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  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139225632
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge disability law and policy series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.9/08
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    Keywords: Sociology of disability ; People with disabilities / Social conditions ; Quality of life ; Behinderung ; Psychosoziale Situation ; Lebensqualität ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Behinderung ; Psychosoziale Situation ; Lebensqualität
    Abstract: This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a recent debate in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability scholarship, it also touches on one of the oldest philosophical questions: what is the good human life? Historically, philosophers have not been interested in the topic of disability, and when they are it is usually only in relation to questions such as euthanasia, abortion, or the moral status of disabled people. Consequently disability has been either ignored by moral and political philosophers or simply equated with a bad human life, a life not worth living. This collection takes up the challenge that disability poses to basic questions of political philosophy and bioethics, among others, by focusing on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Moral Worth and Severe Intellectual Disability : a Hybrid View , "Something Else"? : Cognitive Disability and the Human Form of Life , Disability (Not) as a Harmful Condition: The Received View Challenged , Nasty, Brutish and Short? On the Predicament of Disability and Embodiment , Recognizing Disability , Understanding the Relationship between Disability and Well-Being , Disability and the Well-Being Agenda , Disability and Quality of Life: An Aristotelian Discussion , Living a Good Life ... in Adult-Size Diapers , Ill, but Well: A Phenomenology of Well-Being in Chronic Illness , Natural Diversity and Justice for People with Disabilities , Inclusion and the Good Human Life
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107337879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages)
    Uniform Title: Essays
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    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Naturwissenschaft ; Science / Social aspects ; Gesellschaft ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Naturwissenschaften ; Naturwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Does science have limits? Where does order come from? Can we understand consciousness? Written by Nobel Laureate Leon N. Cooper, this book places pressing scientific questions in the broader context of how they relate to human experience. Widely considered to be a highly original thinker, Cooper has written and given talks on a large variety of subjects, ranging from the relationship between art and science, possible limits of science, to the relevance of the Turing test. These essays and talks have been brought together for the first time in this fascinating book, giving readers an opportunity to experience Cooper's unique perspective on a range of subjects. Tackling a diverse spectrum of topics, from the conflict of faith and science to whether understanding neural networks could lead to machines that think like humans, this book will captivate anyone interested in the interaction of science with society
    Description / Table of Contents: Part One. Science and Society: 1. Science and human experience; 2. Does science undermine our values?; 3. Can science serve mankind?; 4. Modern science and contemporary discomfort : metaphor and reality; 5. Faith and science; 6. Art and science; 7. Fraud in science; 8. Why study science? The keys to the cathedral; 9. Is evolution a theory? A modest proposal; 10. The silence of the second; 11. Introduction to Copenhagen; 12. The unpaid debt -- Part Two. Thought and Consciousness: 13. Source and limits of human intellect; 14. Neural networks; 15. Thought and mental experience : the Turing test; 16. Mind as machine : will we rubbish human experience?; 17. Memory and memories: a physicist's approach to the brain; 18. On the problem of consciousness -- Part Three. On the Nature and Limits of Science: 19. What is a good theory?; 20. Shall we deconstruct science?; 21. Visible and invisible in physical theory; 22. Experience and order; 23. The language of physics : on the role of mathematics in science; 24. The structure of space; 25. Superconductivity and other insoluble problems; 26. From gravity and light to consciousness : does science have limits?
