{"product_id":"the-storytelling-animal-how-stories-make-us-human-isbn-9780544002340","title":"The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eIn this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. Drawing on neuroscience and evolutionary biology, \u003cem\u003eThe Storytelling Animal \u003c\/em\u003eexplores what stories reveal about human nature, how we process information, and think about the world. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHumans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Gottschall argues that stories help us navigate life’s complex social problems — just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal and explains how stories can change the world for the better. \u003cbr\u003eWe know we are master shapers of story. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us.\u003cbr\u003eA NYTimes.com Editor's Choice \u003cbr\u003eA Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist \u003cbr\u003e“A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.”—The New York Times | \u003cp\u003eAn \"\u003cstrong\u003einsightful consideration of all things story.\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\"A lively pop-science overview of the reasons why we tell stories and why storytelling will endure\u003c\/strong\u003e..[Gottschall's] snapshots of the worlds of psychology, sleep research and virtual reality are larded with \u003cstrong\u003esharp anecdotes and jargon-free summaries of current research\u003c\/strong\u003e... \u003cstrong\u003eGottschall brings a light tough to knotty psychological matters, and he’s a fine storyteller himself.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/em\u003e\"They say we spend multiple hours immersed in stories every day. Very few of us pause to wonder why. \u003cstrong\u003eGottschall lays bare this quirk of our species with deft touches\u003c\/strong\u003e, and he finds that our love of stories is its own story, and one of the grandest tales out there—the story of what it means to be human.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eSam Kean\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Story is not the icing, it’s the cake!\u003c\/strong\u003e Gottschall eloquently tells you ‘how come’ in his \u003cstrong\u003ewell researched \u003c\/strong\u003enew book.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Guber\u003c\/strong\u003e, CEO, Mandalay Entertainment and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, \u003cem\u003eTell To Win\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\"This is a quite wonderful book. \u003c\/strong\u003eIt \u003cstrong\u003egrips the reader \u003c\/strong\u003ewith both stories and stories about the telling of stories, then pulls it all together to explain why storytelling is a fundamental human instinct.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology, Harvard University\u003c\/strong\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eThe Storytelling Animal\u003c\/em\u003e is \u003cstrong\u003ea delight to read\u003c\/strong\u003e. It's \u003cstrong\u003eboundlessly interesting\u003c\/strong\u003e, filled with great observations and clever insights about　television, books, movies, videogames, dreams, children, madness, evolution, morality, love, and more. And it's beautifully written—fittingly enough, Gottschall is himself a skilled storyteller.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Bloom, Professor of Psychology at Yale and author of \u003cem\u003eHow Pleasure Works \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Like the magnificent storytellers past and present who furnish him here with examples and inspiration, Jonathan Gottschall takes a timely and fascinating but possibly forbidding subject — the new brain science and what it can tell us about the human story-making impulse — and makes of it an extraordinary and absorbing intellectual narrative. The scrupulous synthesis of art and science here is masterful; the real-world stakes high; the rewards for the reader numerous, \u003cstrong\u003eexhilarating, mind-expanding.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eTerry Castle, Walter A. 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