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Book Anthony   Lorraine   Evolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Atkinson
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2011-06-23
  • ISBN : 146289206X
  • Pages : 566 pages

Download or read book Anthony Lorraine Evolution written by Michael Atkinson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony, on his way from basketball practice with his team mates, is left alone as usual. Not that he minds, he loves his esoteric world. Not tonight, though. He hears sounds emanating from one of Brooklyns sordid alleys, and with nothing better to do, he foolishly goes in to investigate. Now Anthony fi nds himself a witness to . . . He later fi nds out that the victim is an important man, from Washington. The icing on the cake, is that the man he saw committing the violent crime in the alley, is now looking for him, and wants him to be his next victim/trophy. Everyone is in the loop, but not Lorraine. What scares her the most, is that Anthony, her friend from childhood, is acting weird, and looking even worse. An ex-convict, and the nephew of the President of the US of A, Ed is now relishing his new life as a member of the NYPD. His hedonistic mission in life has now changed course, and Ed reluctantly has to use the little police prowess he has to fi nd the witness to his crime. This story is about Brooklyn New York, where two innocent budding high school basketball stars, have to endure the vile and grime that

Book Lorraine Fox and Bernard D Andrea

Download or read book Lorraine Fox and Bernard D Andrea written by Lillian Byrne Heyward and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creatures of Cain

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  • Author : Erika Lorraine Milam
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-11-03
  • ISBN : 0691210438
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Creatures of Cain written by Erika Lorraine Milam and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murder After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that attributed man’s evolutionary success to his unique capacity for murder. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials and in-depth interviews, Erika Lorraine Milam reveals how the scientists who advanced this “killer ape” theory capitalized on an expanding postwar market in intellectual paperbacks and widespread faith in the power of science to solve humanity’s problems, even to answer the most fundamental questions of human identity. The killer ape theory spread quickly from colloquial science publications to late-night television, classrooms, political debates, and Hollywood films. Behind the scenes, however, scientists were sharply divided, their disagreements centering squarely on questions of race and gender. Then, in the 1970s, the theory unraveled altogether when primatologists discovered that chimpanzees also kill members of their own species. While the discovery brought an end to definitions of human exceptionalism delineated by violence, Milam shows how some evolutionists began to argue for a shared chimpanzee-human history of aggression even as other scientists discredited such theories as sloppy popularizations. A wide-ranging account of a compelling episode in American science, Creatures of Cain argues that the legacy of the killer ape persists today in the conviction that science can resolve the essential dilemmas of human nature.

Book Evolution and Literary Theory

Download or read book Evolution and Literary Theory written by Joseph Carroll and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, poststructuralism in its myriad forms has come to dominate literary criticism to the exclusion of virtually any other point of view. Few scholars have escaped the coercive authority of its programmatic radicalism. In Evolution and Literary Theory, Joseph Carroll vigorously attacks the foundational principles of poststructuralism and offers in their stead a bold new theory that situates literary criticism within the matrix of evolutionary theory.

Book Modern Origins

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean-Jacques Hublin
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-03-31
  • ISBN : 9400729286
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Modern Origins written by Jean-Jacques Hublin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, Africa has taken a central position in the search for the timing and mechanisms leading to modern human origins, and the rich archaeological and human paleontological record of North Africa is critical to this search. In this volume, we bring together new research into the archaeology, human paleontology, chronology, and environmental context of modern human origins in North Africa. The result is a volume that better integrates the North African record into the modern human origins debate and at the same time highlights the research questions that are currently the focus of continued work in the area.​

Book The Evolving Curriculum in Interpreter and Translator Education

Download or read book The Evolving Curriculum in Interpreter and Translator Education written by David B. Sawyer and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolving Curriculum in Interpreter and Translator Education: Stakeholder perspectives and voices examines forces driving curriculum design, implementation and reform in academic programs that prepare interpreters and translators for employment in the public and private sectors. The evolution of the translating and interpreting professions and changes in teaching practices in higher education have led to fundamental shifts in how translating and interpreting knowledge, skills and abilities are acquired in academic settings. Changing conceptualizations of curricula, processes of innovation and reform, technology, refinement of teaching methodologies specific to translating and interpreting, and the emergence of collaborative institutional networks are examples of developments shaping curricula. Written by noted stakeholders from both employer organizations and academic programs in many regions of the world, the timely and useful contributions in this comprehensive, international volume describe the impact of such forces on the conceptual foundations and frameworks of interpreter and translator education.

