PEACEABLE NATURE : An Optimistic View of Life on Earth
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, San Francisco, CA, 1984
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- New
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Text/BRAND NEW. Beige bi-colora boards/Fine. DJ/VG w/edge & light surface rubs. Translation and revision of the orginal German, 1984 edition of Die friedfertige Natur, An argument for the survival of the fittest through love and cooperation rather than conflict and competition in the concept of survival of the fittest --- re-evalution of gains arising from agression.5 chapters: 1, Nature: How Red in Tooth & Claw; 2, The Sense of Biological Development; 3, The Nonsense of Human History; 4, Unstable Human Nature; and 5, Biosophical Sense; concluding with "Summing Up: An Optimist Manifesto.
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- Title
- PEACEABLE NATURE : An Optimistic View of Life on Earth
- Author
- Lackner, Stephan
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, San Francisco, CA
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0062504894
- ISBN 13
- 9780062504890
- Edition
- First Edition, First Pinting
- Seller catalogs
- Philosophy, Science, Technology, Social Sciences, Cultural Studies
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