当今时代,国人对西方哲学和西方思想的研究早已经过了泛泛而谈和单纯介绍的阶段,应该在自己关心的哲学问题上提出独到的见解,以形成与西方哲人的平等对话,本书就是在这方面所作的一些尝试

本书介绍了2020年以来中国化纤长丝织造产业的技术创新,绿色生产,产品开发,标准建设,集群发展,行业运行,产业政策等内容

本书作者结合多年法制工作经验, 从基层实战、实用出发, 从浩如烟海的法律法规、司法解释、批复、答复中逐一核对办理刑事案件的管辖和立案追诉标准, 认真研究, 系统总结, 编写了本书。该书试图为一线民警侦查办案以及检察官、律师办理业务, 提供一站式查询服务的工具, 框架结构采取简单列举式, 清新悦目; 法律依据紧随其后, 一目了然; 无需翻阅资料, 省去前后对照, 实现了"一书在手, 标准无忧".该书突出实用性, 不搞法律理论的分析探讨, 直接阐明含义, 指明标准, 注明依据, 指引办案民警解决最基础的入罪门槛问题.所有立案追诉标准按刑法条文的顺序排列, 检索方便。该书突出时效性, 坚持最新法律优先, 坚持最新解释优先, 坚持新标准优于老标准, 把最新的法律法规和司法解释对构罪标准的调整及调整的依据采用脚注的方式呈现给一线战友, 力求说清讲明。该书突出全面性, 除了对最高人民检察院、公安部的立案追诉标准进行优化整合, 还把与管辖、立案追诉标准有关的立法解释、司法解释节录选择, 以及部分不常见的批复、答复, 汇编到本书中. -- Source other than Library of Congress

Randolph Quirk, Gabriele Stein. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 258).

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本书介绍了2020年以来中国化纤长丝织造产业的技术创新,绿色生产,产品开发,标准建设,集群发展,行业运行,产业政策等内容

本书介绍了2020年以来中国化纤长丝织造产业的技术创新,绿色生产,产品开发,标准建设,集群发展,行业运行,产业政策等内容

本书介绍了2020年以来中国化纤长丝织造产业的技术创新,绿色生产,产品开发,标准建设,集群发展,行业运行,产业政策等内容

本书共分4个项目,14个任务,包括:徒手线条绘制,比例控制,形状速写,绘画透视,形体明暗表现,长方体绘制,圆柱体绘制,几何组合体绘制,茶几绘制,床绘制,沙发绘制,卧室绘制,客厅绘制等

Segunda novela del comisario Kostas Jaritos. El rico empresario Dinos Kustas, conocida figura de la noche ateniense y propietario de un lujoso restaurante y varios clubs nocturnos, es asesinado de madrugada. Todo apunta a que ha sido víctima de un ajuste de cuentas de la mafia. Sin embargo, para el comisario Kostas Jaritos algo no encaja: cuatro disparos hechos casi a ciegas no parecen obra de un profesional. Cínico, escéptico y obstinado, el investigador recorre las calles de Atenas, corroída por los intereses internacionales y la delincuencia, en busca de respuestas. Desde los bajos fondos hasta las altas esferas, Jaritos se adentrará en el lado más sórdido de la Grecia contemporánea, al tiempo que desvela un oscuro entramado de blanqueo de dinero y corrupción

<p>at The Time Of Its Initial Publication In 1904, The Higher Learning In America Was Known In Educated Circles As The Most Reflective Study Ever Made Of The University System In America.veblen's Evaluation Of The Misleading Notions And Erroneous Beliefs Were Inherent In The Higher Learning Was Received As Fair By Most Academics. As A Result, Many Believed He Paved The Way To An Improved Age In College Education. Just As Applicable Today As They Were Decades Ago, His Sophisticated Style Remains Deprecatingly Amusing; His Biting Critique Just As Disquieting As It Was At The Turn Of The 19th Century. The Higher Learning In America Remains A Penetrating Book By One Of America's Greatest Social Critics. American Economist And Sociologist Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929) Was Educated At Carleton College, Johns Hopkins University And Yale University. He Coined The Phrase Conspicuous Consumption. Among His Most Famous Works Are The Theory Of The Leisure Class (1899), The Theory Of Business Enterprise (1904), And Imperial Germany And The Industrial Revolution (1915).</p>

