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20,000 Leagues under the Seaby Pauline Francis, Jules VerneISBN 0237526883 (0-237-52688-3)
Softcover, Evans Publishing Group
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36 Lectures in Biologyby Salvador Edward LuriaISBN 0262120682 (0-262-12068-2)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationismby Philip KitcherISBN 0262110857 (0-262-11085-7)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboonsby Shirley C. StrumISBN 0226777561 (0-226-77756-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Ants Their Structure Development and Behaviorby W.M. WheelerISBN 0231001215 (0-231-00121-5)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Art of Memoryby YatesISBN 0226950018 (0-226-95001-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Memory'Book summary:One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century[via]
In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.More editions of The Art of Memory:
Arthropod Fossils and Phylogenyby Gregory D. EdgecombeISBN 0231096542 (0-231-09654-2)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Before the Indiansby Bjorn Kurten, Hubert Pepper, Margaret Lambert NewmanISBN 0231065833 (0-231-06583-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before the Indians'Book summary:In this illustrated work, Kurtén offers a vivid panorama of vertebrate animal life as it unfolded during the more than three million years before humans came to the New World.
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Behold Man: A Photographic Journey of Discovery Inside the Bodyby Lennart Nilsson, Rune Pettersson, David H. Ingvar, Jan Lindberg, Stig NordfeldtISBN 0245522727 (0-245-52272-7)
Hardcover, Harrap
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Between Science and Valuesby Loren R. GrahamISBN 023105193X (0-231-05193-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Biodiversity Dynamics: Turnover of Populations, Taxa, and Communitiesby Michael L. McKinney, James A. DrakeISBN 0231104154 (0-231-10415-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Bioinformatics: The Machine Learning Approachby Pierre Baldi, Sren BrunakISBN 026202442X (0-262-02442-X)
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Bioinformatics: The Machine Learning Approachby Soren Brunak, Pierre BaldiISBN 026202506X (0-262-02506-X)
Hardcover, Bradford Books
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Biophysical Studies of Retinal Proteins: Proceedings of a Conference in Memory of Laura Eisenstein Held at Allerton Park Conference Center of the UNby Thomas Ebrey, Hans FrauenfelderISBN 0252015282 (0-252-01528-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Birds of Illinoisby H. David BohlenISBN 0253315603 (0-253-31560-3)
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Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophyby Patricia Smith ChurchlandISBN 0262033011 (0-262-03301-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy'Book summary:Progress in the neurosciences is profoundly changing our conception of ourselves. Contrary to time-honored intuition, the mind turns out to be a complex of brain functions. And contrary to the wishful thinking of some philosophers, there is no stemming the revolutionary impact that brain research will have on our understanding of how the mind works.Brain-Wise is the sequel to Patricia Smith Churchland's Neurophilosophy, the book that launched a subfield. In a clear, conversational manner, this book examines old questions about the nature of the mind within the new framework of the brain sciences. What, it asks, is the neurobiological basis of consciousness, the self, and free choice? How does the brain learn about the external world and about its own introspective world? What can neurophilosophy tell us about the basis and significance of religious and moral experiences?Drawing on results from research at the neuronal, neurochemical, system, and whole-brain levels, the book gives an up-to-date perspective on the state of neurophilosophy--what we know, what we do not know, and where things may go from here.
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The Cancer Problem: A Critical Analysis and Modern Synthesisby Armin C. BraunISBN 0231029381 (0-231-02938-1)
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Carnivorous Plantsby Adrian Slack, Jane GateISBN 0262191865 (0-262-19186-5)
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Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thoughtby Richard J. BirdISBN 023112662X (0-231-12662-X)
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Chinese Fossil Vertebratesby Spencer G. LucasISBN 0231084838 (0-231-08483-8)
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The Complete Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea a New Translation of Jules Verne's Science Fiction Classicby Jules Verne, Emanuel J. MickelISBN 0253338107 (0-253-33810-7)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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A Critical Edition of the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0253328535 (0-253-32853-5)
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Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruationby Emily Toth, Janice Delaney, Mary Jane LuptonISBN 0252014529 (0-252-01452-9)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Societyby David Sloan WilsonISBN 0226901351 (0-226-90135-1)
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Wilson sees religion as a complex organism with "biological" functions. He argues that the social cohesiveness of religion makes it analogous to a beehive or a human body--and, in fact, religious believers sometimes employ these metaphors. He writes, "Thinking of a religious group as like an organism encourages us to look for adaptive complexity.... Mechanisms are required that are often awesome in their sophistication." To Wilson, therein lies the astonishing complexity of religion, just as in the biological world.
Following Wilson's argument requires understanding the rudiments of evolutionary biology; a smattering of theology, history, anthropology, sociology, and psychology is helpful, too. But the reasoning isn't as challenging as Wilson warns in the introduction. For educated readers, it's an accessible book.
In just 260 pages, Wilson can't begin to do justice to the broad swath of intellectual work he's cut out for himself. And ultimately, the book's main failing is its simplicity. In addition, his approach to religion is so clearly an outsider's that he is unlikely to win many converts. Adaptive-mechanistic explanations of forgiveness and altruism may be intriguing to the atheist in the ivory tower, but they are likely to elicit little more than a bemused and passing interest from believers. --Eric de Place [via]
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Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessmentby David Thompson, Andrew Brook, Don RossISBN 0262182009 (0-262-18200-9)
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Describing Species : Practical Taxonomic Procedure for Biologistsby Judith E. WinstonISBN 0231068255 (0-231-06825-5)
Softcover, Columbia University Press
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The Development of Biological Systematics: Antoine-Laurent De Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural Systemby Peter F. StevensISBN 0231064403 (0-231-06440-3)
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Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behaviorby J. A. Scott KelsoISBN 0262112000 (0-262-11200-0)
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Dynamics of Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Giantsby R. McNeill AlexanderISBN 0231066678 (0-231-06667-8)
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The Encyclopedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviourby Rod Preston-Mafham, Ken Preston-MafhamISBN 0262161370 (0-262-16137-0)
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Engineering and Living Systems: Interfaces and Opportunitiesby National Academy of Engineering, Murray Eden, David D. RutsteinISBN 0262180480 (0-262-18048-0)
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The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mysteryby Henry H. BauerISBN 0252012844 (0-252-01284-4)
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Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousnessby Bernard J. Baars, William P. Banks, James B. NewmanISBN 0262024969 (0-262-02496-9)
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Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Lifeby Connie BarlowISBN 0262023733 (0-262-02373-3)
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Evolution In Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, And Symbolic Variation In The History Of Lifeby Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb, Anna ZeligowskiISBN 0262101076 (0-262-10107-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evolution In Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, And Symbolic Variation In The History Of Life'Book summary:Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. New findings in molecular biology challenge the gene-centered version of Darwinian theory according to which adaptation occurs only through natural selection of chance DNA variations. In Evolution in Four Dimensions, Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb argue that there is more to heredity than genes. They trace four "dimensions" in evolutionfour inheritance systems that play a role in evolution: genetic, epigenetic (or non-DNA cellular transmission of traits), behavioral, and symbolic (transmission through language and other forms of symbolic communication). These systems, they argue, can all provide variations on which natural selection can act. Evolution in Four Dimensions offers a richer, more complex view of evolution than the gene-based, one-dimensional view held by many today. The new synthesis advanced by Jablonka and Lamb makes clear that induced and acquired changes also play a role in evolution.
