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Across the world cattle remain absolutely essential to civilization's survival as a source of food, clothing, and labor. Human beings eat beef and ice cream, drink milk, wear leather, and love hamburgers and hot dogs. This book describes the history of the domestication and deification of the cow and bull and their intimate relation to humans. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) scares reveal its continued importance in daily life.

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« This book is an engaging record of the importance of cattle in the world and throughout history, a fascinating story of civilization's reliance on this one animal. The scholarship of early myths and fables is impressive and the writing stimulating. No other book synthesizes to comprehensively how humanity has survived and how the importance of cattle continues to capture the news. -- L. R. Schou

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The Author: Donald K. Sharpes is Adjunct Professor of Education at Arizona State University, an internationally known scholar in the social and behavioral sciences, humanities, and teacher education, and the author of 17 books and over 230 professional articles. He did his postdoctoral studies at the University of Sussex, was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, and has lived and worked in the Middle East.

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