1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450694003321

Autore

Slotten Ross A

Titolo

The heretic in Darwin's court [[electronic resource] ] : the life of Alfred Russel Wallace / / Ross A. Slotten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-87189-7

9786612871894

0-231-50356-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (637 p.)

Disciplina

508/.092

B

Soggetti

Naturalists - England

Spiritualists - England

Socialists - England

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [560]-576).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; chapter 1 Origins of a Heretic; chapter 2 The Struggle for Existence; chapter 3 A Daring Plan; chapter 4 Travels on the Amazon . . .; chapter 5 . . . And the Rio Negro; chapter 6 Disaster at Sea . . . and a Civilized Interlude; chapter 7 The Malay Archipelago; chapter 8 The Mechanism Revealed; chapter 9 Beautiful Dreamer; chapter 10 A Turn Toward the Unknowable; 24-pg photo insert; chapter 11 The Olympian Heights and the Beginnings of the Fall; chapter 12 Wallace and The Descent of Man; chapter 13 The Descent of Wallace

chapter 14 The War on Spiritualismchapter 15 Phoenix from the Ashes; chapter 16 To the Land of Epidemic Delusions; chapter 17 The New Nemesis; chapter 18 Thoroughly Unpopular Causes; chapter19 Satisfaction, Retrospection, and Work; chapter 20 A National Treasure Celebrated; Genealogy of the Wallace Family; Notes; Biographical Index; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

During their lifetimes, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery



of natural selection. Together, the two men spearheaded one of the greatest intellectual revolutions in modern history, and their rivalry, usually amicable but occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. The Heretic in Darwin's Court explores the controversial life and scientific contributions of Alfred Russel Wallace -- Victorian traveler, scientist, spiritualist,

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791478503321

Titolo

Trade competitiveness of the Middle East and North Africa : : policies for export diversification / / Jose R. Lopez-Calix, Peter Walkenhorst, and Ndiame Diop, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2010

ISBN

1-282-72551-3

9786612725517

0-8213-8075-3

Descrizione fisica

xxii, 336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; ; 23 cm

Collana

Directions in development. Trade

Altri autori (Persone)

LópezJosé Roberto

WalkenhorstPeter

DiopNdiame

Disciplina

330.956

Soggetti

Exports - Middle East

Exports - Africa, North

Free trade - Middle East

Free trade - Africa, North

Middle East Commerce

Africa, North Commerce

Middle East Commercial policy

Africa, North Commercial policy

Middle East Economic integration

Africa, North Economic integration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter 1: Trade Reforms for Export Competitiveness: What Are the Issues for the Middle East and North Africa?; Export Diversification; Services Trade; Relations with China and India; Regional Integration; Note; References; PART I: Export Diversification; Chapter 2: FDI Flows and Export Diversification: Looking at Extensive and Intensive Margins; Chapter 3: Promoting New Exports: Experience from Industry Case Studies; Chapter 4: Export Diversification in Algeria; PART II: Services Trade

Chapter 5: Emerging Export Services: Where Does Tunisia Stand?Chapter 6: Anchoring Services Reform: The European Neighborhood Policy and Morocco; Chapter 7: Services Trade as an Engine of Development: Situation and Prospects in Algeria; PART III: Relations with China and India; Chapter 8: Economic Growth in China and India: Challenges and Opportunities for the Middle East and North Africa; Chapter 9: Globalization and Competition from China and India: Policy Responses in the Middle East and North Africa; PART IV: Regional Integration

Chapter 10: Regional Integration: Status, Developments, and ChallengesChapter 11: Economic Gains of Regional Agreements in the Maghreb: Deeper versus Wider Integration; Index; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

This book collects some of the most relevant and policy oriented-papers that the MENA department of the World Bank produced as contributions to trade reform and exports diversification in some MENA countries. The selected articles were written during the critical 2005-08 years, a period featuring an accelerated pace of trade reform, increasing competition from China and India in European markets, and an increasing regional concern about exports diversification either in oil-producing countries, like Algeria, or in emerging services-oriented countries, like Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. The book