biology, zoology, dog training. I was fascinated by Rowlands' comparisons between wolves and dogs, his ponderings on lupine evolution vs. ape evolution, and indeed, lupine nature vs. ape nature. There is so much to take in here, but at t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59249773">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[one of the best! A man raises a wolf and discover hard truths or  keen insight from his wolf brother Brenin. Rocks, eternal reurn Sysphus  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not that great. It's all about a Malamute dog that this guy thinks is a wolf. It is not, that alone discouraged me from reading the entire book. ]]></body>
    
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