Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone Else

Dogs Never Lie About Love

A charming, playful and moving book which will forever change the way you think about dogs.

Tremendously reassuring for me, because my dog and I love each other to distraction...Masson dares to write about dogs' emotions, dreams, sadness, fears and loves, and attempts to interpret their feelings without sounding even slightly soppy...This is a fascinating and very moving book

A joyous read... Hats of to Jeffrey Masson for his excellent, down-to-earth, understandable and, more importantly, loving study of man's best friend

Jeffrey Masson graduated from the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute and was briefly Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. The book he wrote with Susan McCarthy on animal emotions, When Elephants Weep (1994), became a bestseller in the United States. Since then he has published nine books on animals and their emotions, including Dogs Never Lie About Love, The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats and most recently, The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving. He lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand.

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How well do you know your dog? 
 
Did you know that dogs have dreams and fears? That they do see colour, that they smell electric storms, and feel scent as an emotion? 
 
Jeffrey Masson takes us into the world of the dog, a world created by a sense of smell one hundred million times more acute than ours, and reintroduces us to man's best friend - loyal, honest, straightforward, spontaneous and almost unbelievably forgiving. 
 
Drawing on observations of his own three dogs, as well as true stories of dogs' friendship, heroism and loyalty, Masson makes us laugh, cry and think again about our canine companions, who, unlike humans, will never lie about love. 
 
A charming, playful and moving book which will forever change the way you think about dogs.

Emperor's Embrace

A valuable and fascinating contribution to the debate on man's relation to nature. Even for those who disagree, the wit of Jeffrey Masson's argument and the thousand little facts and anecdotes he serves with it make this book a pleasure.

Lessons in fatherhood, challengingly and devastatingly told

With fascinating insight, impeccable research, and captivating writing, controversial psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, a new father himself, showcases the extraordinary behaviour of outstanding fathers in the animal kingdom. From the emperor penguin, who incubates the eggs of his young by carrying them around on his feet for two months, to the sea-horse, the only male animal that gives birth to its young. Mason also examines nature's worst fathers; lions, bears, and humans. A book that will forever change our perceptions of parenthood and love.

The Emotional Lives of Animals

When Elephants Weep

From dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas and spiteful killer whales, When Elephants Weep fascinates, provokes and will change the way you think about animals

Powerful stuff... Accessible and entertaining

A masterpiece... The most comprehensive and compelling argument for animal sensibility that I've yet seen

A powerful case for re-examining our entire relationship with the animal world

Among animal experts, When Elephants Weep is being hailed as a milestone in the battle to make man understand he is only one member of an enormous family

For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking book proves what animal-lovers have known to be true: wolves, tigers, giraffes, elephants and many other creatures exhibit all kinds of feelings - hope, fear, shame, love, compassion. From Ola, the irritable whale, to Toto, the chimpanzee who nursed his owner back to health, this book collects together for the first time a vast range of case histories which show the extraordinary complexity of the animal world, and the tumult of emotions that govern it.

Jeffrey Masson

Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees

Compassionate, compelling and often tear-jerking... Anyone who has a heart will be reduced to tears, if not to vegetarianism, by Masson's argument

An entertaining survey of the main characteristics of farmed animals and a sobering account of how these have been ignored

Presents information and anecdotes without ever preaching

In this latest leg of Jeffrey Moussaieff's journey through the animal kingdoms, this perceptive writer peels back our prejudices to reveal the depth of feeling and thought in animals' minds and the leap we must make to be worthy of understanding them. Eye-opening, warm, thoroughly engaging

Wrenching, yet vitally important... At last a voice for the domestic animals who need it most. While every attention is paid to wild animals and to pets, farm animals are systematically ignored because the fact that we kill and eat these sentient beings is almost unbearable to acknowledge. Yet if that is what we are doing, we must acknowledge it. We must understand our actions. This powerful, excellent book is not for cowards

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Lives of Dogs

‘An unbelievably inspiring book’ Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees 
 
Did you know that pigs frequently throw tantrums? 
That chickens are capable of complex communication? 
That sheep know their own names? 
That cows grieve when their calves are taken away from them? 
 
Jeffrey Masson delves deep into the mysterious world of farm animals and reveals just how sophisticated these creatures truly are - capable of joy, sadness, love and friendship - just like us.

Jeffrey Masson

Praise for The Secret World of Farm Animals

An unbelievably inspiring book

Compassionate, compelling and often tear-jerking... Anyone who has a heart will be reduced to tears, if not to vegetarianism, by Masson's argument

An entertaining survey of the main characteristics of farmed animals and a sobering account of how these have been ignored

An unbelievably inspiring book

Compassionate, compelling and often tear-jerking... Anyone who has a heart will be reduced to tears, if not to vegetarianism, by Masson's argument

An entertaining survey of the main characteristics of farmed animals and a sobering account of how these have been ignored

An unbelievably inspiring book

Compassionate, compelling and often tear-jerking... Anyone who has a heart will be reduced to tears, if not to vegetarianism, by Masson's argument

An entertaining survey of the main characteristics of farmed animals and a sobering account of how these have been ignored

Books by Jeffrey Masson

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