Monday, September 17, 2012

Martin A. Nowak, SuperCooperators (2011)

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In 2010, Martin Nowak collaborated with biologist Edward O. Wilson (see previous post ) and mathematician Corina Tarnita in publishing an ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Edward O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth (2012)

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We tend to think of evolution in terms of a struggle, a "competitive struggle" in which natural selection favors certain genes, or...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Jared Diamond, Collapse (2005)

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In a recently published paper entitled Perception of Climate Change , James Hansen of NASA and others observed, "The greatest barrier t...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie (2006)

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David Nasaw's thorough biography of the life of Andrew Carnegie   compels one to think about the subject of the distribution of wealth ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

David Liss, The Whiskey Rebels (2008)

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At the dawn of the American republic, the new nation was in a precarious financial condition.  The nation was indebted to France for financi...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Arthur Herman, How The Scots Invented the Modern World (2001)

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Migration , when one first contemplates the subject, brings to mind human migration:  out-of-Africa, across the Arctic land bridge, the Silk...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem (2012)

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The Finkler Question explored the subject of cultural and individual identity, and in a previous post about that book I explored the histo...