The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates

Rating:
Summary: Good information - poor quality photos
Review: While I found this book to have very nice information that was well organized, the photos and the overall layout and design of the book left something to be desired. For a pictoral guide, the photos were very small, many appeared to have been scanned in at a less than adequate resolution and it was poorly laid out design-wise. Being a primatologist and a graphic designer, I praise the information presented, but think the photos are a disappointment. Also a bit overpriced I might add.

Rating:
Summary: Good information - poor quality photos
Review: While I found this book to have very nice information that was well organized, the photos and the overall layout and design of the book left something to be desired. For a pictoral guide, the photos were very small, many appeared to have been scanned in at a less than adequate resolution and it was poorly laid out design-wise. Being a primatologist and a graphic designer, I praise the information presented, but think the photos are a disappointment. Also a bit overpriced I might add.

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Summary: 1997 Outstanding Academic Book Award
Review: Winner of Choice Magazines Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 "Highly recommended for all reference collections--everyone wants to know more about primates and this is a great place to start. General readers: undergraduates through faculty." Eric Delson, City University of New York for Choice Magazine Dec. '97

Rating:
Summary: good information, great coffee table book
Review: With beautiful photographs, this book examines individual species thoroughly, with up to date information and sources. wonderful for the interested, satisfying for the obsessed primatologist/conservationist!