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  • Violence, Conflict, and World Order

    Critical Conversations on State Sanctioned Justice

    by Mahin Ashki, Tom Barker, Robert Bohm, Joan Callahan, Jeff Ferrell, David Friedrichs, Carole Garrison, Mark Hamm, Victor Kappeler, Peter Kraska, Raymond Michalowski, Karen Miller, Gary Potter, Thomas Reed, Randall Shelden, Gregg Barak, Walter S. DeKeseredy ...
    This is an ethnographic collection of 12 edited talks and conversations from a conference on violence, conflict, and the world order held at Eastern Kentucky University. The conference was organized by Carole Garrison, Chair of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at EKU, who arranged for video recording and transcription of the talks and conversations. The collection is divided into two parts: ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Animal Behaviour

    An Evolutionary Perspective

    by Peter M. Kappeler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This textbook presents all basic principles of animal behaviour in a clear and concise manner and illustrates them with up-to-date examples. Emphasis is placed on behavioural biology as an integrative discipline of organismic biology, focusing on the adaptive value of behaviours that facilitate resource access, predator avoidance and reproductive success and underlie parental care, all within a ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Long-Term Field Studies of Primates

    Edited by Peter M. Kappeler, David P. Watts ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Some primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life cycles or even multiple generations. In this volume, leading field workers report on the history and infrastructure of their projects in Madagascar, Africa, Asia and South America. More importantly, they provide summaries of their long-term research efforts on primate behaviour, ecology and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Coordination in Human and Primate Groups

    Edited by Margarete Boos, Michaela Kolbe, Peter M. Kappeler, Thomas Ellwart ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Coordination in Human and Primate Groups presents one of the first collections of the different approaches and methods used to assess coordination processes in groups. Written by psychologists and primatologists, the book represents a broad range of coordination research fields such as social psychology, work and organizational psychology, medicine, primatology, and behavioural ecology. It is ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Mind the Gap

    Tracing the Origins of Human Universals

    Edited by Joan Silk, Peter Kappeler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume features a collection of essays by primatologists, anthropologists, biologists, and psychologists who offer some answers to the question of what makes us human, i. e. , what is the nature and width of the gap that separates us from other primates? The chapters of this volume summarize the latest research on core aspects of behavioral and cognitive traits that make humans such unusual ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • The Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque

    Edited by Jin-Hua Li, Lixing Sun, Peter M. Kappeler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana), which had continued for over 30 years, but which had never been reported on systematically. Dedicated to this exceptional Old World monkey, this book makes the work of Chinese primatologists on the social behavior, cooperation, ... Read more

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  • Animal Evolution

    Genomes, Fossils, and Trees

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  • Principles of Animal Behavior, 4th Edition

    by Lee Alan Dugatkin ...
    Since the last edition of this definitive textbook was published in 2013, much has happened in the field of animal behavior. In this fourth edition, Lee Alan Dugatkin draws on cutting-edge new work not only to update and expand on the studies presented, but also to reinforce the previous editions’ focus on ultimate and proximate causation, as well as the book’s unique emphasis on natural selection ... Read more

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  • Developmental Plasticity and Evolution

    by Mary Jane West-Eberhard ...
    The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change. This book solves key problems ... Read more

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  • Reintroduction Biology

    Integrating Science and Management

    Edited by John G. Ewen, Doug P. Armstrong, Kevin A. Parker, Philip J. Seddon ...
    Series Book 11 - Conservation Science and Practice
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