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Baby: A Portrait of the Amazing First Two Years of Life by Desmond Morris
Category: Herron Books
Popular science meets parenting in this fascinating and beautiful book. Covering a baby's first two years with retrospective glimpses of life in the womb, it details the incredible changes that occur as development progresses. Desmond Morris' thought-provoking book sets out the astonishing facts with ou ...Show more
Baby: A Portrait of the Amazing First Two Years of Life by Desmond Morris
Category: Pregnancy
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 time. ...Show more
Bison / Desmond Morris by Desmond Morris
Category: Natural History | Series: Animal Ser.
Stoic, regal, and formidable in size and strength, the bison has long epitomized the American West. Perhaps this is even more so because we have, in our avarice, nearly destroyed them all, and are now seeking to restore their populations. From spiritual figure to abused resource to powerful symbol of wi ...Show more
Cats in Art by Desmond Morris
Category: Animals & Nature
The cat--that most graceful, stubborn, and agile of animals--has long been a favorite subject of artists the world over from prehistory to the modern day. A spectacular 7,000-year-old engraving in Libya depicts a catfight. Figures modelled by the Babylonians remind us of their belief that the souls of p ...Show more
Child by Desmond Morris
Category: Parenting
"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 informa ...Show more
Intimate Behaviour by Desmond Morris
Category: Animals & Nature
One of the best chronicles of human intimacy--from the handshake through the twelve stages that people pass through on their way to the total sexual embrace.
Lives of the Surrealists by Desmond Morris
Category: Art and Design
Surrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment that gave rise to the First World War. In Lives of the Surrealists, Desmond Morris concentrates on the artists as people--as remarkable individuals. What were their perso ...Show more
Naked Ape - Zoologist's Study of??? by MORRIS Desmond
Category: Science
This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relative to ...Show more
Owl by Desmond Morris
Category: Animals & Nature
From ancient Babylon and the Greek goddess Athena to Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat; from Harry Potter's Hedwig and the grandiloquent, absent-minded Wol from Winnie the Pooh to David Lynch's Twin Peaks, owls are woven into the fabric of human culture. Beautiful, silent, pitiless predators of the ...Show more
Owl by Desmond Morris
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Animal
'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 ...Show more
Planet Ape by Desmond Morris
Category: Animals SPECIALS
"Planet Ape" brings you face to face with your closest living relatives, the Great Apes. Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang-utans are only a hair's breadth away from us in evolutionary terms; our DNA differs by just a few per cent. These fascinating creatures hold up a mirror to humanity, giving u ...Show more
Postures - Body Language in Art by Desmond Morris
Category: Art and Design
Examining the body language displayed in works of art is a whole new way of looking at art. The gestures portrayed can reflect the mores of a particular period in history, the customs of a certain culture or a fashion in artistic styles. Exploring these with masterful subtlety, celebrated artist and ant ...Show more