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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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Alexandra Horowitz
Sami Gray
, October 24, 2014
Like many dog-obsessive people, I find it fascinating to try to imagine how a dog experiences the world. Too often, people err on both ends of a continuum: either denying canine consciousness entirely, or seeing the dog as a short, fuzzy human with Judaeo-Christian moral ideas and post-Freudian neuroses. I think that our relationship with dogs is made possible in part by similarities, but enriched by differences (like the dog's present-centered, deeply sensory and nonverbal way of being). Ethologist Horowitz reviews scientific evidence on the cognitive and perceptual world of dogs, their senses, social behavior, etc., to reach new understandings about the canine umwelt (as she terms it- "world view"). The science is presented in a lively and accessible way, in nicely written accounts of research by Horowitz herself and many others. The scientific material is interspersed with lovely passages that look like excerpts from a journal of close observations of her own dog. Smart and thought-provoking.
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Rin Tin Tin the Life & the Legend
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Susan Orlean, Simon & Schuster
Sami Gray
, January 01, 2012
Like her book The Orchid Thief (inspiration for the film 'Adaptation'), Susan Orlean's new book is in part the story of an obsession. Like the previous book, Rin Tin Tin also weaves together social history, biography, and a personal narrative of the process of researching the story. Orlean illuminates the modern history of social attitudes about dogs, the role of the movies in culture and psyche, the special place that a particular dog may occupy in the life of a person whose connections with humans are problematic, and meditations upon evanescence or transience in the lives of dogs and humans, and in culture. Fascinating, thought-provoking... and highly filmable. Attention, Spike Jonze!
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