Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist

5 best books like Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist (John Brockman): Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals

Author	Robert M. Sapolsky
ISBN	0743260163

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...

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Author

Richard Dawkins

The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's Tale takes us modern humans...

Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

Author	Frans de Waal
ISBN	1594481962

From a scientist and writer E.O. Wilson has called "the world authority on primate social behavior" comes a fascinating look at the most provocative aspects of human nature through our two closest cousins in the ape family. From "one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior" (Desmond Morris)...

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Author	Wassily Kandinsky
ISBN	0486234118

A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and...

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Author	Richard W. Wrangham
ISBN	0395877431

Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closest living relatives, the great apes, Demonic Males offers some startling new answers. Dramatic, vivid,...