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Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
Biological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. In 1966, simple Darwinism, which holds that evolution functions primarily at the level of the individual organism, was threatened by opposing concepts such as group selection, a popular i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1966 -
Group Selection (Controversy Ser.)
Living things are constantly engaged in a struggle for existence, and ingenious devices for the purpose of self-preservation can be seen in all types of animal and plant life. However, nature also displays phenomena that are not related to survival or that seem clearly to violate the principle of se... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1971 -
The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues To Plan And Purpose In Nature
We may regard ourselves as the most advanced species on the planet, but have we really reached our optimum design? Isn’t there always room for improvements? Before you answer, let noted evolutionary biologist George C. Williams remind you of both the exquisite adaptations and absurd maladaptations ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Science Masters: Plan And Purpose In Nature (SCIENCE MASTERS)
George C. Williams explains how evolution can produce remarkable adaptations in the natural world, and examines how the same process can also produce design flaws that can cause serious problems in living things - including in human beings.Plan and Purpose in Nature is a brilliant survey of Darwinia... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
Biological evolution is a fact—but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection—the idea that evolution acts to sele... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing In World War I
This study measures wartime claims against actual results of the British bombing campaign against Germany in the Great War. Components of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), and the Royal Air Force (RAF) conducted bombing raids between July 1916 and the Armistice. Speci... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Why We Get Sick
The answers are in this groundbreaking book by two founders of the emerging science of Darwinian medicine, who deftly synthesize the latest research on disorders ranging from allergies to Alzheimer's and from cancer to Huntington's chorea. Why We Get Sick compels readers to reexamine the age-old att... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1994 -
Launching Learners in Science, PreK5: How to Design Standards-Based Experiences and Engage Students in Classroom Conversations
The only way to teach science is to do science. The combination of teaching and doing involves three elements: knowing content, teachers knowing and understanding themselves as teachers and learners, and, most importantly, knowing children. Kerry C. Williams and George E. Veomett describe principles... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Vicks Health Care Division: Project Scorpio (A)
The Vicks Health Care Division lacks a solid form entry in the OTC colds care category and has developed a "me-too" product. The main issues are whether there is an opportunity for the product, and, if so, how it should be positioned. Main teaching objectives are to use market research data as input... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1981 -
The Future of Quality News Journalism: A Cross-Continental Analysis (Routledge Research in Journalism)
In the face of the continuously changing challenges of the digital age, it is difficult for quality news journalism to survive on any significant scale if a means for adequately funding it is not available. This new study, a follow-up to 2007’s The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Hypercarbon Chemistry
The essential new edition of the book that put hypercarbon chemistry on the map A comprehensive and contemporary treatment of the chemistry of hydrocarbons (alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and aromatics) towards electrophiles, Hypercarbon Chemistry, Second Edition deals with all major aspects of such che... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Victory or Vested Interest? (Routledge Library Editions: WW2 #38)
This book, first published in 1942, covers the whole field of wartime life and organization. Is the private ownership and control of industry holding up production? Are the burdens of war being shared equally by the whole community? How can individual liberty be reconciled with maximum efficiency? A... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1942 -
America Past and Present, Volume 1: To 1877
by H. W. Brands • T. H. Breen • Robert A. Divine • George M. Fredrickson • R. Hal Williams • Ariela J. GrossFor introductory-level survey courses in American History. Focused on the Story of American History. America Past and Present integrates the social and political dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative, providing students with a full picture of the scope and complexity o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
