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Here is a promotional code, if you want to buy it. It's also available on Oxford Academic/Oxford Scholarship Online. (6)

Here's the abstract for the whole thing. (5)

It's a serious academic book. But also it's just well-written, fun, whimsical--really, the kind of thing you can give to undergrads. (4)

Every chapter is full of descriptions of fascinating experiments, and raises insightful questions about what can and cannot be inferred from them. I learned so much from this! (3)

The basic idea behind the book is to identify difficulties that get in the way of making progress in the field of animal psychology, and to suggest a positive path forward for each (2).

Well, this would signal that he’s not the pope of the South Side, but the pope of all of Chicago

I think it tastes perfectly good, but it also absorbs flavors and spices really well. Sometimes you need to add oil or butter if the recipe depends on the meat being fatty

“Couldn’t he have picked something else?”

He wanted to watch this one *last year* and I said to pick something else and he never forgot it.