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GAP's new book, Great Ape Project Census is now available (U.S. Only): GAP's new groundbreaking book documents the living conditions of thousands of great apes across the United States. This book features ape biographies as well as essays by primatologists, ethicists and other experts including Jane Goodall. Order your copies now. Order this book for $10 from GAP or use Pay
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The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond HumanityEdited by Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer The UK Edition of The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity is published by Fourth Estate, London, (1993). ISBN 1-85702-126-6. The Great Ape Project-UK is able to offer copies of the UK Edition for the total price of £10.00 in the UK and £12.50 outside the UK, all prices include post and package. Orders to: The Great Ape Project-UK, |
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The German edition of the book, Menschenrechte für die Großen Menschenaffen "The Great Ape Project", is published by Goldmann, (1994). If you would like a copy of the German edition, please send your order
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The Spanish Edition of the book El Proyecto «Gran
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The French edition of Le Projet Grands Singes published by One Voice in Nantes, France and is available for 20 Euros
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The Great Ape Project: Equality
Beyond Humanity
Paola Cavalieri (Editor), Peter Singer (Editor)
An excellent and easy to read collection of essays provided by a variety of scientific and legal experts who show us the rich emotional and cultural lives of non-human great apes. The Great Ape Project lucidly demonstrates the recognition that it is unconscionable to continue using our nearest living relatives for entertainment, experimentation, teaching, or trade.
The Great Ape Project Census: Recognition for the
Uncounted
Forward by Peter Singer
With contributions by Jane Goodall, Roger Fouts, Francine Patterson, Elliott
Katz, Marc Bekoff, Birute Galdikas and others.
GAP's new groundbreaking book documents the living conditions
of thousands of great apes across the United States. This book features ape
biographies as well as essays by primatologists, ethicists and other experts
including Jane Goodall.
Orangutans in Borneo
Kaplan, Gisela, and Rogers, Lesley
1994, Armidale, NSW, Australia: University of New England Press
A respected survey of altogether remarkable orangutans.
The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates
Noel Rowe
A beautifully illustrated guide to the world's primates
Gorilla: Struggle for Survival in the Virungas
photographs by Michael Nichols and essay by George B. Schaller
1989, Aperture Foundation, Inc.
The Great Apes: Our Face in Nature’s Mirror
Leach, Michael
1996, Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., New York
An interesting non-academic collection of anectodal observations of behavior gathered during the author’s time with his subjects. A thoughtful analysis of the similarities the non-human great apes share with their human counterparts. Great photograph.
National Geographic Society: The Great Apes, Between
Two Worlds
Nichols, Michael (photos & essays)
1993
Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales: Adventures
in Human-Animal Communication
Harrar, George and Linda
1989, Simon and Schuster
Fiction
Ishmael
Daniell Quinn
1992, Bantam Books
A wonderfully insightful fictional book that encourages the reader to re-evaluate man’s treatment of nature.
Easy Reading
(stories and collections of stories about individual great apes)
Next of Kin
Fouts, Roger
1997, New York: William Morrow
The story of Washoe and her “family - if you read one book, read this one.
Reason for Hope
Jane Goodall (with Phillip Berman),
Jane Goodall's memoire chronicling her life with the Chimpanzees of Gombe.
In My Family Tree, A Life with Chimpanzees
Sheila Siddle (with Doug Cress)
An amazing story of the remarkable woman who founded and runs the Chimfunshi sanctuary in Zambia.
Gorillas In the Mist
Dian Fossey
The author's account of her life studying gorillas in the remote African rain forest
Woman in the Mist
Farley Mowat
A biography written after Fossey's tragic death which adds
an interesting dimension of her life.
Scientific or Research Based
The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence
Byrne, Richard
1995, Oxford University Press
A fascinating analysis of the very special kinds of intelligence found in
the nonhuman great apes.
Chimpanzee Cultures
Wrangham, Richard W., and others, editors
1994, Harvard University Press
A remarkable collection of essays from world renowned experts who point out the different kinds of culture found among chimpanzees in the wild.
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in
Humans and Other Animals
de Waal, Frans
1996, Harvard University Press
An insightful study that concludes that nonhuman great apes
and some other animals have social rules and ways of perceiving the world
that constitute the building blocks of morality (long assumed to be the province
of humans alone)
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
De Waal, F. B. M., and Lanting, Frans (photographer)
1997, University of California Press
A thorough account of the most recently discovered species of nonhuman great apes.
'Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes:
Comparative Developmental Perspectives
Parker, Sue Taylor, and Gibson, Kathleen Rita, eds,
1990, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
A respected scholarly collection of highly technical essays about communication and intelligence in our cousin primates.
Legal Issues and Legal Analyses
Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals
Wise, Steven M. 2000, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Merloyd Lawrence/Perseus
A groundbreaking book in the powerful, new field of animal law -- the author’s conclusion is that chimpanzees and bonobos deserve legal rights now.
Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Right
Wise, Steven M.
2002, Cambridge, MA: Perseus)
An expansion of the argument in Rattling the Cage to seven
other species (gorillas, orangutans, elephants, dolphins, dogs, parrots, and
bees).
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