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Author : Richard Kurti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0385744412
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Monkey Wars written by Richard Kurti and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in the United Kingdom by Walker in 2013.
Author : Deborah Blum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198025408
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Monkey Wars written by Deborah Blum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research--vaccines for polio, rubella, and hepatitis B are just a few. But we have also learned more in recent years about how intelligent apes and monkeys really are: they can speak to us with sign language, they can even play video games (and are as obsessed with the games as any human teenager). And activists have also uncovered widespread and unnecessarily callous treatment of animals by researchers (in 1982, a Silver Spring lab was charged with 17 counts of animal cruelty). It is a complex issue, made more difficult by the combative stance of both researchers and animal activists. In The Monkey Wars, Deborah Blum gives a human face to this often caustic debate--and an all-but-human face to the subjects of the struggle, the chimpanzees and monkeys themselves. Blum criss-crosses America to show us first hand the issues and personalities involved. She offers a wide-ranging, informative look at animal rights activists, now numbering some twelve million, from the moderate Animal Welfare Institute to the highly radical Animal Liberation Front (a group destructive enough to be placed on the FBI's terrorist list). And she interviews a wide variety of researchers, many forced to conduct their work protected by barbed wire and alarm systems, men and women for whom death threats and hate mail are common. She takes us to Roger Fouts's research center in Ellensburg, Washington, where we meet five chimpanzees trained in human sign language, and we visit LEMSIP, a research facility in New York State that has no barbed wire, no alarms--and no protesters chanting outside--because its director, Jan Moor-Jankowski, listens to activists with respect and treats his animals humanely. And along the way, Blum offers us insights into the many side-issues involved: the intense battle to win over school kids fought by both sides, and the danger of transplanting animal organs into humans. "As it stands now," Blum concludes, "the research community and its activist critics are like two different nations, nations locked in a long, bitter, seemingly intractable political standoff....But if you listen hard, there really are people on both sides willing to accept and work within the complex middle. When they can be freely heard, then we will have progressed to another place, beyond this time of hostilities." In The Monkey Wars, Deborah Blum gives these people their voice.
Author : Richard Kurti
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0385388489
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Monkey Wars written by Richard Kurti and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Strikingly original” is how Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider series, describes Monkey Wars. “Kurti draws from history to deliver a powerful allegory . . . [and] keeps this effective, memorable tale rooted in reality.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Sustain the weak. Destroy the strong. A dark fable in the vein of Animal Farm, Watership Down, and The Wave, this action-packed page-turner is told entirely from the monkeys’ points of view and shines a light on the politics of power, the rise of tyrants, and the personal dilemmas that must be faced when your life is on the line. When rhesus monkeys are brutally massacred on the dusty streets of Kolkata by a troop of power-hungry langur monkeys, Mico, a privileged langur, becomes entangled in the secrets at the heart of his troop’s leadership and is shocked at what he discovers. He feels compelled to help the few surviving rhesus, especially Papina, a young female he befriends, even though doing so goes against everything he’s been taught. As more blood is spilled, Mico realizes that choosing between right and wrong won’t be easy. Includes a note from the author, as well as interesting monkey species facts. Additional praise for MONKEY WARS “The allure of power—even for the most conscientious—is portrayed with frightening effectiveness. Powerful.”—Kirkus Reviews “An imaginative fable about the nature of power and the responsibility of the individual. With plenty of action . . . a fascinating epilogue . . . [and] striking cover art.” —Booklist “Following in the tradition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, war and politics shape the lives of several monkey troops. An interesting premise that will provide readers with an introduction to fascism and political corruption.” —School Library Journal
Author : Nicolas Langlitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204276
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Chimpanzee Culture Wars written by Nicolas Langlitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades later, starting in the 1980s, Japanese cultural primatology was given a second look as Euro-American primatologists began to debate amongst themselves the question of whether Homo sapiens is the only cultural animal. In the most recent chapter of this controversy, field researchers such as the Swiss primatologist Christophe Boesch have accused experimental psychologists such as Michael Tomasello of underestimating and even denying the capacity of chimpanzees for culture because they limit their studies to captive animals, brought up under cognitively debilitating conditions and tested in laboratory settings bound to favor human test subjects with whom the animals are compared. These controversies raise serious questions about what sort of laboratory culture is best for the study of primate cognition. .
Author : Nina Varela
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062823965
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Crier's War written by Nina Varela and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From debut author Nina Varela comes the first book in a richly imagined epic fantasy duology about an impossible love between two girls—one human, one Made—whose romance could be the beginning of a revolution. Perfect for fans of Marie Rutkoski’s The Winner’s Curse as well as Game of Thrones and Westworld. After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, designed to be the playthings of royals, usurped their owners’ estates and bent the human race to their will. Now Ayla, a human servant rising in the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, dreams of avenging her family’s death…by killing the sovereign’s daughter, Lady Crier. Crier was Made to be beautiful, flawless, and to carry on her father’s legacy. But that was before her betrothal to the enigmatic Scyre Kinok, before she discovered her father isn’t the benevolent king she once admired, and most importantly, before she met Ayla. Now, with growing human unrest across the land, pressures from a foreign queen, and an evil new leader on the rise, Crier and Ayla find there may be only one path to love: war.
