A hilarious, sweet, and entertaining quest to discover what makes hedgehogs so universally appealing.

In this wonderfully entertaining, adorable book, Hugh Warwick, an environmental writer and photographer, examines the relationship between the hedgehog and man, and how the hedgehog became so beloved. Traveling the globe in search of his quarry, Warwick eventually discovers a new breed called Hugh's Hedgehog.

At sixteen years old, Christine Catlin is the founder of The Animal Anthology Project, a project that has received nearly a thousand submissions, and donates all of its profi ts to Best Friends Animal Society. As a young author, Catlin has been published in Chicken Soup: Just for Teenagers (2011), Chicken Soup: Boost Your Brain Power and Chicken Soup: Tough Times for Teens (2012). She has also been published in popular magazines such as New Moon, Cicada, Bird Watchers Digest, and Creative Kids and is a three-times Gold Medalist in the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In addition, her fi rst book Raising Monarchs for Kids was published when she was only twelve years old. Her next book, Walks of Life, a memoir of her life as a triplet and young daredevil, will be published in 2014.

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history. This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning. Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.