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  • Eva era africana

    par Rita Levi-Montalcini ...
    Illustré par Giuliano Ferri ...
    Veniamo tutti dall’Africa. Lo hanno scoperto gli scienziati percorrendo a ritroso la storia genetica dell’umanità, trasmessa solo per via femminile. Oggi in quel continente le ragazze subiscono più che altrove le conseguenze della miseria e dell’ignoranza. Con la scuola, Internet e il loro entusiasmo il futuro sarà migliore. ... En savoir plus

    CHF 7.00

  • In the Shadow of Man

    par Jane Goodall ...
    'One of history's most impressive field studies; an instant animal classic' TIMEJane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania, Africa. It is a landmark for everyone to enjoy.**'**Apart from its enormous scientific value, IN THE SHADOW OF MAN is ... En savoir plus

    CHF 3.95

  • Walking With Gorillas

    The Journey of an African Wildlife Vet

    par Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka ...
    An Inspiring Memoir, for Fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Frans De WaalIn her enchanting memoir, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda’s first wildlife veterinarian, tells the remarkable story from her animal-loving childhood to her career protecting endangered mountain gorillas and other wild animals. She is also the defender of people as a groundbreaking promoter of human public health and an ... En savoir plus

    Avant CHF 19.35 Après CHF 9.65

  • Through A Window

    par Jane Goodall ...
    From the world-famous expert on chimpanzees - the powerfully compelling sequel to the international bestseller IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: 'An instant animal classic' Time**'I can't imagine a more vivid or unexpectedly moving introduction to chimpanzees in the wild than Jane Goodall's' New York TimesEquipped with little more than a notebook, binoculars, and her fascination with wildlife, Jane braved a ... En savoir plus

    Avant CHF 6.00 Après CHF 3.00

  • Thanking the Monkey

    Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals

    par Karen Dawn ...
    The animal rights movement has reached a tipping point. No longer a fringe extremist cause, it has become a social concern that leading members of society endorse and young people embrace. From Michael Vick's dog fighting scandal to CNN’s airing of the eye-opening film Blackfish, animal rights issues have hit the headlines—and are being championed by students and senators, pop stars and producers, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.25

  • The Elements We Live By

    How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table

    par Anja Røyne ...
    WINNER OF THE 2018 BRAGE PRIZE'[T]his lovely book. An enjoyable sweep through topics ranging from respiration to space exploration -solid science presented in an engagingly human way'Andrew Crumey, author of The Great Chain of Unbeing'Perfect popular science . . . not just a well-written story about the elements, but a book about being human in the world today'Åsmund H. Eikenes, author of ... ... En savoir plus

    CHF 1.95

  • A Brief History of Intelligence

    Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI

    par Max Bennett ...
    Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & SlowThe entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.06

  • Raffles' Banded Langur: The Elusive Monkey Of Singapore And Malaysia

    par Andie Ang, Sabrina Jabbar ...
    Sir Stamford Raffles came across an unnamed new species in 1821 when he was documenting natural history in Singapore. This elusive primate, the Raffles' banded langur, was later named after him. This book is a one-stop resource for everything we know about the critically endangered primate that is only found in Singapore and Malaysia, including its distribution, diet, family structure, infant ... En savoir plus

    CHF 21.21

  • A Forest in the Clouds

    par John Fowler ...
    For the first time, a riveting insider's account of the fascinating world of Dr. Dian Fossey’s mountain gorilla camp, telling the often-shocking story of the unraveling of Fossey’s Rwandan facility alongside adventures tracking mountain gorillas over hostile terrain, confronting aggressive silverbacks, and rehabilitating orphaned baby gorillas.In A Forest in the Clouds, John Fowler takes us into ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.55

  • Monkey Business: A History Of Nonhuman Primate Rights

    par Erika Fleury ...
    Apes, monkeys, and other nonhuman primates have a dual role in modern society. They are revered for their intelligence, uncanny mimicry, and biological relation to humans, yet are often forced to spend entire lifetimes as unwilling participants in the bioresearch, entertainment and pet industries.The treatment of nonhuman primates is evolving as technology improves the way research is conducted, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 9.00 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Decolonizing Extinction

    The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation

    par Juno Salazar Parreñas ...
    Collection series Experimental Futures
    In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from ... En savoir plus

    CHF 16.10

  • The Book of Being Chimp

    par Adrian Cale ...
    The Book of Being Chimp is Adrian Cale’s entertaining celebration of the chimpanzee. Written with fact-filled, often witty reverence and featuring over 100 of the author’s beautiful photographs, it is a fun and informative step-by-step guide to chimpanzee life. The captivating pictures are accompanied by a simple, humorous and engaging text which tells you all about the contrasting lives of chimps ... En savoir plus

    CHF 11.51 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Meine wilden Kinder

