Author:
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9780962090097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Presents brief articles which provide information on the countries that make up Central and South America including history, government, geography, climate, industry, people, and miscellaneous facts.
Monkeyshines on Central and South America
Author:
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9780962090097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Presents brief articles which provide information on the countries that make up Central and South America including history, government, geography, climate, industry, people, and miscellaneous facts.
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9780962090097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Presents brief articles which provide information on the countries that make up Central and South America including history, government, geography, climate, industry, people, and miscellaneous facts.
Monkeyshines on Music and Great Musicians
Author:
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781888325010
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Presents brief articles which provide information on various topics about music. Includes information on instruments, musical forms, types of music, and selected musicians.
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781888325010
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Presents brief articles which provide information on various topics about music. Includes information on instruments, musical forms, types of music, and selected musicians.
Monkeyshines on United States History from 1945 to 2000
Author: Phyllis B. Goldman
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781888325195
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781888325195
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Manipulative Monkeys
Author: Susan Perry
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060385
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
With their tonsured heads, white faces, and striking cowls, the monkeys might vaguely resemble the Capuchin monks for whom they were named. How they act is something else entirely. They climb onto each other's shoulders four deep to frighten enemies. They test friendship by sticking their fingers up one another's noses. They often nurse--but sometimes kill--each other's offspring. They use sex as a means of communicating. And they negotiate a remarkably intricate network of alliances, simian politics, and social intrigue. Not monkish, perhaps, but as we see in this downright ethnographic account of the capuchins of Lomas Barbudal, their world is as complex, ritualistic, and structured as any society. Manipulative Monkeys takes us into a Costa Rican forest teeming with simian drama, where since 1990 primatologists Susan Perry and Joseph H. Manson have followed the lives of four generations of capuchins. What the authors describe is behavior as entertaining--and occasionally as alarming--as it is recognizable: the competition and cooperation, the jockeying for position and status, the peaceful years under an alpha male devolving into bloody chaos, and the complex traditions passed from one generation to the next. Interspersed with their observations of the monkeys' lives are the authors' colorful tales of the challenges of tropical fieldwork--a mixture so rich that by the book's end we know what it is to be a wild capuchin monkey or a field primatologist. And we are left with a clear sense of the importance of these endangered monkeys for understanding human behavioral evolution.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060385
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
With their tonsured heads, white faces, and striking cowls, the monkeys might vaguely resemble the Capuchin monks for whom they were named. How they act is something else entirely. They climb onto each other's shoulders four deep to frighten enemies. They test friendship by sticking their fingers up one another's noses. They often nurse--but sometimes kill--each other's offspring. They use sex as a means of communicating. And they negotiate a remarkably intricate network of alliances, simian politics, and social intrigue. Not monkish, perhaps, but as we see in this downright ethnographic account of the capuchins of Lomas Barbudal, their world is as complex, ritualistic, and structured as any society. Manipulative Monkeys takes us into a Costa Rican forest teeming with simian drama, where since 1990 primatologists Susan Perry and Joseph H. Manson have followed the lives of four generations of capuchins. What the authors describe is behavior as entertaining--and occasionally as alarming--as it is recognizable: the competition and cooperation, the jockeying for position and status, the peaceful years under an alpha male devolving into bloody chaos, and the complex traditions passed from one generation to the next. Interspersed with their observations of the monkeys' lives are the authors' colorful tales of the challenges of tropical fieldwork--a mixture so rich that by the book's end we know what it is to be a wild capuchin monkey or a field primatologist. And we are left with a clear sense of the importance of these endangered monkeys for understanding human behavioral evolution.
A Child's Story of the Animal World
Author: Edward Greene Huey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Monkeyshines on Strange and Wonderful Facts
Author: Phyllis B Goldman
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9780962090028
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Monkeyshines on Strange & Wonderful Facts, 98 page volume of fascinating facts & miscellany, interesting reference alternative, illus. 8.95 plus 1.00 p/h (ISBN 0-9620900-2-6). Also available, Monkeyshines on the United States Presidents (Games, Puzzles & Trivia) illus., 98p. Interesting, informative & enjoyable view of the lives & work of the first 40 U.S. Presidents 12.95 plus 1.00 p/h (ISBN 0-9620900-1-8).
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9780962090028
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Monkeyshines on Strange & Wonderful Facts, 98 page volume of fascinating facts & miscellany, interesting reference alternative, illus. 8.95 plus 1.00 p/h (ISBN 0-9620900-2-6). Also available, Monkeyshines on the United States Presidents (Games, Puzzles & Trivia) illus., 98p. Interesting, informative & enjoyable view of the lives & work of the first 40 U.S. Presidents 12.95 plus 1.00 p/h (ISBN 0-9620900-1-8).
Children's Books in Print, 2007
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835248518
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835248518
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
American English Compendium
Author: Marv Rubinstein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442232838
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
The American English Compendium is a fun way to explore the nuances of the English language—learn that a group of lions is called a pride; a group of whales, a pod; and a group of owls, a parliament. Distinguish between a quack and a shyster. Learn that “tabling a motion” in a U.S. court has an opposite meaning from the same term in England. This book picks up where other language dictionaries leave off: it includes common proverbs, a sampling of American English versus British English, popular American expressions and slang, acronyms, and varied information on everything from wildlife to currency. In this new edition, the staples have been updated and fresh chapters have been added, with information on pronunciation, oddball English words, and even some of the new Internet terminology, including Twitterspeak.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442232838
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
The American English Compendium is a fun way to explore the nuances of the English language—learn that a group of lions is called a pride; a group of whales, a pod; and a group of owls, a parliament. Distinguish between a quack and a shyster. Learn that “tabling a motion” in a U.S. court has an opposite meaning from the same term in England. This book picks up where other language dictionaries leave off: it includes common proverbs, a sampling of American English versus British English, popular American expressions and slang, acronyms, and varied information on everything from wildlife to currency. In this new edition, the staples have been updated and fresh chapters have been added, with information on pronunciation, oddball English words, and even some of the new Internet terminology, including Twitterspeak.
New York Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Fauna
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description