'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 in Kenya as a young transfer male'. An expert in primate behaviour, Sapolsky sets out to study the relationship between stress and disease. As he observes the Machiavellian politics of the troop, giving the primates biblical names and pinpointing his favourite (Benjamin) and his nemesis (Nebuchadnezzar), he also immerses himself in the society of the neighbouring Masai tribesmen and ventures far from his camp on a series of jaw-dropping adventures. Combining irreverence and humour with the best credentials in his field, Sapolsky writes as originally and vividly about people and their society as he does about animals and theirs. "A Primate's Memoir" is the culmination of over two decades of experience and research - an astonishing masterpiece from the unique talent Oliver Sacks has called 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time.'

A Primate's Memoir : Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert M. Sapolsky

Professionals & Academics

Vintage Books

Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Penguin??Books

Stress, The Aging Brain, And The Mechanisms Of Neuron Death

MIT Press]

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping

Diseases & Physical Ailments

When people burdened with stress start to feel bad physically, it is not just in their minds. Emotional crises bring on specific physical changes in the body. If those stress responses are prolonged or set in motion too often, the resulting wear and tear can lead to digestive and sleeping problems, heart disease, cerebrovascular diseases, reproductive disorders and other illnesses.

Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping

W.H.Freeman & Co.

Author and science writer Robert M. Sapolsky offers answers to various questions that are at once intriguing and perhaps seemingly unrelated. How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What do the mating rituals of prairie dogs tell us about ourselves? Why don't we try new things as we age? How does stress shrink our brains? How does ecology shape human theology? How is the battle of the sexes conducted at the cellular level? "Monkeluv" has all the answers!

Monkeyluv

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Scribner

Junk Food Monkeys and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Headline Book Publishing

Writing in a way that is actually fun and interesting to read, Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford University neuroscientist, explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies numerous physical and emotional afflictions.

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide To Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping

Barnes&Noble Books

Author's life in science, especially with baboons in Africa. By one of the best science writers.

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

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