Monkeyluv - And Other Lessons in Our Lives as Animals (Sapolsky Robert M)(Paperback / softback)

Monkeyluv - And Other Lessons in Our Lives as Animals (Sapolsky Robert M)(Paperback / softback)

Described by Oliver Sacks as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time', Robert M. Sapolsky here presents the human animal in all its quirkiness and diversity. In these remarkable essays, Sapolsky once again deploys his compassion and insights into the human condition to tell us who, why and

Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Sapolsky Robert M)(Paperback / softback)

Primate's Memoir - Love, Death and Baboons (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Paperback / softback)

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Paperback)

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 Savannah baboons. 'I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Pevná vazba)

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Paperback)

Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with over 225,000 copies in print Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and

The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Paperback)

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize From the man who Oliver Sacks hailed as 'one of the best scientist/writers of our time,' a collection of sharply observed, uproariously funny essays on the biology of human culture and behavior. In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould and Oliver Sacks,

Reckoning with Risk - Learning to Live with Uncertainty (Gigerenzer Gerd)(Paperback / softback)

However much we want certainty in our lives, it feels as if we live in an uncertain and dangerous world. But are we guilty of exaggerating the chances of some unwanted event happening to us? Are we misled by our ignorance of the reality of risk? This title illustrates how we can learn to make sense

All Pets Go To Heaven - The spiritual lives of the animals we love (Browne Sylvia)(Paperback / softback)

World famous spiritual guide and psychic Sylvia Browne explains the role of our pets on the Other Side

One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives - Matt Morgan

It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to

The Heart of a Horse: Life Lessons from Horses and Other Animals (Baker Candida)(Paperback)

When author Candida left behind a city lifestyle and a high-profile job as editor of Weekend Australian Magazine, to live in the hills behind Byron Bay, little did she realise this was a first step on a journey of self-discovery - through her natural horsemanship, photography, writing and

My Family and Other Animals (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Paperback)

The New York Times Bestseller'It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read.' --David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal 'It has my vote for science book of the year.' --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times 'Hands-down one of the best books I've read in

My Family and Other Animals (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Ten-year-old Gerald doesn't know why his older brothers and sisterscomplain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on thelunch table, the family home on the Greek island of Corfu is a bitlike a zoo so they should feel right at home... Gerald joyfullypursues his interest in natural history

Looking For Spinoza - Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain (Damasio Antonio)(Paperback / softback)

Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. In this book Dr. Damasio draws on his innovative research and on his experience with neurological patients to examine how feelings and the emotions that underlie them support the governance of human

Silence of Animals - On Progress and Other Modern Myths (Gray John)(Paperback / softback)

Why do humans seek meaning to life? How do our imaginations leap into worlds so far beyond our actual reality? This book explores how we decorate our existence with countless fictions, twisting and turning to avoid acknowledging that we too are

Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction (Evans Jonathan St B. T.)(Paperback)

Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us susceptibile to bias and error. The study of thinking and reasoning goes back to Aristotle, and was one of the first topics to be studied when psychology

Public library and other stories (Smith Ali)(Paperback / softback)

Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? This is about what we do with books and what they do with us: how

Our Homes, Our Lives - Choice in Later Life Living Arrangements(Paperback / softback)

Family Pack - "Brother-in-law and Other Animals", "Can I Come Down Now Dad?", "These Were Your Father's" (Hegley John)(Paperback / softback)

An omnibus edition of Hegley's performance poems, 'The Brother-in-Law and Other Animals', together with two of his most popular books, 'Can I Come Down Now Dad?' and 'These Were Your

Atlantis and Other Lost Civilizations (Snedden Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Project X Origins: Gold Book Band, Oxford Level 9: Communication: Let's Play - and other things animals say (Blank Alison)(Paperback / softback)

Explore how animals communicate in Let's Play - and other things animals say. This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole

Become the Force: 9 Lessons on How to Live as a Jediist Master (Jones Daniel M.)(Paperback)

Discover how Jedi teachings can empower the mind, body, heart, and spirit in this first and only self-help guide on living life, the Jedi way. Star Wars isn't just a franchise--it's a way of life. Daniel M. Jones founded the Church of Jediism in 2007 following the Jedi Census phenomenon of 2001

Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas (Govindrajan Radhika)(Paperback)

What does -it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate-and intense-moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals. Built on extensive ethnographic