Book Appsmo Advantage  The  Strategic Opportunities   Evolving Defence Diplomacy With The Asia Pacific Programme For Senior Military Officers

Download or read book Appsmo Advantage The Strategic Opportunities Evolving Defence Diplomacy With The Asia Pacific Programme For Senior Military Officers written by Keng Yong Ong and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book The APPSMO Advantage: Strategic Opportunities is on the Asia Pacific Programme for Senior Military Officers (APPSMO). APPSMO is a series of conferences organised by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and its predecessor, the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, for senior military officers of Singapore and other countries of the Asia Pacific, consisting of an intensive week-long programme of lectures, forums, and discussion groups. Very senior speakers share their views on strategic matters, and defence and military issues. The programme brings together key people whose fingers are on the trigger to enable them to communicate with each other directly and informally, thereby enhancing networking among their defence forces, while benefitting from contacts and exchanges between the scholarly and policy communities.

Book Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Harry S. Ashmore and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emerging Infectious Diseases

Download or read book Emerging Infectious Diseases written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Return of Alsace to France  1918 1939

Download or read book The Return of Alsace to France 1918 1939 written by Alison Carrol and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918, the end of the First World War triggered the return of Alsace and Lorraine to France after almost fifty years of annexation into the German Empire. Enthusiastic crowds in Paris and Alsace celebrated the return of the 'lost provinces, ' but return proved far more difficult than expected. Over the following two decades, politicians, administrators, industrialists, cultural elites, and others grappled with the question of how to make the region French again. Differences of opinion emerged, and reintegration rapidly descended into a multi-faceted struggle as voices at the Parisian centre, the Alsatian periphery, and outside France's borders offered their views on how to introduce French institutions and systems into its lost borderland. Throughout these discussions, the border itself shaped the process of reintegration, by generating contact and tensions between populations on the two sides of the boundary line, and by shaping expectations of what it meant to be French and Alsatian. Borderland is the first comprehensive account of the return of Alsace to France which treats the border as a driver of change. It draws upon national, regional, and local archives to follow the difficult process of Alsace's reintegration into French society, culture, political and economic systems, and legislative and administrative institutions. It connects the microhistory of the region with the "macro" levels of national policy, international relations, and transnational networks, and with the cross-border flows of ideas, goods, people, and cultural products that shaped daily life in Alsace as its population grappled with the meaning of return to France. In revealing the multiple voices who contributed to the region's reintegration, it underlines the ways in which regional populations and cross-border interactions have forged modern nations.

Book Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics

Download or read book Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics written by Suvielise Nurmi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does ethics only weakly contribute to the most crucial problems of the current world? Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics: A Journey Beyond Humanism as We Know It explores how the concept of moral agency embedded in modern humanist ethics, in its reliance on environmentally harmful and scientifically implausible presuppositions, prevents ethics from efficiently supporting a sustainability transition. The modernist individualist notion of agency includes conceptual dichotomies between moral agency and human nature, mind and body, reason and emotion, and knowledge and will, yet it should be revised without dismissing responsibility, normativity, and a shared ground for critical assessment. Suvielise Nurmi proposes an agential shift resting on a relational concept of agency, combining ecofeminist and evolutionary criticisms of modernism together with various interdisciplinary discussions involving philosophy of mind, cognitive science, anthropology, social ontology, and developmental biology and psychology. This book argues that the relational shift can resolve the dilemma and bring environmental relationships to the core of ethical discourse: there is no ethics distinct from environmental ethics. Environmental responsibilities can be justified as responsibilities for one’s relationally considered agency.

