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Monkey by Desmond Morris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal
The monkey has remarkable intelligence and adaptibility and has enjoyed a close relationship over millennia with human societies. Monkey deities feature prominently in the ancient religions of India, China, Egypt and Central America. Among peoples of tropical Africa, monkey masks and images are still in ...Show more
Owl by Desmond Morris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
From ancient Babylon and the Greek goddess Athena to Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat; from Harry Potter's Hedwig and the grandiloquent, absent-minded Wol from Winnie the Pooh to David Lynch's Twin Peaks, owls are woven into the fabric of human culture. Beautiful, silent, pitiless predators of the ...Show more
Owl by Desmond Morris
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal
'The owls are not what they seem'. From ancient Babylon, to Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" and the grandiloquent, absent-minded Wol from Winnie the Pooh, to David Lynch's "Twin Peaks", owls have woven themselves into the fabric of human culture from earliest times. Beautiful, silent, pitiless ...Show more
Postures - Body Language in Art by Desmond Morris
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Examining the body language displayed in works of art is a whole new way of looking at art. The gestures portrayed can reflect the mores of a particular period in history, the customs of a certain culture or a fashion in artistic styles. Exploring these with masterful subtlety, celebrated artist and ant ...Show more
The Lives of the Surrealists by Desmond Morris
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miró. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It was a way of life - a rebellion against the establishment that had given the world the hideous slaughter of the Fir ...Show more
The Naked Ape : A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris
$23.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A BOOK NO HUMAN ANIMAL DARE MISS READING Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relative to the apes, stripped of his veneer as we see him courting, making love, sleeping, sociallsing, grooming, playing. Zoologist Desmond Morriss classic takes its pl ...Show more
The Naked Man : A study of the male body by Desmond Morris
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
No life form has had a greater impact upon this planet than the human male. What is it that has made his legacy so utterly distinct from that of all other life forms, including even the human female? Following on from the international success of "The Naked Woman", Desmond Morris investigates this intri ...Show more
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