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Junk Food Monkeys : And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicamentby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0747258457 (0-7472-5845-7)
Softcover, Headline Book Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Junk Food Monkeys : And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament'Book summary:In this collection of erudite essays on science, the world and our relation to both, behavioural biologist Robert Sapolsky interprets the peculiar drives and intrinsic needs of that most exotic species - homo sapiens. [via]
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Monkeyluv : And Other Essays on Our Lives As Animalsby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0099474557 (0-09-947455-7)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monkeyluv : And Other Essays on Our Lives As Animals'Book summary:How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine's list of America's "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another? What makes one orgasm different from another? Who will be the winner in the genetic war between the sexes?
Welcome to Monkeyluv, a curious and entertaining collection of essays about the human animal in all its fascinating variety, from Robert M. Sapolsky, America's most beloved neurobiologist/primatologist. Organized into three sections, each tackling a Big Question in natural science, Monkeyluv offers a lively exploration of the influence of genes and the environment on behavior; the social and political -- and, of course, sexual -- implications of behavioral biology; and society's shaping of the individual. From the mating rituals of prairie dogs to the practice of religion in the rain forest, the secretion of pheromones to bugs in the brain, Sapolsky brilliantly synthesizes cutting-edge scientific research with wry, erudite observations about the enormous complexity of simply being human. Thoughtful, engaging, and infused with pop-cultural insights, this collection will appeal to the inner monkey in all of us. [via]
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- Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives As Animals: ISBN 0743260163 (0-7432-6016-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Monkeyluv : And Other Essays on Our Lives As Animals: ISBN 0224073656 (0-224-07365-6)
Hardcover, Random House - Monkeyluv: And Other Essays On Our Lives As Animals: ISBN 0743260155 (0-7432-6015-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Monkeyluv : And Other Essays on Our Lives As Animals: ISBN 0099474557 (0-09-947455-7)
Softcover, Random House
- Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives As Animals: ISBN 0743260163 (0-7432-6016-3)
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A Primate's Memoirby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0743202414 (0-7432-0241-4)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Primate's Memoir'Book summary:Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and other popular books on animal and human behavior, decided early in life to become a primatologist, volunteering at the American Museum of Natural History and badgering his high school principal to let him study Swahili to prepare for travel in Africa. When he set out to conduct fieldwork as a young graduate student, though, Sapolsky found that life among a Kenyan baboon troop was markedly different from his earlier bookish studies. Among other things, he confesses, he had to become a master of shooting anesthetic darts into his subjects with a blowgun to take blood samples, a mastery that required him to become "a leering slinky silent quicksilver baboon terror." He also had to learn how to negotiate the complexities of baboon politics, endure the difficulties of life in the bush, and subsist on cases of canned mackerel and beans.
His memoir is, in the main, quite humorous, although Sapolsky flings a few darts along the way at the late activist Dian Fossey--who, he hints, may have indirectly caused the deaths of her beloved mountain gorillas by her unstable, irrational dealings with local people--and at local bureaucrats whose interests did not often coincide with those of Sapolsky's wild charges. It is also full of good information on primates and primatology, a subject whose practitioners, it seems, are constantly fighting to save species and ecosystems. "Every primatologist I know is losing that battle," he writes. "They make me think of someone whose unlikely job would be to collect snowflakes, to rush into a warm room and observe the unique pattern under a microscope before it melts and is never seen again." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboonsby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0224061216 (0-224-06121-6)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Primate's Memoir : A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboons'Book summary:Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and other popular books on animal and human behavior, decided early in life to become a primatologist, volunteering at the American Museum of Natural History and badgering his high school principal to let him study Swahili to prepare for travel in Africa. When he set out to conduct fieldwork as a young graduate student, though, Sapolsky found that life among a Kenyan baboon troop was markedly different from his earlier bookish studies. Among other things, he confesses, he had to become a master of shooting anesthetic darts into his subjects with a blowgun to take blood samples, a mastery that required him to become "a leering slinky silent quicksilver baboon terror." He also had to learn how to negotiate the complexities of baboon politics, endure the difficulties of life in the bush, and subsist on cases of canned mackerel and beans.
His memoir is, in the main, quite humorous, although Sapolsky flings a few darts along the way at the late activist Dian Fossey--who, he hints, may have indirectly caused the deaths of her beloved mountain gorillas by her unstable, irrational dealings with local people--and at local bureaucrats whose interests did not often coincide with those of Sapolsky's wild charges. It is also full of good information on primates and primatology, a subject whose practitioners, it seems, are constantly fighting to save species and ecosystems. "Every primatologist I know is losing that battle," he writes. "They make me think of someone whose unlikely job would be to collect snowflakes, to rush into a warm room and observe the unique pattern under a microscope before it melts and is never seen again." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Psycholgy: a Concise Introduction + Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcersby Robert M. Sapolsky , Richard A. GriggsISBN 0716774526 (0-7167-7452-6)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Deathby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0262193205 (0-262-19320-5)
Hardcover, Bradford Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Death'Book summary:Honorable Mention in the category of Biological Sciences, 1992 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.
Looking beyond the now widely recognized relationships between stress and physical illness, this accessible and engagingly written book suggests that stress and stress-related hormones can also endanger the brain. Strategies to reduce stress and methods to protect neurons from further damage are proposed, and the relevance for humans of the animal research findings are clearly delineated.
Sapolsky provides an extensive review of the recent, exciting data on glucocorticoids, the adrenal steroid hormones (hydrocortisone or cortisol in humans) that are released during stress. Excessive exposure to these hormones can damage the brain and make neurons more vulnerable to neurological insults. The findings he reports and ideas he synthesizes may have profound implications for understanding brain aging and resistance of the brain to the damaging effects of strokes, seizures, and possibly Alzheimer's disease.
In part I Sapolsky focuses on how the failure of glucocorticoid regulation and subsequent excessive secretion combine to cause a complex cascade of degeneration in the brain during aging. In part 11 he addresses the implications of glucocorticoid neurotoxicity for neurology. Each chapter includes a helpful summary of the major points discussed as well as a capsule review of information from the previous chapters.
Robert M. Sapolsky is Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at Stanford University. He is also Research Associate at the Institute for Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, and a MacArthur Fellow. [via]More editions of Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Death:
The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicamentby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0684838915 (0-684-83891-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcersby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0805073698 (0-8050-7369-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers'Book summary:When people burdened with stress start to feel bad physically, it is not just in their minds. Emotional crises bring on specific physical changes in the body. If those stress responses are prolonged or set in motion too often, the resulting wear and tear can lead to digestive and sleeping problems, heart disease, cerebrovascular diseases, reproductive disorders and other illnesses. "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" is Robert Sapolsky's look at the interconnections between emotion and physical well-being. Drawing on the latest research, Sapolsky describes the physical toll associated with emotional turmoil. He also discusses some proven effective ways of learning to moderate the body's responses to stress. This book's balance of biology and psychology, and research-supported suggestions for coping, should make it a helpful guidebook for people worried about worrying themselves sick. [via]
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- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: ISBN 0716727188 (0-7167-2718-8)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co - Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: ISBN 0716732106 (0-7167-3210-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: ISBN 0716723913 (0-7167-2391-3)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co - Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: ISBN 0805073698 (0-8050-7369-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: ISBN 0716727188 (0-7167-2718-8)
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