Staff Book and Media Recommendations

Kirsten Davis is an Application Administrator I in Library Systems at the University of Central Oklahoma.

The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human

by Noah Strycker

Well-written, intriguing, and humorous. In other words: just what I like in a collection of essays. Each chapter focuses on a particular kind of bird, which exhibits a particular behavior--a simple enough format, but one that leaves Strycker plenty of room to also explore other birds, human behavior and psychology, and whatever other topics or ideas might pertain to the subject at hand. This makes for a very enjoyable book that leaves you feeling smarter for having read it.

January 2015