Edu-lution is a common sense approach to the "educational evolution" that is long overdue in America. This book explores the many problems our teachers, parents, students, and society face, as well as research-based suggestions aimed at improving each of those facets. "Edu-lutionists" realize that our country has fallen behind and are adamant about making immediate changes before it is too late. An innovative blend of education, psychology, ethics, politics, and unbiased truth, Edu-lution offers strategies that should be implemented by every citizen to ensure America gets back on the right path and remains a reputable nation for generations to come. " Edu-lution offers an insightful, deliberate and common sense approach for dealing with the problems facing our children and future. Tippitt's 'back-to-basics with a new attitude' approach engages teachers, parents, school administration, businesses, and children. Tippitt has started the conversation. Now it is up to us to continue it. Our children deserve nothing less." Illiff McMahan, Jr. - Mayor, Cocke County, TN " Edu-lution is a blueprint for learning for students, parents, educators, and the public." Larry B. Blazer - Superintendent of Schools, Cocke County, TN " Every student must read this book to gain insight as to how the educational experience could be. Every parent must read this book to understand the crisis in today's educational system. Every educator must read this book, look inside himself/herself, and realize their importance in shaping the lives of students in turmoil today." Peggy Hammonds - retired High School Math Teacher and District Instructional Supervisor "Edu-lution is a must read for anyone that has children or works with children. An eye opening book, Tippitt's insight into the educational system is both revealing and alarming. A clarion call for parents and educators to inject a renewed emphasis of morality in our schools and homes immediately." Pastor Keith Pierce - Cades Cove Baptist Fellowship, Maryville, TN "Mr. Tippitt possesses all the necessary skills and charisma to motivate students to perform their best. He makes learning relevant and interesting. As a result, his students have a high level of mastery and understanding of the skills and concepts being taught. Our students' response has been overwhelmingly positive." Rob Britt - Principal, Carpenters Middle School, Blount County, TN

In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that is both forthright and rigorous. Human enhancement, Harris argues, is a good thing--good morally, good for individuals, good as social policy, and good for a genetic heritage that needs serious improvement. Enhancing Evolution defends biotechnological interventions that could allow us to live longer, healthier, and even happier lives by, for example, providing us with immunity from cancer and HIV/AIDS. Further, Harris champions the possibility of influencing the very course of evolution to give us increased mental and physical powers--from reasoning, concentration, and memory to strength, stamina, and reaction speed. Indeed, he says, it's not only morally defensible to enhance ourselves; in some cases, it's morally obligatory. In a new preface, Harris offers a glimpse at the new science and technology to come, equipping readers with the knowledge to assess the ethics and policy dimensions of future forms of human enhancement.

In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published Primate Societies, the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the twenty-five years since its publication, new theories and research techniques for studying the Primate order have been developed, debated, and tested, forcing scientists to revise their understanding of our closest living relatives. Intended as a sequel to Primate Societies, The Evolution of Primate Societies compiles thirty-one chapters that review the current state of knowledge regarding the behavior of nonhuman primates. Chapters are written by the leading authorities in the field and organized around four major adaptive problems primates face as they strive to grow, maintain themselves, and reproduce in the wild. The inclusion of chapters on the behavior of humans at the end of each major section represents one particularly novel aspect of the book, and it will remind readers what we can learn about ourselves through research on nonhuman primates. The final section highlights some of the innovative and cutting-edge research designed to reveal the similarities and differences between nonhuman and human primate cognition. The Evolution of Primate Societies will be every bit the landmark publication its predecessor has been.

We could be on the threshold of a scientific revolution. Quantum mechanics is based on unique, finite, and discrete events. General relativity assumes a continuous, curved space-time. Reconciling the two remains the most fundamental unsolved scientific problem left over from the last century. The papers of H Pierre Noyes collected in this volume reflect one attempt to achieve that unification by replacing the continuum with the bit-string events of computer science. Three principles are used: physics can determine whether two quantities are the same or different; measurement can tell something from nothing; this structure (modeled by binary addition and multiplication) can leave a historical record consisting of a growing universe of bit-strings. This book is specifically addressed to those interested in the foundations of particle physics, relativity, quantum mechanics, physical cosmology and the philosophy of science.

We could be on the threshold of a scientific revolution. Quantum mechanics is based on unique, finite, and discrete events. General relativity assumes a continuous, curved space-time. Reconciling the two remains the most fundamental unsolved scientific problem left over from the last century. The papers of H Pierre Noyes collected in this volume reflect one attempt to achieve that unification by replacing the continuum with the bit-string events of computer science. Three principles are used: physics can determine whether two quantities are the same or different; measurement can tell something from nothing; this structure (modeled by binary addition and multiplication) can leave a historical record consisting of a growing universe of bit-strings. This book is specifically addressed to those interested in the foundations of particle physics, relativity, quantum mechanics, physical cosmology and the philosophy of science. Contents: Non-Locality in Particle Physics; On the Physical Interpretation and the Mathematical Structure of the Combinatorial Hierarchy (with T Bastin, J Amson & C W Kilmister); On the Construction of Relativistic Quantum Theory: A Progress Report; Foundations of a Discrete Physics (with D McGoveran); Comment on OC Statistical Mechanical Origin of the Entropy of a Rotating Charged Black HoleOCO Anti-Gravity: The Key to 21st Century Physics; Crossing Symmetry is Incompatible with General Relativity; Operationalism Revisited: Measurement Accuracy, Scale Invariance and the Combinatorial Hierarchy; Discrete Physics and the Derivation of Electromagnetism from the Formalism of Quantum Mechanics (with L H Kauffman); Are Partons Confined Tachyons?; A Short Introduction to Bit-String Physics; Process, System, Causality and Quantum Mechanics: A Psychoanalysis of Animal Faith (with T Etter); and other papers. Readership: Researchers interested in the foundations of particle physics, relativity, quantum mechanics, physical cosmology and the philosophy of science."