The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs.

In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life on their terms, not ours.

It's usually easy to pinpoint the cause of physical pain in animals, but to know what is causing them emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals. Then she explains how to fulfill them for dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, and zoo animals. Whether it's how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day, how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures.

Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience.

This is essential reading for anyone who's ever owned, cared for, or simply cared about an animal.

Born on a Blue Day provides a unique window into the mind of Daniel Tammet, one of the world's fifty living autistic savants. As the first and only autistic savant to share his compelling life story, Tammet offers an inspiring narrative about his extraordinary abilities and the challenges he faces.

This engaging memoir explores how Tammet, a high-functioning British autistic savant with Asperger's syndrome, experiences the world. Despite his impairments in abstract thinking, routine deviation, and social interaction, he performs incredible feats of memorization and mental calculation. Notably, Tammet can multiply and divide large numbers with computer-like speed and accuracy.

He also has an unusual neurological syndrome called synesthesia, which allows him to perceive numbers and words as shapes, colors, textures, and motions. Tammet's life journey takes us from a challenging childhood to his adult achievements, including teaching in Lithuania, achieving financial independence, and sustaining a long-term romantic relationship.

Through his unique voice, Tammet offers insight into what makes us all human—our minds. Born on a Blue Day is a fascinating exploration of what it means to be special and how such uniqueness contributes to the richness of human experience.