Author : Kathy Snow Guillermo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Monkey Business written by Kathy Snow Guillermo and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case that launched the animal rights movement. Working undercover at a research laboratory in 1981, Alex Pacheco's discoveries led to the first criminal prosecution for animal cruelty against a medical researcher.
Author : Carl R. Weinberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501759310
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Red Dynamite written by Carl R. Weinberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that evolutionary thought promoted immoral and even bestial social, sexual, and political behavior. The "fruits" of subscribing to Darwinism were, in their minds, a dangerous rearrangement of God-given standards and the unsettling of traditional hierarchies of power. Despite claiming to focus exclusively on science and religion, creationists were practicing politics. Their anticommunist campaign, often infused with conspiracy theory, gained power from the fact that the Marxist founders, the early Bolshevik leaders, and their American allies were staunch evolutionists. Using the Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a starting point, Red Dynamite traces the politically explosive union of Darwinism and communism over the next century. Across those years, social evolution was the primary target of creationists, and their "ideas have consequences" strategy instilled fear that shaped the contours of America's culture wars. By taking the anticommunist arguments of creationists seriously, Weinberg reveals a neglected dimension of antievolutionism and illuminates a source of the creationist movement's continuing strength. Thanks to generous funding from Indiana University and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author : Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618724834
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)
Download or read book The Wednesday Wars written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns muchof value about the world he lives in.
Author : Carmela Yom-Tov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925846249
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The Sophisticated Monkey written by Carmela Yom-Tov and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, through intriguing experiments and stories, examines the biological, psychological, societal and political triggers of war.
Author : Bob Woodward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439172501
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Obama's Wars written by Bob Woodward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woodward shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455540021
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Lost City of the Monkey God written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017#1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.
Author : Michael J. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1626527067
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Fracking War written by Michael J. Fitzgerald and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran investigative reporter Jack Stafford leaves California to take a job with a newspaper in Upstate New York, where he discovers a citizen rebellion modeling itself after Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. In The Fracking War, activists use sabotage to defend against what they perceive as industrial terrorism, perpetrated by multinational corporations' environmentally damaging practice of hydrofracking for natural gas and oil. Set in the pristine Finger Lakes wine country of New York and neighboring Pennsylvania, Stafford and the newspaper staff witness the tragic impacts of hydrofracking--the health risks, water and air pollution, and a rapid increase in crime. The fictional events of The Fracking War were pulled from newspaper headlines offering a glimpse into an escalating conflict between citizens who want to protect their communities and the out-of-control expansion of the natural gas industry's controversial method of extracting natural gas.
Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671876074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Man-kzin Wars VI written by Larry Niven and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the continuing battle between the humans of Earth and the lethal felines of Kzin.
Author : Terry Grosz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629188959
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Wildlife Wars written by Terry Grosz and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Wildlife Wars," Terry Grosz serves up fascinating stories-alternately hair-raising, hilarious, and heart-wrenching-from his 30-year struggle to protect wildlife in America. A natural storyteller, Grosz writes about the remarkable characters he met-on both sides of the law-as he matched wits with elk poachers, salmon snaggers, commercial-market duck hunters, and a host of other law-breakers. Best of all, though, these stories are so remarkably entertaining you won't want to put them down. Wildlife Wars is the winner of the 2000 National Outdoor Book Award, Nature and the Environment Category.
Author : Kyla Steinkraus
Publisher : Little Birdie Books
ISBN 13 : 9781618101976
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Table Wars! written by Kyla Steinkraus and published by Little Birdie Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Smokey Spaniel flicks a walnut across the cafeteria and hits Shirley Squirrel in the head, her friend Calypso Cat retaliates and starts an all-out food fight, but when they finish they all stay behind to clean up the mess they made.
Author : Richard Kurti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781406346299
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Maladapted written by Richard Kurti and published by . This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Richard Kurti comes an exciting, fast-paced thriller that shows the power science has to change not just our lives, but our very selves. Cillian is the sole survivor of a devastating terrorist attack on a packed Metro train. How did he survive when everyone else was killed? Searching for answers with the mysterious Tess, Cillian discovers that his father has links to P8, a group of genetic scientists operating outside the laws of Foundation City. The shocking discoveries he and Tess make at P8's secret hospital start to make Cillian ask not who he is, but what he is...
Author : David Kherdian
Publisher : Shambhala Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781590302583
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Monkey written by David Kherdian and published by Shambhala Classics. This book was released on 2005-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of Chinese literature, this beloved folktale is part adventure story, part spiritual allegory—now reimagined by a National Book Award nominee Part spiritual pilgrimage, part historical epic, the folk novel Journey to the West, which came to be known as Monkey, is the most popular classic of Asian literature. Originally written in the sixteenth century, it is the story of the adventures of the rogue-trickster Monkey and his encounters with a bizarre cast of characters as he travels to India with the Buddhist pilgrim Tripitaka in search of sacred scriptures. Much more than a picaresque adventure novel, Monkey is a profound allegory of the struggle that must occur before spiritual transformation is possible. David Kherdian's masterful telling brings this classic of Chinese literature to life in a way that is true to the scope and depth of the original.
