Search Results for: “Konrad Lorenz”

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat drives living creatures — from fish to primates — to fight, dominate, and destroy their own kind? In On...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated naturalists comes a landmark work that forever changed the scientific understanding of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat drives animals — and humans — to fight, dominate, and destroy? In On Aggression, Nobel Prize-winning ethologist...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the intersection of instinct and intelligence lies one of the most ambitious scientific undertakings of the twentieth century —...

Author: Konrad Z. LorenzBinding: SoftbackPublished: Time-Life Books Inc., 1980Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents groundbreaking observations on animal behavior. It offers insights into the intricate...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work in the field of ethology and behavioural science, On...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to know — and how did the human mind evolve the capacity to do...

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Konrad Lorenz, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1973, was an important 20th-century pioneer of ethology, the investigation of animal behavior in the wild. Here Am I--Where Are...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat compels a predator to hunt, a human to love, or an animal to flee? Motivation of Human and Animal Behavior: An Ethological View...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst published in 1872, Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals stands as one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat drives humanity to both extraordinary acts of cooperation and catastrophic violence? The Biology of Peace and War: Men, Animals, and Aggression by renowned...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat drives human beings to love, fight, bond, and communicate across every culture on Earth? Human Ethology presents a sweeping scientific investigation into the biological...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat drives the courtship rituals of a stickleback fish, the aggression of a fighting cichlid, or the tender embrace of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat drives the behavior of all living creatures — from the territorial displays of a silverback gorilla to the tender embrace of two human lovers? Ethology:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the relentless theatre of nature, survival hinges on deception — and no book captures this truth more...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat compels human beings to wage war, commit acts of cruelty, and turn violence upon one another — even in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Light chipping - jacket still bright.What compels a human being to bond, to fight, to nurture, or to...

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Author: Richard Krautheimer, Trude Krautheimer-HessBinding: PaperbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor markings to end-pages.Richard Krautheimer, in collaboration with Trude Krautheimer-Hess, presents a...

The operatic life of the librettist for Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro. In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York....

By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover and libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, and ultimately the librettist...

Author: Judith HookBinding: HardbackPublished: HAMISH HAMILTON, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA compelling historical biography, Lorenzo De' Medici: An Historical Biography chronicles the life and profound influence of...

In his most recent works Lorenzo Puglisi reinterprets masterpieces of art history and icons from the collective visual memory. With the painting Il Grande Sacrificio, the Italian artist shares his...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of the Mexican-American War and the mid-nineteenth century American Southwest, The Wine...

From lifestyle and fashion icon Lauren Conrad-#1 New York Times bestselling author of Lauren Conrad Celebrate and Lauren Conrad Style -comes a must-read guide how to feel and look your...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most formidable intellects of the twentieth century, Erwin Panofsky permanently transformed...

In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the intersection of clarity and rigour stands Deductive Forms: An Elementary Logic, a foundational text that instructs students...

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Thirty years from now and the effects of climate change are overwhelming the planet - but so are the global efforts to combat it. For young Americans a generation from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast, sun-scorched deserts of Central Asia, a vanished city holds the secrets of an entire civilisation...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of mathematics and mechanical physics lies one of the most rigorous treatments of deformable solid...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when D. H. Lawrence's reputation remained fiercely contested, F. R. Leavis mounted one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA richly textured portrait of a vanished city, London Particulars transports the reader back to the teeming, fog-laden streets of early twentieth-century London through...

Edition: uncorrected proofCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe bloodiest two days of the American Civil War come roaring back to life in Don...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the gritty, coal-dusted landscape of Nottinghamshire at the turn of the twentieth century, Sons...