by Paul Shepard (1998)
Paul Shepard was one of the most profound and original thinkers of our time. Seminal works like The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, Thinking Animals, and Nature and Madness introduced readers to new and provocative ideas about humanity and its relationship to the natural world. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Shepard returned repeatedly to his guiding theme, the central tenet of his thought: that our essential human nature is a product of our genetic heritage, formed through thousands of years of evolution during the Pleistocene epoch, and that the current subversion of that Pleistocene heritage lies at the heart of today's ecological and social ills. Coming Home to the Pleistocene provides the fullest explanation of that theme. The book explicitly addresses the fundamental question raised by Shepard's work: What can we do to re-create a life more in tune with our genetic roots? In this book, Shepard presents concrete suggestions for fostering the kinds of ecological settings and cultural practices that are optimal for human health and well-being.
Patrick Dunleavy and Brendan O'Leary
Discusses Pluralist, New Right, Elitist, Marxist and Neo-pluralist theories. Provides summary of intellectual origins, methodology and key strengths and weaknesses with examples from United States, Western Europe, etc.
Gillian Bradshaw
A fictional story set in late antiquity in the Mediterranean, mainly in the cities of Ephesus (western Turkey) and Alexandria (Egypt), about a young aristocratic girl with a gift for medicine and science who flees her home in Ephesus, disguises herself as a eunuch, and studies medicine at the school in Alexandria, eventually becoming a well respected surgeon and physician and even serving a stint in the Roman army. Her teachers and mentors include a Jewish physician practicing in Alexandria and the Archbishop Athanasius (a historical figure). Her life path takes her into the way of many adventures that reveal the social and political atmosphere of the fourth century CE (AD), including religious quarrels and scientific debates.
Daniel Hannan
A prominent British conservative warns Americans to stop President Obama from leading their country down the path to European-style socialism.
Silvère Ngoundos Idourah
La substitution brutale des conceptions politiques et juridictionnelles locales par des institutions étrangères fut pour beaucoup dans les multiples crises politiques et économiques des colonies. Le rejet systématique de la culture traditionnelle, la toute puissance des administrateurs coloniaux, ne pouvaient que transformer l' "assimilation progressive" proclamée en malentendus presque indissolubles. Il faut attendre la fin de l'épopée coloniale pour que les autochtones soient associés à l'administration de leur justice...