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Aufbruch & Widerstand.
Am 3. Mai 1798 rückten über sechstausend französische Soldaten in Einsiedeln ein. Nur wenige Stunden zuvor waren die Mönche um ihr Leben geflohen. Ungeschützt mussten sie ihr berühmtes Kloster zurücklassen, das nun der Plünderung freigegeben und schon bald für aufgehoben erklärt wurde. Für das Kloster Einsiedeln bildet dieser Frühlingstag eine epochale Zäsur. Er bedeutet das Ende der Jahrhunderte alten gefürsteten Reichsabtei mit ihren weitverzweigten Herrschaften. Wie kam es soweit? Wie versuchten die Benediktiner, der nahenden Gefahr zu entrinnen? Und welcher Zusammenhang besteht zu den aufklärerischen Ideen, die Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts auch in die Innerschweiz vordrangen und die Einsiedler Mönche zu einer Stellungnahme herausforderten? Mit seiner überaus packenden Dissertation beleuchtet der Einsiedler Benediktiner Pater Thomas Fässler ein spannendes, bisher wenig erforschtes Kapitel der Geschichte des Klosters Einsiedeln mit Bezügen weit über die Grenzen der damaligen Eidgenossenschaft hinaus.
Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research
For many years, experiments using chimpanzees have been instrumental in advancing scientific knowledge and have led to new medicines to prevent life-threatening and debilitating diseases. However, recent advances in alternate research tools have rendered chimpanzees largely unnecessary as research subjects. The Institute of Medicine, in collaboration with the National Research Council, conducted an in-depth analysis of the scientific necessity for chimpanzees in NIH-funded biomedical and behavioral research. The committee concludes that while the chimpanzee has been a valuable animal model in the past, most current biomedical research use of chimpanzees is not necessary, though noted that it is impossible to predict whether research on emerging or new diseases may necessitate chimpanzees in the future.
A View to a Death in the Morning
What brought the ape out of the trees, and so the man out of the ape, was a taste for blood. This is how the story went, when a few fossils found in Africa in the 1920s seemed to point to hunting as the first human activity among our simian forebears—the force behind our upright posture, skill with tools, domestic arrangements, and warlike ways. Why, on such slim evidence, did the theory take hold? In this engrossing book Matt Cartmill searches out the origins, and the strange allure, of the myth of Man the Hunter. An exhilarating foray into cultural history, A View to a Death in the Morning shows us how hunting has figured in the western imagination from the myth of Artemis to the tale of...
MANIPULATIVE MONKEYS
This book takes us into a Costa Rican forest teeming with simian drama, where since 1990 primatologists Perry and Manson have followed four generations of capuchins. The authors describe behavior as entertaining--and occasionally as alarming--as it is recognizable: competition and cooperation, jockeying for position and status, peaceful years under an alpha male devolving into bloody chaos, and complex traditions passed from one generation to the next. Interspersed with their observations are the authors' colorful tales of the challenges of tropical fieldwork.
Creation of the Sacred
Sacrifice is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason? Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and concepts shared by so many different cultures? In this extraordinary book, one of the world’s leading authorities on ancient religions explores the possibility of natural religion.
Peacemaking among Primates
Examines how simians cope with aggression, and how they make peace after fights.
