Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human

Elizabeth Hess

ISBN: 9781410406866
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover

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Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human

Elizabeth Hess

ISBN: 9780553803839
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover

A chronicle of an experiment designed to transform the way humans think about animals and humans profiles a young chimpanzee, brought up with a large human family and taught to use sign language proficiently, until the funding for the study ended and he spent the next two decades exiled from his "family" and shuttled in and out of various facilities, including a medical lab. 30,000 first printing.

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Yib's Guide to Mooing: Getting the Most from Virtual Communities on the Internet

Elizabeth Hess

ISBN: 9781412002905
Publisher: Trafford
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover

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Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter

Elizabeth Hess

ISBN: 9780151003372
Publisher: Harcourt
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hardcover

Lost and Found is filled with stories of people and animals interacting with great intensity. The location is a small, rickety animal shelter in upstate New York. Journalist and former arts writer Elizabeth Hess began as a prospective dog owner, turned into a volunteer, and then became the chronicler of the lives of the saints who care for the animals. She brings to life the pets - lively, funny, endearing, and all in jeopardy.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000

Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex

Elizabeth Hess; Barbara Ehrenreich; Gloria Jacobs

ISBN: 9780385184991
Publisher: Anchor Books
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Softcover

This provocative book reveals how the real sexual revolution was initiated by women -- not men -- and how it transformed both our behavior and our understanding of what sex means in our lives.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1986