No-limit hold em was once a game played almost exclusively in casinos. But during the last decade, the game s growth has been fueled in part by the easy availability of online playing sites where participants can play cash games and tournaments 24 hours a day, every day. In Harrington on Online Cash Games, Dan Harrington shows you the key ideas and skills that will let you master the online poker world which differs in some significant ways from the world of casino games. You ll learn how to handle different stack sizes, how to play at 6-max tables, how to deal with increased levels of aggression, and how to use the poker databases and heads-up displays that give you unprecedented information on your opponent s tendencies. Harrington lays out detailed strategies for preflop and post-flop play in both the popular micro-stakes games and the more difficult small-stakes games. If you play online poker or you re looking to get started, you ll need to read this book. Dan Harri

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Kimio Uno. System Requirements For Computer Disk: Ibm Pc, Xt, Or At. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 417-426.

Stacy Addison, a beautiful and charismatic young psychic healer, is gravely injured in a car crash, after an argument with her doctor husband, David Kinnard. Deep in a coma, she is caught between this world and the next where she finds herself stalked by an unknown enemy whose single purpose is to revenge a sin she doesn't even realize she has committed. Unknown to both of them, an even stronger and more menacing power is forcing her toward a devastating decision which will alter not only her own life and future, but possibly the future of the entire world!

Geronimo Stilton is back in new comic stories based on the animated series, now airing on Netflix! The famous Prince Nogouda pays a visit to New Mouse City and ace reporter Geronimo Stilton has an exclusive interview. Meanwhile, at the Mouse Museum, the rare breed of Shufongfong lizards have been kidnapped! Could like Prince and his kingdom in the Bandel jungle have anything to do with this? Geronimo, Thea, Trap, and Benjamin are on the case!

In 1978, we had the first research meeting of guanidine compound analysis in Okayama, Japan. The purpose of the meeting was to standardize the methods of analyzing guanidino compounds, because the analytic methods, even, for example, that of normal plasma, were quite different from laboratory to laboratory at that time. More than ten laboratories joined in this research project. Thereafter, the purpose of the annual meetings was extended to cover general biochemistry of guanidino compounds, and every meeting has served to promote our mutual growth and progress. The last meeting of the Japan Guanidino Compounds Research Association in 1982 brought together more than 80 members, and about 30 papers were presented there. This, the 6th annual meeting, brings the International Symposium on Guani­ dino Compounds here to Tokyo. Recently, many scientists are engaged in the research of guanidine compounds, especially in the field of clinical bio­ chemistry. I am sure that the observation of guanidinosuccinic acid in the urine of uremic patients by Dr. Cohen's research group in 1963 ignited the recent exploration of the role of guanidino compounds in renal diseases. The study of guanidino compounds does, however, have a long history. The first knowledge of guanidine was obtained by Strecker in 1861 (Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, 118, 151- 177, 1981).

Randolph Quirk, Gabriele Stein. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 258).

Title from eBook title screen (viewed on Jan. 3, 2005).

Personal stress has an enormous impact on organizational and employee performance. This book introduces the web-based diagnostic tool IMPRESS, which provides employees, managers and HR professionals with information about potential stress factors. The book describes the underlying methodology for this integrated approach and presents the tools and learning modules to support the methodology. A series of case studies from pilot implementations in companies and universities illustrate the application of the approach in a variety of work environments.   The book is based on an international research project for a holistic approach to stress prevention by combining Human Systems Audit with the European Excellence approach as promoted by the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) and the EFQM Excellence Model. This approach is intended to contribute to organizational development that supports effective employee stress management.

