wyszukanych pozycji: 21
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
ISBN: 9780547053561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 740 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Peterson shows clearly and convincingly how truly remarkable Goodall's accomplishments were and how unlikely it is that anyone else could have duplicated them. This biography details how Goodall helped set radically new standards and a new intellectual style in the study of animal behavior.
Peterson shows clearly and convincingly how truly remarkable Goodall's accomplishments were and how unlikely it is that anyone else could have duplica...
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82,95 zł |
Leave a Well in the Valley
ISBN: 9781615799091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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97,80 zł |
Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People
ISBN: 9780820322063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 than 98 percent of our genetic makeup. After introducing us to an animal that fashions and uses tools, exploits forest medicines, transmits learned cultural behaviors, and exhibits human-like emotions, Peterson and Goodall present an illuminating, frequently startling study of the current... Using Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" and its characters Prospero and Caliban as structural metaphors representing the master-slave relationship b... |
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122,08 zł |
The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness
ISBN: 9780520297715 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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137,29 zł |
Chimpanzee Travels: On and Off the Road in Africa
ISBN: 9780820324890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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...
A lifelong fascination with primates led Dale Peterson to Africa, which he crisscrossed in hope of sighting chimpanzees in the wild. As with any adven...
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122,08 zł |
Eating Apes: Volume 6
ISBN: 9780520243323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 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...
Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes--chim...
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137,29 zł |
Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant
ISBN: 9781595348661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,98 zł |
Giraffe Reflections
ISBN: 9780520266858 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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... 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 s...
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174,50 zł |
Storyville, USA
ISBN: 9780820352626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Peterson and his children drove 20,000 miles around the United States to discover the sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and zany stories of nearly 60 small towns with odd-ball names. The result is a sentimental, idiosyncratic, and often hilarious portrait of America. Map.
Peterson and his children drove 20,000 miles around the United States to discover the sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and zany stories of nearly 60 sm...
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550,24 zł |
Storyville, USA
ISBN: 9780820323039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 Start, Louisiana, to Deadhorse, Alaska in search of small-town America in the "garage sale of the open highway." Along the way they explored open spaces, wild places, and country back roads and met people who weren't afraid to talk to one another. Together, they discovered the sights, sounds,... 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... |
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126,45 zł |
Mad People’s History of Madness, A
ISBN: 9780822953319 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 ""a London citizen"" is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and allegedly mad people offers an overview of the history of mental illness for the past five hundred years.
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, an...
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302,70 zł |
Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
ISBN: 9780618127351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The woman who devoted her life to studying chimps in Africa looks back on her life, from her early love of animals to her years in the bush observing primates, often sacrificing life's more stable pleasures.
The woman who devoted her life to studying chimps in Africa looks back on her life, from her early love of animals to her years in the bush observing ...
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69,85 zł |
Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years
ISBN: 9780618257348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The second volume of Goodall's autobiography in letters, this book covers her life after the publication of "In the Shadow of the Man, " the book that made her famous. photos.
The second volume of Goodall's autobiography in letters, this book covers her life after the publication of "In the Shadow of the Man, " the book that...
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113,53 zł |
Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul
ISBN: 9780822325260 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the nineteenth century, literate Russians and educated American blacks encountered a dominant Western narrative of world civilization that seemed to ignore the histories of Slavs and African Americans. In response, generations of Russian and black American intellectuals have asserted eloquent counterclaims for the cultural significance of a collective national "soul" veiled from prejudiced Western eyes. "Up from Bondage" is the first study to parallel the evolution of Russian and African American cultural nationalism in literary works and philosophical writings.
Illuminating a... During the nineteenth century, literate Russians and educated American blacks encountered a dominant Western narrative of world civilization that seem...
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443,44 zł |
Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul
ISBN: 9780822325604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first systematic comparison of the emergence of cultural nationalism among Russian and African-American intellectuals in the post-emancipation era.
The first systematic comparison of the emergence of cultural nationalism among Russian and African-American intellectuals in the post-emancipation era...
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114,72 zł |
The Dollar-Table Hammer
ISBN: 9781439213759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,58 zł |
Institutional Analysis and Economic Policy
ISBN: 9781402073083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 598 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate how contemporary institutional economic analysis can be applied to the resolution of economic problems. All of the essays in this book challenge the conventional wisdom in the problem areas addressed. They advocate policy positions that often run contrary to views widely held by academic economists and policy makers alike. The general literature of institutional economics is unorthodox, beginning with its methodological foundations and continuing through the kind of policy analysis found in these pages. The orthodox tradition in economics is...
The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate how contemporary institutional economic analysis can be applied to the resolution of economic problems. A...
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585,00 zł |
Demonic Males
ISBN: 9780747533016 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a penetrating 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 and whether anything can be done about it.
This is a penetrating analysis of the roots of human savagery, dealing with the fundamental questions of why the majority of violence is perpetrated b...
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93,30 zł |
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
ISBN: 9780395877432 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Demonic Males offers startling new answers to these questions. Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closest living relatives, the great apes, the book unfolds a compelling argument that the secrets of a peaceful society may well be, first, a sharing of power between males and females, and second, a high level and variety of sexual activity, both homosexual and heterosexual. Dramatic, vivid, and sometimes shocking, but firmly...
Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Demonic Males offers...
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82,95 zł |
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction Bible Study
ISBN: 9780830848447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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56,74 zł |