Authors:Frans B. M. de Waal, Frans Lanting,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: ape, forgotten, bonobo
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1998-10-27
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0520216512
ISBN-13: 9780520216518

Primatologist Frans de Waal and wildlife photographer Frans Lanting present the most up-to-date perspective available on the bonobo, the least known of the great apes. 75 color plates.

Authors:Frans B. M. de Waal, Frans Lanting,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: ape, forgotten, bonobo
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1997-05-23
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0520205359
ISBN-13: 9780520205352

This remarkable primate with the curious name is challenging established views on human evolution. The bonobo, least known of the great apes, is a female-centered, egalitarian species that has been dubbed the "make-love- not-war" primate by specialists. In bonobo society, females form alliances to intimidate males, sexual behavior (in virtually every partner combination) replaces aggression and serves many social functions, and unrelated groups mingle instead of fighting. The species’s most striking achievement is not tool use or warfare but sensitivity to othe

Authors:Frans Van Coetsem, Frans Van Coetsem, Linda R. Waugh
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Keywords: contributions, cornell, linguistic, materials, issues, historical, linguistics
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1980-06
List price: $71.00
ISBN-10: 9004061304
ISBN-13: 9789004061309

Authors:Frans Theuws, Frans Theuws, Janet L. Nelson,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: transformation, roman, world, ages, middle, power, antiquity, rituals
Number of Pages: 516
Published: 1999-12
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 9004109021
ISBN-13: 9789004109025

This is a collection of papers by leading archaeologists and historians of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, discussing, analyzing and criticizing modern interpretations of early medieval rituals and their material correlates. Some deal with rituals relating to death, life cycles and the circulation in other contexts of objects otherwise used in the burial ritual. Others are concerned with the symbolism and ideology east of the Rhine from the mid-5th century onwards, and penance rituals in relation to Carolingian episcopal discourse on ecclesiastical power and morale. All deal with the

Author: Frans de Weert
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: finance, series, wiley, trading, options, exotic
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2008-04-25
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0470517905
ISBN-13: 9780470517901

Written by an experienced trader and consultant, Frans de Weert’s Exotic Options Trading offers a risk-focused approach to the pricing of exotic options. By giving readers the necessary tools to understand exotic options, this book serves as a manual to equip the reader with the skills to price and risk manage the most common and the most complex exotic options. De Weert begins by explaining the risks associated with trading an exotic option before dissecting these risks through a detailed analysis of the actual economics and Greeks rather than solely stating the mathematical

Author: Frans de Weert
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: institute, securities, trading, options, introduction
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-09-11
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0470029706
ISBN-13: 9780470029701

Explaining the theory and practice of options from scratch, this book focuses on the practical side of options trading, and deals with hedging of options and how options traders earn money by doing so.  Common terms in option theory are explained and readers are shown how they relate to profit.  The book gives the necessary tools to deal with options in practice and it includes mathematical formulae to lift explanations from a superficial level.  Throughout the book real-life examples will illustrate why investors use option structures to satisfy their needs.

Author: Frans de Waal
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: among, apes, sex, power, politics, chimpanzee
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-08-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801886562
ISBN-13: 9780801886560

The great apes, like humans, can recognize themselves in mirrors. They communicate by sound and gesture, form bands along what can only be called political lines, and sometimes engage in what is very clearly organized warfare. (Less frequently, too, they practice cannibalism.) In Chimpanzee Politics Frans de Waal, a longtime student of simian behavior, analyzes the behavior of a captive tribe of chimpanzees, comparing its actions with those of ape societies in the wild. What he finds is often not pleasant: chimps seem capable of astonishing deviousness and savagery, which has obvious implicati