{"product_id":"a-primates-memoir-a-neuroscientists-unconventional-life-among-the-baboons-9780743202411","title":"A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of savanna baboons.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,\" writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in Africa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, \u003ci\u003eA Primate's Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti--for man and beast alike. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes enamored of his subjects--unique and compelling characters in their own right--and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By turns hilarious and poignant, \u003ci\u003eA Primate's Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert M. Sapolsky is the author of several works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eDetermined\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Trouble with Testosterone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhy Zebras Don't Get Ulcers\u003c\/i\u003e. His book \u003ci\u003eBehave \u003c\/i\u003ewas a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller and named a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. He and his wife live in San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626783445266,"sku":"9780743202411","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_144faf7a-0393-4f66-b0a5-006a04fc21e8.jpg?v=1732669364","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-primates-memoir-a-neuroscientists-unconventional-life-among-the-baboons-9780743202411","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}