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Uncorking the Past by Patrick E. McGovern
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Patrick E. McGovern

SIX SAILING THE WINE-DARK MEDITERRANEAN MY WIFE AND I CAUGHT our first glimpse of the azure Mediterranean in 1971, when we traveled south from Germany to Italy, on our way ...
( Category: Wine December 27,2014 )
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-12-13 | Author:David Foster Wallace

MONKEY: If, say, you win here in South Carolina, what do you do then? MURPHY: Fly to Michigan that night. MONKEY: And what if hypothetically you, say, lose here in ...
( Category: Essays December 19,2014 )
Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-11-06 | Author:Pascal Boyer [Pascal Boyer]

Chapter Six Why is religion about death? DEAD PEOPLE, LIKE vegetables, can be pickled or preserved. You can also abandon them to the beasts of the field, burn them like ...
( Category: Psychology December 15,2014 )
The Delusions of Economics: The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous Science by Rist Gilbert
epub |eng | 2011-11-24 | Author:Rist, Gilbert [Rist, Gilbert]

CHAPTER 7 EQUILIBRIUM Equilibrium is unquestionably one of the keywords of economic ‘science’.1 Accounts (budget, foreign trade) have to ‘balance’ – otherwise there is a ‘surplus’ or a ‘deficit’. Losses ...
( Category: Specific Topics December 3,2014 )
Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore by Alan Dundes
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Alan Dundes

Here is the first-person account: And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology December 2,2014 )
Guns, Germs, And Steel. The Fates Of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
mobi |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Jared Diamond

THE LIMITED USES and users of early writing suggest why writing appeared so late in human evolution. All of the likely or possible independent inventions of writing (in Sumer, Mexico, ...
( Category: Human Geography November 11,2014 )
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
mobi |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Jared Diamond

TWELVE ALONE IN A CROWDED UNIVERSE While humans are unique among Earth's species, the enormous number of stars suggests that intelligent creatures like us must have evolved elsewhere in the ...
( Category: Physical November 11,2014 )
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality
mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jared Diamond

First, concealed ovulation. Figure 4.3 By combining facts about modern observed species with inferences about ancestral species, one can infer the mating system prevailing when ovulatory signals underwent evolutionary change. ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
Why Is Sex Fun? by Jared Diamond
epub |eng | 2011-05-29 | Author:Jared Diamond

Step 4. To identify these changes of function, Sillén-Tullberg and Møller got the bright idea of studying the family tree of living primate species. They thereby hoped to identify the ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
Speak Bird Speak Again by Folktales
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Folktales

THE QUEST FOR THE SPOUSE 16. The Brave Lad TELLER: Allah has spoken, and His word is a blessing! AUDIENCE: Blessings abound, Allah willing! There was once the king of ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology November 11,2014 )
The Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]

Pointing Primates Nikkie, a chimpanzee, once showed me how to manipulate attention. He had gotten used to my throwing wild berries across the moat at the zoo where I worked. ...
( Category: Mammals November 11,2014 )
Ebano
mobi |es | 2008-04-15 | Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

LA EMBOSCADA Íbamos de Kampala hacia el norte de Uganda, en dirección a la frontera con Sudán. Encabezaba la columna de vehículos un jeep con una ametralladora asomando de la ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside by Doris Lessing
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-07-25 | Author:Doris Lessing [Lessing, Doris]

Group Minds PEOPLE LIVING IN THE WEST, in societies that we describe as Western, or as the free world, may be educated in many different ways, but they will all ...
( Category: Essays November 10,2014 )
The Mind of the Market by Michael Shermer
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shermer

Happiness is a subjective state of well-being that depends on relative frames of reference, grounded in an evolved psychology that finds meaning in the simple social pleasures and purposes of ...
( Category: Theory November 7,2014 )
The Social Conquest of Earth by Wilson Edward O
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-01 | Author:Wilson, Edward O. [Wilson, Edward O.]

• 19 • The Emergence of a New Theory of Eusociality THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN of any complex biological system can be reconstructed correctly only if viewed as the culmination of ...
( Category: General November 7,2014 )

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