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“matt rossano”

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  • Supernatural Selection

    How Religion Evolved

    by Matt Rossano ...
    In 2006, scientist Richard Dawkins published a blockbuster bestseller, The God Delusion. This atheist manifesto sparked a furious reaction from believers, who have responded with numerous books of their own. By pitting science against religion, however, this debate overlooks what science can tell us about religion. According to evolutionary psychologist Matt J. Rossano, what science reveals is ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Supernatural Selection : How Religion Evolved

    by Matt Rossano ...
    In 2006, scientist Richard Dawkins published a blockbuster bestseller, The God Delusion. This atheist manifesto sparked a furious reaction from believers, who have responded with numerous books of their own. By pitting science against religion, however, this debate overlooks what science can tell us about religion. According to evolutionary psychologist Matt J. Rossano, what science reveals is ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Good Counsel

    A Walking Dialogue with William James

    by Matt J. Rossano ...
    William James is arguably America’s most important psychologist and intellectual. While a thriving literature on Jamesian thought exists, Good Counsel: A Walking Dialogue with William James fills the gap between the passing paragraph or two about James in undergraduate textbooks and the dense academic literature of Jamesian scholars. By offering an interesting and inspiring introduction to James, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Mortal Rituals

    What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution

    by Matt J. Rossano ...
    A psychology professor examines what the survivors of the airplane crash hailed "The Miracle of the Andes" can show us about human evolution.On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks stranded at the crash site of their plane, high in the remote Andes Mountains. The incident made international headlines and spawned several ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ritual in Human Evolution and Religion

    Psychological and Ritual Resources

    by Matt J. Rossano ...
    This book explores the role of ritual in social life, human evolution, and religion. It explains the functions and purpose of varied rituals across the world by arguing they are mechanisms of ‘resource management’, providing a descriptive tool for understanding rituals and generating predictions about ritual survival.By showing how rituals have resulted from the need to cultivate social resources ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Seeking Perfection

    A Dialogue About the Mind, the Soul, and What it Means to be Human

    by Matt J. Rossano ...
    "How would Socrates and Plato react to a modern world where secularism and religious fundamentalism are growing while the gap between the human mind and animal mind is narrowing? Using some creative license mixed with real history, science, and philosophy, Seeking Perfection addresses that question. Matt J. Rossano uses a narrative/dialogue format to superimpose on modern times ancient Greece's ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology

    Psychology in Prehistory

    Edited by Tracy B. Henley, Matt J. Rossano, Edward P. Kardas ...
    The remains that archaeologists uncover reveal ancient minds at work as much as ancient hands, and for decades many have sought a better way of understanding those minds. This understanding is at the forefront of cognitive archaeology, a discipline that believes that a greater application of psychological theory to archaeology will further our understanding of the evolution of the human mind ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

  • Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of the Human Mind

    Edited by Tracy Henley, Matt Rossano ...
    Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology demonstrates the potential of using cognitive archaeology framing to explore key issues in contemporary psychology and other behavioral sciences.This edited volume features psychologists exploring archaeological data concerning specific themes such as: the use of tools, our child-rearing practices, our expressions of gender and sexuality, our sleep patterns, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    by Bertrand Russell ...
    The Nobel Prize winner offers "an ideal introduction to the theories of special and general relativity" in clear, comprehensible language ( Nature ).A renowned mathematician and philosopher , and as well as recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bertrand Russell was acclaimed for his ability to address complex subjects in accessible ways. In this classic reference book, Russell delve... ... Read more

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  • Science and the Modern World

    by Alfred North Whitehead ...
    "Science and the Modern World" by Alfred North Whitehead, originally published in 1925 redefines the concept of modern science. This book takes readers through the history of modern science and shows how cultural history has affected science over time in Romanticism, Quantum Theory, religion, and movements for social progress. Whitehead invites his audience to understand and read with celebration ... Read more

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  • The Trials of Thomas Morton

    An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England

    by Peter C. Mancall ...
    This "magisterial history" presents a new perspective on Thomas Morton, his colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans ( Wall Street Journal).Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of Thomas Morton explores the tensions that arose from competing colonial visions. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where ... Read more

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  • The Spartan Regime

    Its Character, Origins and Grand Strategy

    by Paul Anthony Rahe ...
    Series series Yale Library of Military History
    "[A] monumental history . . . explaining . . . how Sparta's early strategic role in the Greek world was inseparable from the uniqueness of its origins and values." (David Hanson, The Hoover Institution, author of The Other Greeks)For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and ... Read more

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