Автор: Soper Tony Название: The Arctic: A Guide to Coastal Wildlife ISBN: 1784776432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784776435 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17940.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. Описание: The Arctic Wildlife Guide - Travel information and tips including practical tips and field guides to Arctic wildlife and plants. Also featuring detailed illustrations, translation guide, endemic and endangered species` identification, a glossary of snow and ice, the history of exploitation and conservation, and natural history.
Автор: Soper Fred Lowe, Wilson D. Bruce Название: Anopheles Gambiae in Brazil, 1930 to 1940 ISBN: 1258469286 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258469283 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 40400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Soper S. I. Название: Not So Innocent Bystanders ISBN: 1638082898 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781638082897 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 41330.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
For five centuries Europeans sought a short cut across the top of the world. The quest for a passage to the riches of the Orient claimed many ships and many lives as explorers searched for a route through a labyrinth of islands and ice-strewn waterways. It was 1906 before the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen first completed a transit from Atlantic to Pacific.
The Northwest Passage is an ice-choked waterway with spectacular landscapes and a powerful history of naval endeavour. Over the last decade global warming has opened this fabled passage in late summer for possible commercial shipping and the continuing opportunity for adventurous travel.
This is the first book to draw together the rich history with a guide to the region-home for the majority of the world's seabirds, enormous numbers of seals, plenty of polar bears and whales and more than enough mosquitoes. It is also home for Inuit communities which adapted superbly to a cruel climate. Today's travellers will meet them and see incomparable scenery and a wealth of wildlife, to say nothing of the chance to have a voice in the long-term management of this wilderness region.
An absorbing read and a practical resource.
Автор: Soper C. A. Название: The Evolution of life worth living: Why we choose to live ISBN: 1838343903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838343903 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 25730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Why do most of us enjoy being alive? Psychologist Dr C A Soper argues that a zest for life evolved as a survival necessity, ultimately because our species, and ours alone, has to live with the possibility of suicide. Suicide may have been our ancestors' most formative evolutionary problem, solutions to which have shaped the construction of the human mind and touch on almost every aspect of our day-to-day experience. The emergence of anti-suicide defences by natural selection may explain our capacity for optimism, faith, love, charity and other delights of being human. This book explains how the most pleasing features of our psychology arise from the darkest of possibilities.
Life worth living is thus traced to the evolution of suicide. A major cause of human mortality, suicide takes the lives of some million people around the world each year. The origins of the behaviour have long mystified science; despite more than a century of enquiry, science does not know why some people kill themselves, while most people don't.
Progress in suicidology has been blocked, by what Soper sees as a fundamental flaw in the field's leading paradigm - the idea that suicides happen because of some, as yet unknown, predictable process of cause and effect. A new paradigm is offered, based on evolutionary science. Suicide is reframed as an evolutionary puzzle: how is that natural selection created an animal with the capacity to wilfully kill itself? The cost is extreme; measured by biological outcomes, suicide is literally a fate worse than death.
Two existing evolutionary theories of suicide are critiqued and found wanting: a 'burdensomeness' and a 'communication' hypothesis. The behaviour is better understood, says Soper, as an unfortunate side effect of two adaptations that come together uniquely in our species. One is the aversive experience of pain, especially psychological pain - an ancient stimulus that is designed precisely to induce the animal to act to end it. The other is extraordinary intelligence of the mature human, an animal so smart that it knows it can end pain by ending its own life. When these 'pain' and 'brain' elements combine, as they do in all normal human adults, suicide would be the expectable outcome. The scientific puzzle, then, is not so much why some humans die in this way, but why the great majority of us do not.
As the book explains, most of us do not take our own lives thanks to the protection afforded by ancient evolved psychological defences. An evolutionary argument of special design is used to predict some likely characteristics of anti-suicide systems - features that would be expected based on the task that they were biologically designed to fulfil. They would block suicidal trajectories by dulling emotional pain and disabling high-level cognitive functions among people suffering from chronic emotional distress. Perhaps counter-intuitively, this analysis points to diverse varieties of mental disorder - depression, addiction, psychoses, and others - as manifestations of emergency psychological defences, labelled keepers.
Other anti-suicide defences, labelled fenders, are hypothesised to operate to ensure keepers activate only as a last resort. They work to keep most of us fairly happy most of the time, in part by furnishing each of us with a benign, but semi-illusory, enhanced reality to live in. In this light, the human tendencies for religious belief and unconditional love may be understood as part of a life-preserving system of psychological buffers.
The book's 'pain and brain' theory provides a unifying explanation for several longstanding and puzzling phenomena in human psychology. It offers a novel paradigm that could integrate and assist progress in suicide research, psychiatry and psychotherapy.
Автор: Hurley Jr. William Neal Название: Our Maryland Heritage, Book 7: The Soper Family ISBN: 0788407872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780788407871 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Churchill Winston Название: A Modern Chronicle. Illustrated by J.H. Gardner Soper ISBN: 1356412831 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781356412839 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 48990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Soper, Katherine Название: Small hours ISBN: 1848428960 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848428966 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A National Theatre Connections play about teenagers, nightlife, and the small choices that have momentous consequences.
If you have taken even a short walk on any beach in Oregon, you have been on the Oregon Coast Trail. This wonderfully scenic and diverse trail extends nearly 400 miles from the Columbia River to the California border, with over half those miles on sand. Exploring the Oregon Coast Trail provides the information you need to complete the entire trail, or to enjoy segments of it as a series of day hikes. This book also provides insights on chapters of Oregon's coastal history that make hiking the OCT a special and unique experience. In doing so, it reminds us to celebrate Oregon's open beaches and not take them for granted. Highlights of the book include:
Detailed route descriptions for 40 consecutive day hikes along the OCT, beginning at the mouth of the Columbia River and ending at the California border
Mile-by-mile maps for most hikes
Driving directions for reaching the start and end points of each hike
Logistical information needed to successfully navigate the OCT, such as tidal considerations and arranging for boat rides
Historical and present-day photographs of places visited along the OCT
Feature articles on the history and personalities that make hiking the OCT possible
Автор: Soper, Kate Название: Post-Growth Living ISBN: 178873890X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788738903 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14860.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.
Автор: Fetzer Joel, Soper J. Christopher Название: Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan ISBN: 149850325X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498503259 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 41580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Based on elite interviews, survey research, and content analysis of legislative debates and public school textbooks, this study makes a much-needed empirical contribution to the largely theoretical debate about the political effects of Confucianism.
Автор: Fetzer Joel, Soper J. Christopher Название: Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan ISBN: 0739173006 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739173008 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 160930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Based on elite interviews, survey research, and content analysis of legislative debates and public school textbooks, this study makes a much-needed empirical contribution to the largely theoretical debate about the political effects of Confucianism.
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