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A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by Robert M. Sapolsky
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by Virginia Morell
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsNoted science writer Virginia Morell explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising and moving exploration into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.
by Audrey Schulman
Published Jan 2012
Read ReviewsEvoking both Barbara Kingsolver and Andrea Barrett, this enthralling fiction, wise and generous, explores some of the crucial social and cultural challenges that, over the years, have come to shape our world.
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 Daniel L. Everett
Published Nov 2009
Read ReviewsA riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
by Margalit Fox
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsImagine a village where everyone "speaks" sign language. Just such a village -- an isolated Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate of deafness -- really exists. There, an indigenous sign language has sprung up, used by deaf and hearing villagers alike. It is a language no outsider has been able to decode, until now.
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 Marla Cone
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsWhether hunting giant bowhead whales with native Alaskans who are struggling to protect their livelihood, or tracking endangered polar bears in Norway, Cone reports with an insider's eye on the dangers of pollution to native peoples and ecosystems, how Arctic cultures are adapting to this pollution, and what solutions will prevent the crisis ...
by Russell Banks
Published Oct 2005
Read ReviewsA political-historical thriller set in Liberia and the USA between 1975 to 1991 that raises serious philosophical questions about terrorism, political violence, and the clash of races and cultures.
by Stephen Jay Gould
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsIn his 9th and penultimate collection of essays Gould once again offers his unmistakable perspective on natural history and the people who have tried to make sense of it.
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