What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner – completely awake. What It’s Like to Be a Dog will fundamentally reshape how we think about – and treat – animals. Groundbreaking and deeply humane, it is essential listening for animal lovers of all stripes.
Nonfiction
Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans – predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth—and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.