After discussing each of the four inheritance systems in detail, Jablonka and Lamb "put Humpty Dumpty together again" by showing how all of these systems interact. They consider how each may have originated and guided evolutionary history and they discuss the social and philosophical implications of the four-dimensional view of evolution. Each chapter ends with a dialogue in which the authors engage the contrarieties of the fictional (and skeptical) "I.M.," or Ifcha MistabraAramaic for "the opposite conjecture"refining their arguments against I.M.'s vigorous counterarguments. The lucid and accessible text is accompanied by artist-physician Anna Zeligowski's lively drawings, which humorously and effectively illustrate the authors' points. [via]More editions of Evolution In Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, And Symbolic Variation In The History Of Life:
The Evolution of Communicationby Marc D. HauserISBN 0262082500 (0-262-08250-0)
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The Evolution of Moralityby Richard JoyceISBN 0262101122 (0-262-10112-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution of Morality'Book summary:Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence supports an innate basis to human morality. As a moral philosopher, Joyce is interested in whether any implications follow from this hypothesis. Might the fact that the human brain has been biologically prepared by natural selection to engage in moral judgment serve in some sense to vindicate this way of thinking--staving off the threat of moral skepticism, or even undergirding some version of moral realism? Or if morality has an adaptive explanation in genetic terms--if it is, as Joyce writes, "just something that helped our ancestors make more babies"--might such an explanation actually undermine morality's central role in our lives? He carefully examines both the evolutionary "vindication of morality" and the evolutionary "debunking of morality," considering the skeptical view more seriously than have others who have treated the subject.Interdisciplinary and combining the latest results from the empirical sciences with philosophical discussion, The Evolution of Morality is one of the few books in this area written from the perspective of moral philosophy. Concise and without technical jargon, the arguments are rigorous but accessible to readers from different academic backgrounds. Joyce discusses complex issues in plain language while advocating subtle and sometimes radical views. The Evolution of Morality lays the philosophical foundations for further research into the biological understanding of human morality.
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Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscienceby Julian Paul Keenan, Todd K. Shackelford, Steven M. PlatekISBN 0262162415 (0-262-16241-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience'Book summary:Since Darwin we have known that evolution has shaped all organisms and that biological organs--including the brain and the highly crafted animal nervous system--are subject to the pressures of natural and sexual selection. It is only relatively recently, however, that the cognitive neurosciences have begun to apply evolutionary theory and methods to the study of brain and behavior. This landmark reference documents and defines the emerging field of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience. Chapters by leading researchers demonstrate the power of the evolutionary perspective to yield new data, theory, and insights on the evolution and functional modularity of the brain.Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience covers all areas of cognitive neuroscience, from nonhuman brain-behavior relationships to human cognition and consciousness, and each section of Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience addresses a different adaptive problem. After an introductory section that outlines the basic tenets of both theory and methodology of an evolutionarily informed cognitive neuroscience, the book treats neuroanatomy from ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives and explores reproduction and kin recognition, spatial cognition and language, and self-awareness and social cognition. Notable findings include a theory to explain the extended ontogenetic and brain development periods of big-brained organisms, fMRI research on the neural correlates of romantic attraction, an evolutionary view of sex differences in spatial cognition, a theory of language evolution that draws on recent research on mirror neurons, and evidence for a rudimentary theory of mind in nonhuman primates. A final section discusses the ethical implications of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience and the future of the field.Contributors:C. Davison Ankney, Simon Baron-Cohen, S. Marc Breedlove, William Christiana, Michael Corballis, Robin I. M. Dunbar, Russell Fernald, Helen Fisher, Jonathan Flombaum, Farah Focquaert, Steven J. C. Gaulin, Aaron Goetz, Kevin Guise, Ruben C. Gur, William D. Hopkins, Farzin Irani, Julian Paul Keenan, Michael Kimberly, Stephen Kosslyn, Sarah L. Levin, Lori Marino, David Newlin, Ivan S. Panyavin, Shilpa Patel, Webb Phillips, Steven M. Platek, David Andrew Puts, Katie Rodak, J. Philippe Rushton, Laurie Santos, Todd K. Shackelford, Kyra Singh, Sean T. Stevens, Valerie Stone, Jaime W. Thomson, Gina Volshteyn, Paul Root Wolpe
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Exceptional Fossil Preservation: A Unique View on the Evolution of Marine Lifeby David J. Bottjer, Walter Etter, James W. Hagadorn, Carol M. TangISBN 0231102550 (0-231-10255-0)
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Freedom And Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, And Political Powerby John SearleISBN 0231137524 (0-231-13752-4)
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In Freedom and Neurobiology, the philosopher John Searle discusses the possibility of free will within the context of contemporary neurobiology. He begins by explaining the relationship between human reality and the more fundamental reality as described by physics and chemistry. Then he proposes a neurobiological resolution to the problem by demonstrating how various conceptions of free will have different consequences for the neurobiology of consciousness.
In the second half of the book, Searle applies his theory of social reality to the problem of political power, explaining the role of language in the formation of our political reality. The institutional structures that organize, empower, and regulate our lives-money, property, marriage, government-consist in the assignment and collective acceptance of certain statuses to objects and people. Whether it is the president of the United States, a twenty-dollar bill, or private property, these entities perform functions as determined by their status in our institutional reality. Searle focuses on the political powers that exist within these systems of status functions and the way in which language constitutes them.
Searle argues that consciousness and rationality are crucial to our existence and that they are the result of the biological evolution of our species. He addresses the problem of free will within the context of a neurobiological conception of consciousness and rationality, and he addresses the problem of political power within the context of this analysis.
A clear and concise contribution to the free-will debate and the study of cognition, Freedom and Neurobiology is essential reading for students and scholars of the philosophy of mind.
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From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Languageby Jerome A. FeldmanISBN 0262062534 (0-262-06253-4)
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Gay Scienceby Timothy F. MurphyISBN 0231108494 (0-231-10849-4)
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How Life Learned to Live: Adaptation in Natureby Helmut TributschISBN 0262200457 (0-262-20045-7)
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Hypersea: Life on Landby Mark A.S. McMenamin, Dianna L. Schulte McMenaminISBN 0231075308 (0-231-07530-8)
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Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debateby Stephen M. KosslynISBN 0262111845 (0-262-11184-5)
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In the Deserts of This Earthby Uwe GeorgeISBN 0241897777 (0-241-89777-7)
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Inner Presence: Consciousness As a Biological Phenomenonby Antti RevonsuoISBN 0262182491 (0-262-18249-1)
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Just Before the Origin: Alfred Wallace's Theory of Evolutionby John Langdon BrooksISBN 0231056761 (0-231-05676-1)
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King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchusby David R. SchwimmerISBN 025334087X (0-253-34087-X)
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The Knights in Fictionby Mary C. GrimesISBN 025201281X (0-252-01281-X)
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Large-Scale Neuronal Theories of the Brainby Christof Koch, Joel L. DavisISBN 0262111837 (0-262-11183-7)
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The Last of the Ruling Reptiles: Alligators, Crocodiles, and Their Kinby Wilfred T. NeillISBN 0231032242 (0-231-03224-2)
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The Latest on the Best: Essays on Evolution and Optimalityby John DupreISBN 0262040905 (0-262-04090-5)
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The Lost Worldby Pauline FrancisISBN 023752404X (0-237-52404-X)
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Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years If Mammalian Evolution in Europeby Mauricio Anton, Jordi AgustiISBN 0231116411 (0-231-11641-1)
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Metapatterns: Across Space, Time and Mindby Tyler VolkISBN 023106750X (0-231-06750-X)
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Microcircuits: The Interface Between Neurons And Global Brain Functionby Sten Grillner, A. M. GraybielISBN 0262072785 (0-262-07278-5)
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The Mind-Brain Continuum: Sensory Processesby Rodolfo Llinas, Patricia Smith ChurchlandISBN 0262121980 (0-262-12198-0)
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Models of Information Processing in the Basal Gangliaby Joel L. Davis, James C. Houk, David G. BeiserISBN 0262082349 (0-262-08234-9)
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The Myths of Human Evolutionby Ian Tattersall, Niles EldredgeISBN 0231051441 (0-231-05144-1)
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The Myths of Human Evolutionby Niles EldredgeISBN 023105145X (0-231-05145-X)
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The Natural History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectivesby Nancy Wilmsen ThornhillISBN 0226798550 (0-226-79855-0)
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The Natural History of the Gorillaby A.F. DixsonISBN 0231053185 (0-231-05318-5)
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The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focusby Elliott SoberISBN 0262192322 (0-262-19232-2)
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Neural Organization: Structure, Function, and Dynamicsby Michael A. Arbib, Peter Erdi, Janos SzentagothaiISBN 026201159X (0-262-01159-X)
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Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of Mind/Brainby Patricia Smith ChurchlandISBN 0262031167 (0-262-03116-7)