Book Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global Political Economy

Download or read book Global Political Economy written by Theodore H. Cohn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised for its authoritative coverage, Global Political Economy places the study of international political economy (IPE) in its broadest theoretical contextnow updated to cover the continuing global economic crisis and regional relationships and impacts. This text not only helps students understand the fundamentals of how the global economy works but also encourages them to use theory to more fully grasp the connections between key issue areas like trade and development. Written by a leading IPE scholar, this text equally emphasizes theory and practice to provide a framework for analyzing current events and long-term developments in the global economy. New to the Seventh Edition Focuses on the ongoing global economic crisis and the continuing European sovereign debt crisis, along with other regional economic issues, including their implications for relationships in the global economy. Offers fuller and updated discussions of critical perspectives like feminism and environmentalism, and includes new material differentiating among the terms neomercantilism, realism, mercantilism, and economic nationalism. Updated, author-written Test Bank is provided to professors as an e-Resource on the book’s Webpage.

Book Steel  State  and Labor

Download or read book Steel State and Labor written by Anthony Daley and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation of wealth depends on the capacity of economic actors to adapt to market changes. Such adaptation, in turn, poses fundamental questions about the distribution of resources. Daley investigates the interaction among business, labor, and the state in France in the second half of the twentieth century and reveals how political dynamics refract market pressures. He explains how and why profitability came at the expense of union mobilization, unemployment, and management autonomy, vast amounts of state aid, and less national control over industrial decision making.

Book Rabies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan C. Jackson
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • Release : 2010-07-26
  • ISBN : 0080550096
  • Pages : 681 pages

Download or read book Rabies written by Alan C. Jackson and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabies is the most current and comprehensive account of one of the oldest diseases known that remains a significant public health threat despite the efforts of many who have endeavored to control it in wildlife and domestic animals. During the past five years since publication of the first edition there have been new developments in many areas on the rabies landscape. This edition takes on a more global perspective with many new authors offering fresh outlooks on each topic. Clinical features of rabies in humans and animals are discussed as well as basic science aspects, molecular biology, pathology, and pathogenesis of this disease. Current methods used in defining geographic origins and animal species infected in wildlife are presented, along with diagnostic methods for identifying the strain of virus based on its genomic sequence and antigenic structure. This multidisciplinary account is essential for clinicians as well as public health advisors, epidemiologists, wildlife biologists, and research scientists wanting to know more about the virus and the disease it causes. - Offers a unique global perspective on rabies where dog rabies is responsible for killing more people than yellow - More than 7 million people are potentially exposed to the virus annually and about 50,000 people, half of them children, die of rabies each year - New edition includes greatly expanded coverage of bat rabies which is now the most prominent source of human rabies in the New World and Western Europe, where dog rabies has been controlled - Recent successes of controlling wildlife rabies with an emphasis on prevention is discussed - Approximately 40% updated material incorporates recent knowledge on new approaches to therapy of human rabies as well as issues involving organ and tissue transplantation - Includes an increase in illustrations to more accurately represent this diseases' unique horror

Book The Gods of the City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Steinhoff
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2008-03-31
  • ISBN : 9047432444
  • Pages : 534 pages

Download or read book The Gods of the City written by Anthony Steinhoff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarship has criticized the assumption that European modernity was inherently secular. Yet, we remain poorly informed about religion's fate in the nineteenth-century big city, the very crucible of the modern condition. Drawing on extensive archival research and investigations into Protestant ecclesiastical organization, church-state relations, liturgy, pastoral care, associational life, and interconfessional relations, this study of Strasbourg following Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871 shows how urbanization not only challenged the churches, but spurred them to develop new, forward-looking, indeed, urban understandings of religious community and piety. The work provides new insights into what it meant for Imperial Germany to identify itself as "Protestant" and it provocatively identifies the European big city as an agent for sacralization, and not just secularization.