In The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind author Melvin Konner looks at the entire range of human evolutionary history. He tells the compelling and complex story of how cross-cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy to adolescence became rooted in genetically inherited characteristics of the human brain. All study of our evolution [...]

Written with a historian’s flair for narrative and sparkling detail, this rollicking true yarn is packed to the yardarm with fabulous protagonists. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates by author Adrian Johns will have many people pondering print, property and pirates, other than a wonderfully wicked Johnny Depp in the Carribbean. Since [...]

The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue is an intellectual biography of the man who is neither philosopher nor theologian, but literary critic and political agitator. He is revealed in a collection of clever interviews that trace the evolution of his thought and politics in chronological order. Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position [...]

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