Straw Dogs : Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

Gray (European thought, London School of Economics, UK) issues a blistering attack on humanism and the idea of human progress and human control over its own affairs in this relatively short but still wide-ranging work. Boiled down to its essential point, the work asserts that humankind cannot escape the animal and, indeed, is far more rapacious and worse off when it tries. Annotation 2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)