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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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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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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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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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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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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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Through a Window
by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments Through a Window is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of a community, of birth and death, sex and love, power and war. It reads like a novel, but it is one of the most important scientific works ever published. The community is Gombe, on the...
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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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Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo
by Birute Marija Filomena Galdikas Synopsis From the first, it was an adventure. In 1971, at age twenty-five, Galdikas left the placid world of American academia for the remote jungles of Indonesian Borneo. Living with her husband in a primitive camp, she became surrogate mother to a "family" of...
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The Search
by Tom, Jr. Brown 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...
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Monkey Painting
by Thierry Lenain Publisher Comments Towards the end of the 1950s biologists, investigating the question of how art originated, came up with the idea of getting monkeys to paint pictures. Drawing on a large body of historical and scientific evidence, this fascinating book sets out a new...
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Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind
by Dorothy L. Cheney Publisher Comments In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, “He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” Baboon Metaphysics is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth’s fascinating response to Darwin’...
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Primate Adaptation and Evolution (2ND 99 Edition)
by John G. Fleagle Publisher Comments st introductory text on primate evolution because it synthesizes and allows access to primary...
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Orangutans (Worldlife Library)
by Robert W. Shumaker Publisher Comments Few animals interest us as much as our relatives the great apes, and among these primates orangutans have a special appeal. The orangutan ("man of the forest" in the Malay language) is highly intelligent, creating and using tools in the wild...
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Primates of the World (Of the World Series)
by Christopher Mattison Synopsis The study of primates in their natural environment is a relatively recent phenomenon. It is only since the 1970s that books...
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The Behavioral Ecology of Callimicos and Tamarins in Northwestern Bolivia
by Leila M. Porter Synopsis < B> < P style="MARGIN: 0px"> Part of Prentice Hall& #39; s Primate Field Studies series.& nbsp; The& nbsp; Behavioral Ecology of Callimicos and Tamarins in Northwestern Bolivia offers& nbsp; readers a scholary and relevant...
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Natural History of the Brown Mouse Lemur (08 Edition)
by Sylvia Atsalis Synopsis Pa& gt; & nbsp; < /B> < I> A < /I> < I> Natural History of the Brown Mouse Lemur< /I> provides the most complete look at the behavior and ecology of mouse lemurs. < P style="MARGIN: 0px"> & nbsp; < /P>...
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