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  • Song of the Bird Pipe

    by Steven W. Wise ...
    Hattie Wax is the type of woman that people cross the street to avoid. Loud and unapologetically fierce about her convictions, she makes people uncomfortable. When the esteemed local judge makes frequent use of the gallows, attempting to bring law and order to Arkansas in the 1880s, Hattie frequents the executions, vehemently opposing the sentences and offering comfort to the condemned. Labeled as ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Cortical Evolution in Primates

    What Primates Are, What Primates Were, and Why the Cortex Changed

    by Dr Steven P. Wise ...
    Cortical Evolution in Primates provides a stand-alone resource for neuroscience graduate students and established neuroscientists who have an interest in cortical evolution and primates. Discussions of both cortical evolution and primates often rely on terms and concepts unfamiliar to many neuroscientists, but such readers will have no need to look elsewhere to understand the text or figures in ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Animal Ethics and Animal Law

    by A. W. H. Bates, Mariah Rayfield Beck, Alice Collinson, Danielle Duffield, David Favre, Angela Fernandez, Robyn Hederman, Lena Hehemann, Stephanie O’Flynn, Maureen O’Sullivan, Solana Joy Phillips, Frances M.C. Robinson, Rebecca Stanton, Kenneth Valpey, Matthew J. Webber, Ruaidhrí D. Wilson, Steven M. Wise, Oliver Langworthy, Randall Lockwood ...
    Animal law is a growing discipline, as is animal ethics. In this wide-ranging book, scholars from around the world address the intersections between the two. Specifically, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, the book is edited by the Oxford Centre’s directors, Andrew Linzey and ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Evolution of Memory Systems

    Ancestors, Anatomy, and Adaptations

    by Elisabeth A. Murray, Steven P. Wise, Kim S. Graham ...
    Series series Oxford Psychology Series
    Current theories about human memory have been shaped by clinical observations and animal experiments. This doctrine holds that the medial temporal lobe subserves one memory system for explicit or declarative memories, while the basal ganglia subserves a separate memory system for implicit or procedural memories, including habits. Cortical areas outside the medial temporal lobe are said to function ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Evolutionary Road to Human Memory

    by Elisabeth A. Murray, Steven P. Wise, Mary K. L. Baldwin, Kim S. Graham ...
    We tend to think about memory in terms of the human experience, neglecting the fact that we can trace a direct line of descent from the earliest vertebrates to modern humans. But the evolutionary history that we share with other vertebrates has left a mark on modern memory, complemented by unique forms of memory that emerged in humans. This book tells an intriguing story about how evolution shaped ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Rattling The Cage

    Toward Legal Rights For Animals

    by Steven M. Wise ...
    The scholar and author of An American Trilogy makes the case to establish legal rights for chimpanzees and bonobos.Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Thing

    Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood

    by Sam Machado, Steven M. Wise, Cynthia Machado ...
    Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely. Like all elephants, Happy has a complex mind and a deep social, intellectual, and emotional life; she desires to make choices and has a sense of self-recognition. But like all nonhuman animals, Happy is considered a thing in the eye of the law, with no fundamental rights. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex

    Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight

    by Richard E. Passingham, Steven P. Wise ...
    Series series Oxford Psychology Series
    The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the authors argue that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that particular ancestors of ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

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    by John Montgomery, David Bodznick ...
    The cerebellum is an intriguing component of the brain. In humans it occupies only 10% of the brain volume, yet has approximately 69 billion neurons; that is 80% of the nerve cells in the brain. The cerebellum first arose in jawed vertebrates such as sharks, and early vertebrates also have an additional cerebellum-like structure in the hindbrain. Shark cerebellum-like structures function as ... Read more

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  • The Outsiders

    by S. E. Hinton ...
    THE ICONIC INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 25 MILLION COPIES SOLD • The inspiration for the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical! A heroic coming-of-age novel revolving around friendship, belonging, and brotherhood that has touched the hearts of readers for generations.“The Outsiders transformed young-adult fiction.”—The New York Times“This remarkable novel gives a moving, credible view of the ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Intelligence

    Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

    by Max S. Bennett ...
    “I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow“I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A truly novel, beautifully crafted thesis on what intelligence is and how it has developed ... Read more

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  • Wilde Nights in Paradise

    by Tonya Burrows ...
    Series Book 1 - Wilde Security
    Former Marine Jude Wilde's motto has always been "burn bridges and never look back," so nobody is more surprised when Wilde Security is hired to protect assistant district attorney Libby Pruitt, the woman he loved and left. Although she makes it clear she wants nothing to do with Jude, they're forced to fake a relationship for her safety. He can't ignore the heat still simmering between them, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD