With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don’t come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote. An illuminating biography of this extraordinary animal, Coyote America isn’t just the story of an animal’s survival – it is one of the great epics of our time.
A captivating novel of the Victorian era, Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native dramatically underscores the idea that regardless of our desires, in the end we are truly helpless to escape our destiny. Considered a truly modern story due to its sexual politics and hindered desires it still holds relevance to audiences today.
Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful, why didn’t it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? In their groundbreaking account of the evolution and workings of reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber set out to solve this double enigma.
