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A thought-provoking study of the theory of Evolutionary Psychology joins the debate with an interdisciplinary collection of essays, articles, and arguments--by Stephen Jay Gould, Anne Fausto-Sterling, and other prominent thinkers--that discuss virtually every aspect of the theory, its strengths, its weaknesses, and its implications. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: These essays address issues emerging from the field of neuroscience, including: the possibility of artificial intelligence; the nature of schizophrenia; the problem of consciousness; the future of psychopharmacology; and the relationship between brain biochemistry and social behaviour...read more

Product Description: Remarkable new findings in the neurosciences are leading to profound changes in our self-understanding. Neuroscientists now address some of the deepest problems of the human condition--from illnesses and disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia to the search for the nature of consciousness itself--in the belief that their science can say something useful about these processes and how to intervene in them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What happens when you read? Your eyes do the seeing, your mind does the thinking and your fingers turn the pages. These parts of your body are co-ordinated by your brain. What does your brain look like and what is it made of? There are a hundred times more nerve cells inside your head than there are people alive in the world! These nerve cells carry electrical messages, not just within the brain, but to each and every part of your body...read more

Product Description: Are there any limits to what science can ever know, and how far it can be used to change the world, or is science limited by matters of ideology, politics and power? Does the new biology tell us that we are the prisoners of our genes or does our biology make us free? Is a neutral science being misused for military purposes and the abuse of animal rights, or are the new arms race in genetic engineering and the millions of laboratory animals killed each year the inevitable consequences of a science done not’ for the people’ but to meet the needs of the military, of profit, and of a reductionist scientific imperialism? How should conditions like depression, anxiety and schizophrenia be explained—as products of disordered biochemistry, or of a disordering society? In this set of essays, the author sets out to ask and to answer these questions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays examine the role of science in modern society and discusses the influence of economic, ethical, and political factors on science

Product Description: Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.