Winner of 2014 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Best Young Adult Science Book Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award One of Nature's Summer

Dr. Frankenstein creates a cat named Nine for the nine felines it took to make him. The only thing in the world Nine wants is a friend--but who wants to be pals

An Architectural Record Notable Book A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percen

"A report from the frontiers of the scientific campaign to reengineer animals to fulfill human desires"--Dust jacket back.

"For the first time, a historian of science draws evidence from across the world to show how humans and other animals are astonishingly similar when it comes to