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A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of RabidOver just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffering... Read More about Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals

"Submersion journalism" happens when a reporter dares to see a story from the inside: to participate in the events at hand, sometimes undercover, and then to tell the tale from a distinct point of view rather than pretend to some ideal of objectivity. During the Bush years, Harper's correspondents i... Read More about Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine

The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. In this critically acclaimed exploration from the authors of Our Kindred Creatures, journalist Bill Wasik and... Read More about Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

"Submersion journalism" happens when a reporter dares to see a story from the inside: to participate in the events at hand, sometimes undercover, and then to tell the tale from a distinct point of view rather than pretend to some ideal of objectivity. During the Bush years, "Harper's" correspondents... Read More about Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine

A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim--and with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It's a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from ou... Read More about Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim--and with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It's a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from ou... Read More about Rabid Lib/E: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus