By Charles Saylan, OCS Executive Director and Daniel T. Blumstein, OCS Scientific Advisor
THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SELECTED BY TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF 2011 "SUMMER READING: 7 EDUCATION BOOKS TO TAKE TO THE BEACH" (A.J. Rotherham, Time Magazine, July 14, 2011)
The Faliure of Environmental Education is one of the most important books written to date about why environmental education has failed and why if we don't do better we, other animals, and fragile, magnificent, and complex ecosystems and webs of nature are doomed. The authors are renowned experts in this field and we should be thankful to them for taking the time to write this excellent and forward-looking book. Read it, read it again, and share widely. It is that important.- M. Bekoff, author and scientist
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By Maddalena Bearzi, OCS President and Craig B. Stanford - new in paperback!
Beautiful Minds explains how and why apes and dolphins are so distantly related yet so cognitively alike and what this teaches us about another large-brained mammal: Homo sapiens.
"To see the world from someone else's point of view is hard enough but how much harder when that viewpoint is that of a marine dweller with flippers or an ape whose cognition is based on leaf-centered survival in a rainforest? Hand-signed chimp communications and distinguishing imitation from emulation are two of the topics covered here, the first book to investigate the lives of the dolphins and apes in parallel. It explains why both have big brains and, as far as possible, what is must be like to be them. Fascinating." - A. Barnett, New Scientist
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