Humans and Other Animals, Paperback

This book examines why humans have big brains and how brains are associated with complex society and behavior in other animals. It compares brain e...

Humans are part of an ecosystem, and understanding our relationship with the environment and with other organisms is a prerequisite to living toget...

Reducere. HUMAN ANIMALS CARRY DEEP AMBIVALENCE TOWARD OTHER ANIMALS.One major thing: We eat them. We also hunt them, ride them, stuff them, wear their fur, w...

Judith Still analyses Derrida's late writings on animals, especially his seminars The Beast and the Sovereign, to explore ethical questions of how ...

Reducere. All species have a voice - we humans are just not listening to them with our hearts.Do you love animals?Would you like to know what wisdom they hav...

Reducere. Just like humans, animals use their homes for shelter and to raise their young. Animal homes might be easy to see, or they may be hidden (camouflag...

Reducere. Do you ever wonder how animals stay warm in the winter? Well they wonder how humans do too In a twist of perspective, wild creatures question if hu...

Pleasurable Kingdom presents new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. From birds to baboons, insects to iguanas, animals feel good...

Reducere. Animal Dreams collects David Brooks' thought-provoking essays about how humans think, dream and write about other species. Brooks examines how anim...

Engaging and thought-provoking, this book examines how humans see and treat other animals and argues that we should extend equal consideration and ...

Reducere. Without microbes, no other forms of life would be possible. But what does it mean to be with microbes? With Microbes sets microbes and the multiple...

Description"You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don't mean science fiction, or false stories about science, b...

Reducere. In Enter the Animal, Teya Brooks Pribac examines academic and popular discourse on animals' experiences of grief and spirituality, which are rooted...

Reducere. Can animals experience divine love? Do animals go to heaven when they die? People who love their pets may know the answers to these questions. They...

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Reducere. Rain forests are home to more than half of the world's plants and animals. In this leveled title, readers will explore this important biome, learni...

A landmark book about the fraught relationship between humans and animals that takes us from Genesis to climate change.Publisher: Granta BooksAutho...

A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf Eve...

Anita Camera, an energy healer of animals and humans, has been writing stories of her life, travels, and loves - in particular, CATS - for more tha...

DescriptionAnimal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex r...

Reducere. Animals ranging from mosquitoes to elephants use their own words to guide humanity to a deeper spiritual awakening. - Contains interviews with 25 p...

Reducere. Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our...

Reducere. DescriptionScience has manipulated DNA, mapped the human genome, and cloned both plants and animals. They estimate that humans share 99 percent of ...

Tucked away in the Himalayan mountains is the peaceful kingdom of Bhutan. Its mystery and beauty is impossible to overlook as is the uncommon relat...

Evolutionary psychologists have shown that we have inherited from the higher animals and primitive humans certain instincts which were necessary fo...

This non-fiction title Nature's Most Deadly? explores our fascination with dangerous creatures and the risks animals and humans pose to each other....

Reducere. Millions of tons of plastic slip into oceans every year. Some floats and travels slowly with the currents, endangering the health of marine animals...

Reducere. Rivers are important sources of freshwater for life on Earth! In this title, approachable text introduces the parts of rivers, the plants and anima...

This Element examines visual perception in the context of activities that involve moving about in complex, dynamic environments. A central theme is...

Reducere. The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an al...

Humans are social animals and are constantly interacting with each other through conversation, written communication, symbols and other expressions...

White Fang is the story of a half dog, half wolf. It is told from White Fang's point of view as he learns to fend for himself and interact with oth...

The essential thoughts of today’s most provocative philosopher.Why is the human reason to blame for the worst crimes of the twentieth century?Why i...

Reducere. Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Mo...

The second edition of Amino Acids: Biochemistry and Nutrition presents exhaustive coverage of amino acids in the nutrition, metabolism and health o...

Reducere. A humorous and helpful illustrated field guide to avoiding interactions--both dangerous and annoying--with 50 wild animals, including survival tech...

