"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves seri...(展开全部)

"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves seri...(展开全部)

Stanford professor Sapolsky, research associate with Kenya's Institute of Primate Research, tells what it's like to spend 20 years studying, and living amidst, a troop of baboons. His main objective is to study the relationship between stress and disease and he reinvents the traditional field research study with this daring memoir. The realities of African field research, the p...(展开全部)

'I had never planned to become a Savannah baboon when I grew up; instead I assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,' writes Robert Sapolsky in this riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming of age in remote Africa. Upon graduating from college, a booksmart and naive Sapolsky leaves the comforts of the Northeastern United States for the very first time, to join a baboon troop...(展开全部)

温妮斯蒂·马丁博士。于密歇根大学主修人类学，后于耶鲁大学取得比较文学与文化研究博士学位，侧重于人类学、人类学史与精神分析史的研究。长居纽约，有超过二十年的写作与社会研究经验。常在《今日秀》（Today）、《早安美国》（Good Morning America）、CNN、全国公共广播电台（NPR）、NBC News、BBC Newshour、福克斯新闻（Fox News）等媒体探讨亲子教育话题。另著有《Stepmonster》一书。目前与丈夫和两个儿子定居纽约市。

温妮斯蒂·马丁博士。于密歇根大学主修人类学，后于耶鲁大学取得比较文学与文化研究博士学位，侧重于人类学、人类学史与精神分析史的研究。长居纽约，有超过二十年的写作与社会研究经验。常在《今日秀》（Today）、《早安美国》（Good Morning America）、CNN、全国公共广播电台（NPR）、NBC News、BBC Newshour、福克斯新闻（Fox News）等媒体探讨亲子教育话题。另著有《Stepmonster》一书。目前与丈夫和两个儿子定居纽约市。

Dugard recounts, in her own words, her story of being kidnapped on June 10, 1991. She was 11 years old.

He was fixture on television for over 30 years, co-hosting Siskel & Ebert at the Movies until Gene Siskel's death in 1999, and then with Richard Roper until 2006. Since 1967, he's been an influential film critic (and was the first to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism.) In 2006, complications from thyroid-cancer treatment resulted in the loss of ability to eat, drink,...(展开全部)

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Commu-nities has changed the way we think about the reason why people live, die and kill in the name of nation-hood. Born in China, Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was e...(展开全部)

When she was very young, Baby Halder was abandoned by her mother and left with a cruel, abusive father. She was married off at twelve to a man twice her age who beat her. At fourteen, she was a mother herself. Her early life was marked by overwhelming challenges and heartbreak until, exhausted and desperate, she fled with her three children to Delhi, to work as a maid in some o...(展开全部)