Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons Philosophers or simply to understand the

or simply to understand the rules of the game

tranquility of mind

The Meditations

Dostoevsky constructed this superbly nuanced work

this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel

Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons Philosophers or simply to understand theIn the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty one years in remote Kenya with a troop of savanna baboons. "I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming of