By tracing the problem of consciousness back to its roots and comparing the human brain to its most alien and perhaps most remarkable animal relative, Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds sheds new light on one of our most abiding mysteries." summary What does it mean that intelligence on earth has evolved not once but twice? And that the mind of the octopus is nonetheless so different from our own? Combining science and philosophy with firsthand accounts of his cephalopod encounters, Godfrey-Smith shows how primitive organisms bobbing in the ocean began sending signals to each other and how these early forms of communication gave rise to the advanced nervous systems that permit cephalopods to change colors and human beings to speak. New research shows that these marvelous creatures display remarkable gifts. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sprouted surprising intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. "Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. X, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm
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Going to his office the next morning, he finds that the railroad's offer has come through. Lapham paces the floor all night trying to decide what to do. Rogers has muddled Persis' mind to the point that she cannot help Silas make a decision when Rogers offers to buy the mills from Silas to relieve him of the responsibility of selling to the English. Not giving the agents an answer, Silas returns home and finds Rogers there trying to convince Persis that the mills must be sold to save his family from poverty if the mills are sold at the price the English offer, Rogers will be able to completely repay Silas and have enough money to take care of his family. Silas cannot raise enough money, however, until Rogers presents the English agents, who offer Silas a sufficient sum for the mills even after he tells them of the situation they are merely representatives for a group of wealthy English people and do not care how they spend the settlers' money. They are friendly and willing to join with Silas if he can back them with enough capital to develop their enterprise. Silas makes a last-ditch attempt to unite with the West Virginia paint company.
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Reading Challenges: Holly's 2020 Goodreads Challenge, Rowena's 2020 Goodreads ChallengeĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books Also in this series: Magic Shifts, Magic Shifts, Magic Binds, Magic Bites, Magic Strikes, Iron and Magic, Magic Triumphs, Magic Bites, Magic Bleeds, Magic Burns, Magic Strikes, Magic Slays, Gunmetal Magic, Magic Rises, Magic Mourns, Magic Bleeds, Magic Dreams, Magic Slays, Gunmetal Magic, Magic Gifts, Magic Rises, Magic Tests, Magic Stars, Magic Shifts, Magic Steals, Magic Breaks, Magic Breaks, Iron and Magic, Magic Binds, Magic Triumphs, Magic TriumphsĬliffhanger: View Spoiler » No « Hide Spoiler It then queers Brown by considering both aesthetic choices and depicted life episodes, with a focus on his rejection of romantic labor, and fostering of alternative kinship arrangements. Part II begins by analyzing comics as a genre teeming with queerness. Part I surveys the changing construction of sex trade clients from ordinary to deviant men, and reviews scholarship that reads sex work as queer activity. This article uses Paying For It to situate Brown, and sex trade clients in general, as queer subjects in their rejection of relational normativity and engagement with criminalized consensual sexuality. In this 2011 Canadian memoir, Brown chronicles his journey from being a monogamous boyfriend to becoming a client of multiple sex workers. Chester Brown’s "Paying For It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John" marks an autobiographical intervention into the literature. Regardless of one’s position, almost all of the discourse is authored by non-clients (or those who do not identify as clients). Some construct clients as exploitative and inherently deviant, while others destigmatize them as complex and varied. Sex trade clients have become a contested identity in academia and mainstream media. |