The Hungry Ape


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Radical new view of human society, relating the biochemical and biological changes in animals that result from stresses such as food shortages and overcrowding to the rise and fall of human civilisations. Discusses guinea pig and primate behaviour under stress, and the mechanisms that control animal and human populations. The author has also written TCutting Edge'.




What Will They Franchise Next?


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"It takes issue with much of the conventional wisdom in business thinking, such as the central role of marketing, the need for secrecy and the focus on price. Instead, it stresses the importance of personal values in driving success"--Back cover.




The Hungry Snake


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This friendly snake is very hungry! Come along as he tries to solve his craving for just the right meal that will not only satisfy his empty tummy, but also give young readers a fun story they will want to tell again and again. As soon as the last page is read, children beg to act the story out, taking turns as the hungry snake, the grasshopper, or the many animals the snake meets along the way. Children can use their creativity to come up with different animals and what they kindly offer the hungry snake to try. This book is perfect for teaching, sharing, and creativity during family time, at home or in the car. It is also a great addition to learning in the classroom!




The Humanitarian


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Planet Without Apes


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Planet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. Leading primatologist Craig Stanford warns that extinction of the great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans—threatens to become a reality within just a few human generations. We are on the verge of losing the last links to our evolutionary past, and to all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them. The crisis we face is tantamount to standing aside while our last extended family members vanish from the planet. Stanford sees great apes as not only intelligent but also possessed of a culture: both toolmakers and social beings capable of passing cultural knowledge down through generations. Compelled by his field research to take up the cause of conservation, he is unequivocal about where responsibility for extinction of these species lies. Our extermination campaign against the great apes has been as brutal as the genocide we have long practiced on one another. Stanford shows how complicity is shared by people far removed from apes’ shrinking habitats. We learn about extinction’s complex links with cell phones, European meat eaters, and ecotourism, along with the effects of Ebola virus, poverty, and political instability. Even the most environmentally concerned observers are unaware of many specific threats faced by great apes. Stanford fills us in, and then tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future.




Seeker


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A small boy is abandoned into great peril under a great city. The 7aEUR"yearaEUR"old feral boy is captured by a criminal childaEUR"seller. He is involved in a traffic accident where he is misidentified as a privileged person and is given expensive medical care. When it is discovered that he does not deserve the treatment, he is "Debt Bonded" into an international military antiaEUR"terrorist force. He matures and becomes a famous warrior. The warrior goes into a violent combat assignment and is injured by a land mine which amputates both of his legs. The protagonist is used in the lunar orbit construction of the first spaceship ever launched from Earth. His great skill and luck causes him to be kidnapped and to be included in the chemicalaEUR"preserved crew of the spaceship. Many years later the spaceship Seeker is attracted to an unaEUR"named planet. The protagonist is awakened and manages to safely land the spaceship which was never meant to land by highlyaEUR"improbable means. The protagonist wakes the crew and defends the ship's invasion by huge insects. The protagonist is altered by the bugs, his missing legs are replaced and his immortal body is greatly modified. The protagonist is confronted by a planetary computer which had remained hidden in fear. The MegaComputer relates a history of the races killed on the planet. The computer controls the entire planet and gives a ring of preserved orbiting spaceships to the Seeker crew. The preserved spaceships in orbit are used in two separate fleets of 1440 connected ships, one to resettle the vacant planets of the dead sentients and the second to rescue the population of Earth for resettlement on new planets. The protagonist and all Seekers are cloned to 3500 clones by the computer to man the 2880 spaceships. The protagonist and the computer discovers the computer data representing 32 species of sentient beings and the method of their revival of each of them. The oldest race recorded the physical and mental computer data before a fatal ray killed all sentient life on the planet. The protagonist and the computer awake a percentage of the "dead" sentients for spaceship crews. After a long return flight, the protagonist finds that the glacial Earth is poisoned by radiation and all the few remaining people must be cloned to safely leave Earth. The protagonist has succeeded in the revival of the murdered species and the resettlement of the known Universe and great explorations. The protagonist has rescued the glacial and radioactive Earth. The protagonist has conquered death, distance, time and the future. The book pauses before the following books concerning the details and adventures of particular selected subjects. If you believe that one picture is worth a thousand words, you must also believe that it takes a thousand words to make a picture!




Apes and Human Evolution


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In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men are essentially killer apes—sophisticated but instinctively aggressive and destructive beings. Situating humans in a broad context, Tuttle musters convincing evidence from morphology and recent fossil discoveries to reveal what early primates ate, where they slept, how they learned to walk upright, how brain and hand anatomy evolved simultaneously, and what else happened evolutionarily to cause humans to diverge from their closest relatives. Despite our genomic similarities with bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas, humans are unique among primates in occupying a symbolic niche of values and beliefs based on symbolically mediated cognitive processes. Although apes exhibit behaviors that strongly suggest they can think, salient elements of human culture—speech, mating proscriptions, kinship structures, and moral codes—are symbolic systems that are not manifest in ape niches. This encyclopedic volume is both a milestone in primatological research and a critique of what is known and yet to be discovered about human and ape potential.







Intelligence and Technology


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In this volume, Robert J. Sternberg and David D. Preiss bring together different perspectives on understanding the impact of various technologies on human abilities, competencies, and expertise. The inclusive range of historical, comparative, sociocultural, cognitive, educational, industrial/organizational, and human factors approaches will stimula




Souls and the Universe


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The world soul in this book means an entity, quite distinct from the dead body, which exist after death. The inquiry about soul in this book based on relevant scientific discoveries, especially those of the 20th century, and the facts of nature, which all human beings can observe by themselves. It is a very important subject for every one's life. If the an nalysis of soul in this book is correct, it can help bring more peace and happiness to everyone, both during the remainder of this life and in future lieves