Meet the Neighbors
Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World

Brandon Keim's excellent book Meet the Neighbors seems to be one that suffers from a title and cover that don't quite match what is inside. (Though, I do love the subheading phrase "more-than-human worlds.") It's strange that the idiom, "don't judge a book by its cover" is still so popular when it i......more

***I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway*** Meet the Neighbors tackles a broad and complicated subject area. What do animals think and feel and how can we, as humans, better incorporate them into society? I appreciate how the author broke this down in multiple ways. What does the science say? He ack......more

Meet The Neighbors by Brandon Kind If anyone is like me they probably first thought this book was a thriller about devious neighbors and secrets but no this is about our furry and winged neighbors we live so closely with. The author has filled his book with experts court cases and reasons why we sho......more

Deeply empathetic, highly insightful, and very entertaining. This book deepened my understanding of what it must feel like to share a planet with a noisy, destructive, wasteful, murderous, generally pain-in-the-ass species like humans. I will never look at urban wildlife the same way again.......more

Growing up, my grandma would tell me stories of growing up in Oklahoma during the dust bowl. Many of these were stories about animals with whom she’d been close with. She always told me that people underestimated the depth, intelligence, and soulfulness of animals. I remember my family rolling their......more