Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us @ JHedzWorlD fb.diigo.x10.bz/our-political-nature-the-evolutionary-origins-of-what-divides-us/ bit.ly/1fKe2PC By blprnt_van @ JHedzWorlD Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us The first book to tell the natural history of political orientations. Our Political Nature is the first book to reveal the hidden roots of our most deeply held moral values. It shows how political orientations across space and time arise from three clusters of measurable personality traits. These clusters entail opposing attitudes toward tribalism, inequality, and differing perceptions of human nature. Together, these traits are by far the most powerful cause of left-right voting, even leading people to regularly vote against their economic interests. As this book explains, our political personalities also influence our likely choice of a mate, and shape society’s larger reproductive patterns. Most importantly of all, it tells the evolutionary stories of these crucial personality traits, which stem from epic biological conflicts. Based on dozens of exciting new insights from primatology, genetics, neuroscience, and anthropology, this groundbreaking work brings core concepts to life through current news stories and personalities. For instance, readers will meet Glenn Beck and Hugo Chavez and come to understand the underlying evolutionary forces they represent. By blending serious research with relevant contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light onto the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil our world today. List Price: $ 24.95 Price: $ 15.04 Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan’s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India’s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms. Praise for The Revenge of Geography “[An] ambitious and challenging new book . . . [The Revenge of Geography] displays a formidable grasp of contemporary world politics and serves as a powerful reminder that it has been the planet’s geophysical configurations, as much as the flow of competing religions and ideologies, that have shaped human conflicts, past and present.”—Malise Ruthven, The New York Review of Books “Robert D. Kaplan, the world-traveling reporter and intellectual whose fourteen books constitute a bedrock of penetrating exposition and analysis on the post-Cold War world . . . strips away much of the cant that suffuses public discourse these days on global developments and gets to a fundamental reality: that geography remains today, as it has been throughout history, one of the most powerful drivers of world events.”—The National Interest “Kaplan plunges into a planetary review that is often thrilling in its sheer scale . . . encyclopedic.”—The New Yorker “[The Revenge of Geography] serves the facts straight up. . . . Kaplan’s realism and willingness to face hard facts make The Revenge of Geography a valuable antidote to the feel-good manifestoes that often masquerade as strategic thought.”—The Daily Beast From the Hardcover edition. List Price: $ 16.00 Price: $ 8.30 The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate Image by CJ Chanco Filipino farmers out on the fields toiling for hours of back-breaking work for little pay, often brining in tow a carabao and an araro, make up a common scene in the nation’s far-flung provinces and rural barrios. With them are children as young as five, who share in their labour – and their poverty. More adept at handling a karit”, a panabas, or a sickle than grade school textbooks, only some of them manage to finish primary education; few if any reach high school, and many can neither afford nor see the need to aim for a college degree, tied as they are to the land and eager to help out their parents. In their spare time, though, some of them fly kites. Backgrounder In early March, students from De La Salle University-College of Saint Benilde, through Ambala (Alyansa ng Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita) and the Hacienda Luisita Peasants’ Support Network, joined the children in a weekend of solidarity with the farmers of Hacienda Luisita – Incorporated, as it is now referred to (HLI). HLI is a 6,435-hectare sugar plantation estate in Tarlac owned by the Cojuangco-Aquinos and the latest array of private corporate interests that have once again strengthened the clan’s hand – further weakening hopes for stable employment and genuine agrarian reform for some five thousand-plus farmers and their families who have yet to recover lands historically theirs in a struggle well over two decades in the making. As in most conflicts over land in the Philippines and elsewhere, they have faced militarization of their communities, frequent legal and physical harassment by authorities, extrajudicial killings, and at least two major massacres of peasants and activists: once under the ‘pro-democracy’ Cory administration in 1987 in Mendiola, and again in 2004 under Arroyo. Five presidents later, the same farmers have received neither land nor compensation apart from slave wages, sophisticated legal maneuvering and bogus land distribution programmes at the behest of the President’s relatives. For a better perspective on the history of Hacienda Luisita, and the context of farmers’ struggles over land in the rest of the country, please see: bulatlat/main/luisita/ haciendaluisita.wordpress/about/ interaksyon/hacienda-luisita “Sa Ngalan ng Tubo” (Tudla Productions) youtube/watch?v=ebetyUHC9hE “Ang Pagbawi sa Luisita”(Mayday Multimedia) maydaymultimedia.org/2010/11/17/ang-pagbawi-sa-luisit… StumpING Marijuana Enthusiasts on Politics, Current Events at Colo. Rally Stumps Marijuana Enthusiasts on Politics, Current Events at Colo. Rally. Video Rating: 0 / 5 Politics / Current Events JHedzWorlD bit.ly/1fKe2PC > goo.gl/8aueCE
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