Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
By Jane Goodall with Gary McAvoy
and Gail Hudson (Warner Books, 2005)

For anyone who's ever wanted to know how to take a stand for a more sustainable world, renowned scientist and bestselling author Jane Goodall, with co-authors Gary McAvoy and Gail Hudson, delivers an eye-opening call to arms that explores the social and personal significance of what we eat.

In Harvest for Hope, Goodall presents an empowering and far-reaching vision for social and environmental transformation through the way we produce and consume food. With practical, user-friendly chapters—such as "Doing Our Part: Help Farm Animals Live Better Lives," "An Organic Wave Worldwide," and "Eat Local, Eat Seasonal"—and a comprehensive resource guide, readers will discover the dangers behind many of today's foods, along with the extraordinary individual and worldwide benefits of eating mindfully. Harvest for Hope uncovers the choices that support the greater good and will preserve our own health and that of future generations.

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The Ten Trusts
What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love
Co-authored with Marc Bekoff
(HarperCollins, October 2002)

Beyond Innocence
An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years
Edited by Dale Peterson
(Houghton Mifflin, 2001)

This second volume of Jane Goodall's autobiography in letters covers the years of her greatest triumphs and her deepest tragedies. During this time she made many of her most important discoveries about chimpanzee behavior -- including the dark discovery that like us, they wage war and commit murder. She gave birth to a son, Grub, but her marriage to his father, Hugo van Lawick, came to an end. When some Stanford University students working with her were kidnapped by guerrillas, she was thrust into an international controversy. She fell in love with and married Derek Bryceson. After surviving a plane crash with him, she realized that her life had been entrusted to her for a reason. A visit to an American laboratory where chimps were injected with HIV made that reason clear, and she began to dedicate herself not just to understanding chimpanzees but to saving them. Derek's death in 1980 was a terrible blow, but afterward she threw herself even more relentlessly into the battle to save our closest relatives and to repair the health of the planet.

Africa in My Blood told of a young woman finding her life's work in the place of her dreams. Beyond Innocence tells of the events that shattered many of those dreams and changed her from a rather private observer to a public crusader.

Africa In My Blood
An Autobiography in Letters
Edited by Dale Peterson
(Houghton Mifflin, 2000)

Africa in My Blood is an extraordinary self-portrait in letters of Jane Goodall's early years, from childhood to the publication of In the Shadow of Man, revealing this remarkable woman more vividly than anything published before, by her or about her. We see her at eleven founding the Alligator Society ("You have to be able to recognize 10 birds, 10 dogs, 10 trees and 5 butterflies OR moths."); at seventeen developing a crush on the local minister ("He has a beautiful long nose and he loves dogs"); at twenty punting at Oxford - and falling out of the boat ("And I stood in the water, - up to my chest - and roared and roared with laughter"); at twenty-two working at a film company and saving for a trip to Africa.

At twenty-three, she took that trip, to "the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood." In Kenya's White Highlands, she rode horses, danced, and developed her observational skills on both animals and men ("He is very handsome & Clo & I sat in the car admiring his bottom & feeling sorry for him because he was getting filthy and oily"). The men returned her interest ("What the devil am I to do with all these middle aged married men. They hang in multitudinous garlands from every limb and neck I've got").

The turning point of her life came when a friend told her, "If you are interested in animals, you must meet Louis Leakey." And when she did meet the legendary anthropologist, he saw in this young secretarial school graduate the ideal candidate to undertake a revolutionary study of chimpanzees. He sent her to the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve on Lake Tanganyika, where she immersed herself in the lives of wild animals as no one had ever done before. Goodall has told this story in other books, but never so immediately and emotionally. She describes a chimp rain dance ("Every so often their wild calls rang out above the thunder. Primitive hairy men, huge and black on the skyline, flinging themselves across the ground in their primeval display of strength and power . . . Can you being to imagine how I felt? The only human ever to have witnessed such a display in all its primitive, fantastic wonder?"); a female chimp mating with five males early in the morning ("Hello - No 5 is queuing, down on the bottom branch. 'Thanks Big Boy, but don't hang around.' No 5 leaps out of the way as No 4 charges down . . . Soon over & off he goes. Now perhaps a girl can have a bite of breakfast"); a colobus monkey clasping its dead baby ("She kept trying to groom its poor little coat. Oh, it was heart rending. I'm only so glad I've never seen a chimp with a dead baby. I just couldn't bear it").

Africa in My Blood is a dramatic, moving, funny, and important book that tells the story of how an English girl who loved animals became one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.

The Eagle & the Wren
(North South Books, 2000)

Who can fly the highest? "I can," claim the lark and the dove, the vulture--and of course the mighty eagle. With a great flapping of wings, and squawking and calling, the birds take to the air. It is a glorious contest, but the outcome surprises them all--especially the mighty eagle!

Jane Goodall retells a beloved story from her own childhood --a fable for all times that illustrates how we depend on each other for help and support throughout our lives.

Jane Goodall
40 Years at Gombe
by Gilbert M. Grosvenor
(Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1999)

On the occasion of Dr. Jane Goodall's fortieth anniversary of groundbreaking research with the chimpanzees of Gombe, the Jane Goodall Institute has joined Stewart, Tabori & Chang in paying homage to the woman hailed by the Christian Science Monitor as "a heroine, in a hero-less time."

