The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Jonathan Gottschall
A provocative scholar delivers the first book on the new science of storytelling: the latest thinking on why we tell stories and what stories reveal about human nature.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN-13
- 9780547391403
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Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(2012)
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