Boria Sax
Boria Sax is an award winning author and lecturer and a teacher at Mercy College.Boria Sax is probably best known for his writing on human-animal relations, where he has developed a style that combines scholarship with narrative and lyricism. He views the representation of animals in human culture as a means to explore human identity, as well as an enduring source of myths and legends. The publications of Boria Sax include books of scholarship, poetry, reference, translation, memoirs, and other genres. Two of the scholarly books have been named to list of “outstanding academic titles of the year” compiled by the journal Choice: Animals in the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust (Continuum, 2000) and The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia of Animals in Myth, Legend, and Literature (ABC-CLIO, 2002). His books have been translated into French, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and Czech.
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- http://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Animals-Monstrous-Wondrous-Human/dp/1780231733/ref=la_B000APLIBU_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1369924323&sr=1-3
- http://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Zoo-Animals-Legend-Literature/dp/1468307207/ref=la_B000APLIBU_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369924457&sr=1-6
- http://www.boriasax.com
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