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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach  
Powells.com 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...
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
Powells.com Staff Pick With The Stuff of Thought, linguist Steven Pinker returns to the themes of language and human nature to examine how words express the workings of our minds. Dealing with many aspects of human cognitive and social evolution, Pinker demonstrates his...
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Powells.com 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. Recommended by Kyle, Powells.com...
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Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
by Maddalena Bearzi Publisher Comments Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side...
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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice To All Creation (02 Edition)
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...
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When Elephants Weep
by J Masson Publisher Comments This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall. The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson...
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Why We Run: A Natural History
by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index....
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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...
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Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Will and What We Can Learn from Them
by Cindy Engel Publisher Comments 'As Dr. Engel emphasizes in this \"enticing, well-referenced, [and] entertaining book\" (Science), we can learn a lot about human health by studying animal behavior in the wild. Indeed, some of the natural, holistic, and alternative human medicine being...
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Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence
by James Gould Publisher Comments Animal behavior has long been a battleground between the competing claims of nature and nurture, with the possible role of cognition in behavior as a recent addition to this debate. There is an untapped trove of behavioral data that can tell us a great...
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Built by Animals
by Mike Hansell Publisher Comments From termite mounds and caterpillar cocoons to the elaborate nests of social birds and the deadly traps of spiders, the constructions of the animal world can amaze and at times even rival our own feats of engineering. But how do creatures with such...
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Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society
by Bernard Chapais Publisher Comments At some point in the course of evolution (from a primeval social organization of early hominids) all human societies, past and present, would emerge. In this account of the dawn of human society, Bernard Chapais shows that our knowledge about kinship...
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When Species Meet " #03: When Species Meet
by Donna J Haraway Publisher Comments “When Species Meet is a breathtaking meditation on the intersection between humankind and dog, philosophy and science, and macro and micro cultures.” —Cameron Woo, Publisher of Bark magazine In 2006, about 69 million U.S...
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Coming Home to the Pleistocene
by Paul Shepard Publisher Comments "When we grasp fully that the best expressions of our humanity were not invented by civilization but by cultures that preceded it, that the natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams...
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If Dogs Could Talk: Exploring the Canine Mind
by Vilmos Csanyi Publisher Comments “This book is endlessly enlightening and entertaining . . . will appeal to all dog owners.” —Ann LaFarge, Taconic News How do dogs think? Short of breeding a talking dog (not as impossible as it sounds), the best we can do is to...
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Pig Who Sang To the Moon (03 Edition)
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Publisher Comments Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained...
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Mother Nature : Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species (99 Edition)
by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Publisher Comments Maternal instinct--the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children--has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned...
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The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - And Why They Matter
by Marc Bekoff Publisher Comments Based on award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff’s years studying social communication in a wide range of species, this important book shows that animals have rich emotional lives. Bekoff skillfully blends extraordinary stories of animal joy, empathy...
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
by Bernd Heinrich
Publisher Comments From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter. From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some...
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Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart
by Marc Bekoff Publisher Comments Thinking bees, ice-skating buffaloes, dreaming rats, happy foxes, ecstatic elephants, despondent dolphins--in Minding Animals, Marc Bekoff takes us on an exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, where we meet creatures who do...
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