BLOOM, HOWARD K.

The Lucifer Principle a Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. Later Printing. Softcover. ISBN: 0871136643. Card covers show light shelf wear, corner curl.; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; 6.03 X 1.3 X 9.12 inches; 466 pages; "The Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. In a sweeping narrative that moves lucidly among sophisticated scientific disciplines and covers the entire span of the earth’s, as well as mankind’s, history, Howard Bloom challenges some of our most popular scientific assumptions. Drawing on evidence from studies of the most primitive organisms to those on ants, apes, and humankind, the author makes a persuasive case that it is the group, or ‘superorganism,” rather than the lone individual that really matters in the evolutionary struggle.". Very Good .

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Book number: 21087

Catalogue: Science::History::Behavior

Keywords: 0871136643 Science Genetics Human behavior evil HISTORY SCIENCE

BRYSON, BILL

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2004. Reprint. Paperback. ISBN: 0385660049. Card covers show light shelf wear, crease down back cover.; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 544 pages; "Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 21246

Catalogue: History::Science

Keywords: 0385660049 Science HISTORY SCIENCE

FIELD, J. V. & FRANK A. J. L. JAMES & A. RUPERT HALL

Renaissance and Revolution Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Reprint. Softcover. ISBN: 0521627540. Card covers show light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, covers are clean and crisp, text unmarked. ; 9.61 X 6.85 X 0.71 inches; 308 pages; "Renaissance and Revolution is a collection of fifteen essays that open up new perspectives on some of the problems presently seen to be associated with the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The topics treated include the dissemination of Greek science, medical empiricism, natural history, the relations of scholars and craftsmen in various walks of life from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the so-called "mechanical philosophy" in France and England, the work of Isaac Newton, and the difficulties encountered by proponents of Newtonianism in Italy in the early eighteenth century. Figures discussed include Leonardo Fioravanti, Jan Swammerdam, Piero della Francesca, Johannes Hevelius, Jonas Moore, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, Francesco Algarotti and Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli. There is an introduction by the editors and an afterword by A. Rupert Hall. The authorship is international, largely consisting of scholars with established reputations as historians but including some newcomers. All the essays are in English.". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 17880

Catalogue: Science::History

Keywords: 0521627540 Sciences Astronomy Mathematics SCIENCE