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We all know we tell stories about ourselves. But as psychiatrist and neuroscientist Gregory Berns argues in The Self Delusion, we don’t just tell stories; we are the stories. Our self-identities are fleeting phenomena, continually reborn as our conscious minds receive, filter, or act on incoming information from the world and our memories.

How Dogs Love Us answers the age-old question of dog lovers everywhere and offers profound new evidence that dogs should be treated as we would treat our best human friends: with love, respect, and appreciation for their social and emotional intelligence.

What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner - completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different value systems, and a complex understanding of human speech. And dogs were just the beginning. In What It's Like to Be a Dog, Berns explores the fascinating inner lives of wild animals from dolphins and sea lions to the extinct Tasmanian tiger.

Cowpuppy is the story of how Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns turned his scientific eye from studying the inner workings of dogs’ brains to the cognitive and emotional lives of cows. It is also the story of how one cow formed an unusual bond with Berns that rivaled that of his beloved dogs. Berns’s observations will challenge listeners to think about cows in a new light. He shows that cows have impressive memories, a skill he attributes to a large hippocampus in their brains.