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24 produkter
Demonic Males
Av Richard Wrangham, Dale Peterson
Häftad, 1997
203 kr
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This study is an analysis of the roots of human savagery, dealing with the fundamental questions of why the majority of violence is perpetrated by men, whether this is a matter of nature or nurture and whether anything can be done about it. The book provides some surprising answers, based on …
Eating Apes
Häftad, 2004
256 kr
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"Eating Apes" is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned expose details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian …
Elephant Reflections
Inbunden, 2009
372 kr
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"Elephant Reflections" brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illuminate one of nature's greatest and most original works of art: the elephant. The photographs move from the purely aesthetic to the …
Giraffe Reflections
Inbunden, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
417 kr
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The most comprehensive book on giraffes to appear in the last fifty years, this volume presents a magnificent portrait of a group of animals who, in spite of their legendary elegance and astonishing gentleness, may not entirely survive this century. Dale Peterson's text provides a natural and …
Ghosts of Gombe
A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness
Inbunden, 2018
280 kr
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On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall’s famous chimpanzee research camp in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania, East Africa, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later, her body was found floating in a pool at the base of …
Eating Apes
E-bok, 2003
433 kr
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Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity''s closest relatives, the African great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson''s impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian …
Giraffe Reflections
E-bok, 2013
658 kr
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The most comprehensive book on giraffes to appear in the last fifty years, this volume presents a magnificent portrait of a group of animals who, in spite of their legendary elegance and astonishing gentleness, may not entirely survive this century. Dale Peterson’s text provides a natural and …
Ghosts of Gombe
A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness
E-bok, 2018
437 kr
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On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall’s famous chimpanzee research camp in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania, East Africa, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later, her body was found floating in a pool at the base of …
Jane Goodall
The Woman Who Redefined Man
E-bok, 2014
119 kr
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A "comprehensive and masterful biography" (Los Angeles Times) of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodall''s accomplishments are.Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when the influential palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist Louis Leakey, …
Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
Av Jane Goodall, Dale Peterson
Häftad, 2023
236 kr
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Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years
Av Dale Peterson, Jane Goodall m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
356 kr
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Visions of Caliban
On Chimpanzees and People
Av Dale Peterson, Jane Goodall
Häftad, 2000
338 kr
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Using Shakespeare's play The Tempest and its characters Prospero and Caliban as structural metaphors representing the master-slave relationship between humans and chimpanzees, authors Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall collaborate in this exploration of our interaction with the species that shares more …
Storyville, USA
Häftad, 2001
357 kr
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What is a Storyville? Whether you're in Toast, North Carolina, Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky, or Winner, South Dakota, a Storyville is a real town you can find on a map, with a tale behind its quirky name. Covering 20,000 miles of U.S. roads, Dale Peterson drove with his kids, Britt and Bayne, from …
Chimpanzee Travels
On and Off the Road in Africa
Häftad, 2003
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
364 kr
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A lifelong fascination with primates led Dale Peterson to Africa, which he crisscrossed in hope of sighting chimpanzees in the wild. As with any adventure worth retelling, however, Peterson's detours are as notable as his destinations. With the good-natured fatalism of the tested traveler, Peterson …
Mad People’s History of Madness
Häftad, 1982
856 kr
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A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the testimony of a mere stranger, \u201ca London citizen\u201d is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and …
Jane Effect
Celebrating Jane Goodall
E-bok, 2015
207 kr
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In her nearly sixty-year career as a groundbreaking primatologist and a passionate conservationist, Jane Goodall has touched the hearts of millions of people. The Jane Effect: Celebrating Jane Goodall is a collection of testimonies by her friends and colleagues honoring her as a scientific pioneer, …
Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant
From Aristotle and Ivory to Science and Conservation
Häftad, 2020
216 kr
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Elephants have captivated the human imagination for as long as they have roamed the earth, appearing in writings and cultures from thousands of years ago and still much discussed today. In Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant, veteran scientific writer Dale Peterson has collected …
Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant
From Aristotle and Ivory to Science and Conservation
E-bok, 2020
262 kr
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Elephants have captivated the human imagination for as long as they have roamed the earth, appearing in writings and cultures from thousands of years ago and still much discussed today. In The Elephant Reader , veteran scientific writer Dale Peterson has collected thirty-three essential writings …
Moral Lives of Animals
E-bok, 2011
208 kr
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Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try to protect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats, finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed to rescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save an unrelated infant …
Jane Effect
Celebrating Jane Goodall
Häftad, 2015
182 kr
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In her nearly 60-year career as a groundbreaking primatologist and a passionate conservationist, Jane Goodall has touched the hearts of millions of people. The Jane Effect: Celebrating Jane Goodall is a collection of testimonies by her friends and colleagues honoring her as a scientific pioneer, an …
