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.[...]
Presents man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape, remarkable in his resilience, energy and imagination, yet an animal nonetheless, in danger of forgetting his origins. This work provides insights on man's beginnings, sex life, habits and our astonishing bonds to the animal kingdom.[...]
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.[...]
The Naked Woman builds on Desmond Morris' unrivalled experience as an observer of the human animal. In this, his latest book, he turns his attention and skill to the female form, taking the reader on a guided tour 'from head to toe'.[...]
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[...]
"Child" explores the world of young children aged from 2 to 5 as they emerge from toddlerdom and start out on the long road to independence. These early years are a time when their capacity for learning and sheer exuberance for life are unparalleled and this insightful guide contains a wealth of inf[...]
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 definitive guide to the great apes and how they compare with us, their closest living relatives. Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans are only a hair's breadth away from us in evolutionary terms; our DNA differs by just a few percent. These fascinating creatures hold up a mirror to huma[...]
"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[...]
An updated edition of the controversial 1969 bestseller that studies the startling parallels between "civilized" humans and captive animals.[...]
The monkey has remarkable intelligence and adaptibility and has enjoyed a close relationship over millennia with human societies. Monkey deities feature prominently in the ancient religions of India, China, Egypt and Central America. Among peoples of tropical Africa, monkey masks and images are stil[...]
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[...]
The owls are not what they seem. From ancient Babylon to Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat and the grandiloquent, absent-minded Wol from Winnie the Pooh to David Lynch's Twin Peaks, owls have woven themselves into the fabric of human culture from earliest times. Beautiful, silent, pitiless pred[...]
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[...]
Forlaget skriver: Kvindekroppen er det brillante slutprodukt af millioner af års evolution. Den er fyldt med forbløffende tilpasninger og underfundige detaljer. Det er den mest bemærkelsesværdige organisme på planeten.
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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[...]