Ebook: The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them

I read this book back when I was working at a bookstore and had just started dating a girl that kept pet rats. I had never been around them before and thought it would be a good idea to learn more about rat care; this is not a book about rat care.
It is, however, a wonderful book about rats and how they live and coexist with humans.
Through a combination of personal stories and research, the author covers many of the highlights of rodent human interactions. Where they probably came from, how they spread, how they are similar and different to humans, etc. To me the most interesting stories were about how their curiosity often makes them unsuited (uncooperative) to training experiments, and how their social structure helps them to survive capture and poisoning.
Neat book.