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  • The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee

    how our animal heritage affects the way we live

    kirjoittanut Jared Diamond ...
    From 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 towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins. ... Lue lisää

    10,99 €

  • A Brief History of Intelligence

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

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    9,41 €

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

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    20,01 €

  • A Forest in the Clouds

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    14,89 €

  • Monkey Business: A History Of Nonhuman Primate Rights

    kirjoittanut 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, ... Lue lisää

    9,49 € tai ilmainen Kobo Plus -tilauksella

  • Decolonizing Extinction

    The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation

    kirjoittanut Juno Salazar Parreñas ...
    Sarja sarja 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 ... Lue lisää

    22,92 €

  • The Book of Being Chimp

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    11,99 € tai ilmainen Kobo Plus -tilauksella

  • Meine wilden Kinder

    Ein Leben für die letzten Orang-Utans

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    15,99 € tai ilmainen Kobo Plus -tilauksella

  • Kanzi

    The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    15,72 € tai ilmainen Kobo Plus -tilauksella

  • Creative Evolution

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    16,99 € tai ilmainen Kobo Plus -tilauksella

  • Chimpanzees and Human Evolution

    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 ... Lue lisää

    57,65 €

  • The Chimpanzees of Rubondo Island

    Apes Set Free

    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 ... Lue lisää

    57,22 €

  • Florida and the Game Water-Birds

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    3,99 € tai ilmainen Kobo Plus -tilauksella

  • Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    61,12 €

  • First Steps

    How Walking Upright Made Us Human

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    11,45 €

  • A Primate's Memoir

    A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    16,03 €

  • Het Leven der Dieren: De Evenvingerigen

    Een verkenning van de diverse wereld van de anatomisch unieke evenvingerigen

    kirjoittanut 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 ... Lue lisää

    1,99 € tai ilmainen Kobo Plus -tilauksella

  • Valley of the Apes

    The Search for Sasquatch in Area X

    kirjoittanut Michael Mayes ...
    This is the story of what it is really like to search for the most elusive animal in North America,an animal that clearly does not want to be found. Join author Michael Mayes and the men andwomen of the North American Wood Ape Conservancy on their two-decades-long quest todiscover the truth behind the greatest mystery of the natural world.“The events detailed in this book provide some of the best ... Lue lisää

    9,90 €

  • Lower Alabama Bigfoot

    No Longer a Myth

    kirjoittanut Ashley R. McPhaul ...
    In two neighboring Alabama counties, each with several sleepy communities, hunters are being run out of the swamps, farmers are having their livestock threatened and mauled, and locals are hearing unearthly screams and howls. To have so many reports from one small area seems unusual, but that’s what is happening in lower Alabama. This book is a journey into those reports. What started with a ... Lue lisää

    5,05 €

  • The Mighty Jungle

    The Mighty Jungle, #10

    kirjoittanut Paul A. Lynch ...
    Sarja Kirja 10 - The Mighty Jungle
    The jungle is a densely overgrown forest with little light or air reaching the ground. These environments are home to an array of exotic animals and plants. Additionally, the jungle is a popular setting for adventure stories and movies. However, these stories often present the jungle as a dark and forbidding place where danger lurks at every turn. Here, we will examine the jungle's natural ... Lue lisää

    3,99 €

  • How To Spot A Bigfoot Hoax

    kirjoittanut Matthew B. Thompson ...
    Bigfoot TV programs often show Bigfooters LOOKING for a bigfoot, but never FINDING a bigfoot. There are lots of reasons why this happens: ignorance, continuing to get paid to look for one, protecting the bigfoots, etc. Those TV programs have created a tenuous vacuum in human knowledge, and this book tries to fill that vacuum. ... Lue lisää

    Ilmainen

  • Camp Cookery.

    How to Live in Camp

    kirjoittanut Parloa ...
    Camp Cookery. How to Live in Camp is a comprehensive and practical guidebook designed for outdoor enthusiasts, campers, and anyone interested in mastering the art of cooking and living comfortably in the wilderness. Authored by Horace Kephart, a renowned expert in outdoor life, this classic work delves into the essentials of camp life, offering invaluable advice on how to prepare, cook, and serve ... Lue lisää

    19,99 €

  • Het Leven der Dieren: Deel 2, Hoofdstuk 10: De Stootvogels

    kirjoittanut Alfred Edmund Brehm ...
    Ontdek de fascinerende wereld van roofvogels zoals je die nog nooit hebt gezien!In "Het Leven der Dieren: Deel 2, Hoofdstuk 10: De Stootvogels" neemt Alfred Edmund Brehm je mee op een meeslepende reis door de lucht, waar de koningen van de hemel heersen. Dit hoofdstuk biedt een diepgaande blik op de majestueuze stootvogels, hun gedrag, en hun rol in het ecosysteem.Met een ongeëvenaarde aandacht ... Lue lisää

    9,99 €

  • Amanka Stories

    Saving the Last Apes

    kirjoittanut Lou Grossfeldt, David Blissett ...
    Amanka is a word from one of the languages used by people living in the rural north west of Uganda. It’s a beautiful, rich word that means ‘family’. Yet, in the forests and villages of this part of Uganda – and across much of tropical Africa and Asia – families are at war. In the narrowing margins between forest and farm, human and non-human, there is a growing conflict. A deadly conflict.The ... Lue lisää

    8,79 €