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Our Prince of Scribes
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed …
Genomes and What to Make of Them
In 2003 the Human Genome Project announced that it had achieved a stunning scientific breakthrough: the full map of the human genome, and with it our first complete picture of the …
The Disorder of Things
The great dream of philosophers and scientists for millennia has been to give us a complete account of the order of things. A powerful articulation of such a dream in this century …
Processes of Life
John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society. Epigenetics and related …
Human Nature and the Limits of Science
The author warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two forms of pseudo-scientific thinking, with one set of experts explaining the ends at which humans …
Talt Tales and Magical Misadventures
Humans and Other Animals
John Dupré explores the ways in which we categorize animals, including humans, and comes to surprisingly radical conclusions. He opposes the idea that there is only one legitimate …
The First Day
On the outside, 16-year-old Kyle Jenson is just quiet, but there is something that no one knows about him. Kyle's secrets are surfacing again, and they are screaming loud this …
Drawing Processes of Life
Drawing Processes of Life is the product of biologists, philosophers, and artists working together to formulate new ways of representing our new approach to life. It is a …
Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age
With the completion of the sequencing of the human genome in 2001, the debate over the existence of a biological basis for race has been revived. In Revisiting Race in a Genomic …
Nature After The Genome
Nature After The Genome features a series of case studies that explore the relationship between developments in genomic technologies and our knowledge and understanding of nature. …
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, …