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The Human Zoo
by Morris, Desmond
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York, St. Louis & San Francisco: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow boards, black spine with gilt titles, yellow endpapers, top edge dyed brown, 256 pp, bibliography. Book & DJ covered with heavy plastic. From the introduction: "When the pressures of modern living become heavy, the harassed city-dweller often refers to his teeming world as a concrete jungle. This is a colourful way of describing the pattern of life in a dense urban community, but it is also grossly inaccurate, as anyone who has studied a real jungle will confirm. ... The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.
Synopsis
Morris looks closely at the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.
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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SSAN00053
- Title
- The Human Zoo
- Author
- Morris, Desmond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, St. Louis & San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Size
- 22 X 14½ cm
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