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The Domestic Cat
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

The Domestic Cat

Experts from a range of fields provide the latest authoritative accounts of domestic cat behaviour and their interaction with humans.

The Crisis of Bourgeois Natural Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

The Crisis of Bourgeois Natural Science

The third volume of the book series, The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology, and the Doctrine of the Mode of Thinking, deals with the crisis of bourgeois natural science. Natural scientists generally are held in high esteem in bourgeois society because they are seemingly apolitical, unimpeachable, and committed solely to social progress. With the advance of positivism and pragmatism, however, the natural sciences lost much of their scientificity and have gotten into a crisis. This polemic is intended to revive materialistically based free thinking in the working class. Unless it frees itself from the shackles of idealism and metaphysics, humanity will not be able to utilize the achievements of the modern natural sciences for social progress. Thus, this book is also a must for every scientist with a critical mind. It serves the purpose of helping scientific socialism and its dialectical-materialist method gain new esteem.

Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez

First published in 1979, this guide has become the standard resource for scientists, divers, and spearfishers interested in the fishes of the tropical Pacific Coast. The authors have revised and updated this edition to include the most current taxonomic information, additional species descriptions, and new illustrations.

Insights in Mood and Anxiety Disorders: 2021
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Insights in Mood and Anxiety Disorders: 2021

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The Social Life of Greylag Geese
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Social Life of Greylag Geese

A synthesis of more than 20 years of behavioural research on an established society of nearly 1000 free-living greylag geese.

The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change

Climate change and the apocalypse are frequently associated in the popular imagination of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together climatologists, theologians, historians, literary scholars, and philosophers to address and critically assess this association. The contributing authors are concerned, among other things, with the relation between cultural and scientific discourses on climate change; the role of apocalyptic images and narratives in representing environmental issues; and the tension between reality and fiction in apocalyptic representations of catastrophes. By focusing on how figures in fictional texts interact with their environment and deal with the consequences of climate change, this volume foregrounds the broader social and cultural function of apocalyptic narratives of climate change. By evoking a sense of collective human destiny in the face of the ultimate catastrophe, apocalyptic narratives have both cautionary and inspirational functions. Determining the extent to which such narratives square with scientific knowledge of climate change is one of the main aims of this book.

Humans in an Animal’s World – How Non-Human Animals Perceive and Interact with Humans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229
Imitation in Animals and Artifacts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 644

Imitation in Animals and Artifacts

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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

An interdisciplinary overview of current research on imitation in animals and artifacts.

Patterns of Behavior
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 649

Patterns of Behavior

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Social Intelligence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 461

Social Intelligence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Why are humans so clever? The 'Social intelligence' hypothesis explores the idea that this cleverness has evolved through the increasing complexity of social groups. Our ability to understand and control nature is a by-product of our ability to understand the mental states of others and to use this knowledge to co-operate or deceive. These abilities have not emerged out of the blue. They can be found in many social animals that co-operate and compete with one another, birds as well as mammals. This book brings together contributions from an impressive list of authorities in the field, appropriately concluding with a chapter by Nick Humphrey (one of the pioneers in this field). This volume examines social intelligence in many different animal species and explores its development, evolution and the brain systems upon which it depends. Better understanding and further development of social intelligence is critical for the future of the human race and the world that we inhabit. Our problems will not be solved by mere cleverness, but by increased social co-operation.