America Past and Present (Revised 7th Edtion, AP Edition)
by H. W. Brands • T. H. Breen • Robert A. Divine • George M. Fredrickson • R. Hal Williams • Ariela J. GrossThe seventh edition of America Past and Present is a major revision that strives to achieve the shared goal of the previous editions: to present a clear, relevant, and balanced history of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, from the days of the earliest inhabitants to th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Africanisms In American Culture, Second Edition
by Molefi Kete Asante • Portia K. Maultsby • Robert L. Hall • Margaret Washington • Joseph E. Holloway • Selase W. Williams • George Brandon • Jessie Ruth Gaston • John Edwards Philip • Robert Farris ThomsonAn important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed originally by Melville J. Herskovits, the father of New World African studies. Since its original publication, the field has changed considerably. Africa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Prentice Hall Mathematics Course 3 (Alabama Edition)
by George M. Buchanan • Joe M. Edwards • Gary Kubina • Gretchen Mansell • Sandra S. Mayo • Jeanne M. Simpson • Linda Deerman Ussery • Valerie Harris WilliamsThis book is a comprehensive text on Alabama Mathematics Course of Study for Grade 8 with relevant examples and exercises.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education
by Kal Alston • Margaret L Andersen • Kathryn H. Anthony • Nathaniel C Banks • Bernice McNair Barnett • Christopher Benson • Ed Blankenheim • Julian Bond • Orville Vernon Burton • Jason Chambers • Constance Curry • Joseph A. De Laine • Mary L. Dudziak • Joe Feagin • John Hope Franklin • Ophelia De Gona • Lani Guinier • Darlene Clark Hine • Freeman A. Hrabowski • John Jennings • Ralph Lemon • George Lipsitz • Jim Loewen • Laughlin McDonald • David O'Brien • James C. Onderdonk • Sekou Sundiata • Christopher Teal • Nicholas Watkins • Carrie Mae Weems • Juan Williams • Joy Ann WIlliamsonInspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary in 2004, this collection addresses the significance of the Brown decision in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights. The book stands as a historic document i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Mountain Tourism: Experiences, Communities, Environments and Sustainable Futures
by Michael Hall • Peter Williams • John Hull • Kathleen Scherf • Michael Lück • Lluis Prats • Harold Richins • Aurelia Kogler • Marit Engeset • Joel Schmidt • Senija Causevic • Farhad Moghimehfar • Umberto Martini • Baikuntha Acharya • Simon Milne • Anne Terwiel • Tracey J Dickson • Emmanuelle George-Marcelpoil • Sydney Johnsen • Michael Volgger • Billy Colins • Elizabeth Halpenny • Peet van der Merwe • Axel Dreyer • Anita Zehrer • Robin Reid • Sanjay Nepal • Robert Hood • Thorvardur AransonMountains have long held an appeal for people around the world. This book focusses on the diversity of perspectives, interaction and role of tourism within these areas. Providing a vital update to the current literature, it considers the interdisciplinary context of communities, the creation of moun... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Mountain Tourism: Experiences, Communities, Environments and Sustainable Futures
by Michael Hall • Peter Williams • Kathleen Scherf • Michael Lück • Lluis Prats • Aurelia Kogler • Marit Engeset • Joel Schmidt • Senija Causevic • Farhad Moghimehfar • Umberto Martini • Baikuntha Acharya • Simon Milne • Anne Terwiel • Tracey J Dickson • Sydney Johnsen • Michael Volgger • Billy Colins • Elizabeth Halpenny • Peet van der Merwe • Axel Dreyer • Anita Zehrer • Robin Reid • Sanjay Nepal • Robert Hood • Thorvardur Aranson • Emmanuelle GeorgeMountains have long held an appeal for people around the world. This book focusses on the diversity of perspectives, interaction and role of tourism within these areas. Providing a vital update to the current literature, it considers the interdisciplinary context of communities, the creation of moun... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film
by Kristin Celello • Pamela Robertson Wojcik • Benjamin Kahan • Emma Liggins • Ann Mattis • Jorie Lagerwey • Katherine Fama • Andreá N. Williams • Jennifer S. Clark • Elizabeth DeWolfe • Martina Mastandrea • Ursula KaniaSingle Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center around which social anxieties and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
by Linda Sue Park • Phyllis Reynolds Naylor • Gordon Korman • Gail Carson Levine • Eric Rohmann • Peter Lerangis • Grace Lin • Kathi Appelt • Chris Grabenstein • Marla Frazee • Brian Selznick • Yuyi Morales • Candace Fleming • Ashley Bryan • Chris Gall • Rita Williams-Garcia • Cynthia Leitich Smith • Tom Angleberger • Dan Santat • Jarrett J. Krosoczka • Elissa Brent Weissman • Thanhha Lai • R. J. Palacio • Tim Federle • Kwame Alexander • Alex GinoFrom award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.Everyone’s sto... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017