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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior — on the farm, at home, and even in the mirror.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Publisher Comments The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs. In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.98 Used - Hardcover
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Publisher Comments How can we give animals the best life — for them? What does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson From Powells.com The sex act is, admittedly, a major preoccupation for most humans. But consider the plight of the female stick insect whose mate has been copulating with her for ten weeks straight while all she wants is a good night's sleep, or the male... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior — on the farm, at home, and even in the mirror.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots by Irene Ma Pepperberg Publisher Comments Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Since the early 1900s, most studies on animal-human communication have focused on great apes and a few cetacean species. Birds were rarely used in similar studies on the grounds that they... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions by Mark W. Moffett Publisher Comments Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, the Indiana Jones of entomology, takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon,... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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If a Lion Could Talk Animal Intelligence by Stephen Budiansky Publisher Comments How many of us have caught ourselves gazing into the eyes of a pet, wondering what thoughts lie behind those eyes? Or fallen into an argument over which is smarter, the dog or the cat? Scientists have conducted elaborate experiments trying to ascertain... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Essentials of Animal Behaviour (Studies in Biology) by P J B Slater Publisher Comments This book provides an elementary introduction to the study of animal behaviour, aimed primarily at sixth formers and undergraduates attending short courses in the subject. It introduces the basic ideas and concepts of modern ethology set in a historical... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Basic Instinct: The Genesis of Behavior by Mark S Blumberg Publisher Comments A panicked mother runs through highway traffic to save her wandering child. A green turtle swims hundreds of miles to return to the beach on which it was hatched. Your child utters her first word. Have you ever wondered what causes you to react in a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ethology: The Mechanisms and Evolution of Behavior by James L Gould Publisher Comments The goal of this book is to illustrate the power of ethology's broad and integrative approach in unraveling how behavior, both simple and complex, is organized and orchestrated. The book develops this theme by looking first at traditional ethology to... (read more) List Price $82.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People by David P Barash Publisher Comments Applying new research to sex in the animal world, esteemed scientists David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton dispel the notion that monogamy comes naturally. In fact, as The Myth of Monogamy reveals, biologists have discovered that for nearly every... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Robert Lanza Synopsis Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world — a US News and World Report cover story called him a “genius” and a “renegade thinker,” even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson Publisher Comments A sex guide for all living things and a hilarious natural history in the form of letters to and answers from the preeminent sexpert in all creation. Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is a unique guidebook to sex. It reveals, for example, when... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Evolution of Fatherhood: A Celebration of Animal and Human Families by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Publisher Comments Inspired by the wonder of his own experiences as a parent, former psychoanalyst and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Masson offers a remarkable look at one of the most fulfilling roles in the animal world: fatherhood. In The Evolution of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Heroes Rogues & Lovers Testosterone & Behavior by James M Dabbs Synopsis Interweaving intimate case histories with first-hand scientific research, this book examines how testosterone, the principal male hormone, has been maligned and misunderstood, and reveals its role in human evolution and its effect upon human and animal... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Talking With Animals by Charlott Uhlenbroek Synopsis Exploring the universal rules of communication that have enabled humans to interact closely with other animals throughout history, Charlotte Uhlenbroek explains the variety of signals that are used in interactions between and within species.... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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How New Humans Are Made: Cells and Embryos, Twins and Chimeras, Left and Right, Mind/self\soul, Sex, and Schizophrenia by Charles E. Boklage Publisher Comments It is not okay to call something a miracle without even trying to understand it. This is human developmental biology for everyone, in perspective - the business of becoming human, as individuals and as species; making new humans; how it really happens... (read more) List Price $81.00 Your price: $74.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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