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Children And Animals: Social Development And Our Connections To Other Species (Lives in Context)

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... Myers has done a disciplined and sensitive field study in which he directly observed children's interactions with animals in a school setting. Based on a rich body of data he discusses how children understand animals and what this says about how they think of themselves. It is not an easy book and it is rather expensive, but for those really interested in human-animal relationships and interactions, it is an essential book to own.

I've read ridiculous, but this book is boderline insane asylum material! For one, the author charges an exuberant amount of money for this book, and the findings which are supposed to better our knowledge are out of price range for the average person. The content isn't any better. How the author makes the connection between children and animals becomes twisted around into little more than a very liberal idea of child development. The author totally ignores other theories of child development, and this work is clearly pro-darwinism. The author overlooks the distinct differences between children and animals, and it appears that the research conducted was tainted by the beliefs of the writer. Was this book written against a time crunch perhaps? One would be well-suited to bypass this book.