Robert Gerald Shumaker

Night and Sleep

Seventeen poems of Rumi, a 13th-century Persian mystic, in English versions by Robert Bly and Coleman Barks. These poems express a longing for the "Mystical Friend," a spiritual guide, or brother. "When Things are Heard" from the collection is featured on Keith Jarrett's double album, Invocations an...

Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck’s Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human animals. Beck showed that animals―from insects to primates―employed different types of tools to solve numerous problems. His wo...

By Robert W. Shumaker - Primates in Question (Smithsonian Answer Book Series): The Smithsonian Answer Book: 1st (first) Edition

Orangutans (World Life Library)

Orangutans are one of mankind s closest relatives even their name translates from the Malay words meaning People of the Forest . They have a special reputation for patience and persistence, and are notoriously clever when faced with a challenge. Orangutans are the world's largest tree-living mammal,...

The Spirit of the Turquoise Necklace: The Schmooney Trilogies

"See, I have this gift. We all have gifts that we are born with. Well, my gift is the ability to communicate with animals..."In Book One of the Schmooney Trilogies, The Secret of the Enchanted Forest, Austin Cook discovered his special gift while visiting Mountview, the beautiful town where his Uncl...

Primates in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Book

The mysterious and often unpredictable world of primates is explained by Smithsonian scientists in a question-and-answer format. Primates in Question, part of the Smithsonian's popular “In Question” series, is a comprehensive response to the many thousands of calls and letters the Smithsonian receiv...

The Secret of the Enchanted Forest: The Schmooney Trilogies

Bob Shumaker was raised in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and now lives in Simpsonville, South Carolina with his wife, Sharon and their daughter, Katy. He retired early from his sales and marketing company to focus on one of his lifelong passions: writing. He began writing at age nine, inventing short stories...

The Curse of the Golden Gato: The Schmooney Trilogies

What had she just told me? My gift could develop into something very powerful...that I should be careful who I share this with...with the gift comes responsibility. What did all this mean? In Book One of the Schmooney Trilogies, The Secret of the Enchanted Forest, Austin Cook discovered that his spe...