Richard W. Wrangham

Dale Peterson

Draws on recent discoveries about human evolution to examine whether violence among men is a product of their primitive heritage, and searches for solutions to the problems of war, rape, and murder

Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Demonic Males

Details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for only about one percent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Eating Apes documents the when, where, how, and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. In bringing the facts of this crisis and these impending extinctions into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to our closest relatives.--From publisher description.

Eating Apes

An in-depth biography of Jane Goodall describes how the seminal scientist and naturalist revolutionized the study of primates through her years of study of the chimpanzees of Gombe, helped establish radical new standards and a new intellectual style in the study of animal behavior, and how her work inevitably led to her career as an activist.

The Woman who Redefined Man

Jane Goodall

Challenges popular beliefs to reveal the animal kingdom's impulses toward cooperation, generosity and fairness, citing numerous examples of animals who have compromised their own safety to protect each other and what humans can learn from animal codes of behavior. By the author of Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man. 50,000 first printing.

The Moral Lives of Animals

"This book, written by the author of the "definitive" biography of primatologist Jane Goodall, presents in sweeping detail the story of a group of young volunteers and students doing animal behavior research on chimpanzees, baboons, and red colobus monkeys at Dr. Goodall's research site in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park during the late 1960s. Goodall, who began her work in the summer of 1960, was originally sponsored by the great paleontologist Louis Leakey and funded by the National Geographic Society. Her early studies of chimpanzees soon made her world famous as one of the great pioneers in primatology, and she began working to transform her original tented camp into a major field station for animal studies. Then came a tragic event that marked the final summer of that promising first decade and is the focus of this book. At aroundnoon, on Saturday, July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American working at Gombe as a volunteer, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest and never returned. Her body was found six days later floating in a pool at the base of a high waterfall. The Ghosts of Gombe explores the social tensions that developed among the small community of researchers during 1968 and 1969; considers thoroughly how the death might have happened; and describes the painful personal consequences for some of the surviving researchers."--Provided by publisher.

A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness

The Ghosts of Gombe

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 tells of trains and riverboats, opportunists and ecotourists, rain forests and shantytowns as he conveys the pitfalls of going forth on a budget as tiny as the continent is vast. Along the way, we also meet Jane Goodall and several other renowned primate researchers and caretakers. This is travel writing with a purpose, an account that inspires both admiration and concern for Africa's people, places, and natural diversity.

On and Off the Road in Africa

Chimpanzee Travels

Recounts the author's cross-country trip with his two children, visiting more than sixty towns in the process, and offers a look at small-town America, its people, and its history.

Storyville, USA

Presents a cultural, historical, and pictorial history of giraffes, describing their biology and behavior and demonstrating their grace and elegance through over one hundred photographs.

Giraffe Reflections

Drawing Blind This is the Third Edition of this book. I have heavily revised both the text, many of the illustrations and, especially, the layout. This book has been a labor of love since 2012, when I was pulled out of retirement to teach, for the second time. And, since the original text was composed, my research into the subject of how drawing as a human activity has expanded. So I have added more reference to that part. Plus I have added a whole new Chapter at the end.What I am presenting in this volume are my own approaches and methods of enjoying the medium we call sketching and drawing with graphite pencils. And, I am presenting it through my own belief that anybody can learn to draw well. Anybody! Visual creativity is a simple matter of personal desire and conviction.You can learn to draw!(?) Every living human being draws, every day. You may not think of it as such, but you are! When you write yourself a note, sign your name, do any kind of doodle, you are drawing. You are moving a pencil or a pen around on a piece of paper, or a napkin, or even the palm of your hand (if that's all that's available) and you are drawing. Written language is nothing more than a visual representation of a spoken language. When performed by the human hand, this is a hand-drawing of that communication. So you are drawing, all the time, every day. Just admit it. Even if you don't want to admit it - if you use a pen or a pencil, you are an artist."I can't draw. I'm no good at Art." Just silly. But, if you're convinced of that, I can't really change your mind. What I can do is show you some things that can allow you to have some fun. Is there anything wrong with just having some fun? I like having fun and that's really why I got started drawing and painting in the first place ... when I was, like, four.To see with your mind, often you must close your eyes.Effective drawing is about what is important about what you see, not trying to make what you see important. If it wasn't important enough to remember, then it is not important enough to include in your drawing.I am paraphrasing from hundreds of books about philosophy and spirituality, but not too many about how to draw or create Art; "Look within the mind, within the soul, if you really want to see." I believe Michelangelo is the original source of this concept. And from my own brain, "The eyes can only see what is just in front of them. The imagination can see to the end of the universe."I believe there is a hard concept to accept, for a lot of people, about Art and drawing. Talent is as much simple belief in personal validity as it is some special genetic ingredient.What I want when I draw is a nice drawing - a fun drawing. I think of them as illustrations of life, maybe drawings per se (as it were). All day, every day, we're surrounded by cool stuff. Is there some rule that says it has to be arranged or set up in some special way, to be worthy of recording, or the subject of an artist? I hate rules like that. These are the kind of rules that begin to put up the sides of boxes that you later have to "get out of." I believe, the only difference between those people who are doing what they love to do and those who do not, is that the people who are doing what they love, believe they can do it. Those people also don't care if anyone else accepts their efforts or not, they just keep doing what they love.

Learn to Draw by Closing Your Eyes

Drawing Blind

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, “a London citizen” is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and allegedly mad people is a comprehensive overview of the history of mental illness for the past five hundred years-from the viewpoint of the patients themselves. Dale Peterson has compiled twenty-seven selections dating from 1436 through 1976. He prefaces each excerpt with biographical information about the writer. Peterson's running commentary explains the national differences in mental health care and the historical changes that have take place in symptoms and treatment. He traces the development of the private madhouse system in England and the state-run asylum system in the United States. Included is the first comprehensive bibliography of writings by the mentally ill.

A Mad People’s History of Madness

A Journey Into Primate Worlds

The Deluge and the Ark

Karl Ammann

Presents a pictorial celebration of the elephant, moving from the informative to the purely aesthetic, and introduces the natural history and conservation of the animal as well as the politics of the ivory trade.

Elephant Reflections

Marc Bekoff

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, an inspiring teacher, a devoted friend, and an engaging spirit whose complex personality tends to break down usual categories. Jane Goodall is the celebrity who transcends celebrity. The distinguished scientist who's open to nonscientific ways of seeing and thinking. The human who has lived among nonhumans. She is a thoughtful adult with depth and sobriety who also possesses a child’s psychological immediacy and sense of wonder. She is a great scientific pioneer, and yet her pioneering work goes far beyond producing advances in scientific knowledge. The more than 100 original pieces included in this inspirational collection give us a sense of her amazing reach and the power of the “Jane effect.”

Celebrating Jane Goodall

The Jane Effect

The authors use Shakespeare's Tempest as a metaphor for the relationship between people and chimps, exploring the very human aspects of this remarkable species. Original.

On Chimpanzees and People

Visions of Caliban

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 cultural history of the world’s tallest and second-biggest land animals, describing in detail their biology and behavior. He offers a new perspective on the giraffes’ place in our world, and argues for the stronger protection of these imposing yet endangered creatures and their elusive forest relatives, the okapis. Some 120 stunning photographs by award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann capture the grace and elegance of Giraffa camelopardalis. Both beautiful and informative, the images document giraffes’ complex interactions with each other and their environment.

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