Reducere. "A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history."...

Reducere. When summer heats up, animals find ways to stay cool. In A Cool Summer Tail animals wonder how humans stay cool too. Do they dig under the dirt, gr...

Reducere. Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate in ...

The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with "admiration and empath...

Reducere. The capybara is a rodent of unusual size In these 50+ beautiful pages to color, you can see what makes the capybara so gregarious, tolerant, and lo...

Reducere. In Explore Fossils With 25 Great Projects, readers can expand their dinosaur obsessions into learning opportunities that take them beyond Tricerato...

Reducere. Did a tiny bird in Texas really communicate with a horse and convince him it was okay to load on a trailer he'd never been on? Did a horse, after a...

Reducere. The Papago Indians of the American Southwest say butterflies were created to gladden the hearts of children and chase away thoughts of aging and de...

Reducere. What can you do if your cat has worms? Use coconut oil. What can you do about smelly doggy breath? Try coconut oil. What if your cat has an ear inf...

Reducere. In this beautifully illustrated study of sculpture, vases, and other cult objects portraying the Goddess, fertility images, and mythical animals, M...

Reducere. To be quite honest, we don't really know much about human sex. If fact, most of us seem downright confused about it. If you don't believe me, just ...

Reducere. DescriptionA revised and improved edition of a book in continuing demand. Do animals have rights? If not, do we have duties towards them? If so, wh...

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its domi...

DescriptionMouse is a fluffy cat who was born a runt and daughter of a protector-a group of cats destined to protect humans from vermin and evil. D...

Reducere. Evolutionary science teaches that humans arose as a population, sharing common ancestors with other animals. Most readers of the book of Genesis in...

Reducere. From winged bats to furry wolves, and from leaping dolphins to stalking lions, the world of animals is wonderfully diverse. This popular series tra...

Story of Lemurs We shall look at the lemurs of Madagascar to help us learn more about the importance of the Golden Rule. Lemurs are small primates,...

DescriptionFor all the diversity of views within the animal protection movement, there is a surprising consensus about the need for more severe cri...

Reducere. The New York TimesBestseller that explores animal intelligence and will alter the way we as humans view other species.Have you ever wondered what i...

Reducere. DescriptionThese are fascinating stories in that each carries a pearl of wisdom. These stories are short but full of wit and contain life lessons t...

Reducere. What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at long last makes sense in this intriguing book about wh...

Language is Politics discusses power relations between languages in the world, with a particular focus on English. Even though English is the most ...

Reducere. Everybody loves unicorns. These magnificent mythical creatures have been prevalent in legends throughout the course of recorded history, dating as ...

Reducere. Anthropology has so far failed to solve the riddle of human evolution. Existing models are unable to account for the scope of the differences that ...

Reducere. How did the universe begin? Can God's existence be proven? Do humans matter more than animals? For many years people have sent the scientist-turned...

Reducere. Reveals the shared ancestry behind our affinity with dolphins and our shared destiny - Explains how we are both descendants of the aquatic ape and ...

DescriptionTo Leave with the Reindeer is the account of a woman who has been trained for a life she cannot live. She readies herself for freedom, a...

Reducere. Old Faithful Geyser, Emerald Spring, the magnificent canyons and falls of the Yellowstone River--these and other sites, familiar to the millions of...

Reducere. In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of ...

Reducere. Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the tas...

Reducere. The book guides the exploring naturalist to water's edge destinations throughout North America including Canada and Alaska. Main sections of the bo...

Reducere. Do you know that the Sumerians believed that: The moon was actually a god child conceived unintentionally by the God Enlil and a maid?Or that human...

Reducere. SurviveInside the Human Body, Vol. 3 concludes our incredible tour of the human body with a wild ride through the nervous system. When Geo and Dr. ...

``Here is a book to nourish the spirit. The Songs of Trees is a powerful argument against the ways in which humankind has severed the very biologic...