History & Philosophy
epub, mobi, azw, azw3, pdf |eng | 2002-08-26 | Author:Steven Pinker [Pinker, Steven]

Beginning with Ashley Montagu in 1952, thinkers with collectivist sympathies have tried to eke out a place for unmeasured generosity by invoking group selection, a Darwinian competition among groups of ...
( Category: Personality March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1994-09-04 | Author:Steven Pinker [Pinker, Steven]

There is a very good reason why the erotic side of Man has called forth so much more discussion lately than has his appetite for food. The reason is this: ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-05-15 | Author:Steven Pinker [Pinker, Steven]

THE L A N G U A G E I N S T I N C T But these functional explanations are often tenuous, and for many universals they do ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mary Roach [Roach, Mary]

In the weeks that followed, Barbet went through twelve more arms in a quest to find a suitable point in the human wrist through which to hammer a 1/3-inch nail. ...
( Category: Pathology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Eco, Umberto [Eco, Umberto]

It's time for bed. I have deviated from my habit of gastronomic moderation and have been drinking not wine but intemperate quantities of calvados (and intemperance is making my head ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-30 | Author:Ehsan Masood

Doctor of the heart Ibn al-Nafis was born in Damascus in 1213 but subsequently moved to Cairo, which by then had some of the most advanced hospitals in the Islamic ...
( Category: History March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-25 | Author:Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl]

PART THREE Evolution’s Dance EIGHT COEVOLUTION Weaving the Web of Life One of the many reasons we need to save endangered species from extinction is because we can find among ...
( Category: Organic March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-07 | Author:Bee Wilson [Wilson, Bee]

My mortar and pestle comes from Thailand and is fashioned from craggy black granite. I like it far better than those restrained white-china mortars, whose rough insides set my teeth ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |zho | 2003-08-12 | Author:Simon Singh [Singh, Simon]

5 The Language Barrier While British codebreakers were breaking the German Enigma cipher and altering the course of the war in Europe, American codebreakers were having an equally important influence ...
( Category: Encryption March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Dawkins, Richard [Dawkins, Richard]

7 WHAT IS A RAINBOW? THE EPIC OF Gilgamesh is one of the oldest stories ever written. Older than the legends of the Greeks or the Jews, it is the ...
( Category: Educational & Nonfiction March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John D. Caputo

F I V E * * * There are both theological (Kierkegaard) and antitheological (Nietzsche) motives behind the emergence of the postmodern. But no matter how you cut it, if ...
( Category: Religious March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf | | 2006-04-15 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

You will survive your own death. If you die a martyr, you will go to an especially wonderful part of paradise where you will enjoy seventy-two virgins (spare a thought ...
( Category: Sociology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald, Mahzarin R. Banaji [Banaji, Mahzarin R. & Anthony G. Greenwald, Mahzarin R. Banaji]

Young Children At different points in development, a child comes to know that she is, for example, female, Irish, middle-class, brown-eyed, and athletic. One of our colleagues noticed early in ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mark Pendergrast [Pendergrast, Mark]

THE ARAB BOYCOTT BLUES That same year, Paul Austin convinced Woodruff that things could go better for Coke behind the Iron Curtain as well as in the drive-ins and skating ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi | | 2012-06-12 | Author:James Gleick [Gleick, James]

One flash of inspiration had not brought Newton here. The path to universal gravitation had led through a sequence of claims, each stranger than the last. A force draws bodies ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )