Random Victim (Leal and Hart Book 1)

Linc Jackson and his buddy Rick Weaver thought they'd seen it all on the brutal battlefields of Desert Storm, but found themselves displaced and forgotten men when they came back to the States Detective Roger Colby thought he ended serial killer Morgan Laird's murderous spree 28 years ago when Laird was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison The case wasn't just cold - it was ice-cold.

But the murder of Miriam Walker had a pretty high profile in the middle of a tough re-election campaign Something's happening in the underworld of Cook County. Tensions are rising between two rival drug lords Ten years ago the hillbilly king of rock-and-roll, Colton Purcell, was cryogenically frozen after his premature death Ron Shade , Book 1 Length: Add to Cart failed. Please try again later.

Add to Wish List failed. Remove from wishlist failed. Adding to library failed. Naval Institute Press, For the effects of Finnish and Canadian grandmothers on survival of their grandchildren: Joanna Lahey Age, Women, and Hiring: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, My account, on pp. From Allan Holmberg, about the Siriono, on my p. Magdalena Hurtado, about the Ache, on my p. From Jane Goodale, about the Kaulong, on my p.

From Codrington, about the Banks Islanders, on my p. From Donald Cowgill, about the emphasis on family, attributes of old age, and Ireland, on my pp. Richard Lee describes how the! Kung drive lions and hyenas off of an animal carcass on p. Kung San cited in my printed Further Readings. Ronald Berndt relates the story of Jumu, the young woman who was killed while traveling to visit her parents and brothers, on pp. There is an enormous literature by psychologists, engineers, physicians, behavioral ecologists, insurance company analysts, and other scholars on risk, uncertainty, and related subjects.

Some classic references in this area, to guide interesting readers to other sources, are as follows. For the relationship between safety, benefit, and acceptable risks: For uncertainty and decision-making: For the discrepancies between our ranking of risks and the actual risks: For our irrational assessments of risks: Melvin Konner Why the Reckless Survive: Penguin, , especially the chapter with that same title on pp. For unpredictable outcomes of behavior and decisions: Dunbar and Louise Barrett, eds.

Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology Oxford: Sources for further information about some of the studies that I mention or describe are as follows. The Anasazi and Greenland Norse are described in my book Collapse: Viking Penguin, , which provides many references. Rainfall records at Pomio are included in J. Human Behavior and Adaptation: Sources of direct quotes in my chapter from books already cited in my printed Further Readings are as follows. From Sabina Kuegler, about the Fayu, on my p. From Marjorie Shostak, about the! Kung, on my p. Magdalena Hurtado, about the Ache, on my pp.

From Richard Lee, about the! Evans-Pritchard, about the Nuer, on my p. The source for the direct quote from Don Richardson, about the Sawi, on my p. The source of the quote from Carol Goland, about Andean farmers, on my p.

The scholarly comparative study of religions began in the 19th century. Harper and Row, New York, Another shorter reader consisting of five longer excerpts is Michael Banton, ed. Two classics of the older literature, responsible for the most frequently quoted definitions of religion in Table 9.

The full references to these classics are: The Lessa and Vogt reader gives citations to the originals of other classics in the literature on religion. Edward Tylor Primitive Culture: The Nature of Religion New York: Harcourt Brace, , and E. Scribners, traces the parallel history of the development of both religious beliefs and magical thinking and how one influenced the other. The subject of the evolution of religion is well served by excellent recent books.

Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society University of Chicago, Chicago, discusses how religions compete with other religions, from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist familiar with group selection. While many or most biologists deny the role of group selection in explaining evolved features of animal species, its usefulness in understanding recent human societies is undeniable, because humans do live in and often compete and survive as groups that tend to act in unity because of shared beliefs and behaviors.

Two related books are Pascal Boyer Religion Explained: Both books trace the origins of religion to the evolutionary psychology of the human brain, and both ask why we hold the particular types of supernatural beliefs that we do. Daniel Dennett Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon Viking, New York, examines religion from the perspective of a philosopher aiming especially at American readers.

Sam Harris The End of Faith: Karen Armstrong A History of God: Jennifer Michael Hecht Doubt: Jesse Bering The God Instinct: Nicholas Brealey, considers religion as a sophisticated cognitive illusion bringing evolutionary advantages, rather than an irrational delusion. The sociology of religion is well explored in Rodney Stark and W.

Rutgers University Press, James McClenon Wondrous Healing: Northern Illinois University Press, discusses, among other topics, reasons why shamans and rituals produce medical cures for some illnesses. Times Books, places religion in a larger context of mythic beliefs with an evolutionary explanation that all such beliefs serve two purposes: Penguin, explores the relationship between religion and science and speculates about the origins of the religious impulse.

Times Books, suggests a neurological basis for God beliefs. Among the many articles in this field, several are especially relevant to the discussion in my chapter. Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment Russell Sage Foundation, New York, asks why signs of commitment to religion tend to be costly and hence believable. Two papers compare the durability of religious and secular communes: Richard Sosis and W. Explanations of suffering offered by different societies around the world are compared by Richard Shweder et. The functions and evolution of fish electric organs are discussed by Peter Moller Electric Fishes: History and Behavior London: Oxford University Press, ; H.

The standard reference listing all known modern languages of the world, giving their estimated number of speakers and status secure or endangered or extinct , and mapping their geographic distribution, is M. Languages of the World, 16th ed. Stanford University Press, ; Bernard Comrie, ed. Facts on File, Cambridge University Press, note: For discussion of how languages diverge and evolve, resulting in the hierarchical relationships of languages, three books present different views of the origin and spread of Indo-European languages: Colin Renfrew Archaeology and Language: Cambridge University Press, ; J.

Mallory In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth New York: Princeton University Press, Books and articles discussing the geography of linguistic diversity — i. The three books by K.

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David Harrison cited below discuss cryptic languages, dialect chains, and asymmetrical understanding of pairs of languages. Besides the question of geographic variation in low-level language diversity that I discuss, i. Low-level and high-level diversity are not tightly correlated. For instance, Vanuatu has high low-level but low high-level diversity: Again, Mozambique and Bolivia have the same low-level diversity about 45 languages each , but Mozambique has much lower high-level diversity: For discussion of these questions, see David Harrison Language Extinction cited below.

Language steamrollers — i. For discussion of how speakers in multilingual groups decide which language to use depending on the audience and subject, see Kathryn Wollard, Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia Stanford: Ellen Bialystok Bilingualism in Development: Language, Literacy, and Cognition New York: Ellen Bialystok et al. Tom Schweizer et al. For the discovery and description of the kopipi, the Bougainville bird with the beautiful song, see Mary LeCroy and F. The following books discuss language disappearance and extinction, and how to combat it. Robert Robins and Eugenius Uhlenbeck, eds.

Joshua Fishman Reversing Language Shift: Language Diversity Endangered Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Nicholas Evans Dying Words: David Harrison When Languages Die: Problems of Survival, Senri Ethnological Studies Lectures on Endangered Languages: Oxford University Press, discusses the contributions of language differences and other factors to nationalism and violence. University of California Press, tells the story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, as an example of how languages can be made to disappear by killing all of their speakers.

Those of you who read this wonderful book will find a moving account of the collision of two worlds, and a grim story of a complete genocide. Harper and Row, Two papers focusing on obesity and on chronic degenerative diseases were S.

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For many further references and a more recent reconsideration of the status of this field, see Melvin Konner and S. Some of this chapter is drawn from four previous articles of mine: A book discussing many aspects of the mismatch between our bodies and modern conditions that is the theme of this chapter is Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson, Mismatch: An example of the current global epidemic of non-communicable diseases drawn from cardiovascular diseases is given by Bernard Gersh et al.

Obesity, a major risk factor for health consequences of the Western lifestyle, is discussed in the following papers: An example of a natural experiment on non-communicable diseases resulting from migration is Thomas Robertson et al. Some papers discussing non-communicable diseases or the lack thereof in New Guinea and Melanesia are P.

Three review articles providing good introductions to the complex subject of salt and hypertension are Pierre Meneton et al. Epidemiological studies examining salt intake and hypertension in populations around the world include A. Manipulative experiments investigating the effect of diet on blood pressure are Frank Sacks et al. Two papers carried out a controlled clinical experiment in which newborn Dutch infants were reared for six months on a low-salt or normal-salt diet, and reassessed 15 years later: For a manipulative experiment on effects of variation in dietary salt intake on blood pressure in chimpanzees, see Derek Denton et al.

Three skeptical analyses disputing the relation between salt and blood pressure are J. Some other papers about salt intake and hypertension are Chisato Nagata et al. As for diabetes, an article summarizing its prevalences around the world as of is J. For the status of diabetes in Asia, see Ambady Ramachandran et al. The Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus , 2nd ed. Discussions of diabetes include Gary Dowse et al. For recent updates about the diabetes epidemic on Mauritius, see Jeremy Jowett et al.

The surprisingly steep relationship between television viewing time and mortality from cardiovascular diseases, much of it related to diabetes, is documented by D. University of Arizona Press, ; and W.