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  • The Hare with Amber Eyes

    A Hidden Inheritance

    by Edmund de Waal ...
    A New York Times BestsellerAn Economist Book of the YearCosta Book Award Winner for BiographyGalaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots—which are then sold, collected, and handed on—he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Living with Contradiction

    An Introduction to Benedictine Spirituality

    by Esther de Waal ...
    A modern interpretation the Rule of St. Benedict to infuse Christian spirituality to all aspects of our daily livesThese simple and inviting reflections on the Rule of St. Benedict take as their starting point our search for wholeness in a world that is fragmented and increasingly polarized. Many people today struggle to balance the demands of professional and personal lives, and find little ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

    In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

    by Frans de Waal ...
    In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution.For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Mama's Last Hug

    Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

    by Frans de Waal ...
    **A New York Times Bestseller and winner of the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"Game-changing." —Sy Montgomery, New York Times Book Review**Mama’s Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. Her story and others like it—from dogs “adopting” the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Seeking God

    The Way of St. Benedict

    by Esther de Waal ...
    Bestseller!For over fifteen hundred years St. Benedict's Rule has been a source of guidance, support, inspiration, challenge, comfort and discomfort for men and women. It has helped both those living under monastic vows and those living outside the cloister in all the mess and muddle of ordinary, busy lives in the world. Esther de Waal's Seeking God serves as an introduction to this life-giving ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Different

    Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

    by Frans de Waal ...
    **Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"Every new book by Frans de Waal is a cause for excitement, and this one is no different. A breath of fresh air in the cramped debate about the differences between men and women. Fascinating, nuanced, and very timely." —Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind: A Hopeful History**In Different, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Bird Brain

    An Exploration of Avian Intelligence

    by Nathan Emery ...
    This surprising look at the intelligence and behavior of birds is "a winner . . . the illustrations are excellent—dramatic, informative, and fun" (Frank Gill, author of Ornithology).One of Forbes 's Best Books About Birds and Birding of the YearBirds have not been known for their high IQs, which is why a person of questionable intelligence is sometimes called a "birdbrain." Yet in the past two ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Pause at the Threshold

    by Esther de Waal ...
    "A threshold is a sacred thing," goes the traditional saying of ancient wisdom. In some corners of the earth, in some traditional cultures, and in monastic life, this is still remembered. But in our fast-paced modern world, this wisdom is often lost on us. It is important for us to remember the significance of the threshold. While it is certainly true that thresholds mark the end of one thing and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Amsterdam Noir

    by Herman Koch, Hanna Bervoets, Abdelkader Benali, Michael Berg, Simon de Waal, Christine Otten ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    This anthology of new noir fiction set in the Dutch capital "features superior writing from authors largely unknown to an American audience" ( Publishers Weekly).From its numerous coffee shops where drugs are openly available, to its world-famous Red Light District where prostitutes display themselves in shop windows, Amsterdam is a city where almost anything goes in broad daylight. And yet, this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

    by Frans de Waal ...
    A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The AtlanticHailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Hare with Amber Eyes (Illustrated Edition)

    A Hidden Inheritance

    by Edmund de Waal ...
    The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestsellerTwo hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great-uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a far more dramatic story than he could ever have imagined.From a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Our Inner Ape

    A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

    by Frans de Waal ...
    One of the world’s great primatologists and a renowned expert on social behavior in apes presents the provocative idea that our noblest qualities—generosity, kindness, altruism—are as much a part of our nature as our baser instincts.As genetically similar to man as the chimpanzee, the bonobo has a temperament and a lifestyle vastly different from those of its genetic cousin. Where chimps are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook