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Our history with pets goes a long way back. While it may not always be the happiest of tales, one thing is clear - we need one another. In a story that has gone from adversarial to one of function, we now have come to view animals as healers. They do more than feed us and serve us; they help us grow socially, emotionally and spiritually. In this new Special Edition from TIME, we explore the many ways in which animals enrich our lives.Animals and Your Health covers many topics including emotional-support animals, which are popping up everywhere, and increasingly come in all shapes, sizes, and species to the science of animal healing - how do animals boost our health and happiness, and how do you measure the results? How do animals help connect us to other people, and help extend and enhance the lives of the elderly? They have been proven to help ease PTSD in the lives of suffering soldiers and veterans - what special qualities do they have that facilitate this? Readers will also delve into what every dog and cat owner wonders on an almost daily basis about their pet: "What are you thinking?" Covering animal friendships, animals in pop culture and so much more, Animals and Your Health will bring understanding to our long-standing relationship with the creatures that we share the planet with.
About the Author
Nancy Gibbs is Deputy Managing Editor at TIME and co author with Michael Duffy of the New York Times best seller The Presidents Club: Inside The World's Most Exclusive Fraternity, published in May, 2012 by Simon and Schuster.Named by the Chicago Tribune as one of the ten best magazine writers in the country, she is the author of more than 150 TIME cover stories. She won the National Magazine Award for the black-bordered special issue on September 11, 2001, and was the lead TIME writer on virtually every major news event from Oklahoma City to Hurricane Katrina, as well as four presidential campaigns. When the news is quiet, she has focused on stories exploring the intersections of religion, values and politics: after the 2008 election, Politico.com described her as "the poet laureate of presidents."Her writing is included in The Princeton Anthology of Writing, Best Political Writing 2005 and numerous writing textbooks. She has twice served as the Ferris Professor at Princeton, where she taught a seminar on Politics and the Press. Gibbs and Duffy are also co-authors of The Preacher And the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House.