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107018051
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (334 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Siraj-Blatchford, Iram, 1960 - Social class and educational inequality
    DDC: 306.43
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    Keywords: Social classes.. ; Education ; Parent participation.. ; Youth with social disabilities ; Education ; Case studies.. ; Education ; Social aspects.. ; Children with social disabilities ; Education ; Case studies.. ; Educational equalization ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Chancengleichheit ; Soziale Herkunft ; Unterprivilegierung
    Abstract: Examines the impact that parents and schools have on disadvantaged children who perform against the odds
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half title; Reviews; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1Child and Family Case Studies in the context of the EPPSE study; Introduction; Background to the Child and Family Case Studies; 'Working definitions'of resilience and vulnerability; Outline of the book; 2 Studying learning life-courses; Introduction; Contextualist approaches to development; The bioecological model of human development; Defining properties of the bioecological model; Process; Person; Context; Time; Shaping development through the family microsystem
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultural values and beliefs in macrosystemsA national culture of academic learning; Historical time and place; The macrosystem of socio-economic status; Social class and differentiating proximal processes; Parenting cognitions; The cultural logic of childrearing; Implications for the Child and Family Case Studies; 3 Methods and sample of the Child and Family Case Studies; Rationale for the mixed-method design; The dialectical nature of the EPPE and Case Studies; The mixed-methods nature of the Case Studies; Constructing a purposeful sample for the Case Studies; The Case Studies interviews
    Description / Table of Contents: Interview data collection proceduresInterview coding procedures; Learning life-course trajectories; Research in the tradition of the bioecological theory of human development; 4 Cultural repertoires of childrearing across and within social classes; Introduction; Succeeding against the odds of disadvantage: Steven Peterson; Meet the Petersons; The family background of the Petersons; The early years of Steven Peterson; The primary school years of Steven Peterson; The secondary school years of Steven Peterson; Steven Peterson'sfuture; Not succeeding against the odds of disadvantage: Tom White
    Description / Table of Contents: Meet the White familyThe early years of Tom White; The primary school years of Tom White; The secondary school years of Tom White; The future for Tom White; Failing to meet the high expectations of privileged circumstances: Marcy Stewart; Meet the Stewart family; The early years of Marcy Stewart; The primary school years of Marcy Stewart; The secondary school years of Marcy Stewart; The future for Marcy Stewart; Doing well as expected: Imogene Woods; Meet the Woods family; The early years of Imogene Woods; The primary school years of Imogene Woods; The secondary school years of Imogene Woods
    Description / Table of Contents: The future for Imogene Woods5 Children as active agents of their own learning; Introduction; (Self-)perceptions of children; Children'smental resources; Motivational dispositions and the force characteristics of the developing person; Perceptions of vulnerable children'snegative force characteristics; Developmentally generative force characteristics; Transition into active agency; Conclusions; 6 Powerful parenting and home learning; Introduction; Perceived 'protective' and 'risk'factors related to the family microsystem; Academically effective family microsystems during the early years
    Description / Table of Contents: Measures of early home learning environments
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781283714617
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xvii, 193 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Cambridge disability law and policy series
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Rimmerman, Arie Social inclusion of people with disabilities
    DDC: 305.908
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    Keywords: People with disabilities Social conditions ; People with disabilities Legal status, laws, etc ; Social integration Electronic books ; People with disabilities ; Legal status, laws, etc ; People with disabilities ; Social conditions ; Social integration ; Electronic books ; Inklusion /Soziologie ; Soziale Integration ; Behinderter ; Behinderter Mensch ; Soziale Integration
    Abstract: This book highlights and responds to core questions related to social inclusion of people with disabilities nationally and internationally.
    Abstract: Cover -- SOCIAL INCLUSION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: National and International Perspectives -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Part 1 SOCIAL INCLUSION AND DISABILITY -- 2 HISTORICAL ROOTS AND CONCEPTUALISING DISABILITY -- LEARNING FROM HISTORY: THE BIBLE, THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE QUR'AN -- ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME -- THE MIDDLE AGES -- EARLY MODERN PERIOD THROUGH THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: EUGENICS AND THE EXPANSION OF INSTITUTIONALISATION -- TOWARD THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- CONCEPTUALISATION OF DISABILITY -- CONCEPTUALISING DISABILITY: FROM DISABLEMENT TO ENABLEMENT -- THE MORAL/RELIGIOUS MODEL -- THE MEDICAL MODEL -- THE SOCIAL MODEL -- INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING (ICF) -- RELIGION, HISTORY, CONCEPTUALISATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES -- 3 SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION -- CONCEPTUALISING SOCIAL EXCLUSION/SOCIAL INCLUSION -- DEFINITIONS AND ROOTS -- SOCIAL INCLUSION -- PARADIGMS -- DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION -- THE INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL INCLUSION/SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND SOCIAL CAPITAL -- SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND STIGMA -- MEASURING SOCIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION -- MEASURING SOCIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION IN THE DISABILITY AREA -- INDICATORS OF SOCIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES -- SOCIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES -- DISABILITY AND POVERTY IN THE UK -- DISABILITY AND EMPLOYMENT -- DISABILITY AND HOUSING -- DISABILITY AND EDUCATION -- SENSE OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION -- SOCIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE OECD -- SOCIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: THE NON-INDICATOR APPROACH.
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139572828
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (292 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boesch, Christophe Wild cultures
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Animal behavior ; Chimpanzees -- Behavior ; Animal behavior ; Chimpanzees ; Behavior ; Electronic books ; Schimpanse ; Mensch ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: A journey into the lives of chimpanzees, revealing the many parallels and differences between us.
    Abstract: Cover -- Wild Cultures: A Comparison Between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- And the culture war started … -- Chimpanzee ethnography to uncover culture -- Cultural biases and scientific progress -- 1 Studying culture in the wild -- To study animals, all you need is love -- First steps towards chimpanzee culture -- Gombe National Park, Tanzania, May 1992 -- Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, October 1989 -- About animals, ignorance, and anthropocentrism -- Time to realize that Descartes got it wrong -- Synopsis -- 2 From human culture to wild culture -- Culture and ecology in humans -- Different approaches to culture -- Animal ethnography to expose animal cultures -- Imo, the cultural innovator -- Social transmission of cultural traits -- The paradox of studying "culture outside of culture" -- Animal cultures to learn about human cultures -- Synopsis -- 3 Shaping nature into home About material culture -- Taï Forest, December 1990 -- Tool makers in evolution -- Material culture shapes one's own world -- Technology boosts chimpanzee cultural ethnography -- Cumulative cultural evolution in chimpanzees -- When culture and environment mix -- Material culture in other species -- History of material culture: chimpanzee Stone Age -- Contribution to the cultural debate -- Synopsis -- 4 One for all and all for one About social culture -- Taï Forest, September 1976 -- Taï Forest, October 1992 -- Gombe National Park, Tanzania, April 1992 -- Hunting cultures in chimpanzees -- Cooperation: acting at the same time or acting together? -- Cooperation in high-risk situations -- Cultural altruism in chimpanzees -- Social niche construction in animals -- Contribution to the cultural debate -- Synopsis -- 5 I want to have sex with you About symbolic culture.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781139782661
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (366 Seiten)
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Print version Resilience and the Cultural Landscape
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Resilience and the cultural landscape
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Landscape changes ; Cultural landscapes ; Cultural landscapes ; Landscape changes ; Cultural landscapes ; Landscape changes ; Electronic books ; Kulturlandschaftswandel ; Landnutzung ; Landschaftsgestaltung ; Landschaftsschutz
    Abstract: "All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed as distinct methods for understanding the effects of these dynamics, and the ways in which they might be adapted or managed. "--
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Resilience and the Cultural Landscape: Understanding and Managing Change in Human-Shaped Environments; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Note; PART I: CONCEPTUALISING LANDSCAPES AS SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; 1 Connecting cultural landscapes to resilience; Two views on values and changes of cultural landscapes; Challenges to cultural landscapes; Globalisation of landscapes; Landscapes of agricultural intensification and expansion; Marginalised and abandoned landscapes; Landscapes of urbanisation and land consumption; Landscapes of renewable power
    Description / Table of Contents: Nature conservation landscapesMultifunctional landscapes; Local and international action for landscapes; The cultural landscapes approach; The resilience approach; Prospects for linking landscape and resilience research; Note; References; 2 Landscapes as integrating frameworks for human, environmental and policy processes; Introduction; The changing cultural landscape; Changing perspectives on landscape governance; Landscape change and resilience; Landscapes as resilient social-ecological systems; The pursuit of 'good' landscape resilience; Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 From cultural landscapes to resilient social-ecological systems: transformation of a classical paradigm or a novel approach?Introduction; The resilience approach to social-ecological systems; The cultural landscape concept; Similarities and differences between the two approaches; Explanation of the similarities between the two approaches; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 4 Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking; Introduction; The human as conceptualised in cultural landscape thinking
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Resilience thinking versus political ecology: understanding the dynamics of small-scale, labour-intensive farming landscapesThe problem; Small-scale farming landscapes in eastern Africa, as seen from two perspectives; Where is the boundary of the system?; What is the nature of agrarian societies?; Different conceptualisations: different world views?; Understanding European small-scale landscapes; Esch landscapes in Drenthe, the Netherlands; Bocage in Bretagne; Summer farms in Sweden; The historical evidence; Some concluding thoughts; Acknowledgements; References
    Description / Table of Contents: PART II: ANALYSING LANDSCAPE RESILIENCE
