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  • The Naked Ape

    A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

    by Desmond Morris ...
    Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal - in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relative to the apes, stripped of his veneer as we see him courting, making love, sleeping, socialising, grooming, playing.Zoologist Desmond Morris's classic takes its place alongside Darwin's Origin of the Species, presenting man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape, remarkable in his resilience, ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • The Human Zoo

    by Desmond Morris ...
    This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Intimate Behaviour

    by Desmond Morris ...
    One of the best chronicles of human intimacy--from the handshake through the twelve stages that people pass through on their way to the total sexual embrace. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Peoplewatching

    The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language

    by Desmond Morris ...
    Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and innermost feelings with their bodies and actions, often more powerfully than with their words. ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Naked Woman

    by Desmond Morris ...
    The human female form is the brilliant end-point of millions of years of evolution, loaded with amazing adjustments and subtle refinements. It is the most remarkable organism on the planet. At different times and in different places, human societies have tried to improve on nature, modifying and embellishing the female form in a thousand different ways. In this new study, people-watcher Desmond ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Catwatching

    Why Cats Purr and Other Feline Mysteries Explained

    by Desmond Morris ...
    This book, the first in the popular Watching series, explains everything from why cats purr to why we say it's raining cats and dogs. 26 black-and-white photographs. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Bodytalk

    A World Guide to Gestures

    by Desmond Morris ...
    The first book to bring together the many different everyday gestures that are used all over the world. Desmond Morris has travelled to over 60 countries while making field studies of human body language, and made notes of hand gestures and facial expressions. The result is a fascinating reference book of over 600 different gestures from Europe, the Middle East, North & South America and the Far ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Babywatching

    by Desmond Morris ...
    Desmond Morris combines his skills as a zoologist and manwatcher to take a close look at the most remarkable life-form ever to draw breath on this planet - the human baby. In a revealing portrait of life from the baby's point of view, Desmond Morris answers the questions that parents ask: How important is a mother to her baby? How well can babies hear, smell and taste? Why do babies cry? And what ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The British Surrealists

    by Desmond Morris ...
    The lives, loves, and works of key British Surrealists revealed by one of the last surviving members of this movement, best-selling author and artist Desmond Morris.Honored for their idiosyncratic and imaginative works, the surrealists marked a pivotal moment in the history of modern art in Britain—pioneering the Surrealist movement between World War I and II. Many artists banded together to form ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Owl

    by Desmond Morris ...
    Series Book 32 - Animal
    ‘The owls are not what they seem.’ From ancient Babylon to Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat and the grandiloquent, absent-minded Wol from Winnie the Pooh to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, owls have woven themselves into the fabric of human culture from earliest times. Beautiful, silent, pitiless predators of the night, possessing contradictory qualities of good and evil, they are enigmatic ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Monkey

    by Desmond Morris ...
    Series Book 56 - Animal
    The monkey has remarkable intelligence and adaptibility and has enjoyed a close relationship over millennia with human societies. Monkey deities feature prominently in the ancient religions of India, China, Egypt and Central America. Among peoples of tropical Africa, monkey masks and images are still in use in various ceremonies, dances and rituals. Monkeys are present in the human arts of carving ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Horsewatching

    Why Does a Horse Whinny and Everything Else You Ever Wanted to Know

    by Desmond Morris ...
    How intelligent are horses? Why do they toss their heads and what makes them paw the ground?After spending more than twenty years studying the body language of the human species, Desmond Morris turned his attention to the behavior of some of our closest animal companions. First he looked at dogs, then cats, and in this book, horses. As Curator of Mammals at the London Zoo, he was able to study ... Read more

    $16.99 USD