Authors:Birut M.F. Galdikas, Nancy Erickson Briggs, Lori K.
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: apes, progress, prospects, primatology, volume, small, african, developments
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2002-02-28
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0306467577
ISBN-13: 9780306467578
Many of the papers in this volume were first presented at the Third International Great Apes of the World Conference, held July 3-6, 1998 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The editors of this volume, the first in a two-volume series, are world renowned, having dedicated most of their lives to the study of great apes. The world’s premiere primatologists, ethologists, and anthropologists present the most recent research on both captive and free-ranging African great apes. These scientists, through deep personal commitment and sacrifice, have expanded their knowledge of chimpanzees, bonobos, a
Author: Will Self
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: apes
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1998-08-11
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802135765
ISBN-13: 9780802135766
In this new novel, Will Self turns his wicked gift for satire on a favorite victim--his fellow man. After a night of routine, pedestrian debauchery, a successful, middle-aged London painter, wakes up to find that his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee.
Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Keywords: apes, walking
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-08-25
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 160358062X
ISBN-13: 9781603580625
Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity’s closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees of Gombe for nearly 50 years; Diane Fossey died in 1985 defending the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; and Birut Galdikas lives in intimate proximity to the orangutans of Borneo. All three began their work as protges of the great Anglo-African archeologist Louis Leakey, and each spent years in the field, allowing the apes to become their familiars--and ultimately waging battles to save th
Author: Frans de Waal
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: among, apes, sex, power, politics, chimpanzee
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-08-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801886562
ISBN-13: 9780801886560
The great apes, like humans, can recognize themselves in mirrors. They communicate by sound and gesture, form bands along what can only be called political lines, and sometimes engage in what is very clearly organized warfare. (Less frequently, too, they practice cannibalism.) In Chimpanzee Politics Frans de Waal, a longtime student of simian behavior, analyzes the behavior of a captive tribe of chimpanzees, comparing its actions with those of ape societies in the wild. What he finds is often not pleasant: chimps seem capable of astonishing deviousness and savagery, which has obvious implicati
Authors:Will Cuppy, Jack,
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: book, nonpareil, apes, friends
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 156792297X
ISBN-13: 9781567922974
Will Cuppy was one of the original staff of Harold Ross’s New Yorker and the author of How to Be a Hermit and How to Become Extinct. He is also, says P.G.Wodehouse in his introduction, "the author of the best thing said about Pekingese, viz. ’I don’t know why they should look so conceited. They’re no better than we are.’" This quip sounds the characteristic Cuppy note: concisely expressed misanthropy, a.k.a. pith and vinegar.About the title: "I grant you there are plenty of old-fashioned and pretty ineffective ways to tell your friends from the Apes," confesses th
Author: Loren Colema
Publisher: Paraview Pocket Book
Keywords: america, apes, story, true, bigfoot
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-04-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743469755
ISBN-13: 9780743469753
For years, scientists and researchers have studied, speculated about, and searched for an enigmatic creature that is legendary in the annals of American folklore. Now, learn the truth about... BIGFOOT! In this fascinating and comprehensive look at the fact, fiction, and fable of the North American "Sasquatch," award-winning author Loren Coleman takes readers on a journey into America’s biggest mystery -- could an unrecognized "ape" be living in our midst? Drawing on over forty years of investigations, interviews, and fieldwork on these incredible beasts, Coleman explores the modern de
Author: Rich Handley
Publisher: Hasslein Book
Keywords: chronology, volume, definitive, apes, planet, timeline
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2009-02-20
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 061525392X
ISBN-13: 9780615253923
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Planet of the Apes, Hasslein Books announces an extensive chronology by author Rich Handley. Every film, episode, novel, comic book and more is covered, from 1968 to the present--including several unpublished works. Along with a painstakingly detailed timeline spanning millennia, this volume features a gallery of more than 350 cover images, a recommended viewing/reading order, an examination of time travel in the Planet of the Apes mythos (both on screen and in print), and a title/creator index of published fiction-plus, insightful notes discussing prelimin
