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List Price: £9.99
Our Price: £5.89
Author:
Konrad Lorenz
By Routledge
 vast amount of thinking and experience went into it, 2007-12-02
A lifetime of thinking, research, and observation clearly went into creating this marvelous book. I like it when someone clearly cares about what he's doing, engrosses himself in his work, possibly to the point of obsession. This may well describe Lorenz and this classic book, who defends Darwin and to some degree Freud, among others. Not just about his first hand observations of animals and his interpretation of their behavior, the book extends its scope to include philosophy and history, especially the evolutionary underpinnings of human history. It is rich in detail and very well written. A must read for anyone who cares about the past and future of living things on this planet. Author of Adjust Your Brain: A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health.
Author:
Frans De Waal, Frans Lanting
By University of California Press
A Fabulous and Important Study, 2008-05-08
De Waal's words and Lanting's photographs are a great combination. The high production values are more than justified by the quality of the text. In bringing bonobos to wider attention this book provides a valuable service. The sound research credentials of de Waal add weight to the analysis and, far from making it a dull book, give it an exciting relevance to wider issues in primatology. Makes you think a lot about humans as well as about bonobos and can, I imagine, start a good few dinner party arguments about gender relations. Much better that than another discussion of house prices.
List Price: £29.99
Our Price: £25.11
By WileyBlackwell
The search is over: A new animal behaviour textbook, 2005-01-05
Recently, several new volumes have been added to the long list of animal behaviour textbooks. This book is different, however, because it is edited and consists of chapters written by experts in their different fields. As far as I know, this is the only edited animal behaviour textbook on the market at the moment, the first in more than 20 years (the multi volume Halliday and Slater book was great but somewhat outdated now). Because it is an edited volume, the book does not suffer from author biases as so many of its rivals do. This is a marvelously comprehensive book, ranging from neuroscience to behavioural ecology. Unlike many other ethology textbooks, it also discusses animal cognition, welfare, conservation and even evolutionary psychology. The chapters are very informative and easy to read. Every year it is a struggle to find a suitable textbook for our animal behaviour course, and we usually end up with a compromise that nobody is really happy with. If the students will enjoy this book half as much as I did, our worries are over.
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