Author: Derek Bickerton
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: language, made, humans, tongue, adam
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-03-17
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0809022818
ISBN-13: 9780809022816
How language evolved has been called “the hardest problem in science.” In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn’t the only thing that sets us apart from other species—our cognitive powers are quali
Author: Derek Bickerton
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: language, made, humans, tongue, adam
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-03-02
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0809016478
ISBN-13: 9780809016471
How language evolved has been called “the hardest problem in science.” In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn’t the only thing that sets us apart from other species—our cognitive powers are quali
Author: Rich La Bonte
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: humans, useful
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2005-05-20
List price: $19.98
ISBN-10: 1411632303
ISBN-13: 9781411632301
Kivvy is a young exobotanist exploring Noh, a moon-planet recently discovered in the Neptune system. He has a research grant to examine strange plant life that has inexplicably evolved there, over three billion miles from the sun. Kivvy’s closest neighbors are the Andie and human residents of Central, an Andie-designed base orbiting Neptune. Aside from INTELX, his scout ship’s resident AI computer, Kivvy is alone on Noh. Well, not entirely alone...Useful Humans is a science fiction adventure, the sequel to Susan and The Wolf by Rich La Bonte, author of Simple Deities and The Greate
Author: Julie A. Nelso
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: humans, economics
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2006-10-02
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0226572021
ISBN-13: 9780226572024
At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassioned and perceptive work, Julie A. Nelson asks a compelling question: If our economic world is something that we as humans create, arenât ethics and human relationshipsâdimensions of a full and rich lifeâintrinsically part of the picture? Is it possible to take this thing we call economics and give it a body and a soul? Economics for
Author: John Dupré
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: animals, humans
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-12-07
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0199247102
ISBN-13: 9780199247103
John Dupré explores the ways in which we categorize animals, including humans, and comes to refreshingly radical conclusions. It is a mistake to think that each organism has an essence that determines its necessary place in a unique hierarchy. We should reject the misguided concepts of a universal human nature and normality in human behavior. He shows that we must take a pluralistic view of biology and the human sciences.
Author: Jodi Compton
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: humans, sympathy
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-03-28
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440241375
ISBN-13: 9780440241379
Jodi Compton’s debut, The 37th Hour, was hailed as “compelling” (San Francisco Chronicle), “intelligent” (New York Times Book Review), and “the debut of a world-class mystery writer” (Denver Post). Now Compton delivers a new novel featuring Detective Sarah Pribek, one of the most singular and complex characters in suspense fiction today.On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small-town criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer. And now a zealous D.A.’s
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Keywords: universe, humans
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1983-11
List price: $39.10
ISBN-10: 0899250017
ISBN-13: 9780899250014
