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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: 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...

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...

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: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 —...

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: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work in the field of ethology, King Solomon's Ring presents Nobel Prize-winning...

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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: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew scientists have ever managed to blur the line between rigorous field research and poetic observation as masterfully as Nobel...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Binding intact, no loose pages. No stickers or labels noted. A landmark...

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: 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...

Lorenz Hart singlehandedly changed the craft of lyric writing. When Larry Hart first met Dick Rodgers in 1919, the commercial song lyric consisted of tired cliches and cloying Victorian sentimentality....

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: 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: GoodWhat separates humanity from the animal kingdom — and what, in truth, do we share? Animal Nature and Human Nature...

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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels have so unflinchingly anatomised the suffocating grip of maternal love as D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers....

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 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...

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...

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: 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...

Laurence Olivier portrayed characters that were as diverse as they were memorable. From Hamlet to Heathcliff, from a Nazi dentist in 'Marathon Man' to a cunning mystery writer in 'Sleuth'...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Langton Quartet by Martin Boyd is a four-volume family saga of Australian literary fiction that...

'The perfect mix of funny, foul and fearful' Metro 'Brilliantly imagined ... laugh-out-loud funny' Sunday Express The second book in the bestselling, gorgeously gothic and wickedly funny Amelia Fang series...

Part confessional memoir, part vital guide, No Lost Causes Club is a compassionate exploration of what navigating sobriety looks like in our modern world, from the author behind the popular...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: worn and discoloured boards; frayed and rubbed edges; binding fragile; some moisture damage on the prelims; no loose pages; Few thinkers have...

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...