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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M Sapolsky Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the baboons... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (Princeton Science Library) by Frans De Waal Publisher Comments It's the animal in us, we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land by Bill Weber Publisher Comments When Bill Weber and Amy Vedder arrived in Rwanda to study mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey, the gorilla population was teetering toward extinction. Poaching was rampant, but it was loss of habitat that most endangered the gorillas. Weber and Vedder... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard Wrangham Publisher Comments Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closest living relatives, the great apes, Demonic Males... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments From one of the world's most renowned scientists, conservationists, and animal rights activists comes a bestselling spiritual autobiography that explores her deepest beliefs about spirituality and moral evolution. NPR sponsorship.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Next of Kin: Conversatio (Living Planet Book) by Roger Fouts Publisher Comments For 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In My Family Tree: A Life with Chimpanzees by Sheila Siddle Publisher Comments Sheila Siddle's life was changed forever one fateful day in 1983 when a local game ranger brought a battered, malnourished chimpanzee to the door of her cattle ranch in central Zambia and asked her to do whatever she could to save it. As Sheila and her... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Monkey Portraits by Jill Greenberg Publisher Comments Jill Greenberg offers a fascinating, funny, and all-too-human collection of celebrity monkey and ape portraits. Each of these 76 amazing anthropomorphic photographs will remind readers of someone they know. Little, Brown and... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Trade Paper
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Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human by Elizabeth Hess Publisher Comments An adorable baby chimp, a loving family, and an experiment that changed the lives of all it touched… Project Nim, the brainchild of a Columbia University psychologist, was designed to refute Noam Chomsky’s claim that language is an... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals by Charles Siebert Publisher Comments WHILE TRAVELING AROUND THE COUNTRY to report on the conditions in which captive chimpanzees in America live, Charles Siebert visited a retirement home for former ape movie stars and circus entertainers in Wauchula, Florida, known as the Center for Great... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Penguins: The Ultimate Question and Answer Book (Smithsonian Q & A) by Lloyd Spencer Davis Publisher Comments " There is a whole lot more to these adorable tuxedo adorned birds than meets the eye. Penguins are remarkable creatures with fascinating behaviors. SMITHSONIAN Q & A: PENGUINS refutes common myths and reveals often-unknown facts as it answers... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wild Asia Primates Postcard Book with Postcard by Mark Brazil Publisher Comments This collection of 16 postcards features full-color photos of monkeys, orangutans, and other primates found in their natural habitats. This wildlife is featured in a ten-part documentary airing on the Discovery Channel.... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Novelty
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The Search by Tom Brown, Jr. Publisher Comments For years, Tom Brown, Jr. has made a bestselling name for himself as the guru of nature, meditation, and mysticism with his extraordinary messages of hope for our earth and our inner selves. Founder of the Wilderness Survival School, Brown now shares his... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very, definition of humanity.Now, in a poignant and insightful memoir, Jane Goodall explores her extraordinary life and personal spiritual odyssey... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Nearly Human: The Gorilla's Guide to Good Living by Andrew Y Grant Publisher Comments Andrew Grant, former managing director of the London Zoo, draws on research, interviews and experience to illuminate hundreds of fascinating details on the wild gorilla, one of our closest relatives. Heavily illustrated with witty graphic-novel styled... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Primates of the World (Of the World Series) by Christopher Mattison Publisher Comments The study of primates in their natural environment is a relatively recent phenomenon. It is only since the 1970s that... (read more) Your price: $42.50 New - Hardcover
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Natural History of the Brown Mouse Lemur (08 Edition) by Sylvia Atsalis Publisher Comments A Natural History of the Brown Mouse Lemur provides the most complete look at the behavior and ecology of mouse lemurs. There are very few books that address the biology of nocturnal primates. There are even fewer that delve with any detail... (read more) Your price: $23.55 New - Trade Paper
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James and Other Apes by James Mollison Publisher Comments Fifty great apes--chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos, our closest biological relatives--are featured in this series of portraits by James Mollison. Photographed over a span of four years in seven ape sanctuaries (in Cameroon, the Democratic... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans De Waal Publisher Comments One of the world's foremost primatologists explores what our two closest relatives in the animal kingdom-the violent, power-hungry chimpanzee and the cooperative, empathetic bonobo-can tell us about the duality of our own human nature. We have long... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey Publisher Comments New edition of Fossey's account of living with the gorillas of Gombe, the basis for the film starring Sigourney Weaver.... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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