The Encyclopedia includes the following features: * Over 1,400 pages of informative articles arranged alphabetically for convenient location of information * 283 separate articles commissioned especially for this volume and thoroughly peer ...

Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains text with translation of De Motu Animalium, Aristotle's attempt to lay the groundwork for a general theory of the explanation of animal activity, along with commentary and ...

Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves.

This book presents a theoretical perspective. It reviews an enormous amount of research which establishes unequivocally that intrinsic motivation exists.

Frans de Waal opens our hearts and minds to the many ways in which humans and other animals are connected.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your ...

"Mothers and Others" looks to a line of apes who began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors.

astonishing feat of detective work reveals how a founder of the Bronx Zoo wound up writing. The passing of the Great Race (1916), the book that the Nazis later used to justify the exterminationist policies of the Third Reich.

This lavishly illustrated trade reference to mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and invertebrates features hundreds of glorious photos, masterful illustrations, and informative maps.

Evolution also features strong, balanced coverage of population genetics, and scores of new applied plant and animal examples make this edition even more accessible and engaging.