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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

If Engber does a good job with anything, it's with pointing out the flaws in the strategies of pro-animal activists and in the outcomes of their campaigns. Engber writes of experimenting on cats and on the "furtive language" vivisectionists use to decrease the emotional impact of what they do.

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

10,000 Birds

Gooddie describes his quest in terms of a contest of wills and strategy. On the other hand, Phoebe Snetsinger’s memoir, Birding on Borrowed Time , becomes tedious because of her lack of emotional disclosure. There go my plans for a 10,000 Birds write-in campaign. One must “out-think” the bird.

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