Author: Michael H. Robinson
Publisher: Smithsonian
ISBN: 9780874747751
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Reprising the first Man and Beast Symposium of 1969, many of the original participants reconvened at the Smithsonian nearly 20 years later to reconsider the convergences of human and animal behavior in light of advances across the spectrum of scientific disciplines. Their essays cover such topics as adultery, aggression, consciousness, and communication. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
MAN BEAST REVISITED PB
Author: Michael H. Robinson
Publisher: Smithsonian
ISBN: 9780874747751
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Reprising the first Man and Beast Symposium of 1969, many of the original participants reconvened at the Smithsonian nearly 20 years later to reconsider the convergences of human and animal behavior in light of advances across the spectrum of scientific disciplines. Their essays cover such topics as adultery, aggression, consciousness, and communication. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Smithsonian
ISBN: 9780874747751
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Reprising the first Man and Beast Symposium of 1969, many of the original participants reconvened at the Smithsonian nearly 20 years later to reconsider the convergences of human and animal behavior in light of advances across the spectrum of scientific disciplines. Their essays cover such topics as adultery, aggression, consciousness, and communication. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Pursuit of Pleasure
Author: Lionel Tiger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351475657
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Pleasure is biologically desirable and good for physical and mental health. In The Pursuit of Pleasure, Lionel Tiger explores this aspect of human nature by focusing on the origins and forms of pleasure. Medical science has perfected a host of often astonishingly impressive methods for preventing, alleviating, or recovering from pain. Its opposite, pleasure, has not had such a well-funded and fully justified constituency. In fact, those committed to the understanding and pursuit of pleasure, are rarely accorded respect and a sense of significance. People have objected to the notion of pleasure for a variety of reasons. The most complex derive from religious convictions that the most morally admirable human life is marked by abstemiousness, suffering, even martyrdom. There is also a corresponding fear that people may pursue pleasure too avidly and with too strong a sense of entitlement, and the world's work will not get done. But just as there have been suspicions of the dangers of pleasure, there have also been its supporters who assert its vital and joyful centrality to human experience. The Pursuit of Pleasure favors an agnostic approach borrowed from natural science. In lively, witty, and eminently readable prose, Tiger identifies major forms of pleasure and explores their variations, now and in the past. Pleasure, says Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously. As we acknowledge our need for enjoyment, we understand the need to establish balance in our lives-our need for the pursuit of pleasure.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351475657
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Pleasure is biologically desirable and good for physical and mental health. In The Pursuit of Pleasure, Lionel Tiger explores this aspect of human nature by focusing on the origins and forms of pleasure. Medical science has perfected a host of often astonishingly impressive methods for preventing, alleviating, or recovering from pain. Its opposite, pleasure, has not had such a well-funded and fully justified constituency. In fact, those committed to the understanding and pursuit of pleasure, are rarely accorded respect and a sense of significance. People have objected to the notion of pleasure for a variety of reasons. The most complex derive from religious convictions that the most morally admirable human life is marked by abstemiousness, suffering, even martyrdom. There is also a corresponding fear that people may pursue pleasure too avidly and with too strong a sense of entitlement, and the world's work will not get done. But just as there have been suspicions of the dangers of pleasure, there have also been its supporters who assert its vital and joyful centrality to human experience. The Pursuit of Pleasure favors an agnostic approach borrowed from natural science. In lively, witty, and eminently readable prose, Tiger identifies major forms of pleasure and explores their variations, now and in the past. Pleasure, says Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously. As we acknowledge our need for enjoyment, we understand the need to establish balance in our lives-our need for the pursuit of pleasure.