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The New Cognitive Neurosciencesby Michael S. GazzanigaISBN 0262071959 (0-262-07195-9)
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Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Functionsby Paul Sheldon DaviesISBN 0262041871 (0-262-04187-1)
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Oceans Of Kansas: A Natural History Of The Western Interior Seaby Michael J. EverhartISBN 0253345472 (0-253-34547-2)
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Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition Psychological and Biological Modelsby David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClellandISBN 0262132184 (0-262-13218-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition Psychological and Biological Models'Book summary:This two-volume work is now considered a classic in the field. It presents the results of the Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) group's work in the early 1980s and provides a good overview of the earlier neural network research. The PDP approach (also known as connectionism among other things) is based on the conviction that various aspects of cognitive activity are thought of in terms of massively parallel processing. The first volume starts with the general framework and continues with an analysis of learning mechanisms and various mathematical and computational tools important in the analysis of neural networks. The chapter on backpropagation is written by Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams, who codiscovered the algorithm in 1986. The second volume is written with a psychological and biological emphasis. It explores the relationship of PDP to various aspects of human cognition. The book is a comprehensive research survey of its time and most of the book's results and methods are still at the foundation of the neural network field. [via]
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Phylogenetic Patterns and the Evolutionary Process: Method and Theory in Comparative Biologyby Joel Cracraft, Niles EldredgeISBN 0231083785 (0-231-08378-5)
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Phylogenetic Systematicsby Willi Hennig, D. Dwight Davis, Rainer ZangeriISBN 0252068149 (0-252-06814-9)
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Probabilistic Models of the Brain: Perception and Neural Functionby Rajesh P. N. Rao, Michael S. Lewicki, Bruno A. OlshausenISBN 0262182246 (0-262-18224-6)
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Pulsed Neural Networksby Wolfgang Maass, Christopher M. BishopISBN 0262133504 (0-262-13350-4)
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The Race for Consciousnessby John Gerald TaylorISBN 0262201151 (0-262-20115-1)
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Rethinking Innateness : A Connectionist Perspective on Developmentby Jeffrey L. Elman, Elizabeth A. Bates, Mark H. Johnson, Domenico Parisi, Kim PlunkettISBN 0262050528 (0-262-05052-8)
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Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctionsby Peter Douglas WardISBN 0231118635 (0-231-11863-5)
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A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural Philosophyby Jacob BronowskiISBN 0262021285 (0-262-02128-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural Philosophy'Book summary:Jacob Bronowski truly educated an enormous number of members of that diffuse population usually referred to, with a hint of condescension, as "educated laymen" through his widely shared television series on the concepts of science and through such highly regarded books as The Identity of Man and The Ascent of Man. This volume extends the process to a further level of insight, and it may be more than suggestive that its final essay is entitled "The Fulfillment of Man." Bronowski was an extraordinary teacher precisely because he did not condescend to his audience. He did not talk down to them; he knew how to talk them up to something near his own level, however briefly. He felt that if human beings are taken seriously, they can be led to respond to serious and difficult subjects that relate to the deepest aspects of nature, both beyond and within themselves. A Sense of the Future succeeds brilliantly in this respect, in part because it is a collection of essays that can be read independently as self-contained, delimited presentations; and in part because the book is more than the sum of these individual essays--it is a unified whole in which Bronowski's most abiding concerns are interrelated, juxtaposed, and tested for consistency in various intellectual contexts. The major unifying theme of the work is the intensely creative and human nature of the scientific enterprise--its kinship, at the highest levels of individual achievement, with comparable manifestations of the artistic imagination, and its ethical imperatives, evolved within the community of scientists over the centuries, which both embody and forge the values of civilized life at large. Still, the book's diversity of topics is as striking as the unity of its aim. Among the subjects within the realm of Bronowski's mind that are presented here are the limitations of formal logic and experimental methods, the epistemology of science, the distinctive nature of human language and the human mind, and the bases of biological and