Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond
Nothing turns a baby’s head more quickly than the sight or sound of an animal. This fascination is driven by the ancient chemical forces that first drew humans and animals together. It is also the same biology that transformed wolves into dogs and skittish horses into valiant comrades that would carry us into battle. Made for Each Other is the first book to explain how this chemistry of attraction and attachment flows through—and between—all mammals to create the profound emotional bonds humans and animals still feel today.
In this fifteenth volume of American Writers, we offer eighteen articles on American writers of fiction, drama (including film, and poetry; they are all accomplished writers who have displayed many of the virtues, yet none of them has yet been featured in this series. These articles should prove helpful to readers who wish to dig more thoroughly into the work of these writers, so that they can see how each—in his or her own way—has added something of great value to American culture.
Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction
Engaging the Online Learners includes an innovative framework—the Phases of Engagement—that helps instructors become more involved as knowledge generators and cofacilitators of a course.
Considering that this audio book opens with the author detailing the laborious steps necessary just to get out of bed, it's miraculous that Fox's voice sounds just as charming, stalwart and nearly as steady as it did during his long film and television career. There are no frills of any kind with this recording, but none are needed; Fox's tale is engrossing on its own. He pulls no punches describing the hardships that accompanied his diagnosis with Parkinson's, but listeners are quickly reminded that for every challenge the disease brought, Fox trained himself to find the silver lining.
Parties and Policies: How the American Government Works
In this wide-ranging new volume, one of our most important and perceptive scholars of the workings of the American government investigates political parties, politicians, elections, and policymaking to discover why public policy emerges in the shape that it does. David R. Mayhew looks at two centuries of policy making and offers his original insights on the ever-evolving American policy experience.
