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Planet Without Apes by Craig Stanford
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $29.84Planet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. Leading primatologist Craig Stanford warns that... -
Significant Others by Craig Stanford 9780465081721
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.15Evolutionary scientists know that the line that divides humans from other animals has grown increasingly blurry, yet many other fields, especially in the social sciences, have not really absorbed... -
Meat-Eating and Human Evolution by Craig Stanford 9780195131390
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $127.22When, why, and how early humans began to eat meat are three of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the study of human origins. Before 2.5 million years ago the presence and importance of... -
Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey by Craig Stanford
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $36.86Our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, are familiar enough--bright and ornery and promiscuous. But they also kill and eat their kin, in this case the red colobus monkey, which may say... -
The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior by Craig Stanford
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.24What makes humans unique? What makes us the most successful animal species inhabiting the Earth today? Most scientists agree that the key to our success is the unusually large size of our brains. Our... -
Cold-Blooded Murder: Reptiles and Amphibians on the Brink of Extinction Craig Stanford 9780231223119
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $106.81Around the world, many reptile and amphibian species-from the iconic Komodo dragon to the unglamorous Telfair's skink-are facing grave threats to their survival. For many, like the Belalanda... -
Unnatural Habitat: The Native and Exotic Wildlife of Los Angeles by Craig Stanford 9781597146395
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.86A guide to the ecosystem famously known as Los Angeles, from a field biologist and longtime San Gabriel Valley resident."A worthy and illuminating entry in the tradition of works exploring... -
Cold-Blooded Murder: Reptiles and Amphibians on the Brink of Extinction Craig Stanford 9780231223126
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.74Around the world, many reptile and amphibian species-from the iconic Komodo dragon to the unglamorous Telfair's skink-are facing grave threats to their survival. For many, like the Belalanda... -
The New Chimpanzee: A Twenty-First-Century Portrait of Our Closest Kin by Craig Stanford
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $33.23Recent 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... -
Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution, Expanded Edition Donna Hart 9780813344034
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $64.98Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family, have evolved as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles,... -
Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins by Maddalena Bearzi 9780674046276
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $29.84Apes 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... -
Chimpanzees and Human Evolution by Martin N. Muller
RRP: $73.47Booksplease Price: $61.02Knowledge of chimpanzees in the wild has expanded dramatically in recent years. This comprehensive volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who... -
Wild Chimpanzees: Social Behavior of an Endangered Species by Adam Clark Arcadi
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $45.76As our closest primate relatives, chimpanzees offer tantalizing clues about the behavior of early human ancestors. This book provides a rich and detailed portrait of chimpanzee social life in the... -
Wild Chimpanzees: Social Behavior of an Endangered Species by Adam Clark Arcadi 9781107197176
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $84.10As our closest primate relatives, chimpanzees offer tantalizing clues about the behavior of early human ancestors. This book provides a rich and detailed portrait of chimpanzee social life in the... -
Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution by Frans De Waal 9780674010048
RRP: $39.93Booksplease Price: $33.85How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree... -
The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy by David Mayers 9780195115765
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $77.88George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, William Bullitt, Joseph E. Davies, Llewlleyn Thompson, Jack Matlock: these are important names in the history of American foreign policy. Together...