Narrow your search

Library

LUCA School of Arts (4)

Odisee (4)

Thomas More Kempen (4)

Thomas More Mechelen (4)

UCLL (4)

VIVES (4)

VUB (4)

KBR (2)

UGent (2)

CaGeWeB (1)

More...

Resource type

book (9)


Language

English (8)

Dutch (1)


Year
From To Submit

2018 (1)

2013 (1)

2003 (1)

1998 (1)

1997 (1)

More...
Listing 1 - 9 of 9
Sort by

Book
A Mad people's history of madness
Author:
ISBN: 0822953315 0822934442 9780822974253 0822974258 9780822934448 9780822953319 Year: 1982 Publisher: Pittsburgh : London : University of Pittsburgh Press ; Feffer and Simmons,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the testimony of a mere stranger, "a London citizen" is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and allegedly mad people is a comprehensive overview of the history of mental illness for the past five hundred years-from the viewpoint of the patients themselves.


Book
The ghosts of Gombe
Author:
ISBN: 9780520969964 0520969960 9780520297715 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oakland, California

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall's famous chimpanzee research camp in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania, East Africa, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later, her body was found floating in a pool at the base of a high waterfall. With careful detail, The Ghosts of Gombe reveals for the first time the full story of day-to-day life in Goodall's wilderness camp-the people and the animals, the stresses and excitements, the social conflicts and cultural alignments, and the astonishing friendships that developed between three of the researchers and some of the chimpanzees-during the months preceding that tragic event. Was Ruth's death an accident? Did she jump? Was she pushed? In an extended act of literary forensics, Goodall biographer Dale Peterson examines how Ruth's death might have happened and explores some of the painful sequelae that haunted two of the survivors for the rest of their lives.


Book
A mad people's history of madness
Author:
Year: 1982 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the testimony of a mere stranger, “a London citizen” is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and allegedly mad people is a comprehensive overview of the history of mental illness for the past five hundred years - from the viewpoint of the patients themselves. Dale Peterson has compiled twenty-seven selections dating from 1436 through 1976. He prefaces each excerpt with biographical information about the writer. Peterson's running commentary explains the national differences in mental health care and the historical changes that have take place in symptoms and treatment. He traces the development of the private madhouse system in England and the state-run asylum system in the United States. Included is the first comprehensive bibliography of writings by the mentally ill.

Genesis II, creation and recreation with computers
Author:
ISBN: 0835924343 Year: 1983 Publisher: Reston, Va. Reston Publishing

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Demonic males : apes and the origins of human violence
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0747533016 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Giraffe reflections
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0520956966 9780520956964 9781299677395 1299677398 9780520266858 0520266854 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The most comprehensive book on giraffes to appear in the last fifty years, this volume presents a magnificent portrait of a group of animals who, in spite of their legendary elegance and astonishing gentleness, may not entirely survive this century.Dale Peterson's text provides a natural and cultural history of the world's tallest and second-biggest land animals, describing in detail their biology and behavior. He offers a new perspective on the giraffes' place in our world, and argues for the stronger protection of these imposing yet endangered creatures and their elusive forest relatives, the okapis.Some 120 stunning photographs by award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann capture the grace and elegance of Giraffa camelopardalis. Both beautiful and informative, the images document giraffes' complex interactions with each other and their environment.

Eating Apes.
Authors: ---
ISBN: 1282358006 9786612358005 0520938429 9780520938427 9781282358003 0520243323 9780520243323 0520230906 9780520230903 6612358009 Year: 2003 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Eating Apes is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes-chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned exposé details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for only about one percent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Supported by compelling color photographs by award-winning photographer Karl Ammann, Eating Apes documents the when, where, how, and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. Eating Apes persuasively argues that the American conservation media have failed to report the ongoing collapse of the ape population. In bringing the facts of this crisis and these impending extinctions into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to our closest relatives.


Book
Agressieve mannetjes : over mensapen en de oorsprong van geweld bij de mens.
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9057120224 Year: 1998 Publisher: Amsterdam : Nieuwezijds,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Listing 1 - 9 of 9
Sort by