A Dog's Heart Condition:Like New Written with Josie Silver’s trademark

Written with Josie Silver’s trademark warmth and wit

In Other Minds

Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas

Annotated further readingsections at the end of each chapter act as a guide to further enquiry

With a comprehensive introduction to the genre and book by editor Dinty W

A Dog's Heart Condition:Like New Written with Josie Silver’s trademarkMikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution. A world famous Moscow professor rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human animal is on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a