This is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and innermost feelings with their bodies and actions.[...]

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.[...]

Presents a study of the masculine body from head to toe, examining biological features of the male anatomy. This book describes the many ways in which these features have been modified, suppressed, or exaggerated by local customs and changes in social fashions. It also examines male sexuality.[...]

"A startling view of man, stripped of the facade we try so hard to hide behind." In view of man's awesome creativity and resourcefulness, we may be inclined to regard him as descended from the angels, yet, in his brilliant study, Desmond Morris reminds us that man is relative to the apes--is in fac[...]

Babies are amazing, with incredible potential for growth and extraordinary powers of development. Desmond Morris's visually stunning and thought-provoking book sets out the astonishing facts to make you marvel at the complexity of the human body and a baby's ability to achieve so much in so little t[...]

"The astonishing story of a baby's first two years." Renowned zoologist and scholar of human behavior Desmond Morris ("The Naked Ape") reveals a baby's incredible powers of development and extraordinary growth patterns. Through informed text and stunning photographs and artworks, this insightful re[...]

The leopard is the ultimate cat. It makes the lion and the tiger appear overblown and all the other members of the cat family look puny. Whereas lions hunt in the open and then share their kill, the leopard is solitary, stealthy and selfish. This cat ambushes its prey and then carries it high into a[...]

Praktbok om barnets to første leveår Den britiske zoologen og etnologen Desmond Morris har nå skrevet bok om barnets to første leveår. Her tar han for seg utviklingen av sanseapparatet og motorikken, og undersøker hvordan barn lærer og hva som skjer under tilknytningen mellom foreldre og barn[...]

Zoologen Desmond Morris är världsberömd för sina populärt skrivna böcker om människors och djurs beteenden. I denna vackert illustrerade bok beskriver han barnets fysiska, känslomässiga och sociala utveckling under de första två åren. Han[...]