Following Fifi

Following Fifi
Author: John Crocker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1681776138

An exhilarating quest into a remote African forest to examine chimpanzees and understand the roots of human behavior. As a young student, John Crocker embarked on the adventure of a lifetime, spending eight months in the Gombe forest working with Jane Goodall. He followed families of wild chimpanzees from sunrise to sunset and learned the fundamental behavioral traits of these chimps as they raised their offspring. One chimpanzee captivated him. Her name was Fifi, and she displayed extraordinary patience and reassurance toward her infant, Freud. Upon returning home and becoming a doctor, Crocker found himself incorporating the lessons he learned from Fifi into his work as a father and physician. Crocker shares how his time spent with our closest animal cousins has helped him better understand his patients with ADD, anxiety, and depression, and how primate traits hardwired into our own natural behavior help chimpanzees protect their community, raise their young, and survive. Finally, chronicling his return to Gombe thirty-six years later with his own son, he reflects on how his experience with the chimps has come full circle. An illuminating book that will raise thought-provoking questions about the evolution of human behavior and the importance of patience and strong family bonds, Following Fifi provides a greater understanding of what it means to be human.

The Fortunes of Fifi

The Fortunes of Fifi
Author: Molly Elliot Seawell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1903
Genre: Actresses
ISBN:

Everyone Can Draw

Everyone Can Draw
Author: Fifi Kuo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-07-23
Genre: Drawing
ISBN: 9781910716960

"This book celebrates the art of drawing. Find out what works for you and draw, draw, draw!"--Back cover

The Reader

The Reader
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 664
Release: 1903
Genre: Literature
ISBN:

The Ethics of the Environment

The Ethics of the Environment
Author: Robin Attfield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351890417

This book brings together over thirty of the foremost contributions to environmental ethics, from pioneering papers to recent work at the cutting edge of thought in this field. It also unites them through an innovative introductory essay which appraises both strengths and weaknesses and presents a distinctive view of the subject. Areas covered include the land ethic, Deep Ecology, biocentric approaches, environmental virtue ethics, feminist contributions, debates on equity and on the interests and representation of future generations, preservation, sustainability and sustainable development. The importance of attempts to discover a comprehensive ethic relevant both to the environment and other key areas of ethical debate is highlighted. Robin Attfield has been working in this field for thirty years, and has published several related collections and monographs, of which the latest is Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century, published by Polity in 2003. The Ethics of The Environment complements that work, from which it incorporates a significant extract about the considerable practical difference that environmental ethics is capable of making.

Tale of “Jeannette”

Tale of “Jeannette”
Author: Aysa Florez
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1490744363

This story tells about what had ensued in the first quarter of XX-Century. Back then the world was shaken by the crisis of Great Economic Depression. In that period all the republics have been swallowed by unemployment, with numerous of workforces were sacked from their jobs. But most importantly those citizens' last savings were lost. It has resulted that people would look for a better life elsewhere. So, how once upon a time, there was this tragic story about young people, who too were sacked from their jobs; and yet they become sailors. Yet, they are decided to go navigating on the ship "Jeannette", without assuming what will result from their recklessness and antagonistic action.