David P. Barash, Author . Holt/Times $26 (302p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7175-7
Game theory attempts to explain the dynamics of life as a series of individual games, each involving specific moves that take place within a strictly delineated set of rules. Depending on whom you ask, it's either a brilliant tool for analyzing...
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David P. Barash, Author Carol Publishing Corporation $17.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-8184-0496-2
Barash ( The Whisperings Within ) here contemplates the pleasures of outdoor activities. Each one discussed is ``noncompetitive, relatively solitary, environmentally sensitive and ecologically appropriate'' and, he notes, none requires extraordinary
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David P. Barash. Oxford Univ, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-19-975194-5
Evolutionary questions about the human condition abound, and Barash, a University of Washington professor of psychology and biology, (Madame Bovary’s Ovaries), addresses some of the most provocative in this thoughtful, witty book. Barash focuses on...
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David P. Barash. Oxford Univ., $29.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-199-98556-2
Conceived without its supernatural elements, modern Buddhism coalesces “in outlook and insight” with modern biology, says evolutionary biologist Barash (Homo Mysterious). Buddhism’s rejection of absolutes, its empiricism, and its emphasis on...
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David P. Barash, Author, Nanelle R. Barash, Author . Delacorte $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-33801-1
One can only imagine the kitchen table conversations that inspired evolutionary psychologist David Barash and his daughter Nanelle (an undergraduate at Swarthmore) to collaborate on this witty and insightful book. Their explicit goal is to apply the
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David P. Barash, Author, Judith Eve Lipton, Author . Columbia Univ. $29.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-231-14664-7
This husband-and-wife team, respectively an evolutionary biologist and a psychiatrist specializing in women's health, have written a delightful, thought-provoking volume on perennial questions about female biology. Each of five chapters centers
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David P. Barash, Author, Judith Eve Lipton, Author Bellevue Literary Press $25 (158p) ISBN 978-1-934137-20-8
A decade after they published The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People, husband-and-wife evolutionary scientists Barash and Lipton make a strong case for the benefits and joys of monogamy even for people, like themselves, "
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David P. Barash, Author, Iiona A. Barash, Author W.H. Freeman & Company $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7167-3391-1
A prolific author (Making Sense of Sex, etc.) and professor of psychology and zoology at the University of Washington, David Barash teams up with his daughter, an M.D./Ph.D. student, to produce a superb primer on human biology that provides...
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