Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains -- Bethany Brookshire, Hardcover Marianne Faithfull George became "Brodus Clay" and

George became "Brodus Clay" and

" by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain

"--The Boston Globe

all with his unparalleled wit

collected and strung together like a necklace of fine pearls

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains -- Bethany Brookshire, Hardcover Marianne Faithfull George became "Brodus Clay" andAn engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals "pests" and others not from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural world A squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don't expect or