A safe, effective hormone balance program for women aged 30-50 suffering from premenopause syndrome. Restore and maintain gynecological health, sex drive, and energy. I'm too young for menopause. So why do I feel like this? Even if you're a decade or more away from menopause, your hormones may already be out of balance, usually caused by an excess of estrogen and a deficiency of progesterone. Over 50 million women experience premenopause symptoms, including: Unexplained, sudden weight gain Severe PMS, fatigue, irritability, and mood swings Loss of libido Tender or lumpy breasts Fibroids and endometriosis Cold hands and feet Very heavy or light periods Or other symptoms like infertility, memory loss, and migraines. Now Dr. John Lee-author of the groundbreaking What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause -teams up with women's health expert Jesse Hanley, M.D., to bring you a revolutionary nonprescription "Balance Program" with simple, safe, and natural solutions for premenopause. Learn how natural progesterone and changes to your diet and environment can balance your hormones, eliminate premenopausal symptoms, and make you feel better-all without surgery, antidepressants, or prescription hormones.

In this book, both basic and advanced concepts are discussed for considering mixtures from initial exposure characterization through evaluation of risk associated with combined exposures. This book will provide an introduction to key issues and multiple options for evaluating both the toxicity of mixtures as well as the risk associated with exposure to mixtures. Additionally, promising tools adapted from other disciplines will be discussed in the context of mixtures toxicology and risk assessment. Finally, the discussion will move beyond chemical mixtures to address incorporating non-chemical stressors into toxicity studies and cumulative risk assessments. Although exposure to multiple chemical and non-chemical stressors is the rule, not the exception, consideration of mixtures in toxicology and risk assessment continues to be a significant challenge. This book will be an essential resource for researchers and professionals in the fields of toxicology, epidemiology, exposure science, risk assessment, and statistics.

This book is intended for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in set theory.... FROM LONG DESCRIPTION

The fascinating story of Queen Elizabeth's secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to empire, by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve MapsWe think of England as a great power whose empire once stretched from India to the Americas, but when Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen, it was just a tiny and rebellious Protestant island on the fringes of Europe, confronting the combined power of the papacy and of Catholic Spain. Broke and under siege, the young queen sought to build new alliances with the great powers of the Muslim world. She sent an emissary to the Shah of Iran, wooed the king of Morocco, and entered into an unprecedented alliance with the Ottoman Sultan Murad III, with whom she shared a lively correspondence. The Sultan and the Queen tells the riveting and largely unknown story of the traders and adventurers who first went East to seek their fortunes—and reveals how Elizabeth's fruitful alignment with the Islamic world, financed by England's first joint stock companies, paved the way for its transformation into a global commercial empire.

Fran Leeper Buss, a former welfare recipient who earned a PhD in history and became a pioneer in the field of oral history, has for forty years dedicated herself to the goal of collecting the stories of marginal and working-class U.S. women. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is based on over 100 oral histories gathered from women from a variety of racial, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds, including a traditional Mexican American midwife, a Latina poet and organizer for the United Farm Workers, and an African American union and freedom movement organizer. Buss now analyzes this body of work, identifying common themes in women’s lives and resistance that unite the oral histories she has gathered. From the beginning, her work has shed light on the inseparable, compounding effects of gender, race, ethnicity, and class on women’s lives—what is now commonly called intersectionality. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is structured thematically, with each chapter analyzing a concept that runs through the oral histories, e.g., agency, activism, religion. The result is a testament to women’s individual and collective strength, and an invaluable guide for students and researchers, on how to effectively and sensitively conduct oral histories that observe, record, recount, and analyze women’s life stories.

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Jane Millar. Spine Title: Poverty And The Lone-parent Family. Includes Bibliographical References.

