Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari ... [... more]
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The Dog Who Loved Too Much: Tales, Treatments and the ...
 Good, but not great: This is useful book, but Dr. Dodman's writing style is overly mannered at times and, unfortunately, not nearly as lucid as that of Dr. Oliver Sachs ("The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"). And it's clear, painfully at [... more]
CDN$21.00
Amazon CA |
The Hidden Life Of Dogs
Should be called "A portrait of the irresponsible pet owner": Absolutely nothing new here. Really, what could you learn from someone who thinks it is fascinating to watch her supposedly beloved dog cross the Alewife Parkway in Cambridge -- [... more]
CDN$16.00
Amazon CA |
The Smile of a Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal ...
From Amazon.com: Do animals experience sorrow? Do they know joy? Scientists have long been divided on the issue. Many, informed by the likes of Rene Descartes, who viewed animals as automata, and B.F. Skinner, who reduced the animal mind to a system of [... more]
CDN$53.00
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8961 EAN: 9781400103072 Edition: Unabridged ISBN: 140010307X Publication Date: 2006-11-01 [... more]
CDN$38.99
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Wendell Minor: Art for the Written Word: Twenty-Five ...
Spectacular collection of award-winning cover art: I first fell in love with the art of Wendell Minor while I was reading books by the children's nature writer Jean Craighead George. Spectacular watercolor art added a new dimension to Ms. George's [... more]
CDN$44.95
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The Tribe of Tiger
This is not a 4-star book: As you can tell from the other reviews, the author of this book is all over the place. The early chapters tell of housecats, the middle chapters about lions and bushmen, the ending chapters about pumas in N. America. In fact, [... more]
CDN$17.50
Amazon CA |
The Lost World of the Kalahari
gripping, informative and inspiring: I stayed up until three AM reading this book. It's both gripping, informative and inspiring. Van Der Post starts out telling us about the wild Bushman, untamed or corrupted by civilization, almost extinct in his time, [... more]
CDN$21.95
Amazon CA |
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
From Amazon.com: What's that squirrel thinking as it runs across the street? Behavioral neuroscientist Marc D. Hauser asks big questions about little brains in Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think. While his subjects aren't accessible for interviews, he [... more]
CDN$37.50
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Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII
WHY CAN'T A SUCCESSFUL ACTIVITY BE CONTINUED?: A pretty crummy title for a very good book...but a there is a reason for it. This is a complete story of the beginning, the middle(WW II), and the end of a project that took a long time to get started and [... more]
CDN$15.95
Amazon CA |
The Old Way: A Story of the First People
Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8961 EAN: 9780374225520 ISBN: 0374225524 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: 2006-10-19 [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
The Cat Who Cried for Help: Attitudes, Emotions, and the ...
From Amazon.com: Dr. Nicholas Dodman, professor of behavioral pharmacology at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and director of the Behavior Clinic, turns his attention to our feline friends and their mysterious minds in The Cat Who Cried [... more]
CDN$21.00
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