{"title":"Brandon Keim","description":"Brandon Keim is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, WIRED,  National Geographic News, Aeon, Nautilus, Scientific American Mind, The Guardian, Audubon Magazine, Grist, Mother Jones, Conservation, NOVA, and Anthropocene.","products":[{"product_id":"meet-the-neighbors-animal-minds-and-life-in-a-more-than-human-world-paperback","title":"Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoneybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has exploded, making it indisputably clear that the cities and landscapes around us are filled with thinking, feeling individuals besides ourselves. But the way we relate to wild animals has yet to catch up. In \u003cem\u003eMeet the Neighbors\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed science journalist Brandon Keim asks: what would it mean to take the minds of other animals seriously?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this wide-ranging, wonder-filled exploration of animals' inner lives, Keim takes us into courtrooms and wildlife hospitals, under backyard decks and into deserts, to meet anew the wild creatures who populate our communities and the philosophers, rogue pest controllers, ecologists, wildlife doctors, and others who are reimagining our relationships to them. If bats trade favors and groups of swans vote to take off by honking, should we then see them as fellow persons--even members of society? When we come to understand the depths of their pleasures and pains, the richness of their family lives and their histories, what do we owe so-called pests and predators, or animals who are sick or injured? Can thinking of nonhumans as our neighbors help chart a course to a kinder, gentler planet? As Keim suggests, the answers to these questions are central to how we understand not only the rest of the living world, but ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beguiling invitation to discover an expanded sense of community and kinship beyond our own species, \u003cem\u003eMeet the Neighbors\u003c\/em\u003e opens our eyes to the world of vibrant intelligence just outside our doors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376938025183,"sku":"9781324110439","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NiA8SdRkXY9781324110439.webp?v=1789229008"},{"product_id":"the-eye-of-the-sandpiper-stories-from-the-living-world-paperback","title":"The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Eye of the Sandpiper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful.\u003c\/b\u003e In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay Gould, and David Quammen, reporting from the frontiers of science while celebrating the natural world's wonders and posing new questions about our relationship to the rest of life on Earth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Eye of the Sandpiper \u003c\/i\u003eare arranged in four thematic sections. Each addresses nature through a different lens. The first is evolutionary and ecological dynamics, from how patterns form on butterfly wings to the ecological importance of oft-reviled lampreys. The second section explores the inner lives of animals, which science has only recently embraced: empathy in rats, emotions in honeybees, spirituality in chimpanzees. The third section contains stories of people acting on insights both ecological and ethological: nourishing blighted rivers, but also caring for injured pigeons at a hospital for wild birds and demanding legal rights for primates. The fourth section unites ecology and ethology in discussions of ethics: how we should think about and behave toward nature, and the place of wildness in a world in which space for wilderness is shrinking. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy appreciating the nonhuman world more fully, Keim writes, \"I hope people will also act in ways that nourish rather than impoverish its life--which is, ultimately, the problem that needs to be solved at this Anthropocene moment, with a sixth mass extinction looming, once-common animals becoming rare, and Earth straining to support 7.5 billion people. The solution will come from a love of nature rather than chastisement or lamentation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379102974175,"sku":"9781501707728","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/9ZnoqvfDJD9781501707728.webp?v=1789268571"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/brandon-keim.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}