In the words of Stephen Jay Gould, "Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees represents one of the western world's greatest scientific achievements." Set on her path by famed anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey, who believed in her patience and persistent desire to understand animals, Goodall established the Gombe Stream Research Centre. There, her profound scientific discoveries-including the observation of chimpanzees making and using tools-laid the foundation for all future primate studies.

Filled with photographs from the Institute's archives-many never-before published-along with the work of some of the world's top photographers, this beautifully illustrated volume traces the story of Dr. Goodall's work from its singular beginning to the Institute's present-day international activities. It is sure to appeal to Dr. Goodall's millions of admirers the world over, and to serve as a source of inspiration to many more.

Reason for Hope
A Spiritual Journey
with Phillip Berman
(Warner Books, 1999)

For the past 40 years, ever since she first ventured into Africa's Gombe Reserve to study chimpanzees, Dr. Jane Goodall has been regarded as the world's most important female scientist and a towering figure in the environmental and animal rights movements. Her groundbreaking work--popularized on television specials and in National Geographic magazine, as well as in her seminal 1971 book In the Shadow of Man and in countless lectures--has been described by Stephen Jay Gould as "one of the Western world's great scientific achievements." But how much do we really know about this extraordinary scientist who has literally changed the way we look at nature? In her latest book, REASON FOR HOPE: A Spiritual Journey, Jane Goodall shares her beliefs about faith and love, mysticism and science, as she recounts the dramatic pivotal events of her life.

As a scientist at Cambridge, Jane Goodall was taught to think logically and empirically rather than intuitively or spiritually. "Fortunately," she writes in REASON FOR HOPE, "my beliefs had already been molded so that I was not influenced by these opinions." Yet there have been many times when Goodall's belief in God was sorely tested, and in REASON FOR HOPE she recounts both the tragedies that brought doubt and the triumphs that reinforced her spirituality. These tales include:

• Goodall's 1957 life-changing visit to Africa, where she met legendary  anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey, who would set her on her way to Gombe and the chimpanzees;

• the exhilarating and revolutionary discovery that chimpanzees are capable of tool making;

• how observation of chimpanzees helped the author be a better mother, and how motherhood affected her understanding of chimp behavior;

• the kidnapping by rebels of four of Goodall's students in Gombe National Park, and the unspeakable violence erupting between ethnic factions throughout Africa;

• the love and compassion--and the controversial incidences of violence observed among the chimpanzees;

• the heart-wrenching death of Goodall's second husband, Derek, and the healing she found in the forests of Gombe.

Throughout the book, from the author's account of her intensely religious childhood in war-torn England to her recent efforts to promote environmental protection, Jane Goodall maintains a deeply spiritual outlook that profoundly colors her life and her work and sheds light on some of the 20th century's most important discoveries.

For all of those hungry for meaning, REASON FOR HOPE will show how Jane Goodall transformed her own life and provide inspiration for all of us hoping to rekindle our spirits and reawaken our minds.

Through a Window
(Houghton Mifflin, 2000)

Through A Window is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of a community, of birth and death, sex and love, power and war. It reads like a novel, but it is one of the most important scientific works ever published. The community is Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where the principal residents are chimpanzees and one extraordinary woman who is their student, protector, and historian. In her classic In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she brings the story up to the present, painting a much more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relative. We see the community split in two and a brutal war break out. We watch young Figan's relentless rise to power and old Mike's crushing defeat. We learn how one mother rears her children to succeed and another dooms them to failure. We witness horrifying murders, touching moments of affection, joyous births, and wrenching deaths. In short, we see every emotion known to humans stripped to its essence. In the mirror of chimpanzee life, we see ourselves reflected. Perhaps the best book ever written about animal behavior, Through A Window is also essential reading for anyone seeking a better grasp of human behavior.

Brutal Kinship
co-authored with Michael Nichols
(Aperture, 1999)

Brutal Kinship explores the relationship between humankind and its closest relative, the chimpanzee, presenting these extraordinary animals in the wild, in captivity, and in sanctuaries created expressly for their protection. In his revealing photographs and commentary drawn from her firsthand experiences, Michael Nichols and Jane Goodall join forces to present the ways in which chimpanzees are physically, emotionally, and intellectually closer to us than we ever imagined, and how, paradoxically, humans have forced them into a more human yet sadly less humane existence.

"Once we accept or even suspect that humans are not the only animals . . . to know mental as well as physical suffering," writes Goodall, "we become less arrogant, a little less sure that we have the inalienable right to make use of other life forms in any way we please."

In Brutal Kinship, one of the most superb animal photographers working today reveals the fine line between probing inquiry and mistreatment of these creatures-or between love and exploitation of them-in practices like circuses, animal testing, the use of chimps as pets, and even the marriage of a man to a chimp.

In the Shadow of Man
(Houghton Mifflin, 1988)

Goodall's classic account of primate behavior combines a landmark scientific study with a fascinating adventure story of a determined young woman's struggle in remote Africa to approach primates in the wild as no one had ever done before.

My Life with the Chimpanzees
(Minstrel Books, 1996)

The celebrated naturalist recounts her childhood wish to work with animals and her excursions into the wilds of Africa, where she performed history-making studies on the leopards, lions, and, especially, chimpanzees there.