The Red Queen
Author: Matt Ridley
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965452
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find attractive. This fascinating book explores those findings, and their implications for the sexual behaviour of our own species. It uses the Red Queen from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ – who has to run at full speed to stay where she is – as a metaphor for a whole range of sexual behaviours. The book was shortlisted for the 1994 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books. ‘Animals and plants evolved sex to fend off parasitic infection. Now look where it has got us. Men want BMWs, power and money in order to pair-bond with women who are blonde, youthful and narrow-waisted ... a brilliant examination of the scientific debates on the hows and whys of sex and evolution’ Independent.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965452
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find attractive. This fascinating book explores those findings, and their implications for the sexual behaviour of our own species. It uses the Red Queen from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ – who has to run at full speed to stay where she is – as a metaphor for a whole range of sexual behaviours. The book was shortlisted for the 1994 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books. ‘Animals and plants evolved sex to fend off parasitic infection. Now look where it has got us. Men want BMWs, power and money in order to pair-bond with women who are blonde, youthful and narrow-waisted ... a brilliant examination of the scientific debates on the hows and whys of sex and evolution’ Independent.
BBC Wildlife
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Politics and the Life Sciences
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Category : Biopolitics
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : Biopolitics
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Library of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: Subjects
Author: Library of the Asiatic Society of Bombay and the Central Library
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 1266
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The Zoological Record
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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Paperbound Books in Print
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Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1626
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Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1626
Book Description
Author: Martha T. Mooney
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN: 9780824209070
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
- Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, from 109 publications. - Electronic version with expanded coverage, and retrospective version available, see p. 5 and p. 31. - Pricing: Service Basis-Books.
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN: 9780824209070
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
- Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, from 109 publications. - Electronic version with expanded coverage, and retrospective version available, see p. 5 and p. 31. - Pricing: Service Basis-Books.
New Visions of Crime Victims
Author: Carolyn Hoyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1847310710
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This innovative collection presents original theoretical analyses and previously unpublished empirical research on criminal victimisation. Following an overview of the development and deficiencies of victimology,subsequent chapters present more detailed challenges to stereotypical conceptions of victimisation through their focus on: male victims of domestic violence; victims of male-on-male rape; corporate victims; and the 'victim-offenders' who are the recipients of IRA punishment beatings. The second half of the book considers criminal justice responses to victimisation, focusing in particular on the potential of, and limits to, restorative justice, the social (and gendered) construction of the victim within contested trials and the exclusionary nature of current 'victim-centred' initiatives. This important book will further the debate on how we conceptualise victims as well as their appropriate role within the criminal justice system. New Visions of Crime Victims will be of interest to academics, students, criminal justice practitioners and policy-makers. It has particular implications for scholarship in the fields of victimology, restorative justice and feminist approaches to criminology and criminal justice. The integration of work by established criminologists, such as Carolyn Hoyle, Paul Rock, Andrew Sanders and Richard Young with that of young, previously unpublished scholars, makes for an interesting and stimulating book. As well as being a valuable addition to the literature, it can be used to support undergraduate and postgraduate courses in criminal justice and criminology.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1847310710
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This innovative collection presents original theoretical analyses and previously unpublished empirical research on criminal victimisation. Following an overview of the development and deficiencies of victimology,subsequent chapters present more detailed challenges to stereotypical conceptions of victimisation through their focus on: male victims of domestic violence; victims of male-on-male rape; corporate victims; and the 'victim-offenders' who are the recipients of IRA punishment beatings. The second half of the book considers criminal justice responses to victimisation, focusing in particular on the potential of, and limits to, restorative justice, the social (and gendered) construction of the victim within contested trials and the exclusionary nature of current 'victim-centred' initiatives. This important book will further the debate on how we conceptualise victims as well as their appropriate role within the criminal justice system. New Visions of Crime Victims will be of interest to academics, students, criminal justice practitioners and policy-makers. It has particular implications for scholarship in the fields of victimology, restorative justice and feminist approaches to criminology and criminal justice. The integration of work by established criminologists, such as Carolyn Hoyle, Paul Rock, Andrew Sanders and Richard Young with that of young, previously unpublished scholars, makes for an interesting and stimulating book. As well as being a valuable addition to the literature, it can be used to support undergraduate and postgraduate courses in criminal justice and criminology.