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Books by Robert Sapolsky
  | | Behave(Reprint) The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky Paperback, 800 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311091-0, ISBN: 0-14-311091-8 "The New York Times bestseller“It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal"It has my vote for science book of the year.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times"Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it." —Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington PostNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal From the ..." |
 | | Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition(3rd Edition) by Robert M. Sapolsky Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2004 by Holt Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7369-0, ISBN: 0-8050-7369-8 "A distinguished primatologist explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions including ulcers colitis heart disease depression and memory loss and addresses how to combat it Reprint 30 000 first printing Janie thought she knew what her future held And she thought she d made her peace with it But she can t handle dragging Cabel down with her She knows he will stay with her despite what she ..." |
 | | A Primate's Memoir(Reprint) A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2002 by Scribner Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-0241-1, ISBN: 0-7432-0241-4 "Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and other popular books on animal and human behavior, decided early in life to become a primatologist, volunteering at the American Museum of Natural History and badgering his high school principal to let him study Swahili to prepare for travel in Africa. When he set out to conduct fieldwork as a young graduate student, though, Sapolsky found that life among a Kenyan baboon ..." |
 | | The Trouble With Testosterone(1st Edition) And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predicament by Robert M. Sapolsky, Carol Gilligan, Lyn Mikel Brown Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1998 by Scribner Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83891-5, ISBN: 0-684-83891-5 "In The Trouble with Testosterone, Robert M. Sapolsky draws from his career as a behavioral biologist to interpret the peculiar drives and intrinsic needs of that most exotic species - Homo sapiens. With candor, humor, and lush observations, these essays marry cutting-edge science with a rich and compassionate humanity. Sapolsky's book ranges broadly over the web of life, studying its details and plotting its themes. "Curious George's Ph ..." |
 | | Behave(1st Edition) The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky Paperback, 800 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-09-957506-1, ISBN: 0-09-957506-X "THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA ground-breaking synthesis of the entire science of human behaviour by 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time' (Oliver Sacks) -- 'It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read' Wall Street JournalWhy do we do what we do? Behave is at once a dazzling tour and a majestic synthesis of the whole science of human behaviour. Brought to life through simple langu ..." |
 | | Monkeyluv(1st Edition) And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals by Robert M. Sapolsky Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2005 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-6015-2, ISBN: 0-7432-6015-5 "How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine's list of America's "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another? What makes one orgasm different from another? Who will be the winner in the genetic war between the sexes? Welcome to Monkeyluv, a curious and ..." |
 | | Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers(2nd Edition) An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. Sapolsky, Naomi Feil Paperback, 434 Pages, Published 1998 by W. H. Freeman ISBN-13: 978-0-7167-3210-5, ISBN: 0-7167-3210-6 "Why don't zebras get ulcers--or heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases--when people do? In a fascinating look at the science of stress, biologist Robert Sapolsky presents an intriguing case: that people develop such diseases partly because our bodies aren't designed for the constant stresses of a modern-day life--like sitting in daily traffic jams or growing up in poverty. Rather, they seem more built for the kind of short-t ..." |
 | | Junk Food Monkeys and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament(Updated) by Robert M. Sapolsky Paperback, 247 Pages, Published 1998 by Headline Book Publishing Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7472-5845-2, ISBN: 0-7472-5845-7 |
 | | The TROUBLE WITH TESTOSTERONE(1st Edition) And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament by Robert M. Sapolsky Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1997 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83409-2, ISBN: 0-684-83409-X "As a professor of biology and neuroscience at Stanford and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," Robert Sapolsky carries impressive credentials. Best of all, he's a gifted writer who possesses a delightfully devilish sense of humor. In these essays, which range widely but mostly focus on the relationships between biology and human behavior, hard and intricate science is handled with a deft touch that makes it accessible ..." |
 | | Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers(Reprint) A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. Sapolsky Paperback, 367 Pages, Published 1995 by W H Freeman & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-7167-2718-7, ISBN: 0-7167-2718-8 "Why don't zebras get ulcers--or heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases--when people do? In a fascinating look at the science of stress, biologist Robert Sapolsky presents an intriguing case: that people develop such diseases partly because our bodies aren't designed for the constant stresses of a modern-day life--like sitting in daily traffic jams or growing up in poverty. Rather, they seem more built for the kind of short-t ..." |
 | | Determined A Science of Life Without Free Will (Hardback or Cased Book) by Robert M. Sapolsky Hardcover, 529 Pages, Published 2023 by Penguin Press October 2023 ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56097-5, ISBN: 0-525-56097-1 "Now, in Determined, Sapolsky takes his argument all the way, mounting a brilliant (and in his inimitable way, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self telling our biology what to do." |
 | | A Primate's Memoir Love, Death and Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2019 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-5291-1230-6, ISBN: 1-5291-1230-3 "FROM AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, BEHAVE'Remarkable... A Primate's Memoir is the closest the baboon is likely to come - and it's plenty close enough - to having its own Iliad' The New York Times Review of Books'One of the best scientist-writers of our time' Oliver SacksBrooklyn-born Robert Sapolsky grew up wishing he could live in the primate diorama in the Museum of Natural History. At school he wrote fan letters to primato ..." |
 | | A Primate's Memoir(Updated) Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa by Robert M. Sapolsky Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-09-928577-9, ISBN: 0-09-928577-0 "'I had never planned to become a Savannah baboon when I grew up; instead I assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,' writes Robert Sapolsky in this riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming of age in remote Africa. Upon graduating from college, a booksmart and naive Sapolsky leaves the comforts of the Northeastern United States for the very first time, to join a baboon troop in Kenya as a young transfer male'. An expert in primate be ..." |
 | | A Primate's Memoir by Robert M. Sapolsky Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2001 by Jonathan Cape ISBN-13: 978-0-224-06121-6, ISBN: 0-224-06121-6 |
 | | Junk Food Monkeys And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament by Robert M. Sapolsky Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1997 by Headline ISBN-13: 978-0-7472-7676-0, ISBN: 0-7472-7676-5 |
 | | Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers(1st Edition) A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. Sapolsky Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 1994 by W H Freeman & Co (Sd) ISBN-13: 978-0-7167-2391-2, ISBN: 0-7167-2391-3 "For a terrified zebra sprinting away from a lion, a stressor is an immediate physical emergency and the stress-response - changes that occur in the body at such times - is brilliantly adaptive for dealing with that sort of crisis. But to a surprising extent, we humans turn on the same sort of response when feeling stressed out about mortgages or relationships or our own mortality, and at those times the stress-response is anything but h ..." |
 | | Monkeyluv(1st Edition) And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals by Robert M. Sapolsky Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by Scribner Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-6016-9, ISBN: 0-7432-6016-3 "How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does "People" magazine's list of America's "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another? What makes one orgasm different from another? Who will be the winner in the genetic war between the sexes? Welcome to "Monkeyluv," a curious ..." |
 | | Monkeyluv(1st Edition) And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals by Robert M. Sapolsky Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by Vintage Books Import ISBN-13: 978-0-09-947455-5, ISBN: 0-09-947455-7 "Described by Oliver Sacks as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time', Robert M. Sapolsky here presents the human animal in all its quirkiness and diversity. In these remarkable essays, Sapolsky once again deploys his compassion and insights into the human condition to tell us who, why and how we are. Monkeyluv touches on themes such as sexuality, aggression, love, parenting, religion, ageing, and mental illness. He ponders such ..." |
 | | Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Death (Bradford Books) by Robert M. Sapolsky Hardcover, 441 Pages, Published 1992 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-19320-7, ISBN: 0-262-19320-5 "Honorable Mention in the category of Biological Sciences, 1992 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Looking beyond the now widely recognized relationships between stress and physical illness, this accessible and engagingly written book suggests that stress and stress-related hormones can also endanger the brain. Strategies to reduce stress and methods to p ..." |
 | | Consuming Fears(1st Edition) The Politics of Product Risks by Harvey M. Sapolsky, Robert M. Sapolsky Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 1986 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-01411-8, ISBN: 0-465-01411-9 "Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 241 pages; Description: x, 241 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Product safety --Products liability. Signed and inscribed by the author." |
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