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Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity in an Interdependent World. By Charles C. Chester. Island Press.
July 27, 2006 – 7:18 pm | Comments Off
Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity in an Interdependent World. By Charles C. Chester. Island Press.

Conservation Across Borders presents a broad overview of the history of transboundary conservation efforts and an accessible introduction to current issues surrounding the subject. Through detailed examinations of two initiatives, the International Sonoran Desert Alliance …

How American Is Globalization? By William H. Marling. Johns Hopkins University Press.
July 27, 2006 – 7:13 pm | Comments Off
How American Is Globalization? By William H. Marling. Johns Hopkins University Press.

William H. Marling’s provocative work analyzes — in specific terms — the influence of American technology and culture on foreign societies. Marling answers his own question — how “American” is globalization? — with two seemingly …

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness. By Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner. Oxford University Press.
July 27, 2006 – 7:07 pm | Comments Off
Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness. By Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner. Oxford University Press.

Physics’ encounter with consciousness is its skeleton in the closet. Because the authors open the closet and examine the skeleton, theirs is a controversial book. Quantum Enigma’s description of the experimental quantum facts, and the …