Product Description: The only astrology books with up-to-date planet tables--these twelve individualized guides help readers create their own personality profiles.For more than two decades, the Astroanalysis books have been a pioneer in the astrology market--offering complete, up-to-date planet tables, ascendant (rising) tables, and cusp tables to enable readers to create their own unique self-portraits...read more

Product Description: The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. With contributions from over fifty experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled...read more

Product Description: When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories, ecological niches, and physical attributes...read more

Uses the live-action photography and computer-generated images from the Discovery Channel series of the same name, along with the latest archaeological discoveries, to provide a history of human evolution on Earth.

Product Description: Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a dark hut for five days a month? Why are young children good at learning language but not sharing? Over the past decade, psychologists and behavioral ecologists have been finding answers to such seemingly unrelated questions by applying an evolutionary perspective to the study of human behavior and psychology...read more

Packed with fascinating facts and photographs of this group of 'Old World' monkeys, this study of baboons examines the social habits and highly adapted diet of these powerfully built, aggressive yet gentle creatures. Original.

Published to coincide with the Discovery Channel's broadcast of Cousins, an up-close look at primates takes readers into the world of humankind's closest living relatives, offering insight into their behavior, sociable nature, mentality, and much more. TV tie-in. (view table of contents)