In the book The Condor's Shadow, David S. ... Wilcove uses each chapter to expand on a different ecosystem and the fauna that lives there. ... For example, in the first chapter, Wilcove discusses how large predators and hoofed mammals that once roamed North America have been driven to extinction due to deforestation and overhunting. ... On the contrary, the book is only sprinkled with concrete statistics, thus allowing the book to flow much more easily. ... Wilcove talks about many different ecosystems, but the fact that humans are the main source of all the problems facing them is app...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I chose this book to review because it contains valuable text that is useful for all humans to read. Although the book contains chapters such as "The Evolution of Animal Mating Systems" and "The Biological Basis of Human Patterns of Mating and Marriage" I chose primarily to devote much of the focus of this essay to the latter chapters of the book ("The Social Anthropology of Marriage and Mating" and "Mating, the Family, and Marriage: A Sociological View"). The most interesting parts of the book will be summarized in this essay. ... The chapters presented some interesting variations of mati...

• Word Count: 1322
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The merit which made it a classic book is its astonishing ability to predict. ... In the book, the creation symbolizes a double meaning, he is the heresy from human's view, he is also an abstract imitation of humans ourselves; He displays the procedure of human's pursuit toward the unlimited field of science and knowledge, he also demonstrates the tragic consequences that are caused by human's exceeded desire and relying on science. ... It was a bold question, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquaint...

• Word Count: 1916
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Buss tried to explain the evolutionary truth about relationships in his book The Evolution of Desire and bases his theories on a cross-cultural study of more than 10,000 respondents. ... Buss emphasizes the role of males and females in mate selection and asserts in later chapters that much has gone unchanged, "it is clear that many ancestral women required reliable signs of male commitment before consenting to sex, men who failed to commit would have suffered selectively on the mating market. ...

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This receptivity to the surprises of reality is captured in Nick Herbert's quotation of DeWitt and Graham at the beginning of a chapter entitled "Physicists Losing Their Grip": No development of modern science has had a more profound impact on human thinking than the advent of quantum theory. ... It is important to note that he also says that "there seem to be times when having no explanation is better than having one" (133) and ends the book by affirming that religion has much else to offer besides theory, such as giving meaning and contact with the sacred. ...

• Word Count: 2403
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book scrutinizes human behaviour in its most natural and un-conditioned shape and proves to be one big allegory. ... The book travels alongside the boys into their descent into savagery and reveals underlying conflicts of human behaviour that are covered by civilization. ...

• Word Count: 3388
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate