Through a Window: Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

This is Jane Goodall's account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania in the 1960s. She is the founder of the Gombe Stream Research Centre in Tanzania and the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation.

The distinguished scientist draws on her experiences and spiritual beliefs to explore the higher purpose to life, explaining how this can be best served through a commitment to understand the spiritual ties between humankind and the natural world.

A personal account of thirteen years spent living and working with a family of gorillas in the remote rain forests of the volcanic Virunga Mountains in Africa. Dian Fossey explains her relationship with these shy and affectionate beasts and the ever-constant threat from poachers.

On the occasion of Dr. Jane Goodall's 40th anniversary of research with the chimpanzees of Gombe, The Jane Goodall Institute has joined Stewart Tabori & Chang in paying homage to the woman.

Focusing on social organization, this book compares the bonobo with its better-known relative, the chimpanzee. It points the way to viable alternatives to male-based models of human evolution and adds to the debates on the origin of our species.

We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes? This work looks at the most provocative aspects of human nature - power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality.

It's the animal in us, we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? This book tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.

'I had never planned to become a Savannah baboon when I grew up; instead I assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,' writes the author in this chronicle of a scientist's coming of age in remote Africa. He writes about people and their society as he does about animals and theirs.

In this revised edition, de Waal expands and updates his story of the Arnhem colony of chimpanzees. De Waal reminds readers through his account of the chimps' sexual rivalries and coalitions, and intelligent rather than instinctual actions, that the roots of politics are older than humanity.

Following scientific reasearch the author relates her findings in this fascinating account of her study of a chimpanzee she has called Kanzi.