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  • Men are Pigs
    Jed Somit
    2025 Regal Summit Book Award, Humor/Satire - Winner2024 International Book Awards, Humor/Comedy/Satire - FinalistA reading festival for children and former children.A family’s celebration of the Dog Moon is prolonged indefinitely by a deadly Evil Cloud. To pass the time, they decide to tell stories each evening. The denizens’ travails, the stories, and the lavish meals will hav...
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    13,36 €

  • Human Nature and Public Policy
    A. Somit / S. Peterson
    Arguing for an evolutionary perspective, this book directly challenges the Standard Social Science Model (SSSM) on which public policy has often been based. The SSSM maintains that human behavior is solely the product of culture and learning. In sharp contrast, the Evolutionary Model (EM) holds that our behavior flows from the interaction between learning and culture, on the on...
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    47,89 €

  • The Failure of Democratic Nation Building
    A. Somit / S. Peterson
    Throughout history authoritarian governments have outnumbered democratic ones to an overwhelming degree. Even today, true democracies are an exception. In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that the main reason for this pattern is that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures. Democracy requires very ...
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    48,39 €

  • Human Nature and Public Policy
    A. Somit / S. Peterson
    Arguing for an evolutionary perspective, this book directly challenges the Standard Social Science Model (SSSM) on which public policy has often been based. The SSSM maintains that human behavior is solely the product of culture and learning. In sharp contrast, the Evolutionary Model (EM) holds that our behavior flows from the interaction between learning and culture, on the on...
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    66,53 €

  • The Failure of Democratic Nation Building
    Albert Somit / Steven A. Peterson
    In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures, and that democracy requires very special 'enabling conditions' before it can be supported by a state, conditions that require decades to evolve. As a result, attempts to export democracy through nation-building to sta...
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    66,91 €

  • Birth Order and Political Behavior
    Alan Arwine / Albert Somit / Steven Peterson
    This book provides a careful examination of the possible influence of birth order on political achievement and behavior. The authors look at American presidents, Supreme Court justices, United States senators and representatives, and the careers of an entire West Point class. For a comparative dimension, they also study British Prime Ministers, U.N. Secretaries General, post-Re...
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    87,89 €