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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by Robert M Sapolsky  
Powells.com 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...
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Jane Goodall: A Biography
by Meg Greene Synopsis This biography relates the fascinating story of Jane Goodall, a naive young woman who started her work without even a college degree and eventually developed into a dedicated scientist and a world-famous conservationist and humanitarian....
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
by Dale Peterson Publisher Comments This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodall's accomplishments have been. Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more fitting...
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Reason for Hope
by Jane Goodall
Synopsis As a toddler she was entranced by all living things, and the child inspired by Tarzan and The Jungle Book became the woman who found herself working with Dr. Louis Leakey, making scientific breakthroughs with chimpanzees in Gombe, and becoming one of the...
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Primates and Philosophers : How Morality Evolved (06 Edition)
by Dewaal 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...
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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...
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Monkey Portraits
by Jill Greenberg Synopsis 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 Company...
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
by Dale Peterson Publisher Comments An in-depth biography of Jane Goodall describes how the seminal scientist and naturalist revolutionized the study of primates through her years of study of the chimpanzees of Gombe, helped establish radical new standards and a new intellectual style in...
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In Quest of the Sacred Baboon: A Scientist's Journey
by Hans Kummer Publisher Comments In a tale that begins at a zoo in Zurich and takes us across the deserts of Ethiopia to the Asir Mountains in Saudi Arabia, Hans Kummer recreates the adventure and intellectual thrill of the early days of field research on primates. Just as Jane Goodall...
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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...
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Gorillas in the Mist
by Dian Fossey
Powells.com Staff Pick "This is the first book I read about primates. Now I'm hooked. Fossey's exploration of gorilla families and behaviors in their natural habitat is fascinating. Her drive to save these majestic beings is beyond inspiring." Recommended by Tanaz...
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In Quest of the Sacred Baboon: A Scientist's Journey
by Hans Kummer Publisher Comments In a tale that begins at a zoo in Zurich and takes us across the deserts of Ethiopia to the Asir Mountains in Saudi Arabia, Hans Kummer recreates the adventure and intellectual thrill of the early days of field research on primates. Just as Jane Goodall...
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Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
by Elizabeth Hess
Powells.com Staff Pick This compassionate biography explores a fascinating character and an important story, beautifully illustrating the life of the mischievous chimpanzee who was the subject of a language experiment in the '70s. Both hopeful and sad, this moving account...
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Our Inner Ape : Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (05 Edition)
by Frans De Waal Synopsis From one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior (Desmond Morris) comes a look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our closest cousins. For nearly twenty years, Frans De Waal...
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Orangutans: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
by Junaidi Payne Publisher Comments This abundantly illustrated look at orangutan life tells the story of one of the most fascinating members of the great ape family. In Orangutans, conservation biologist Junaidi Payne presents an informative and compelling description of the lives of...
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Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World
by Dario Maestripieri Publisher Comments Judged by population size and distribution, homo sapiens are clearly the most successful primates. A close second, however, would be rhesus macaques, who have adapted to (and thrived in) such diverse environments as mountain forests, dry grasslands, and...
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Nearly Human: The Gorilla's Guide to Good Living
by Andrew Y. Grant Synopsis 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...
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My Gorilla Journey: Living with the Orphans of the Rainforest
by Helen Attwater Publisher Comments Helen Attwater met her husband Mark while they were working at London's Royal Festival Hall. Little did they realize then that they would soon be heading off to set up an orphanage for baby gorillas in the heart of Africa, and become embroiled in a...
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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...
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Eating Apes (03 Edition)
by Dale Peterson Publisher Comments Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes--chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented...
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