In The Sweet Everlasting, Judson Mitcham cuts through the moral ambiguities of life in the midcentury, rural South to show us the heart and soul of a good but flawed man.Sharecropper's son, mill worker, and ex-convict—Ellis Burt surely knows adversity. For a brief and cherished time there was a woman, and then a child, too, who had been a kind of salvation to him. Then they were gone, leaving Ellis to carry on with the burden of what he had done to them, of the ruin he brought down upon them all.In The Sweet Everlasting, Ellis is seventy-four. Moving back and forth over his life, he recalls his Depression-era boyhood, the black family who worked the neighboring farm, his time in prison, and the subsequent years adrift, working at jobs no one else would take and longing for another chance to rejoin what is left of his family. Ever in the background are the memories of his wife, Susan, and their boy, W.D.—how Ellis drew on her strength and his innocence to resist everything that threatened to harden him: the shame that others would have him feel, the poverty he had known, and the distorted honor and pride he had seen in others and that he knew was inside him, too.Like the hero of William Kennedy's masterpiece, Ironweed, Ellis Burt is a man of uncommon personal dignity and strength, always moving toward, but never expecting, redemption.

"This book is about the application of the scientific approach to managerial decision making. Management science can be a tremendous aid to the manager faced with decisions. It can sort out the complex array of data, show what is relevant and what is not, focus on the lack of certain crucial information, provide an objective and consistent basis of choosing the best (or a good enough) solution, and even help quantify the manager's feelings and preferences for solution outcomes. In short, it can be used to make better decisions and improve the management of organizations."

This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists, poets, dramatists, autobiographers) and topics. It provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications.

Martin van Hees presents a new approach to the study of law - legal reductionism - which combines elements of legal positivism, new institutionalism and decision theory. From legal positivism Van Hees derives some fundamental insights into the nature of legal systems, but he also revises some of its key tenets. He argues that law can be reduced to facts; moreover, he re-establishes the relation between law and morality by arguing that law and positive morality are inherently related. He subsequently uses decision-theoretic tools to develop and defend his reductionist methodology. The second part of the study applies the resulting approach to an analysis of legal freedom. By showing that legal reductionism allows us to analyse the value of liberal legal systems, Van Hees makes a forceful case for including the study of law in moral and political philosophy. The book is accessible to a wide readership, including legal and moral philosophers, political theorists and social scientists.

<p>The thesis of this volume is that writing done by students who control their own topics, who have genuine purposes for writing, and have a real, known audience, is quite different and valuable in its own right. It forms a rich source of information about how young students think, manage their social interactions, and use language with competence to get things done. By selecting dialogue journal writing as a corpus for analysis, it is possible to observe children's communicative competence in using written language purposefully, apart from their ability to master a particular form of writing. The central argument is that dialogue journal communication represents a kind of personal literacy, prior to and more comprehensive than the particular literacies emphasized and assessed in schools. The contents include a practitioner's view of the practice itself and a summary of the research study methods developed to analyze interactive written conversations.</p>

Personal stress has an enormous impact on organizational and employee performance. This book introduces the web-based diagnostic tool IMPRESS, which provides employees, managers and HR professionals with information about potential stress factors. The book describes the underlying methodology for this integrated approach and presents the tools and learning modules to support the methodology. A series of case studies from pilot implementations in companies and universities illustrate the application of the approach in a variety of work environments.   The book is based on an international research project for a holistic approach to stress prevention by combining Human Systems Audit with the European Excellence approach as promoted by the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) and the EFQM Excellence Model. This approach is intended to contribute to organizational development that supports effective employee stress management.

xiv, 162 pages : 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references and index, Part 1: The Child's Development -- Physical Growth and Activity Development -- Personal and Social Development -- Intellectual and Perceptual Development -- Design Implications -- Part 2: The Physical Environment -- Children in the Residential Setting -- The Private Domain -- The Group Domain -- Planned Child Spaces -- Part 3: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Toward Design Guidelines

The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published. This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. Oxford Landmark Science books are'must-read'classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.

The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published. This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think. ** Cover 1 THE SELFISH GENE 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 INTRODUCTION TO 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 8 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION 20 FOREWORD TO FIRST EDITION 26 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION 30 1. WHY ARE PEOPLE? 34 2. THE REPLICATORS 48 3. IMMORTAL COILS 59 4. THE GENE MACHINE 92 5. AGGRESSION 119 6. GENESMANSHIP 147 7. FAMILY PLANNING 174 8. BATTLE OF THE GENERATIONS 192 9. BATTLE OF THE SEXES 215 10. YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, I’LL RIDE ON YOURS 249 11. MEMES 278 12. NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST 294 13. THE LONG REACH OF THE GENE 335 EPILOGUE TO 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 378 ENDNOTES 392 CHAPTER 1: Why are people? 392 p. 1 . . . all attempts to answer that question before 1859 are worthless . . . 392 p. 3 I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. 392 p. 7 . . . it is possible that the female improves the male’s sexual performanceby eating his head. 394 p. 14 . . . the fundamental unit of selection is not the species, nor the group, nor even, strictly, the individual. It is the gene . . . 394 CHAPTER 2: The replicators 395 p. 18 The simplified account I shall give [of the origin of life] is probably not too far from the truth. 395 p. 21 ‘Behold a virgin shall conceive . . . ’ 395 p. 25 Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots . . . 396 CHAPTER 3: Immortal coils 397 p. 30 . . . impossible to disentangle the contribution of one gene from that of another. 397 p. 36 The definition I want to use comes from G. C. Williams. 398 p. 43 . . . the individual is too large and too temporary a genetic unit . . . 399 p. 51 Another theory, due to Sir Peter Medawar . . . 400 p. 55 What is the good of sex? 401 p. 57 . . . the surplus DNA is . . . a parasite, or at best a harmless but useless passenger . . . (see also p. 237) 401 CHAPTER 4: The gene machine 402 p. 63 Brains may be regarded as analogous in function to computers. 402 p. 68 There is a civilization 200 light-years away, in the constellation of Andromeda. 404 p. 71 . . . strategies and tricks of the living trade . . . 404 p. 76 Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complete that it must include a model of itself. 405 p. 78 A gene for altruistic behaviour . . . 408 p. 79 Hygienic bees 409 p. 81 This is the behaviour that can be broadly labelled communication. 409 CHAPTER 5: Aggression: stability and the selfish machine 410 p. 90 . . . evolutionarily stable strategy . . . 410 p. 97 . . . retaliator emerges as evolutionarily stable. 410 p. 98 Unfortunately, we know too little at present to assign realistic numbers to the costs and benefits of various outcomes in nature. 411 p. 104 The neatest demonstration I know of this form of behavioural asymmetry . . . 412 p. 106 Paradoxical ESS 413 p. 106 . . . a kind of dominance hierarchy [in crickets] . . . 415 p. 109 . . . the ESS concept as one of the most important advances inevolutionary theory since Darwin. 415 p. 113 Progressive evolution may be not so much a steady upward climb as a series of discrete steps from stable plateau to stable plateau. 416 CHAPTER 6: Genesmanship 416 p. 117 . . . I have never been able to understand why they have been so neglected . . . 416 p. 117 . . . I shall assume that we are talking about genes that are rare . . . 416 p. 121 . . . armadillos . . . it would be well worth somebody’s while going out to South America to have a look. 417 p. 122 Kin selection is emphatically not a special case of group selection. 419 p. 122 He deliberately excludes offspring: they don’t count as kin! 420 p. 124 But what a complicated calculation . . . 420 p. 128 . . . we have to think how animals might actually go about estimating who their close relations are . . . We know who our relations are because we are told . . . 422 p. 129 . . . the injurious effects of recessive genes which appear with inbreeding. (For some reason many anthropologists do not like thisexplanation.) 422 p. 134 Since [cuckoo hosts] are not in danger of being parasitized by members of their own species . . . 424 p. 136 Kin selection in lions 424 p. 137 If C is my identical twin . . . 425 p. 138 . . . social anthropologists might have interesting things to say. 426 CHAPTER 7: Family planning 427 p. 142 Wynne-Edwards . . . has been mainly responsible for promulgating the idea of group selection. 427 CHAPTER 8: Battle of the generations 428 p. 160 R. L. Trivers, in 1972, neatly solved the problem . . . 428 p. 175 According to him the parent will always win. 428 CHAPTER 9: Battle of the Sexes 430 p. 182 . . . how much more severe must be the conflict between mates, who are not related to each other? 430 p. 184 . . . the number of children a male can have is virtually unlimited. Female exploitation begins here. 430 p. 196 Let us take Maynard Smith’s method of analysing aggressive contests, and apply it to sex. 432 p. 198 . . . it can be shown that really there would be no oscillation. The system would converge to a stable state. 433 p. 202 . . . cases of paternal devotion . . . common among fish. Why? 434 p. 206 . . . a kind of unstable, runaway process. 434 p. 207 . . . [Zahavi’s] . . . maddeningly contrary ‘handicap principle’ 440 CHAPTER 10: You scratch my back, I’ll ride on yours 446 p. 225 . . . it seems to be only in the social insects that [the evolution of sterile workers] has actually happened. 446 p. 228 . . . a hymenopteran female is more closely related to her sisters than she is to her offspring. 449 p. 230 They found a rather convincingly close fit to the 3: 1 female to male ratio predicted . . . 454 p. 242 If a population arrives at an ESS that drives it extinct, then it goes extinct, and that is just too bad. 455 CHAPTER 11: Memes: the new replicators 456 p. 248 I would put my money on one fundamental principle . . . all life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities. 456 p. 249 Meme 456 p. 249 . . . memes should be regarded as living structures, not just metaphorically but technically. 457 p. 252 ‘Auld Lang Syne’ 458 p. 252 If the meme is a scientific idea, its spread will depend on how acceptable it is to the population of individual scientists; a rough measure of its survival value could be obtained by counting the number of times it is referred to in successive years in scientific journals. 459 p. 255 The computers in which memes live are human brains. 464 p. 257 Blind faith can justify anything. 465 p. 260 We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. 466 BIBLIOGRAPHY 468 INDEX AND KEY TO BIBLIOGRAPHY 480 EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS 490 Cover 1 THE SELFISH GENE 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 INTRODUCTION TO 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 8 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION 20 FOREWORD TO FIRST EDITION 26 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION 30 1. WHY ARE PEOPLE? 34 2. THE REPLICATORS 48 3. IMMORTAL COILS 59 4. THE GENE MACHINE 92 5. AGGRESSION 119 6. GENESMANSHIP 147 7. FAMILY PLANNING 174 8. BATTLE OF THE GENERATIONS 192 9. BATTLE OF THE SEXES 215 10. YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, I’LL RIDE ON YOURS 249 11. MEMES 278 12. NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST 294 13. THE LONG REACH OF THE GENE 335 EPILOGUE TO 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 378 ENDNOTES 392 CHAPTER 1: Why are people? 392 p. 1 . . . all attempts to answer that question before 1859 are worthless . . . 392 p. 3 I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. 392 p. 7 . . . it is possible that the female improves the male’s sexual performanceby eating his head. 394 p. 14 . . . the fundamental unit of selection is not the species, nor the group, nor even, strictly, the individual. It is the gene . . . 394 CHAPTER 2: The replicators 395 p. 18 The simplified account I shall give [of the origin of life] is probably not too far from the truth. 395 p. 21 ‘Behold a virgin shall conceive . . . ’ 395 p. 25 Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots . . . 396 CHAPTER 3: Immortal coils 397 p. 30 . . . impossible to disentangle the contribution of one gene from that of another. 397 p. 36 The definition I want to use comes from G. C. Williams. 398 p. 43 . . . the individual is too large and too temporary a genetic unit . . . 399 p. 51 Another theory, due to Sir Peter Medawar . . . 400 p. 55 What is the good of sex? 401 p. 57 . . . the surplus DNA is . . . a parasite, or at best a harmless but useless passenger . . . (see also p. 237) 401 CHAPTER 4: The gene machine 402 p. 63 Brains may be regarded as analogous in function to computers. 402 p. 68 There is a civilization 200 light-years away, in the constellation of Andromeda. 404 p. 71 . . . strategies and tricks of the living trade . . . 