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The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
by Virginia Morell
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Published Nov 2022
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by Frans de Waal
Published Mar 2020
Read ReviewsNew York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.
by Steven Rowley
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsCombining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, Lily and the Octopus is an epic adventure of the heart.
by Simon Barnes
Published Dec 2015
Read ReviewsThis fascinating scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world's creatures - weird, wonderful, and everything in between - are inextricably linked.
by Diane Ackerman
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA beguiling, optimistic engagement with the changes affecting every part of our lives, The Human Age is a wise and beautiful book that will astound, delight, and inform intelligent life for a long time to come.
by Susan Wilson
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsThree broken souls, and one dog: Pax. All three of them need healing. All three of them are lost. And in Susan Wilson's A Man of His Own, Pax, with his unconditional love and unwavering loyalty, may be the only one who can guide them home.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsThe story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel.
by Jared Diamond
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsThe World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years - a past that has mostly vanished - and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
by Neil Shubin
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsFrom one of our finest and most popular science writers comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?
by Vanessa Woods
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsA young woman follows her fiancé to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes - who teach her a new truth about love and belonging.
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsTimothy explores the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animals own sensibility and his deeply empathetic relation to the world around him.
by Robert M. Sapolsky
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsRobert Sapolsky's exhilarating account of his life in the bush with neighbors both human and primate, by turns hilarious and poignant. The culmination of more than two decades of experience and research, A Primate's Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost scientist-writers.
by Steve Jones
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsDraws on our ever-expanding scientific knowledge and the brilliant logic set out in The Origin to restate evolution's case for the twenty-first century.
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