Nim Chimpsky
The Chimp Who Would Be Human
Written by Elizabeth Hess
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
An adorable baby chimp, a loving family, and an
experiment that changed the lives of all it touched…
Project Nim, the brainchild of a Columbia University psychologist, was designed to refute Noam Chomsky’s claim that language is an exclusively human trait. Nim Chimpsky, the chimpanzee chosen to realize this potentially groundbreaking experiment...
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Nim Chimpsky
The Chimp Who Would Be Human
Written by Elizabeth Hess
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $23.00
Could an adorable chimpanzee raised from infancy by a human family bridge the gap between species—and change the way we think about the boundaries between the animal and human worlds? Here is the strange and moving account of an experiment intended to answer just those questions, and the astonishing biography of...
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Nim Chimpsky
The Chimp Who Would Be Human
Written by Elizabeth Hess
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $13.00
Could an adorable chimpanzee raised from infancy by a human family bridge the gap between species—and change the way we think about the boundaries between the animal and human worlds? Here is the strange and moving account of an experiment intended to answer just those questions, and the astonishing biography of...
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Songs of the Gorilla Nation
My Journey Through Autism
Written by Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2005
Price: $13.95
In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment, as a young woman, when she entered the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and became immediately fascinated with the gorillas. By observing them and, later, working with them, Prince-Hughes was finally able to...
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Songs of the Gorilla Nation
My Journey Through Autism
Written by Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
“This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people’s autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it.”
In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces...
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