| NEW Books | Paradigm Shifting Books |
| Recommended
Books featuring:
The
Gorilla Foundation |
Recommended
books about:
Great Apes
| Gorillas
| Bonobos
| Chimpanzees
| Orangutans |
Orangutans
| Humans
Other Primates
| Animal Rights
| Interspecies
Communication*—(great
holiday gift) |
Recommended books by:
Mark
Bekoff |
Charles Darwin
| Marian
Stamp Dawkins
| Franz
de Waal
Jane Goodall | Robert
Sapolsky | E.O.
Wilson
Doug
Adams | David
Hawkings | Dalai
Lama | Dan Millman
| Eckhart
Tolle |
| NEW Books |
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Dogs Can Sign, Too
(A Breakthrough Method for Teaching Your Dog to Communicate to You)
by Sean Senechal (2009, Celestial Arts)
Developed by the creator of "AnimalSign Language," this book teaches people and their canine companions a unique mode of communication that employs an extensive lecxicon of specific signs.
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Catching Fire:
How Cooking Made Us Human
by Richard Wranghaml (2009, Basic Books)
Contrary to the dogmas of raw-foods enthusiasts, cooked cuisine was central to the biological and social evolution of humanity, argues this fascinating study..
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Ishmael
(An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit )
by
Daniel Quinn (1995, Bantam)
Ishmael lays out a theory of what has gone wrong with human civilization and how to correct it, a theory based on the tenet that humanity belongs to the planet rather than vice versa.
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Featuring The Gorilla Foundation
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Encyclopedia
of Animal Behavior (3
Volumes, 1274 pages)
by
Marc Bekoff (Editor)
Published:
Greenwood Press, December 2004
See
Volume 2 (D-P), Gorillas
/ Koko, on p. 611
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Pretending
and Imagination in Animals and Children
by Robert W. Mitchel (Editor)
Published: April 2002
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Drawing
the Line: Science and the Case for Animal
Rights
by Steven M. Wise
Published: April 2002
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The
Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans:
Comparative Perspectives
by Sue Taylor Parker (Editor), et
al
Published: June 1999
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The
Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity
by Paola Cavlieri, Peter Singer
A call for a more equitable treatment
of apes, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans
features the passionate works of thirty-four
world-renowned figures, including Jane
Goodall, Douglas Adams, Jared Diamond,
and Francine Patterson.
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Chicken
Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul
by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen,
Marty Becker and Carol Kline
Like the bestselling "Chicken
Soup for the Soul" books, animals
bring out the goodness, humanity and
optimism in people and speak directly
to our souls. This inspiring and entertaining
"Chicken Soup" collection
relates the unique bonds between animals
and the people whose lives they've
changed, among them Koko and Doctor
Patterson.
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| Recommended
Books about Great Apes
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The
Great Apes: Between Two Worlds
by Michael Nichols
Description:
Including contributions by Jane
Goodall, Dr. George B. Schaller,
and Mary Smith, the compelling story
of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans,
and bonobos is presented alongside
award-winning photographs by "Nick"
Nichols in a National Geographic
Society release.
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Eating Apes
by Dale Peterson
Published: May 2003 (University
of California Press)
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The TEN TRUSTS: What We Must Do to
Care for the Animals We Love
by Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff
Published: Oct. 8, 2002 (Harper
San Francisco)
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Great Apes and Humans
Eds. Benjamin Beck, Arnold Arluke,
Elizabeth Stevens
and Jane Goodall
Published: Oct. 1, 2001
(Smithsonian Institution Press)
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Minding
Animals: Awareness, Emotions and
Heart
by Marc Bekoff and Jane Goodall
Published: April 2002
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Primates
Face to Face: Conservation Implications
of Human and Nonhuman Primate Interconnections
by Agustin Fuentes (Editor) and Linda
D. Wolfe (Editor)
Published: March 2002
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Significant
Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and
the Quest for Human Nature
by Craig B. Stanford
Published: May 2001
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| Recommended
Books about Gorillas
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Gorillas:
Natural History & Conservation
by Kelly J. Stewart
Description:
The last of the apes "discovered"
by Western science, the gorilla
is our closest relative. "Gorillas"
covers the characteristics (life
history, group life, reproduction,
mortality) and ecology of these
creatures. Stewart also discusses
the serious threats that gorillas
face, and informs readers about
what can be done to protect them.
