Our Dogs, Ourselves by Alexandra Horowitz
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, an eye-opening, informative, "entertaining, and enlightening" (BookPage) celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike.We keep dogs and are kept by them. We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. We buy them sweaters, toys, shoes; we are concerned with their social lives, their food, and their health. The story of humans and dogs is thousands of years old but is far from understood. In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex relationship that "dog lovers will savor and absorb" (Shelf Awareness).
As Horowitz considers the current culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs. We celebrate their individuality but breed them for sameness. Despite our deep emotional relationships with dogs, legally they are property to be bought, sold, abandoned, or euthanized as we wish. Even the way we speak to our dogs is at once perplexing and delightful.
In thirteen thoughtful and charming chapters, Our Dogs, Ourselves affirms our profound affection for this most charismatic of animals--and makes us "see canine companions in new ways" (Science News).
Alexandra Horowitz is a professor at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York, where she teaches psychology, animal behavior, and canine cognition. She earned her Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego, and has studied humans, narwhals, bonobos, and dogs. She worked as a Lexikographin at Merriam-Webster and for the New Yorker before starting her academic career. She frequently travels to New York City with her husband, the writer Ammon Shea, her son, and two large dogs who do not accompany her to Fu. Horowitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog (deutsch: What Does a Dog Think?) and proves with her second book that she is one of the most astute observers of our infinitely complicated world.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781501175015 |
| ISBN 10 | 1501175017 |
| Title | Our Dogs, Ourselves |
| Author | Alexandra Horowitz |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
| Year published | 2020-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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