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A leading zoologist takes a fierce and often humorous look at the females of the animal kingdom and subverts the prevailing opinion among evolutionary biologists who have insisted that males are more interesting.
"An eye-opening book on sex and gender in the animal kingdom. Viewing animal behavior through the lens of stereotypical sex roles has skewed science for a long time and is still continuing today. Cooke describes a wealth of interesting studies tha..."
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"A new, very readable translation of the Chinese classic novel. Enjoy the antics of the monkey king as he helps a Buddhist monk on his journey to India in search of holy scriptures without being chopped to pieces or getting turned into dumplings."
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"A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now in a thrilling new one-volume translation A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal...