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The scandal of clerical abuse of minor age children continues to be widely reported in the media. The cost to the Catholic Church has been dear, both in the payment of billions of dollars and also in the criticism for the handing of the offenders by the Catholic Bishops. The same question arises over and over: Why didn't the Bishops stop these destructive acts? How could these Bishop let these crimes go on?

Explore the wonders of wild Mongolia through the eyes of a distinguished field biologist

The author has spent much of his life traversing wild and isolated places in his quest to understand and conserve threatened species - from mountain gorillas in the Virunga to snow leopards in the Himalaya. In this book, he gives an account of three decades of exploration in the most remote stretches of Tibet.

The author has spent much of his life traversing wild and isolated places in his quest to understand and conserve threatened species - from mountain gorillas in the Virunga to snow leopards in the Himalaya. This book presents his account of three decades of exploration in the most remote stretches of Tibet.

The Deer and the Tiger" is Schaller's detailed account of the ecology and behavior of Bengal tigers and four species of the hoofed mammals on which they prey, based on his observations in India's Kanha National Park. "This book is a treasure house of biological information and it is also a delight to read. . . . Excellent phoographs accompany the text."--Robert K. Enders, "American Scientist" "The one book that has been my greatest source of i...

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The Serengeti Lion" won the National Book Award in 1973. "This is an important book, not just for its valuable information on lions, but for its broad, open, and intelligent approach to problems that cut across the fields of behavior, populations, ecology, wildlife management, evolution, anthropology, and comparative biology. "--Richard G. Van Gelder, "Bioscience

Acknowledgments1: Introduction: Travel and Research in China's Highlands 2: The Tibetan Plateau 3: Chiru (Tibetan Antelope) 4: Tibetan Argali 5: Blue Sheep 6: Tibetan Gazelle 7: Wild Yak 8: White-lipped Deer 9: Wild Bactrian Camel 10: Kiang (Tibetan Wild Ass) 11: The Carnivores 12: Feeding Ecology of Ungulates 13: Phylogeny of Tibetan Steppe Bovids: Morphological and Molecular Comparisons, George Amato14: Phylogeny of Tibetan Steppe Bovids: Be...

Chronicles the author's two years of travel and observation of gorillas in East and Central Africa in the late 1950s, high in the Virunga volcanoes on the Zaire-Rwanda-Uganda border. This edition also features a postscript detailing Schaller's more recent visits with gorillas, current to 2009.

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