    Ein Leben für die letzten Orang-Utans

    par Dr. Signe Preuschoft ...
    Tausende Orang-Utans haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten zumindest ihre Heimat, den Urwald oder sogar ihr Leben verloren. Nur ein Bruchteil der "Waldmenschen" kann gerettet werden. Signe Preuschoft betreut Orang-Utan-Waisen in einer Waldschule auf Borneo und bereitet sie auf ihr Leben in Freiheit vor. Hier lernen die traumatisierten Menschenaffenkinder nach Tod oder Verlust der Mutter alles, was sie ... En savoir plus

    CHF 16.00

  • Kanzi

    The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

    par Sue Savage-Rumbaugh ...
    The remarkable story of a "talking" chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our speciesHe has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "NOVA" documentary. He is directly responsible for discoveries that have forced the scientific community to recast its thinking about the nature of the mind and ... En savoir plus

    CHF 14.97 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Creative Evolution

    par Henri Bergson ...
    Henri Bergson was a French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, whose third major work, "Creative Evolution", first published in 1907, provided an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution included in his theory of the same name.The book focuses on four key steps: that there must be a vital impulse which explains the creation of all living things; that there must also ... En savoir plus

    CHF 16.00 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Chimpanzees and Human Evolution

    Modifié par Martin N. Muller, Richard W. Wrangham, David R. Pilbeam ...
    Knowledge 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 are leading a revolution to discover and explain what is unique about humans, by studying their closest living relatives. Their observations and conclusions have the potential to transform our ... En savoir plus

    Avant CHF 52.73 Après CHF 44.42

  • The Chimpanzees of Rubondo Island

    Apes Set Free

    par Josephine Nadezda Msindai, Volker Sommer ...
    How did a random batch of chimpanzees come to populate a small island in Tanzania where apes had never lived before? Combining information gathered from fieldwork, laboratory and archival research, this book tells the unique story of chimpanzee babies taken from their forest homes in West-Central Africa and sold to European zoos and circuses, to then be shipped to Lake Victoria and set free on ... En savoir plus

    CHF 48.54

  • Florida and the Game Water-Birds

    par Robert Barnwell Roosevelt ...
    Florida and the Game Water-Birds written by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt who was a sportsman, author, and politician. This book was published in 1868. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as ... En savoir plus

    Avant CHF 5.00 Après CHF 4.00 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation

    par Alexandra Palmer ...
    Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation explores how conservationists decide whether, and how, to undertake rehabilitation and reintroduction (R&R) when rescuing orphaned orangutans. The author demonstrates that exploring ethical dilemmas is crucial for understanding ongoing disagreements about how to help endangered wildlife in an era of anthropogenic extinction.Although R&R might appear an ... En savoir plus

    CHF 50.13

  • First Steps

    How Walking Upright Made Us Human

    par Jeremy DeSilva ...
    Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism.First Steps takes our ordinary, everyday walking experience and reveals how unusual and extraordinary it truly is. The seven-million-year-long ... En savoir plus

    CHF 8.87

  • A Primate's Memoir

    A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

    par Robert M. Sapolsky ...
    In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of savanna baboons."I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,” writes Robert Sapolsky in this ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.55

  • Het Leven der Dieren: De Evenvingerigen

    Een verkenning van de diverse wereld van de anatomisch unieke evenvingerigen

    par Alfred Edmund Brehm ...
    In 'Het Leven der Dieren: De Evenvingerigen' biedt Alfred Edmund Brehm een gedetailleerde verkenning van de biologie en ecologie van de evenvingerigen, een unieke groep dieren gekenmerkt door hun opmerkelijke aanpassingen aan hun leefomgeving. Brehm's literaire stijl is zowel informatief als evocatief, waarbij hij wetenschappelijke nauwkeurigheid combineert met poëtische beschrijvingen die de ... En savoir plus

    CHF 2.00 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Gorillas in the Wild

    A Visual Essay

    par Joe McDonald ...
    In this beautifully illustrated book, author Joe McDonald presents a wealth of knowledge pertaining to the natural history of mountain gorillas, one of the world’s most endangered great apes. The volume includes over 170 photos from Joe, his wife, Mary Ann, and a third contributor—plus interesting, eye-opening facts about gorillas (plus a chapter devoted to other great apes), spiced with personal ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.42

  • A Origem das Espécies

    par Charles Darwin, Daniel Moreira Miranda, Nelio Bizzo ...
    O livro que apresentou a teoria da evolução, de Charles Darwin, e redefiniu para sempre a ciência moderna.Esta nova tradução de A origem das espécies destaca-se por ter sido elaborada com base na primeira edição do texto, de 1859, que depois passaria por alterações do próprio autor em consequência das inúmeras pressões da imprensa e da comunidade científica do século XIX.Sem cortes e censuras, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 7.00