Product Description: Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was it something deeper—a creative impulse, a spiritual dawn, a shamanistic conception of the world efflorescing in the dark, dank spaces beneath the surface of the earth where the spirits were literally at hand? In this book, Jean Clottes, one of the most renowned figures in the study of cave paintings, pursues an answer to this “why” of Paleolithic art...read more

Product Description: The continued rise in bankruptcy filings, in combination with the ongoing effects of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, makes Ginsberg and Martin on Bankruptcy, Fifth Edition, an invaluable resource for every attorney handling bankruptcy issues...read more

Product Description: edited from the author's posthumous works by Agnes von Cranach translated by Robert D. Martin Here Am I—Where Are You?: The Behavior of the Greylag Goose was thought to be Konrad Lorenz's last book. However, in 1991 the "Russian Manuscript" was discovered in an attic and its subsequent publication in German has become a scientific sensation...read more

A comprehensive examination of human evolution discusses genetics, primate evolution, fossil records and archaeological remains, human biology and ecology, brain function and behavior, and demography and disease (view table of contents)

Documents the social conduct of wild geese with anecdotes about specific geese who take on strikingly human characteristics