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Published: Voyageur Press; (October
2003)
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Mountain Gorillas: Three Decades
of Research at Karisoke
by Martha M. Robbins (Editor), Pascale
Sicotte (Editor) and Kelly J. Stewart
(Editor)
Published: Nov. 2001
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In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile
Species in a Dangerous Land
by Bill Weber, Amy Vedder
Published: September 2001
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Gorilla
(Eyewitness Books)
by Ian Redmond, Peter Anderson, Geoff
Brightling
Description:
Photographed in full color. Take
a close-up look at the amazing behavior
of our nearest relatives. Learn
why howler monkeys burst into song
at dawn, what it really means when
a mandrill yawns, and why the biggest
primate is a vegetarian.
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Gorillas
in the Mist
by Dian Fossey
Description:
Although Dr. Fossey's work ended
tragically with her murder, her
book remains an enthralling testament
to one of the longest field studies
of primates, covering fifteen years
in the lives of four gorilla families
in Central Africa.
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The
Year of the Gorilla
by George Schaller
Description:
George Schaller takes you with him
as he goes to the Virunga Volcanoes
to study the gorillas. Instead of
pouring out scientific facts, he
shares some of his feelings and
experiences as he watches them.
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Books about Bonobos
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Bonobo:
The Forgotten Ape
by Frans De Waal, Frans Lanting
Description:
The author has long been intrigued
by chimpanzee politics and mores,
and now he has turned his human
heart and scientific mind to a species
science has tended to celebrate
solely for its sex drive. De Waal's
collaborator, Frans Lanting, has
been photographing these gentle
creatures for some years and augments
the primatologist's explorations
and interviews with hundreds of
superb color shots.
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| Recommended
Books about Chimpanzees
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In
My Family Tree: A Life with Chimpanzeess
by
Sheila Siddle, Doug Cress
Description:
Few people when faced with a difficult
choice between 'doing the right
thing' and 'taking the easy way
out' will choose the former when
it means changing their lives forever.
Sheila Siddie's story of making
that choice to help chimpanzees
is a testimony to human bravbery
and compassion that will lift the
spirits of all who read it."
– Roger Fouts, author of Next
of Kin
Grove Press; Reprint edition (September
2003)
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Next
of Kin: My Conservations with Chimpanzees
by
Roger Fouts, Stephen Tukel Mills,
Jane Goodall
Description:
Next of Kin is more than a book
about the theory and practice of
science. It's a love story ... Scientists
aren't supposed to have their objectivity
ruined by emotional involvement.
But "Next of Kin" shows
that the ape experiments that fail
are those that forbid human sympathy
for their subjects. For Fouts, chimpanzee
and human minds are fundamentally
alike, so it makes sense to care
deeply about one's chimpanzee subjects.
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Next
of Kin: My Conservations with Chimpanzees
(audio cassette)
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| Recommended
Books about Orangutans
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Reflections
of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans
of Borneo
by Birute Galdikas
Description:
In 1971, with the help of Louis
Leakey, 25-year-old Birute Galdikas
went to the rainforests of Borneo
to study orangutans - and she's
been there ever since. Her groundbreaking
scientific and conservation work
has been the subject of numerous
articles and more than 12 television
documentaries.
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| Recommended
Books about Humans
(top
of page) |
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A
New Earth:
Awakening to your
Life's Purpose
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The
Power of Now
by
Eckhart Tolle
Published:
New World Library, October 1999
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| Recommended
Books about Primates
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of page) |
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The
Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates
by Noel Rowe
Published: August 1996
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| Recommended
Books about Animal Rights
(top
of page) |
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Drawing
the Line: Science and the Case for Animal
Rights
by Steven M. Wise
Published: April 2002
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| Recommended
Books about Interspecies Communication (other
categories) |
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Kinship
with All Life:
Simple, Challenging, Real-Life Experiences
Showing How Animals Communicate with
Each Other and with the People Who Understand
Them
(
*** Great Holiday Gift
*** )
by
J. Allen Boone
Published:
HarperSanFrancisco; New Ed edition,
Jan. 1976
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Songs
of the Gorilla Nation:
My Journey Through Autism
by
Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Published:
Three Rivers Press, March 2005
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Gorillas
Among Us:
A Primate Ethnographer's Book
of Days
by
Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Published:
University of Arizona Press, September
2001
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Apes,
Language and the Human Mind
by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, et al
Published: June 1998
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From
Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language
by Michael C. Corballis
Published: May 2002
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Animal
Minds
by Donald Griffin
Description:
"Animal Minds" tackles
a question that is both fascinating
and important. The overwhelming
body of evidence that Donald Griffin
has assembled puts beyond reasonable
doubt the case for recognizing that
many non-human animals are capable
of much more sophisticated thinking
than many scientists have been prepared
to believe.
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Animal
Miracles
by Sherry Hansen Steiger, Brad Steiger
Description:
An incredible collection of 50 true
stories of ordinary animals that
accomplish extraordinary feats of
rescue, acts of heroism, and unselfish
deeds that can only be described
as miraculous.
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The
Signs of Language
by Edward Klima, Ursula Bellugi
Description:
One of the few books that discusses
the language, the culture, and society
of the American Deaf. Not intended
to teach the language (i.e., American
Sign Language), but presents how
research proves that it is indeed
a language in its own right.
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Learning
their Language: Intuitive Communication
with Animals and Nature
by
Marta Williams, Cheryl Schwartz
Publisher:
New World Library; (April 2003)
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Monkey
Painting
by Thierry Lenain, Desmond Morris
Description:
Thierry Lenain explores the origins
of "monkey art" from the
classic theme of the Monkey-Painter
to the most recent experiments showing
how this amazing activity can be
part of a cultural history where
modern art and evolutionary thought
meet.
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How
Monkeys See the World: Inside the
Mind of Another Species
by Dorothy Cheney, Robert Seyfarth
Description:
An exploration of communication
and intelligence in free-ranging
primates. Much of the text is devoted
to the authors' field studies on
velvet monkeys in East Africa. Theories
of modern cognitive science are
applied in order to discover the
similarity and differences between
the cognition of monkeys and humans.
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Peacemaking
Among Primates
by Frans De Waal
Description:
Waal examines the ways in which
aggression and reconciliation are
both necessary, complementary aspects
of primate social relationships;
describes these aspects in chimpanzees,
rhesus monkeys, stumptial monkeys,
and bonobos.
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| Recommended
books by Author
(top
of page) |
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Mark
Bekoff
(top
of page) |
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| Charles
Darwin: (top
of page) |
| 1.
From
So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's
Four Great Books
(Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, The
Origin of Species, The Descent of
Man, The Expression of Emotions in
Man and Animals); edited by E.O. Wilson.
(1859-1872)
2.
The
Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
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| Marian
Stamp Dawkins:
(top
of page) |
| 1.
Through
Our Eyes Only? : The Search for Animal
Consciousness(1998) |
| Franz
de Waal:
(top
of page) |
1.
Our
Inner Ape (2005)
2. The
Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural
Reflections of a Primatologist (2005)
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| Jane
Goodall:
(top
of page) |
1.
Reason
for Hope: A Spiritual Journey (2000)
2. Jane
Goodall
: 40 Years at Gombe (2005)
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| Robert
Sapolsky:
(top
of page) |
1.
Why
Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (2004)
2. Monkeyluv
: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
(2005)
3. A
Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's
Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
(2002)
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| E.
O. Wilson:
(top
of page) |
1.
The
Future of Life (2003)
2. Consilience
: The Unity of Knowledge (1999)
3. The
Diversity of Life (1999)
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| Doug
Adams:
(top
of page) |
| 1.
Last
Chance to See (2002) |
| David
Hawkings:
(top
of page) |
1.
Transcending
the Levels of Consciousness (2005)
2 .Truth
Vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference
(2005)
3. I:
Reality and Subjectivity
(2003)
4 .The
Eye of the I (2001)
5 .Power
vs. Force: The
Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
(2002)
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| The
Dali Lama:
(top
of page) |
| 1.
Ethics
For The New Millennium (2001);
Audio CD |
| Dan
Millman:
(top
of page) |
| 1.
Way
of the Peaceful Warrior (1980/2000) |
| Eckhart
Tolle:
(top
of page) |
1.
A
New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's
Purpose (2005)
— Audio CD Recommended
2. The
Power of Now (2001) —
Audio CD Recommended
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