The book surveys our current scientific understanding of chimpanzee behavior. Both common chimpanzees and bonobos are covered. I doubt any reasonable person who read this book would challenge the notion that the term "culture" is applicable to chimpanzees. I particularly liked the sections on social relations and cognition. Anyone wanting to understand human behavior would do well to read this book.

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A well done and informative book. An essential book for any ghost hunter. An awesome list of 101 ghostly sites open to the public is in the rear of the book...Well written and documented by one of the most pre-eminent ghost stalkers around.

This book is an extremely complete guide to the current navies in the world. If you want to know every detail about the ships of Brunei, you can find them in this book. There is a comprehensive summary of the world naval situation by Richard Sharpe of the Royal Navy which is very informative. If you can afford this book and are a hardcore naval hobbyist, by all means buy it.

This book is essential to all who desire a complete guide and comprehensive reference.

"Jane's Fighting Ships 2000-2001," edited by Richard Sharpe, is a truly monumental reference work. At about 1,000 richly illustrated pages long, this is one solid book. The bulk of the book consists of alphabetical entries on nations (from Angola to Yugoslavia) with warships and other national waterborne vessels.

The book also contains a color chart of the flags displayed on the ships of each nation, and charts showing the ranks and insignia of each nation's navy, coast guard, and/or maritime police force.

For each nation, the book gives information on the navy and other watergoing forces (key leadership, number of personnel, etc). The book covers the various types of vessels employed in each force, giving a wealth of data on each class of vessel: crew complement, weapons systems, dimensions, etc. There are many full-color photos and labeled drawings.

You'll find detailed data on all types of ships: icebreakers, tugs, small patrol craft, aircraft carriers, destroyers, survey ships, minesweepers, underway replenishment tankers, strategic missile submarines, barracks ships, amphibious assault ships, floating drydocks, salvage ships, hospital ships, and much, much, more. The book even includes the patrol boats used by the Swiss Navy on the lakes of that landlocked nation. There is also information on shipboard aircraft.

Along the way are many fascinating facts about the history and capabilities of various ships. "JFS 00-01" is a truly remarkable, visually stunning compilation of naval information.

This is what the navy brass utilize in studying the ships and navies of the world. It is a thorough and excellent reference to the bluewater navies of the world, but high on the price tag. It is packed full of relavent statistics, data and information for any military enthusiast. Admittedly, my review refers to a slightly older edition. But Jane's consistently proves itself to be better and better year after year.

I am a 11 year old boy who loves to read biogrophys the first time I read this book was when I was 10 and I did this book for a book report. take my advice and read this book I promise you you will like it.

The collection that the Masons have built out of a love of art, craftmanship and wood turns into a real gift to those who do not have the luxury to study these pieces first-hand. The photos of their home shows that their attraction with creation is not limited to wood but to light, paintings and melding life with art.

The photos display the pieces so well that some just seem to glow and brighten on the page. It makes it difficult to look at a tree or salad bowl without imagining the possiblities.

It was a book my Grandmother told me I should read. I just decided to buy it on impulse really, not knowing what I was getting myself into. I opened the book and was immedeately swept into Jane Eyre's world. My mind played out all of the scenes as I read, only a truly masterful piece of work could create images so strongly right from the start. Charlotte Bronte creates a masterful work of art on the pages of this book.

When the book begins, you are taken into Jane's childhood, and given a sense of what it's like to have no love, and no hope of the future. You can actually see the pain on Jane's face. Then at Lowood, you learn with her, and grow with her. Finally, on the night she arrives at Thornfield Hall you are overcome with anticipation for Jane. What is this life going to be like? Then when Edward Rochester appears, you hate him. You can't believe that he talks to her that way. After a while though, things soften, and Miss Bronte introduces a new feeling. Love. The painting seems complete when Jane and Mr. Rochester confess their feelings, and you wonder, what could possibly be better than this? The ending,(which I won't give away)is absolutely breathtaking. I cried for a half an hour when I read it. It was at four in the morning mind you,(the book was so good I could not put it down.)

The characters in the novel are whole, they seem like real people. Charlotte Bronte uses her pen to paint a wonderful picture, one can not help but be engulfed in the color. The book has lasted almost 200 years, I see no reason why it could not last forever. If you ever want to read a classic love story that defines the power of women in literature, then Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is it. I'm 16 years old, and if a teenager can be moved to tears while reading, it must be quite a piece of literature. I walked away feeling like I had taken an amazing journey, and found a new friend in Jane Eyre.

Just imagine. You're reading along, you come to a place in the bok that captures your attention. You're completely engulfed by the story, you're not reading it, you're living it! The "real" world is gone. You hear neither phone nor voice. You feel neither hunger nor thirst. You feel only what the author's pen tells you to feel. You are eager to read on. Your eyes cannot read the enthralling story fast enough. In your frenzied haste to know more, you grip the book tighter and bend it back, cracking the binding.
Years later when you pick the very same book up again, you can tell the scary, happy, or sad parts of the book by the location of the creases. Jane Eyre is such a book. It is one of three or four books who contentend for the multiple-crack champion.

I was assigned to read this book for an AP English class. Although I love to read, class-assigned books had a dubious history with me. Most, I felt, were boring or too pessimistic to find favor with me. I had heard many people talk about the book favorably after having read it in middle school. I put my hope in their past experiences and began to read. Although the first pages did not entirely confirm the praises the book had recieved, the book so far surrpassed my expectations that I finished the book in only a few days time! I would have read non-stop if it had been within my means to do so. When I did get the chance to read, I read as much as I could to the exclusion of food and family sometimes!

You may be wondering what about this book could make me such a fanatic. Well, I could give you deep literary criticism about the symbolism, the metaphors, or the imagery, but that doesn't really help you enjoy the story more, it only rounds out the meaning. Instead, let me tell you why you want to read this book.

This book combines passion and logic. An odd combination that don't often go together. Jane Eyre starts out in life full of passion and emotions, through torture and schooling, she learns to control her feelings and be ruled by logic. As she moves through life she struggles to find a balance between what her emotions tell her and what logic demands. Logic helps her through times when she feels abandoned and emotions guide her back to love when the tables are turned.
This book skillfully combines elements from nearly all genre and is sure to please anyone. It has action, romance, comedy, suspence, even the supernatural! This book is sure to put cracks in YOUR binding

I just finished reading "Jane Eyre" for my grade twelve English class. I borrowed the book from my school library. About four chapters into the book, I returned the novel to the library, and went out that night to get my own copy.

I cannot express in words how this novel has touched my heart. The musical nor the movie will never ever return the stirring of emotion that I felt for Jane's character while reading it from the creative and romantic mind of Charlotte Brontë. I did cry when Jane witnessed the death of her very best friend, Helen Burns, in Lowood School. I felt bitter and angry when Mr. Rochester did not tell Jane about his first wife, but I also felt relieved when Jane and Mr. Rochester rekindled their love to face a new life together.

If there is one novel that will ever touch my heart, look at my life as a woman, and respect the heroics that women of past ages have undergone, this is the novel.

Jane Eyre: this will be a novel respected for ages to come.