Social Evolution

Reducere. Charles Darwin struggled to explain how forty thousand bees working in the dark, seemingly by instinct alone, could organize themselves to construc...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat if politics as we know it is about to end? What if humanity soon organizes itself not in hierarchies, but in hive minds? What if so...

With its broad focus, ranging from microorganisms to humans, this book provides the first comprehensive account of the evolution of sociality by na...

How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central authori...

In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in human societies? Philosopher Cailin O'Connor re...

Giant Humans, the Anunnaki from the planet Nibiru, bred, blessed, cursed and challenged us. They came for gold to rocket back to Nibiru, powder, an...

Reducere. Neo-Darwinian philosophy claims that random variation plus natural selection are sufficient to explain the emergence of order everywhere in the wor...

The contents of this book is a 10 lecture series for chess educators, chess players and 'kibitzers'. This is not a primer for the game. This is a '...

Chinese Small Property presents a persuasive argument for how market transition has succeeded in China without rule of law, and how market norms ha...

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The book comprises a series of mini-essays on distinct topics in which technical terms are simplified, considering how humans made the long journey...

Few of us consider how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable democracy,...

Reducere. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. T...

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Reducere. Today social media is king, influencing everything from art to reality TV to national news and politics. It's hard to imagine a world without socia...

Reducere. Today social media is king, influencing everything from art to reality TV to national news and politics. It's hard to imagine a world without socia...

This book scrutinizes the current state of evolution education and assesses the recent rise of creationism in Brazil. It provides accounts of class...

Reducere. In Becoming Human, noted anthropologist and renaissance man Ian Tattersall explores what makes us uniquely human, the qualities that set us apart f...

Reducere. The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-ga...

Reducere. Kim Sterelny here builds on his original account of the evolutionary development and interaction of human culture and cooperation, which he first p...

Covering a range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, this title shows that human cultur...

Is totalitarianism emerging as an acceptable alternative to democracy in Africa? And if so, with what consequences? Dave Peterson draws on extensiv...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Kim SterelnyNumber of pages: 288Collection: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and PsychologyPublica...

Humans have always made decisions about war, but now machines are close to changing things - with implications for international affairs. Payne exp...

Thoroughly updated for its third edition with the latest research in the field, this innovative text delivers an apt and comprehensive introduction...

The first detailed and comprehensive examination of the role and evolution of the dictatorship as an integral element of the Roman Republic, this w...

Did seven monks carry The Grail from Glastonbury Abbey at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, to the Cistercian Abbey of Strata...

Reducere. Researchers who study ancient human diets tend to focus on meat eating because the practice of butchery is very apparent in the archaeological reco...

Arguing that humans are, in a fundamental sense, social beings, this book articulates that this can be grasped from understanding the complex socia...

The Syrian Civil War in all its ghastly twists and turns, from initial optimism to barrel-bombing and the rise of Islamic State, are among the subj...

Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind. This title shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understa...

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The zombie is ubiquitous in popular culture: from comic books to video games, to internet applications and homemade films, zombies are all around u...

Analysing the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu, this book considers the historical development of competing philosophies of so...

Transcendental Medication considers why human brains evolved to have consciousness, yet we spend much of our time trying to reduce our awareness. I...

Contributor(s): Author: Barry C. FeldA major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America's leading experts The juvenile court lies a...

DescriptionA major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America's leading expertsThe juvenile court lies at the intersection of youth...

Contributor(s): Author: Cecilia Heyes"This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences... Highly recomme...

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness.W...

Reducere. Why do most of us enjoy being alive? Psychologist Dr C A Soper argues that a zest for life evolved as a survival necessity, ultimately because our ...

Reducere. Drawing on his theory of the origins of the modern mind, Merlin Donald's thesis presents the forces, both cultural and neuronal, that power our dis...

Explores the connection between humans and animals, and asks what our responsibility is towards our fellow creatures. Inspired by the insights of R...

Despite widespread consensus that China's digital revolution was sure to bring about massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass...

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Reducere. The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and...

Contributor(s): Author: Henri F. EllenbergerThis classic work is a monumental, integrated view of man's search for an understanding of the inner re...

Reducere. DescriptionIN HIS BEST-SELLING The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, William Irwin Thompson intrigued readers with his thoughts on mythology and s...

Reducere. A bold, provocative history of our species finds the roots of civilization's success and failure in our evolutionary biology. We are living through...

On 8 February 1971, Marxist revolutionaries attacked the gendarmerie outpost at the village of Siyahkal in Iran's Gilan province. Barely two months...

DescriptionCultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for ...

Reducere. Cultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of his...

Reducere. Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater dest...

Synthesizes competing theories and disciplinary viewpoints and examines the latest data, including international research from fast-growing markets...

The first book to chart the extraordinary story of St James's in London, the home to the city's iconic clubland and a host of famous institutionsIl...

Master the skills of leaving the body using logic and reason. Improve self-understanding and achieve personal growth with over a dozen exit techniq...

DescriptionThe battle of the Atlantic fought by the Allies to maintain lines of communication and vital trade routes for armaments men and basic su...

A challenging critique of contemporary Neo-Darwinism, advocating a new balance between science and spirituality in understanding creation.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jenny WadeChanges of Mind unites literature from the new physics, brain research, developmental psychology, and mysticism t...

Eighth Sister No MorePublisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Paul P. MarthersNumber of pages: 268Collection: History of Schools and Schoolin...

This book sets out to provide a coherent history of the fortunes of this ship-type in the twentieth century. It begins with a brief summary of deve...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Two works in one collection. The Peter Kropotkin Anthology will awaken in you a new perspective as Peter Kropotkin viewed the communist society in ...

Reducere. Communities today face unprecedented racial tension, conflict, and turmoil. Social unrest, political rhetoric, authoritarian rulers, and economic d...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen P. HalbrookThat Every Man Be Armed, the first scholarly book on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, has ...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ryan O'FarrellNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 204 x 263 x 44Cover type: Hard...

The perfect book for trainees, students, and professionals looking to learn more about the development of Freud's thinking within two main focal po...

Reducere. The objective today is to isolate targets through technological harassment, remote viewing, electronic surveillance, and also focus on using everyo...

This book expands a foundational definition of the institution, one which locates them as the basic building blocks of human societies - as structu...

Reducere. This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history...