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Are people free to make choices, or do genes determine behavior? Paradoxically, the answer to both questions is "yes," because of neurogenetic individuality, a new theory with profound implications. This theory emerged from gene discoveries by Dr. Goldman and his colleagues which have been recently published in 'Nature'. Genetic studies reveal pathways from DNA to behavior that are helping us understand the diversity of human behavior and behavior of other species. In this book, the complexity of human behavior and a person's ability to choose is explained as deriving from a relatively small number of genes which direct neurodevelopmental sequence. The author uses judicial, political, medical, and ethical examples to illustrate that this lifelong process is guided by individual genotype, molecular and physiologic principles, as well as by randomness and environmental exposures we choose and do not choose. Poses and resolves challenges to moral responsibility raised by modern genetics and neuroscience Preface will be written by a world renowned geneticist or neuroscientist. Authoritatively written, provides a neurogenetic mechanism for the origins of free will and ability to make moral choices to engage a broad audience of professionals

PART ONE : It's not the end of the world, it's just the end of you. Why nations die -- Jesus versus Siegfried : why Europe chooses extinction -- The sacred heart of darkness -- National extinction and natural law -- Rings of power and the remnants of the west -- -- PART TWO : Symptoms and distractions -- Green presentiments -- The fraud of primitive authenticity -- Why sex objects object to sex -- Admit it, you really hate modern art -- Sacred music, sacred time -- and how Wagner destroyed it -- -- PART THREE : The home of the brave -- What is American culture? -- Horror movies and American culture -- America's special grace -- America's holy war -- This almost chosen, almost pregnant land -- -- PART FOUR : Continental drift -- When the cat's away, the mice kill each other -- In praise of premature war -- Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the continental op -- Christianity's new heartlands -- -- PART FIVE : Islam in jeopardy -- Christian, Muslim, Jew -- Crisis of faith in the Muslim world -- and the Islamist response -- PART SIX : Demographics and depression -- The end of leverage -- The Keynes conundrum / written jointly with Reuven Brenner -- Demographics and depression -- The needle's eye / written jointly with Reuven Brenner -- -- PART SEVEN : Endings -- Overcoming ethnicity -- The happiest country in the world

In 1969 President Richard Nixon took the unprecedented step of unilaterally eliminating an entire class of weapons, biological warfare agents, and retaining only a defensive research program. He also limited the nation's chemical weapons efforts to retaliation. Little research has been done into the policy review that led to the decisions, particularly the role of the Army, which oversaw the programs. Using recently declassified documents, this article analyzes the history behind the policy changes. It illustrates as well that the Army was cut out of the review, but that its mismanagement of the programs was, ironically, a key factor in their demise. It also shows that many in the service's leadership actually came to support Nixon's moves.