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Vanessa Woods is the Director of the Duke Puppy Kindergarten and an award-winning writer and journalist. In 2010, her book Bonobo Handshake won the Thomas Lowell award for nonfiction and her children’s book, It’s true, Space turns you into Spaghetti, was named an Acclaimed Book by the Royal Society in 2007. Her books have been translated into 12 languages. Vanessa received the Australiasian Science award for journalism in 2004. Together, Vanessa and Brian Hare wrote the New York Times Bestseller The Genius of Dogs.