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The Social Animal

The Social Animal

by W.G.Runciman (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $3.27

  • Used

    Paperback 1998

    $3.27
Synopsis

This text sets out the present extent of our knowledge about how human societies and institutions really work, and what motivates the people who live within them. Using the latest insights from the fields of biology, anthropology, psychology, economic history and sociology, Runciman proposes a new social science, based not upon outmoded marxist ideas, but on the insights of Charles Darwin.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Fontana Press
Published: 01 Feb 1999
ISBN 10: 0006863825
ISBN 13: 9780006863823

Media Reviews
'W. G. Runciman is something of a phenomenon... [The Social Animal] is always good and at times brilliant. On every page there is something to stimulate, engross or madden the reader, and for once, the reviewer's cliche continuously absorbing , expresses the truth.' Frank McLynn, Literary Review
Author Bio
Viscount Runciman of Doxford has been Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1971. He is one of Britain's most eminent academics and was Chairman of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice from 1991--3. He is the author of numerous books, most recently the massive and hugely acclaimed three volume Treatise on Social Theory (CUP, 1983,1989, forthcoming).