Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart 
Figments of Reality [PDF ebook] 
The Evolution of the Curious Mind

From their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which n …

The end of the Cold War forced Western donors to rethink their aid relations with Africa. This book looks at two of these donors, France and Britain, and asks whether the development programmes of th …

A broad analysis of the phenomenon of American migration to Israel. The major focus is on the who, when, and where of American immigration to Israel, but it is the ‘why’ of this aliya which constitut …

In this truly one-of-a-kind book, Ascher introduces the mathematical ideas of people in traditional, or ”small-scale”, cultures often omitted from discussion of mathematics. Topics such as ”Number …

In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, ca …

Dutch planning is widely known and admired for its ambitions and its achievements. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description and analysis in English of its full range of pol …

When Men in Groups was first published in l969, the New York Times daily critic titled his review ‘The Disturbing Rediscovery of the Obvious.’ What was so obvious was male bonding, a phrase that ente …

In this intriguing volume, futurist and author Michael G. Zey imagines a time in which technology has stretched human life spans to four hundred years or more. Genetic engineering, cloning, and stem- …

The representation of women in parliament is a subject of extensive research and a focus for political action in the last decade. The wide variation in women”s parliamentary presence contradicts the …

The spectacular growth in the 1970s and 1980s of the Marxist literature on politics and the state in capitalist society was hailed at the time as cumulative proof of Marxism”s success in producing a …