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  • 1
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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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  • 2
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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
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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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  • 3
    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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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511819889
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 257 pages)
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    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 ; Social evolution ; Sociology ; Natural selection ; Natürliche Auslese ; Soziale Evolution ; Kulturelle Evolution ; Soziologie ; Soziale Differenzierung ; Neodarwinismus ; Neodarwinismus ; Soziale Evolution ; Natürliche Auslese ; Kulturelle Evolution ; Soziale Differenzierung ; Soziologie
    Abstract: In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the different kinds that they are. Drawing on and extending recent advances in neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, Runciman argues that collective human behaviour should be analyzed as the acting-out of information transmitted at the three separate but interacting levels of heritable variation and competitive selection - the biological, the cultural, and the social. The implications which this carries for a reformulation of the traditional agenda of comparative and historical sociology are explored with the help of selected examples, and located within the context of current debates about sociological theory and practice. The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection is a succinct and highly imaginative contribution to one of the great intellectual debates of our times, from one of the world's leading social theorists
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue : the Darwinian legacy -- The neo-Darwinian paradigm -- Natural selection and evoked behaviour -- Cultural selection and acquired behaviour -- Social selection and imposed behaviour -- Selectionist theory as narrative history -- Epilogue : sociology in a post-Darwinian world
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9780511521348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 306 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Keywords: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence ; Darwin, Charles ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Geschichte ; Psychologie ; Weltkrieg (1914-1918) ; Aggressiveness / History ; Social Darwinism / History ; Biopolitics / History ; World War, 1914-1918 / Causes ; War / Psychological aspects / History ; Peace / Psychological aspects / History ; Theorie ; Biologie ; Friede ; Krieg ; Darwinismus ; Soziobiologie ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Darwinismus ; Gesellschaft ; Darwinismus ; Krieg ; Krieg ; Theorie ; Darwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Soziobiologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; Krieg ; Friede ; Krieg ; Friede ; Biologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918
    Abstract: While much has been written upon Social Darwinism, the historical impact of Darwinism upon theories of war and human aggression has been sadly neglected. This book is the first to study this discourse in depth. It challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of 'peace biology', whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world to 1919, this study throws new light upon militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Darwinian legacy.--2. The age of Spencer and Huxley.--3. Crisis in the west: the pre-war generation and the new biology.-- 4. 'The natural decline of warfare': anti-war evolutionism prior to 1914.--5. The first owrld war: man the fighting animal.--6. The survival of peace biology.--7. Naturalistic fallacies and noble ends.--8. Conclusion
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511542480
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages)
    Series Statement: Biosocial Society symposium series 14
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    DDC: 304.6
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    Keywords: Population / Congresses ; Sociobiology / Congresses ; Social evolution / Congresses ; Demography / Congresses ; Soziologie ; Demographie ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Demographie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: In human populations, biological, social, spatial, ecological and economic aspects of existence are inextricably linked, demanding a holistic approach to their study. Many undergraduate and postgraduate courses now emphasise the value of studying human populations using theoretical frameworks and methodologies from different traditional disciplines. Human Population Dynamics introduces such frameworks and methodologies whilst demonstrating how changes in human population structure can be addressed from several different academic perspectives. As such, the book contains contributions from world-renowned researchers in demography, social and biological anthropology, genetics, biology, sociology, ecology, history and human geography. In particular, the contributors emphasise the lability of many population structures and boundaries, as viewed from their area of expertise. This text is aimed at undergraduate students, graduates and academic researchers from any academic discipline which considers human populations
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: the framework of studying human population dynamics / Helen Macbeth and Paul Collinson -- Demographic perspectives on human population dynamics / Andrew Hinde -- The growing concentration of world population from 1950 to 2050 / John I. Clarke -- Population, community and society in peasant societies / Robert Layton -- From genetic variation to population dynamics: insights into the biological understanding of humans / Jaume Bertranpetit and Francesc Calafell -- Social institutions and demographic regimes in non-industrial societies: a comparative approach / Richard Smith -- The dynamics of child survival / Emily K. Rousham and Louise T. Humphrey -- Genetic structure of south Indian caste populations: a confluence of biology and culture / L.B Jorde [and others] -- Fertility, mortality and migration transitions in association with socioeconomic modernization among highland minority populations in Southeast Asia / Peter Kunstadter -- Ecology, homeostasis and survival in human population dynamics / Robert Attenborough
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511007256 , 9780511007255 , 1601197330 , 9781601197337 , 0511149077 , 9780511149078 , 9780521593427 , 0521593425
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 211 p , ill , 26 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2002 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Toko, Kiyoshi, 1953- Biomimetic sensor technology
    DDC: 660.6/3
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    Keywords: Biosensors. ; Chemoreceptors. ; Biosensing Techniques. ; Biosensors ; Chemoreceptors ; Biosensors. ; Chemoreceptors. ; Biosensing Techniques. ; Chemoreceptors. ; Chemoreceptors ; Biosensing Techniques ; Chemoreceptor Cells ; SCIENCE ; Biotechnology ; Biosensors ; Chemoreceptors ; Sensoren ; Biometrie ; Biomimetische Reaktion ; Biosensor ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Biosensor ; Biomimetische Reaktion ; Biosensor ; Biomimetische Reaktion
    Abstract: 1.Sensor and measurement --2.Chemical senses --3.Biomimetic membrane devices --4.Biosensors --5.Odor sensors --6.Taste sensors --7.Other methods to measure taste --8.Toward a sensor to reproduce human senses.
    Abstract: This book deals with biomimetic sensors that can quantify taste and smell - the electronic tongue and nose. Of all sensor technologies, these have been widely considered as the most difficult to realise and the development of these sensors significantly contributes to the understanding of the reception mechanisms in gustatory and olfactory systems. The author begins by dealing with the basic principles of measurement and multivariate analysis. Reception mechanisms in biological systems are briefly reviewed. Several types of biosensor, including enzyme-immobilized membranes, SPR, the quartz resonance oscillator and IC technologies are explained in detail. This book is the first to focus on artificial taste and smell sensors and also reviews conventional biosensors, such as enzyme sensors, in detail
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511752407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages)
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    DDC: 304.2/7
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Human behavior ; Social evolution ; Social psychology ; Human biology / Social aspects ; Humanethologie ; Humanethologie
    Abstract: Biology and Freedom, first published in 1989, is an essay on human nature: an attempt to make a just assessment of a species often presented as predominantly and unavoidably violent, grasping, selfish and stupid. Likening human beings to animals is a traditional method of influencing attitudes on morals and politics. But in this book Professor Barnett shows that modern ethology, experimental psychology, genetics and evolutionary theory give the now fashionable misanthropy no authentic support. In doing so he asks whether the theory of evolution has any bearing on Machiavellianism in politics or the concept of original sin; and whether laboratory experiments on the effects of reward and punishment tell us anything about the enigma of free will. Combining the findings of biology with logic and humour, Professor Barnett gives a lucid alternative portrait of humanity in which he stresses the questions that the complexities of human existence will raise long after current myths have faded. This book is for all interested in human nature and the future of human society
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