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Product Description: From the biographer of Jane Goodall comes an eccentric blend of travels and adventures based on the underlying story of two men, sometime friends and allies, who uncover through personal experience the tragedy of animal extinctions in Africa and Asia...read more
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9780872332089 | William L Bauhan, November 3, 2015, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: From the biographer of Jane Goodall comes an eccentric blend of travels and adventures based on the underlying story of two men, sometime friends and allies, who uncover through personal experience the tragedy of animal extinctions in Africa and Asia.
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9781608193462 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, June 19, 2012), cover price $19.00
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9780520253773 | Univ of California Pr, May 4, 2009, cover price $39.95
Product Description: This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodallâs accomplishments have been. Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more fitting credentials, first sent her to Gombe to study chimpanzees...read more
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9780395854051 | Houghton Mifflin, November 15, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: When Goodall first presented her discoveries about chimpanzees at a scientific conference, she was ridiculed by the chairman.
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9780547053561 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, April 10, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodallâs accomplishments have been.
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9780520230903 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The author of Storyville, U.
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9780072401226, titled "Focus on Health" | 4th packag edition (William C Brown Pub, September 1, 1999), cover price $48.00 | also contains Eating Apes, Focus on Health | About this edition: Focus on Health is a text that considers the needs of all students taking personal health courses today.
Product Description: 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...read more
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9780201407372 | Perseus Books, February 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A look at the lives of chimpanzees in the wild also explores the eccentric scientists who study the primates and the impact of encroaching civilization on the animals of the wild
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9780820324890 | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, February 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A lifelong fascination with primates led Dale Peterson to Africa, which he crisscrossed in hope of sighting chimpanzees in the wild.
A second volume of letters by the renowned scientist chronicles her greatest triumphs and deepest tragedies, including her major discoveries about chimpanzee behvior, the breakup of her marriage to Hugo van Lawick, the birth and raising of her son, and her marriage to Derek Bryceson and his death. Reprint.
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9780618125203 | Houghton Mifflin, July 1, 2001, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: A second volume of Jane Goodall's autobiography in letters covers the years during which she made many of her most important discoveries on chimpanzee behavior, gave birth to her son, and became an environmental activist.
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9780618257348 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, October 23, 2002), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A second volume of letters by the renowned scientist chronicles her greatest triumphs and deepest tragedies, including her major discoveries about chimpanzee behvior, the breakup of her marriage to Hugo van Lawick, the birth and raising of her son, and her marriage to Derek Bryceson and his death.
Having crossed the continent with his two children, visiting more than sixty towns in the process, the author shares his cross-country travel adventures in a unique chronicle of small-town America, its down-home citizenry, and its quirky history. Reprint.
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9780820321516 | Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9780820323039 | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Having crossed the continent with his two children, visiting more than sixty towns in the process, the author shares his cross-country travel adventures in a unique chronicle of small-town America, its down-home citizenry, and its quirky history.
Product Description: 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 âsoulâ veiled from prejudiced Western eyes...read more
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9780822325260 | Duke Univ Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9780822325604 | Duke Univ Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: 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.
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.
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9780395537602 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A reevaluation of humankind's closest animal relative explores human perceptions of the chimpanzee and the reality of their life in the wild and in captivity
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9780820322063 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: 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.
9780395701003 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 1994), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A reevaluation of humankind's closest animal relative explores human perceptions of the chimpanzee and the reality of their life in the wild and in captivity
The woman who devoted her life to studying chimps in Africa looks back on her life, from her early love of animals and an adolescent crush on her minister to her years in the bush observing primates and often sacrificing life's more stable pleasures. 25,000 first printing.
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9780395854044 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 2000, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: 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
Hardcover:
9780395690017 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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
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9780395877432 | Mariner Books, November 14, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 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
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9789990061321 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1997, cover price $0.02
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9780747533016 | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, August 14, 1997), cover price $23.25 | About this edition: An analysis of the roots of human savagery, dealing with the fundamental questions of why the majority of violence is perpetrated by men; is it a matter of nature or nurture, and can anything be done about it?
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9780395510391, titled "Deluge and the Ark: A Journey into Primate Worlds" | Ticknor & Fields, August 1, 1989, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author describes his experiences traveling around the world visiting endangered species of primates, and discusses the need for conservation
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9780380711994 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, February 1, 1991), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The author describes his experiences traveling around the world visiting endangered species of primates, and discusses the need for conservation
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9780822934448 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, March 1, 1982, cover price $49.95
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9780822953319 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, March 1, 1982, cover price $29.95
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