cultural evolution. Bronowski also contrasts the findings of science as the "here and now" of man's understanding with the ongoing activity of science as the open-ended search for truth, and he undertakes to demonstrate that the factual, individual is and the ethical, societal ought can be derived each from the other. A mathematician by training, Bronowski published poetry as well as books on literature and intellectual history. In addition to those mentioned above, The Common Sense of Science and Science and Human Values are among the most widely read of his books. Before his death in 1974, he was for many years a Senior Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where his formal area of research was concerned with the questions of human specificity and uniqueness. Clearly, his interests ranged far beyond this area, and in many directions. [via]
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Sex And Character: An Investigation Of Fundamental Principlesby Laura Marcus, Otto Weininger, Ladislaus Lob, Daniel SteuerISBN 0253344719 (0-253-34471-9)
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Sex and Cognitionby Doreen KimuraISBN 0262112361 (0-262-11236-1)
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Sex, Botany & Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banksby Patricia FaraISBN 0231134266 (0-231-13426-6)
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The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogradesby Harald StumpkeISBN 0226778959 (0-226-77895-9)
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Surveying Natural Populationsby Martin A. Buzas, Lee-Ann C. HayekISBN 0231102410 (0-231-10241-0)
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Systematics and the Origin of Speciesby Ernst MayrISBN 0231054491 (0-231-05449-1)
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Theoretical Neuroscience : Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systemsby Peter Dayan, L. F. AbbottISBN 0262041995 (0-262-04199-5)
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Toward a Science of Consciousness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debatesby Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, Alwyn ScottISBN 0262082497 (0-262-08249-7)
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Toward Replacement Parts For The Brain: Implantable Biomimetic Electronics As Neural Prosthesesby Theodore W. Berger, Dennis L. GlanzmanISBN 0262025779 (0-262-02577-9)
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Varanoid Lizards of the Worldby Eric R. Pianka, Dennis King, Ruth Allen KingISBN 0253343666 (0-253-34366-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Varanoid Lizards of the World'Book summary:The large and impressive monitor lizard (genus Varanus) has attracted a great deal of interest. Despite being wary and difficult to observe, monitors have received an extraordinary amount of attention from devoted students. Varanoid Lizards of the World is a comprehensive account of virtually everything important that is known about monitor lizards, beginning with detailed species accounts and proceeding to various modern comparative analyses. Where possible, people who have had detailed field experience with a particular species have assembled the species accounts. In the process of reporting what is known, the book also identifies what remains to be learned about these lizards. This volume stands as a model for showing how such a diverse monophyletic group can be exploited both to identify and to understand the actual course of evolution.
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Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenologyby Stephen E. PalmerISBN 0262161834 (0-262-16183-4)
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What Genes Can't Doby Lenny MossISBN 026213411X (0-262-13411-X)
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White Teeth: Reader's Companionby Zadie SmithISBN 024113997X (0-241-13997-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Teeth: Reader's Companion'Book summary:Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again.
Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:
The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.
Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry [via]More editions of White Teeth: Reader's Companion:
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Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinentby Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, Steven MortonISBN 0253336430 (0-253-33643-0)
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Some of those animal types, such as the allosaurid dinosaurs and the labyrinthodont amphibians, may have endured on Gondwana long after they went extinct on its northern-hemisphere counterpart; others, such as the placental mammals and certapsian dinosaurs, may have developed on Gondwana. First published in 1992, this book offers a useful introduction to plate tectonics and other tenets of modern geology, as well as a fine catalog of long-extinct creatures such as the sauropod, pterosaur, and iguanodont. The revised edition recounts recent discoveries from southern Africa, India, and Patagonia that augment the fossil record and correct earlier classification schemes. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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