Robert Wright challenges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Employing game theory - the logic of zero-sum and nonzero-sum games - he isolates the impetus behind life's basic direction: the impetus that, via biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals, and then via cultural evolution, pushed the human species towards deeper and vaster social complexity. In this view, the coming of today's independent global society was on the cards - not quite inevitable, but, as Wright puts it, so probable as to inspire wonder.
Robert Wright challenges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Employing game theory - the logic of zero-sum ...
Following the great success of the earlier books, this fourth book in the Mathematics Recovery series equips teachers with detailed pedagogical knowledge and resources for teaching number to 7 to 11-year olds.
Following the great success of the earlier books, this fourth book in the Mathematics Recovery series equips teachers with detailed pedagogical knowle...
This book focuses on the consultative role of the school counsellor and prepares trainees to handle the problems they'll face as professionals in all levels of school settings.
This book focuses on the consultative role of the school counsellor and prepares trainees to handle the problems they'll face as professionals in all ...