404 p. 76 Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complete that it must include a model of itself. 405 p. 78 A gene for altruistic behaviour . . . 408 p. 79 Hygienic bees 409 p. 81 This is the behaviour that can be broadly labelled communication. 409 CHAPTER 5: Aggression: stability and the selfish machine 410 p. 90 . . . evolutionarily stable strategy . . . 410 p. 97 . . . retaliator emerges as evolutionarily stable. 410 p. 98 Unfortunately, we know too little at present to assign realistic numbers to the costs and benefits of various outcomes in nature. 411 p. 104 The neatest demonstration I know of this form of behavioural asymmetry . . . 412 p. 106 Paradoxical ESS 413 p. 106 . . . a kind of dominance hierarchy [in crickets] . . . 415 p. 109 . . . the ESS concept as one of the most important advances inevolutionary theory since Darwin. 415 p. 113 Progressive evolution may be not so much a steady upward climb as a series of discrete steps from stable plateau to stable plateau. 416 CHAPTER 6: Genesmanship 416 p. 117 . . . I have never been able to understand why they have been so neglected . . . 416 p. 117 . . . I shall assume that we are talking about genes that are rare . . . 416 p. 121 . . . armadillos . . . it would be well worth somebody’s while going out to South America to have a look. 417 p. 122 Kin selection is emphatically not a special case of group selection. 419 p. 122 He deliberately excludes offspring: they don’t count as kin! 420 p. 124 But what a complicated calculation . . . 420 p. 128 . . . we have to think how animals might actually go about estimating who their close relations are . . . We know who our relations are because we are told . . . 422 p. 129 . . . the injurious effects of recessive genes which appear with inbreeding. (For some reason many anthropologists do not like thisexplanation.) 422 p. 134 Since [cuckoo hosts] are not in danger of being parasitized by members of their own species . . . 424 p. 136 Kin selection in lions 424 p. 137 If C is my identical twin . . . 425 p. 138 . . . social anthropologists might have interesting things to say. 426 CHAPTER 7: Family planning 427 p. 142 Wynne-Edwards . . . has been mainly responsible for promulgating the idea of group selection. 427 CHAPTER 8: Battle of the generations 428 p. 160 R. L. Trivers, in 1972, neatly solved the problem . . . 428 p. 175 According to him the parent will always win. 428 CHAPTER 9: Battle of the Sexes 430 p. 182 . . . how much more severe must be the conflict between mates, who are not related to each other? 430 p. 184 . . . the number of children a male can have is virtually unlimited. Female exploitation begins here. 430 p. 196 Let us take Maynard Smith’s method of analysing aggressive contests, and apply it to sex. 432 p. 198 . . . it can be shown that really there would be no oscillation. The system would converge to a stable state. 433 p. 202 . . . cases of paternal devotion . . . common among fish. Why? 434 p. 206 . . . a kind of unstable, runaway process. 434 p. 207 . . . [Zahavi’s] . . . maddeningly contrary ‘handicap principle’ 440 CHAPTER 10: You scratch my back, I’ll ride on yours 446 p. 225 . . . it seems to be only in the social insects that [the evolution of sterile workers] has actually happened. 446 p. 228 . . . a hymenopteran female is more closely related to her sisters than she is to her offspring. 449 p. 230 They found a rather convincingly close fit to the 3: 1 female to male ratio predicted . . . 454 p. 242 If a population arrives at an ESS that drives it extinct, then it goes extinct, and that is just too bad. 455 CHAPTER 11: Memes: the new replicators 456 p. 248 I would put my money on one fundamental principle . . . all life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities. 456 p. 249 Meme 456 p. 249 . . . memes should be regarded as living structures, not just metaphorically but technically. 457 p. 252 ‘Auld Lang Syne’ 458 p. 252 If the meme is a scientific idea, its spread will depend on how acceptable it is to the population of individual scientists; a rough measure of its survival value could be obtained by counting the number of times it is referred to in successive years in scientific journals. 459 p. 255 The computers in which memes live are human brains. 464 p. 257 Blind faith can justify anything. 465 p. 260 We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. 466 BIBLIOGRAPHY 468 INDEX AND KEY TO BIBLIOGRAPHY 480 EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS 490

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Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards "A smart and accessible cultural history."- Los Angeles Times A portrait—by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving—of one of America's most iconic institutions, from an author who "might be the most influential design critic writing now" (LARB). Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative thinkers such as Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero, who understood the mall's appeal as both critics and consumers. Yet today, amid the aftershocks of financial crises and a global pandemic, as well as the rise of online retail, the dystopian husk of an abandoned shopping center has become one of our era's defining images. Conventional wisdom holds that the mall is dead. But what was the mall, really? And have rumors of its demise been greatly exaggerated? In her acclaimed The Design of Childhood , Alexandra Lange uncovered the histories of toys, classrooms, and playgrounds. She now turns her sharp eye to another subject we only think we know. She chronicles postwar architects' and merchants' invention of the mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. In Lange's perceptive account, the mall becomes newly strange and rich with contradiction: Malls are environments of both freedom and exclusion—of consumerism, but also of community. Meet Me by the Fountain is a highly entertaining and evocative promenade through the mall's rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention, for readers of any generation.

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The correspondence of Erasmus has never been completely translated into English, although it has long been acknowledged to be one of the most illuminating sources for the history of northern humanism and the first two decades of the Protestant Reformation. In his letters, to and from scholars and religions leaders, printers and patrons, princes and prelates in every country of western Europe, the interests and issues of that critical era found free expression. They are connected by the thread of Erasmus' personal experience, his joys and sorrows, triumphs and tribulations, and his uninhibited conversation with his friends. Erasmus himself regarded his letters as a form of literature, and they were valued in his time, as they are now, as much for their style as for their content. In __The Study of Good Letters__ (Clarendon 1963), H.W. Garrod wrote: 'As a document of the history of the times the Letters have primary importance. Yet they ar to be valued, ultimately, not as they enable us to place Erasmus in history, but as they help us to disengage him from it, to redeem him out of history into literature, placing him where, in truth, he longed to be. Not the __Folly__ nor the __Colloquies__ but the Letters, are his best piece of literature. What he did in scholarship, whether biblical, patristic, or classical has been superseded - though not the fine temper of it. That fine free temper shines also in the Letters, being indeed one of the elements of literature... In the immortality of their readableness Erasmus lives securely, immune from the discredits of circumstances.' The volume of the correspondence is enormous, and its cumulative effect fully justifies the claims that have been made for its importance. Erasmus was from his youth on an indefatigable correspondent, although he was careless about preserving his own letters or those written to him until he became famous and found printers eager to publish them. As a consequence, 85 per cent of the surviving letters were written after he reached the age of forty-five. Even when he had no thought of publication, however, he strove ceaselessly to make his letters models of elegant classical latinity, while adjusting the style of each letter to fit its purpose, content, and recipient. Even the earliest letters of volume 1 bear evidence of this concern. This volume includes a number of youthful rhetorical attempts, letters describing his early vicissitudes as he struggled to maintain himself as a scholar, letters to friends and letters about enemies, letters to patrons and prospective patrons, and the beginnings of the more serious intellectual correspondence of his later years in an exchange of letters with John Colet on the subject of Christ's agony. Volume 1 of the __Collected Works of Erasmus__ series.