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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kevin mccaffree”
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  • The Secular Landscape

    The Decline of Religion in America

    by Kevin McCaffree ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book proposes a comprehensive theory of the loss of religion in human societies, with a specific and substantive focus on the contemporary United States. Kevin McCaffree draws on a range of disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology, and history to explore topics such as the origin of religion, the role of religion in recent American history, the loss of religion, and how ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Theoretical Sociology

    The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation

    Edited by Seth Abrutyn, Kevin McCaffree ...
    Since Durkheim’s influential work a century ago, sociological theory has been among the most integrative and useful tools for social scientists across many disciplines. Sociological theory has nevertheless, due to its usefulness, expanded so very broadly that some wonder whether the concept of "general theory," or even the attempt to link middle-range theories, is still of any use. This book, a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Dance of Innovation

    Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies

    by Kevin McCaffree ...
    Series series Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences
    Few of us, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider how mundane infrastructures—from electrical grids to sewage systems—have developed over millennia in ways that enable everything we cherish, from democracy to technological innovation to individual liberty. But what drives the evolution of this infrastructure? And why is infrastructure so critical to human flourishing? In this book, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Cultural Evolution

    The Empirical and Theoretical Landscape

    by Kevin McCaffree ...
    Series series Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences
    Since the dawn of social science, theorists have debated how and why societies appear to change, develop and evolve. Today, this question is pursued by scholars across many different disciplines and our understanding of these dynamics has grown markedly. Yet, there remain important areas of disagreement and debate: what is the difference between societal change, development and evolution? What ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • A Cooperative Species

    Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution

    by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis ...
    A thought-provoking scientific exploration of the evolutionary origins of human cooperation.Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close ... Read more

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  • A Different Kind of Animal

    How Culture Transformed Our Species

    by Robert Boyd ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • A Better Ape

    The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human

    by Victor Kumar, Richmond Campbell ...
    Humans are moral creatures. Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved? In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell draw on the latest research in the biological and social sciences to explain the key role ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • An archaeology of innovation

    Approaching social and technological change in human society

    by Catherine J. Frieman ...
    Series series Social Archaeology and Material Worlds
    An archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective. It interrogates the idea of innovation that permeates our popular media and our political and scientific discourse, setting this against the long-term perspective that only archaeology can offer. Case studies span the entire breadth of human history, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Social DNA

    Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

    by M. Kay Martin ...
    What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory was the ability to flex their reproductive and social strategies in response to changing environmental conditions. Exploring new cross-disciplinary research that links this capacity to critical changes in the organization of the primate brain, Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins – challenging models ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Meeting at Grand Central

    Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation

    by Lee Cronk, Beth L. Leech ...
    A revolutionary approach to the study of cooperation that unites evolutionary biology and the social sciencesFrom the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be—snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ... Read more

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  • Environmental Literacy in Science and Society

    From Knowledge to Decisions

    by Roland W. Scholz ...
    In an era where humans affect virtually all of the earth's processes, questions arise about whether we have sufficient knowledge of human-environment interactions. How can we sustain the Earth's ecosystems to prevent collapses and what roles should practitioners and scientists play in this process? These are the issues central to the concept of environmental literacy. This unique book provides a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Homo Sapiens to Homo ‘X’

    Why Our Children and Youth Are Different from Us

    by Lawrence Nyaguti Ochieng. ...
    Each successive generation of mankind since archaic times has been shown to exhibit significant difference in aesthetics, social behavior and physiological make up. These changes are evolutionary. This book is therefore a study of humans since archaic times and the changes that have since occurred in man. It seeks to convince the world that from apelike, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and then Homo ... Read more

    $3.99 USD