Morris makes a great song and dance about the 'outrage' with which his book was first received. Why, he wonders, are people so resistant to contemplating, in the cool light of scientific 'objectivity', their 'animal nature'? However, Morris' claim to neutrality is highly suspect. He urges us to lear...
Desmond Morris's 1967 science bestseller NAKED APE deserves some credit for being ahead of its time, but 46 years later, the avalanche of more readable, and more information dense works has notably diminished its appeal. not an absolute horrible read, at the same time, the book can't be recommended ...
I don't know what sort of re-packaged edition I read originally, but it was a short, coffee-table sized hardback, with full-sized, four-colour photos of women's pupils dilating. It seems men automatically find the same photo of a woman, but with larger pupils, more attractive. I thought I'd discover...
Riveting read. Sure puts everything in perspective.
An easily read book on what makes a cat tick...or more accurately purr. It's a nice little reference book structured with questions and answers on almost any area of cat behavior. Now I know why my cats leave dead mice on the door step and why they make that weird chattering sound when they watch bi...
Fun to read and full of interesting speculations, but basically unscientific. I disagree with almost all of his conclusions. He tends to invent just-so stories, and then act like they're proven fact rather than what they are... interesting speculation. Still a good page turner that is a lot of go...
I'm with John on this:I suppose all reviews of this book must open up with the fact that it is dated - considerably. Many of the speculations and theories put forward in the text have since fallen out of favor or been outright dismissed. But as with all science books from an older era, this is not t...
I spent a year in Marbury, a non-authoritarian school modelled on Summerhill. It was all too weird for words. Next time any of you wonder why I don't know what continent Spain is in, or why places that are further away have times that are closer or...keep in mind that my geography text book for the ...
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