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Eating Animals Little, Brown and Company ISBN13 9780316069908 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a r Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a childs behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy literature science memoir and his own detective work Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting Marked by Foers profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close widely loved Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning a story about the stories weve told-and the stories we now need to tell / Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) Harper Perennial ISBN13 9780060731335 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a lockquote Which is more dangerous a gun or a swimming pool / What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common / How much do parents really matter / / lockquote These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask But Steven D Levitt is not a typical economist He studies the riddles of everyday life from cheating and crime to parenting and sports and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J Dubner an award-winning author and journalist They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang the truth about real estate agents the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan and much more Through forceful storytelling and wry insight they show that economics is at root the study of incentives how people get what they want or need especially when other people want or need the same thing / Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace literature or physics But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull or that economists are concerned only with finance itself Steven D Levitt will change some minds In Freakonomics written with Stephen J Dubner Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life dont need to be so mysterious they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections For example Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and digging further to the Roe v Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship Elsewhere by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonalds where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents Levitt argues that parenting methods dont really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubners 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine which led to the book being written In a book filled with bold logic such back-patting veers Freakonomics however briefly away from what Levitt actually has to say Although maybe theres a good economic reason for that too and were just not getting it yet --John Moe The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Free Press ISBN13 9781416594789 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a In 2008 a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10 000 years In a Pew Forum poll in the same year 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time / In 1859 Charles Darwins masterpiece On the Origin of Species shook society to its core Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians yet millions of people continue to question its veracity Now the author of the iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of Intelligent Design explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist argument Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos from plate tectonics to molecular genetics Combining these elements and many more he makes the airtight case that we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before In American schools and in schools around the world insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader nothing less than a masters vision of life in all its splendor Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Rodale Books ISBN13 9781594867347 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis The only missing ingredient is collective will / / Properly understood the climate crisis is an unparalleled opportunity to finally and effectively address many persistent causes of suffering and misery that have long been neglected and to transform the prospects of future generations giving them a chance to live healthier more prosperous lives as they continue their pursuit of happiness / / Our Choice gathers in one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now and that together will solve this crisis It is meant to depoliticize the issue as much as possible and inspire readers to take action not only on an individual basis but as participants in the political processes by which every country and the world as a whole makes the choice that now confronts us / / There is an old African proverb that says If you want to go quickly go alone if you want to go far go together / / We have to go far quickly / / We can solve the climate crisis It will be hard to be sure but if we can make the choice to solve it I have no doubt whatsoever that we can and will succeed / AL GORE from the introduction / The National Parks: America's Best Idea Knopf The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War Baseball and The War r / r America s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence that the nation s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved not for royalty or the rich but for everyone In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world s first national park at Yellowstone in 1872 through the most recent / additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres r r The authors recount the adventures mythmaking and intense political battles behind the evolution of the park system and the enduring / ideals that fostered its growth They capture the importance and splendors of the individual parks from Haleakala in Hawaii to Acadia in Maine from Denali in Alaska to the Everglades in Florida from Glacier in Montana to Big Bend in Texas And they introduce us to a diverse cast of compelling characters both unsung heroes and famous figures such as John Muir Theodore Roosevelt and Ansel Adams who have been transformed by these special places and committed themselves to saving them from destruction so that the rest of us could be transformed as well r r The National Parks is a glorious celebration of an essential expression of American democracy span class h1 Amazon Exclusive Joseph J Ellis Reviews em The National Parks / em / / span r / r / Educated at the College of William and Mary and Yale University Joseph J Ellis is a Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College His em Founding Brothers / em won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 and em American Sphinx / em earned the 1997 National Book Award His latest work em American Creation / em was published in 2007 Read Elliss exclusive Amazon guest review of em The National Parks Americas Best Idea / em / r / mg align right border 0 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ randoEMS/ Ellis-credit-JIM-GIPE jpg / / If Ken Burns s upcoming documentary film on America s National Parks is as good as the book laying open before me he has another huge winner Of course the book entitled em The National Parks America s Best Idea / em is intended as a companion to the film but as I see it--literally--the book permits the eye and mind to linger over the truly breathtaking pictures in a more meditative way that film does not allow The result is almost elegiac producing the same kind of goose bumps that Burns created in his early work on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Civil War / Burns has been chronicling the American experience for over thirty years and I think it s fair to say that no one has influenced more living Americans to think about our history as a people and a nation His dominant themes have been space and race his persistent question deceptively simple who are we I think em The National Parks / em is his masterpiece on the space theme And the message that kept whispering to me in these pages was that whoever we are has been decisively shaped by the sheer physicality of the continent we inhabit / It never occurred to me before but Americans invented the idea institutionalized in our National Parks Namely as Burns puts it in the introduction for the first time in human history land--great sections of our natural landscape--was set aside not for kings or noblemen or the very rich but for everyone for all time As Wallace Stegner once observed and the book s subtitle echoes this may have been America s best idea Burns links the idea to Jefferson s magic words in the Declaration of Independence i e We hold these truths our Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know Scribner What do dogs know How do they think The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz a cognitive scientist explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds each other and that other quirky animal the human Inside of a Dog is a fresh look at the world of dogs -- from the dogs point of view As a dog owner Horowitz is naturally curious to learn what her dog thinks about and knows And as a scientist she is intent on understanding the minds of animals who cannot speak for themselves In clear crisp prose Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draws a picture of what it might be like to be a dog Whats it like to be able to smell not just every bit of open food in the house but also to smell sadness in humans or even the passage of time How does a tiny dog manage to play successfully with a Great Dane What is it like to hear the bodily vibrations of insects or the hum of a fluorescent light Why must a person on a bicycle be chased Whats it like to use your mouth as a hand In short what is it like for a dog to experience life from two feet off the ground amidst the smells of the sidewalk gazing at our ankles or knees Inside of a Dog explains these things and much more The answers can be surprising -- once we set aside our natural inclination to anthropomorphize dogs Inside of a Dog also contains up-to-the-minute research -- on dogs detection of disease the secrets of their tails and their skill at reading our attention -- that Horowitz puts into useful context Although not a formal training guide Inside of a Dog has practical application for dog lovers interested in understanding why their dogs do what they do The relationship between dogs and humans is arguably the most fascinating animal-human bond because dogs evolved from wild creatures to become our companions an adaptation that changed their bodies brains and behavior Yet dogs always remain animals familiar but mysterious With a light touch and the weight of science behind her Alexandra Horowitz examines the animal we think we know best but may actually understand the least This book is as close as you can get to knowing about dogs without being a dog yourself The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Penguin ISBN13 9780143038580 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question What should we have for dinner Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us whether industrial or organic alternative or processed he develops a portrait of the American way of eating The result is a sweeping surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Back Bay Books ISBN13 9780316010665 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a In his 1 bestseller The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us In BLINK he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others Thats the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in BLINK Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology examining case studies as diverse as speed dating pop music and the New Coke Gladwell shows how the difference between good decision making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can process quickly but rather with the few particular details on which we focus BLINK displays all of the brilliance that has made Malcolm Gladwells journalism so popular and his books such perennial bestsellers as it reveals how all of us can become better decision makers--in our homes our offices and in everyday life Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant Gladwell the best-selling author of The Tipping Point campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling Building his case with scenes from a marriage heart attack triage speed dating choking on the golf course selling cars and military maneuvers he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of thin slices of behavior The key is to rely on our adaptive unconscious --a 24/ 7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger read a stranger or react to a new idea Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions marketers can manipulate our first impressions high arousal moments make us mind blind focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to the Warren Harding Effect i e voting for a handsome but hapless president In a provocative chapter that exposes the dark side of blink he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx He underlines studies about autism facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making In this brilliant cage-rattling book one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwells ideas about what Blink Camp might look like --Barbara Mackoff The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN13 9780618968411 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a On the afternoon of August 20 1910 a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington Idaho and Montana whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men college boys day workers immigrants from mining camps to fight the fire But no living person had seen anything like those flames and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them r r Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester Gifford Pinchot Pioneering the notion of conservation Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure owned by and preserved for every citizen The robber barons fought Roosevelt and Pinchot s rangers but the Big Burn saved the forests even as it destroyed them the heroism shown by the rangers turned public opinion permanently in their favor and became the creation myth that drove the Forest Service with consequences still felt in the way our national lands are protected or not today Amazon Best of the Month October 2009 / When Theodore Roosevelt vacated the Oval Office he left a vast legacy of public lands under the stewardship of the newly created Forest Service Immediately political enemies of the nascent conservation movement chipped away at the foundations of the untested agency lobbying for a return of the land to private interests and development Then in 1910 several small wildfires in the Pacific Northwest merge into one massive swift and unstoppable blaze and the Forest Service is pressed into a futile effort to douse the flames Over 100 firefighters died heroically galvanizing public opinion in favor of the forests--with unexpected ramifications exposed in todays proliferation of destructive fires Just as he recounted the Dust Bowl experience in em The Worst Hard Time / em a National Book Award winner em The Big Burn / em vividly recreates disaster through the eyes of the men and women who experienced it though this time without the benefit of first-hand accounts Its another incredible--and incredibly compelling--feat of historical journalism -- em Jon Foro / em r / r / hr class bucketDivider size 1 / r / span class h1 Amazon Exclusive Essay The Ghosts of 1910 by Timothy Egan Author of em The Big Burn / em / / span mg align right border 0 hspace 5 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ hmh-ems/ TimEgan150 jpg vspace 5 / / Nearly a hundred years ago a big piece of Rocky Mountain high country fell to a fire that has never been matched--in size ferocity or how it changed the country I was drawn to this fire in part because of its mythic status among my fellow Westerners But I was reluctant to try and tell this story because everyone who had lived through it had gone to their grave With em The Worst Hard Time / em I could look into the eyes of people who survived the Dust Bowl and hear their stories--firsthand They were happy to pass them on I was the baton r / r / With em The Big Burn / em the stories would have to come from ghosts That fire burned 3 million acres and five towns to the ground in the hot sweep of a single weekend It also killed nearly a hundred people So my task was to listen to the dead--those Italian and Irish immigrant firefighters in their letters home those first forest rangers in memories collected in volumes Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition American Psychological Association (APA) duplicate publication plagiarism and self-plagiarism electronic presentation of data discussion of the publication process lengthy data sets digital object identifier DOI The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers editors students and educators in the social and behavioral sciences It provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language Well-known for its authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system the Publication Manual also offers guidance on 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