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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Cover -- Half Title -- About the Book and Authors -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 PATTERNS OF INTERNAL MIGRATION IN SRI LANKA -- Interdistrict Population Movement -- Measures of Interdistrict Migration -- Sex Ratios as Clues to Migration -- Regional Differentials -- Growth Rates, Densities, and Sex Ratios -- Rural-Urban Migration -- Ethnic Patterns -- Conclusion -- 2 UNBALANCED SEX RATIOS -- Sex Ratio Variations by Age Group -- Juveniles -- 10-19 Year-Olds -- 20-29 Year-Olds -- Older Adults -- Summary of the Sex Ratio Data -- Data on Migrants in the Population -- Sociocultural Correlates -- Spouse Separation -- Conclusion -- 3 RISING SUICIDE RATES -- The Increase in Suicides -- District Variations -- Sex Differentials -- Age Groups -- Suicide in Selected Districts -- Migration, Social Disruption, and Suicide -- Conclusion -- 4 ETHNIC CONFRONTATION -- The Ethnic Communities of Sri Lanka -- Migration and the "Tamil Homeland -- Ethnic Change in the North and East -- Lifetime Migrants -- Urbanization -- Sri Lanka Tamil Population Movement -- Ethnicity and the Proposed Eelam -- Conclusion -- 5 FUTURE RESEARCH AND POLICY IMPLICATONS -- Prospective Research Directions -- Public Policy Considerations -- In Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

People worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan himself - brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures - may seize control of our world and destroy what's uniquely valuable about the human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems - especially those whose last names are "ism" - are already doing that, and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even notice. Like other parasites, they've blindly evolved to exploit us for their own survival. Creative arts and humanistic scholarship are our best tools for diagnosis and cure. The assemblages of ideas that have survived, like the assemblages of biological cells that have survived, are the ones good at protecting and reproducing themselves. They aren't necessarily the ones that guide us toward our most admirable selves or our healthiest future. Relying so heavily on culture to protect our uniquely open minds from cognitive overload makes us vulnerable to hijacking by the systems that co-evolve with us. Recognizing the selfish Darwinian functions of these systems makes sense of many aspects of history, politics, economics, and popular culture. What drove the Protestant Reformation? Why have the Beatles, The Hunger Games, and paranoid science-fiction thrived, and how was hip-hop co-opted? What alliances helped neoliberalism out-compete Communism, and what alliances might enable environmentalism to overcome consumerism? Why are multiculturalism and university-trained elites provoking working-class nationalist backlash? In a digital age, how can we use numbers without having them use us instead? Anyone who has wondered how our species can be so brilliant and so stupid at the same time may find an answer here: human mentalities are so complex that we crave the simplifications provided by our cultures, but the cultures that thrive are the ones that blind us to any interests that don't correspond to their own.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- In Memoriam -- Chapter 1 - Families and troubles -- Definitions -- Problems -- Issues -- Auto-constructing a New World Order -- New families -- Chapter 2 - Globalization and its discontents -- Global culture and global values -- Ecumenical/religious orientations -- Economic/materialist orientations -- Universalist/humanist orientations -- Seven rings of Gaia -- Global discontents -- Chapter 3 - Families and values -- The value of families (for society) -- Social resonance and multiple identities -- Chapter 4 - The global in the local -- Intentional socialization -- Doing peace in families -- Doing respect for diversity in families -- Doing gender-equity in families -- Doing environmental care in families -- Chapter 5 - Global dreams and global nightmares -- Five conundrums wrapped in a paradox -- Roles for families -- A quixotic proposition -- Appendix Participants - Budapest Symposium -- Bibliography

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER 1 Hueper's Secret -- Triumphs of the Intellect -- The Number One Enemy of the State -- Erwin Liek and the Ideology of Prevention -- Early Detection and Mass Screening -- CHAPTER 2 The Gleichschaltung of German Cancer Research -- The Fates of Jewish Scientists -- Registries and Medical Surveillance -- The Rhetoric of Cancer Research -- Romancing Nature and the Question of Cancer's Increase -- CHAPTER 3 Genetic and Racial Theories -- Cancer and the Jewish Question -- Selection and Sterilization -- CHAPTER 4 Occupational Carcinogenesis -- Health and Work in the Reich -- X-Rays and Radiation Martyrs -- Radium and Uranium -- Arsenic, Chromium, Quartz, and Other Kinds of Dusts -- The Funeral Dress of Kings (Asbestos) -- Chemical Industry Cancers -- CHAPTER 5 The Nazi Diet -- Resisting the Artificial Life -- Meat versus Vegetables -- The Fuhrer's Food -- The Campaign against Alcohol -- Performance-Enhancing Foods and Drugs -- Foods for Fighting Cancer -- Banning Butter Yellow -- Ideology and Reality -- CHAPTER 6 The Campaign against Tobacco -- Early Opposition -- Making the Cancer Connection -- Fritz Lickint: The Doctor "Most Hated by the Tobacco Industry -- Nazi Medical Moralism -- Franz H. Muller: The Forgotten Father of Experimental Epidemiology -- Moving into Action -- Karl Asters Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research -- Gesundheit uber Alles -- Reemtsma's Forbidden Fruit -- The Industry's Counterattack -- Tobacco's Collapse -- CHAPTER 7 The Monstrous and the Prosaic -- The Science Question under Fascism -- Complicating Quackery -- Biowarfare Research in Disguise -- Organic Monumentalism -- Did Nazi Policy Prevent Some Cancers? -- Playing the Nazi Card -- Is Nazi Cancer Research Tainted? -- The Flip Side of Fascism -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of 'public' and 'private'. How did these distinctions emerge in the first place, and what do they tell us about the more general relationship in the United States between public authority and private enterprise? 'Public vs. Private' describes how nineteenth-century public policies fostered the rise of modern school choice

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Protestant Churches in Mozambique in Context -- 2. A Grounding in Faith: Mondlane's Early Life in Mozambique and Integration into the Swiss Mission -- 3. Reformed and Reforming: Living Faith in South Africa -- 4. Into the Heart of Empire -- 5. Study in the United States-Oberlin College -- 6. Study in the United States-Northwestern University, Chicago -- 7. Discerning the Future -- 8. Return to Mozambique -- 9. Faith in FRELIMO -- 10. Mondlane's Legacy of Faith -- Bibliography -- Archives Consulted -- Back Cover.