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Author | : Carol Kaesuk Yoon |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2010-08-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393338711 |
Examines the history of taxonomy, describing the quest of scientists to name and classify living things from Carl Linnaeus to early twenty-first-century scientists who rely more on microscopic evidence than their senses, which has encouraged an indifference to nature that is responsible for the extinction of many species.
Author | : Judith E. Winston |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780231068246 |
A basic practical manual for the process of describing new species, this desperately needed desk reference and guide to nomenclatural procedure and taxonomic writing serves as a Strunk & White of species description, covering both botanical and zoological codes of nomenclature.
Author | : Daniel Robb |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-02-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0743218329 |
Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School, where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. By turns harsh, desolate, and starkly beautiful, the island offers its temporary residents respite from lives filled with abuse, violence, and chaos. But as Robb discovers, peace, solitude, and a structured lifestyle can go only so far toward healing the anger and hurt he finds not only in his students but within himself. Lyrical and heartfelt, Crossing the Water is the memoir of his first eighteen months on Penikese, and a poignant meditation on the many ways that young men can become lost.
Author | : B.F Skinner |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2012-12-18 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1476716153 |
The psychology classic—a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled—from one of the most influential behaviorists of the twentieth century and the author of Walden Two. “This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. Many students of society and culture would take violent issue with most of the things that Skinner has to say, but even those who disagree most will find this a stimulating book.” —Samuel M. Strong, The American Journal of Sociology “This is a remarkable book—remarkable in that it presents a strong, consistent, and all but exhaustive case for a natural science of human behavior…It ought to be…valuable for those whose preferences lie with, as well as those whose preferences stand against, a behavioristic approach to human activity.” —Harry Prosch, Ethics
Author | : C. N. Slobodchikoff |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-11-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 031261179X |
Discusses how animals are capable of interacting intelligently through vocal and physical methods, drawing on work with prairie dogs to present evidence of animal communication methods and how they can be imitated by human researchers.
Author | : Arthur W. Staats |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2012-06-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1616145986 |
What makes us human? In recent decades, researchers have focused on innate tendencies and inherited traits as explanations for human behavior, especially in light of groundbreaking human genome research. The author thinks this trend is misleading. As he shows in great detail in this engaging, thought-provoking, and highly informative book, what makes our species unique is our marvelous ability to learn, which is an ability that no other primate possesses. In his exploration of human progress, the author reveals that the immensity of human learning has not been fully understood or examined. Evolution has endowed us with extremely versatile bodies and a brain comprised of one hundred billion neurons, which makes us especially suited for a wide range of sophisticated learning. Already in childhood, human beings begin learning complex repertoires—language, sports, value systems, music, science, rules of behavior, and many other aspects of culture. These repertoires build on one another in special ways, and our brains develop in response to the learning experiences we receive from those around us and from what we read and hear and see. When humans gather in society, the cumulative effect of building learning upon learning is enormous. The author presents a new way of understanding humanness—in the behavioral nature of the human body, in the unique human way of learning, in child development, in personality, and in abnormal behavior. With all this, and his years of basic and applied research, he develops a new theory of human evolution and a new vision of the human being. This book offers up a unified concept that not only provides new ways of understanding human behavior and solving human problems but also lays the foundations for opening new areas of science.
Author | : Edward O. Wilson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0871407000 |
Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation. Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career—both his successes and his failures—and his motivations for becoming a biologist. At a time in human history when our survival is more than ever linked to our understanding of science, Wilson insists that success in the sciences does not depend on mathematical skill, but rather a passion for finding a problem and solving it. From the collapse of stars to the exploration of rain forests and the oceans’ depths, Wilson instills a love of the innate creativity of science and a respect for the human being’s modest place in the planet’s ecosystem in his readers.
Author | : Jean-Henri Fabre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : |
A book about metals, plants, animals, and planets.
Author | : John Dupré |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199248060 |
Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. He claims it is important to resist scientism - an exaggerated conception of what science can be expected to do.
Author | : Gregory Bateson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780226039053 |
Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.