Cat Got Your Thumb Author:Jay Speyerer From the introduction: — In this collection of observations on the oddities of human communication, you will find: — cats — dogs — turkeys — deer — ducks — chipmunks — and a butterfly. Because this book is about human communication, you ll also find many humans, all engaged in such affirming activities as teaching, getting married, traveling, observing... more », and generally interacting with each other. The animals provide metaphors for communication. The people provide examples of it, good and not so. Because I m an educator at heart, you ll also find entertaining information on such things as body language, e-mail, eye contact, voice control, cultural confusion, story telling, and our way of using the English language, both written and spoken, good and not so. You will also find shameless cultural references (Mark Twain, Daniel Webster, and Winston Churchill) and ditto, pop cultural references (John Stamos, O.J. Simpson, and Richard Gere). And we ll visit a couple of nice restaurants in Los Angeles, both of them good. I repeat... the book is about communication. I never said it wasn t wide-ranging.« less