So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events (Revised) The longest-running picture book on

The longest-running picture book on the New York Times bestseller list

" --The Atlantic

Three teens from very different backgrounds who've had their lives upended in very different ways find themselves at the center of a power play that could change humanity forever

But she doesn't have a clue who her father is

For months

So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events (Revised) The longest-running picture book onAt least until cloning becomes the order of the day, Rene Dubos contends that each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable. However, today each person faces the critical danger of losing this very humanness to his mechanized surroundings. Most people spend their days in a confusion of concrete and steel, trapped "in the midst of noise, dirt, ugliness and absurdity." So begins the essential message of the work of one of the great figures in