Quicklet on Natural Experiments of History edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quicklet on Natural Experiments of History edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson write by Nicole Silvester. This book was released on 2012-05-15. Quicklet on Natural Experiments of History edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Natural Experiments in History grew, in a way, out of co-editor Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In the earlier book, he spent a chapter looking at the Polynesian expansion as a near-perfect natural experiment in which a single ancestral Polynesian culture migrated to hundreds of islands in the Pacific Ocean, each with its own different geographic features. Because the culture that settled the islands was the same, any differences that developed between separate island societies could be largely attributed to the geography of the individual islands. At the conclusion of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond noted that there were many other such natural experiments in history, just waiting to be studied, and he called for historians to pick up where he left off and see what else could be learned. Of course, scholars have been using such natural experiments for a long time, especially in other disciplines like archaeology and anthropology, but they have not been as popular in historical scholarship. With Natural Experiments of History the editors and authors hope to illustrate how natural experiments can be used to bring the rigours of the hard sciences to historical scholarship, both in descriptive and statistics-based studies.
Why Is Sex Fun?
Why Is Sex Fun? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Is Sex Fun? write by Jared M Diamond. This book was released on 1998-09-25. Why Is Sex Fun? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the New York Times bestselling author of Upheaval, a fun and wide-ranging exploration of why human sexuality is so different from other animals', and how it made us who we are To us humans, the sex lives of animals seem weird. But it's our own sex lives that are truly bizarre. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even during periods of infertility, such as pregnancy or post-menopause. A human female doesn't know her precise time of fertility and certainly doesn't advertise it to human males by the striking color changes, smells, and sounds used by other female mammals. Why do we differ so radically in these and other important aspects of our sexuality from our closest ancestor, the apes? Why does the human female, virtually alone among mammals, go through menopause? Why does the human male stand out as one of the few mammals to stay with the female he impregnates, to help raise the children that he sired? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large? There is no one better qualified than Jared Diamond to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us so different sexually. With wit and a wealth of fascinating examples, Why Is Sex Fun? shows how our sexuality, as much as our large brains or upright posture, led to human' rise in the animal kingdom.
Struggling for Air
Struggling for Air - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Struggling for Air write by Richard L. Revesz. This book was released on 2016. Struggling for Air available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, conservative politicians have railed against the President's "War on Coal." As evidence of this supposed siege, they point to a series of rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency that aim to slash air pollution from the nation's power sector . Because coal produces far more pollution than any other major energy source, these rules are expected to further reduce its already shrinking share of the electricity market in favor of cleaner options like natural gas and solar power. But the EPA's policies are hardly the "unprecedented regulatory assault " that opponents make them out to be. Instead, they are merely the latest chapter in a multi-decade struggle to overcome a tragic flaw in our nation's most important environmental law. In 1970, Congress passed the Clean Air Act, which had the remarkably ambitious goal of eliminating essentially all air pollution that posed a threat to public health or welfare. But there was a problem: for some of the most common pollutants, Congress empowered the EPA to set emission limits only for newly constructed industrial facilities, most notably power plants. Existing plants, by contrast, would be largely exempt from direct federal regulation-a regulatory practice known as "grandfathering." What lawmakers didn't anticipate was that imposing costly requirements on new plants while giving existing ones a pass would simply encourage those old plants to stay in business much longer than originally planned. Since 1970, the core problems of U.S. environmental policy have flowed inexorably from the smokestacks of these coal-fired clunkers, which continue to pollute at far higher rates than their younger peers. In Struggling for Air, Richard L. Revesz and Jack Lienke chronicle the political compromises that gave rise to grandfathering, its deadly consequences, and the repeated attempts-by presidential administrations of both parties-to make things right.
A History of Broadcasting in the United States
A History of Broadcasting in the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Broadcasting in the United States write by Erik Barnouw. This book was released on 1966. A History of Broadcasting in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells how radio and television became an integral part of American life, of how a toy became an industry and a force in politics, business, education, religion, and international affairs.
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Psychology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cognitive Psychology write by R. Solso. This book was released on 2017-11. Cognitive Psychology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is world famous book. One of the top sellers in the field, Cognitive Psychology is well-written, humorous and remains the most comprehensive and balanced text in the area of undergraduate cognition. The text features a sequential model of human cognition from sensation to perception, to attention, to memory, to higher-order cognition and features new cutting-edge coverage of consciousness, cognitive neuroscience, memory and forgetting and evolutionary psychology.
