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We are real excited for this one. All the employees are juggling their schedules for to try and be here! We suggest you do the same, because even considering the recent spate of quality books on crows and ravens, we are dealing here with a superb, enlightening read. Not to mention a bona fide Orca best seller. There are more crows now than there have ever been. Their abundance is an indicator of ecological imbalance, but it also provides a generous opportunity to connect with the more-than-human world. Crow Planet is a journey of discovery into a world where, if we pay attention, crows become our guides, leading us off the pavement and into the realms of myth, history and science, and opening our eyes to the deeply relevant question of our own place in the urban-wild landscape. Haupt's graceful prose illuminates a world of surprising crow behavior, where birds gather to care for the sick, drop nuts in the road to be cracked open by passing cars, play in the snow, and even participate in "crow funerals." These crow stories are richly interwoven with scientific and scholarly research, the history and mythology of crows, and the author's patient  and quirky observation of the crows around her. Haupt shows us how crows invite us to explore our own wilder edges, where our cities are not as impoverished as we've been told; our sidewalks are not as straight as we thought. Above all, Crow Planet is a revelation about the zoopolis -- where human and animal geographies meet and mingle -- and about how an openness to the wild around us can give us richer lives within it.