Showing results by narrator "John O'Hern" in All Categories

Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. In The Evolved Apprentice, Kim Sterelny argues that the divergence stems from the fact humans gradually came to enrich the learning environment of the next generation. He develops a new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the gradual evolution of information-sharing practices across generations and how these practices transformed human minds and social lives.

In How War Began, author Keith F. Otterbein draws on primate behavior research, archaeological research, data gathered from the Human Relations Area Files and a career spent in research and reflection on war to argue for two separate origins. He identifies two types of military organization: one which developed two million years ago at the dawn of humankind, wherever groups of hunters met and a second which developed some 5,000 years ago, in four identifiable regions, when the first states arose and proceeded to embark upon military conquests.

Caddyshack meets Breaking Bad! Tom and Carol have the perfect life: good job, happy home, two wonderful kids. While Carol yearns for Tom to join in her search for new-age spiritual bliss, Tom's boss insists he take up golf as a business networking tool. In a classic cautionary tale of a happy marriage gone adrift, follow our hero Tom, as his obsession takes hold and steers him down a dark, twisted road of substance abuse: in this case the addictive substance is golf!

A minister who's lost his faith begins seeing the sins of his flock etched in crimson across their foreheads. A burned-out psychiatrist is visited by a most unlikely patient. A woman finds her life reflected back at her in the form of the porcelain statuettes she collects. On a desolate farm, a man exacts revenge for the violation of his daughter. A banished demon teams up with a human detective to uncover the conspiracy that framed him for the theft of innocent souls.