Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas
9 best books like Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas (Sy Montgomery): The Dutch House, Quichotte, The Undiscovered Self, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Last Words, Il tempo materiale, The Big Wave, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe, The Nobodies: A Novel
| Author | Ann Patchett |
| ISBN | 0062963678 |
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant...
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes...
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0451217322 |
In his classic, provocative work, Dr. Carl Jung-one of psychiatry's greatest minds-argues that the future depends on our ability to resist society's mass movements. Only by understanding our unconscious inner nature-"the undiscovered self"-can we gain the self-knowledge that is antithetical...
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
| Author | Judith Lewis Herman |
| ISBN | 0465087302 |
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims.
In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book...
| Author | George Carlin |
| ISBN | 1439172951 |
As one of America’s preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it. Last Words is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century, blending his signature acerbic humor with never-before-told...
| Author | Giorgio Vasta |
| ISBN | 8875211884 |
Nel 1978, in una Palermo preistorica e selvaggia, tre ragazzini pieni di passione e ideologia si affacciano al mondo per la prima volta. Tra loro c'è Nimbo - precoce, impaziente, ferino - che attraversa il geroglifico della città convinto di essere un eletto.
Da Palermo, Nimbo e i suoi amici sentono...
| Author | Pearl S. Buck |
| ISBN | 0064401715 |
Kino lives on a farm on the side of a mountain in Japan. His friend, Jiya, lives in a fishing village below. Everyone, including Kino and Jiya, has heard of the big wave. No one suspects it will wipe out the whole village and Jiya's family, too. As Jiya struggles to overcome his sorrow, he understands it is...
| Author | Jennifer Lindsey |
| ISBN | 1556709471 |
Produced in association with the Jane Goodall Institute on the occasion of Goodall's 40th anniversary of groundbreaking research with the chimpanzees of Gombe, this beautifully illustrated volume traces her work from its singular beginnings to the Jane Goodall Institute's present-day international...
| Author | Liza Palmer |
| ISBN | 1250169844 |
"Liza Palmer's voice is fresh, exciting, and necessary. She's a must-read author." --Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the Six
If there's one thing Joan Dixon knows about herself, it's that she is a damn good journalist. But when she is laid off from yet another soon-to-be-shuttered...
