Philosophy of science; Darwin and the selfish gene; Knowledge

12/14/2011

Worldviews : an introduction to the history and philosophy of science / Richard DeWitt. 2nd ed. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

The solitary self : Darwin and the selfish gene / Mary Midgley. Durham, England : Acumen, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

How well do facts travel? : the dissemination of reliable knowledge / [edited by] Peter Howlett, Mary S. Morgan. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)


Stone walls; evolutionary ethics; American soccer

12/06/2011

Stone walls : personal boundaries : photographs / by Mariana Cook. Bologna : Damiani Editore, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

An introduction to evolutionary ethics / Scott M. James. , MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Distant corners : American soccer’s history of missed opportunities and lost causes / David Wangerin. Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)


Women’s studies

03/04/2011

Rupp, Leila J. Sapphistries: a global history of love between women. New York: New York University press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Deutsch, Tracey. Building a housewife’s paradise: gender, politics, and American grocery stores in the twentieth century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Barash, David P., and Judith Eve Lipton. How women got their curves and other just-so stories: evolutionary enigmas. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Climate, development, energy efficiency, ethics, evolution

02/18/2011

Development and climate change. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Bose, Ranjan K. Energy efficient cities: assessment tools and benchmarking practices. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Antholis, William, and Strobe Talbott. Fast forward: ethics and politics in the age of global warming. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Committee on the Earth System Context for Hominin Evolution ; Board on Earth Sciences and Resources ; Division on Earth and Life Studies. ; National Research Council of the National Academies. Understanding climate’s influence on human evolution. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Art and visual culture

07/28/2010

Weinberg, H. Barbara and Carrie Rebora Barratt, eds. American stories: paintings of everyday life, 1765-1915. New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Larson, Barbara and Fae Brauer, eds. The art of evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and visual culture. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press: Published by University Press of New England, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Rawlinson, Mark. American visual culture. Oxford; New York: Berg, 2009. (Publisher’s description)


Science, evolution, society

07/02/2010

Vedantam, Shankar. The hidden brain: how our unconscious minds elect presidents, control markets, wage wars, and save our lives. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Cochran, Gregory, and Henry Harpending. The 10,000 year explosion: how civilization accelerated human evolution. New York: Basic Books, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Miller, Geoffrey. Spent: sex, evolution, and consumer behavior. New York: Viking, 2009. (Publisher’s description)


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