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Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies by Jared M. Diamond
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-09-15 | Author:Jared M. Diamond

MY EXAMPLES SO far have been drawn from modern technologies, because their histories are well known. My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic ...
( Category: Human Geography March 25,2014 )
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Niall Ferguson

In that sense, it might make more sense for historians to talk about an Industrial Evolution, in Darwin’s sense of the word. As the economists Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
Ancient Iraq by Georges Roux
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1985-01-02 | Author:Georges Roux

‘I forced Kashtiliash, King of Kar-Duniash, to give battle; I brought about the defeat of his armies, his warriors I overthrew. In the midst of that battle my hand captured ...
( Category: Mesopotamia March 25,2014 )
Born in Africa by Martin Meredith
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Martin Meredith

The feud between the Leakeys and Don Johanson had become even more intense in the 1980s. In his account of discovering Lucy, published in 1980, Johanson, relying on hearsay and ...
( Category: Paleontology March 25,2014 )
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-01-28 | Author:Steven Pinker

Most people choose either the D card or the D card and the 3 card. The correct answer is D and 7. “P implies Q” is false only if P ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Damasio Antonio
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Damasio, Antonio [Damasio, Antonio]

8 Building a Conscious Mind A Working Hypothesis It goes without saying that the construction of a conscious mind is a very complex process, the result of additions and deletions ...
( Category: Neurology March 25,2014 )
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-12-13 | Author:Nicola Griffith

Chapter Eleven “If you want to stay, you need to talk to Leifin,” Thenike had said that morning. “She found you and brought you here. If she didn’t have a ...
( Category: Adventure March 25,2014 )
The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine by Collins Francis S
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Collins, Francis S. [Collins, Francis S.]

A few years ago, a practicing physician created an uproar by writing an op-ed in the New York Times titled “I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor.” The author, Dr. Sally ...
( Category: Biomedical Engineering March 25,2014 )
The Last Speakers by K. David Harrison
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-22 | Author:K. David Harrison

{CHAPTER SIX} SIX DEGREES OF LANGUAGE The entire world needs a diversity of ethnolinguistic entities for its own salvation, for its greater creativity, for the more certain solution of human ...
( Category: Evolution March 25,2014 )
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English by John McWhorter
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-30 | Author:John McWhorter

And somme understonde wel Englysch that can nother Latyn nor Frankys. Bothe lered and lewed, olde and gonge, Alle understonden english tonge. Lewed, by the way, meant “unlearned”—neat how the ...
( Category: Etymology March 25,2014 )
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Michael J. Behe

182 WHAT DOES THE BOX TELL US? by which any complex biochemical system might have arisen in a Darwinian manner. A survey of thirty biochemistry textbooks (summarized in Table 8—1) ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 25,2014 )
The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Richard Dawkins

Many baby birds are fed in the nest by their parents. They all gape and scream, and the parent drops a worm or other morsel in the open mouth of ...
( Category: Biology March 25,2014 )
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Richard Dawkins

Battle of the sexes If there is conflict of interest between parents and children, who share 50 per cent of each others' genes, how much more severe must be the ...
( Category: Genetics March 25,2014 )
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-06-25 | Author:Carl Sagan

PLANETARY SCIENCE fosters a broad interdisciplinary point of view that proves enormously helpful in discovering and attempting to defuse these looming environmental catastrophes. When you cut your teeth on other ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
On China by Henry Kissinger
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Henry Kissinger

KISSINGER: Thank you and thank you for the reception we have received as always. ZHOU: It is what you deserve. And once the course has been set, as in 1971, ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )

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