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Connecting cultural landscapes to resilience Tobias Plieninger and Claudia Bieling; Part I. Conceptualising Landscapes and Social-Ecological Systems: 2. Landscapes as integrating frameworks for human, environmental and policy processes Paul Selman; 3. From cultural landscapes to resilient social-ecological systems: transformation of a classical paradigm or a novel approach? Thomas Kirchoff, Fridolin Brand and Deborah Hoheisel; 4. Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking Lesley Head; 5. System or arena? Conceptual concerns around the analysis of landscape dynamics Marie Stenseke, Regina Lindborg, Annika Dhalberg and Elin Sla;tmo; 6. Resilience thinking vs. political ecology: understanding the dynamics of small-scale, labour-intensive farming landscapes Mats Widgren; Part II. Analysing Landscape Resilience: 7. In search of resilient behaviour: using the driving forces framework to study cultural landscapes Matthias Bürgi, Felix Kienast and Anna M. Hersperger; 8. Cultural landscapes as complex adaptive systems: the cases of northern Spain and northern Argentina Alejandro J. Rescia, Mari;a E. Pe;rez-Corona, Paula Arribas-Ureña and John W. Dover; 9. Linking path dependency and resilience for the analysis of landscape development Andreas Röhring and Ludger Gailing; 10. The sugar-cane landscape of the Caribbean islands: resilience, adaptation and transformation of the plantation social-ecological system William Found and Marta Berbe;s-Blázquez; 11. Offshore wind farming on Germany's North Sea coast: tracing regime shifts across scales Kira Gee and Benjamin Burkhard; Part III. Managing Landscapes for Resilience: 12. Collective efforts to manage cultural landscapes for resilience Katrin Prager; 13. Response strategy assessment: a tool for evaluating resilience for the management of social-ecological systems Magnus Tuvendal and Thomas Elmqvist; 14. Ecosystem services and social-ecological resilience in transhumance cultural landscapes: learning from the past, looking for a future Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Jose; A. González, Berta Marti;n-López, Ce;sar A. López and Carlos Montes; 15. The role of homegardens in strengthening social-ecological resilience: case studies from Cuba and Austria Christine Van der Stege, Brigitte Vogl-Lukasser and Christian R. Vogl; 16. Promises and pitfalls of adaptive management in resilience thinking: the lens of political ecology Bets ...
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511996368 , 9781107002388 , 9780521174800
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 420 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 27
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Nooy, Wouter de, 1962 - Exploratory social network analysis with Pajek
    DDC: 302.307
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    Keywords: Pajek (Electronic resource) ; Social networks Computer simulation ; Social networks Mathematical models ; Pajek (Electronic resource) ; Social networks ; Mathematical models ; Social networks ; Computer simulation ; Social networking ; Social networks -- Computer simulation ; Social networks -- Mathematical models ; Social networks ; Pajek (Electronic resource) ; Social networks ; Mathematical models ; Social networks ; Computer simulation ; Netzwerkanalyse ; Computersimulation ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: An extensively revised and expanded second edition of the successful textbook on social network analysis integrating theory, applications and network analysis using Pajek. The main structural concepts and their applications in social research are introduced with exercises. Pajek software and data sets are available so readers can learn network analysis through application and case studies. Readers will have the knowledge, skill and tools to apply social network analysis across the social sciences, from anthropology and sociology to business administration and history. This second edition has a new chapter on random network models, for example, scale-free and small-world networks and Monte Carlo simulation; discussion of multiple relations, islands and matrix multiplication; new structural indices such as eigenvector centrality, degree distribution and clustering coefficients; new visualization options that include circular layout for partitions and drawing a network geographically as a 3D surface; and using Unicode labels
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Fundamentals: 1. Looking for social structure; 2. Attributes and relations; Part II. Cohesion: 3. Cohesive subgroups; 4. Sentiments and friendship; 5. Affiliations; Part III. Brokerage: 6. Center and periphery; 7. Brokers and bridges; 8. Diffusion; Part IV. Ranking: 9. Prestige; 10. Ranking; 11. Genealogies and citations; Part V. Roles: 12. Blockmodels; 13. Eandom graph models; Appendix 1. Getting started with Pajek; Appendix 2. Exporting visualizations; Appendix 3. Shortcut key combinations
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511781360
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 562 pages)
    DDC: 304.5
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    Keywords: Soziobiologie ; Sozialverhalten ; Evolution ; Ökologie ; Genetik
    Abstract: Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of behaviour - where it has come from and how it has evolved, or the function of the behaviour studied. With guest articles from leaders in the field, theoretical foundations along with recent advances are presented to give a truly multidisciplinary overview of social behaviour, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include aggression, communication, group living, sexual behaviour and co-operative breeding. With examples ranging from bacteria to social mammals and humans, a variety of research tools are used, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, neuro-endocrine studies, cost-benefit and phylogenetic analyses and evolutionary game theory.
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511840357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 530 pages)
    DDC: 599.93/8
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    Keywords: Humanökologie ; Hominisation
    Abstract: We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species' development, taking over where Darwin left off. The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopædia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart for our Own Good makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive. Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this groundbreaking work.
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