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Laird's dazzling study takes in everything from Colombian breast plates to Chinese matchboxes, not to mention the Australian newsreader who raised an orphaned flying fox. --Times Higher Education

Laird's dazzling study takes in everything from Colombian breast plates to Chinese matchboxes, not to mention the Australian newsreader who raised an orphaned flying fox. --Times Higher Education Bat is an interesting dissection of the many different sides of bats, from both a biological and a cultural view point. The book is full of intriguing, bizarre, and astonishing facts about bats, from biology, pop culture, mythology, literature, and art. The main focus is on the interaction of bats and human life--the way they are portrayed within different cultures, the effect that has on the cultural opinion, and what that means for their protection in the law or lack thereof. . . . Bat is a celebration, showing the positive side of bats and uncovering many of the mysteries they have been shrouded in for so long. --BTO News Did you know that the collective noun for bats is a 'cloud, ' or that in the first scientific classification of mammals, bats were placed close to humans because, like us, they have two nipples? The book Bat . . . is full of similar tidbits that you will want to share with others. It is also engrossing, eloquent, and beautifully illustrated. Bat contains hundreds of delightful bat facts, but they are so grounded in context that the whole is much more than the sum of its parts. One cannot help but become intrigued and eventually transformed. I know I will never look at bats the same way again. --Conversation

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Tessa Laird is Lecturer in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Tessa was a noted New Zealand art critic for over twenty years, where she founded two important art magazines in the 1990s, Monica Reviews Art and log Illustrated. Her book A Rainbow Reader appeared in 2013.

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