The Lucifer Principle
Subtitle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed edition
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: March 13, 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780871136640
Subjects: Anthropology; Behavioural theory (Behaviourism); Cultural studies; Science; Human beings; General; Movements - Humanism; Philosophy / Humanism; Culture; Philosophy Of Science; History; Evolution; Philosophy
First sentence: In 1580, Michel de Montaigne, inspired by the discovery of New World tribes untouched by Europe's latest complexities, initiated the idea of the "noble savage "
Table of contents: title: Who is Lucifer; title: Clint Eastwood conundrum; title: The whole is bigger than the sum of its parts; title: The Chinese cultural revolution; title: Mother nature, the bloody bitch; title: Women, not the peaceful creatures you think; title: Fighting for the privilege to procreate; title: The greed of genes; title: The theory of individual selection and its flaws; title: Superorganism; title: Isolation, the ultimate poison; title: Even heroes are insecure; title: Loving the child within is not enough; title: Us vs them; title: The value of having an enemy; title: The perceptual trick that manufactures devils; title: How hatred builds the walls of society's bungalow; title: From genes to memes; title: The nose of a rat and the human mind, a brief history of the rise of memes; title: How wrong ideas can be right; title: The village of the sorcerers and the riddle of control; title: The modern medical Shaman; title: Control and the urge to pray; title: Power and the invisible world; title: Einstein and the Eskimos; title: The connectionist explanation of the mass mind's dreams; title: Society as a neural net; title: The expendability of males; title: How men are society's dice; title: Is pitching a genetically acquired skill; title: Oliver Cromwell, the rodent instincts don a disguise; title: The invisible world as a weapon; title: The true route to utopia; title: Why men embrace ideas and why ideas embrace men; title: Righteous indignation, greed for real estate; title: Shiites; title: Poetry and the lust for power; title: When memes collide the pecking order of nations; title: Superior chickens make friends; title: Wordviews as the welding torch of the hierarchical chain; title: The barbarian principle; title: Are there killer cultures; title: Violence in South America and Africa; title: The importance of hugging; title: The puzzle of complacency; title: Poverty with prestige is better than affluence disgrace; title: Why prosperity will not bring peace; title: The secret meaning of freedom, peace and justice; title: The Victorian decline and the fall of America; title: Scapegoats and sexual hysteria; title: Laboratory rats and the oil crisis; title: Why nations pretend to be blind; title: How the pecking order reshapes the mind; title: Perceptual shutdown and the future of America; title: The myth of stress; title: Tennis time and the mental clock; title: The Lucifer principle