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A Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky
RRP: $14.18$10.02Discover this remarkable account of twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons from the New York Times bestselling author of Behave.'One of the best scientist-writers of our time' Oliver SacksBrooklyn-born Robert Sapolsky grew up... -
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender by Frans de Waal
RRP: $14.18$9.44A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? 'Brilliant and fascinating... brings a scientific, compassionate and balanced... -
Monkeys: Apes, Gorillas and other Primates by Tom Jackson
RRP: $25.79$18.94As our closest relatives in the animal world, monkeys have always fascinated and amused humans in equal measure. Monkeys is an outstanding collection of photographs showing these complex, intelligent animals in their natural habitat. Arranged in chapters... -
Sasquatch, 2nd Edition: The Apes Among Us by John Green
RRP: $46.43$38.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888391230Author John GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd... -
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes by Franz de Waal
RRP: $34.19$32.65The first edition of Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by politicians, business leaders, and social psychologists for its remarkable insights into the most basic human... -
The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris
RRP: $14.18$10.02A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered why people do what they do, from the popular author of The Naked Ape.This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive,... -
Strange Animals by Tom Jackson
RRP: $25.79$17.21How does a mudskipper fish manage to "walk" on land? Why is the Hoatzin also known as 'The Stinkbird'? And once the female Pipa toad has laid her eggs, where does she put them? The answers? The mudskipper can "walk" using its pectoral fins, the Hoatzin... -
Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birutae Galdikas by Sy Montgomery 9781603580625
RRP: $25.80$17.222017 is the 50th anniversary of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda. Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity's closest... -
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist by Frans de Waal
RRP: $11.60$11.53In Different, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior to argue that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the... -
Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man by Mark A. Changizi 9781935618539
RRP: $16.76$14.13The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We learn to understand speech before we can even walk, and... -
Our Inner Ape: The Best And Worst Of Human Nature by Franz de Waal 9781862078826
RRP: $12.89$8.64We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy and morality by virtue of our genes? From a scientist and writer whom E. O. Wilson has called 'the... -
Mountain Gorillas: Biology, Conservation, and Coexistence by Gene Eckhart 9780801890116
RRP: $45.15$41.60Tucked into one of the most beautiful and conflicted regions of the world are the last of the mountain gorillas. These apes have survived centuries of human encroachment into their habitat and range and decades of intense conflict and violence. The... -
Primate Conservation Biology by Guy Cowlishaw 9780226116372
RRP: $38.70$38.25From the snub-nosed monkeys of China to the mountain gorillas of central Africa, our closest nonhuman relatives are in critical danger worldwide. A recent report, for example, warns that nearly 20 percent of the world's primates may go extinct within the... -
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live by Jared Diamond
RRP: $16.76$5.30From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both... -
Tribal Bigfoot by David Paulides
RRP: $39.98$39.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888390219Author David PaulidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd... -
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape by Franz de Waal
RRP: $45.15$36.39This remarkable primate with the curious name is challenging established views on human evolution. The bonobo, least known of the great apes, is a female-centered, egalitarian species that has been dubbed the 'make-love-not-war' primate by specialists... -
How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction by Robert Martin 9780465030156
$41.50Despite the widespread belief that natural is better when it comes to sex, pregnancy, and parenting, most of us have no idea what natural" really means the origins of our reproductive lives remain a mystery. Why are a quarter of a billion sperm cells... -
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans De Waal
RRP: $18.05$15.61For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate societies that further cements the case for the biological... -
A Natural History of Human Thinking by Michael Tomasello
RRP: $25.74$20.34A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other... -
Sasquatch Discovered: The Biography of Dr. John Bindernagel by Terrance James
RRP: $36.11$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888397515Author Terrance JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd... -
Primates of the World: An Illustrated Guide by Jean-Jacques Petter
RRP: $32.25$25.26This stunningly illustrated guide to the world's primates covers nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and solitary pygmy mouse lemurs of Madagascar--among the smallest primates known to exist--to the regal mountain gorillas of Africa. Organized by... -
The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate About Animal Language by Gregory Radick 9780226702247
$81.63In the early 1890s, the theory of evolution gained an unexpected ally: the Edison phonograph. An amateur scientist used the new machine - one of the technological wonders of the age - to record monkey calls, play them back to the monkeys, and watch their... -
The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins by David R. Begun 9780691182803
RRP: $24.50$20.05The astonishing new story of human originsWas Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage... -
The Book of Being Chimp by Adrian Cale 9781739220501
RRP: $25.79$21.58The Book of Being Chimp is Adrian Cale's entertaining celebration of the chimpanzee. Written with fact-filled, often witty reverence and featuring 100 of the author's beautiful photographs, it is a fun and informative step-by-step guide to chimpanzee... -
Texas Bigfoot: History, Legends, and Modern Encounters in the Lone Star State by Lyle Blackburn 9781734920642
RRP: $18.87$16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734920642Author Lyle BlackburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Legendscape PublishingPublisher Legendscape PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Cognitive Structures and Development in Nonhuman Primates by Francesco Antinucci
$63.16The contributors to this volume present research concerning the cognitive structures and development of nonhuman primates from a cognitive psychological perspective. The authors and researchers come to this project from the study of humans and apply... -
Dangerous Animals by Barry Madden
RRP: $25.79$17.21Illustrated with 200 outstanding photographs, Dangerous Animals presents an in-depth look at the natural world's most deadly creatures, from poisonous spiders and sea snakes to aggressive lions and man-eating sharks. The selection spans a broad spectrum... -
In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human-Animal Relationships by James Serpell
RRP: $29.66$24.10What purpose, if any, do pets really serve? Are they simply an outlet for misplaced love? Or four-legged friends who help us to satisfy vital emotional needs? Whatever they are, when we elevate pets to the status of social companions, we undermine the... -
Chimpanzee: Lessons from our Sister Species by Kevin D. Hunt
RRP: $58.04$49.23The chimpanzee is one of our planet's best-loved and most instantly recognisable animals. Splitting from the human lineage between four and six million years ago, it is (along with its cousin, the bonobo) our closest living relative, sharing around 94%... -
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind by Dorothy L. Cheney 9780226102443
RRP: $23.22$22.69In 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's challenge.Cheney and Seyfarth set... -
Savanna Monkeys: The Genus Chlorocebus by Trudy R. Turner 9780521782944
$93.60Living across Africa and the Caribbean, this widely dispersed primate population must adapt to different environmental challenges. How do members of the genus Chlorocebus live in desert-like conditions and in areas with freezing temperatures and snow in... -
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Dr Frans de Waal 9781594481963
RRP: $30.96$21.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594481963Author Frans de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 209mm... -
The New Chimpanzee: A Twenty-First-Century Portrait of Our Closest Kin by Craig Stanford
RRP: $38.64$30.43Recent discoveries about wild chimpanzees have dramatically reshaped our understanding of these great apes and their kinship with humans. We now know that chimpanzees not only have genomes similar to our own but also plot political coups, wage wars over... -
Consanguinity in Context by Alan H. Bittles
RRP: $50.30$45.42An essential guide to this major contemporary issue, Consanguinity in Context is a uniquely comprehensive account of intra-familial marriage. Detailed information on past and present religious, social and legal practices and prohibitions is presented as... -
Primates: An Introduction by Alfred L. Rosenberger 9781032189932
RRP: $46.43$40.88This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to primates. It provides both a survey and synthesis of primate history, biology, and behavior. As a survey, it offers a focused review of living and extinct primates in regional and community... -
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind by Dorothy L. Cheney
RRP: $46.44$45.45In 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's challenge.Cheney and Seyfarth set... -
Studying Primates: How to Design, Conduct and Report Primatological Research by Joanna M. Setchell 9781108434270
$45.42Primatology draws on theory and methods from diverse fields, including anatomy, anthropology, biology, ecology, medicine, psychology, veterinary sciences and zoology. The more than 500 species of primate range from tiny mouse lemurs to huge gorillas, and... -
Man Who Filmed Nessie, The: Tim Dinsdale and the Enigma of Loch Ness by Angus Dinsdale 9780888397270
RRP: $27.08$17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888397270Author Angus DinsdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd... -
Monkeytalk: Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates by Julia Fischer
RRP: $28.38$27.37Monkey see, monkey do or does he? Can the behavior of non-human primates their sociality, their intelligence, their communication really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer reveals, the... -
The Great Apes: A Short History by Chris Herzfeld
RRP: $29.03$24.96A unique, beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives, and the development of primatology as a discipline This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great...