Modernity and Cultural Decline: A Biobehavioral Perspective
By: Matthew Alexandar Sarraf
4.35
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yielded--inclu…
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1. The Concept of the Political
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more
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"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
2. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
By: Donella H. Meadows , Jørgen Randers , Dennis L. Meadows
4.22
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
In 1972 four young scientists at MIT wrote The Limits to Growth, which shocked theworld and became … read more
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"Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental problem-the problem of growth in a finite system and prevent us from taking effect…"-Donella H. Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
3. Making Sense of Heritability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
By: Neven Sesardić
4.45
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Neven Sesardic defends the view that it is both possible and useful to measure the separate contrib… read more
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4. Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence)
By: Richard Lynn
3.78
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
In the mid-19th century, a number of biological and social scientists came to believe that the gene… read more
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5. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
By: Steven Pinker
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and p… read more
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6. The Ethics of Liberty
By: Murray N. Rothbard , Hans-Hermann Hoppe
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, f… read more
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7. Linear Algebra Done Right
By: Sheldon Axler
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
This text for a second course in linear algebra is aimed at math majors and graduate students. The … read more
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8. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
By: Cal Newport
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this sk… read more
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9. Essays In Eugenics
By: Francis Galton
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
CONTENTS: The Possible Improvement of the Human Breed under Existing Conditions of Law and Sentimen… read more
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10. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
By: Gregory Cochran , Henry Harpending
3.81
Format: None pages,
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11. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
By: Charles Murray , Richard J. Herrnstein
3.59
Format: 912 pages, Paperback
The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public po… read more
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"Many academic intellectuals hold middle-class values in contempt"-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
"The moral ascendancy of equality has made it difficult to use concepts such as virtue, excellence, beauty and – above all – truth."-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
"How large is the black-white difference? The usual answer to this question is one standard deviation. In discussing IQ tests, for example, the black mean is commonly given as 85, the white mean as 10…"-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
"Richard Lynn was able to assemble eleven studies in his 1991 review of the literature. He estimated the median black African IQ to be 75, approximately 1.7 standard deviations below the U.S. overall …"-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
12. Eugenics: A Reassessment
By: Richard Lynn
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Lynn argues that the condemnation of eugenics in the second half of the 20th century went too far a… read more
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13. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
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14. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
By: Steven Pinker
4.20
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer… read more
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"There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defec…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Enlightenment humanism, then, is far from being a crowd-pleaser. The idea that the ultimate good is to use knowledge to enhance human welfare leaves people cold. Deep explanations of the universe, th…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"This heroic story is not just another myth. Myths are fictions, but this one is true-true to the best of our knowledge, which is the only truth we can have. We believe it because we have reasons to b…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. Though unlettered hunters, h…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
15. Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
By: Robert Plomin
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what mak… read more
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16. A First Course in Abstract Algebra
By: John B. Fraleigh
3.98
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
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17. Ages of Discord
By: Peter Turchin
4.11
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
We are on the wrong track Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The inflation-ad… read more
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18. At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future (Societas)
By: Edward Dutton
4.09
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
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19. Modernity and Cultural Decline: A Biobehavioral Perspective
By: Matthew Alexandar Sarraf
4.35
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yielded--inclu… read more
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20. Making Sense of Race
By: Edward Dutton
4.20
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
Race is our age's great taboo. Public intellectuals insist that it does not exist-that it's a "soci… read more
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21. Creating Future People: The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement
By: Jonathan Anomaly
4.21
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how new genetic technologies will enab… read more
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