Peter Tamas: 3 books

Seabiscuit and War Admiral were the son and grandson of the greatest racehorse. They raced against each other once. That was the race of the century.George Woolf arrived at the last possible moment. He strutted into the paddock and swung easily into Seabiscuit’s saddle. George smiled and said hello...

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes in the introduction to this book, "the originality, force, and extensive bearing of his writings...

Social scientists have long declared their autonomy from the natural sciences, and in doing so have tended to neglect important biological constraints on human nature. Many sociological theories have suggested a nearly complete malleability of patterns of social life. The New Evolutionary Social Science...